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How to use discipline to honor yourself
…And Protect Your Peace Discipline is one of those words that makes people wince. We immediately think about grueling work that we must strong-arm ourselves into doing. Just imagine a drill sergeant yelling at you to complete painful physical exercises while calling you a maggot. Discipline gets a bad reputation. It is common to associate…
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Cultivating Self-Complexity: Nuanced Identity For Resilience And Success
Anyone who has lost a job to which they had dedicated their life will tell you that it felt like their world was ending. A low level of self-complexity exacerbated their predicament. Similarly, anyone who devoted themselves to a relationship only to have it end will tell you about feeling completely and utterly lost. I…
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Choose Your Words Wisely: The Power of Our Statements & Questions
It is surprising how many statements and rhetorical questions we repeat on autopilot, with little thought about their implications. Monitoring what we say for a few days can reveal some disturbing patterns we may not be fully aware of. An interesting aspect of being a parent is that I ruthlessly censor my comments around my…
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How To Harness The Power Of New Starts
There is something magical about new beginnings. I love the feeling of a fresh start. New Year is notoriously an inspirational time for many. It brings about feelings of hope, possibility, and renewal. It’s also fascinating how we can change or completely reinvent ourselves when we start a new job, move to a new city,…
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How to Improve Your Relationship With Time
Time is one of our most precious and limited resources. We attempt to hack, increase, manipulate, and optimize it. Beyond using various tactics, it is worthwhile to explore our deeper relationship with time and how it affects our experience of it. We all want to learn to optimize our time and get more done faster. But…
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How to Overcome Your Productivity Obsession
Our collective obsession with productivity is taking away more than it is giving. If you struggle with productivity despite staying current on all the latest and greatest tools and methods, this post is for you. Just like perfectionism used to, excessive productivity can disguise itself as a good thing. You may be thinking, “what’s wrong with…
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3 Practical Ways to Embrace Abundance
The abundance mindset has become somewhat of an esoteric concept, synonymous with repeating positive affirmations, visualizing, and magically manifesting things using the law of attraction. (Does anyone remember the “Serenity Now” episode on Seinfeld?) This mystical connotation of the abundance mindset has created an unpleasant taste for those who are more pragmatic and resist what…
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How To Reinvent Yourself (Overcome Upper Limits)
As a first-generation immigrant, my focus for the last two decades has been to assimilate and build my life in the United States. With this end goal in mind, I devoted myself to achieving various personal and professional milestones. I was always clear on my next steps. That was until I hit my upper limit.…
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How to Set Better Goals (A Gentle Approach)
If you have ever attempted to bully yourself into doing something you thought you “should,” how did that work out for you? Let’s explore a gentler and more effective way to set goals. Common Goal-Setting Approach An extensive body of literature focuses on goal-setting and change management in our personal lives and in business. Some…