“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” – Aristotle Do you feel your mind wander about your present life, your past or what you plan to do in the future? Whether you are doing it intentionally or unconsciously…what you are really going through is the process of SELF-REFLECTION. When life gets too busy, it’s often easy to lose sight of what we truly want out of our life. Self-reflection gives us the clarity and direction we need to truly live our authentic life, by reconnecting us with our values and morals. From this we can go on to understand…
Your body cannot heal without play. Your mind cannot heal without laughter. Your soul cannot heal without joy.” — Catherine Rippenger Fenwick Do you think you can spot a BURNOUT when it’s happening to you? Burnout is defined as a state of emotional, physical and mental exhaustion which is caused by an extended state of stress. Knowing what it means doesn’t make it easy for you to know when you are going to reach burnout or even going through it! To be honest, you are most likely to attribute the signs and symptoms to “stress”, shove it under the rug…
“Love yourself first and everything else will fall into line” – Lucille Ball Have you ever caught your mind thinking negatively about yourself? Have you ever felt you were not good enough? Speaking from experience, it’s easier to judge and criticise ourselves, our body, our mind, our thoughts and actions, than to love and accept them completely. If self-judgement and self-doubt hasn’t gotten you far, why don’t you try the opposite…SELF-LOVE! Self-love is learning and understanding your own self-worth and value. It is the act of truly believing that you are worthy of love, respect, kindness and happiness. It’s not…
Have you ever wondered why you think or behave the way you do? Or thought about the choices you made in your life and what has driven you to make them? Well…it might seem a bit pointless to spend time analysing what has already happened, it’s not like you can go back in time and change them anyways. Valid point! Self-reflection doesn’t change the past, but it can definitely help you change your future. Sitting down and reflecting on the past is probably not on anyone’s top of their “to do list”. It doesn’t have to be on the top…
“Be where you are; otherwise you will miss your life.” – Buddha Practicing mindfulness doesn’t necessarily mean sitting in one place with eyes closed for 30 minutes or more. Although…if you can do that, it’s amazing! You should definitely continue that or at least try. But, there are many ways to find stillness in our everyday life. Mindfulness is the ability to stay in the present moment and focus your mind on what is happening now with acceptance. This practice allows you to reach into your calmness, state of alertness, pause and appreciate the things around you. Mindfulness is achieved…
We often will come with excuses or wait for the “perfect” time to start decluttering and organizing. How often do you hear yourself saying, “I will start in the next month” or “spring is around the corner…what better than spring cleaning!” As much as you hate to admit it, these are excuses you make up to keep pushing off the task of DECLUTTERING. Ignoring your clutter doesn’t make it disappear…the opposite is actually true, you will end up accumulating more junk. As many excuses you can come up with to put off decluttering, I am going to give you 5…
“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.” ― Epicurus It’s often easy to feel frustrated and complain when things don’t go the way you expected to be, rather than see the good in each experience. AND it probably does not help when someone adds in the classic expression, “Well…look at the bright side”. We have all probably been on both sides of this situation one way or another. As annoying as it can be when you are being told to…
Have you ever paid any attention to the people you spent the most time with? The ones you ALWAYS call when in need for comfort or advice or just to talk for a good laugh. They are the people who you are surrounded by most of the time, not necessarily physically, but one way or another, they are always in your life. It can be family, friends or colleagues, but it’s who you trust the most to let in your INNER CIRCLE. You seek advice, confide in, ask for support, or just talk for the longest time about absolutely nothing.…
Welcoming a new year can be exciting and daunting all at the same time. New year is a good time to start fresh with…new goals, new resolutions, new habits and new positive life changes! Although the idea of starting new seems promising and inspiring, it can also feel intimidating. This is because…you feel the NEED to make big changes in your life for the New Year to start off right. This creates an inevitable pressure on oneself to come up with a substantial change in their life so the New Year actually means something. Especially with the social media era…
Have you ever wondered about self-affirmation and if they truly work or it’s just a bunch of bogus? If you really want to know the truth behind it then there is really only one way to find out…try it yourself! You really don’t lose anything by practicing, if anything you will see a positive change within yourself which spirals into all aspects of your life. By not trying…you will never know the full potential of what your life can be. Self-Affirmation really is just positive statements and sentences. They help overturn negative thoughts in your mind and they can be…