Author: Angela
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If You Want To Do Something, Just Do It
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.Tao Te Ching Nike was on to something when they used that as their tag line. They must have known that people tend to stay in our comfort zones. The Law of Inertia in physics states that objects at rest tend to stay rest and…
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Financial Well-Being: From Financial Stress to Intentional Choice
Guest post by Jim Lindsay, Financial Mindset Coaching Financial well-being means different things to different people. For one person, it may mean paying the monthly bills without worry. For another, it may mean eliminating debt, building an emergency fund, purchasing a home, preparing for retirement, or simply feeling more confident when making financial decisions. Regardless…
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Managing Low Self-Worth
I have struggled with low self-worth for most of my life. Over the years, I have tried so many things to feel better about myself but those feelings won’t permanently go away. Sometimes it feels that low self-worth is something I just have to live with. One thing I have learned from living with fibromyalgia,…
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The Importance of Values
It can be easy to confuse beliefs and values. They both shape our behavior, but they come from different places. Beliefs are what we believe to be true, often without any direct evidence to support them, while values are what we believe to be important based on our experience. Beliefs can be changed with attention…
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Living an Aligned Life
Alignment coaching is an action-oriented methodology; understanding the self is a vehicle to inspired action. Santana Inniss Are you struggling to reach a goal? Do you feel stuck, lost, frustrated or unmotivated? Are you procrastinating more than usual? It may be because what you’re doing, or trying to do, is not aligned with who you…
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The Bittersweet Perspective
“Bittersweet”: a tendency to states of longing, poignancy, and sorrow; an acute awareness of passing time; and a curiously piercing joy at the beauty of the world. The bittersweet is also about the recognition that light and dark, birth and death—bitter and sweet—are forever paired. Susan Cain I read Susan Cain’s book Bittersweet: How Sorrow and…
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Modern Tarot: A Tool for Self-Discovery, Self-Care and Growth
Everyone wants to understand themselves better, discover their life purpose, navigate this thing called life, develop a connection with the Divine, and heal their soul wounds. The journey of self-discovery is long and challenging but also interesting, joyful, and transformational. Tarot is one way of facilitating that process that can be particularly useful and meaningful. While…
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Living With Chronic Illness
Chronic physical and mental illness affect a person’s life in many ways. Some days are better than others. It’s not always obvious that an individual is unwell or it shows up in ways that aren’t indicative of pain and suffering. Being aware and supportive will be helpful and meaningful to your friend or family member.…
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Challenging Thoughts
The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new. Dan Millman When I taught at university, I was always trying to impress upon my students how our own life experiences frame our understanding of a work of literature. This became clear in our…
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Habits
With habits, we don’t make decisions, we don’t use self-control, we just do the thing we want ourselves to do. Gretchen Rubin Life is filled with many challenges and responsibilities that sometimes place a heavy demand on our time and energy. Such things often conflict with our desires and needs. So achieving goals is not…
Angela di Gualco 