Throughout the day, we experience many situations where we react on an emotional basis. When we encounter situations we consider bad, we tend to mismanage our lives, and we often don’t consciously realize our behavior.
When we’re soaked up in negative emotions, we tend to say things we don’t mean, act unwisely, and make poor decisions.
Emotionally intelligent people know specific ways to handle emotional charges healthily. They know that every time they feel angry, hopeless, jealous, or regretful is a possibility to transform their lives.
Every mental activity results in a specific physical sensation. This is what we call…
The modern world provides us with uncountable ways of what we could do, where we could go, how we could live.
The past wasn’t always this way. Back then, there were fewer schools to go, fewer travel options, fewer sources of know-how, fewer opportunities to design life. Life was rather about working hard than working smart. Thanks to our ancestors and their work, this has changed fundamentally.
Now, we have much more freedom to choose our path. We have many more tools and options to learn almost anything. We have the technology to travel to each corner of the world…
Let me take a guess: You have some level of ambition. This above-average level of seriousness about your future puts you miles ahead. You want more, and you feel like your supposed to be doing more with your life.
Here’s the truth: You already have everything you need to reach your goals. You’re just letting certain things get in your way.
You don’t need to watch another inspirational video, read another book, have another brainstorming session, or write another to-do list. But in reality, we often rely on these things to build ourselves up after a setback. …
Life can be overwhelming. It can be frigging hard. It takes one moment and suddenly, everything’s different. Sometimes it is going so fast you cannot even think clearly and reflect rationally. You’re totally exhausted, and you desperately want to change the situation, but you can’t change because you don’t think you have a choice.
If you find yourself in such a worst-case scenario, it is important to take care of it, even though we barely learned to deal with such situations healthily.
First off: We are meant to go through times of hardship. It forces us to adjust our concept…
Let’s pretend it’s the year 2030, and a friend hands you a free one-way ticket to the latest Mars colony. Your cruise will only take seven months with a travel distance of 300 million miles. Would you take it?
It might sound alluring for some of us to escape the problems here on Earth. But let’s be real — most of us will never be experienced space travelers. The amount of demanded astronauts is extremely slight. It takes years of training and preparation to put your feet on another planet. …
Growth is hard. It can be so frightening because it requires us to be honest with ourselves. It requires us to deal with emotions we’d love to lock away for just another day. It requires us to push ourselves into uncertainty where we can only guess our next step. It demands from us to put effort into the things we want to build even though we lack energy after a debilitating day.
Probably you don’t realize how often you’ve evolved after a day you consider as “worst day ever”. These terrifying, harrowing days reveal the highest potential to learn from…
Life can be overwhelming. Maybe you went through a break-up recently or you moved to a new place. Maybe you changed your job recently or feel overworked. Maybe you just started a business or a new project that doesn’t work out as you expected it.
You’ve gone through life-changing times. Suddenly you’re in your new life, and so many parts are different from how they were before. Sometimes everything's going so fast you cannot even think clearly about what will happen next.
Nevertheless, you made it to the here and now. Not everyone did.
You don’t need to understand everything…
Mornings aren’t always easy, are they? Maybe we went to bed too late, some unmotivating work waits for us the next day, or early appointments are to be kept. Or the snooze button lets us get up too late, and we’re already in a hurry.
A few years ago, after some incisive changes in my life, I formed almost all of these bad habits. I went to bed late. I woke up late. I did work stuff daily that I didn’t enjoy. And most of all — I was in a hurry, every day, all the time. …
Today an old friend and I shared our 2021 goals. I just let my thoughts flow and talked naturally to him. After I had heard myself speaking for a while, I realized that I started to use the words “should”, “could”, “would”, and “must” excessively often.
It felt strange because I had worked on my reactive way of speaking in the past already. Back then, I replaced the reactive word “must” with the proactive phrase “I decide to”.
It seemed that over the year, I again had become accustomed again to talk in a reactive way of saying “must” excessively…
We all have goals we want to achieve. We want to get in our best shape, grow our business, write a book, or win a championship.
In his book Outwitting the Devil, Napoleon Hill points out why having goals and being ambitious is possibly one of the most powerful traits we can obtain. In his dialog with the “devil”, who is a metaphor for our bad habits and unwise way of living, the devil points out: All habits, expect striving for a clear goal, can lead to drifting. …
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