Pick Up Your Spirits

Pick Up Your Spirits

            Discovering your spirituality may be one of the best moves to ever make towards gaining the peace and calm you need to reach higher levels of success. Most people shy away from spirituality thinking that it is the same as religion. Spirituality answers the question “How can I maximize my life?”

            Spirituality is beneficial to adding value to your life. often individuals live their lives without any true sense of purpose or meaning. A life without value results in an unsatisfactory feeling in daily activities and leisure activities. No matter how much effort, time or money you put into your lifestyle, being purposeless is not an enjoyable experience. Your purpose and spiritual connection establish value added living. Ultimately, happiness and satisfaction with your life emerges when spirituality is a committed part of your daily routine.

            Spirituality takes you beyond connections with the world. Spirituality directs the connection with your inner peace and calm. Activities that simmer the heat of life challenges lead to personal fulfillments within yourself. Everyone’s spiritual journey does not look the same. Some people can peacefully function with one connection, some are more comfortable with multiple spiritual relationships. For example, explore nature, art, music, yoga or meditation as a means to allow yourself to tap into deeper modes of thoughts and emotions.

            Develop healthy personal morals and values through a spiritual shift in your life. Compassionate and empathetic morals and values will help you develop a lifestyle worth waking up to every day. Having the burning desire to live an awe inspiring life brings a feeling of security and satisfaction. Spiritual soundness leads others to view you as a positive and instrumental asset and will always seek to be in your presence.

            Take a spiritual inventory of yourself on a regular basis. Seek ways you can make yourself a better person. Analyze the meaning behind your life challenges. Reevaluate the connections you have in the world and strengthen that area of your life. Most importantly, remember that spirituality and religion may have some common elements such as organizing a belief system, but are not carry the same concepts to increasing well- being and success.

     

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What No One Tells You About Doubt

What No One Tells You About Doubt

           

            Do these things sound familiar? Fear of trying new things. Uncertainty of being good enough. Hesitation to pursue the goals and dreams you desire. Doubt generates a distrust between what you can do and what you think you cannot do.

            For example, high school is a time of initiation into becoming an adult. Ninth grade, tenth grade and eleventh grade build you up to the entering the twelfth grade. In your senior year, you have to make a final decision of what your first next action step into adulthood will be. So you are actually walking around twelfth grade year with a balance scale on the top of your head trembling from one side to the other side.

            One side of the scale may be piled with college acceptance letters, job offers, athletic scholarships or a number of other lucrative fortunes. The other side of the balance beam may be filled with your doubts, fears and apprehensions that can keep you from successfully moving forward after high school. The question to be answered at the most infamous moment is: what can you do so that the scale leans on the most favorable side?    

            Throughout life, you struggle with balancing the scale between good and bad decisions. Doubt is a significant determinant in the direction your scale leans. Yes, I can…. No, I can’t…. is the inner battle you deal with on an ongoing basis.  There are a few essential elements of overcoming doubt that no one wants you to know.

           

#3 Essential Element of Doubt:  > Brief overview

            One secret to overcoming doubt is to write about your fears. Journaling out your emotions and feelings helps in three ways. Describing your uncertainties lead to clarity of exactly what is keeping you from moving towards success. Writing about your fears makes it a more realistic feat to focus on and increases your insight into conquering it. Identifying what triggers your doubt by writing them out leads to your ability to stop yourself from self- destructive thoughts.

#2 Essential Element of Doubt: > Block self- defeating thoughts and behaviors

            Obstruct hesitations to make moves that push you to success by surrounding yourself with positive people, positive actions and positive environments. Do not be swayed into conforming to negative situations. You have heard that you are a product of your environment. That means people, your moves and the places you frequent all play a role in the development of doubt. Positivity multiplies into positive results. 

