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Why It’s Worth Asking For Help

Is it worth asking for help when you could do it on your own? Here’s a short story from when I was younger to answer this question. “I can move this.” a kid version of me thought.  At this time, the dresser in my bedroom closet was about as tall

Find Your Anthem: An Easy Way to Create a Positive Mental Shift

In last week’s post “3 Ways to Become The Driver of Your Own Thoughts,” I offered three approaches to intentionally invite our minds to give us better/more helpful thoughts. But as I re-read the post, I realized there is so much more to the third approach, “orienting,” that I couldn’t

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3 Ways to Become The Driver of Your Thoughts

While we may rarely be in total control of our thoughts and emotions, there are some steps we can take to help set the course of our consciousness, to gain some semblance of control, and become the driver of our own thoughts.  In this week’s post. I’m offering up some

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Start A New Habit with Me!

In the last 24 hours, I’ve tried to read a book on three separate occasions. Each time, I flipped to my bookmark that hasn’t moved in weeks, read one paragraph, and somehow, the next thing I remember is waking up from an unplanned nap. “Hm.” I thought to myself. “That

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The Unique Shape of Your Life Purpose

When we ask ourselves the question, “what is my life purpose?,” it’s far too easy to get overwhelmed and overthink it. When I was in high school and college, I remember feeling a lot of pressure to find that one special, perfectly aligned thing. It felt like I was searching

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What to Expect During Your Next Identity Shift

Having labels or identities that help explain who we are can give us a strong sense of self. But what happens when we lose one of our identities? What happens when something we once called ourselves no longer fits the picture of our lives? In this post, you’ll learn what

Finding Anchors in Hard Times

When life gets hard, where do you turn? Do you turn to friends? Faith? A therapist? A quiet place where you can be alone? Regardless of where you choose to turn, everyone needs something to lean on when times get tough. The things I turn to are what I like

Money Doesn’t Love You Back

Having a relationship with money is nothing like having a relationship with a real person. But if left unchecked, a relationship with money can start to negatively impact the other relationships in our lives (without us even realizing it!). In this post, we’ll discuss a boundary that needs to be

40 Healthy Alternatives to Time-Wasting Habits

40 Healthy Alternatives to Time-Wasting Habits

One of the quickest and simplest ways to show yourself some love is to replace habits that don’t serve you with ones that do. In this post, you’ll learn how to locate time-wasting habits, and find a list of 40 things you can replace them with to improve your quality

Self-Care Made Simple

Although self-care is becoming far more popular in recent years, there’s still some negative stigma associated with doing things for ourselves. This is a huge problem, because if we can’t view caring for ourselves in a positive light, chances are we will fail to maintain our health and well-being to

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How to Easily Form New Habits

One of the reasons many people don’t stick with the new habits is because they love the idea of the results that they’ll achieve, but they don’t love the idea of actually doing it. Unfortunately, the actions necessary to create life changing habits hardly ever sound appetizing. But what if

10 benefits of being wrong

10 Benefits of Being Wrong

Last week, I wrote about why there’s nothing wrong with being wrong. In the post, I said, “If we could somehow accept wrongness as a natural and integral part of our human experience, then perhaps we could be less hard on ourselves and allow our wrongness to benefit us rather

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There’s Nothing Wrong With Being Wrong

The most recent time I realized I was wrong, I was playing UNO with my family. I was down to the coveted single card, and had succeeded in saying “UNO” before anyone called me out on it. When my next turn came, I was so certain a win was in

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Dress For The Person You Want to Be

Ever since our routines were disrupted by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, I’ve heard numerous references to people “working in pajamas” or “not wearing pants” to video calls. While I am happy that many people have had the chance to remain “comfortable” in some ways (however small), there’s something that worries

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Feeling Lost is Followed by Empowerment

If you’ve experienced any form of significant personal growth in your life, chances are you’ve felt “lost” before. And while I’m sorry you’ve experienced such negative emotions, I’m really happy you endured and overcame that feeling. Because without it, you wouldn’t be where you are today.  Feeling lost is one

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Choose Your Friends, Change Your Life

I’ve been told “surround yourself with good people” more times than I can count, but doing this is easier said than done. While most of us know that choosing good people to keep close in our lives is beneficial, many of us don’t truly understand the full extent to which