Category: Self-Improvement

Self-Improvement

Are You Looking For New Year Resolutions? Here Are 8 Ideas

For anyone who doesn’t know where to start. “Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.” — Oprah Winfrey 1. What is your story? Who are you? What do want to achieve in your life? What is something your heart desires? What is that something that keeps following you …

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What Kind of a Person Are You Outside of Your Resume?

Why the traits missing from your job description beat the perfect resume You are not your resume. How do you communicate with your colleagues? How do you do your job? How do you act when no one is looking? Will your colleagues remember you when you leave? Will they miss you? Who are you outside …

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For Anyone Who Feels Like Your Mind Won’t Ever Switch Off (Lesson on Mindfulness)

Let yourself take a minute to be mindful. our mind betrays you sometimes. Not just sometimes but most of the time. Why? Because it is thinking of a million things at the same time. It is organizing a million things at the same time. My to-do list for today. Emails to check. Calls to answer. …

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We Don’t Get What We Want Because We Just Don’t Care Enough

You give time and effort for those things you care about. Our days are filled with the path to future skills, tasks and commitments we believe we can’t possibly take on. We have seduced ourselves into believing that we’re not born with the talent, or that the obstacles to doing the work are just too …

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What If You Care More?

Without caring, life is like the bottom of the ocean. Frigid and sunless. There are forces like love and caring and wonder and connection that can overpower anything you are going through. In every one of us, a light shines with the intensity of a thousand blazing suns. Continue reading …. To your inspirations, Banchi

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To Achieve Mastery, You Have to Practice Deliberately

How you practice is more important than how often you practice. Starting at the age of 12, I sang in the shower. I would imagine myself to be a top singer mimicking the voices of my favorite female singers. My voice did never came close to them. Actually, that is not true. Family would cringe …

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Just Breathe

“Healing is every breath.” — Thich Nhat Hanh Someone says something awful to you and you just stand there, powerless and hurt. Your body is trembling. You are thinking of the just-right poison cocktail of words you are dying to deliver. The perfect knock-out verbal punch. In the meantime, your breathing has become shallow. Your …

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Should You Live for Your Resume or Your Eulogy?

Who you are as a person is more important than what you do or what is on your resume. “He saved my son’s life,” the guy was telling the crowd at the funeral ceremony. His eyes were glassy and wet. People from all over the world were present to say goodbye to a man they …

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8 Ways You Can Take Care of Yourself Emotionally

Here’s what putting yourself before others look like. To be and give your best, you have to start putting yourself first. Yes, that’s right. Over your partner, kids, boss, friends, family. No one benefits from you being in second place. Continue Reading …. To your inspirations, Banchi