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If you want to improve your life, becoming more self-aware is the first place to start. Understanding yourself—cultivating self-awareness—is the foundation for personal growth and development. Self-awareness is all about understanding yourself in great detail. Developing or improving your sense …
Read moreCultivating Self-Awareness: Keys to Greater Self-Confidence & Happiness
Do you feel like your inner critic is running the show? You know who I’m talking about: that mean inner voice that finds fault with every little thing you do—the voice that withholds self-love and keeps you trapped and feeling …
Read moreHow to Stop Being Self-Critical: Fire Your Inner Critic [39 Examples]
You’re compassionate with others, but why does it seem like such a struggle to be kind, loving, and compassionate with yourself? The simple truth is that many of us struggle with self-kindness and self-encouragement, and we live lives that are …
Read moreHow to Practice Self-Compassion: 11 Best Ways to Get Started Now
Unconditional self-acceptance is a foreign concept to some, but learning how to accept yourself is one of the best ways to improve the overall quality of your life. Self-acceptance is linked to happiness, self-confidence, stronger emotional resilience, better relationships, and …
Read moreUnconditional Self-Acceptance: Love Yourself for Who You Are [+Exercises]
When there’s little you can do to change your outer world, it’s important that you do everything you can to calm your inner world. Using relaxing mantras for anxiety and stress can offer significant relief. This post teaches you more …
Your thoughts have a lot of power. Whether you realize it or not, you also have a lot of power over your thoughts. When you learn how to take command of your overthinking, negative, distorted. and fear-based thoughts, you’ll experience …
Read moreChange Your Thinking, Change Your Life: Create Better Thinking Habits
You know how to be kind to others, but are you nice to yourself, too? Self-kindness may seem like a simple concept, and yet many of us have trouble being kind and loving toward ourselves. If you grew up being …
Optimistic thinking refers to having a positive outlook on life and a belief that good things will happen. An optimistic mindset has several benefits, including increased happiness, better physical health, greater resilience, and improved relationships. An optimistic person tends to …
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If you are ready to start living the life you want, it’s time to make some immediate changes in how you live each day. Your choices, not good intentions, are the keys to creating the happy life you want to …
Read moreHow to Live the Life You Want: 7 Guaranteed Life-Changers
Are you unknowingly harboring any self-limiting beliefs that are preventing you from being happier and more successful? Limiting or disempowering beliefs hold you back in ways you likely never considered. Learning how to identify and release those limiting beliefs and …
Read more62 Self-Limiting Beliefs that Block Happiness and Success
Sending positive energy or “vibes” isn’t just some touchy-feely thing that touch-feely people came up with. The power of energy exchange among people is backed by science. When that energy is positive, good things happen. When that energy is negative, …
My Dad — Johnny Joseph Novak Since today is Father’s Day, I feel compelled to talk a little about my wonderful dad and share three lessons learned from dad that I know are great lessons for just about everyone. 1. Be generous, …
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Many of us go through times in our lives where self-doubt and low confidence impact our ability to move forward to create the life we want. If you’re suffering from self-doubt right now, it’s helpful to change your inner dialogue. …
We all have moments when we feel stuck, when we know we’re ready to shift gears but we don’t necessarily know how or what to do. Maybe it’s a moment of self-doubt, feeling dissatisfied, wishing for greater meaning and fulfillment, …
Read more35 Affirmations for Shifting Perspective & Changing Your Life
Listening to a personal growth podcast is a fantastic way to kick-start your day. The very best self-improvement podcasts help you focus your thinking for the day ahead and bring you more joy and clarity all day long. Now, I …
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The secret to having more joy, less stress, and more success in your life begins with how you start each day. Adopting a mindful morning routine is key to living each day more fully. We’ve come up with 23 mindful …
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Affirmations are a powerful way to change your mindset and move forward in the direction of what you want. Affirmations for change can be extremely helpful as you proactively take steps to transform your life or if you are handling …
Read more45 Affirmations for Change: Make & Embrace Important Life Changes
While the world would have you thinking that you have to chase down happiness or that maybe it’s for other people, I’m here to tell you that’s not true. You have the power to create joy in your everyday life. Joy …
I love an inspirational book; I always have. I enjoy reading authors who lift my spirits and help me see the world in a whole new light. I love reading inspiring books that help elevate my thinking and lead me …
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“Everything is created twice, first in the mind and then in reality.” Robin Sharma Tweet Robin Sharma is right. Thoughts can make or break us. While positive thoughts can build up our self-confidence, negative thoughts can lead to unrelenting self-doubt. …
Read moreHow 10 Minutes of Meditation Every Day Increased My Self-Confidence
The Slippery Slope of Making Promises to Yourself that You Don’t Keep We all make promises to ourselves. Some of us are good at keeping the promises we make to ourselves; others of us are not so great at keeping …
Are you wondering how to find direction in life? Do you want to start living your life on purpose (and with purpose) , but you have no idea what your life purpose even is? I’ve been there and it doesn’t …
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There’s a dialogue going on inside your head. Some of that conversation is about a variety of things, but a lot of it is all about you. You can use your self-talk to nurture, comfort, console, love, appreciate, and encourage …
Read morePositive Self-Talk: 9 Inspiring Lessons from Experts
There are a lot of amazing quotes about overcoming fear, and from time to time, it’s quite helpful to take a look at the messages these quotes offer. Taken to heart, these messages can be game-changers. Before you dig into …
Read more99 Overcoming Fear Quotes: Be Courageous & Face Your Fears