Life doesn’t have to beat you up. Circumstances need not keep you down. Positions have no power to keep you stuck. Hurts won’t last if allowed to heal. Behaviors and attitudes can change. Change is a certainty of life, but learning from past mistakes can be your most valuable asset. No matter how responsible you are or how congenial you may be with people, you will inevitably slip up on moments that are uncomfortable and threatening. It doesn’t have to intimidate ...
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Personal Leadership–Stepping Outside of Life’s Paradigms
To under take a path of personal leadership development is to lead yourself outside and beyond common life paradigms. Here are 6 very common paradigms worth examining: 1. Paradigm: Everything is OK It may be that you have said to yourself or even to others – ” Everything is OK as it is”. Perhaps because you settled just a little bit, or perhaps even felt you may not have deserved more in the moment. Perhaps you have been like so many people who just have n...
55 Ways to Sabotage Your Goals
While there are sure to be outside pressures and problems to overcome in reaching our goals, sometimes we overlook the ways in which we sabotage ourselves. Each of us has our own favorite ways of blocking ourselves. In case you can’t think of them on your own, just read the following list and determine the ones that ring a familiar bell. By acknowledging the ways you have caused yourself to fail in the past, you can avoid repeating the same patterns. After determini...
Live Life Like it Matters: 3 Strategies
The top reasons why people don't live life like it matters and walk into their purpose: Lack of focus - focus is a destiny-critical component to successful living Fear - overcoming fear is an absolute necessity to designing a rewarding life An inability to let go - letting go of all the things that no longer serve you well is vital to achieving your biggest, boldest desires And both the problem and the answer begins with your MIND! √ Isn’t it time you ge...
Begin Doing 8 Things Now to Live by Design
You can do one of two things. Create the life you love by design or live it by default. Many people may say that is a cute cliche, however it is a real truth. Today there are many coaches claiming the phrase, "Design Your Best Life" or "Life Designer or Life Design. " It's a catchy phrase and sounds "trendy" and is different from just saying, "Change your Life" or even perhaps "Plan your Life." But wait a minute. Design is much more than that. Design is multi-faceted and co...
7 Master Keys to Simplify Your Life
There was a time I would wonder around in circles day by day, like so many other people, feeling like nothing was accomplished. I had to get a grip on my life and organize my world. Simplicity is always best because this makes things controllable and doable. Many of you who are familiar with my writings know that I talk a lot about order. I read that order is an accurate arrangement of things. Because I have discovered a tremendous amount of satisfaction and pleasure that...
4 Key Ways to Change Your World
For many years I had a cat that I named Early. Each morning she would be at my bedroom door waiting for me as she escorted me into the kitchen to be fed. This is not something I'd trained her to do. Early just figured that’s what you do when you get up in the morning. Much the same is with your thinking. You get into the habit of thinking a certain way and then you’ll rarely question it after a while. Like Early, you become accustomed to doing things automatically as ...
