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Year In Review And Making 2018 The Best Year Yet

Dec5

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The last few years have been rough for me.

Last year, I lost my older brother, lost a few friends, had back surgery, began to see my parents decline with dementia, obtained a new boss at work (much adjustment), began and ended a romantic relationship, and saw many celebrities that I grew up with pass away.

This year, I had to place my mother in a nursing home due to Alzheimer’s disease, I’m watching my father lose his mind to dementia and am caring for him, I lost my full-time job, I moved, I lost a few more friends, and a few more childhood celebrities.

Change is hard. Loss is hard. 💔

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Your Key To Success – Win Your Morning, Win Your Day

Oct18
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Do you go to bed at night with good intentions of starting your day off better tomorrow?

But then when the alarm goes off, you hit snooze again and again?

When you get up you’re in a rush and you’re grouchy because you’re late.

Then you yell at the kids and feel bad about that. You can’t find your car keys and that adds to your frustration.

Several blocks away from home you realize you left your mobile phone behind and have to turn around to get it, which makes you even later and more grouchy.

By the time you get to work, you’re late, exhausted, and have a bad attitude.

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How To Use Motivation Quotes To Attract Lasting Change

Dec19
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We become what we think.  This quote has been proven over and over again.

If we perceive something bad is going to happen to us, many times it does. 

On the contrary, if we believe something good is going to happen, this often becomes true as well. 

Science has affirmed the link between positive affect and its impact on an individual’s motivation and performance.

If we expect the best or we expect the worst, we’re usually not disappointed.  Each time we perceive a positive thought, it increases our own perceptions of positive expectancy.

For motivation to last, it requires constant thinking with daily positive reinforcement.

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Cultivate Improved Gratitude And Abundance In Just Minutes

Nov17
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The holiday season always makes me think about gratitude and blessings, about all the things that we take for granted.

We Americans have such an overabundance and such busy lives that we forget about the simple blessings in life. Sadly, we forget to be grateful. 😢

Gratitude is appreciation or thankfulness, a positive emotion or attitude in acknowledgment of a benefit that one has received or will receive. Gratitude is connected to the feeling of well-being.

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Strategic Planning for Self-Improvement

Oct7

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The start of the final quarter is a good time to review your efforts and make adjustments to meet the goals you established for this year.

And to start thinking about your self-improvement plan for next year…

You may need to roll over some goals you didn’t meet this year into next year’s plan. You may have found some skill or knowledge gaps that you’ll want to work on next year.

But the plan is simple: identify your weaknesses and develop a way to master them. Everyone has weaknesses, and that’s okay. You’re human, and you’re not perfect.

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