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- Mindfullness
- July 2, 2024
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- 8 minutes Read
7 Daily Expectations that Often Drain 90 Percent of Our Peace and Joy
“I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations, and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.”
— Bruce Lee
The biggest and most draining disappointments in our daily lives are often the result of misplaced expectations. This is especially true when it comes to our relationships and interactions with others. So don’t lower your standards, but do remember that removing your expectations of others is the best way to avoid being utterly disappointed and drained by them.
Which means it’s time to…
1. Stop expecting everyone to agree with you.
You deserve to find joy in your own way. You deserve to (more…)
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- Mindfullness
- July 2, 2024
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- 2 minutes Read
Weekend Favorites: snowball decluttering method, the perfect nap and gratitude
Weekend Wisdom: Simplifying isn’t easy but it does make everything easier. Birthday hike. Last week I went out early to hike in one of my favorite spots. I’ve been keeping a 5-year journal for about a year and a half and seeing that last year on my birthday, I started my new year with this […]
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- Mindfullness
- July 2, 2024
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Weekend Favorites: what not to wear, 5 unhealthy habits to ditch and being lazy
Weekend Wisdom: When everything matters, nothing does. Space to read. Now that the writing and editing part of my new book Gentle is finished, I’m reading more than ever. One of my new favorite spots to daydream, read and relax is my backyard. It’s a little hot during the day but early mornings and evenings […]
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- Mindfullness
- July 2, 2024
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- 10 minutes Read
3 Daily Habits that Keep Holding 90 Percent of Us Back (Week After Week)
If it keeps you busy but will hold you back someday, it’s a distraction.
There’s a big difference between empty fatigue and gratifying exhaustion. Life is too short not to focus more on what matters most. And life is definitely too short for habits and routines that keep you stuck in a cycle of feeling like you’re a day late and a dollar short. So today, let’s discuss three incredibly common patterns of behavior that keep the majority of us (myself included for several years) stuck in that cycle, week after week.
1. We keep trying to overcome the odds in an unsupportive environment.
No matter how strong you are, and no matter how much determination and willpower you have, if you keep yourself positioned in an environment that works against your best intentions, you will eventually succumb to that environment.
This is where so many of us make life-altering (more…)
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- Mindfullness
- July 2, 2024
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- 6 minutes Read
40 Quotes for Letting Go and Coping With the Things You Can’t Control
The goal each and every day is to gradually grow stronger on the inside, so that less and less on the outside can affect your inner wellness without your conscious permission.
Truth be told, how you cope with unexpected problems and frustrations can easily be the difference between living a good life and living an unhealthy one. If you choose unhealthy coping mechanisms like avoidance or denial, for example, you can quickly turn a tough situation into a tragic one. And sadly, this is a common mistake many people make.
When you find yourself facing a disheartening reality, your first reaction might be (more…)
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- Mindfullness
- July 2, 2024
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- 14 minutes Read
10 Life Choices We Will All Regret in 10 Years if We Aren’t Careful
“If only…” Those two words paired together create one of the saddest phrases in the English language.
In the end, more than anything else, we regret the small chances we didn’t take, the priceless opportunities we were too busy to nurture, and the good decisions we waited too long to make. Angel and I have learned this over the past 15 years from the countless hours we’ve spent coaching hundreds of clients, students, and live event attendees from around the world. The exact same regrets pop up in the personal stories people share with us, time after time.
Here are ten incredibly common and specific life choices that ultimately lead to that “If only…” phrase of regret, and how to elude them on the average day:
1. Letting others tell us what we are worth.
We tend to forget that most people judge us based on (more…)
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- Mindfullness
- July 2, 2024
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- 7 minutes Read
8 Mistakes We Make Over and Over that Make Us Feel Unhappy
Sometimes, things that are out of our control that can make us feel unhappy. The good news is that there are plenty of things in our lives that we can look at and change to live a happier life. There are some mistakes we make over and over again that we can avoid as we […]
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- Mindfullness
- July 2, 2024
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- 7 minutes Read
10 Little Tips To Help You Keep Your Cool
Whether it’s hot outside or you are feeling hot on the inside, the ten little tips below will help you keep your cool. It’s hot outside and I’m not just talking about the weather. From the temperature to comments on the internet, relationship mistakes to breaking news (and everything in between), it makes sense that […]
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- Mindfullness
- July 2, 2024
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- 10 minutes Read
10 Things We Always Wait Too Long to Let Go of in Life
We don’t even realize how often we’re blocking our own present blessings by holding on so tightly.
Letting go is not giving up. Letting go is surrendering any needless attachments to particular outcomes and situations. Surrender means showing up in your life with the intention to be your best, and to do the best you know how, without expecting life to be ideal. Have goals, have dreams, take purposeful action, and build solid relationships, but detach from what life must look like every step of the way.
The energy of someone aspiring to create something wonderful this year, teamed with a healthy balance of surrender, is far more effective than someone determined to create outcomes with a desperate must-have mentality. Surrender brings inner calmness, awareness, and understanding. And lest we forget that our outer lives are a reflection of our inner state of being.
Thus, take a moment to remind yourself of some things many of us typically attach to long after it’s time to let go, so you can loosen your grip on them as you move forward… (more…)
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- Mindfullness
- July 2, 2024
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- 9 minutes Read
8 Wake-Up Calls Everyone Needs to Receive in Life Before it’s Too Late
You have come a long way, and you’re still learning and growing. Be thankful for the lessons. Take them and make the best of things today.
For my 18th birthday, many moons ago, my grandfather on my mom’s side gave me four lightly-used flannel shirts that he no longer needed. The shirts were barely worn and in great shape; my grandfather told me he thought they would look great on me. Unfortunately, I thought they were odd gifts at the time and I wasn’t thankful. I looked at him skeptically, gave him a crooked half-smile, and moved on to the other gifts sitting in front of me. My grandfather died two days later from a sudden heart attack. The flannel shirts were the last gifts he ever gave me, and that crooked half-smile was the last time I directly acknowledged him. Today, I still regret the little thing I didn’t say when I had the chance: “Thank you Grandpa. I appreciate you.”
That was a huge wake-up call for me — one that has served me well for over two decades now.
And here are eight wake-up calls for you to reflect on today — some important lessons worth learning and living by, before it’s too late: (more…)
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