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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
So, I have a confession to make. (I hope you’re sitting down.) When I need a feel-good read, my go-to genre is often romantic urban fantasy (as in, romance set
Acknowledging our own success (both to ourselves and to others) is something that’s very difficult for a lot of us. But, in my experience, it is crucial to developing any
I had the opportunity to sponsor a professional bodybuilder in recovery for a while, and this is one of the gems of wisdom that he taught me. I used to
I saw an “inspirational quote” the other day on Instagram. The author was talking about what it takes to be in the top 1% of whatever it is you do,
Continuing my periodic series of reviews of books that have been important or valuable to me (disclaimers here), I’d like to talk about Atlas of the Heart (commission link) by
I remember at one point a long while ago, I went to my sponsor with some problem I was having. I don’t remember the details of that problem anymore, but
I remember when I was about 7 or 8 years old, I was playing catch with a Nerf football with my dad in the front yard. We were tossing the
One of the nuggets of recovery wisdom that gets shared a lot is “Don’t compare your insides to other people’s outsides.” The first few times (hell, probably the first few
I’m going to start intermittently reviewing books that have been meaningful to me in my journey. I have been blessed to have some excellent teachers, some physically present in my