If you want a deep awareness of your commitments, look at your identity and behavior. Both reflect your commitments. With that knowledge, you can then choose new commitments that better serve you. Consider this: If you often spend quiet time in nature—a behavior, you are committed to spending quiet time in nature and consider yourself …
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When you make a choice, do you stick with that decision? Or do you waffle? If you change your mind repeatedly, then you haven’t really decided. Or you’ve chosen to not choose. So, how do you make a choice and stick to it? Good question, and one I grappled with recently. But I found a …
For the last few years, I’ve focused on my personal freedom. I wasn’t in jail, but I felt as if I was. And here’s the irony: I was keeping myself captive. That meant I also held the key to my cell. The world’s most successful people value personal freedom. Therefore, they place a lot of …
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For years, I felt like I was wearing a muzzle. No one had tried to silence me. I chose to wear it, so I couldn’t speak up. But these days, there’s no muzzle to be found. I tossed it in the fire and burned it. And now I speak up for myself…always. What about you? …
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You know what it’s like when you are preoccupied. You have time to do what needs to be done, but your busy mind keeps you too occupied to accomplish much of anything. As a result, your productivity plummets. You can interchange the word “distracted,” but the reason distraction keeps you from taking action is better …
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No one really likes to struggle. That’s why we are told to reframe struggle as something positive. I prefer, however, to stop using the term altogether. I suggest we simply replace it with the word challenge. I can accept a challenge or take a challenge. A challenge stretches and pushes me to become a better …
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If you don’t feel free to show up as yourself—authentically—in one or more areas of life, in certain situations, or with specific people, you lack personal freedom. In fact, personal freedom is an internal sense of safety that allows you to show up as you…all of you…all the time. If you are wondering how to …
Personal freedom. We hear these two words mentioned so often, and the topic is on people’s minds and infused with emotion. But do you know what it means to have personal freedom? Let’s start with Merriam-Webster’s definition, which says personal freedom is freedom of the person in going and coming, equality before the courts, security …
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You are a powerful creator. Look at your life. The proof is in your results. You may already realize this, but each result you achieve is one of your creations. Prosperity or debt. Good or bad health. Loving or abusive relationships. Your life’s work or a job. Happiness or sadness. All of these are results, …
Setting boundaries comes naturally to some people. To others, not so much… And while some find boundaries limiting, others experience them as enormously freeing. Which camp do you fall into? A boundary is typically defined as a line that marks the limits of an area, subject, or sphere of activity. Thus, it’s a dividing mark …
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Early in my spiritual (albeit woo-woo) education, I was taught that accidents don’t exist. More than one teacher or author stressed this fact saying, “There are no accidents,” or “There are no coincidences.” If I asked for an explanation, the reply was always the same: “Everything is happening as it is supposed to. There’s a …
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Have you struggled to create a new helpful habit—one that supports your efforts to achieve a goal or dream? Or have you found it challenging to break unhelpful habits that don’t support your efforts to get the results you desire? Most habit-formation experts say it takes a minimum of 30 days to develop a new …
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