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Why True Change Takes Time

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What’s remarkable when you look back across the years is you see with more clarity that true change takes time.

True, sustainable change takes longer than we’d like to think. From personal experience, it’s occurred across years. As someone who both fears yet desires change, it’s been a scary and enlightening process for me. I’ve learned the greatest lessons looking back over the last eight years, especially with the emphasis on inner work and therapy in the past three years. And as I continue on my path, I know my learning will only continue.

What I’ve learned at this point is: if it’s sustainable change we want, change that becomes embodied as who we are, it takes time. It takes self-compassion and balanced action. True change requires patience. These are not what I would consider strengths for many of us in the fast-paced, tech-dependent society we live in today. Patience was certainly not my strength in past years, and it’s something I’m continuously working on. If we uncover what’s underneath the adage of time and patience (something we’ve all heard before), we can understand true change at a deeper level. Let’s begin with how the very aspect of wanting change can keep us stuck.

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The Personal Journey Starts With Self-Care

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When I think back on what’s made the biggest difference in my personal journey over the past decade, I realized it had to do with prioritizing self-care.

It began with focusing on what I needed for my personal definition of self-care.

Prioritizing the things that nourished my body, mind and spirit. From the little things like reading a book, making time for exercise, honing my daily routines, experimenting with ways to make my life better and paying more attention to how I look and feel. To the more complex behavior and mindset shifts such as feeling more confident, taking more risks and knowing my worth.

It didn’t feel natural at first… it felt awkward, indulgent, and inconvenient.

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7 Ways To Strengthen Mental Fitness

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From reflecting on past years of new beginnings, endings, adventures, challenges and leaps—and experiencing a range of the good and bad—it’s struck me just how important a healthy level of mental fitness is.

What I mean by mental fitness is a combination of resiliency, determination and belief in one’s ability to figure out life’s challenges.

Just like physical fitness, mental fitness is at its best when it’s exercised, developed and strengthened.

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7 Reasons To Take A Sabbatical

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7 Reasons To Take A Sabbatical

To take a sabbatical or not to take a sabbatical—that is the question.

Taking a sabbatical may seem like a scary idea, one full of emptiness and the unknown. It can feel like a precarious venture, as most sabbaticals are periods of time without much inflow of income, stability and the other niceties that come with a full-time job and the regular day-to-day.

Yet the idea of a sabbatical is also exciting. It sparks dreams of exploration, adventure, and leaving the old behind. There’s a sense of intrigue that simply won’t shake itself, despite your best efforts to remain grounded.

Having taken a sabbatical myself, I know how scary it can be. I also know from retrospect that I’d absolutely recommend it.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. – Henry David Thoreau

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Why Minimalism Is Key To Personal Growth

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Why Minimalism Is Key To Personal Growth

It’s little wonder why minimalism is a growing trend.

It’s becoming more and more necessary to be a minimalist these days.

The convenience of our mobile and intelligent personal assistant devices is only fueling the momentum. With a simple thumb press, swipe or voice command, we can buy and do just about everything. There are more moments than ever for us to be influenced by marketing, peer and societal pressures with the constant presence of these powerful devices.

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The Importance Of Taking Two Steps Back

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There’s usually something that has the tendency to lead us astray over and over again. The pattern differs for each person and recurs under many circumstances, fooling us into thinking that this time was a unique event rather than part of a recurring theme.

Often referred to as an Achilles heel, it’s a characteristic or preference that plays out in a similar way time and time again—resulting in us taking two steps back.

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