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Increase Self-Awareness
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Increase Your Self-Awareness with 6 Simple Tips

What is self-awareness and why is it important? Self-awareness means you know your own self. Being self-aware includes knowing what you like and dislike, recognizing what motivates you, and even being familiar with your strengths and weaknesses. It also means being aware of what “rules” you live by. Following those guidelines and recognizing your own habits all contribute to your level of self-awareness. When you

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Juggling Multiple Goals
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Juggling Multiple Goals Made Easy

Juggling multiple goals can be challenging. Life could be simpler if we just had one or two goals to focus on. The reality is that we have different areas of our lives that we set goals for and need to learn to juggle those multiple goals. We already know that breaking goals down into smaller, specific action steps works when applied to a single goal.

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SMART Goals for the New Year

New Year’s resolutions can be thought of as a type of goal-setting exercise. Yet, most people tend to be more successful at formally setting goals than they are at reaching what they set out in their resolutions. One of the best ways to guarantee goal-setting success is to ensure that each of your goals or New Year’s resolutions are SMART goals. SMART is an acronym

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Benefits of Practicing Gratitude Daily
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Benefits of Practicing Gratitude

We often take for granted what we should be thankful for most. There can be many benefits of practicing gratitude daily. When you learn to recognize the situations in your life that you should be grateful for, you can be healthier both mentally and physically, and more resilient when challenges come your way.  It’s never too late to develop a practice of gratitude as a

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Get More Out of Life by Slowing Down
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Get More Out of Life by Slowing Down

It goes against our natural inclination, but you can get more out of life by slowing down. If you were to make a list of everything you want to complete this week, it would likely be even longer than you’d anticipate. The cold, hard fact is that life is one busy ride. To get more done, you’re inclined to rush things. And when you’re always

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Thinking Outside the Box
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Thinking Outside the Box

Have you ever heard the saying, “Thinking outside the box?” Of course you have! It’s a saying that has been thrown around at our workplaces and in countless personal development books. Thinking outside the box usually creates unique solutions to the most unusual of problems. But it’s not as easy as it sounds. We are all creative, but it can be difficult to tap into

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Shift From Thinking to Action
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Shift From Thinking to Action in 6 Steps

Are you one of the many people that do an excellent job of visualizing, setting goals, making plans, and creating contingency plans for every obstacle that might occur on the way to accomplishing a goal? However, many of these same people rarely take the first step in the real world. All of their activity is occurring between their ears. While being clear on your intentions

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