Around 90 % of us will fail with our new year’s resoultions. By the second Friday in January approximately 46% will have quit, that’s why it’s often referred to as quitters day. By mid February the failure rate has gone up to 80% and by March it’s 90%. So don’t feel you’re alone in this.… Read More How To Succeed At New Year’s Resolutions.
When we accept ourselves fully life gets simplier and changes get easier all round. We have a habit of accepting others much more quickly than we do ourselves. So for today ask yourself is there something I don’t want to accept about myself? If so, why? What would happen if I did? Would that mean… Read More Accepting Who We Are Enables Change
What Is Happiness? Can we really define what happiness is? Many studies have tried to do just that. Some studies have defined happiness as having life satisfaction, positive and healthy coping resources, plus positive emotions. These studies have shown that happiness can lead to a wide range of beneficial outcomes. These include: financial success, supporting… Read More Dealing With Emotions: Coping With Happiness
What is grief? Grief is our natural response to losing someone or something, the death of a family member or friend, a relationship ends, loss of your job. Other life changes may bring about grief such as chronic illness, disability in you or loved one, even moving home or country. For the first six months, at… Read More Dealing With Emotions: Coping With Grief
Dealing with emotions appropriately can be hard. The key word here is appropriate. What do I mean by this? Well looking at how we feel can be difficult at times in our lives. We can be in denial about so much that is going on in our lives at that moment. We may not even… Read More Learning To Cope With Emotions: Shame & Guilt
Why Would I Connect Being Honest With Personal Finances? Well being honest with ourselves about our finances can in many ways help us learn a lot about ourselves. It can also show our ability to be honest about ourselves, with ourselves and with our significant other. In everything we do we have to be honest… Read More The Link Between Personal Finances & Honesty.
Everyone keeps talking about being grateful these days or showing gratitude. But when life is getting you down it can be very hard. Why should I be grateful you may ask? What’s it all about anyway? These are some very good questions. When the word gratitude is thrown about these days it’s as if it’s… Read More How Gratitude Can Boost Your Mental And Physical Health.
Journaling has huge benefits for both mental and physical health. Research has shown it acts not only as a stress management, anxiety and depression support tool but has been shown to benefit asthma, rheumatoid arthritis and other health conditions. It improves cognitive functioning and it strengthens the immune system, preventing a host of illnesses. Plus… Read More Journaling For Mental Health.
Turning off the negative voice in your head is beneficial. If you have been following the series on deleting negative thinking and negative people hopefully by now you have started to get some relief from my suggestions. Your mindfulness or meditation practice should be a basic tool in your self-care arsenal. This is also beneficial… Read More Creating More Positivity In Your Life.
Last week I talked about deleting negative thinking/self-talk from your life. You really can’t do this properly when surrounded by negative people. What Are Negative People? These are the people that never have anything good to say. They talk about their problems or gossip about others in a negative way. You already know them well.… Read More Deleting Negative People From Your Life.
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