Exercise - The Endorphins Will Give You An Instant Boost In Confidence boost your confidence goals habits Jun 08, 2024

Do you want a technique that will give you an instant confidence boost? One that will immediately raise your confidence and keep it higher for the rest of the day? One that, if repeated often enough, will raise your baseline confidence permanently? 

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Take The Time To Look Back Through Your Journals goals habits journal Jun 03, 2024

So, you’ve committed to journaling and you have found yourself with a nice stack of completed journals that took time and energy to finish. Your blood, sweat, and tears have been poured out and you have wrestled with demons, dreamt big dreams, and tracked your journeys. Time has gone by and...

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Are You Noticing A Difference? goals habits May 29, 2024

Throughout the past 28 days, we’ve been talking a lot about happiness and what we can do to increase how we feel. We’ve talked about a huge variety of different things from how sleep, exercise, and nutrition can affect our mood, to simple strategies like decluttering and practicing...

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Happiness Is Contagious goals habits May 28, 2024

Here’s a fun fact. Did you know that happiness is contagious? You may not have realized that this is true, but I’m sure you have experienced it. Think back on a time when you were with a person that was experiencing pure joy. Kids are wonderful not only being completely happy but also...

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Sometimes You Need To Treat Yourself And Spend Some β€œMe” Time. goals habits May 27, 2024

We lead busy lives and have all sorts of obligations as parents, professionals, and friends. It’s easy to lose yourself in everything that has to be done in any given week. While it’s great to give and spend lots of time with loved ones, there is a time and place when you should slow...

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Getting Into The Habit Of Journaling Daily To Reap The Biggest Rewards goals habits journal May 27, 2024

There is an adage that says how you do anything is how you do everything. Translated this means that habits are the surest indicator of outcomes. The generally accepted truth about habits is they take 21 days to develop. Doing something over and over again for 21 days accounts for the mindset...

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Stop Complaining. Take Action. goals habits May 25, 2024

Since starting this 30-day Happiness Challenge here on the blog and via email, I’ve been a lot more aware of the happiness of the people around me. I’m sure you’ve experienced the same thing. It is causing me to look at people more closely and pay attention to their actions,...

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Stop Negative Thoughts In Their Tracks boost your confidence goals habits May 25, 2024

You’ve certainly heard about your self-talk by now. That’s the non-stop flow of thoughts that goes through your mind. The vast majority of it is about yourself. It can be good or bad, and it can either build up or tear down your self-confidence and self-esteem. 

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Happiness In Simplicity – Declutter Your Life And Your Mind goals habits May 24, 2024

In my last post, I talked about how focusing on experiences instead of things can help reduce stress and increase happiness. Today, I want to take that one step further and focus a little more on getting rid of things – both physical and mental. The idea is to find happiness in...

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Trade Things For Experiences goals habits May 23, 2024

We live in a material society where our main goal seems to be to acquire more stuff. We buy bigger cars, bigger houses, and of course, lots and lots of stuff to fill these houses. The idea is that we can buy happiness by buying more “stuff”. We’ve been living this way in the...

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Meditating Your Way To A Happier You goals habits May 22, 2024

Stress is such a buzz kill. Nothing will bring you down quicker than feeling stressed out. It keeps you from sleeping well, staying productive, and getting in a good mood. It only makes sense that reducing stress increases happiness. One of the best ways to bring your stress levels down and...

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Giving Back Makes Us Happier goals habits May 21, 2024

When I was a kid, I couldn’t wait for Christmas. It was all about the presents I would get. I’d spend days and weeks anticipating and trying to guess what Mom and Dad would get me this year. I’d make wish lists and circle things in toy catalogs. It was all about receiving...

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