Category: Challenges!
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21 signs you’re mentally stronger than average
by Steven Benna Mental strength takes a long time to develop. It is the daily practice of pushing yourself to grow stronger, maintaining realistic optimism, and setting healthy boundaries. Mentally strong people don’t do things like waste time feeling sorry for themselves or give away their power to other people. How do you know where…
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Do You Have Grit?
By Dr. Travis Bradberry Coauthor Emotional Intelligence 2.0 & President at TalentSmart There are a ton of qualities that can help you succeed, and the more carefully a quality has been studied, the more you know it’s worth your time and energy. Angela Lee Duckworth was teaching seventh grade when she noticed that the material…
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The Cause Of Your Low Self Esteem May Not Be What You Expect
By: Brianna | Exist Better Take a second to imagine little you – running around like the raggamuffin that you were. Imagine as far back as you can remember – back when you were first able to comprehend feedback from parents, teachers, or whatever other authorities were around. When considering the causes of low…
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How To Heal The Hidden Root Of Unworthiness
By LJ Vanier Are You Worthy? Why is it that most of us spend our entire lives trying to experience our worth, keep it and prove it to others? Could it be that our concept and experience of worthiness has gotten lost in the preconception and “misbelievings” that we are not good enough unless we…
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5 Ways to Find Beauty in Painful Life Changes
Written by Marc Chernoff Stepping onto a brand new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation that no longer fits, or no longer exists. The reason for our suffering, in all walks of life, is our resistance to life’s inevitable changes. And life is all changes. To have lived…
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18 Reminders You Need When Things Don’t Go Your Way
Written by Marc Chernoff “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” ― Allen Saunders This past weekend I volunteered at my alma mater and gave a campus tour to a couple dozen incoming freshman. There was a young man in a wheelchair in the group who chatted with me…
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10 Life-Changing Tips For Highly Sensitive People & 9 Mindful Ideas that Will Put Your Soul at Ease
by Mely Brown “And those who were seen dancing were thought insane by those who could not hear the music.” ― Nietzsche Highly sensitive people are too often perceived as weak or broken. But to feel intensely is not a symptom of weakness, it is the characteristic of a truly alive and compassionate human…
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Elder’s Meditation of the Day – July 21
“You must speak straight so that your words may go as sunlight into our hearts.” — Cochise “Like Ironweed” CHIRICAHUA APACHE Come into my heart this morning. Allow me this day to live in the now. Help me to see all the beauty You have created in all things. Let me know myself. Today, as…
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17 Ways To Conquer Soul-Crushing Negativity
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in Beginners’ Mind!, Boundary Work!, Brain Science, Career, Challenges!, Compassion, Consciousness, Depression, Dreams & Dreaming, Embracing Change, Empowerment, Energy Medicine, Law of Attraction, loving and encouraging words for the day!, Mental and Emotional Health, Mindfulness, Quantum “Fun and Games”, Relationships, skills for our tool kits, Stress management, The Drama Triangleby Scott Sind When we are aware of our weaknesses or negative tendencies, we open the opportunity to work on them. Ever had one of those moments when all you wanted to do was crawl back in bed, put a pillow over your head and shut out the world for a few hours? For a…
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Elder’s Meditation of the Day – July 4
“That is not our way, to set yourself apart and talk about who you are and what you’ve done. You let your life speak for you. With the Mohawk people, wisdom is how you live and how you interpret what your mother and father, what your grandmothers and grandfathers have told you about this world…