Motivation Archives

Personal Change Management: 4 Ways to Navigate the New You

How can you embrace and foster positive change in your life? What should you expect in your journey of transformation? When you commit yourself to a life of integrity, you’ll change. Martha Beck shares four ways to leverage that transformation for maximum impact: embrace the unknown, embrace unity and connectedness, find a higher purpose, and spread alignment (integrity) to others. Read more to understand these aspects of personal change management and learn how to put them to work in your life.

3 Qualities of a Good Mentor Who Will Help You Find Yourself

What are the qualities of a good mentor? Should you look for someone who helps you know how or what to think? Martha Beck contends that we fall out of alignment with our true selves by internalizing false beliefs from our culture. She argues that the path to realignment begins with discovering and recognizing these false beliefs. She advises you to find an integrity mentor to help you on this journey. Keep reading to discover what Beck thinks you should look for when selecting an integrity mentor.

Increasing Stress Tolerance: 3 Tips From a Special Agent

Want to know how to increase your stress tolerance? How can you better cope with daily stressors and high-stress situations alike? As a former special agent in the U.S. Secret Service, Evy Poumpouras has extensive knowledge of controlling fear and dealing with stressful situations. In Becoming Bulletproof, she explains three ways she recommends you can increase stress tolerance in your daily life. Read on to learn three ways to increase your stress tolerance, according to Poumpouras.

5 Ways to Practice Self-Care in Recovery

What is the importance of self-care in recovery? Why should you be kind to yourself when working toward sobriety? In Quit Like a Woman, Holly Whitaker argues that one of the most important facets of your recovery journey is to learn to be kind to yourself to heal your inner wounds. Only when you’re gentle and forgiving with yourself will you be able to stop suffering permanently. Let’s look at several aspects of practicing self-care in recovery.

The 5 Steps to Living a Sober Lifestyle

Do you want to live a sober lifestyle? What can you do to keep yourself from drinking? If you or someone you know have an addiction to alcohol, Holly Whitaker’s book Quit Like a Woman suggests setting up a long-term lifestyle that makes you happy. This lifestyle also protects you from people and things that could trigger addictive behavior. Let’s look at the five parts of living this ideal sober lifestyle.

Focus on What Matters Most: Set Priorities Like a Stoic

Should you seek fame, approval, wealth, and pleasure? What would such pursuits produce in your life? Too often, what people think will make them happy ends up robbing them of joy. They waste energy going down fruitless paths in life. In A Guide to the Good Life, philosophy professor William B. Irvine argues that the ancient Greek and Roman philosophy of Stoicism offers a better way. Read more to learn how to focus on what matters most, according to Stoic philosophy.

How to Improve Your Self-Development Skills

What are self-development skills? How can you improve your self-development skills? Self-development skills help you evaluate your own goals and what actions you can take to achieve them. In the book Influencer, the authors suggest a few ways to enhance these skills. Let’s look at how to improve your self-development skills.

The Solution to Alcoholism: The 5 Facets of Sobriety

What is the solution to alcoholism? Why are the five facets of recovery? In Quit Like a Woman, Holly Whitaker breaks her recovery approach into five facets. She stresses that this type of recovery isn’t linear and goal-oriented, but rather a journey where you discover yourself as you get sober. Read below for more about Whitaker’s helpful solution to alcoholism.

How to Develop Skills (+ The 3 Most Important Skill Sets)

The 25 Cognitive Biases: Use-It-or-Lose-It Tendency

Why is it important to develop your skillsets? What skills do you need to learn to get by in life? According to the authors of Influencer, there are three areas of skills that you need to develop to achieve your goals: individual skills, collective skills, and environmental skills. These skills are essential in everyday life. Below we’ll look at how to develop skills from these three categories.

How to Use Personal Inspiration to Make a Change

What is personal inspiration? How does personal inspiration help adopt a critical practice? In the book Influencer, the authors claim that adopting critical practices is crucial for making a positive change in your life. The first step is using personal inspiration to persuade yourself and other people that it’s worth it. Read below for different ways to take advantage of personal inspiration.