Tag: personal growth
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Embrace Uniqueness: Find Freedom in Self-Acceptance
It is liberating to admire the strength, beauty, accomplishments, and possessions of others without feeling diminished. Comparison, a prison of insecurity, only leads to sadness and discontent. We free ourselves by recognizing, appreciating, and admiring our unique physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual characteristics-such as our individual talents, our capacity for empathy, our resilience, and our…
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Why Fear of Being Wrong Holds You Back
At some stage in our lives, we picked up a slew of worries about being wrong. Think about it, babies don’t worry about being wrong—they just are. They’re not fretting about wailing their opinion about a soggy diaper, hunger, loneliness, distress, or anything else. It’s natural for newborns to wake up in a household without…
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Cultivating Happiness: Nurture Your Joy Daily
If we want to be happy, we have to plant the seeds that cause our happiness to sprout, grow, thrive and multiply. At the core of our happiness lies the profound understanding that we are the sole cultivators of our own joy. This concept of being the ‘gardener’ is not just a metaphor, it’s a…
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Getting to “That” Age…
I think I might be becoming one of those older people who says whatever they want. I’ve always wondered about those older folks who just let their thoughts rip. It’s like arriving at a stage when tolerance for nonsense, baloney, hogwash, malarkey, poppycock, gibberish, drivel, blarney, codswallop and twaddle are over. Tolerance also seems to…