Healthiest Habits in 10 Simple Steps

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The best way to stay healthy is by making small changes in your life that will add up over time. Here are some simple steps to take every day to create your healthiest habits. Here’s how to start making healthy changes today. 1. Pick one thing. Creating your healthiest habits can be as simple as…

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How to Be a Positive Thinker

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Learning how to be a positive thinker involves leaning into a different way of thinking for many of us.  It does not mean that you ignore negative emotions or experiences.  To be a positive thinker one must embrace “negative” experiences as learning opportunities.  Positive thinking is not about acting like everything is ok when it…

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5 Best Strategies to Improve Low Self-Esteem 

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What is Self-Esteem? Oxford Languages defines self-esteem as “confidence in one’s own worth or abilities; self-respect.”   It greatly affects how we perceive our worthiness to exist in this world.  Low self-esteem can contribute to anxiety, depression, and increased alcohol abuse. It can also affect our relationship quality as well as work performance.1 Causes of Low…

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Top 7 Personality Tests: Free

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Best Personality Tests Free and Online Here are seven of the best personality tests free and online that are truly helpful in defining who you are.  We all need help from time to time to see ourselves.  Personality tests help to give insight into your tendencies. They help to identify your unique characteristics and see…

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Journaling: How to Start Your Practice

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Why You Should Journal You may have considered a journaling practice before.  You may have even bought yourself a beautiful journal but never started. Journaling is the practice of writing down your thoughts, fears, desires, and experiences.   When you tried in the past to start your practice did the time commitment stop you?  Maybe…

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Finding Your Life Purpose

Why do you need to know your Life Purpose? Knowing your life purpose can profoundly affect your happiness. Feeling like you are living up to your potential gives you a feeling of pride and accomplishment. And utilizing your unique gifts to help others is also a wonderful way to increase your own well-being. When you…

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Resolutions: New Year starts TODAY

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I know a lot of us plan to make resolutions in the new year.  I’m guilty of this too. But why are we waiting, really?  It always seems like a good idea to enjoy the holidays (basically we mean stuffing our face with too much food that we know isn’t great for us) and then…

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Best Books to Give As Gifts

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Books are one of my favorite gifts to receive and give because they can provide insight, clarity, and motivation as well as inspiration. You can learn a new skill, create better habits, get motivated to start on your goals, feel empathy, laugh, cry and feel accomplished once you’re done reading. Win-win! A book is truly…

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Is Santa’s Magic Real?

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How to Use Santa to Teach Your Kids About Manifesting After having my daughter I began to really question the benefit of Santa. Does it make sense to lie to my child about a big, red-cheeked man that sneaks into our house to leave presents? And why should I give credit to this guy when…

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How to Set Intentions by Planting Seeds

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Intentions are anything that we aim or plan for. So, how to set intentions is as natural a process as planting an actual seed. You plant a seed and then expect it to grow. That faith in your intention is crucial to its manifestation. Your mind is like a garden.   First, you have to…

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