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The Plateau: What To Do When Growth Stops Feeling Like Growth

Growth is never a straightforward process. We, as humans, are quite complicated, thus having endless reasons, reactions, preferences, struggles, problems and so on, all of which can equally cause as much as they can prevent. But regardless of how individualistic the journey of growth can be, the stages of our

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Why You Quit Before Success - and How to Keep Going

People quit all the time. Abandoned New Year's resolutions, forgotten gym memberships, and diets that barely last a week. But why? Are people too weak? Are their goals too hard? And what exactly separates these people from the ones who succeed? Obviously, the answer to the final question

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Understanding Yourself is The Key to Growth

If you want to improve and achieve your goals, you need to know who you are. Do you procrastinate?  Do you avoid failure? Do you quit when things get hard?  These might seem like simple questions, because they are. It should be easy to recognise your behaviours. You delay uncomfortable

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The Goal Of Discipline Is To Outgrow It

Discipline is one of the most popular concepts when it comes to personal growth, and although it’s become slightly diluted, it remains one of the most important skills a person can build. Discipline allows you to do what needs doing, even when it’s the last thing you feel

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Stop Optimising Everything: Why Optimisation is Killing Your Progress

Optimisation has become a hot topic over the past few years. It seems everyone is obsessed with getting the absolute most out of every investment, but at what cost? With the kind of technology we have today, allowing us to not only measure progress, but to share our findings with

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Everything You Do Has Purpose - Why Every Action Matters

Purpose is mostly associated with a single pursuit. It’s finding that ONE thing that you love, and then chasing it for the rest of your days. But what about everything else? If your purpose is to become the greatest pickleball player of all time, that’s great, but that’

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How to Believe in Yourself and Overcome Self-Doubt

Unlike what most people think, self-belief isn’t something you’re simply born with: it’s something you build. We’d all like to have a little more self-belief, it’s responsible for not only the magnitude of the goals we set, but how we handle setbacks during

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You Know What You Need To Do, So Why Aren’t You Doing It?

You cannot change what you can’t see, that’s why responsibility is always the first step. If you blame your weight on big bones or the person who traumatised you, you won’t even know that it's something you can change, let alone change it. Responsibility puts

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Never Rely on One Habit to Change Your Life

Changing your life doesn’t happen all at once; it’s usually a slow, up-and-down process that almost always stems from a specific change or habit adjustment. We choose something hard, and through working towards it, with the lessons and momentum we gain from it, we start improving

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Your Attention Is Everything

Ever looked into buying a specific car, only to start seeing that car everywhere you go?  Or bought a new pair of trainers, only to start seeing every other person wearing them? Nothing changed here except for your attention, the cars would have driven by, and the trainers would have

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Shifting Identities: What Does It Really Mean to Change?

“You are what you repeatedly do”, but is that enough? Do actions themselves change people? If they did, wouldn’t we all be who we wanted to be? When a smoker decides to quit, when does it turn from “trying to quit”, and start becoming “I don’t smoke”? The

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The Pain Of Growth: What You Leave Behind

It’s easy to see how changing and improving is hard. It requires challenging yourself, being uncomfortable and doing hard things. It’s about doing things you haven’t previously done, stepping outside of your comfort zone and dealing with uncharted territory. But growing isn’t just about the things

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Why Your Standards Matter More Than Your Goals

How clean and tidy do you keep your home?  Some people keep theirs immaculate, some people hoard and live in almost uninhabitable conditions, and most people fit somewhere in between. Either way, we all have a goal of how clean we aim our homes to be, and we all have

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Comfortably Miserable? There's Only One Way Out

You’re not failing, but you’re not exactly excelling, either. You look around, and you seem to be doing okay, you may even be doing a lot better than a lot of people around you. But there’s something inside you screaming out for more. You know you have

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You’re Not Lazy, You’re Just Scared To Change

If everyone has some form of potential, then why isn’t everyone pursuing it? Why doesn’t everyone become the person they could be? Is it because they’re lazy? Or because they think it’s too hard? Or that they’re incapable? Personally, I believe that most people will

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Addicted to Your Potential? The Hidden Cost of Constant Self-Improvement

Everyone has potential. No matter how good we are at any given thing, as human beings, there is still a better version of all of us that exists. Some people’s potential may be greater than others', maybe due to genetic makeup, their intelligence, but also how much potential

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Your Digital Environment: How Adjusting Your Screens Can Improve Mental Health

There’s a new kid on the block when it comes to your environment, and that’s what you see, hear and interact with on social media. Environment, according to Oxford Dictionary, is: “the surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates.” And considering most

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When Slowing Down Requires Discipline

There is a completely counterintuitive situation that happens when you’ve spent the majority of your time and energy becoming more disciplined, and it’s when slowing down and resting feels forced and unnatural. When that happens, a new form of discipline is introduced, and it’s something that goes

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You’re Always Creating Someone. Who Will You Be?

Whether you like it or not, every action you currently take ultimately aids in creating a future you, and it’s the quality and direction of those actions that determine who that’s going to be.  Are you creating someone you want to be?  “Self-improvement” can have a slightly

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Why Battling Convenience Is The Key To Success

If you’re going to succeed, you'd better get ready for a constant and ever-evolving battle, a battle that, although it has nothing to do with what you’re trying to accomplish directly, can still determine whether you succeed or not. There is no winning this battle,

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Self-Improvement Never Ends: Sustaining Long-Term Change

Improving yourself is one thing, but what happens when you feel as though the uphill battle has finally come to an end? Do you stop? Unfortunately, or fortunately (depending on how you see it), you can’t. There is no end. Whatever twisted, strange or otherwise terrible parts of yourself

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The Benefits of Failure: How Failing Leads to Success

Maybe the reason you’re yet to be successful isn’t that you’re not good enough, or that the goal is impossible, it might just be that you’re not failing enough. I know what you’re thinking: that failing doesn’t feel good, failing is painful, failing means

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What To Do When You're Feeling Stuck In Life

Ever felt like you’re stuck, feeling like you’re yet to find “your thing”, and if only you were blessed and lucky enough to find it, you would stop at nothing to succeed? Well, you’re not alone, and this is the case for most people. Although it may

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How to Stop Losing Momentum and Build Long-Term Consistency

I have gained and subsequently lost momentum more times than I can count, in many different domains. From small setbacks to feeling as though I had lost all progress, and back where I began. Many things have caused this, from personal issues to completely random life events. But,  most of

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This One Habit Will Completely Change Your Life

If there was no way you could fail at one thing, and there was a 100% chance that you’d succeed or win, what would you choose to do?  So, why aren’t you doing it?  You could justify your inaction by thinking about the chances of success and coming