For anyone trying to do meaningful work, feeling connected to that meaning can be a big challenge. It turns out, even if you can stay focused on your meaningful work for most of the day … it’s easy to lose connection to why it’s meaningful. To why you care about doing this in the first place. We get stuck in the drudgery of doing endless meaningless tasks, stuck in task mode, rather than feeling that the tasks are meaningful ways to spend our day. So how do we deal with this challenge? Not surprisingly, the answer is practice. Let’s take a look. Have a Deeper Why If you haven’t done this step yet, don’t…

Dealing with negative thoughts is something everyone has to do. Some people choose to allow negative thoughts to freeze them in their tracks. Other people have a negative thought and then transform that into a positive one instead. If you want to be a person who has good self-esteem and lets go of self-doubt, purposefully turning negative thoughts to positive ones will help you like almost nothing else. Tips to Help Battle Negative Thoughts Don’t Say Them Out Loud. Whenever you have a negative thought, let it stay in your head for a moment but do not voice it out loud to anyone – even yourself. Go for a Walk/Run/Swim.…

It is possible to become more optimistic with a little effort and some dedicated focus on your mindset! While some individuals are born with sunny dispositions, others are more prone to negative outlooks. Many factors come into play: Childhood experiences Temperament  Environment Economic status Genetic predisposition While these are all valid reasons as to why one person might be more positive and optimistic than another, there is one factor which may have the power to transform those reasons – the power of choice. Optimism as a Choice Given a set of negative circumstances, some with a negative mindset might view this as an all or nothing, catastrophic event. However, those…

Why do so many people use and promote meditation? The answer is because it works. Meditation is successful for many reasons. Meditation Decreases Anxiety  Some people have what is known as too much fight or flight syndrome. Their gut instincts tell them they are in danger when they are really not. Meditation can help ease anxiety.  There’s a neural pathway which leads to the part of our brains in which we need to determine whether or not we are in real, imminent danger. For some, those connections are so strong we feel we are in danger when we are not. When taking on the practice of meditating, this connection can…

You’ve probably heard the saying by Roy T. Bennet, “You never change your life until you step out of your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone.” It’s true that during the times you step outside your element, you experience who you really are. It’s about facing our fears and doing things we are passionate about.  We often live our lives with the “I cannot,” “I don’t want to,” or “it’s too difficult” thoughts that keep us stuck and unhappy. It’s only until we realize that when we stop letting our negative thoughts control us, that we find our true self. Stepping into the unknown is…

Some of the biggest traps in self-development are mindset traps, usually because they’re invisible to us. We get ourselves into a mindset box but can’t see the walls. What if the mindset box you’re in doesn’t contain any solutions to your biggest problems? What if those answers exist only outside the box? Recognizing Mindset Traps A common symptom of this trap is when you think you’ve tried just about everything and still aren’t getting results in a particular area. This is often true of financial, career, relationship, and health challenges. What you’ve really done is tried many solutions that are accessible within the same mindset box. None of them have…

The desire to achieve balance is inbred in all of us and yet for many people, it feels like an impossible dream. Read on for tips to help balance become a reality in your life. If you think about life being balanced, you might envision a seesaw in the position of being directly balanced in the middle with no ups, no downs, and simply managing to stay in the middle ground. Of course, life doesn’t work like that. There are ups and there are most certainly downs. Sometimes you might feel as though you just want to jump off the seesaw and lay on the ground for a little while…