Anxiety, the thief of mental peace
And what about the feelings that this state suggests to you? Have you found yourself thinking and projecting something that is just about to happen but doesn’t depend on you to change the course of its direction? Have you realized that you can lose focus on the present because your mind is projecting a future […]
Growth Mindset: Discussion Questions
A growth mindset perspective can be used when interacting with peers, family or friends, even colleagues. Everyone may have times when they get in the way of their own success and become their own worst enemy. When they can change their mindset, they can unlock a whole new world that stops the block that keeps […]
Journaling to Increase a Growth Mindset
Journaling to Increase a Growth Mindset If you have been keeping up with my blog, I can feel you rolling your eye from here. “Another journalling post! Does this woman do nothing but write in her journal? Yes, pretty much.” I can almost hear a collective suspire and the words being spoken “who has time […]
Growth Mindset: How to Start and End Your Day With Purpose
The Morning Miracle Much has also been saying about the significance of our morning routine. How we start the day will set the tone for the rest. It has been given special significance in many esoteric texts, especially in Ayurveda and Zen Buddhism schools. If we get our mornings right, it will set us up […]
Flipping the switch, From a Fixed to a Growth Focused Mindset
Going from a fixed to a growth mindset can take some work. This is because habits and psychological tendencies can be extremely entrenched in our psyche. So we have to adopt best practices to observe what is truly possible. One of the best ways to gain a growth mindset is to observe how the other […]
What is a Growth Mindset?
Getting out of a fixed mindset can be difficult. Over time, people learn certain habits or patterns of beliefs that are tied into specific experiences that are often painful. These experiences compound until the person becomes convinced that life is just the way it is and you have to make the most of it. In […]
The subtle act of not giving a f…
Why do we care so much about other people’s opinions, even those of total strangers? Why do we do things or not do some things because of how we expect others to react? No matter the “why,” the truth is, at some point, we base our actions and decisions on how we anticipate other people […]
10-10-10 Stop Gap
If you are like a lot of people right now, you are weighing up different options and having to make decisions and choices about things that you wouldn’t normally come up with. It can be easy to either: get overwhelmed overthink and stuck in a state of paralysis make a bad decision. Or a combination […]
Pearls of Frustration
Today I thought I’d share a little on the topic of frustration. As much as I wish I wasn’t “an expert” on this topic (wouldn’t it be nice to never be frustrated??), I guess I might as well make use of this somewhat unpleasant life tool. So what is the purpose of frustration? Many times […]
The Velveteen Rabbit
“By the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real, you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand.” (Williams, 2005, p. 17). […]