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7 Powerful Ways to Deal with Disappointment and Unmet Expectations

March 19, 2018 / By Nina Amir / 13 Comments

Things don’t always go as planned. Sometimes they turn out differently—much to your dismay. And then you feel disappointment. That’s normal. When you have expectations about an outcome and get a different result than planned or desired, your expectations go unmet. Unmet expectations lead to disappointment every time. Don’t Stop Expecting the Best in Yourself […]

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10 Tips to Help You Push Yourself to the Next Level

March 12, 2018 / By Nina Amir / 3 Comments

Do you push yourself to be better or do better? Do you drive yourself to start or to finish? Do you strive to achieve your goals and your potential and purpose? It’s easy not to push. After all, it requires less effort to stay comfortable. But you know that isn’t the way to become your

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6 High-Performance Habits to Level Up Your Life

March 5, 2018 / By Nina Amir / Leave a Comment

Have you ever attended an event, read a book, or heard a podcast that got your fired up to take action? That’s how I feel every year after I finish my High Performance Coaching certification program. I’m burning with the desire to make a difference in people’s lives by helping them gain more clarity, energy,

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Is the Story of Your Life Fact or Fiction?

February 26, 2018 / By Nina Amir / 2 Comments

Most of us live a story we have made up. We keep telling it over an dover again even though we don’t always like it. When we excavate the facts from the fiction, we can free ourselves to create a new story that serves us and that we like better. How does this “fiction” happen?

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Don’t Go Through Life Wearing Blinders

February 19, 2018 / By Nina Amir / 2 Comments

Too many of us go through life wearing blinders. I bet you sport a pair at least some of the time. The blinders you wear make it hard for you to see past what is directly in front of you. While that’s what blinders do—help you focus without distraction, sometimes you are better off not

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You Have No Reason to Fear Change or Novelty

February 12, 2018 / By Nina Amir / Leave a Comment

Do you find change scary? If so, anything new feels frightening, overwhelming and stressful to you. And you probably avoid both change and novelty. I get it. I’m not too keen on change myself. Sometimes just going to a new restaurant stresses me out. On the other side of the spectrum, though, new experiences excite

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Monday Inspiration: Bring the Joy

April 10, 2017 / By Nina Amir / Leave a Comment

Do you bring joy to every situation? When you bring the joy every day and in every situation, your experience of the world changes. Plus, you attract more things about which you can feel joyous. Think about it.. Do you show up at work happy, arrive home at the end of the day feeling joyous,

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Monday Inspiration: Work for a Lifestyle

March 27, 2017 / By Nina Amir / 2 Comments

Do you work for a lifestyle or a living? If you have a job or career, answer that question. Do you work to pay your bills? Do you work to support your family, or you feel driven to succeed? Or do you work to create or support the lifestyle you choose or desire? We tend

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Monday Inspiration: Change Your Mind About Change

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

Most people don’t like change, but we all know it’s a constant—a fact of life. Since we can’t alter anything about change, we have to change our minds about change. Typically, we think of change is hard, uncomfortable, and unwanted. It’s time to switch these beliefs. See change as exciting, easy, joyous, exciting, passion-filled, and

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Monday Inspiration: Create a Positive and Meaningful Difference in the World

February 27, 2017 / By Nina Amir / 6 Comments

The current political, social, and economic climates are turbulent ones—both here in the United States and abroad. You may feel like you are helpless to do anything about this fact, but, in fact, you can make a positive and meaningful difference in the world. You can have impact—even by doing small things. Not only that,

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Monday Inspiration: Get Off the Beaten Path

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

Are you walking the beaten path? You know…that same old path everyone walks. It’s time to get off. Take another route. Variety, as they say, is the spice of life. You can equate variety to uncertainty, and uncertainty is a basic human need. Variety—in all its forms and faces—is what makes life worth living and

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Monday Inspiration: Heed the Warning

January 30, 2017 / By Nina Amir / Leave a Comment

For anyone who has ever lived in or visited a city like New York, San Francisco, or Chicago, there’s a particular sound you’ve no doubt heard: the car alarm. It is an all-too-familiar mechanized wail complete with flashing lights and an utterly ear-splitting sound. When that alarm goes off, do you stop to investigate what’s

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