Human relationships and interactions are essential to our longevity and happiness. A Harvard study dating back to 1938 still continues on today. It is the oldest study of it’s type in existence and unlocks many key answers to living a long, happy and fulfilled life. Waldinger, the director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development, saidContinue reading “What Does the Longest Study on Adult Development Tell Us About Life?”
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Sunday Quote – Daily Motivation
“Every set-back is a setup for a comeback” Unknown Just when you feel like you’re down and out, look to what a situation can teach you and embrace it whole-heartedly. You may have lost this time, but you have never failed if you have never given up after a loss. Keep going!
The Key To Getting Ahead Is Starting
If you have all these grand ambitions and visions of yourself in the future, you must get them out. They are your purpose in life. If you never work on them and build them up for the world to see, nobody will ever see them. Only YOU are capable of making a unique mark onContinue reading “The Key To Getting Ahead Is Starting”
All Problems Have Solutions
There are solutions that exist to all the problems that surround our life and sometimes we just need to think outside the box and look at these problems from a new perspective. Thinking outside the box means being creative in the way you approach things. Seeking a new perspective means giving up your old metricsContinue reading “All Problems Have Solutions”
Change Your Mindset, Change Your Day
The reality is, and you’ve probably heard this quote before; If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. Wayne Dyer For those that do not know, Wayne Dyer was an American self-help author and a motivational speaker. So, what was he trying to say when he shared thisContinue reading “Change Your Mindset, Change Your Day”
Feeling Behind On Your Goals?
Do you ever get this anxious feeling that you’re behind or in some ways off track in life? Maybe your goals keep escaping you or they’re taking a long time and you get demotivated and disappointed with yourself. Then you look back to all the times you’ve failed or the things that haven’t worked outContinue reading “Feeling Behind On Your Goals?”
You Have To Be Willing To Expand Yourself
Michael Jordan, arguably the greatest basketball player of all time said, “Limits, just like fears, are often just an illusion.” What can we draw from this statement? It packs in a lot of messages and it also encourages us to develop our self awareness. What I believe Michael was trying to express is that weContinue reading “You Have To Be Willing To Expand Yourself”
What If We Never Quit?
What if we never quit on the things that really mattered? What would it mean for who we are now or who we could be in the future? It would mean a stronger will power and a more decisive attitude. When we don’t quit it’s because we care about what we’re working towards and anythingContinue reading “What If We Never Quit?”
The Community’s Way Of Lifting Our Spirits
Sometimes there’s disappointments, letdowns or frustrations that don’t just affect us but that affect a large number of people. When the community share’s in a loss or a disappointment, there’s a shared dissatisfaction. This is both painful and uplifting. It’s an interesting fact; we must deal with our own feelings as well as worry aboutContinue reading “The Community’s Way Of Lifting Our Spirits”
Always Be Brave Enough To Dream Smartly
Our dreams are controlled by the limits we place on ourselves. We often let our limits suppress our capabilities and we can’t reach our full potential. A dream represents what we want most – what our ‘ideal’ scenario might be for the future. We can have multiple dreams at any one time. These can beContinue reading “Always Be Brave Enough To Dream Smartly”
The Pursuit For Positive Experience Is Actually A Negative Experience
A tricky statement, sometimes a bit confusing and convoluted but it’s actually quite true. What it means is this – the fact that we believe we always need more, want more and deserve more makes us unappreciative of who we are now. To ourselves we will never be enough because we’re not satisfied with ourContinue reading “The Pursuit For Positive Experience Is Actually A Negative Experience”
The Beauty Of Patience
In a world where we can often get frustrated with what’s happening around us and discouraged when things don’t work out we must learn to be patient. When we try and rush a result just to get the reward it normally doesn’t pay off and in the rare cases where it does, the fulfilment weContinue reading “The Beauty Of Patience”
Non-Cognitive Skills Will Help You Get Things Done
Non-cognitive skills form the basis of how we respond to the tasks, activities and situations that encompass our day-to-day life. These skills comprise of things such as conscientiousness, perseverance and teamwork. I don’t think you can name one successful person or group that didn’t have either of these traits in large volumes. The reason whyContinue reading “Non-Cognitive Skills Will Help You Get Things Done”
The Power To Change Your Life (Chapter 2.0 – Accountability)
See Chapter 1.0 – Momentum At any given moment, you have the ability to change your life. The moment you take full accountability of the outcomes of your life you start to take back power – you gain a sense of control over situations. Not control over the outcomes themselves, but control over your responseContinue reading “The Power To Change Your Life (Chapter 2.0 – Accountability)”
It Takes 21 Days To Build Or Break A Habit
We’ve all had habits, good ones and bad ones. We know which habits are supportive of our growth and those that are not. There’s some habits that constantly bug us. We know they’re poor choices but we still do them because we’re in a pattern that keeps drawing us back in – tempting us. We’veContinue reading “It Takes 21 Days To Build Or Break A Habit”
A Simple Life Is A Better Life
Clear the clutter and let the simple stuff stay. We need far less to live a good life than we realise. There is a lot of meaningless stuff that ties us down that we think belongs in our life, but it doesn’t. There are many distractions that we run to for comfort in times ofContinue reading “A Simple Life Is A Better Life”
Don’t Be Perfect, Be ‘Perfectly You’
There’s a chance you’re reading this because you want to be perfect, you want everything to go to plan and you want your life to just fall in place for you. If I’m honest, continuing to have these thoughts is actually what’s holding you back from exactly what you want. To be ‘perfectly you’ isContinue reading “Don’t Be Perfect, Be ‘Perfectly You’”
Love Yourself And Love Your Goals
It’s easy to get caught up in trying to please others and in trying to prove to the world that we are good enough. The truth is, we don’t have to and we should never have to. If people, situations or criteria ever make us feel this way we need to properly evaluate why thisContinue reading “Love Yourself And Love Your Goals”
If Only We Could Turn Back Time
If only we could turn back time, would we change the things of our past or let them be as they are? Does time moving forward signify that we can’t go back to the better days that we believe are behind us? It’s nice sometimes to speculate about going back in time to improve thingsContinue reading “If Only We Could Turn Back Time”
Anxious Feelings In Your Stomach – A Remedy
Sometimes we become anxious for no apparent reason, other times we know the exact cause, but nonetheless it can be difficult to manage in either case. Those rumblings in our stomach can feel all knotted up and out of control and we can even begin to question our own self worth. Sometimes we get anxiousContinue reading “Anxious Feelings In Your Stomach – A Remedy”
