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The key to forming good habits is to make them part of your "rituals." I have a morning ritual, afternoon ritual and Sunday ritual. It's one way to bundle good habits into regular times that you set aside to prepare yourself for the life you want. Rituals help you form habits. - Lewis Howes Routine. …
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along. Eleanor Roosevelt Sometimes in order to try a new treatment, you have to go …
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Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results. -Willy Nelson For the last 5 years or so, I have actively worked with a counselor on looking at my thought patterns. It is strange for me because before I was on disability, I began my career as a teacher and counselor. …
Walking is man's best medicine. - Hippocrates Well, I finally did it. I went out and bought a walker. It took me so long to make the decision, but I am happy I did it. Walking for a long time has been getting harder and harder for me so it was time for a change …
“No matter what kind of job you have, you can’t just keep going and going like a machine until you drop. Pace yourself. Trim the fat from your task list, stop wasting time on things that don’t matter.” Laura Stack A characteristic about myself that I used to take pride in, was my push to …
You know that feeling you get when you do something brave? That incredible energy when you find your courage and try something that’s not easy? That’s confidence. - The Confidence Code for Girls. I recently bought a book for my niece called The Confidence Code for Girls by Katty Kay and Claire Shipman. She is …
“There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.” – Orison Swett Marden Although I try to rely heavily on holistic healing, I also have used pharmaceutical medication over the years. During my 18-year journey with my MS diagnosis, I have tried several disease …
When you're a kid, you lay in the grass and watch the clouds going over, and you literally don't have a thought in your mind. It's purely meditation, and we lose that. Dick Van Dyke Meditation gets a bad wrap in my opinion. Whenever I mention it to someone, they usually say something like "I'm …
You've been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens. Louise Hay I was basically forced into retirement at 37. Most of my time is spent at home painting or doing other hobbies or going out with friends. To a lot of busy 40 something year old women, …
Maybe the journey isn’t so much about becoming anything. Maybe it’s about unbecoming everything that isn’t really you, so you can be who you were meant to be in the first place. -Unknown- In 2012 I was forced into retirement at age 37 due to frequent health limitations. I was absolutely devastated. Up until then, …
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