Posts for Month: October 2025
How to Recover from Setbacks
Congratulations. You tried but you didn’t achieve your ultimate goal. Guess what? It’s okay. In fact, it’s impressive. You got out there and did a lot of things outside of your comfort zone. Your bravery and dedication are truly enough to get through the fact that you had a setback.
The truth is, if you work hard in life and push through, overcome challenges, solve problems, and learn new things, you’re going to have major setbacks ... Read more
How to Build Your Self-Confidence
Self-confidence is “a feeling of trust in one’s abilities, qualities, and judgment.” This means that you know that you can do what you say you can do, you like who you are, and you trust yourself to make good choices and decisions. If you want to be self-confident, it’s imperative that you work on your self-image.
1. Take Care of Your Grooming – Good grooming is a big confidence booster. If you make an ... Read more
Thriving Through Life's Transitions
Throughout your life, you’ll encounter many transitions such as going through childhood, becoming an adult, parenthood, and so forth. You may also experience transitions like buying a home, having an unfortunate accident, and changing jobs. Whatever transitions life brings, you can thrive through them all, if you know how.
Understand the Value of Now
You’ve heard that being mindful and present is essential. However, life sometimes distracts you from the here and now. Learn how to focus ... Read more
Developing Compassion: How to Stop Beating Yourself Up
If you have a habit of beating yourself up, you are lacking self-compassion. The truth is if you would not say the words to someone you care about, you shouldn’t let your inner voice to say them to you. Instead, work toward developing acceptance of yourself and others.
Avoid Negative Self-Talk
Don’t allow yourself to speak negatively to or about yourself. It’s okay to accept responsibility, which is quite different from derogative statements. “I messed up because ... Read more
9 Effective Tactics for Dealing with Difficult People
Sadly, almost everyone must deal with a difficult person from time to time. The problem is that not everyone is equally prepared or skilled to do so. If you want to be better with people learning good communication tactics will help.
1. Set Yourself Up for Success – If you know in advance that you may need to deal with a difficult person, prepare for it. Plan how you’ll control yourself, respond and react ... Read more