This article explores how to uncover your values and align them with your personal goals, life’s purpose, and objectives. The article guides you through this process of value transformation by presenting you with a variety of questions that help you to elicit and transform your values. Specifically, the article explores the difference between moving away, moving towards, means and ends values. It presents you with a set of questions that will help you structure your values hierarchy. The article concludes with an explanation of how to modify your values to better meet your life’s goals and objectives. Working through this article will help you to live life with a deeper sense of purpose that is aligned with your core values.
This article explores the dynamics of what a self-concept is and how it affects, impacts, and influences our lives. It walks you through the various components that make up a self-concept. It breaks down the impact that a self-concept has on our lives. Outlines the tell-tale symptoms of a low self-concept, and presents you with a method for transforming your self-concept while also boosting your self-esteem and self-confidence. Working through this article will help you overcome limiting perspectives you have about yourself, about life, and about others.
This article explores how to identify, work through, and overcome your limiting beliefs. You will learn about how a belief is created, how it evolves over time, and how much influence our beliefs have on our lives. Moreover, you will discover three different types of beliefs that guide your behavior, and you will work through a nine-step process for overcoming your limiting beliefs. Each of these steps presents you with key questions and insights that help guide you toward building an empowering set of belief systems that will help you achieve your goals.
This article explores six fundamental building blocks that shape our behavior and mold our personality. These six building blocks are known as the Six Human Needs. The article breaks down the four classes of behavior and examines how they intertwine with the Six Human Needs. Understanding these four classes of behavior helps us to better meet our needs at a higher level. The article also examines each of the Six Human Needs and walks you through a questioning process that will help you to better meet your needs in every aspect of your life. Working through this article will help you overcome limiting habitual patterns of behavior that are currently sabotaging your progress as you work toward your goals.
This article explores how to move from procrastination and stagnation into a more optimal and empowered state of mind that incites motivation. The article outlines seven distinct triggers for procrastination, describes the differences between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation and walks you through how to use the Six Human Needs to increase your motivation while working on your goals. The article also breaks down a five-step process for finding more motivation throughout the day, and walks you through several strategies to help you stay motivated when facing difficulties.
This article explores how to strengthen your self-control and override unwanted impulses, feelings, thoughts, habits, and temptations. The article, however, also looks at the subtle difference between self-control and willpower. On the surface, both seem to suggest that we tend to hold ourselves back from doing something. This is, of course, true to an extent, however, there are some subtle differences that make one significantly more effective than the other. Working through this article will help you to better understand what self-control is and how to best utilize it to achieve your goals and objectives. The article specifically shows you how to strengthen and rejuvenate your self-control when you need it most to help you accomplish your goals.
This article explores what it takes to move past the insecurities that hold you back from living life to the fullest. To one degree or another, everyone suffers from some form of insecurity. This is fine. The feeling only becomes problematic when our insecurities prevent us from presenting our best selves in social situations. When your insecurities consistently hold you back from making certain decisions or taking specific actions, that is when you must recognize that you’re holding yourself back. This article walks you through what it means to feel insecure. It breaks down a six-step process for overcoming feelings of insecurity. And it provides you with various guidelines for overcoming the insecurities that are holding you back from living your best life. Working through this article will help you to better manage the feelings of insecurity that have so far held you back in life.
This article provides you with guidelines for letting things go. This is all about releasing all that emotional baggage that is holding you back and making your life miserable. Letting go, of course, is rarely easy. Our emotional attachment to things, memories, people and circumstances are not simple to break. However, these emotional attachments can often prevent us from living the life we deserve. By letting these things go, you allow room for more important things that will bring more happiness and joy to your life. The article delves into what it means to truly let go. It presents you with a plethora of reasons to let go of your past emotional baggage. It guides you on when exactly to let things go. It breaks down all the things you might be holding onto that are making you unhappy. It then walks you through how to let go of all the things that no longer serve you. Working through this article will help you to let go of all the things that are holding you back from experiencing the happiness, joy, and fulfilment you deserve.
