Your 5-Step Resilience Exercise for Accepting Change
Resilience is a skill we can acquire and sharpen at any time, and one of our main ways to do that is by practicing acceptance. Here’s a step-by-step acceptance practice that can help you accept change and press on in the face of it.
How to Spring Clean Your Whole Life
Spring usually means it’s time to deep clean your home, but have you considered spring cleaning your life? How to get a fresh start this year.
The Sneaky Way We Set Ourselves Up For More Stress
When we think we will be stressed, the floodgates open for stress—and it can make us less focused and more prone to mistakes throughout the day.
How to Show Gratitude to Your Past, Present and Future Self
How often do you turn gratitude inward rather than outward, thanking yourself for what you’ve done or the way you’ve handled a tricky situation?
Why You Should Make More ‘Mostly Fine Decisions’
We so badly want to make perfect decisions, and only encounter perfect outcomes, that we often freeze up before doing anything at all. But what if perfect was merely an illusion? And what if, instead of perfect, we sought instead to make things… fine?
The 7 Types of Fear That Hold Us Back—and How to Overcome Them
By identifying what holds you back, you’re better able to make the changes necessary to overcome it. We all carry fear, and accepting the type of fear you carry is the first step in pushing past it.
3 Tips on How to Discover and Own Your Creativity
Give yourself permission to call yourself a creative by trying these three tips to discover and own your particular kind of creativity.
How to Stop Crowdsourcing Your Decisions and Give Yourself Permission
Some choices are less about our own aspirations and more so about acceptance from others. The truth is: The only person we need approval from is ourselves.
5 Effective Steps for Setting ‘Why’ Goals
When you surface the meaning behind your goal and give it a voice, a simple goal shifts into a mission.
How to Keep ‘Destination Addiction’ From Stealing Your Joy
Destination addiction is the belief that happiness is in the destination or can be found somewhere else rather than in the present.
3 Ways to Make a ‘Breath Break’ Part of Your Daily Routine
Consider it a timeout to focus on getting air into your body, and then back out. Taking a breath break can help when you’re feeling stressed, exhausted or just need to hit the reset button.
Your 4-Step Plan to Transform Negative Self-Talk Into Self-Kindness
We all know we shouldn’t be so hard on ourselves—but how should we be? What’s the alternative? Simple as it sounds, the answer might be self-kindness.