Category: personal growth

Gratitude Daily Practice – 3 Ways to Make Giving Thanks a Daily Habit

Gratitude Daily Practice – 3 Ways to Make Giving Thanks a Daily Habit

Gratitude Daily Practice – 3 Simple Suggestions Thanksgiving Day is celebrated this Thursday in the U.S., but I think giving thanks should really be a daily practice. A gratitude habit can help you live more mindfully and make a difference in your long-term happiness. 3 Ways to Practice Gratitude in Your Daily Life 1. Journal gratitude. One of the easiest, simplest way to make thanks giving a daily part of your life is by using a journal. It doesn’t need to be fancy, a simple notebook or even scrap paper…

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The Role in Life that I Am Playing Now and My Attachment to It - image of woman's hand touching mirror self identity

The Role in Life that I Am Playing Now and My Attachment to It

The Role in Life that I Am Playing Now and My Attachment to It You are not who you think you are. Let’s touch on the roles in life that you are currently playing, your attachment to them, and how they shape your identity and influence your perceived purpose. We start out in this lifetime with our first and life-long role of daughter or son and in many cases, sibling. Then we move into assuming additional roles throughout our lifetime such as romantic partner, friend, cancer survivor, neighbor, spouse, parent,…

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Friends: Quality Over Quantity Is What Counts

Friends: Quality Over Quantity Is What Counts Through thick and through thin, in good times and in bad… sounds like marriage vows, but today we’re talking about something equally important: friendship. Friendship is crucial to our well-being throughout our lives. I’d even argue that friendships become more important as we get older. More so than having a large quantity of friends, it’s the quality of friendships that is so important to our emotional health. And the best part, when it comes to our emotional health, is that this an area…

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How Do You Overcome Setbacks?

How Do You Overcome Setbacks? Here are 4 techniques to help you coach yourself into having more perseverance Setbacks are an inevitable part of life. It’s how we manage those setbacks and successfully overcome them that often sets the optimists apart from the pessimists. I don’t believe that we are entirely either one or the other. I think we can have a primary setting; to see situations more naturally through the lens of positivity or negativity. But I also think it’s changeable from day to day and mood to mood.…

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How to Start Feeling Better Mentally and Physically

5 Simple Steps to Improve How Your Feel Overall Much of how you move through your day is based on how you feel. The perspective you have of yourself, and your life is colored through the lens of how good or how awful you feel in that moment. So, finding simple ways to feel better not only improves the quality of your day, but can have a powerfully compounding positive impact on how you feel over time. Whether you are not feeling your best because of physical ailments or emotional…

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How Do You Know Your Purpose

How Do You Know Your Purpose Many go through life without ever questioning or truly knowing their purpose. Maybe they are the lucky ones. The sensitive souls, like you and me, can’t help but to have days when we question it all. Times when nothing seems to make sense and our purpose seems blurry, if it even exists at all. “The marvelous thing about a question is that it shapes our identity as much by the asking as it does by the answering.” – David Whyte, poet My mission today…

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