It’s important to designate a time to take a step back and look at the bigger picture of your life—to take stock of where you’ve been, and consider where you’re headed.
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When you’re in the zone, doing what you love, you lose all track of time. The joy is compounded when you have friends who share your enthusiasm for your favorite activity.
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We all struggle throughout our lives. When we’re young, we rail against the unfairness of it. But adversity teaches us many valuable life lessons, helps us grow stronger, and prepares us for future difficulties.
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People with a condition called alexithymia have trouble identifying, processing, and expressing their emotions. If it is a learned response rather than a genetic disorder, information and support can help them expand their emotional awareness.
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Our emotions shape our thoughts and decisions. Expanding our emotional range can improve our health, relationships, and our level of satisfaction with our lives.
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Rather than let the idea of growing older get to us, we can take many positive steps to look and feel young, so that the best is truly yet to come.
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There’s a special feeling that comes with belonging to a group of people who are related to you. At their best, families sustain us, and give us a solid foundation from which we can grow.
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The longer we live, the more likely we are to go through some kind of heartbreak. Self-reflection can give us perspective, and provide us with information about what we need going forward.
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Bad days happen to everyone. There are many good options for turning them around including honoring our feelings, reframing our negative thoughts, looking for the positive, and learning to laugh things off.
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Deep seated, unconscious beliefs can influence our current behaviors more than we know. Some reflection may help us uncover the specific ones that are holding us back.
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There is no one formula for success in any endeavor, but studies show that perseverance often plays a more important role than natural talent.
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It’s not so much what happens to us in life that causes us to be anxious, but how we view it. Focusing on our worst fears robs us of precious moments that we can never get back.
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