Look at the list and ask yourself how happy, motivated, open, and supportive these people are. Do they feel good about themselves? Do they make you feel good about yourself? Next, honestly evaluate whether each of these people is helping you move forward in your self-discovery process or whether they’re holding you back. Finally, tell yourself the

All of these yearnings, just like those for food, should be met with deep, abiding self-respect and playful curiosity. Otherwise, we’ll stay trapped by our cravings, which keep us too distracted to take notice of our deepest, most truthful desires.

Reading Brené Brown’s powerful work Daring Greatly helped me understand that vulnerability is a strength, not a weakness.

if we keep them locked up and hidden, even from ourselves, we are bound to be sick at heart. Isolation is a killer, and leaves us alone with our brains, which aren’t always thinking straight. And when that happens, we’re susceptible to making bad choices.

There’s a pretty broad consensus that a short catnap, anywhere from twenty to thirty minutes, taken before 4 p.m., allows your brain the optimal amount of time to “defrag” and dump unwanted data so it’s primed to make good decisions and to be most able to absorb important information postnap. It also won’t hamper your ability to get a good night’s

Nilofer Merchant, a leadership visionary and inventor, has even declared that sitting is “the new smoking” because it is two times more likely to cause death than smoking.

Detoxing allows us to build the foundational strength of self-regulation and feel beyond the immediate itch or craving, to see down the road so that we can live with planning and purpose and not simply reactively.

For instance, some studies indicate that as many as 70 percent of women who have breast cancer are vitamin D deficient. When breast cancer patients have been given D supplements, the rate of their cancer growth slowed demonstrably.

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