Within this guide, we will explore how to find the strength and clarity you need to make the best of chaotic and difficult situations. A perfect example is our current COVID-19 global crisis. This guide will provide you with ideas on how to effectively work through and thrive during these chaotic and uncertain times.
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This article explores how to effectively deal with pain, loss, grief, sorrow, loneliness, hardship, and any other form of suffering. The article will help you make sense of your suffering. It provides you with valuable insights into the transformational value of suffering. It takes you through a three-step process on how to alleviate your suffering. And concludes by helping you make some perspective shifts that will turn your suffering into an opportunity for change and development. Working through this article will help you make the best of the worst of times when nothing else seems to be working.
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This article provides you with guidelines for letting things go. This is all about releasing all that emotional baggage that is holding you back and making your life miserable. Letting go, of course, is rarely easy. Our emotional attachment to things, memories, people and circumstances are not simple to break. However, these emotional attachments can often prevent us from living the life we deserve. By letting these things go, you allow room for more important things that will bring more happiness and joy to your life. The article delves into what it means to truly let go. It presents you with a plethora of reasons to let go of your past emotional baggage. It guides you on when exactly to let things go. It breaks down all the things you might be holding onto that are making you unhappy. It then walks you through how to let go of all the things that no longer serve you. Working through this article will help you to let go of all the things that are holding you back from experiencing the happiness, joy, and fulfilment you deserve.
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This article explores how to develop a deep sense of confidence, self-assurance, and inner strength that can help you live a more empowered and inspired life. Despite what some might think, personal power is not about using power or force. It’s rather an inner strength that allows you to make empowered choices that help move your life forward in the best possible way. The best part is that personal power is not a mental state that we are born with. It’s rather something that we develop over time. This article defines what it means to have personal power. It goes through signs of weakness and powerlessness that robs us of our personal power. It breaks down the essential requirements for developing your personal power. And outlines a plan of action for growing your personal power over time. Working through this article will help you develop the necessary habits, beliefs, and actions for developing your personal power.
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This article will help shift your perspective about the small irritants and inconveniences that tend to rile you up emotionally throughout the day. Many of us typically go about our day worrying and stressing out about stuff that we have no control over. In fact, everything outside our control or comfort zone we just take too seriously. Moreover, we get easily frustrated, overwhelmed and even angered by events and circumstances that don’t pan out as expected. And it’s all because we take life too seriously. This article explores what it means to live life seriously. It helps shift how you think about your life and emotional experiences. It breaks down the things that we must accept and never resist to live a more lighthearted life. And it provides you with guidelines for living a more carefree and stress-free existence.
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This article will help you to make sense of those difficult moments in your life when adversity gets the better of you. Life presents us with many challenges in the form of setbacks, divorce, illness, poverty, loss of a loved one, debt, injury, accidents, crime, destruction and suffering. No matter which of these events comes across your path, life is never easy. In fact, it can be incredibly difficult to move on when tragedy strikes. However, tragedy is what you make it out to be. You can either allow it to get the better of you or you can make the most of it. This article explores how you are not alone in your pain. Many people are struggling just like you. In fact, many people before you have experienced similar or worse problems. Use that understanding to make sense of your suffering. The article also breaks down several assumptions you will need to make to work through tragedy in optimal ways. It follows that up by walking you through a five-step process you can use when tragedy strikes. The article then concludes by presenting you with further guidelines and suggestions for working through periods of tragedy in optimal ways. Working through this article will help shift how you think about your misfortunes.
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This article will help you to make peace with your current predicament no matter how awful, discouraging or uncomfortable it might seem in the present moment. When you learn to make peace with your current life and circumstances without emotional resistance, you develop the mental capacity and the necessary perspective to handle things in the most advantageous way possible. Even though things might seem bad right now, an unhelpful perspective and a poor mental attitude will only make things worse. The only way to make the best out of the situation is to accept what is and then do what you can with what you have to make things better. This article walks you through what it means to accept without resistance. It then goes through a five-step process you can use to develop the habit of acceptance without resistance. Working through this article will help you make peace with your life and circumstances no matter how awful things may appear to be in the present moment.
