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Constant Complaining: Does It Serve Us?

By Toni Bernhard — 2012

One of the major sources of dissatisfaction and stress in our lives is our ongoing desire to control what happens to us—to get what we want and get rid of what we don't want. I refer to this type of desire as the state of “want, don’t-want.” How much control do we have over our circumstances? With that in mind, let’s start complaining about our lives.

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Meditation for Self-Mastery

Through the practice of meditation, there are certain changes that happen in the mind. One of the most important changes is that you become master of your mind.

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Sri Swami Satchidananda
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Self Motivation: Staying Motivated to Reach Your Goals

Self motivation is the ability to drive oneself to take initiative and action to pursue goals and complete tasks. It’s an inner drive to take action — to create and to achieve.

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SoulSalt staff
2019
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Discipline, Routine and Focus Can Create an Amazing Life: Jay Shetty

Jay Shetty on his latest book, his experiences living as a monk in India and the necessity of routine in one’s life.

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Navneet Vyasan
2020
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Gimme Gimme Gimme: How to Increase Your Willpower

A new book suggests self-control is the key to success and that learning to defer gratification can change your life. But is it really that simple?

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Will Storr
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6 Ways to Develop Greater Willpower and Discipline

Self-control and willpower are key ingredients for success. So how can you develop greater self-control and willpower? Science has the answers.

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Jeff Haden
2017
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This Article Is Scientifically Proven to Improve Your Willpower

New Year, new you… if only it was that simple. But it turns out scientists are discovering there are some mind tricks that can take your powers of self-control to the next level.

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Andy Ridgway
2020
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The Benefits of Talking to Yourself

The fairly common habit of talking aloud to yourself is what psychologists call external self-talk. And although self-talk is sometimes looked at as just an eccentric quirk, research has found that it can influence behavior and cognition.

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Kristin Wong
2017
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How to Slow Time

We are too often hurried, stressed, distracted, overwhelmed, and bombarded from every angle. We are fighting the good fight, yet with so much going on life can begin to feel... unfelt.

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Brendon Burchard
2015
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‘I Realized I Don’t Have to Believe My Thoughts’

Our mindfulness practice is not about vanquishing our thoughts. It’s about becoming aware of the process of thinking so that we are not in a trance—lost inside our thoughts.

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Tara Brach
2014
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