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Self Improvement Ideas

8 Ways to Take Total Responsibility for Your Life…and Feel Good About It

Self Improvement Ideas

Today’s self improvement ideas aren’t the most easy to embrace, but very little changes without them.  No matter what’s wrong or right in your life, you’ll find yourself stuck in a rut whenever you indulge in blame.  The boss may have it out for you, the economy may suck and a health issue may have [...]

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How I Set Myself Free

Health & Wellness

If you think you’re free, there’s no escape possible. ~Ram Dass Over the last few weeks, I totally immersed myself in aspects of life that are anything but typical for me. Prior to this little “experiment,”my days were heavily focused on the infamous world of the Internet—blogging, Googling, Tweeting, Facebooking, emailing and pretty much anything [...]

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6 Electrifying Lessons from My Best Friend, Mr. Failure

Self Improvement Ideas

Now, you don’t have to tell me I have made mistakes in my life. I’ve made more than I can count and I love math. But one thing I realized throughout my 23 years living on this earth is nothing can be achieved without failure. Failure breed success and without it, success is impossible. Today [...]

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How to Build Unshakeable Self Confidence

Self Improvement Ideas

Photo by: Fedori Natalia For the most part, would you say it’s pretty easy to point out the self confident people in a room? Wait…don’t be so quick to answer that. Self confidence is one of those often-mentioned seldom-understood phenomena. We look for it, desire it, admire it. But do we have it? Do we [...]

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How Personal Values and Life Purpose Can Make You Rich

Self Improvement Ideas

Are you committed to being rich? I don’t necessarily mean riches as in money, but rich in whatever way is of most value to you. Most of us at least try to strive toward some sort of riches, but what does it take? What does it mean to be your best self, to create and [...]

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Are Your Commitments Destroying Your Commitments?

Self Improvement Ideas

As we rebuild our lives using the success skills necessary for personal growth and development, we’re forced to face the reality of our commitments in this life. Without commitment, your life—along with your dreams, hopes and desires—is like a sailboat without a sail. It keeps going, but with little direction and progress. Now, I know [...]

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6 Ways to Refill Your Life Tank and Improve Your Quality of Life

Self Improvement Ideas

Your life is your vehicle.  Are you filling her up? If you’ve driven a vehicle of any kind, you know that it’s pretty much useless on an empty tank.  I mean, it will still sit there and exist, but that’s not what you have it for.  You want it to fulfill it’s purpose—to get you [...]

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20 Lessons From Life I Learned the Hard Way

Self Improvement Ideas

Life lessons have a way of piling up as the years go by, but I can only imagine what it would be like to know these truths from the very beginning. There is great joy in learning, so I have no regrets about learning these lessons from life the hard way.  The end product (a [...]

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Where to Turn At a Crossroad in Life

Self Improvement Ideas

I can’t think of many things scarier than reaching a crossroad in your life.  You know, that turning point where you need to make some big changes and decisions—or else.  Usually, we don’t reach crossroads out of the blue.  But that doesn’t make it any easier. No matter how long you’ve known that a turning [...]

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Stop Overreacting: How to Control Your Emotions Before They Control You

People skills

In the article So You Think You Don’t Have Anger Issues, we explored some the ways that we all use to inappropriately express anger.  This follow-up post will address overreacting.  Once again, nobody is exempt here.  We all overreact sometimes. While some of us clearly get angry when it’s not warranted; overreaction can occur with [...]

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