50+ Highly Motivational Quotes To Prepare You For 2017

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#feelings

“Whether your feelings have a logical explanation or not, recognize them as valid and trust that, when given permission to exist, they will eventually pass. (I promise they will.)” ~Jill Gross

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#fixing

“…you’re assuming the person needs fixing, that what they’re doing is ‘wrong.’ Our journey in this lifetime is our own. We’re the only ones who know what is best for us. And only we have a full perspective of all the elements of our lives and how they serve us. Even when we’re facing challenges, they are ours to face down. Our way. And when we see fit. Yes, we need to take responsibility for any fall-out, but isn’t that where our growth lies? Making choices and then dealing with the consequences? Good or bad?” ~Jacky Exton

Source: “…you’re assuming the person needs fixing, that what they’re doing is ‘wrong….

Stress

Source: Tiny Buddha – Google+

Being happy

Source: Tiny Buddha – Google+

How the Brain Processes Different Types of Content

Our brains process some content formats differently than others. Learn how your audience responds to your content to tailor your strategy.

Source: How the Brain Processes Different Types of Content by Todd Lohenry

A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall

A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall

Read @davidkanigan’s post here

Fact Checking – The Newest Trend

Interesting!

The Origins of 12 Christmas Traditions

From expecting Santa to fill our footwear with gifts to eating cake that looks like tree bark, the holidays are filled with traditions—some of which are downright odd, when you stop and think about them. Where did they come from? Wonder no more: Here are the origins of 12 Christmas traditions.

Source: The Origins of 12 Christmas Traditions | Mental Floss

Fathers and sons and giving

Fall seven times, stand up eight

“Fall seven times, stand up eight.” ~Japanese Proverb

Life knocks all us down at times, but you don’t have to stay down. This might help you get back on your feet so you can turn it all around.

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No matter how awful your last relationship was…

“No matter how awful your last relationship was, how wrong the other person was, or how ready you think you are to find someone new, you must look at your part in this relationship or you’ll be very likely to repeat your experience. Be willing to accept responsibility for your life, your past and your future. The common denominator in all of your relationships is you. You were there for all of them. If you have a pattern of being cheated on, mistreated, or dumped, you owe it to yourself to take a closer look at why these things happened. This doesn’t mean that the other person was blameless, but you’re the only one you can do anything about.” ~Renée Suzanne

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Life is short

Source: Tiny Buddha – Google+

Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by [McKeown, Greg]

 

Essential reading for the new year!

Have you ever felt the urge to declutter your work life?
Do you often find yourself stretched too thin?
Do you simultaneously feel overworked and underutilized?
Are you frequently busy but not productive?
Do you feel like your time is constantly being hijacked by other people’s agendas?
If you answered yes to any of these, the way out is the Way of the Essentialist.
The Way of the Essentialist isn’t about getting more done in less time. It’s about getting only the right things done.  It is not  a time management strategy, or a productivity technique. It is a systematic discipline for discerning what is absolutely essential, then eliminating everything that is not, so we can make the highest possible contribution towards the things that really matter. 
By forcing us to apply a more selective criteria for what is Essential, the disciplined pursuit of less empowers us to reclaim control of our own choices about where to spend our precious time and energy – instead of giving others the implicit permission to choose for us.
Essentialism is not one more thing – it’s a whole new way of doing everything. A must-read for any leader, manager, or individual who wants to do less, but better, and declutter and organize their own their lives, Essentialism is a movement whose time has come.

Purchase your copy here: Amazon.com: Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less eBook: Greg McKeown: Kindle Store

"The Minimalists" On How To Declutter Your Home & Your Life

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One of my favorite websites talks about two of my favorite podcasters on a topic that I love: minimalism.

The typical U.S. household has tripled in size over the past 50 years, now large enough to hold the 300,000 items the average family owns. Back in 2007, Joshua Fields Millburn was living out this norm, with a lucrative corporate job that afforded him luxuries like a nice car, a house with more toilets than people, and plenty of “stuff” to fill it with. He was epitomizing the American dream—until he realized it wasn’t his dream at all.

A bout of introspection after his marriage ended and his mother died in the same month left Millburn wondering when he’d become so consumed in this chase for more. More wealth, more possessions, more power.

“Those events forced me to question what had become my life’s focus. I realized I was so focused on so-called success and achievement, especially what achievement meant in our society, which was the accumulation of stuff, that I forsook the things that were most important,” he tells mindbodygreen. “I was fat, I was out of shape, I ignored the people who were closest to me, and I wasn’t really focused on what I wanted to do creatively. I wasn’t growing. I wasn’t contributing.”

Go to the source for more: “The Minimalists” On How To Declutter Your Home & Your Life – mindbodygreen

The greatest gifts

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Empathic compassion

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Hugh MacLeod writes:

We, as humans, like to categorize. It makes the world easier to digest.

We fit the people around us into labels: users, coworkers, competitors.

Then they’re no longer just people — they’re the boxes we’ve put them into. And we’ve removed ourselves of the burden of feeling compassion.

Which is total nonsense.

The world runs on compassion. The world celebrates compassion.

In Krista Tippett’s TED talk about compassion, Tippett argues for a new definition of compassion. She says:

Compassion can be synonymous with empathy. It can be joined with the harder work of forgiveness and reconciliation, but it can also express itself in the simple act of presence. It’s linked to practical virtues like generosity and hospitality and just being there, just showing up.”

We need to find that presence in ourselves.

We are only as much as what we can give to others.

Go to the source for more: empathic compassion – Gapingvoid

When things Fall Apart we have a Choice to Make

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You get to choose what kind of person you are, what values your actions stand for, what your intention is. The act of choosing is a test, as though the person you are is revealed by which path you chose to follow.

You either choose to walk away from the grand mirror of life and love yourself and your world. Or you can let bitterness, anger, resentment and depression take control.

Life is not black and white. Life is a thousand colors that each have a voice. You get to decide which ones you listen to. But you don’t get to organize it all into neat little boxes that make sense. That’s not why you’re here.

Go to the source for more: When things Fall Apart we have a Choice to Make. ~ Kino MacGregor | elephant journal

T.G.I.F.: Like a punch in the gut 

Speechless…

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National Geographic curated photos from 91 photographers, 107 stories, and 2,290,225 photographs.

Poachers killed this black rhinoceros for its horn with high-caliber bullets in South Africa’s Hluhluwe-Imfolozi Park. Black rhinos number only about 5,000 today.

Don’t miss the 51 other amazing photos here: 2016 Photos of the Year.

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How to Create More Self-Love Now

Terri Cole writes:

I am so excited to about my Real Love Revolution free video series where I am exploring ways to create more love (self-love and other love) in your life. Take a moment before watching to assess your feelings about yourself right now. How do you speak to yourself when you make a mistake? Do you feel worthy and lovable? How valuable do you think you are?

Source: How to Create More Self-Love Now « Positively Positive

*sigh* of the times*

*SIGH!*

Source: The Joy of Tech comic… *sigh* of the times*

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