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personal growth

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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How to Live a Life With No Regrets

A guest post by Tess Marshall of The Bold Life. When I think of someone who lived a life without regrets, I think of my mom. She only had a sixth grade education because she quit school to take care of her own mother. Her first husband died from a brain tumor and she was [...]

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The Real-World Way to Surround Yourself with Support

A guest post by Linda Formichelli Read almost any self help article or personal development blog and you’ll read the advice to “surround yourself with people who support your success and distance yourself from people who don’t.” That’s all very nice — except that it’s bogus. Whenever I read that advice I have to smack [...]

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