Personal Growth Cafe – Page 108 – Empowering You to Live Your Inspired Vision!

May 19, 2018January 7, 2018

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but seeing with new eyes. – Marcel Proust

May 19, 2018January 7, 2018

Battling and Overcoming Stress During the Holidays

Battling and overcoming stress during the holidays can be a challenge to anyone.

There are a number of things that can lead to this type of stress:

Family gatherings
Coping with loss
Busy stores
Long lines
Projects
Gift buying
ConflictsYou may also have high expectations that add to the stress of your holiday season.

Long gone are the days in which the season was highly anticipated and there was a sense of magic in the air.

As an adult, you may find the season to be more stressful than joyous.

Unfortunately, these days, you may even consider holiday stress as a necessary holiday tradition!

Here are some methods you can use to battle and overcome stress during the holidays:

Are you over committed?

The holidays normally come with many social gatherings that most of us feel we must attend.

The fact is that you don’t have to go to every event you’re invited to.

Saying “no thank you” to some of the invitations will free up more time for yourself!

It’s important to remember and enjoy the spirit of the holidays.

If it takes saying “no” to preserve some of your sanity, go for it!

Others will be more understanding than you give them credit for.

Don’t become so burdened that you secretly wish for the season to pass quickly.

Take time to be by yourself.

Whether you take a yoga class or a bubble bath, allow yourself to do something enjoyable without worrying about the holiday stress.

Carrying on traditions. Growing up, we may have seen our mothers cook a full course Christmas dinner.

Perhaps it was routine to host a lavish holiday party. Maybe your family baked hundreds of Christmas cookies to give to friends and relatives.

Tradition is good but don’t allow yourself to become so wrapped up in tradition that it consumes you.

If you find that the routine you normally follow for the pure and simple sake of tradition is weighing on you and resulting in more stress than you can deal with, break away from it!

You will be happier when you’re free from this stress.

Rather than living up to the expectations of years past, start your own, easy-going traditions.

Instead of throwing a lavish party, have fewer friends over for tea and cookies.

Allow other family members to bring side dishes to the holiday meal rather than cooking it all yourself.

Finding the perfect gift. There’s so much pressure to purchase the perfect gift for each person that it takes all the fun out of shopping.

Remember, people are generally appreciative for whatever gift they receive.

They don’t expect you to go to every corner of the Earth to find them a spectacular gift.

Save time and money by skipping the wrapping! Creativity is the main focus.

You can even give gifts that can be used throughout the year.

For example, you may give a coupon in a card for a free night of babysitting, one day of yard work, or other special things.

Shopping online has made searching for gifts much easier.

It might also be more cost effective to buy online because many stores offer special sales or free shipping near the holidays.

As you can see, there are several effective ways to battle and overcome stress during the holidays.

The key is to determine what’s causing your stress so you can eliminate it.

In the end, you’ll see that most of the stress you experience is a result of the expectations you pose on yourself.

What are the common causes of your stress during the holidays?

How can you bring more joy instead of stress to your holidays this year?

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May 18, 2018January 7, 2018

Be the change you want to see in the world. – Mahatma Gandhi

May 18, 2018January 7, 2018

Finding Peace in Your Heart

Are you seeking more peace in your life?

Many of us have had negative or traumatic experiences that have left us feeling angry, hurt, or disjointed in some way.

These negative feelings are very powerful and can keep us from living a peaceful life.

However, you don’t have to live like this!

You can give yourself permission to change your life for the better, starting now.

You can choose to defuse the negative power.

By destroying the power negative thoughts have over you, you are giving yourself the power to find the peace that you long for.

Affirmations for Peace

It can be difficult to overcome the struggles we encounter.

We allow many things to devour us from the inside.

Life’s biggest hurdles, such as the loss of relationships, deaths, and financial issues, can steal peace and contentment from our hearts.

Instead of allowing yourself to live in despair from your struggles, you can reprogram your mind to think positive and peaceful thoughts.

How can you reprogram your mind?

There are some powerful tools you can use to help you.

These tools are called affirmations. You can change your life by using affirmations for peace.

Even with affirmations, finding peace in your heart may take a little time.

Make the choice every day to live a life of peace and happiness.

Eliminate one negative feeling at a time, and soon you will find harmony and contentment.

Why Do Affirmations Work?

Affirmations are statements that take advantage of the power words contain.

They’re positive statements that activate your mind to accomplish great things.

Words have the power to change your life!

When you repeat affirmations like, “I relax to get my mind off the things that I cannot control,” you program your mind to focus and take action.

Words are powerful because they have the ability to evoke emotion within us.

We can make words truth by using positive affirmations such as, “There is peace in my life,” and saying them again and again.

It’s also important to believe in the power of the words and their ability to heal our hearts and our minds.

