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How Action Fuels Self Improvement

And while status quo is self-preserving with majority of people, there are some, a growing number I’d like to think, that not only hear the voice deep down urging for change, but also act to an extent in correlation with it.

And while many may think that being in sync with the inherent drive for change is all there is when climbing the bar, the reality is a bit different. Continue reading

5 Unhealthy Narratives That Will Sabotage Your Life

You’re waiting for the train. You see that the CEO of a major company is standing next to you on the platform. To pass the time before the next train arrives, they engage you in conversation. “Tell me about yourself,” they ask. How would you communicate the essence of who you are in such a short amount of time? Continue reading

6 Simple Tactics to Regain Clarity and Achieve Your Goals

No matter what you wish to achieve in life, the richest, most complete life experience requires that you have an enhanced clarity about life and your goals for life. When you have this clarity, goal achievement comes as a natural result.

Of course, clarity isn’t something most of us naturally walk around with on a minute by minute basis. Sometimes it becomes quite difficult to remember why you’re making decisions and thus how to make decisions. Continue reading

10 Easy Ways To Get More Reading Done

Reading a book is like undergoing a chemical reaction.

You’ll never be exactly the same when you finish a book, because every book has the power to teach you, encourage you and shape you.

I hope these 10 tips enable you to be changed for the better through the power of reading many more good books. Continue reading

5 “Truths” You Might Tell Yourself That Are Actually Lies

Here’s the deal: this pep talk becomes a problem when what you’re telling yourself – those “truths” about the world – aren’t true at all. They’re lies. White ones, yes, but they’re holding you back from going farther and faster. Continue reading

Post-traumatic Growth: What Research Says About Why Some Grow While Others Break In The Face of Adversity

Yet we hear very little of what psychologists call “posttraumatic growth”. For example, a casual survey by Martin Seligman from the University of Pennsylvania, found that only 10{54c12dad2cc2b53ae830e39915b1a3e70288dbcbbeb8bbf8395437c5dc3c512c} of his respondents are aware of the term. What is more widely known (97{54c12dad2cc2b53ae830e39915b1a3e70288dbcbbeb8bbf8395437c5dc3c512c}) is its evil twin: posttraumatic disorder. Continue reading