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Do You Need To Be Dissatisfied to be Motivated?
Do you need to be dissatisfied in life to be driven to succeed? Is satisfaction a lame, insipid word to you that means giving up, and just settling for mediocre when we should be going for…
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Am I Normal to Often Feel Dissatisfied?
Blessed with riches and possibilities far beyond anything imagined by ancestors who tilled the unpredictable soil of medieval Europe, modern populations have nonetheless shown a remarkable capacity to feel that neither who they…
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Peeling the Onion of Abuse and Shame
Shame is the most powerful master emotion. It’s the fear that we aren’t good enough. Brené Brown We humans are good at gathering shame inside us, and often at shaming others. We can…
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Leaving the Badlands
Let me fall if I must. The one I become will catch me. Baal Shev Tom From my twenties, I recall this image. I was standing on the edge of a crevasse, not…
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Love Vs Depression
So Pete left, and there I was – another failed relationship, another week without an acting job, my bank account dwindling almost as fast as my frail self-esteem. As weeks dragged by, I…
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Are You Going to be the Hero of Your Own Life?
Being the hero of your life – to me that means getting absolutely real with yourself about your strengths, your vulnerabilities and your values and walking that self-talk. It’s an issue that influences life,…
