Self Care

Improve Your Life by Being GratefulDo you wake up in the morning looking forward to the challenges that the day will bring you? Or do you find that you are more fearful of what lies ahead for you? If the latter is true then it is time to start working on improving your mindset and learning how to be grateful for what you have.

Showing that you are grateful to others doesn’t mean you have to be all smiles and always be giving people compliments. It does mean though that you need to make an effort to acknowledge those around you.

There are lots of small ways that you can show how grateful you are to others. Just smiling and nodding your head are two simple, yet effective ways of doing just this. You could try to say “thank you” to people a little more often, too. Continue reading

Trusting Yourself to Make Good DecisionsMaking good decisions for you means you have to trust yourself enough to make the right ones. Many people have struggled with this for years. They second guess and question every big (and sometimes little) decision they’ve ever made. They’ve felt the frustration of not trusting themselves enough to know that they were making the right choices.

Most of the time our decisions are good ones. But there are likely a few that we are not particularly proud of, like cutting classes, or staying out way past curfew, or buying a car we knew we couldn’t afford just because we wanted it. Oftentimes, the bad decisions came from listening to others.

The majority of us are raised with good morals and values. We are taught wrong from right. But we still make bad choices. So how do we learn to trust ourselves to make the right decisions now? Continue reading

At some point in your hectic life, you may feel like screaming “Stop the world, I want to get off!” Life can come at you in a blur at times. It’s at those moments you want to sit back and let the world go by.

Taking time to refresh yourself is extremely important in today’s hurried pace. Rather than trying to ‘keep up with the Joneses,’ why not make a change to your life for the better.

Learn to step back on a regular basis and enjoy a day of peace and quiet. Continue reading