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This article explores how to develop the mental strength and emotional resilience you will need to overcome adversity. Often the level of success you attain is proportional to the amount of adversity you ultimately face. Those who are successfully able to face and overcome the greatest amount of adversity are often the ones who experience the greatest amount of success. Why? Because adversity helps build character and allows us to learn more about ourselves, about others, about circumstances and about the goals we are working towards. This article examines what mental toughness is all about. It breaks down the requirements for developing mental toughness. It then goes through the habits, beliefs, behaviors, actions, and mindset of mentally tough people. You can use these guidelines as a checklist to help you develop the mental toughness needed to achieve your goals. With this knowledge on hand, unexpected problems or challenging conditions will no longer phase you. Your warrior mentality will help you get through any adversity you face on the battlefield.
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This article will help you take control of those debilitating addictions that are slowly ruining your life and sabotaging your progress. Whether it’s a drug, sugar, alcohol, nicotine, caffeine, television, shopping, gambling, working, cleaning, hoarding or any other addiction, this article can help you take charge of your life and eliminate this addiction for good. The article explores what an addiction is and the impact it has on our lives. It breaks down how addictions arise as a result of social, emotional, and environmental pressures. It breaks down a six-step process you can use to overcome any addiction. And it presents you with guidelines and suggestions for staying away from temptations and harmful addictions. Working through this article will help you develop the motivation and desire you need to overcome the addictions that are sabotaging your life.
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This article explores how to bounce back physically and emotionally after facing adversity. When facing adversity, one of two things will typically happen. You can either wilt under the pressure and succumb to your predicament, or you can immediately bounce back from the depths of despair and use that momentum to achieve your goals. The article breaks down the requirements for bouncing back from a defeat. It encourages you to make some simple changes in the way you think about your circumstances. The article also presents you with a set of important reminders that shift how you perceive adversity and the difficulties that life throws your way. It then explores a three-step process you can use to bounce back stronger after a defeat. And concludes by presenting you with additional guidelines for strengthening your bounce-back muscle when faced with adversity. Working through this article will help you face life’s difficulties and problems without getting discouraged.
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This article explores what it takes to live life to your highest potential. This article is based on the 2011 film Limitless starring Bradley Cooper. In the film, Bradley’s character (Eddie Morra) is facing unemployment and a very bleak future. However, everything changes when an old friend offers him a drug that produces enhanced mental acuity. With the help of this drug, Eddie suddenly acquires uncanny mental abilities that instantly give him more clarity of mind, superior memory and recall, an unlimited supply of energy, and a profound level of self-confidence. He essentially becomes limitless. This article explores what it takes to become limitless in exactly this same way without the need for drugs. Specifically, the article breaks down how to gain mastery over your mindset, over your actions, over your growth, over your influence (on others), and over your body.
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This article shows you how living with hope can often help you work through periods of tremendous adversity in optimal ways. Being hopeful is, however, not a passive act. It’s rather something that we must proactively put into action. In this way, hope isn’t so much a fleeting thought but rather a mindset and lifestyle that we nurture and adopt into our lives. Only in this way will it awaken the positive mental attitude and spirit we need to move forward through the tough times. This article explores what hope means. It delves into how to cultivate hope and the advantages this can bring to our lives. The article also breaks down the traits and habits of hopeful people. These are very much active traits that help hopeful people attract more opportunities and luck into their lives. The article concludes by presenting you with various suggestions and guidelines to help you nurture more hope in your life. Working through this article will encourage you to be more hopeful. As a result, you will be able to handle life’s struggles far more effectively.
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This article explores the difference between an optimist and pessimist mentality. Specifically, it looks at how these two types of mindsets approach life and go about their day. This ultimately comes down to the perspectives they adopt and the decisions they make based on those perspectives. The article is divided into two parts. One part describes the optimist’s world and the other the pessimist’s world. Each of these sections explores the perspectives, habits, traits, characteristics, behaviors and ultimately the mindset of an optimist and pessimist. The article breaks down how an optimist and pessimist work through problems and setbacks that are preventing them from attaining their goals. Working through this article will help you to better understand the differences between these two mindset types. You can then freely choose what type of mindset you would like to adopt in each given situation as you pursue your goals.
