As we herald in the new year if Instagram is any indicator, self-help and personal development teachers/coaches are in full power-up mode. In the United States we use the new year as a time to reassess our goals, take stock of where we’re at, decide what we think is wrong and then decide what will […]
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Like many people, experiencing a major loss, I googled the five stages of grief pioneered by Elizabeth Kubler Ross. I was looking for a roadmap of what to expect and hoping it would help me understand how to navigate my own grief. I quickly found the five stages didn’t seem relevant to what I was
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The popularization of mindfulness and meditation created a nearly $1 billion dollar industry in 2015, according to research by IBISWorld. That number doesn’t even include revenue from the almost 1000 meditation apps available. Basically, that means that there’s a whole lot of information out there on meditation and it can be hard to know where
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Success breeds success. If you think that’s just some quaint saying, it turns out you’d be wrong. Several experiments have shown that small, random, initial advantages can spiral into huge ones. In one study conducted by Arnout van de Rijt, he and his team went to four established websites (i.e. Kickstarter, Change.org) and randomly distributed small
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The psyche of America delights in its pioneering spirit—that self-made, independent, pull yourself up by your bootstraps mentality. Self-reliance is generally a trait that’s admired in this country. This cultural belief that we should be able to do everything ourselves, can make it difficult to ask for help when we need to. The truth is
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