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    10 Sticky Notes We Should All Memorize Before Life Gets Any Harder

    This morning one of our clients, Monica — a victim of a fairly recent and debilitating car accident — was smiling from ear to ear the minute our FaceTime coaching session began. “What has you in such good spirits today?” I asked her. “I’m thinking better about things today — about how lucky I am...
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    20 Regrets You Don’t Want to Have 20 Years from Now

    Today is my late grandfather’s birthday. He was a great man and he would have been 101. So I want to acknowledge him right now by re-sharing a bittersweet story with you — a story that continues to remind me to acknowledge myself, and what matters most in life. In the final decade of his life...
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    12 Life Lessons 90 Years of Wisdom Taught Me

    When my Grandma Zelda passed away a decade ago at the age of 90, she left me with a box of miscellaneous items from her house that she knew I had grown to appreciate over the years. Among these items was an old leather-bound journal that she aptly named her Inspiration Journal. Throughout the...
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    4 Regrettable Habits that Drain Most People of Their True Potential

    We ultimately become what we habitually do. If your daily habits aren’t moving you forward, they are holding you back. Here are four widespread examples of the latter that often drain people of their true potential, day after day, and some strategies for turning things around if you’re currently...
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    10 Heavy Things We Often Wait Too Long to Let Go of in Life

    Letting go is not giving up. Letting go is surrendering any needless attachments to particular outcomes and situations. Surrender means showing up in your life with the intention to be your best, and to do the best you know how, without expecting life to be ideal. Have goals, have dreams, take...
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    40 Meaningful Questions that Will Ease Your Mind (and Improve Your Focus)

    In a recent email newsletter I wrote, “Ease your mind today. Don’t think outside the box; think like there is no box.” And to my surprise, 97 people quoted that line and responded with the same general question: “How?” I’ve spent the morning thinking about how to answer their collective...
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    20 “Notes to Self” We Should All Memorize Before Life Gets Any Harder

    Let’s cut to the chase right now. What you ultimately do in life comes out of who you believe you are. You have to practice believing in yourself and ignoring the naysayers. Because while you may not be able to control the impolite things some people say and do, or the unfair things that...
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    10 Daily Habits that Often Waste 95 Percent of Our Time and Potential in Life

    Have you ever told yourself that you’re going to make something happen and then nothing happened? All details aside, it’s because you didn’t have the right habits in place — the little things you do every day that build up to something bigger. Your habits truly make or break you. Because in all...
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    7 Things We Receive in Life Once We Let Go of Control

    This morning I met up with an old friend, someone whom I care about deeply but have internally struggled with for years because I’ve always been worried about her health. I want to help her heal, because I feel I’m losing her. I want to teach her the time-tested tools for living a happier...
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    4 Hard Lessons We Slowly Learn by Letting Go in Life

    If somebody is working on themselves and changing for the better, it’s unnecessary to keep bringing up their past. People can change and grow. You know that’s true. But have you given yourself a fair chance to change and grow, too? Have you loosened your grip on what’s behind you, so you can...
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    10 Painfully Obvious Facts About Life We All Forget Too Often

    You know how you can hear something a hundred times in a bunch of different ways before it finally gets through to you? The ten facts discussed here fall firmly into that category — timeless truths and lessons most of us likely learned years ago, and have been reminded of since, but for whatever...
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    3 Small Morning Habits that Will Change the Rest of Your Life

    Most of us are distracted from the get-go every morning. Trivial activities like checking social media, watching TV, and worrying about things we can’t control often set the tone of the day. And that means we waste our most well-rested time on things that don’t matter, while gradually losing...
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    7 Daily Expectations that Often Drain 99 Percent of Our Joy and Peace

    The biggest and most draining disappointments in our daily lives are often the result of misplaced expectations. This is especially true when it comes to our relationships and interactions with others. So don’t lower your standards, but do remember that removing your expectations of others is...
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    3 Daily Habits that Keep Holding 99 Percent of Us Back in Life

    There’s a big difference between empty fatigue and gratifying exhaustion. Life is too short not to focus more on what matters most. And life is definitely too short for habits and routines that keep you stuck in a cycle of feeling like you’re a day late and a dollar short. So today, let’s...
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    10 Wake-Up Calls We Typically Receive Too Late in Life

    Before you know it you will be asking, “How did it get so late so soon?” Perhaps you can already relate. So take time to reflect. Take time to realize what you want and need in the days and weeks ahead. Take time to take calculated risks. Take time to love, laugh, learn, cry, and forgive. Life...
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    10 Choices in Life We Will All Regret in 10 Years (if We Aren’t Mindful)

    In the end, more than anything else, we regret the small chances we didn’t take, the priceless opportunities we were too busy to nurture, and the good decisions we waited too long to make. Angel and I have learned this over the past 15 years from the countless hours we’ve spent coaching hundreds...
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    1 Meaningful Step We Often Take Too Late in Life

    You’re probably familiar with what’s known as the Serenity Prayer. It goes like this: God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. There’s an important lesson here — one that’s very often glossed...
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    5 Great Truths We Often Learn the Hard Way in Life

    Some of life’s greatest truths and lessons are the hardest to learn and accept, and yet we must. Because they ultimately allow us to navigate the inevitable obstacles we can’t avoid. So it’s time to remind yourself… 1. Everyone and everything in life is limited. You can never read all the...
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    How Sleep Meditation Can Calm Your Nighttime Anxiety

    Most of us at some time or another have experienced difficulties with sleep. Relentless thoughts can create stress and frustration, wasting our valuable rest time. Are you ready to gently reset your habitual mindset around sleep so you can soothe nighttime anxiety and recover from your busy day...
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    How to Focus With ADHD: 7 Practical Strategies

    In a world buzzing with infinite distractions, keeping our attention focused feels like a Herculean task. Add the ongoing battles of ADHD into this equation, and the challenge escalates to new heights. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, ADHD or Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity...
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