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This article explores how to take a more experimental and practical approach to life, to solving problems, to overcoming adversity, and to achieving your goals. The article breaks down how to take a scientific approach to living your life. This is, of course, all about experimentation. It’s about adopting key scientific habits and learning how to ask experimental questions that can move your life forward in optimal ways. You will learn how simple life experiments can make life more fun, rewarding, and fulfilling. The article breaks down what it means to approach life as a scientist. It highlights key scientific habits to adopt. It outlines essential experimental questions you should be asking yourself that will lead to deeper insights and understandings. And it guides you through the process of trial and error. Working through this article will help you to work through your personal struggles and problems in a fun experimental way that will lead to deeper insights, understandings and greater opportunities for progress.
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This article explores what it takes to begin again and start over after a failure, mistake, rejection or any kind of setback that derails your efforts. It’s particularly helpful when working through periods of change and transition in your life. Starting over is, of course, never easy. To start over means letting go of certain things that could potentially hold you back and opening yourself up to a different set of possibilities and opportunities for growth, development, and change. However, in order to recognize these things, we must be willing to shift how we think about our life and circumstances. Without this shift taking place, it will be difficult to move forward in a new direction and start over again. This article defines what it means to start over again. It breaks down the mindset you will need to cultivate. It presents you with a checklist of things to do that will help you stay on track. And it walks you through a six-step process you can use to help you transition from one chapter of your life to another.
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This article explores how to stop complaining and start taking responsibility for your life and circumstances. When things don’t pan out as expected it’s easy to throw our hands up in the air and complain about what did or didn’t happen. Complaining gives us a sense of control. However, that control is fleeting as complaining often doesn’t solve our problem or help push things forward. This article examines how we tend to complain and the kinds of complaints that people typically make. It presents you with a set of self-analysis questions to help track your complaints. It breaks down the reasons why you tend to complain. It highlights the consequences of complaining and the impact it has on your life and other people. The article then provides you with a list of suggestions on how to get out of the habit of complaining and start taking responsibility for your life and circumstances. Working through this article will help you develop the mindset and skills that will eradicate this habit from your life.
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This article explores the steps we need to take to successfully overcome the problems and setbacks that life often throws our way. This article is loosely based on the best selling book The Obstacle is the Way, by Ryan Holiday. It’s designed to help shift how you think about life’s toughest challenges in a positive and proactive way. In many instances, it’s not so much about the kind of adversity we face, but rather about the story we tell ourselves about these challenges. Ultimately, it’s about how we respond to adversity that determines our fate. The article explores how to approach the inevitable and unexpected problems that life often throws our way. This requires shifting our perspective in regard to how we think about adversity. Moreover, it’s about identifying key opportunities that can help us make the most of our difficulties. The article then walks you through how to work your way through your problems in a structured and methodical way. Reading through this article will help you see adversity in a new and positive light. No longer will setbacks and problems phase you. You will rather meet these challenges with a renewed sense of confidence and energy.
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This article explores how to step outside your comfort zone and risk it all to overcome your fears and achieve your goals. The article provides a very helpful definition of courage that invites introspection. It presents you with ideas on how to prepare your body and mind to undertake courageous acts. It describes how you can strengthen your courage muscle each day in small ways. And concludes by showcasing the types of decisions you should make, the steps you should take, and the behaviors you must cultivate to develop a courageous heart. Working through this article will help you develop the courage you need to overcome your fears and achieve your goals.
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This article explores how to move past life’s failures, mistakes, and frustrations in optimal ways. The article breaks down what it means to feel disappointed and the consequences it often brings to our lives. The article also delves into a five-step process you can use to effectively overcome your feelings of disappointment. Finally, the article presents you with several helpful strategies that will alter your perspective and help you overcome debilitating feelings of disappointment when facing potential mistakes and failure. Working through this article will help you develop the necessary mindset you’ll need to make the most of your failures, mistakes, and unmet expectations.
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This article explores how to make the most of periods of your life when you experience failure. The article breaks down how to respond to failure in optimal ways. It describes the various things you must keep in mind when you experience failure. These guidelines will help shift how you think about and interpret your failures. The article also walks you through how to prepare yourself to make the most of every failure. And, finally, the article highlights scenarios where accepting failure is the best option for long-term success. Working through this article will help you learn how to handle failure in optimal ways. This is of particular value for those who live life on the edge and tend to take considerable risk while in the pursuit of their goals.
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