Category: Personal Development
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Negative self-talk and how to stop it
Are you testing yourself? How many people fall into a trap of negative self-talk at least once a week? I bet this number would sky rocket that any price of a stock on the market that is ready to launch into space. Yes, I’m talking about you. Negativity, unfortunately, is part of our lives and…
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Burnout and how to recover from it
Burnout as a stress reactor As it appeared to be, many people are experiencing burnout due to their stressors aggressively taking over their lives more and more these days. What we don’t realize is that we are burnt out, simply thinking we are tired. It’s partially true. Living to work is not what anyone wants…
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How To Deal With Guilt
This post was inspired by one of the bloggers — The Bipolar Gamer — who had recently spoken up about his experience with guilt. How do we cope with guilt and why do we feel so? It is not to indicate that we are bad people — on the contrary, and I will later explain…
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Develop the habit of practicing self-love
Unless you are a narcissist, practicing self-love can be a hard nut to crack. It does not mean you have to forget about everyone and everything, and focus on yourself. No. Before we get to know how to practice self-love, let’s see what it means. Self-love is a state of appreciation for oneself which is…
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Active listening is actually a thing
My boss told me one time that I needed to work on my active listening skills. I didn’t know it was a problem in the first place. The more I thought of what she said to me, the more I started to notice something. In conversations I was hearing to respond myself, not to actually…
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How confidence creates our reality
If you google the list of the most influential people on the planet, you will get the names of those who failed miserably and so many times that you wouldn’t believe it if they told you. Every success story has a background with a seemingly large number of attempts to achieve it. Some of us…
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How to know you are empathetic
Key aspects to reveal whether you are empathetic or not. Why do we need to be more compassionate? I myself am empathetic and I’ve lived my life without knowing about it for years. This trait happened to have developed in me as a result of my behavior that was triggered by the environment that I…
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Importance of personal development
Personal development means molding yourself. I’m sure most of you know what personal development means. Even if you think about the definition of these two words it’s pretty obvious, but it includes so much about who you are and most importantly “who you can be”. As for me, seeing the potential for personal development is…
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How to avoid feeling helpless
Stop learning to feel helpless The day I unlearned to feel helpless was one of the best days of my life. You read that right! I deliberately “unlearned” it like a skill that I apparently honed for a while without being aware of it. Although, feeling helpless seemed so real. I was convinced there was…
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When we fail, we don’t
When I fail, I take a step forward. It is common knowledge that when we make mistakes, we fail; and that failure is a step back. In reality, it isn’t. Most of us have been told off for making a mistake at least once in our lives, but did we learn anything from it? Absolutely!…