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Hi! Welcome to my blog. I’ll post here weekly thoughts on the components of the mindset needed to be successful: grounded confidence, growth mindset, commitment, stress management, and personal responsibility. Looking forward to having you join me!
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Hi! Welcome to my blog. I’ll post here weekly thoughts on the components of the mindset needed to be successful: grounded confidence, growth mindset, commitment, stress management, and personal responsibility. Looking forward to having you join me!
As a reminder, last week I started with the definition of stress: Stress: The feeling resulting from the belief that I don’t have enough resources (time, money, assistance, etc.) or
I hear lots of people talking about how stressed they are. Often, this is accompanied by some version of “I have a really stressful job” or “My home life is
I had an experience a few months ago where I was convinced that I was going through writer’s block. I wasn’t, but I thought I was. Given that this taught
I saw a post on Instagram the other day that perfectly encapsulated everything that’s wrong with self-help advice. It was entitled “How to Change Your Mindset” and included, among other
When I read Brené Brown’s wonderful Atlas of the Heart, the idea of having no regrets is one of the few things that she wrote that I didn’t entirely agree
Today, I want to follow up on last week’s post about the attitudes that can get in the way of doing mirror affirmations. While it’s important to know how not
One of the things that I’ve found the most valuable to understand about my process is the relationship between my thoughts, my feelings, and my actions. I’ve written about the
What do you think when you hear “Whose responsibility is this?” Does it sound like looking for someone to blame, or does it sound like looking for someone to take
More vacation! Yay me! While I’m doing that, feel free to revisit these other old favorites: If people around you just aren’t acting right, check out part one and part
I’m taking a break for a couple weeks—I’ve been visiting family, and I’m letting myself recharge for a while. While I’m doing that, feel free to revisit some of my
One year ago today, I published my very first article on this blog. I remember thinking beforehand about whether or not I could pull it off. Did I really have
One of the things that was said a lot in my early recovery that I still hear occasionally today is “Self-esteem comes from esteemable acts.” The strong implication here is
Most popular portrayals of how emotions work get one fundamental truth very very wrong. So do most casual discussions of how we feel. And, getting this one thing wrong results
I was talking to a friend a while back about the relationship that he was just getting into, and he was talking about how important it was to him that
I wrote before about sponsoring a professional body builder, and one of the profound things that he taught me being that the weights don’t care why you lift them. Another