How we think affects our choices, and our choices impact our behaviors. Our behaviors in turn determine our lives. By applying simple mindfulness techniques, we might find that a change of mind can be our best friend.
Goal Setting for the Real World
What if, instead of holding ourselves to insanely high standards and seeing anything short of that as a failure, we started goal-setting in realistic ways?
What if we celebrated our small successes as valid, gave ourselves props for any forward motion, and cut ourselves slack for the moments we’re less than perfect? How might that impact our long term success?
Goals for Relationships
Relationships so often go malnourished due to everyday stressors. Here are some relationship goals for you & your partner to consider.
Five Things to Help Increase Your Willpower
Willpower helps us live consistent with our values and long-term goals, we are typically more content and happy. Learning to recognize your own signs when you are stressed is one of the most important steps in improving your willpower.
Questions to Challenge Negative Self-Talk
Self-talk is often distorted, and therefore yields an unreliable message about ourselves and events that take place.
Habits
Making and breaking habits is hard work. Check out some ways to interrupt unwanted habits and strengthen good habits.
Don’t Quit Your Resolutions
You decided to make positive changes in the New Year and within a few days or even hours, you slip up and revert to your old way of doing things. This does not mean that you should give up on your resolutions.
Dreams, Goals, and Habits
Maybe this year, instead of focusing on a new year’s resolution, you can focus on dreams, goals and habits instead.
Take Care of Yourself This Year
The New Year is a good time to think about how you will take care of yourself. We may be into February, but there’s still time to think about and make changes to how you’ll live this year.
Does Your Life Have Vision?
Our identity can very easily become wrapped up in the things we do.
And then there always comes a day when we find ourselves completely over-committed. We are totally exhausted and hating tasks that we willingly commit to.
