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How To Build Self-Confidence To Improve Your Life
One of the best personal attributes one can have is self-confidence. A positive relationship with others fosters a sense of self-worth that contributes to the image you have of yourself. Even if you are shy and retiring, you can develop the self-confidence you need to propel you from obscurity into a place of honor within your circle of acquaintances.
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The 3 Pillars of Personal Power
Passion, Clarity and Self Love
What's missing? I don't get it! I chant and pray. I meditate, exercise and do yoga every day. I go to a gazillion workshops. Why don't I feel better? Why don't I have the love, money and health I want? Where is the direct connection with Spirit I crave?
Sound familiar? If so, help is on the way.
I've spent the last forty years exploring techniques to awaken the abundance of life for my clients and myself. I've identified three vital ingredients for happiness and success that are often missing in people's pursuit of Nirvana. I call these key elements the "3 Pillars of Personal Power."
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You Mean I'm Not Lazy, Stupid or Crazy?!: The Classic Self-Help Book for Adults with Attention Deficit Disorder
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Kate Kelly, Peggy Ramundo
At first glance, it would seem that positive thinking and Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) have nothing to do with one another. But many of us with ADD develop negative thinking patterns because we become frustrated by our challenges and frequent feelings of being overwhelmed. This negative outlook then makes it even harder for us to manage those challenges and move forward.
Practicing positive thinking allows people with ADD to focus on our strengths and accomplishments, which increases happiness and motivation. This, in turn, allows us to spend more time making progress, and less time feeling down and stuck. The following tips provide practical suggestions that you can use to help you shift into more positive thinking patterns:
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Help Soldier Friends Reduce Stress
Intense training, rapid changes, and the hazards of combat generate high levels of stress. Leaving families and jobs behind compounds the problem. Combat stress is so great that, typically, one soldier is lost to stress for every one lost to enemy gunfire. Home front support is critical in helping soldiers overcome these stressors. Employers, supervisors, co-workers and friends can all help by relieving concerns about what's going on at home. Here are five easy ways to help reduce the stress and win the battle.
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Affirmations to Improve Your Life
An affirmation is a positive assertion, a solemn declaration, a way to change your way of thinking. You can use affirmations to improve performance and results in all areas of your life. The "positive action" self-talk of specific affirmations is beneficial to achieving desired outcomes.
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What's on Your Shift List?
A Shift List is simply a list of activities and attitudes that have the power to shift you from feeling blue to feeling new. Your Shift List is any way you devise to remind yourself of the actions that have the power to transform your mood and put you back on a roll. Your reminders might be a formal written list or journal, a set of well-placed post-its or notes, pictures or photos, cartoons or symbols, poems or songs-or a phone or email "shift" partner. When your aliveness begins to fade, you can consult your "list" to trigger actions that will get you back on track and into the Zone!
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The Action in Attraction
10 Things You Can Do Today
Successful people have taken the time to clearly define their life vision and are willing to take action on fulfilling it every day. Action leads to movement, which leads to momentum, which naturally draws more of the 'good stuff' to them. The desire to meet a challenge and succeed has been a part of many cultures throughout history. The ancient Peruvians used to draw out their goals in symbols and paint them in primitive colors on the walls of caves. Likewise, we moderns have an innate need to live a fulfilling and meaningful life. However few of us seem to be able to attract more of what we really want. Writing can help immensely.
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Owning Your Power
Owning your power, your power to be real, to be who you really are, is really about owning your freedom. Consider how your reasons for not being yourself may have been to get the love or approval of others. Then, you have given others the power to decide your way of being, and thus keeping yourself from being free. In many ways, you have been giving away your power/freedom by your ways of speaking and thinking, and being.
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The "To Do" List vs. the "To Be" List
Try it in an area of your life where you're feeling frustration. Instead of obsessing on the myriad of details that you needed to get done yesterday, for example, spend a little time determining what kind of person you want to be.
Now examine that 'myriad of details'. Are they moving you in the direction you want to go? When you see activities from this perspective, you will get more satisfaction from the mundane and your 'to do' list will gain clarity and meaning. Best of all, you'll be able to pare down your gargantuan 'do it today' list to a more manageable size: the items that most support your desired wish 'to be'.
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Can You be an Optimistic Realist?
Let's face it: it's easier to be cynical. It's also more realistic to be cynical. If you're the kind of person who has a need to be right, betting that the work project will be screwed up, that the marriage will never last, and that Bush will make another decision that will fail to make the world perfect are surer bets than the opposite.
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