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Our Personal Holding Pattern

By Arlene
Thursday, April 19th, 2012

By Michelle S Miller

Have you ever been stuck in an airplane circling around your destination until it’s safe to land? An announcement comes on that says it’s necessary to be in a holding pattern due to fog or air traffic. At first, you are okay with it, knowing that an experienced pilot is in charge. But after a while you become annoyed being stuck in the air. You start worrying about what could happen, and then you wonder when your plane will finally land safely.

How often do you feel stuck in your own personal holding pattern? Read More→

Categories : Personal Growth
Tags : beliefs, confidence, courage, motivation, personal holding pattern, safe place, stress, understanding

3 Things You Didn’t Know You Loved About Yourself

By Arlene
Monday, January 23rd, 2012

By Anne Lyken-Garner

What do you love about yourself? Waiting on external forces to help build your confidence will take a lifetime. You have to find ways of growing that confidence from the inside out. Do you find yourself putting things off because you can’t bear to start a new task? Do you have dreams of achieving things, but rarely put these dreams into action? Is your life unfulfilled so far? If your answer is yes to any or all of these questions you may have a problem motivating yourself. This is because you don’t know how good you are. The things you love about yourself are not as obvious as they used to be. But have you forgotten these?

3 Things You Didn’t Know You Loved About Yourself Read More→

Categories : Personal Growth
Tags : confidence, how to build confidence, reasoning power, self-confidence, self-confidence training

How to Deal With Critic, Slights, and Humiliation

By Arlene
Monday, December 26th, 2011

By Olaf Schwennesen

The disrespectful remarks of other people – slights, critics, or humiliations – can hurt us very much. Sometimes it hurts so much that we want to take revenge to restore our wounded self-esteem. Why is it possible that critic and humiliation are able to harm us? The answer can be found in our biological heritage.

We are the product of millions of years of evolution. Though living in totally different circumstances than our prehistoric ancestors, we carry almost the same body with us – and that means also the same brain. Read More→

Categories : Personal Growth, Relationships
Tags : confidence, critic, humilation, self esteem, slights, wounded self-esteem

Don’t Be an Emotional Doormat With These Five Power-Maxing Tricks

By Arlene
Thursday, October 20th, 2011

By Marion Chamberlain

Do you have a rubber or cloth rectangular object lying at your front door? You know that thing that is meant to collect all the dirt and dust from your shoes? Yes, the common term used is doormat. Most of us go out and get ones that are seasonal or tie into the decor of our house. And what would we do without them? Have dirt dragged all over our floors and into our house? If you’re like me – you’re like: No way, Jose! I’m a bit of neat freak (but do look the other way for the cat at times).

So how come do we not apply the same principles to our emotional well-being as women? Read More→

Categories : Relationships
Tags : being assertive, confidence, friendship, power-maxing tricks, Relationships

Now Is Your Time to Be Fearless

By Arlene
Sunday, October 16th, 2011

By Elizabeth Hagen

What does ‘fearless’ mean to you?

My Fearless Journey

You may read about my speaking engagements in my newsletters and think that this is no big deal for me. That it’s easy for me to get up and speak in front of audiences. Well, up until a few years ago you would have been totally wrong!

For most of my life the thought of getting up and speaking terrified me beyond belief. I was the kind of person who always sat in the back row and was extremely happy to be there! Never did I think that I would ever be a speaker. Read More→

Categories : Personal Growth
Tags : confidence, fear, fearlessness
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