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Presence Is Positive, Resigned Acceptance Is Not

Presence Is Positive, Resigned Acceptance Is Not

Being present isn’t the same as accepting the negative parts of your situation in a resigned manner. You can’t eliminate the negative in your life fully. But you can meet negative emotions with less resistance, and in doing so, you can be more present with your reality and more easily let go of these experiences that will certainly pass.

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We Are Living Based On Obsolete Calculations

We Are Living Based On Obsolete Calculations

Too many people spend their time calculating their moves and believing the world is a scarce, scary, and cruel place. Often, our calculations are related to our childhood, where we form habits based on what we are recognized for. These habits carry into adulthood, and many of them are limiting be...

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What You Focus On, Grows

What You Focus On, Grows

The more attention you shine on a particular subject, the more evidence of it will grow.

If you focus on the negative in your life, it will flourish. But if you instead focus on the positive parts of your experience that you can be grateful for, you will find that life is a lot lighter than...

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Take Responsibility

Take Responsibility

When you accept responsibility for everything in your life, you are free to choose an empowering response that will allow you to conquer challenges and embrace opportunities.

Gracing yourself with responsibility for everything that happens in your life leaves your spirit whole, and leaves ...

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Give people an A Grade

Give people an A Grade

Imagine that you graded all of the people in your life. Think about the way the grade you give influences your willingness to listen and appreciate that person. You’ll notice that giving people an “A,” instead of a lower grade, will provide you with a greater capacity to listen, understand, and a...

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The Power of A Vision

The Power of A Vision

Setting a vision for yourself can help you separate from the local and day to day noise. It can give you a guiding light to keep working towards.

A vision releases us from the weight and confusion of local problems and concerns and allows us to see the long clear line. A vision becomes a fr...

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Flip The Script

Flip The Script

Every problem, every dilemma, every dead end we find ourselves facing in life, only appears unsolvable inside a particular frame or point of view. Enlarge the box, or create another frame around the data, and problems vanish, while new opportunities appear.

If you’re stuck with a seemingly ...

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Just Take Right Action And Let Life Unfold

Just Take Right Action And Let Life Unfold

Resources and opportunities flourish when you generously include people in your passion for life. In orienting yourself towards abundance, you open up a new world of possibility in which you take bigger risks, pursue your dreams, and accept that you cannot always predict the outcome.

You ma...

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Your Life Force

Your Life Force

The Life Force for humankind is, perhaps, nothing more or less than the passionate energy to connect, express, and communicate. Enrollment is that life force at work, lighting sparks from person to person, scattering light in all directions. Sometimes the sparks ignite a blaze; sometimes they pas...

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Choose Your Starting Place

Choose Your Starting Place

  • When you’re in a bad place, go through the above series of questions. Start moving your mind through a pattern that will help you get to a new set of beliefs and choices.
  • When you start seeing the world as a place of abundance, instead of a place of scarcity, you can begin to experie...

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Success And Fear

Success And Fear

Your success and fear of failure go hand-in-hand. Instead of being paralyzed by your fears, find ways to overcome them. When you can do this, you can use your fear as fuel for your growth.

If you want to give back, d...

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The River

The River

Instead of living under the illusion that you can control all of the outcomes in your life, adopt a more fluid perspective. Imagine that your journey in the river of life comes with all kinds of joy and challenges. Be open to all of those experiences. And instead of resisting the river and missin...

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It’s All Invented Anyways!

It’s All Invented Anyways!

The stories we tell ourselves about ourselves and the world are invented. So instead of continuing to live a disempowering narrative about how the world is against you, invent an empowering story that provides you meaning and enhances the quality of your life.

As it’s all invent...

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Replace Your Negative Thoughts

Look for the 'gift' in each situation, and see if you can see your stressors on the more positive edge of reality.

When you're looking at something negative, see if you can change your self talk to use less strong, less negative emotions. When you're looking at a potentially stressful situa...

4. Choose to Behave Productively

4. Choose to Behave Productively

Negative people can bring out the worst in us if we're not careful. A normally calm, mild-mannered person may resort to yelling when he can’t take one more second of negativity.

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Emotion regulation strategies

  • Mindful acceptance: Let be the things you cannot change. Write out a list of the things you can and cannot control. Acknowledge your emotions but don't hold on to them.
  • Self-distancing: Observe your situation like a “fly on the wall”.  Mentally remove yourself from the ...

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