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Hi! Welcome to my blog. I’ll post here weekly thoughts on the components of the mindset needed to be successful: grounded confidence, growth mindset, commitment, stress management, and personal responsibility. Looking forward to having you join me!
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Hi! Welcome to my blog. I’ll post here weekly thoughts on the components of the mindset needed to be successful: grounded confidence, growth mindset, commitment, stress management, and personal responsibility. Looking forward to having you join me!
Anyone who’s heard me talk about self-confidence more than once or twice has heard me talking about mirror affirmations. I’m a huge believer in them. Doing them literally changed my
I want to talk about something that I’ve learned through the process of writing, but first I want to assure you that it’s not just about writing. Even if you
Do you ever feel that if people really knew how much you were struggling, or if they knew how little you actually know, you’d be caught as a fraud? Do
People often ask, “What’s the best routine for exercise/meditation/affirmations/fill in the blank?” It’s a totally understandable question; we want to do the thing that’s going to have the most or
Following up on last week’s topic of not believing everything you think, one of the things I hear often is that people want to “overcome” or “conquer” their negative self-talk
I saw this on a bumper sticker a number of years ago, and it really helped crystallize something that I’ve believed for a long time. I don’t know about you,
So, I have a confession to make. (I hope you’re sitting down.) When I need a feel-good read, my go-to genre is often romantic urban fantasy (as in, romance set
Acknowledging our own success (both to ourselves and to others) is something that’s very difficult for a lot of us. But, in my experience, it is crucial to developing any
I had the opportunity to sponsor a professional bodybuilder in recovery for a while, and this is one of the gems of wisdom that he taught me. I used to
I saw an “inspirational quote” the other day on Instagram. The author was talking about what it takes to be in the top 1% of whatever it is you do,
Continuing my periodic series of reviews of books that have been important or valuable to me (disclaimers here), I’d like to talk about Atlas of the Heart (commission link) by
I remember at one point a long while ago, I went to my sponsor with some problem I was having. I don’t remember the details of that problem anymore, but
I remember when I was about 7 or 8 years old, I was playing catch with a Nerf football with my dad in the front yard. We were tossing the
One of the nuggets of recovery wisdom that gets shared a lot is “Don’t compare your insides to other people’s outsides.” The first few times (hell, probably the first few
I’m going to start intermittently reviewing books that have been meaningful to me in my journey. I have been blessed to have some excellent teachers, some physically present in my