Category: self-awareness
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What is Confidence?
Are you ever around a person, and they just exude so much confidence that you’re like, man, I wish I could be as confident as them? Some people seem like they are born with an abundance of confidence. And in fact, most children have more confidence than a lot of adults in the room. Have…
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Developing Self-Awareness
Honest question: Do you know who you are? Like, really and truly know? Do you know what your values are? Do you know what brings you joy? Do you know what brings you pleasure? Do you know what brings out your strengths? What about what brings out your resiliency? Do you know how to be…
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You Can Choose, No Matter What
Harsh truth. You are the reason for your own unhappiness. Yep, I said it. You are the reason you are unhappy. Sure, people suck sometimes. Or life’s circumstances may not be ideal. I won’t deny that. Some days it can feel like we got dealt a really shitty hand. Other days we could stub our…
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Forty Things for Forty Years
I turned the big 4-0 recently, and, hear me out, I know I’m not old. Forty is the new thirty, right? But damn, I’m not young anymore either. I guess I feel somewhere in the middle – old enough to know things, young enough to still be figuring things out. I’ve been reflecting and thinking…
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Your 100% is not Always the Same
You know what? Your 100% effort won’t look the same tomorrow as it does today. It may even look different the day after that. One day, you will be able to give what some may call 50% effort, but if you are doing the best you can – so therefore it is your 100%. On…
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Learning from Failures
Have you ever felt like a complete failure? Chances are, you’ve done something that hasn’t gone quite as you’ve expected it to. It’s so easy to think that we have failed when that happens. Or worse – to think that we are a failure. It can be easy to feel sorry for ourselves and say,…
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It’s Okay to Cancel Plans Sometimes
It’s okay to cancel plans sometimes. I’m not suggesting that you become the flakiest member of your family, or that you become the kind of person that your friends can’t rely on. Heck, if you call in to work all the time, you’ll likely get fired, and I’m not in any way suggesting that you…
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My Relationship with Food
Part of personal growth for me is learning to overcome unhealthy habits, and for me, that includes my relationship with food. I was sharing in a group recently the fact that I think I have a food addiction, and that I am working to overcome it. A woman and I spoke about it after the…
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A Look Back at 2021: A Yearly Inventory
Image Source We are approaching the end of the year – can you believe 2021 is almost over? To me, it feels like this year has flown by in the blink of an eye. For some people though, I know this year has dragged on as we have waded through the second year of the…
A Growth Mindset 