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5 Prime Blockers To Developing Confidence

On the surface, it may appear that confident people never make mistakes and know what to do in any given situation. But when I started to pay close attention to the actions of someone I perceived as confident, I realized just how many times they failed during a single day. Continue reading

7 Tips to Find Time To Exercise When You’re Busy

Do you seek a more active lifestyle, but you’re hard-pressed for time because of work and family? How many times have you sat on your office chair simply idling and surfing the web, when you’ve wished you could be outside working out? Continue reading

6 Surprising Reasons to Welcome Failure

For most of us failure’s shameful, embarrassing, and even scary. Maybe it means you don’t have what it takes. Maybe this dream isn’t meant to be. What if everyone’s laughing or judging? Continue reading

9 Steps to Creating Self-Awareness

The path to self-improvement starts with self-awareness – the ability to have a clear understanding of your personality, strengths, values, weaknesses, motivations and emotions. Continue reading

7 Reasons Being Rejected Improves Your Life

I grew up in a community where going to college is a dream instead of an expectation.

Through hard work and luck, I completed my dream of graduating college debt-free last May.

It took me 283 rejections to get there. Continue reading

Why Christmas is (Unknowingly) Making You Unhappy

Ahh Christmas. The time of year when we lie to our children, put on an average of 4lb between the 25th December and New Year and pay for numerous gifts and meals with money we don’t have. Continue reading