Category: Personal Growth
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Procrastination Isn’t Always Bad: How to Use the Power of Seasonal Thinking
Research has found that around 1 in 5 Americans are what can be called “chronic” procrastinators – which is anyone who continually puts off doing something until later. But is that necessarily a bad thing? Is procrastination as bad as our culture makes it out to be? Think about this: Life is seasonal in nature.…
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How to Find Inner Peace In the Middle of Stress, Anxiety, and Fear
Is it possible to have peace in the middle of anxiety, fear, and internal conflict? The dictionary says that peace is the absence of conflict. It’s “freedom from disturbance”. While that sounds nice, who has ever reached a place where they’re completely free of conflict and disturbance? Pew Research found that 40% of people report…
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How to Break Bad Habits and Actually See Change
By default, things die. Plants, buildings, our bodies – it’s all breaking down slowly but surely. The same is true for our minds, our souls, and our spirits. When left on their own, they don’t maintain – they die. Choices, on the other hand, give life. They can give life to the things we want,…
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Self Help and the Empty Pursuit of Just a Little Bit More
American society is very much a society of “not quite good enough”. The entire concept of capitalism hinges on the idea that we are not quite good enough as we are. Every product and service we encounter in our society exists for the purpose of improving life in some way. While constant improvement is a…
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Why Boredom Is the Key to Creativity
Have you ever woke up early in the morning and felt like you had a non-stop flow of ideas? It’s like the idea flood gates have held all night long just waiting for you to get up so they can open. Why is that? Well, science may give us a clue. Basically, your brain relaxes when…
