Tag: personal growth
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17 ways to declutter your mind
What comes to mind when you think “declutter your mind”? To me, a cluttered mind is the sensation of a brain so full of thoughts, responsibilities and so on that it can be increasingly difficult to focus on or accomplish much. Sometimes, you can’t effectively regulate your emotions because of it. Making good decisions becomes […]
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8 Ways to Design Your Environment for Success
Think of someone you admire for being very effective at what they do. It could be someone who excels in a particular area that you’re interested in developing — i.e. a hard skill at work, fitness, mindset. Or, quite simply, it could be someone who just overall seems to have their sh*t together while you […]
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How to find a balance between imitation and originality
One of the reasons I’m so big on living a well rounded life is that in multiple areas of life and personal growth, there is such a fine balance between extremes. Find yourself too far on one side of the spectrum, and you could be shortchanging yourself. One such fine line that I’ve found myself […]
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The Allure of Pessimism
Do you consider yourself to be an optimist or a pessimist? Perhaps a combination of the two? Whatever you answer, you’ve likely come across the allure of pessimism at some time or another. Maybe it was the ‘cool kids’ at school whose pessimistic outlook on school work and ‘trying hard’ seemed enticing. Trying hard wasn’t […]
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Why Self-Awareness Is So Hard (But So Important)
Note: The picture associated with this post is one that I took myself. To follow more of my photography, click here. I recently came across a fable about a lion and the sheep that I find silly but that is actually a great example of our blind spots in our own lives. It goes like […]