#1 Essential Element of Doubt: >  Build Better Thoughts

            Doubt is a figment of your imagination. Reconfigure doubtful impressions with motivational mantras and affirmations. Additionally, when trying to overcome an area of life that lacks success, invest in yourself. Purchase and read self- help books which contain beneficial information and target the exact challenges in life you are struggling to come to terms with. Also try attending some conferences and workshops to target the domains that hinder success.

            Don’t let doubt kill your present and future success. Questioning and analyzing a decision beforehand is a normal process. Don’t let the negative connotations of a situation cause stagnation in your dreams and goals. Pinpoint ways to overcome doubts and uncertainties that exist. Make and execute an action plan that gets you over the hurdle of life’s common challenge of doubt.    

  

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Tips to Consider when Learning New Skills

Tips to Consider for Learning New Skills

            Even with two Bachelor’s and two Master’s degrees, and I still feel like I don’t know enough. I never get enough of learning new things. I pride myself in being a lifelong learner. And you can too!

            So you are probably thinking, I’m some sort of super genius. I’m not a prodigy child or anything close to it. I can say I have developed a few traits that have helped me to enjoy and endure learning. I have worked through the trials and tribulations that comes with the struggles of learning.

            No, I’m not bragging. I do want to be an inspiration to any and everyone who has developed the negative self- concept that learning new things is impossible. If I can do it, anyone can. Go for it! Start learning.

           

            Here’s how I did it:

Tip #1: You are not your fear.

            Everyone has a beast that must be faced at some point in life. Learning something new happens to be yours. Face the fear of learning as if your life depended on it. Well, actually, it does. New skills and knowledge yield growth and development to help increase chances of success.

            Overcome fear by focusing on the benefits that are in store for you. Shifting your attention from the unseen (your fear) to the seen (your goals) is a great way to conquer fear. Pay attention to what really matters and not your fear.

            Just do it! Does that slogan sound familiar? It’s most definitely motivational. When fear starts taking over, tell yourself over and over again to just do it. Once you step out on action, you will forget the fear.

            Are you still harboring that fear on the inside? try this. Visualize yourself in the position you will be in when you acquire and use your new knowledge. Visualize yourself walking across the stage at graduation. Visualize your yourself sitting behind the desk of your new job. See yourself as the new registered nurse at the community hospital. Whatever your dream is, see it into existence.

Tip #2: Small steps eventually turn into huge strides.

            If you think that the task of learning is too big, break it down into smaller steps. Don’t overwhelm yourself trying to take on too much at once. “Rome wasn’t built over night.” It took what probably seemed like forever to lay brick by brick to create a magnificent structure.

            The major keys to creating leaps and bounds through taking steps is to be consistent and persistent. Set a goal with flexible timelines and go for it. You should work on your goal a little every day. Keep on doing and keep on going.

            Even if you don’t get the results you want instantly, keep trying. Be persistent. Don’t give up. Strength is built over time when you practice over time.

Tip #3: Who said learning can’t be fun.

            I saved the best tip to learning new knowledge for last. While the main objective is to gain access to an increase in success, have fun while you are at it. Learning can be fun.

            You may have always had the experience and perception that learning is too stressful and time consuming. Put the fun back into learning. Do you remember the days of kindergarten when all day was recess? Okay, maybe half of the day was recess. Bring that same fun into learning as an adult.

            You used to celebrate when you jumped rope without tripping or beat the high score on your favorite video game. You can do the same now when you conquer the task of learning new knowledge or skills. treat yourself to a nice dinner or ice cream sundae. You deserve it for a job well done.   

            You can also make learning fun by making it a group event. Grab a few friends and join a class or training together. Inviting others to join in on learning ensures you have someone to laugh with during those silly thoughts of not being able to finish occurs. Group study sessions are not only beneficial to help one another process difficult ideas, but you can take a few breaks to crack a few jokes.

            Learning is what you make it. View learning as an enjoyable event that will pay off with big dividends in the long run. Remain motivated, use positive self- talk and never stop even after a failed attempt. So what are you waiting for? Go learn something new.

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