This article explores how to get out of the habit of indulging in lazy rituals that sabotage your goals and objectives. Life is just too short, and we only have a limited amount of time during the day. Your lazy habits are doing you no favors. They are, in fact, hurting your productivity and preventing you from living the life you truly desire to live. The article breaks down the reasons why you’re feeling lazy in the first place. It explores how to find more motivation to do the things you know need to get done. It shows you how to overcome inertia. This is all about getting your body moving with purpose. It highlights various laziness traps that you’ll do best to avoid. And it presents you with numerous suggestions that will help inspire you to let go of your lazy habits of mind. Working through this article will help you develop a new set of rituals and habits that will allow you to break the cycle of laziness.
This article will help you take control of those debilitating addictions that are slowly ruining your life and sabotaging your progress. Whether it’s a drug, sugar, alcohol, nicotine, caffeine, television, shopping, gambling, working, cleaning, hoarding or any other addiction, this article can help you take charge of your life and eliminate this addiction for good. The article explores what an addiction is and the impact it has on our lives. It breaks down how addictions arise as a result of social, emotional, and environmental pressures. It breaks down a six-step process you can use to overcome any addiction. And it presents you with guidelines and suggestions for staying away from temptations and harmful addictions. Working through this article will help you develop the motivation and desire you need to overcome the addictions that are sabotaging your life.
This article provides you with an action plan for making smarter choices when it comes to your television viewing habits. This isn’t so much about eliminating television altogether, it’s rather more about watching the right kind of television that helps add value to your life. But, of course, moderation must always be kept in mind. Without moderation, good television viewing can become destructive because life exists outside the television box and not within it. This article will help you curb your television addiction by presenting you with a variety of questions and suggestions that will hopefully inspire you to make better and smarter viewing choices.
This article takes you through 19 excuses that people typically make that prevent them from achieving their goals. These excuses keep people stuck and living a mediocre existence. They never get to experience the life they long for because their excuses hold them back from making optimal decisions that would normally move their life forward. This article is designed to help you gain a better understanding of each of the 19 excuses that often sabotage people’s progress. Ultimately, with clarity come new perspectives and insights that can help you live life with less regret and with more purposeful intention.
This article explores how to stop complaining and start taking responsibility for your life and circumstances. When things don’t pan out as expected it’s easy to throw our hands up in the air and complain about what did or didn’t happen. Complaining gives us a sense of control. However, that control is fleeting as complaining often doesn’t solve our problem or help push things forward. This article examines how we tend to complain and the kinds of complaints that people typically make. It presents you with a set of self-analysis questions to help track your complaints. It breaks down the reasons why you tend to complain. It highlights the consequences of complaining and the impact it has on your life and other people. The article then provides you with a list of suggestions on how to get out of the habit of complaining and start taking responsibility for your life and circumstances. Working through this article will help you develop the mindset and skills that will eradicate this habit from your life.
This article explores how to break free from the sense of helplessness you feel when it seems as though the world is conspiring against you. Playing the “victim card” can certainly gain you sympathy and acceptance in other people’s eyes. However, playing the victim also hurts you. It hurts you because you are neglecting to take responsibility for your life, problems, and circumstances. As a result, you will always be at the mercy of others or at the mercy of the endless problems life keeps throwing your way. Isn’t it about time you stood up for yourself and created your life with purpose? This article breaks down the mindset and perspective of someone who chooses to adopt a victim mentality. It highlights key beliefs and behaviors that often lead to a sense of helplessness. It challenges you to think differently about your circumstances. And it concludes by presenting you with a seven-step process you can use to help you overcome these habitual and debilitating thinking patterns that are holding you back from living your best life.
