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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

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3 Essential Habits That Actually Improve Your Life

There’s a lot of talk and noise around daily habits, we’ve all seen the unrealistic and comical 4:30 am morning routines, with each one getting more ridiculous than the last. It’s gotten to the point now where even mentioning the term "daily habits” seems cringe.

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The Levels of Self-Improvement: Why Growth Happens in Stages

There’s a concept I can’t seem to shake, and it’s that growth and a person's self-improvement journey are very much determined by stages. Similar to video game levels, by which, once you’ve completed one, you unlock and move up to the next. With

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Personal Growth Isn’t Linear: The Psychology Behind Relapse

People often change very drastically, often very quickly, too. The problem is, it’s very common to view such growth as linear, a smooth, upward trajectory, going from sub-optimal all the way up to excellence. This, however, is rarely the case. Growing and changing yourself is more often than

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What Actually Causes You To Change?

This question has been on my mind lately, I’ve been pondering it and have come up with an answer I’m pretty satisfied with.  What does it actually take for someone to go from 0 to 1? If there could be a deciding factor, what would it be? Of

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Here's What I learned From 2 Years of Writing

When I started writing, it was for the sheer purpose of delving deeper into the things that interested and fuelled me the most, not for the writing itself. What I didn’t expect during the 2 years I’ve spent doing so are the multiple positive consequences that would come

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3 Hidden Things Stopping You From Growing

You’re trying to change, trying to improve, but just can’t seem to reach the next level. You’re stuck in a rut, spinning your wheels trying to get traction. But what are you doing wrong? This is more common than you think, and the answer is often one

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The Mental Framework To Win Long-Term

Setting big, hard and long-term goals is great. They allow us to grow and improve, and hopefully lead us to getting what we worked so hard for. But how do we stick to that work? As stated in the definition, long-term goals take a long time to achieve,

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Aiming Up - The Ultimate Sense Of Direction

I believe a major problem with many is that they rely too heavily on their goals. They expect them to make them happy, to make them feel fulfilled, and use them as a sign of success. What we seem to forget, however, is that the version of us who sets

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3 Lessons The Gym Teaches About Life

Most people go to the gym to get strong, build muscle, lose fat or build cardiovascular endurance. But might there be something more to learn? Something more to gain other than just the physical benefits?  Exercises might just be the singular biggest predictor of your physical wellbeing, and the fact

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Why Your Systems Matter More Than Your Goals

Wanting success usually starts by setting goals and creating plans, but what if I were to tell you that neither one matters as much as your systems? Systems are how things happen, not what you plan to happen.  The difference is subtle, yet fundamental. Your goal is to get fit,

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Want To Change Your Life? Read This.

Are you currently feeling stuck? Feeling like you’re not going anywhere? Feeling as though life is something happening to you, something you can’t change? This can be an extremely frustrating and lonely place to be, knowing what you could achieve and just not quite getting the breakthrough you

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The Day Before The Breakthrough Looks Identical To The Day Before You Quit

Working towards something that not only takes a long time but also requires a level of dedication, grit, and the ability to repeat the same day over and over again with no signs of progress is one of the hardest journeys you can embark on. This title is one of

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100th Blog Special: My 3 Favourite Insights

With it being the day before a whole new year begins and being this blog's 100th post, I thought what better way to do it than to recap my favourite insights thus far. I started this blog because of how obsessed I had become of the journey of

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Reflection Is A Tool For Progress

Considering it’s Christmas Eve, you can relish in the fact that you won’t need to do as much reading as you usually would. And keeping with the theme of Christmas and the end of another year, I would like to talk about reflection, because it’s the perfect