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Your Inner Strength: Self-control

Your Inner Strength: Self-control – This is your ability to manage your response in any. Many of us have good self-control in some areas of our lives but not others. We have to work on each area in which we want or need to build self-control.

My superpower is self-control. ~ Anonymous

I have learned that I really do have discipline, self-control, and patience. But they were given to me as a seed, and it’s up to me to choose to develop them. ~Joyce Meyer

Self-control, also called self-regulations doesn’t just happen. You have to work at it. But is it worth it? Grenville Kleiser, an early 20th century writer and motivational speaker…

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Your Inner Strength: Persistence

Persist Like a Postage Stamp

The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job. ~ Napoleon Hill

To persist means to stick to a course of action in spite of obstacles and setbacks. Persistence is a skill you can develop with patient practice. Just because you are persistent in one thing does not automatically mean that you are will be…

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Your Inner Strength: Hope

Hope is based on reality, not by wishful thinking. It fuels your goals and the action plan to reach those goals. Hopeful people are healthier, more productive and more successful that pessimists. Hope is "I can do it!"

There is Still Hope by Tjod

The very purpose of our life is happiness, which is sustained by hope. We have no guarantee about the future, but we exist in the hope of something better. Hope means keeping going, thinking, “I can do this.” It brings inner strength, self-confidence, [and] the ability to do what you do honestly, truthfully, and transparently.” – Dalai Lama

In 1913, American author…

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Mattie Stepanek: Amazing Person/Everyday Hero

Mattie Stepanek (Matthew Joseph Thaddeus Stepanek) would probably be embarrassed by the title of this article. He was a poet, a peace advocate and motivational speaker who wanted to be known as a poet, a peacemaker, and a philosopher who played. He published seven books of poetry and essays on peace.

Mattie knew a lot about rough times, He was 13 years old when he died from complications…

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Your Inner Strength: Creativity

Yes. You are Creative!

When you first read the title of the post, you probably asked yourself: Why is she writing about creativity? I have no creativity! So, why should I care about it?

Well, Twyla Tharpanswered your questions in the quote above. Ms. Tharp is a successful dancer, choreographer, director and author, so she knows a thing or two about creativity. I am…

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Your Inner Strength: Spirituality

Your Inner Strength: Spirituality: Spirituality is highly personal and we all have something we believe in that shapes and drives our lives.

Spirituality – A Way of Seeing Life

Spirituality is a way of living and a way of seeing life… Because Spirituality is about authentic living as well as meaning making; it is a highly personal reality. ~ H. Anderson, Feet Planted Firmly in Midair (1999)

We all have something we believe in. It is part of our nature. According to Psychology Today Basics:

Research shows that even skeptics can’t…

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Your Inner Strength: Fairness

Fairness: Fair Mindedness or Being Fair

Happy Old Goat

Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring and integrity, they think of you ~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

A close family member once offered his opinion that I exhibit the phone manners of a goat then promptly withdrew the charge – out of fairness to goats. ~ Jeffrey Kluger

Animals have an innate sense of fairness. Don’t believe me?…

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Celebrate Your Inner Fool

Be Authentic – Celebrate Your Inner Fool

Mark Twain

April 1: This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.

Ah, well, I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God’s fool, and all His work must be contemplated with respect.

~ Mark Twain

We can always count on Mark Twin to “cut to the chase,” or”tell it like it really is” and April Fool’s…

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Your Inner Strength: Prudence

Prudence (Forethought, Good Judgement or Common Sense)

Question: What do Britney Spears, Martha Stewart, and the character strength Prudence have in common?

Answer: They all need a good publicist and an image makeover.

~ Ben Dean, PhD

Prudence has a bad reputation. It is not the name of my great-grandmother nor does prudentdescribe your timid co-worker who is afraid to make a decision.…

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Noodle on This: Patience

Noodle* on this…

Patience is the companion of wisdom. ~ St. Augustine

Patience is not about how long you wait, but how you behave while waiting. ~ Anonymous

This dog has learned patience and wisdom. Have you? How do you behave while you are waiting?

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