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The 1 Question that Kills Inaction

Icy Slope

By Robert D. Smith

Imagine you’re on a solo backpacking expedition in the arctic! You’re hiking uphill in the subzero whipping wind, with a 50-pound pack of survival supplies on your back. The route is inclining steeper and STEEPER, and through the blur of snowy wind you can see the outlines of giant snowdrifts forming in your path. The elements seem to be against you. You FEEL frozen in place, as if you cannot take another step!

Have you ever felt like this… completely overwhelmed by life’s circumstances?

Sometimes life can feel like a treacherous backpacking expedition. Even a mounting to-do list can snowball into an avalanche in your mind and leave you feeling powerless-IF you let it.

I know I have been in that moment before. The deadlines, to-do lists, and various pieces of life have piled up. I have found myself sitting down and thinking, What do I do next? What is next, what is next?
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Filed Under: Positive Attitude Tagged With: inaction, moving forward, panic thinking

Can You Stop Using Your Cell Phone for One Hour?

7 Tips for Better Meditation

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By Remez Sasson

Tips for Meditation There are a lot of factors that do not allow a focused, deep, and disturbance-free meditation. However, there is a lot you can do to avoid disturbances and obstacles to a better meditation.

I am not going to take about the benefits of meditation in this article. I have already written about this topic in another article.

In this short article I have collected a few tips to improve your meditation experience. If you have been learning to meditate, I am sure you are already familiar with these tips, but it is always good to be reminded again and again.

When you know something, it doesn’t mean that you use this knowledge, and therefore, it is a good idea to be reminded often.
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Filed Under: Meditation Tagged With: concentration, meditation tips, mind

Turning Self Doubt into Confidence

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Turning Self Doubt into Confidence

By Max Highstein

If you have a clear direction in life, and feel ready to move forward, self doubt can be the fastest way to slow you down. If you believe the inner voice of doubt, it can easily rob you of your enthusiasm, bring up fear, and negate all the preparation you’ve done toward achieving your goal. So at some point along your path, it becomes necessary to turn self doubt into confidence.

Confidence is not arrogance, bluster, or posing. It’s grounded quiet assurance. Usually those with natural self-confidence had the good fortune to have grown up in an environment where trying new things was encouraged, and making mistakes was simply considered a normal part of learning, not a sign of failure. Those who lack self confidence usually didn’t have the opportunity early on to receive encouragement, make mistakes, and be encouraged to try again.
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Filed Under: Personal Development Tagged With: confidence, self doubt

The Importance of Setting Goals

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Importance of Goals

By Remez Sasson

It is important to have goals in your life. Coaches, motivators, and authors tell you that you have to set goals. There is a lot of talking about goals.

Are goals really so important?

Goals are important in the sense that they give you direction in life. The goal itself might be not so important, and when you achieve it, you might find that it doesn’t give you the satisfaction you expected.

Having more money and more possessions makes your life more comfortable, but this does not necessarily make you happier or more content.

However, having goals is like having a map. You know where you are heading, and this gives you zest, motivation and more energy. You become more alive.

Do you have goals? I don’t mean wishes. A real goal is not a wish. It is something, into which you will put all your efforts to achieve.

A goal does not have to be something big. Not everyone wants to achieve something big, on a major scale. Most people are satisfied with mediocre life, and that’s okay. But even if you don’t aim high, it’s good to have goals.

Goals don’t have to be major goals. Only a certain percentage of the population is really interested in major goals and is willing to do something to achieve them.

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Filed Under: Goal Setting Tagged With: direction, goals, setting goals, wishes