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  • Don't fight for your suffering

    Mindset

    Don’t Fight for Your Suffering

    July 24, 2018August 24, 2018

    I do this, do you? Right now, I find myself justifying my right to be unhappy. Whaaat? In one of his podcasts, the late, great Dr. Wayne Dyer said something like, (and I’m paraphrasing): “Don’t fight for your suffering.”

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  • Feeling Confident Takes Courage // Coaching with Jamie // jamiecavanaugh.com

    Mindset

    Feeling Confident Takes Courage

    February 14, 2018June 1, 2019

    When do you feel most confident? Think about it. I bet you feel most confident when you’ve familiar with something. When you’ve done it many times. The things you feel confident doing, you’ve been doing for years.

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  • Take Responsibility For Yourself // Coaching with Jamie // jamiecavanaugh.com

    Self-development

    Taking Responsibility For Yourself

    February 13, 2018June 1, 2019

    Are you feeling defensive? Do you feel defensive and angry all the time? Do you wish people behaved differently? Do you complain and blame others for ruining your day?

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    • Very moving insight from super talented Lisa Congdon #Repost @lisacongdon ・・・ True story: for the first three and a half decades of my life, whenever anything didn’t go the way I wanted it to or the way I thought it should, I felt like a victim. A victim of other people’s cruelty or whims or disregard for me; a victim of bad circumstances; a victim of bad luck; a victim of being inherently unlovable, unworthy, and invisible. “Why me?” was my refrain. As a result, I was deeply depressed and anxious. I started going to therapy, and my therapist suggested to me in the kindest, most gentle way, that I was using my victimhood as a way of not taking responsibility for anything in my life – including my ability to hold a healthy relationship or solid friendships and my unhappiness at my job, and my sense of having no purpose. I was so desperate not to feel unhappy anymore that I began listening to her and taking in everything she had to say, and opened myself up to the possibility this was true. She also suggested that if I began taking responsibility for my choices and behavior, I might begin to feel more agency and power to shape my life differently. It was painful to realize how much of my heartache in my adult life I had created with this deep identification with being unworthy and a victim of bad luck — and how much of my life and time I had wasted. But it also meant something new and important! If I could change my own narrative about my life, and, most importantly, if I could begin taking responsibility for my choices instead of blaming others (or the universe or god) – I might actually experience more joy and calm and purpose. I began making different choices about how I spent my time and who I spent it with. I began trying new things. I began making art! And eventually I made art my life and career. I have my former therapist to thank! My life began transforming. We can’t prevent hard things but we can choose how we react to them. I’ve also heard it said this way: if you are not changing it, you are choosing it. I think about this nearly every day in some way: taking responsibility for our choices is essential to growth and happiness and transformation.
    • I love your vulnerability @elizabeth_gilbert_writer Thank you! ❤️ #Repost @elizabeth_gilbert_writer ・・・ Hey everyone. I’ve been talking about this a lot lately in interviews. Most recently, I had a conversation about it with the wonderful @fearnecotton, on her podcast, HAPPY PLACE. The reality of my life is this: Managing my mental health is very nearly a full-time job. I don’t take it lightly, because the stakes are high. Like many of us, I have a mind that is a very dangerous neighborhood. Left unattended, my mind will fester, rot, and roll me over the brink into anxiety and depression. I have a particularly muscular storytelling instinct—and the world has rewarded me generously for that! —but the dark side of my gift is that my mind is also capable of generating terrible, frightening, life-annihilating stories about myself and about the world. I can scare the living shit out of myself, and—in the process—destroy my life. The battle begins quite literally the moment I wake up in the morning. With the first moment of consciousness, the insanity begins. The terrorist who lives inside my mind begins bullying and threatening me. But I’m not powerless. Over the years I’ve adapted practices to keep my mind flourishing and my life contented. The first thing I do every single morning is pray. (Specifically, I pray to be relieved from the bondage of self.) Then I meditate. Then I dance. Then I write myself a letter from Love. (This is the most important part of my day, when I connect to Love herself, and ask her what she would have me know today.) Then I do a @byron.katie Worksheet on a stressful belief. (Go to TheWork.com to learn more.) At various times in my life, I have gone (or will go) to therapy, to yoga, to 12-step programs. I’ve taken medication at times. Whenever I see a church door open, I walk in, take a knee, and pray. I try to reach out to somebody every day with a message of Love, which ends up helping ME. I practice generosity, which also helps ME. It’s an all-day job. It’s why I go to bed so early, so I wake up early, and begin tending to my mental health! It’s a lot. But nothing matters more, and nobody else can do it for me. I accept sacred stewards
    • I love this as a reminder of the importance of building your skills through a creative practice! ❤️❤️❤️ #Repost @bumblebizz ・・・ 11. Breathe. We're all taking this day by day. Connect with others on Bizz to learn together or join forces. (art @lisacongdon)
    • Perfection. It's an Illusion.⠀ .⠀ I hear many designers talk about passion projects that never get done and about believing things need to be done right or not at all. Designers focus on producing excellent work for clients and feel frustrated when they do not complete their own passion projects that are meaningful and important to their heart and soul.⠀ .⠀ I held onto the expectation that all my projects (both work and personal) be executed with precise detail— perfectionism at all costs! In my mind, things were never really done perfectly and I often felt disappointed or upset.⠀ .⠀ Does this sound familiar?⠀ .⠀ As designers, we often carry around perfectionist tendencies.⠀ .⠀ Read more about it. Link to blog in profile.
    • I love this quote posted by Brittni and Mike at Station Seven. I highly recommend @stnsvn. They create beautiful products for entrepreneurs. Check out their site now!! #Repost @stnsvn ・・・ In the age of Instagram it's way too easy to feel that you somehow need to fit the mold in order to be successful. That you need to be doing #allthethings and dressing a certain a way while you do them to get your business off the ground.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ But the reality is that you, yes YOU, are what sets your business apart and what people will notice. Your own unique skills, style, and quirks are what will resonate with your tribe and undoubtedly make a deeper connection than a generic persona ever will.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ So if you've ever shied away from revealing who you are behind the scenes and your story (however raw and bumpy) that has led you to where you are today, don't. Your own human experience is what adds soul to your business and that's the only thing people can relate to.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Earlier this week we sent out a "year in review" type email and the response was SO encouraging. We're definitely guilty of not always showing what it's like behind the scenes, mostly because it entails a lot of us struggling to stay motivated and questioning our business decisions. 🙈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ But the fact that we received more replies back than probably any other email we've ever sent goes to show that we need to let you guys in way more than we do. So here's to embracing our true selves in 2019, and feeling content with exactly where we're at. We hope you'll do the same! ✌
    • May your new year be happy and bright! 🎉🎉🥂😊 Happy 2019!!
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