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How to Overcome Procrastination by Increasing Necessity

March 11, 2024 / By Nina Amir / Leave a Comment

Procrastination. If you are a procrastinator, you might delay work-related tasks, postpone taking action on personal goals, avoid household chores, or put off unpleasant conversations. No matter when or why you procrastinate, the impact is always the same—your productivity plummets, and your self-esteem, self-trust, and self-confidence decline. But throw a little necessity into the mix, […]

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How to achieve desired results with mental mastery

6 Steps to Creating Your Destiny with Mental Mastery

November 6, 2023 / By Nina Amir / Leave a Comment

There’s a good reason why the highest-performing people in the world focus on mastering their psychology. Beliefs, thoughts, and words influence your actions, habits, values, and future. If you want to control your destiny, start by controlling your mind. In Certified High Performance Coaching, we call this “psychology mastery.” Yet, you don’t have to hire

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How to Stop Dancing Around Your Fear

February 24, 2020 / By Nina Amir / 1 Comment

Fear. It’s not something you want to encounter regularly. After all, it’s uncomfortable to feel afraid. Yet, dancing around your fear doesn’t help you overcome it. I was reminded of this recently when I saw my son perform in Iphigenie auf Tauris, a beautiful ballet choreographed by Pina Bausch. In the second act, the dancers

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how to use personal development to deepen relationship with God

3 Ways Personal Development Supports Your Spiritual Development

December 30, 2019 / By Nina Amir / 1 Comment

Personal development is often considered different from spiritual development. However, the two are integrally related. You can’t have one without the other. Indeed, if you seek a more profound spiritual experience, your spiritual practice needs to include a personal development practice as well. After becoming a Certified High Performance Coach, I would talk about the

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when your life falls apart it's time to rebuild

How to Rebuild After Your Life Falls Apart

December 16, 2019 / By Nina Amir / Leave a Comment

Has your life ever exploded as if someone dropped a bomb on it? Or did it implode when the heat or stress—inside and out—became too much? If so, you were left with a pile of rubble and whatever vestiges of your life remained standing. At such times, you must determine if there is anything left

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Asking "What if...?" is a powerful question that reaps powerful possiblities for action.

Access the Power of Asking “What if…?”

June 24, 2019 / By Nina Amir / Leave a Comment

It’s so very easy to only see what’s right in front of you. But when you stare at your current situation—thinking about it, dissecting it, hating it, wishing it were different, beating yourself up for it—it’s difficult to see what might be right around the corner. What if…things were different? “What if” is a powerful

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Develop the habit of becoming your future self

How to Develop the Habit of Being Your Future Self

June 17, 2019 / By Nina Amir / 2 Comments

Imagine showing up for life every day as the person you want to be rather than the person you are. You’d put on a costume and persona congruent with who you’d like to become in a year or two or three. And you’d experience yourself as that person now. What type of impact might that

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fulfill your potential and purpose while leaving a legacy

Don’t Let Your Largest Achievement be All You Leave Behind

June 10, 2019 / By Nina Amir / Leave a Comment

I can’t remember if I planted the Century Plant behind my house or if it was here when I moved in. But this plant has thrived in the 15 years I’ve lived in this home. I mean…it’s huge! And now…after all this time… it’s going to bloom. That fact is, one one hand, super exciting.

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Why Now is the Time to Take Your Life Off Cruise Control

May 20, 2019 / By Nina Amir / Leave a Comment

Are you going through life on cruise control? It’s easy to set your days up so you can push a button and then “drive” at the same speed no matter what without much thought. That sort of life can be pretty comfortable…as long as you remain satisfied. However, at some point you will feel dissatisfied

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Create Inspired Results: Prepare for Opportunity

November 27, 2017 / By Nina Amir / 2 Comments

Are you prepared for opportunity? Or are you unprepared? When opportunity shows up at your doorstep, you need to be ready and willing to open the door and let it in. In fact, you want to open the door and rush out to embrace opportunity. Otherwise, opportunity will knock, and you’ll cower in the foyer.

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Create Inspired Results: Become a Doer (Not a Talker)

November 13, 2017 / By Nina Amir / Leave a Comment

Do you spend a lot of time talking about your dreams? If you are passionate about your vision for the future, I bet you do. You love to share your ideas and goals with others. But at a certain point, you have to stop talking and start doing. That’s the difference between being a talker

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Monday Inspiration: Prove You Can

September 25, 2017 / By Nina Amir / Leave a Comment

A lot of people don’t pursue their dreams. They want to be writers, dancers, actors, painters, Olympic athletes, singers, or entrepreneurs, for example. But they doubt that they can realize their dream. They don’t think they can do it. So rather than try, they don’t do anything. They don’t pursue their goal or dream. Can

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