To Know Yourself Is To Love Yourself

People tell me all the time that they don’t feel good enough inside to do what they want to do. This comes from a number of reasons including confidence, inner critics, anxiety and more. When you love yourself, amazing things happen. You get the things you want (including jobs, relationships, money). Read my post on vision boards which can help with this.

The only way to love yourself is to get to know yourself! If you love yourself, you will begin to do things that fulfill your happiness, your confidence, and even your willingness. It will help you succeed.

We spend a lot of our lives discovering ourselves. We are people…we change. We have to keep discovering because it’s only through this we can become empowered and know how we can change ourselves to become our best.

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8 TED Talks From Life Inspiring Women

TED talks (which stands for technology, entertainment and design) are an inspiring way to learn new things from the greatest mind in the world. They can teach you about things you never even know you needed. Here are 8 TED Talks from life inspiring women that you can apply to your career:

1.Kelly McGonigal: How to Make Stress Your Friend

Stress, at this point we all know, is not good for our long-term health. In time you may feel like your whole world can come crashing down, but it’s now made its way to become a health enemy… or has it? Psychologist Kelly McGonigal explains how research suggests that stress may only be bad for you if you believe that to be the case and urges us to see it as a positive.

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5 Ways To Boost Your Confidence And Land Your Dream Job

If you don’t know, I write for Heal Your Life, a truly wonderful website part of Hay House. Today I want to share one of my favorite posts I wrote for them that I think can help a lot of people, enjoy!

Successful people often seem to exude confidence. They make others wonder, “how did they become that way?” The good news is that you don’t have to be born with confidence; luckily it is a learnable skill. Confidence begins with changing your mindset. However, that is not the end, it is the beginning. Your inner world begins to shift when that mindset begins to alter your “default” thinking. In other words, when confidence is imprinted on your soul.

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Create a Vision Board To Boost Your Life & Career

Vision boards are a powerful and empowering tool. Filled with your career goals, it acts as a way to image your perfect future. It’s full of everything that makes you happy, things you want to do in your career, and jobs you want to have. The human mind responds more to visual content, it is easier for us to remember images than text. In fact, these images stay with you longer!

20 years ago, frustrated with having moved to North Carolina and things not working out for me…in any way, I went into the non-physical workshop to build and create my future! I wrote lots of “far-fetched” ideas about being a motivational speaker and moving into a home in Florida,

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3 Reasons Why You Need To Take A Vacation

VACATION…You know you need one.

No, I’m not talking about a candy bar, I’m talking “time off”, those moments when you close the email, shut down the line. I am talking… you time, family time, reconnect time. I mean, longer than a long weekend, which is just enough time to decompress but not enough time to stay there and really bask in the glow of slow or no or me or you…

You’ve been thinking about it. Is there a big enough reason? Why in the wide world do we take time off? I don’t need reasons, but some of us do.

One of the most perplexing things I found as an executive were those over-working,

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5 Ways to Beat Office Politics

Office Politics Can Kill Your Success or Make It!

There are ways to rise above office politics to continue to succeed with your job. Easier said than done, right? Wrong! There are some great things you can do to kick your office politics in the butt. Think about it simply, office politics is just your differences between other people. Really, It all comes down to communicating effectively and developing awesome relationships. When we fix those, we beat office politics.

1. Map Your Organization

Office politics often work their way around the set hierarchal positions. Many have different relationships with others so even though those who are below you may be given more information or tasks depending on where they fall into the office “map”.

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4 Ways to Rock Your Next Interview

The art of the interview. Yes, it is an art, meaning it is a skill you must work for, practice, and in the end master. It may not come easy, especially with little practice. Maybe you’re shy, you don’t like to speak up, or you have little experience with interviews. Whatever the reason may be, we all have to step up and interview. Even if you are shy, there are foolproof ways to present and prepare yourself to rock your next interview!

1. Get Interview Ready

It’s extremely important to prepare for an interview, even if you get one last second there are key steps you can take to really rock your interview! Not only will this calm your nerves and boost your confidence,

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3 Foolproof Ways to Guarantee More Success- Yes you can, really!

 

Ever wonder why some people zoom ahead in their career success and you seem to stand in place, waiting?

Waiting to be discovered, recognized and seen as the awesome person and valuable career “pro” you are?

It is about time for you to SEIZE THE DAY!  Carpe Diem….you successful person, YOU!

When I reflected deeply in many points of my successful career, how I approached promotions, how I asked for raises, thoughts of certain jobs being too big for me to handle…

I realized it was all from coming from a place of defeat and struggle.

When I took stock of my real accomplishments, who I am inside,

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Want Your Career to Soar? Try these 4 Foolproof Ways to Acknowledge People and Yourself!

Acknowledgement is the root of engaging with others and connecting your greatness with their greatness. When we shine a light on another, or on ourselves, we bring their soul to our attention. We often find ourselves becoming estranged from others. We need to take a moment to realize how grateful we are for the people in our life. Whether at work, home or on a special holiday we can acknowledge others, even though we’re very busy!

Of course, let’s not forget our own soul, our own being. When we feel great, we can give more to others.  We have to fill ourselves up with warm throughs. Check here for my post on how to think positively!

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5 Tips to Begin Positive Thinking

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit. – e.e. Cummings

Loving your career starts with loving yourself. Positive thinking starts with loving ourselves. It may sound simplistic, but when you have self-love you are also able to create surroundings that you love (including your career). In fact, self-love is the first ingredient for success. So how do we love ourselves all over again? With a nice big helping of positive thinking!

We develop certain thought habits depending on the environment we grew up in.

I, like many women of my generation were given the thought program that other’s needs are more important than our’s.

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