By Denise Cummins — 2013
A growing body of evidence indicates that willpower and self-control are essential for a happy and successful life.
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Do you often find yourself struggling to change your habits, regardless of how willing you are to set objectives? If your goals rarely reach fruition, you are not alone.
There are many ways to work on self-development and self-improvement, but setting specific goals for personal growth can increase your likelihood of success.
Is the goal you have set actually achievable? Whilst humans are industrious, innovative, beings with massive potential for achievement, the goals we set need to be grounded in reality lest we set ourselves up for disappointment.
Your breathing rate and pattern is a process within the autonomic nervous system that you can control to some extent to achieve different results.
Ta-Nehisi Coates says we must love our country the way we love our friends—and not spare the hard truths.
As human beings, our predominant agenda is to survive. The instinct is deep in our DNA. Of course we want to stay alive, but now this instinct has become more of an emotional response. It's less about a threat to our actual existence and more about the barrage of perceived threats to our ego.
In his new book, Judson Brewer shows how anxiety exists inside the habits that make up our everyday lives, and habits are sticky.
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The brain creates the images, thoughts, feelings and other experiences of which we are aware, but awareness itself is already present.
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The daily practice of visualizing your dreams as already complete can rapidly accelerate your achievement of those dreams, goals, and ambitions.
Making a "treasure map" is a very powerful technique, and fun to do.