Why Consistency Beats Motivation Every Time
Motivation gets far more credit than it deserves. We talk about it as if it’s the thing that makes change […]
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The Year-End Review Questions That Actually Matter
Year-end reflection doesn’t have to be exhausting. The most meaningful reviews are often the simplest ones. Skip the overwhelming lists and focus on a handful of questions that actually help you understand your year—and yourself—a little better. Not what you achieved, but what you learned.
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Breaking Big Goals Into Small Steps: The Key to Actually Achieving Them
Big goals are inspiring — but they can also feel overwhelming. This guide shows you how to break big goals into small steps, with science-backed strategies, real-life examples, and common pitfalls to avoid. Learn how small actions create momentum and lead to lasting success.
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Accountability and Reflection: The Secret Sauce of Goal Achievement
Motivation fades, but accountability and reflection keep goals alive. In this guide, you’ll learn why these two practices are the secret sauce of goal achievement, plus simple ways to use them, common mistakes to avoid, and reflection prompts you can start today to stay on track.
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How to Find Your Core Values (and Why They Matter for Goal Setting)
Most goals fail because they’re not aligned with our core values. This guide explains what values are, why they matter, and how to uncover your own. Discover practical exercises and examples to set meaningful goals that stick — plus a free worksheet to guide you.
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SMART vs HEART Goals: Which Framework Works Best for You?
SMART goals give structure, HEART goals give meaning. This guide explains both frameworks, with real-life examples, pros and cons, and how to combine them. Discover which approach suits you best — and grab the free worksheet to set goals you’ll actually achieve.
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Goal Setting with Purpose: The Ultimate Guide to Goals That Stick
Most goals fail because they’re not anchored in purpose. This practical guide to goal setting with purpose will help you discover your values, choose the right framework, and break goals into simple steps you’ll actually achieve. Includes a free printable worksheet.
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Screen Time: Freedom for Adults, Boundaries for Kids — Where’s the Balance?
We set screen limits for kids but not for adults. Learn simple habits, tools, and mindful choices to create balance with technology.
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The Science of Happiness: What Researchers Know That We Forget
Happiness isn’t found in flashy upgrades. Research shows it’s built on simple habits—sleep, gratitude, relationships, kindness, and movement. Science proves these everyday choices create lasting joy and resilience.
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When Someone You Love Has an Addiction
Loving an addict in any capacity can be one of the loneliest places in the world.
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How Mindfulness Can Help Our Relationships
There’s an old saying, ‘Falling in love is easy, staying in love, that’s the real work.’ From a young age, we are conditioned with an ideal image of love and all that it entails.
Mindfulness, or being mindful can help us to create and maintain strong relationships with our loved ones.
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Mindfulness
Mindfulness is described as maintaining a moment by moment awareness of our thoughts and feelings, our physical sensations and the environment around us. So often we are caught up in thoughts of things that have happened in the past or things we are planning or have yet to do, that we do not give our attention to what is happening right now in the present moment.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
There is so much promise in this statement. It is so inspirational that not only can your goals be achieved, but in getting there, you’ll become a better person. And on reading it we know it’s true.
Natural ways to fight back when depression steals your happiness
Depression is when you’re feeling really down and that everything feels totally hopeless.
The good news is that depression can be overcome.
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Can you change your life with positive affirmations?
Yes, I believe you can. But, and there are quite a few buts, you can’t outright lie to your subconscious.
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Setting and reviewing my goals.
12 weeks ago I sat down and wrote out my goals of what I wanted to have achieved by the end of June this year. Yesterday I sat down and reviewed those goals – sadly, I hadn’t achieved a single one.
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The Science of Positive Affirmations.
There is now definitive science that supports the idea that reading and saying positive statements, or affirmations, can help us to be happier.
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Is happiness just a decision?
It sounds so simple. If it were just that simple then why isn’t everyone happy? All of the time?
Simple, but not easy.
We can change our inner voice from being judgemental and grumpy us to being open and positive. It just takes practice and time and, yes, a bit of self-discipline.
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Three different ways to start a daily gratitude practice – and how it helps.
Starting a daily gratitude practice can change your life. Science has shown that changing the way you perceive the world around you will actually change your experience of life.
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12 Date Ideas to Connect or Re-connect With Your Partner
Sometimes couples can get in a bit of a rut. Our busy lives can interfere with our relationships and we
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