Category: Mindset
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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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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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Getting Out of Analysis Paralysis
Like me, I’m sure you have experienced getting stuck when you have an important decision to make. You want to make the best possible choice and agonize over the options. When you find yourself unable to move forward because you are going over the pros and cons again and again, you’re in analysis paralysis. It’s…
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Develop a Change Mindset
Change is inevitable and inexorable. No matter what we do or don’t do, change happens. It is thrust upon us by people or forces, known or unknown, and there is nothing we can do to stop or prevent it. Change can happen at any time. Even in the midst of change that we have initiated,…
Angela di Gualco 