This poem by David Whyte celebrates the profound clarity one gains by shedding who or what no longer serves them.
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Excessive use of external motivation can slow and even stop your journey to mastery.
At thirty-six years old, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche was a rising star within his generation of Tibetan masters and the respected abbot of three monasteries.
Extraordinary talk by a therapist and author who is also multiply disabled about not believing any predictions that don’t empower you.
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In Mind Gym, noted sports psychology consultant Gary Mack explains how your mind influences your performance on the field or on the court as much as your physical skill does, if not more so.
I animated my summary of Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson. On top of my personal story of growing up pretty much on my own I share how to achieve Self-Reliance and how I set specific, measurable, achievable, relevant & time-bound (SMART) goals for myself.
Self-confidence is one of those things the we recognize when we see it. But we don’t usually know how to build it. The reason is because we often misattribute self-confidence. We feel good when people give us compliments and assume that’s where self-confidence must come from.
The Stoics bring forth the theme of self-control on a regular basis. Epictetus, for example, spoke about abstaining from talking about vulgar things, and Marcus Aurelius points out that we should set limits to comfort and consumption.
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Everyone knows that regular exercise and weight training lead to physical strength.
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Most people think success comes from good luck or enormous talent, but many successful people achieve their accomplishments in a simpler way: through self-discipline.