There’s no question that certain behaviors are encouraged because they support mental and physical health. Like gratitude and compassion. But what about pride? Pride straddles the line between vice and virtue, healthy and unhealthy, and it’s a complicated and often contested attribute. Dictionaries themselves are no better, giving both positive and negative meanings to the word.
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How to Embrace Productivity Culture – By Rejecting Bad Productivity Advice!
‘Productivity’ isn’t just for over-driven ‘yuppies’ and fat cats! The concept may have been co-opted by the over-zealous professional self-development industry, but folk with a more spiritual approach to life and work still need to get things done, too. At its simplest, productivity means getting more done, better.
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How to Determine If You Made the Right Choice
The first big decision I had to make was choosing a course for college. Between high school graduation and the opening of classes, I had less than three months to pick one ( if you’re wondering why, it’s because I never gave it a thought until I had to) and my whole life ahead depended on my making the right choice.
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How to Turn Negative Feedback Into Something Positive
One of the hardest things in the world to deal with is negative feedback. We all like to hear positive things about ourselves to boost our self-esteem and confidence, but negative feedback can play an important role in our development too. This only works if you can take that feedback in the spirit it was meant in, rather than being hurt and offended, but how can you get better at not taking things personally?
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Why and How to Be Still
In this modern and always-connected world, it’s become a challenge to be still. Being still, you see, is more than just not talking or not moving.
But even without talk and motion, our media-laden world has deprived us of opportunities to be still, albeit with our consent. Left alone, we’re on the internet, fingers on the keypad, texting, chatting, emailing, playing games or listening to music on our smartphones. Being still also goes beyond being motionless, because we can be stationary, but our minds are filled with noise and thoughts.
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5 Tips To Increase Your Sense Of Purpose (And Why It Matters)
It not easy finding a sense of purpose. Even if we have everything going for us, like a good career, a loving spouse, good kids, a home, a car… You get the picture – having a picture-perfect life doesn’t guarantee that we will have a sense of purpose. Feeling lost is normal and is pretty much part and parcel of modern life.
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However, finding it doesn’t necessarily require spending six months in a monastery, or going on a backpacking trip to South America. Sometimes meaning can be found in the mundane, or in things that are outside of us and our possessions.
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