Good Habits for a Great Life!
Do you magnify the positive in your life?
It never ceases to amaze me how people want to amplify the negative in their life instead of the positive.
They focus incessantly on all that is going wrong. They make list upon list of what they can’t do.
When you view yourself through this lens, you see a chicken instead of an eagle.
You shrink, limit and close off your life.
Perhaps, …
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Do you wish you had more willpower to change your habits?
Willpower is often weak against changing bad habits. It lets us down at critical moments.
However, there are several techniques you can use to strengthen your willpower and overcome the temptations that confront you.
Whatever your weakness, you can save yourself from falling off the wagon and feeling all that guilt, yet again, by using these strategies.
It isn’t that …
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Which is better: being normal or being weird?
Most of us go to great lengths to harmonize with the standards of one group or another. We think of ourselves as individualists, but the truth is, we are all more conformists that we want to admit.
Normal is a powerful gravitational force to be reckoned with.
Weird takes effort and it involves risk.
Therefore, because we tend to take the path of least resistance …
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Are you living intentionally?
It takes deliberate and premeditated action to be happy and successful. These things won’t just fall into your lap one day.
You must first imagine a better future and then willfully exercise a certain measure of forethought and planning to make it so.
If I asked you right now, “What are your specific goals?” Could you answer me without stammering around?
If not, then you aren’t …
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Do you need to break a bad habit?
Bad habits linger despite our best efforts to put them aside. This can be downright maddening.
I know I struggle to stop bad habits. Try as I may, the little suckers seem to cling to me like leaches. They won’t let go and they drain the life right out of you. Bad habits hold you back from living your best life.
I …
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Do you want to be more creative?
Stop clinging to comfort. Comfort is the enemy of creativity.
You are comfortable where it is safe and predictable. When you are curled up in your recliner watching your favorite sitcom.
Creativity resides out on the edge where things are a little dicey.
If you want to be more creative, then you’ve got to force yourself — usually kicking and screaming — to move …
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How would you like to wake up every day feeling sure of yourself and totally happy with who you are?
How would it feel not to worry what other people think of you?
How would it feel to comfortably walk in a room and start a conversation with ease?
How would it feel to be the initiator, to make great plans and to really go for it in life?
How would …
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