61 Self-Love Tips WhenYou Are Feeling Lost in Your Career
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You never regret choosing an improved, future you
We are always scared to stretch and step out of our comfort zones. We’re afraid to do what we need to do. For me, I have scary moments whenever I’m about to write a blog post, write research work, eat healthy and choosing to look great. I’m not sure why I feel scared. Sometimes I …
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How to transform your life in just 5 seconds every day
We all want to transform something about ourselves at some point in time. We want to lose weight, earn more money, build a business, have great relationships with loved ones, expand our horizons, have adventures and help others. We know what we want to do and we know how to do it. It might be …
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You don’t need to have a calling to make a contribution
In 1922, Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, received a higher call to spread the word of Christ. In nine years, she took vows to become a nun. Little did she or her superiors know that her unselfish years of service in the slums of Kolkatta, India, would lead to worldwide renown and her being coined Mother Teresa. …
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Your courage is renewable
In Ryan Holliday’s Courage is Calling, he says “Courage is renewable.” This can manifest in our normal daily lives. Extenuating circumstances require great courage to overcome and we often hear of the stories of persons of great courage. But, we all need courage in our daily lives to live an authentic life and pursue our …
Courage is everywhere
Ryan Holliday starts his book Courage is Calling with this key concept about courage: Courage is not a finite resource, it is renewable and everywhere. Courage is the single mom or dad raising their children, making money to put food on the table and have a roof over their heads. Courage is the child whose …
Use a writing process to stop overworking an article for your job
Most professional women who work in a knowledge economy are creators. Their companies often require a wide range of articles, from technical pieces to opinions to promotional offers. But unlike physical goods that have a well-defined nature, the definition of a well-written article is subjective. A colleague may find an article terrible and lacking in …
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3 ways to reduce task build up and reduce your anxiety
You’re feeling the anxiety build, slowly at first. It’s building because you know you have a ton of things to do but you can barely keep track of everything. Work is becoming unbearable with all the things you have to do. Every day you find more tasks are added to your already full plate. You …
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How to be unapologetic: 5 lessons from Danielle Steele’s life
Do you feel you have to apologize for just being yourself even though you are ‘nice’, kind, respectful, soft-spoken? Do you find yourself saying, ‘I’m sorry’ for doing something good for yourself to not offend another person, maybe a colleague or a family member? Being unapologetic is not always easy, but can be learnt. Ask …
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7 Behaviours that make Nora Roberts a prolific writer (which you can adapt too)
In the summer before my sixteenth birthday, I stumbled on Nora Roberts’ Irish Thoroughbred in the Olde Book Shop along my route to Spanish lessons. The Olde Book Shop had an entire shelf dedicated to Nora’s romance novels and I spent the summer making my way through the second-hand books. Twenty-five years later, I’m an …
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Dear Overwhelmed Writer, Develop Your Writing Process
Dear Overwhelmed Writer, You have a lot on your plate and got handed a writing project. It’s another article you got to write for your job. You know you should get started but every time you think of the writing project you imagine it just disappearing. Poof! It’s gone. Fantasy fades, reality sets in and …
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The real reason why you have been struggling to put your happiness first
Photo by Gianluca Carenza on Unsplash Of late, you are tired and on the verge of being burnt out. You start your days caring for your loved ones, then for your colleagues at work, and finally back to your loved ones at the end of the day. You barely have time for yourself, much …
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4 things you need to stop doing to simplify your life
Photo by Stephanie Harvey on Unsplash Do you find yourself missing out on life events because you are buried under physical and mental clutter? Do you wish your space is light and airy and brings you great joy, peace and calm? Have you tried simplifying your life only to find that you are more …
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8 Dalai Lama Quotes to Help You Become More Resilient
Photo by Gijs Coolen on Unsplash Life can throw challenges at you hard and fast. The loss of a loved one or a job, illness, having a number of impending deadlines and unexpected financial expenses can induce unbearable stress. How you respond to that stress could either make you weaker or make you stronger. Stress could overwhelm …
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6 Ways We are the Obstacle to Our Own Happiness
Photo by Martin Widenka on Unsplash Do you feel as though happiness is elusive? Is it just out of your reach if only you made a small change to get it? Or do you feel it is way beyond you and that your life needs massive change for you to have it? In either case, …
11 Oprah Winfrey Quotes to Help You Choose Yourself and the Life You Desire
Photo by Thought Catalog on Unsplash You have everything you need…at least so you thought. But lately, you find your job, your home and even your precious little ones draining. Instead, you dread the day before you every morning. You go through the motions of the day from home to work and back home. Your …
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Ten myths about the lives of women in Marcus Buckingham’s “Find Your Strongest Life”
Are you a woman in a career, married and have kids? Learn about ten myths related to your life here.
Align your dreams with your life purpose
How often have you pursued a dream and then stopped after the first phase? Your motivation waned, and you’re tired of putting out work for little in return. After a while, you start again and run into a wall with no immediate way around or over it. Before you give up, there is one question …
Welcome your desires into your life
The difficult thing about what you desire is that you can’t see it yet. And, when you can’t see it, you can’t welcome your desire into your life. Instead, you start believing that your desires are out of your reach. I’m not asking you to believe you can get what you desire as yet. No, …
Celebrate small wins
When we have a ton of things to do, we tend to not celebrate small wins. Yesterday, I resubmitted a scientific article to an online journal. This was only part of one of my goals for the rest of the year. I was tempted to move on and not celebrate because the article had yet …
Are my stressors in conflict with my goals?
Recently, I reviewed my annual goals and decided on 3 that I need to accomplish by the end of the year which is in two months time. In the past, I used to set the goals without accounting for what stresses I had at that period of my life. The outcome was that the stressors …
How to use a planner effectively and get the most important things done
For a long while, I used many types of planners. The Fox Planner, Happy Planner, Bullet Journal Spreads, and many more. I always stopped using them. They became cluttered and congested with all the mini-deadlines I had for myself. And, I kept long to-do lists in them. I tried to pack too many things into …
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Seek clarity on your job’s performance metrics
I feel foolish for not understanding my career’s performance metrics until recently and after five years as a tenure-track lecturer. My university had put in place a metric of two research articles per year for each staff member. Seems simple enough…just publish two scientific articles per year. How I thought the metric was calculated was …