This article explores how to gain more certainty and confidence when making important choices and decisions in life. Moreover, it will help you overcome the mental barriers that are currently holding you back from achieving your goals. When we struggle with self-doubt we live in a state of confusion. As a result, we end up making emotional decisions that can easily lead us astray. The article outlines how self-doubt evolves over time. It lists down the surprising advantages that self-doubt can provide us with. It then walks you through a nine-step process you can use for overcoming self-doubt and for gaining more confidence and certainty in any situation. The article concludes by presenting you with additional guidelines and suggestions to help put your mind at ease when facing uncertainty. Working through this article will help you become surer of yourself, more decisive and confident when facing situations that would normally make you doubt yourself.
This article explores the power of your expectations and how they shape your life. It’s relatively easy to discount the effect that our expectations have on our lives. The reason for this is that we don’t often consciously think about the kinds of expectations we have in specific situations — which can ultimately hurt us. The wrong kinds of expectations can lead you astray because they influence every choice, decision, and action you take. In fact, your expectations influence your life in remarkable ways. The difference between success and failure in any situation could very well come down to the expectations you hold. You can, therefore, either take conscious control of your expectations or you can allow them to run your life on autopilot. This article explores what expectations are and the impact they have on our lives. The article also walks you through how to handle failed, unrealistic, and negative expectations. It then concludes by showing you when and how to release your expectations and the positive impact this can have on your life. This is especially of value when facing personal challenges or difficult problems.
The article explores how to tame the inner critic who continuously reminds you of your mistakes, failures, limitations, and inadequacies. If your critical voice is out of control, then it’s undoubtedly influencing every decision you make and action you take. Moreover, it’s holding you back from living your life to the best of your ability. When your critical voice is around you don’t do what you could do to achieve your goals and objectives. You, instead, hold yourself back, which only leads to a life of unfulfilled potential and endless regrets. This article explores where your critical voice comes from. It walks you through a three-step process you can use to subdue your critical voice. And it delves into numerous solutions for taming your inner critic. These ideas will provide you with the leverage you need to control that voice inside your head from taking control of your life.
This article explores various ways to help you overcome the constricting consequences of indulging in the habit of perfectionism. Perfectionism is a very covert way we tend to sabotage ourselves. While indulging in perfectionism we feel as though we’re making progress. However, it’s ultimately nothing more than a smokescreen for our self-sabotaging behavior. This article identifies the disadvantages of indulging in perfectionism. It highlights the typical behaviors that lead to perfectionism. It outlines how we tend to hold onto our perfectionistic behavior and how it evolves over time. The article then presents you with several strategies and guidelines to help you overcome perfectionism in your day to day undertakings. Working through this article will help you develop the necessary traits, mindset, and behaviors required for overcoming your perfectionistic nature.
This article explores how to break free of your comfort zone and achieve your goals. Many people have all these wonderful goals they want to achieve. However, they make very little progress toward these goals because they remain anchored to their comfort zones. Anything and everything that is meaningful that we want to achieve lies beyond our comfort zones. We must, therefore, find the courage to step beyond its boundaries to live the life we desire to live. This article breaks down the make-up of a comfort zone. It explores how we tend to constrict ourselves within our comfort zones. It walks you through a process of how to progressively work on expanding your comfort zone. And it presents you with strategies for pushing the limits of your comfort zone each day. Working through this article will help you to find the courage and motivation you need to progressively expand the boundaries of your comfort zone.
This article explores the two primary motivating forces behind all our choices, decisions, and actions. The pain and pleasure principle dictates how we feel each day and what we choose to do about it. In fact, this principle secretly and covertly carves out our destiny at an unconscious level of awareness. The article breaks down an eight-step process that will help you use this principle to your advantage. Working through this process of steps will help move you from a state of procrastination, uncertainty, and hesitation, to a state of desire, certainty, and motivation. The steps of this process include creating pain, interrupting your pattern, creating leverage, generating pleasure, anchoring a new behavior, becoming a realist, and building your plan of action. As you work through this process it will help you to successfully overcome limiting habitual patterns of behavior that are currently sabotaging your progress as you work toward your goals and objectives.