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6 Ways to Find your Passion Have you found your passion? if not, this will help you to find out what your passion is. Firstly, What is a Passion? Your passion is something that you enjoy doing, something that would bring you happiness. We are all in search of happiness, which is so often tied to life passion and doing what we were meant to do.  Our passion is what we want to do naturally, not what sounds good or what others want us to do. Passion is the fuel that drives us to get out of bed in the morning; it moves us toward our goals.  How would you find your Passion? Passion comes naturally, so all you can really do is to expose yourself to different things that could possibly become your passion. Finding your passion simply has to do with listening to our inner voice and ignoring the noise around us telling us what we should do.  You can surround ourselves with people who have similar interests, and passions you admire. If you prefer bei...

WStartedhy is Self-care Important? And 5 Habits to Get . Self-care is a very popular topic these days, but do you really know what self-care is all about?  Self-care is something that is crucial for our physical, emotional and mental well-being. You shouldn’t neglect self-care. If you have not heard of self-care before you should definitely read this article.  As for today, we will be talking about What Self care really is, why we should implement self-care habits in our lives and what we can do. Firstly, What is Self-care? Self-care is basically treating yourself with the same kindness ad you would be to others. Self-care is caring for yourself enough to respect yourself physically, mentally and emotionally. It also involves self-compassion to ensure that you would not encounter a burnout.  When practised correctly, self-care has long-term benefit for the mind, the body, or both. So, why is it that important? To answer that question, ...

High-Performance Habits to Embrace Each Morning  Habits that make you extraordinary are not those that you are naturally good at. Extraordinary habits are formed from deliberate habits, which are habits that you actually put in the effort to see results in.  Here are some Habits we found common in high performance, successful people. Increased Productivity Want to complete more in a given time? Are you distracted? Trying to focus on something but can't? Well, don't get sucked into unnecessary things. Completely avoid them. Plan your day so that there are no distractions. This will help you focus on the task at hand and be more productive. Never try to multitask. I know you might think that multitasking is the only way which you can complete more things in a given time but trying to multitask would only leave you with many either unfinished work or work that is not done to your fullest potential. This means that you would then have to get back those tasks an...

11 Things You Should do on Bad Days On bad days, it's nice to have a list of self care ideas you can pull out to help make things a little better, or even to proactively keep up with self care so you feel better in general.  Here are 11 things you can do on bad days. Take A Bath Take a bath, reflect,relax. Know that tomorrow will be a better day. Change how you feel. Release all your stress and relax. Read a Good Book/ Self Development Book A good book will definitely make  your day better. No matter how much stress you have at work, in your personal relationships, or countless other issues faced in daily life, it all just slips away when you lose yourself in a great story.  A well-written novel can transport you to other realms, while an engaging article will distract you and keep you in the present moment, letting tensions drain away and allowing you to relax. Have A Solo Dance Party Have fun, be yourself. Relax! Be you...

How Valuing yourself Changes Everything Else. And How? Today, i will be going through what it means to value yourself and how you should learn to value yourself. What is the importance of valuing yourself? Self-value  is more behavioral than emotional, more about how you  act toward what you value , including yourself, than  how you feel about yourself compared to others . It necessarily includes self-care. To value something goes beyond regarding it as important; you also appreciate its qualities, while investing time, energy, effort, and sacrifice in its nurturing or maintenance. So, How Can You Value yourself more? Take care of yourself, physically. Commit to making your physical health important and worthy of appreciation, time, energy, and sacrifice.  Begin by reading widely available information about wellness, diet, and exercise, and decide which are optimal for you. Pursue your regimen of health vigorously—not only for you...

7 Essential Business Books for Entrepreneurs Want to start your own business? Not sure how to? Want some advise? Sometimes it’s hard to know what advice you should be seeking from the vast world of “experts”. Today i have compiled a list of 7 Essential Business Books to help get you started, hope this helps! Made to Stick – Chip Heath & Dan Heath In Made to Stick, Chip and Dan Heath reveal the anatomy of ideas that stick and explain ways to make ideas stickier , such as applying the human scale principle, using the Velcro Theory of Memory, and creating curiosity gaps. Along the way, we discover that sticky messages of all kinds--from the infamous "kidney theft ring" hoax to a coach's lessons on sportsmanship to a vision for a new product at Sony--draw their power from the same six traits. The author breakdowns the six  principles that makes ideas stick and provide plenty of real world examples of how these can be applied...

Personal Development Tools to Help You Create the Life You Want Maybe you want to be more productive, and finally tackle that goal of yours, or start waking up earlier. Here i hope i can help you by sharing with you a few personal development tools that you might just be missing out on. TED Many of you might already know what TED , for those who don't TED is a non-profit website where individuals can watch videos on a variety of different topics. This website is devoted to spreading ideas, in the form of short but powerful talks.  TED aims to provide a platform for thinkiers, visionaries and teachers, so that more people can gain a better understanding of the biggest issues around the world. All of these points makes it a really good website for people looking to develop themselves. Pocket Pocket  is an App where you can read articles and watch videos that are educational. You will be able to learn many new things from this app. You can vie...

5 Steps to Being Productive Firstly, What is being Productive? Productivity is often describes a person's capability to do a lot of work, but is can refer to anything that produces a lot. A Productive day would mean to complete more things in a less amount of time but also doing it effectively.   Productivity is the amount of output produced per work hour. In other words, the calculation is: Productivity = output / work hours. Here are some points to remember, Sleep. Sleep more. I know it can be tempting to stay up at night to do whatever do but you would wake up the next day feeling more exhausted. Its hard to be productive while yawning and trying to stay awake. I suggest you have at least 6-8 hours of sleep a day. It will also be better if you regulate your sleeping schedule and sleep at the same time everyday even if it is the weekends and also wake up at the same time if possible. Plan out your week.  It’s extremely important to plan you...

What to do When Life Gets Tough It's life, of course you would encounter certain situations which just make you feel like life is being too hard on you. And maybe you just feel like giving up. It is important that in this times that you should believe in yourself. Know that whatever is going on in your life right now, it will be over. You will just have to put in the effort if you want a change. Here are some key points to remember when faced with difficulties. Allow yourself to feel bad It is necessary to embrace the difficulties and understand that you are bound to encounter things like this and that you will overcome this and become a better person. Be Generous to yourself Know what you need. Take time out of the day to improve your mental health. It is extremely important to work on improving your mental health, especially in times like this. Remember that great things take time Understand that you will need to give yourself time to o...