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personal growth

Deepak Chopra: Why Gratitude Helps You Get in Touch With Your Soul

By Mary Jaksch Gratitude is a wonderful emotion. What happens when you feel grateful is that your ego disappears for a moment. Instead of trying to project yourself into the world, you become open and receptive. If you want to feel happier, try keeping a ‘gratitude journal’. At night, just before going to sleep, write [...]

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Start Over: How To Re-Create Your Life

By Mary Jaksch If you live in the USA, Thanksgiving is right around the corner. It’s a great time to take stock of all the wonderful things in your life. Don’t forget to also give thanks for what is difficult! Giving thanks for barriers and challenges is a great way to find a new, positive [...]

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How to Increase Your Courage: 7 Tips

By Mary Jaksch How’s your courage? When did you last use it? The thing is that courage is like a muscle. If you don’t use it, it withers away. I’m not talking about huge acts of courage. It’s about the little moments. After all, if you want to become fit, it’s the small regular moments [...]

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5 steps to a 5 star relationship

A guest post from Christopher Foster of The Happy Seeker. Need a few tips (guaranteed based in personal experience) to help take your relationship to the next level? You’ve come to the right place. Please keep reading. 1. Do something unexpected for your partner This is such time-tested, invaluable advice I thought I should put [...]

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Is Trust a Key to Success? [VIDEO]

Can trust be a key factor in becoming successful – and happy? In the inspiring video below, conductor Charles Hazelwood shows how life can be transformed through fundamental, life-giving trust. What is your response to this video? Please share in the comment section below

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Do You Embrace These Three Zones of Self Development?

By Mary Jaksch What does ‘self development’ really mean? I think it means that we leave the safety of our ‘status quo’ and reach for a way of being that is new. This often means that we have to overcome fear and doubt. There is an easy way to do this and a difficult one. [...]

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How to Turn Fear and Doubt into Fuel for Brilliance – Jonathan Field

Uncertainty must be present in the quest to create anything deeply meaningful. From Jonathan Fields new book Uncertainty By Mary Jaksch Do you have creative ideas – but find it hard to make them happen? All human beings are born creative. We all have good ideas. But on the path from idea to creation we [...]

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