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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. …
“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 …
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, …
Always say “yes” to the present moment. Surrender to what it is. Say “yes” to life – and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you. Eckhart Tolle This tool ties into my article this week on Checks and Balances. One of the most helpful ways I have found …
Good nutrition creates health in all areas of existence. All areas are interconnected. – T. Collin Campbell Something that I have learned is that when times get tough or hectic, food preparation goes to the bottom of the list for me. As someone who struggles immensely with energy levels, I often will find if I …
Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change. – Stephen Hawking Sometimes it is really hard to keep doing things as conditions change. For me, one of my passions is gardening. However, this mainly happens in the summer and that means heat. I have a really hard time in the heat and all of my …
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