3 questions to reframe success, change your relationship with yourself and redefine your growth. On the flip side of our relationship with the villain failure, is its seeming opposite, the hero of success. But is the idea of success really the opposite of failure? Or are they the same thing, depending on your perception? When

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3 ways to reframe failing and change your relationship with yourself, to grow through challenges Growing up, failure of any kind in my house was not tolerated. How was failure defined to me as a kid? My perception was that “failing” was a lack of perfectionism, that in order not to fail and receive mocking

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3 ways to shift your focus back to why you set the goals in the first place By Mel Fawcett For the longest time I have struggled with writing down clear goals. Being obsessed with achieving and goals since I was an anxious kid with low self-esteem, I have used every type of journal, scrapbook,

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5 real life lessons I am working on, right now.

In 2017, my best friend and I started to work together. We had come to a point in our careers that we were both looking for the parts of our work that we felt we were missing. She was from a business background, in law, finance and coaching and I was a teacher, a content producer and a writer. It was ying and yang and it was beautiful. Our plans when we first started were very simple, but over time, they grew and grew and grew.

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10 practical Positive Psychology questions to help you discover what you love, reduce stress and add meaning to your life, the Japanese way.

While there are many interpretations of what it is, there is no direct English translation for the term ikigai, though it comes from two Japanese words together: iki (to live) and kai (value, reward, worth doing), essentially understood as, ‘to live a meaningful life.’

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Exploring Musashi’s Legendary Principles of Combat Strategy From The Book of Five Rings, Gorin-no-sho.

Miyamoto Musashi is considered in Japan and by many historical scholars to be one of the most celebrated samurai swordsman of all time.

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