The Power of Resilience: How to Stay Motivated Despite Challenges

The Power of Resilience: How to Stay Motivated Despite Challenges

This insightful article provides a deep dive into effective strategies for overcoming obstacles to achieve your goals, maintaining your focus on long-term aspirations, and coping with failures in personal goal achievement. Whether you're struggling with maintaining progress towards your goals during tough times, redefining your objectives after a setback, or need guidance on boosting your confidence in goal achievement, this post covers it all. With expert advice on coping strategies for stress, the role of mental health in achieving goals, and techniques for overcoming the fear of failure, you'll gain invaluable tools to help recalibrate your goals and continue your pursuit of success. Join us in exploring how mindset shifts and resilience-building practices can transform challenges into stepping stones towards your dreams.

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How To Get Inspired When You’re Not Feeling It

How To Get Inspired When You’re Not Feeling It

Inspiration leads to motivation. These two go hand in hand … and you need both to succeed and actually ACHIEVE. YOUR. GOALS.

The brilliant Nadalie Bardo shares her points for inspiration and motivation in this post to help you decipher the spark that lights your flame AND the fire that moves you to action.

Exhale the frustration and take a deep breath of inspiration with these 5 ways to get inspired each and every day.

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5 Steps to Independence :: What You Need to Know About Being Free

5 Steps to Independence :: What You Need to Know About Being Free

To Americans and French alike: Freedom isn’t free.  We stand on the wide collective shoulders of those who have come before us!

Living in the Bastille neighborhood of Paris, France has given me much to think about, and be grateful for. 

Check out these 5 practices to non-attachment. come home to yourself, and alas gain your personal independence today.

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What You Need To Know About A Positive Mindset When All Things Are New

What You Need To Know About A Positive Mindset When All Things Are New

We have arrived in Paris! Everything is different, and the line between delightful and utterly inconvenient is fine. Accordingly, I remember to keep the open and positive mindset my living requires.

The Trifecta of Self-Mastery: The prescription for optimal health and well-being is everywhere present (1) eat right, (2) exercise regularly and (3) get plenty of rest.

I share about the Bastille, our new neighborhood in Paris, and, as a reminder to myself, relate the physical self-care we take outwardly and apply it to the care of the inner life.

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Anxious to Amazing in 45 Minutes a Day

Anxious to Amazing in 45 Minutes a Day

We all feel anxious from time to time. Sometimes, anxiety may escalate to a point where curling up in fetal posting at the corner of the room feels like a wonderful escape.

When all may seems too much, dedicating a few minutes a day at the beginning of the day can change your life.

By investing just 45 minutes a day, Lucy Smith shares how she transformed her life by choosing to engage in activities that support her personal growth.

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Letting Go of Being Strong and 21 Tips to Surrender You Need to Know

Letting Go of Being Strong and 21 Tips to Surrender You Need to Know

Immersed in faith, strength and surrender go hand in hand.  These two attributes: one of being strong, and the other of letting go,  are polarities.  Even though they may seem to be diametrically opposite, they are but 2 sides of the same coin.

The beautiful Kim Bourbeau Smith offers us an inspired post on Letting Go of Being Strong, ALL the Time.

Additionally, we offer 21 Tips to Surrender Yourself to Self Care, releasing your soul from needing to be constantly “on” all the time. The 21 tips to surrender and practice self-care will bring you back to groundedness and homeostasis when you find yourself off balance.

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What You Need to Know About Change and How to Be Awesome 😎

What You Need to Know About Change and How to Be Awesome 😎

C.H.A.N.G.E. :: The 6 Step Road Map of Change 

COMPREHEND IT :: HUNGER for it :: ACCEPT IT :: NURTURE IT ::  GROW with it :: EMBODY IT

These steps will empower you to harness the wisdom within in times of uncertainty and transition.  If you feel resistant to change, remember that change is part of life, and inevitable.  We can either fight it tooth and nail, deny it and suffer, OR embrace it with open arms, make the best of it, live our faith...and be AWESOME. 

 

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How to Be My Hero: 9+ Ways to Support Your Favorite Blogger

How to Be My Hero: 9+ Ways to Support Your Favorite Blogger

Many have asked how they can support me, this blog and the work at Path of Presence. 

Financial contributions (gold coins, and the like) to continue this blog is always welcome! Just kidding! Your generous support goes much further than just monetary gifts.  It is the intent and energy of how we come together as a community that fosters goodwill and continued blossoming.  LEarn more about how to support your favorite blogger and be part of the consciousness he or she fosters.

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What You Need to Know About Being Recognized by Peers

What You Need to Know About Being Recognized by Peers

I received amazing news that I have been nominated for the prestigious Blogger Recognition Award.  Aniela-Maria Codita of https://www.puntodistile.com, nominated me and while I am grateful and thrilled, I am also terrified to share this publicly.  Albeit, here I am.

The Blogger Recognition Award is given to bloggers by bloggers to encourage and acknowledge the hard work and effort that goes into creating posts.  It’s an opportunity for bloggers to recognize one another for our respective contributions through our blog, and to the blogging community.

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The Triumphant Practice of Blissing Out You Need to Know

The Triumphant Practice of Blissing Out You Need to Know

The radical and triumphant practice of following your bliss is a total reversal of what we have been taught. Yet, in this consciousness of life, there is space. The practice of slowing down is against the grain.  And in the space between the space is where we find our bliss.  

We get the opportunity to truly live: present and awake.  This is what you need to know as you step away from the regimented scheduling and planning of life. 

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The Power Of Beginning This Year With Thank You

The Power Of Beginning This Year With Thank You

Shift the energy from which your resolutions come and give thanks.  Beginning this year with sufficiency by thanksgiving for the abundance that flourishes in your life, will support you, shift your mindset and your entire way of living from lack of abundance, from insufficiency to overflow. 

This embrace of your personal power will empower you to allow life to flow easily through you, and as you as you live another fantastic 525,600 minutes of 2018.

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Choose to Be Crazy Happy: 5 Tips To Increase Positivity

Choose to Be Crazy Happy:  5 Tips To Increase Positivity

Whether you are a baseline optimist or pessimist, there is a path to positivity. 

Awareness of whether you lean toward being the grouchy cynic or the Mary Poppins in life will help you connect the pieces from your starting point to the end result you desire.  This is especially applicable during times of resolutions, renewals and goal follow-throughs. 

Instead of setting yourself up for disappointment, choose to be crazy happy by implementing and integrating these 5 tips to increase positivity.

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