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Intentional living: Shifting from daydream mode to creator mode
I believed that life just happened to us, that we are all a product of destiny, and that things just happen to us when the timing is right. I believed I would meet my soulmate when God wished it to be. Perhaps I would become successful with a bit of luck and destiny. After getting a huge reality check, I realized that that is not how life works. It felt like things just happened to me and I just reacted to things happening in my life. I’ve always been a dreamer, a daydreamer. I imagined fantasies of me becoming successful and meeting my soulmate. I fantasized about the big manifestations…
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Why character development is as important as personal development
Personal development, self-improvement, and personal growth. What do you think of when you hear these phrases or words? After dabbling in the personal development world for a few years, I’ve realized that it’s all about change and growth. It is all about making oneself better. Getting a better body, better mindset, better habits and a better lifestyle. It is about improving your health, relationships, career, skills, abilities, and confidence. Everyone is trying to be a better version of themselves. This is all amazing and necessary. But I think in that race of becoming the best version of yourself, most people forget about character development. Even though character development is part…
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10 Easy and Simple Ways to Find Joy in Life
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10 Easy and Simple Ways to Find Joy in Life
We live in such a complex world today. Everything we do is for some greater purpose or outcome. We create connections with others for networking purposes. We smile so we can hide how we really feel. We eat the same food as others so we can belong. Now none of this is wrong. Our modern world is fantastic. But sometimes it feels like something is missing. That simplicity. That ease of a simple life where we didn’t have so many worries or tensions. It’s interesting how the quality of life has improved but our quality of living has declined. We have the best foods easily available. We have clean water…
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How to consciously change your perception
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How to boost your productivity by changing ”hard work” to “fun work”
Do you find yourself procrastinating especially when you know you have so much work to do? Do you feel like it’s “hard work”? Is the first expression you say “Ugghh, I have so much work to do?” If you do this too, you’re not alone. I’ve felt this way about work too. Often when we say these things, we make the task we’re doing a mountain that we need to climb, making the task seem very difficult. Thus, to conserve energy, our brain convinces us that it’s better to procrastinate. Then it makes excuses for why we couldn’t do what we said. It seems counterintuitive that we’d procrastinate on such…
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7 Unconventional Ways to Be in the Present Moment
When we think of being present in the moment, we often think of mindfulness, meditation, or deep breathing. But being present doesn’t need to be complicated or difficult. It can be as easy as smelling freshly baked cupcakes! Read on to learn the 7 unconventional ways to be in the present moment. What Does Being Present Mean? When the average person like you or I think about being present, we think about focusing on the now and being here in the now. While this is what being present means, it is abstract. So how can presence be more concrete? What does presence really mean? Science has clearly defined what it…
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Why am I not happy in life: The missing key to happiness
Everyone WANTS to be happy. But only a few of us truly know HOW to be happy. Even if you’re not aware that you’re searching for happiness, you are searching for it in an indirect way. Ask yourself, what are you pursuing right now? What are you chasing right now? Are you trying to get that new job? Or make more money? Are you trying to lose body weight? Keep asking yourself why you are pursuing that goal. Why do you want to make more money? Assuming you’re already paying your bills and surviving, what more can money bring you? Maybe it is the lavish lifestyle you want. Why do…
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Your Ultimate Guide to Using the Best Affirmations for Self-Love
When cultivating self-love, you must change your self-talk. One of the best ways to do so is through affirmations! But have you ever wondered what affirmations are and how to use them to get the best results? Keep reading because I’ll answer both questions in addition to providing you with the best affirmations for self-love. This is the ultimate guide to the best affirmations for self-love. Read until the end to find out how to create your own affirmations! What are Affirmations? Affirmations at the core are phrases or sentences that one repeats to themselves to create self-love or other outcomes. These outcomes can include more money, self-esteem, better health…
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Self-love journey: 7 steps to finding your authentic self
If you’re here, you’re probably wondering what is self-love. How do I truly love myself? What is this self-love journey? Does this self-love journey ever end? Do I finally just learn to love myself? I’m going to attempt to answer some of these questions in this blog post. But first what is self-love? Love is something so innate to us that consciously thinking about loving yourself can seem jarring. After all, we all know how to love someone right? We love our parents, kids, spouses, and even friends. But how do you give yourself love? Let’s unpack this first. Think about someone you really love. A parent, kid, spouse, or…
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Why facing challenges is actually a good thing
Do you keep facing challenge after challenge in life? Does it seem like just when you hit rock bottom and it can’t get any worse, it does? You start thinking to yourself why am I facing so many challenges in life? Why does life suck? Why does God hate me? While all of these thoughts are normal, challenges can actually be helpful to you! Two weeks ago, I had a car accident which was very terrifying. Luckily no one got hurt but it was still traumatic. The cars are gone. I always thought that bad things wouldn’t happen to me. I know the probability of car accidents but I didn’t…
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How to stop feeling like a failure
Failure. Rejection. They feel like defeat. It feels like someone robbed you of you. You no longer feel confident in yourself and your abilities. Failure. Rejection. Such powerful constructs hold the ability to destroy your life. But… They can also hold the key to a new version of yourself. An opportunity to reinvent yourself. What do you choose? In life, we always have a choice. Always. We cannot control many things but we can always choose. We cannot control whether or not employers hire us, whether we get a promotion, or how others feel about us. But one thing that we always have control over is our reactions to any…
