Tag: personal development
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Not Everyone Is Going To Like You (And That’s Ok)
Why We Like To Be Liked Will Storr talks about life being “a status game” and how we humans must play it everyday of our lives. There are all sorts of different games where you are striving for the reward of status for being valuable e.g. the person good at football, or singing or the…
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Gratitude Can Be Your Superpower (If You Let It)
I know you have likely heard it all before and the frustrating advice from friends and family on being “grateful” for something. Quite often this message can be infuriating especially when you are trying to deal with a difficult situation. With that said, expressing gratitude (in many forms) is much more powerful than you think.…
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Loving Yourself: Why You Should Prioritise This Over Everything
Sounds selfish right? What if I said to you that self-hate is a coping mechanism. One to enable you to avoid facing pain by providing yourself with an internal dialogue of criticism and shaming different aspects of yourself. In this way, you can control the hurt that you inflict on yourself and more importantly its…
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Your Mind Is More Powerful Than You Think
It is hard to imagine your mind without any thoughts, right? It is your constant, internal dialogue that you have with yourself. What to eat, what to wear, what to say and what to do. Would it shock you if I told you that you can have anywhere between 60,000-80,000 thoughts per day? This is…
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You Are Not Your Emotions
It took me a long time to realise that I am not my emotions and that it is perfectly ok to feel whatever emotions that arise at any moment. I also felt that it was “bad” to feel any sort of so-called negative emotions e.g. anger, sadness, fear and that the ultimate desired state was…
Be Only You 