Ken LaDeroute

Ken LaDeroute is a certified professional mindset coach, meditation teacher, former pro musician and founder of Clarity Mind Institute. Ken helps stressed-out creative entrepreneurs overcome overthinking and reset their mindset to a calm, clear, and focused mindset so they can make better decisions, do their best work, optimize emotional management, and live a simplified life without continually running past the finish line.

187 articles published

Conscious Ways of Dealing with Your Family Over The Holidays

Affirmation Music, Happiness and Peace of MindNovember 20, 2010966Views 0Likes 0Comments

As we prepare for the American Thanksgiving, Christmas and Chanukah, my friends talk of plans to go home to be with their families for the holidays. What's surprising to me, is that the tone in their voice isn't one of excitement or anticipation, but more of dread and obligation. Looking Within Because we share similar psychological and emotional…

Secrets on How To Forgive and Forget

Fulfilling RelationshipsNovember 18, 2010897Views 0Likes 0Comments

We've all experienced people who have hurt us, deceived us, used us, or maligned us over the years, and there are many people we need to forgive. Research demonstrates that forgiveness is good for your health. Forgiveness has been shown to reduce the risk of heart attack, slow the spread of cancer and impede the development…

Do You Need a Fresh Perspective?

UncategorizedNovember 2, 2010962Views 0Likes 0Comments

If your reality is starting to appear a little stagnant, or you feel like you're "spinning your wheels" and not getting any closer to your goals, it might be time to take a step back for a different view of things. A healthy perspective reminds us of what we're working toward and how we need to…

Respect the Unconscious – Release Creativity

UncategorizedNovember 1, 2010838Views 0Likes 0Comments

We all get stuck on ideas sometimes, and since many of our jobs depend on a certain level of creative output, a creativity block is something to be dreaded. Sometimes when the conscious mind is really stuck, it's okay (and sometimes necessary) to take time off from whatever project you're working on and just go…

My Guitar

UncategorizedOctober 1, 20101KViews 0Likes 0Comments

My father worked as a butcher at the Co-op grocery store in Kapuskasing Ontario, 12 hours north of Toronto. We lived upstairs in a two-bedroom apartment above the store. When my sister and I would come home from school, we'd head straight for the butcher shop and yell, “Can we have a piece of cheese please!”…

How to Find Your Purpose

UncategorizedSeptember 29, 2010873Views 0Likes 0Comments

Mystics have told us for centuries – consciousness is all there is. At the source of thought and at the source of all matter is an ocean of pure consciousness inside each of us. Consciousness creates energy, matter, and the perspectives of space and time. Scientists tell us that matter doesn’t exist. “There is no matter as such.…

How To Thrive in a Changing World

UncategorizedSeptember 27, 2010948Views 0Likes 0Comments

The world is a rapidly changing place, and this is very much a mixed bag for most of us. The global economy and transfer of information has provided us with many amazing opportunities and yet we are still not working together to heal the damage done to the earth. Our population…

Self Awareness and Your Career

UncategorizedSeptember 21, 2010821Views 0Likes 0Comments

How does self awareness relate to your career, you ask? It is quite simple really: when you are self aware, you are able to see clearly all that is around you, including your work reality. You will be able to perform to your highest abilities, know yourself well enough to…

Will Power

UncategorizedSeptember 15, 2010866Views 0Likes 0Comments

We all have nasty little habits that we wish we could overcome, and we all have those moments where our will power is challenged. Many of us feel as though we have weak willpower, or are unable to overcome these challenges. Here are 3 surefire ways to beat the challenge of your will…

Knowing by Heart – Listen To Your Intuition

UncategorizedAugust 29, 2010847Views 0Likes 0Comments

Intuition is sometimes defined as the sense of knowing something without any empirical evidence. To some this is a divine source of knowing, while to others intuition is about listening to instinct. Or, knowing by heart. Everyone experiences flashes of their intuition from time to time – those are the “ah-ha” moments of understanding. In fact, most…

Clearing Negative Emotions

UncategorizedAugust 29, 2010849Views 0Likes 0Comments

Everyone experiences sadness, disappointment, and anger, along with other negative emotions. The trick is to acknowledge these emotions in ourselves and dismiss them. There are a number of ways that you can do this, and what works for you may vary from emotion to emotion and moment to moment. For some, talking to their fears is a good…

Dealing With Change

Master Your MindsetJuly 13, 20101KViews 0Likes 0Comments

The only constant in life is change, so it's likely that you've experienced it many times. Though we all go through periods of change, some embrace it and deal with it quite effectively, while others suffer from "transition anxiety" and find themselves completely derailed by the shifts and surprises that life dishes out, which…