Authentic happiness is made up of a solid foundation of mindsets, practices, and habits. One of the most powerful and important is kindness. Like gratitude, kindness is not just something you offer; it’s a state of being and an everyday way of life that is a key part in how to be happier overall. This approach is one of the keys to creating your most rock solid foundations for true happiness and overall life satisfaction. If you’re feeling blah, general discontent, or a sense of overwhelm from all the negativity going on in the world around us (who isn’t feeling a bit of that these days), there are some incredibly impactful…
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3 Simple Steps to Loving Yourself More
We hear the term self love often, but practicing it regularly is sometimes a different story. So much “life” can get in the way. If you’re wanting to add a little more self-compassion, self-care, and self-love into your life, these three simple steps to loving yourself more are for you. I believe we are born naturally loving ourselves. Then, a panoply of various circumstances and experiences compound over the years, providing fertile ground for our egos to collaborate with those past mistakes and unfavorable experiences to condition us otherwise. It then becomes our job to keep our egos in check and teach them how to use the wisdom gained from…
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The Power of Being Grateful for Our Imperfections
I’ve been thinking quite a bit about the power of gratitude. I’ve been giving a lot of talks lately, and the more I speak about gratitude, the more I realize how much I believe in its power – like down in my cells. As a kid, pretty much the only time I thought about being thankful was on Thanksgiving. As I got older, I graduated to realizing how important it is to be regularly grateful for all my blessings. Then, years later, after I’d crashed and burned painfully a few times at a few different things, I developed the inner-knowing that true gratitude is in being grateful for absolutely everything.…
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The Missing Link to Lasting Happiness? This is a Big One…
If I could share just one thing with the world about happiness and how to be happier, this would be it. If you’ve struggled in your life with creating sustainable, lasting happiness, this is for you, and it’s very important… Happiness is many things – a mindset, a choice, a feeling – but the MOST important thing to know about happiness – and the little known missing link – is this: Happiness is a SKILL. When you embrace happiness as a skill that you can learn to do, practice, and become good at… just like learning to play a musical instrument or speaking a new language… everything changes! Consciously practice…
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Go Ahead and Feel Free to Wander
In case you've been wondering, it's okay to be a wanderer. It's okay to not know what you want to be when you grow up - no matter what your age. It's okay to deliberately create totally new chapters of your life any time you feel inspired, to explore, to marvel, to desire.
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How to De-Stress and Avoid the Lack Trap
The Universe is looking out for you, and when you shift your focus and mindset to abundance and expansion, you support the Universe in sending more goodness your way.
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How to Be Happy and Grow Through Dark Times
What I know with certainty is that there is a key to staying happy even when times are hard, and when it comes to shifting our whole perspective on creating our happiest life. In fact, it could be the single biggest approach to living our happiest existence.
