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Stop Living Through Myths: How Developing an Action Plan Can Help You Avoid Feeling "Stuck"

How To Avoid Feeling "Unstuck" and Stay Productive

Relax. Take a breath and calm down. It’s okay if you didn’t get everything done today; it’s okay if you didn’t work on your hobby or get around to reading that book on your shelf. We can’t get everything done that we want to, and that’s okay. Sometimes we have unproductive days; sometimes we don’t cross off all the items on our to-do list; sometimes we get sick and sometimes we don’t “feel” like…

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Why You Should Always Create Your Own Meaning in the World

I haven’t been feeling very inspired lately. In fact, I’ve been feeling a bit uninspired lately. It’s not a huge surprise that people (yes, even writers) hit creative roadblocks every so often (and they seem to come and go as they please) but you have to escape hitting these when they are looming on the horizon.

Although I haven’t encountered the dreaded writer’s block yet I can feel it coming…

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Be Happy With What You Have and Stop Striving for "More"

Be Happy With What You Have and Stop Striving for “More”

We are so obsessed with the next new thing. In one of my earlier posts this month, I posted a videofrom TED that urged us to sell our stuff to keep it from holding us back. It’s true that our stuff holds us back by tying us to locations—and it can feel like our stuff is suffocating us at times—but it’s also important to set down roots. Humans are not like wild animals—even though a lot of us…

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Don't Be Tied Down by Being "Busy"

“I can’t make it, I’m too busy right now.”

We hear these words so often they seem to lose their meaning. In fact, we say them so often that I think we seem to be losing grasp on what they really mean.

“I can’t, I’m too busy.”

Busy is a culture. Busy is a key word. Busy is a cult—and we’re all trapped in it, engrossed in it, involved in it. Busy is like a black hole, sucking everyone into it. Busy…

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Cut Down on your Clutter and Live Minimally

Cut Down on your Clutter and Live Minimally #minimalism #happiness #getoutofdebt

I have always struggled with living minimally. But it’s not just me: many people everyday struggle to live within their means when it comes to material possessions. I remember reading that the average credit card debt per person in the U.S. is around 15,000. That’s huge. And absolutely insane. But why is this? Do we all really have this much debt (even in Canada)?

We live in a world that is…

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Why We All Need Goals to Look Forward To

It’s important to live in the present moment, but we all need something to look forward to in our days. I know when I’m at work, sometimes I fantasize about what I will do when I get home. You could be looking forward to a birthday, an anniversary, or the car you’ve been saving up for months. Maybe what you are looking forward to is more practical than others, or maybe it’s more complicated than…

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Break Free from the World of Meaning

The Word That’s Really Tying Us Down - http://wp.me/p69R1F-Y

#meaningful #happiness #minimalism #bemeaningful

Keep it Simple, Stupid: How to Stop Over-Analyzing Everything

Keep it Simple, Stupid: How to Stop Over-Analyzing Everything (in a Simple Way).

They always say that the simplest lives are the best lives, and they say that the simplest people are the happiest people. And there’s a reason for that: people who think “simply” aren’t prone to over analyzing situations and they tend to acton their thoughts. When I say simple, I don’t mean the opposite of complex. I don’t mean linear or easy or straightforward. I mean keep life simple and to…

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The soul's joy lies in doing.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#happiness #proaction #poetryinmotion

The Happiness of 'Doing'

The Happiness of ‘Doing’

We all have things to do throughout the day, and sometimes we put them off for days at a time when we really should be getting down to work—but getting things done is important to developing a healthy mindset. There are many reasons why we procrastinate: it’s easy to put things off and it’s easy to say “I will do this tomorrow”, and we are constantly distracted by the world around us.

We are all…

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