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Discover Your Purpose
To discover your purpose and calling in life is a thought-driven process. To discover your purpose, it’s important to simplify things and dig down to get to your authentic self. The key to doing that is to ask yourself questions that help you discover or re-discover who you really are. We often wear masks when we’re out in the world, and we never get in touch with who we really are. The mask we wear may be all we know… and we act and think as we believe we should. By digging deep and asking yourself the questions that matter, you’ll discover what it is you truly want in life.…
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How Does Positive Thinking Reduce Stress?
How Does Positive Thinking Reduce Stress? You’ve heard positive thinking can have an amazingly powerful effect on your life, but maybe you’re not buying into all that “good thoughts” power stuff. You need proof. Exactly how does positive thinking reduce stress? What really happens inside your body when you adopt a positive as opposed to negative way of thinking? Let’s take a look at positive thinking and stress. The Mayo Clinic reports that using positive thinking as a stress management tool can lead to the following benefits: You live longer Instances of depression and anxiety are reduced Your natural defense system is boosted You do not catch as many colds…
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Get Out of a Rut and Start Fresh!
Here are 5 tips to help you get out of a rut and start fresh! Do you feel like life has become predictable, unfulfilling, and boring? Maybe it’s time for a fresh start. Deciding to make a change doesn’t mean you have to turn your life upside down, but it is an opportunity to stand back and make some adjustments! Whether it’s a lifestyle, location, or career change, there are some simple things you can do right now to get yourself out of your rut and get some positive energy back into your life. Journal About What Makes You Happy Have you ever sat down and ruminated about what makes…
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Habits to Improve Your Health and Well-Being
Habits to Improve Your Health and Well-Being What is a habit? What do you think of when you hear the words “habits to improve your health”? If you’re like most people, you may very well hear the word habit and associate something negative with it. Smoking, overeating, and always being late, for instance, are negative habits. However, habits can and do show up as something positive in your life. A habit doesn’t have to have negative connotations. Many people, in addition to thinking habits are bad, also think breaking old habit and replacing them with new habits is painful. This does not have to be the case. Let’s look at…
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6 Simple Tricks for Dealing with Pressure
6 Simple Tricks for Dealing with Pressure Anyone feeling the pressure lately? Stress anyone? If you aren’t careful, pressure can sneak up and overwhelm you. Before you know it, you’re a mess. Sitting in your chair sweating, with your heart racing, dreading the thought of doing any work and facing today and tomorrow. Fortunately there are some things you can do to help manage pressure when you feel overwhelmed. With a little practice, you may even be able to turn nerve-wracking stress into pure motivation! Count Backwards It sounds simple, but counting backwards from 100 is a great way to distract yourself from pressure and reset yourself. This easy trick…
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5 Powerful Tips for Using Positive Affirmations
5 Powerful Tips for Using Positive Affirmations I’m sure you’ve heard that positive affirmations can help you be more motivated and can help you achieve your goals. Did you know there are ways you can supercharge your affirmations to make them even more powerful, dare I say even transformative? If better health is your goal, maybe you want to lose weight and get fit. If your affirmation is “I will lose weight and go to the gym every day,” how does that make you feel? You may feel there’s a “heaviness” about the energy of that statement that isn’t very motivating. The statement focuses on the negative aspects of your…
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Setting Up Your Mental and Physical Environment to Develop Good Habits
Setting Up Your Mental and Physical Environment to Develop Good Habits When you’re trying to develop good habits, the environment you have set up for yourself can have a huge effect on whether you succeed. It can really support your efforts in a positive way when your surroundings are conducive to being successful. It’s a good idea to begin by keeping your environment clutter free. Your focus on good habit development will be tougher if you have to fight through a wall of clutter. For instance, if one of your goals is to be more productive, it won’t help if you have to spend a good portion of your day…
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Look Back or Look Ahead
When the year is ending, do you look back or look ahead? I’m not talking about taxes or a business plan here although they are very important. What I’m referring to when I ask if you look back or look ahead is your attitude toward your life. Are you someone who looks back, holds on to the past and regrets the year that is ending, or are you someone who relishes new year with its opportunities, challenges and excitement? The unknowns, the dreams to be achieved and realized…where does your focus lie? This is a particularly important question from my point of view, because as a chronically depressed person for the…
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Afraid of Failure? Learn to Use that Fear to Propel You to Success!
Are You Afraid of Failure? People can be so afraid of failure that they do everything imaginable to avoid it! Some people avoid taking any chances at all because if they try something and it doesn’t work for them, they are terrified they will be looked upon as a failure. To make matters worse, we often see successful people profiled in the media and think they must either be geniuses or were naturals at what they did. Yet, if you look closely at the lives of these people, you are likely to discover a much different picture. What we don’t see is all the hundreds of times these people have…
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Fuel Your Brain with Energy and Do Your Body a Favor Too!
What is your fitness philosophy? Are you aware that self development and self improvement really need to include exercise to fuel your brain with energy? Why do you train and exercise? What is it that you hope to achieve by being physically active? Many of us train because we want to look better. Some of us train because we want to be healthier and stave off disease. Others train because they want to perform better at a particular sport or activity they enjoy. I have a different reason for training: I train because I want to change the way I feel and because I want to change my mind set.…