You can restore peace in your heart if you believe the affirmation and aspire for it to be your truth.

It’s easy to incorporate positive affirmations in your life.

Many people say them upon waking and going to bed.

Other people use them only when they’re having a hard time and feel discontentment well up in their hearts.

The real power of these affirmations for peace comes when you believe the statements and see them as the ideal way you would like to feel.

You reaffirm this truth and power every time you say the affirmation.

Using affirmations for peace truly is a simple way to create change.

As you use them, you’ll discover that these affirmations have immense powers you never imagined.

In addition, you may reap benefits in even less time than you anticipated. The peace you once sought will become a joy you can keep forever!

How do you find peace in a stressful day?

How can peace impact your attitude about the day?

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May 17, 2018January 7, 2018

We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give. – Winston Churchill

May 17, 2018January 7, 2018

Discovering Your True Passion

Many of us go through life with interests that we never truly nurture and enjoy because we are too concerned about what others think.

Of course, that’s no way to live!

Finding your passion is an important part of self-discovery.

You will be a happier, more balanced individual when you find and develop your passions. Your whole life will change before your eyes!

Finding Your Passion

You may think that finding your passion is easier said than done, and it is for many people.

However, you can find your passion in two easy steps:

Set your mind to finding your passion. Once you focus on your pursuit of passion, your mind will be attuned to anything that will contribute to the solution.

Use an effective mind tool. There is a well-known tool you can use to help you along the way if you are afraid to branch out and follow your dreams.

You can also use this tool to keep going down the right path to find what you are interested in.

What is this handy tool?

It’s embracing your passion through affirmations!

Affirmations can help you push through your self-doubts and help lead you to a more passionate life.

What Are Passion Affirmations?

Many people hear the term “passion affirmations” and wonder what affirmations could possibly be, and why they should use them.

Passion affirmations are statements that will activate your brain to focus on and attain the goals you set for yourself.

These statements often are descriptive of the feelings or behaviors you would like to possess in any given situation.

They may remind you about your self-worth or the importance of your passions.

How Can You Use Passion Affirmations?

Passion affirmations can be used in moments when you might be having some negative inner dialogue, or when you are second-guessing your desire to pursue your passions.

In those moments of doubt, you may want to use a passion affirmation like, “I have no need to do what others think I should.

I am strengthened by doing the things I love to do.” You’ll want to believe this even if it’s a challenge in the beginning.

You are reaffirming the statement and making it your personal truth every time you say your passion affirmation out loud.

There are also passion affirmations that can help you overcome guilt that you may feel when you indulge in your passion.

We all have a right to pursue our passions, as long as they are in balance with our responsibilities.

There is nothing wrong with pursuing a passion. You deserve to spend time on you.

When you are having one of those days where you feel guilty for enjoying your favorite hobby or past time you can say, “I am actively involved in my hobbies.

It gives me energy and strength after a hard day.”

You are giving your mind permission to replace negative thoughts with positive ones when you use affirmations.

Passion affirmations not only help you discover your passions, but also enable you to live a more passionate life.

This positive dialogue will become second nature in time as it pushes out negative feelings and self-doubt.

Being passionate is a way of expressing love for yourself.

You should indulge in your passions and remember that they are good for you and those around you.

What are you truly passionate about?

How can you turn this passion into something that can bring you greater success?

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May 16, 2018January 7, 2018

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. – Albert Schweitzer

May 16, 2018January 7, 2018

Defeating Disappointment – Strategies to Overcome Any Obstacle and Succeed

We’ve all been there.

We think we’re well on our way towards a specific goal – whether it’s a new career or a new lease on life – when all of a sudden disaster strikes!

We have a setback.

Perhaps you didn’t capture the heart of your crush, the promotion fell through, or somehow your perfect plan just didn’t work out.

Disappointment is only human.

However, knowing how to accept, manage, and strategize beyond disappointment is the real key to success!

Here are some excellent tips to enable you to stay on track, remain motivated, and defeat your disappointments so that you can overcome them and reap your success:

Accept reality. Disappointment is a necessary part of life.

In order to experience success, every person must face setbacks or disappointment sometime in their life.

The reality of life gives us the polarity of setbacks and successes to better appreciate our wins.

Such setbacks also encourage us to strive harder to achieve our goals.

Overcoming challenges brings us the wisdom to reach even higher goals.

Accept relativity. Facing up to the fact that life will always bring trials to overcome will help you beat disappointment in your current mission.

Hindsight will inevitably show you that no setback is as big as you thought it was at the time.

Realizing that life could have handed you a much larger disappointment helps you put the setback in perspective.

Do not dwell. When you are hit with a challenge to obtaining your goal, it can be very easy to sink into disappointment.

