Category: The Positive Life

One of the biggest things I’ve learned from being an entrepreneur is learning how to have self-discipline.  Of course, I still have my issues.  I still have my slumps and sometimes take way too many breaks. But overall, I’d consider myself more disciplined than when I first started my business. The thing with self-discipline though…
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Ah, the topic of a vision board. If this is your first time getting into self-improvement, chances are likely this is the first thing you’ve heard. Or maybe not. Whatever the case is, vision boards are an interesting tool but are also pretty notorious. Why exactly? Well, part of it is that people are pretty…
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I have some bad news and some good news: no matter what, you will have to handle failure. Yes, you will fail. A lot. But the good news is there are plenty of ways to grow from that experience. For sure you can have a persistent mindset. You can get into the mentality to never…
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When I set my first long-term goal, I had no clue what I was getting into. I was under the impression that setting goals were easy and that there wasn’t much to it. I was so wrong. I believe that digging into the finer details of goals is more complex than it seems. There are…
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Positivity for me hasn’t been much of a struggle for me for most of my life. I won’t deny that I’ve used positivity to hide my mild depression, but generally speaking, I’ve been positive all day it seems. It’s to the point that being positive is my general mood during any given day. This doesn’t…
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It’s easy for a lot of us to see criticism as a bad thing. It can take the manifestation of someone judging us, not seeing the entire picture, and voicing an opinion. It can be easy for me to tell you to not take it to heart and move on. I can tell you to…
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As there are many methods of building confidence, there are many reasons to have low self esteem. I mentioned before that low self esteem can stem from a lesser viewpoint of ourselves and/or our abilities. That much is true, but they can take the form of various things in our lives. Because the list of…
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Building confidence is easier than you think when you consider this: Low confidence or self-esteem is like a self-fulfilling prophecy. The worse you feel about yourself and/or your abilities, the less motivated you are to fixing yourself or your skills. When we have low self esteem, we place ourselves in a vicious cycle where we…
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Stress and dealing with stress have plagued most peoples lives a lot over the years. According to the Mental Health Foundation, 74% of those surveyed in 2018 have felt stressed and unable to cope. And I can imagine that those numbers will only continue to rise. Not that I’m being pessimistic about the situation. But…
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To never truly fail in achieving your goals, it is important that you do two things. Every strategy that any good self-improvement writer or trainer mentions must have these two elements. They’re not complicated elements. In fact, they actually some pretty basic principles. These are: Getting up and showing up. To an untrained mind, these…
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