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8 Morning Affirmations You Should Say Before Getting Up

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Affirmations work wonders. They calm your body, release stress and give you large doses of confidence and happiness. Especially positive affirmations first thing in the morning!

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Reminder: You can still grab The Positive Affirmations for Life program with more than 4 hours of audio affirmations for 7 life situations that impact your happiness and success the most including the extended morning affirmation tracks.

First, a quick definition for affirmations because I had no idea what they were not too long ago: [Read more…] about 8 Morning Affirmations You Should Say Before Getting Up

How to Talk Your Way Out of Rejection

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Why Rejection Is a Myth

I want to invite you to believe in a world where rejection is a myth.

If you play along, I promise you will find a world that is better than the one where rejection rules the day. And I don’t know about you but this is more than enough incentive for me.

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This is going to be simple but not easy, my dear. So if you get discouraged, and if you want to crawl back into your shell and believe the whole world is rejecting you because you are a total misfit and therefore, this blog post on rejection doesn’t apply to you, well, of course you can do that. [Read more…] about How to Talk Your Way Out of Rejection

Seeking Approval: The Worst Mistake in Pursuit of Dreams

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Dreams, Approval and The Paradox

I wanted to make my parents proud.

We all do. Whoever denies this one is lying.

I especially wanted to make them proud on the occasion of leaving my well-paying “successful” and “oh so safe” career that I’d built over a decade following my hard-earned education to start over by pursuing this crazy, highly-likely-to-fail, mind-boggling dream of writing and building a brand and a business of my own.

Ha! That was a safe bet alright. Putting all my money on zero-double-zero at the roulette table in Las Vegas would have made a much safer bet in hindsight!

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3 Questions to Bring You Out of Your Darkness

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How to Deal with Personal Attacks

It’s funny how I still get a little upset and a wee bit defensive when I get blog comments like this last one on How to Stop Wasting Life in a Dead-end Job:

“Great advice! Now … try paying your rent with it! No one said life is easy. But you are not here to be “happy”! You are here to do your duty. Deal with it; and rest assured that others have had to endure a hell of a lot worse and have not complained. Now stop your nonsense and make your living!”

Ouch.

At first, I just wanted to delete it … but something uneasy crept inside … I just couldn’t put my finger on it.

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Are You Being Honest with Yourself?

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Yesterday I spoke on a panel to some 450 women attending a leadership event put on by a large women organization with the theme of Reinventing Yourself. I had one goal in mind: To inspire at least one woman in the audience to take a leap of faith and trust into her own self and to stop seeking approval and guidance from the world around her. Oh and there was this one non-negotiable rule about everything that came out of my mouth on the panel: “Farnoosh, you gotta be 100% honest and transparent!”

Being honest with yourself is not so common as it turns out we are blatant liars. Just listen to that inner dialogue without filtering for once. [Read more…] about Are You Being Honest with Yourself?