If you find yourself having a pity party, pull yourself up with some positive thinking.

Above all else, do not dwell on the last snafu in your struggle to succeed.

Dwelling on your disappointment will not change the fact that it happened.

Spending your time feeling sorry for yourself will delay your success as well as permeate your life with unnecessary pessimism and futility.

Create realistic expectations. Like many people today, you may be harboring an unrealistic expectation of yourself.

Perhaps you had this inspiring idea to change your life in some grand way.

Naturally, you want to achieve your goal now and without anything less than stellar performance!

However, realistically, you must recognize that achieving your goals may take some time.

You can always adjust your expectations higher and higher as you conquer new goals!

Having unreal expectations of yourself will only set you up for failure, as you cannot reach impossible heights.

Learn from your mistakes. When a setback occurs, the first thing you’d like to do might be to toss in the towel on the whole enterprise!

However, a much wiser person bent on success will acknowledge the disappointment as a learning experience.

If you examine how and why the unwanted situation occurred, then you may be able to restructure your strategy for even bigger and better things than you had originally planned!

Stay positive. Lastly, you can surely find your success and win your prize by obliterating disappointment with positive thoughts.

Know that you will obtain your goal! Pessimistic thoughts can swallow you whole if you let them, forcing you to delay or give up your dreams altogether.

Following your positive thoughts with decisive, confident and positive action will propel you to new heights.

Even though disappointment may creep into your life when you least expect it, you can take it in stride by following these techniques.

Setbacks don’t define your life; it’s how you react to them that will determine your success.

When you face disappointment, learn from the situation, deal with it positively, and confidently move forward toward your goal. Success is yours!

How do you achieve success in life?

How has your previous experiences contributed to your current success story?

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May 15, 2018January 7, 2018

A coward gets scared and quits. A Hero gets scared but still goes on. – Anonymous

May 15, 2018January 7, 2018

Conquering Self-Doubt and Becoming More Confident

Everyone has times in their life when they feel inadequate and incompetent, but some of us feel that way more often than others.

Many people are so busy putting themselves down they fail to thrive in life. They stop trying to learn and better themselves.

They become discouraged and depressed.

Do you feel like you may be one of these people?

Maybe your self-doubt stems from some negative experiences early in your life.

For example, if people made fun of you when you were a child, you might doubt your abilities even today.

Traumatic experiences can cause a vicious cycle of self-doubt in your mind.

Parents, teachers, and other children can sometimes unwittingly say things that have a powerful impact for both good and bad.

So, how do you turn things around and stop that nagging voice in your head that says you’ll never be good enough?

Here are some tactics to help you erase that doubt and become more confident:

Let Go of Negative Criticism of Yourself

This applies to both past and present. Don’t let a jerk of a boss ruin your day by simply adding his voice to the tape player in your head.

Realize that he may be taking his anger out on someone else because of his own inadequacies.

People’s negative attitudes speak volumes about them, not about you!

Stifle your tendency to criticize yourself.

By agreeing with those who criticize you, you’re giving them all the power.

Pay no attention to that voice in your head that’s saying you’re going to fail.

If you stop listening, it will get quieter and eventually disappear.

Reclaim your life by believing that you CAN succeed.

Surround yourself with supportive people who believe in you.

Prepare Yourself and Do Your Best

It’s not enough just to think positively; you have to actively pursue success as well.

Visualizing your end goal can help you make the right choices, but no one can do the work except you.

One way to overcome self-doubt is to write down your positive qualities.

Make a list of at least 5 good things about you. Every day when you wake up read the list.

Reading aloud will also help you to believe the items you’ve listed.

The positive thinking will help prepare your mind to succeed, but there are other ways you can help yourself achieve your goals as well:

Set reasonable goals. Decide what you want to do within a set amount of time.

Keep your goals realistic so you can meet them. If you set unrealistic goals that you can’t meet, you’ll quickly become discouraged.

Start out small and get bigger with your dreams.

Get busy. Inactive people easily become depressed.

To avoid this unpleasant situation, immerse yourself in achieving your goals.

Hard work will always pay off in the end.

Revel in your success. Self-doubters tend to think they don’t deserve to succeed.

But you do! You deserve a reward for conquering your self-doubt and becoming more confident.

You deserve to be honored for your hard work and perseverance. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.

Just remember you can’t reach the top of a mountain in one giant leap; it takes many steps along the way to reach the peak in due time.

The same is true of success and achieving your goals.

Taking baby steps and attaining many small successes will bring you the confidence to reach your dreams.

In the meantime, sit back and enjoy the journey to becoming the self-assured person you know you can be. It’s a wild ride, but it’s well worth it in the end.

How can you be confident with your current skills?

How can confidence have an impact on how you deal with your daily life?

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