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22 Deep Thought-Provoking Journal Prompts for New Goals

Deep, thought-provoking journal prompts are an effective tool for understanding yourself better, uncovering what’s holding you back, and moving toward your desired future. Asking yourself these questions can help you: – gain clarity on what goals you actually want to pursue (and what’s just a distraction) – develop a resilient, solution-focused mindset to support you while taking action towards your goals – focus on the right action steps you need to take instead of trying out everything and wasting your time on things that don’t matter You can use these deep thought-provoking journal prompts for motivation, goal-setting, designing your...

20 Empowering Pieces of Life Advice for Women in Their 20s

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I wrote the majority of the following pieces of life advice for women in their 20s with such ease and enthusiasm, but when it came time to write the introduction… Crickets. How do you sum up what your 20s are all about? I guess your 20s are about struggling to follow society’s expectations while also wanting to have fun? Feeling the pressure to have it all figured out while being afraid to admit you have no idea what you’re doing? Society tells you that you should be married by the age of 30, have at least one kid (two...

8 Things to Do When You Don’t Feel Good Enough

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“Believe in yourself” is probably one of the most used motivational phrases around the world. You’ve heard it once or twice in your life. Maybe you’ve even repeated it yourself a couple of times more. The chances are this phrase has occasionally melted your insecurities away. It pumped you up and it kept you going through difficult times… But what happens when “believing in yourself” doesn’t seem to fix the problem? One of those bad days is here, and you feel incapable and unprepared. What do you do when “I believe in myself” doesn’t motivate you to take action...

8 Tips to Say No Without Feeling Guilty and Selfish

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In this blog post, you will learn mindset shifts to make and actions you can take to say no without feeling guilty. You will learn how to deal with the feeling that you’re letting someone down when saying no. This process can’t be summarized in one single action step. Instead, it takes a lot of awareness, a lot of realizations, and aha moments, which I’ll talk about today. So let’s dive in. 1. Realize that by saying yes to others when you actually want to say no, you are saying no to yourself If, for example, you wanted to...

3 Things Confident People Don’t Do (and What They Do Instead)

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There’s this misconception that confident people don’t have fears and limiting beliefs. We tend to believe that confident people don’t care about what others might think. They just follow their goals and never worry about potential judgment or rejection. But confidence is not about never being afraid. True confidence is when you feel scared, you’re not 100% ready, but you take action anyway. You don’t stop when you feel afraid or an insecurity comes up. You move through it. Today, I’m sharing with you 3 things confident people don’t do and how they approach fears and disempowering beliefs. Ready...

5 Life-Coaching Tools for Confidence: Build Self-Belief That Lasts

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I’m a certified life coach, and self-confidence is my favorite topic to coach women on. In today’s post, I’m sharing life-coaching tools for confidence that I find non-negotiable. The goal of coaching is to guide the client from point A, where they currently are, to point B, where they desire to be. It’s focused on the present and desired future. Coaching, by definition, doesn’t aim to give advice. That’s mentoring. Instead, a coach guides their client to uncover their own answers and what works for them. Also, a coach doesn’t dive deep into a client’s past to help understand...

Choose Your Thoughts: How to Stop Spiraling and Rewire Your Mind

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What if you could choose your thoughts the same way you pick your clothes before going out? You try on different options (thoughts) until you get to one that feels really good and that you want to keep. Sounds simple, right? So how can you do that? How can you choose your thoughts even when unwanted ones pop up? And when you get a thought you like, how can you make it stick? In this post, I answer those questions and share guiding prompts to help you reflect in the moment so you can stop spiraling and master your...

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How to Take Back Your Power and Stop Living for Others

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In today’s post, I’m sharing how to take back your power by taking responsibility for your future, unlearning unhelpful stories you’ve heard, and reclaiming control over your reactions. Let’s dive in. 1) take responsibility for where you go from here “Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life — is the source from which self-respect springs.” ― Joan Didion Sure, you can dig into your past to find what went wrong or how you have contributed to any negative situation that happened. Or, you can use what you have, the knowledge you already have, to help...