7 Easy Ways To Handle Negative Self-talk
We all have our inner critic. This voice is a helpful voice that can motivate you to achieve your goal and can as well be a stumbling block that may stop you from achieving this same goal. In this post, I will share with you some of the easiest ways to handle negative self-talk. “Your mind, emotions, and body are instruments, and the way you align and tune them determines how well you play life”. Harbhajan Singh Yogi What goes on in your mind will determine how you carry yourself and how you interact with others. What you think of yourself and the way you communicate with yourself will determine…
How Practicing Gratitude Will Change Your Life
We’re currently still finding ourselves in emotionally and mentally difficult times, because of lockdowns, restrictions, and other things that prevent us from fully experiencing life. This is hard for many, many people around the globe. But there are things we can do to get us through this difficult time. Things that can change your life. One of those things is practicing gratitude and in this post, you’ll learn exactly how to start this practice! What exactly is gratitude? An expression of gratitude in its most basic form is simply saying ‘’thank you’’ or ‘’I appreciate it.’’ Now, there is a difference between gratitude as a practice and plain old gratitude…
What do we need to be happy?
What do we need to be happy? A good question. We all pursue happiness, but happiness may be different from one person to the other person. Is there any universal factor that makes people happier? If so, what is it? As I did some research, I found out that it says there are 14 things that make you happy. John Lennon famously said, “When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down “happy”. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment,…
A Mindful Approach To Understand Acceptance
In life, I have learned that there are three possible things you can do when you encounter a difficult situation. You can either change it, leave it, or accept it. In this post, we will tackle the last choice we often do which seems to be a tough road to walk into. So let’s talk about one principle of mindfulness: acceptance. People commonly find this very difficult to do. It’s the mindfulness principle we all seem to struggle with because, as humans, we often let our emotions get ahead of us. And in the case of accepting something, research says it doesn’t naturally come as our primary reaction. M.L. Cooper…
Looking back in 2020: A Year of Challenges and Gratitude
As the year 2020 ends, we may find ourselves looking back to all the events that have happened around us. Many of us wait for better days to come, for grander years to embrace. We endure only on the premise that we have to keep looking and moving forward until those better days are at our doorstep. Good and bad things have happened. Even though for some, a lot of unfortunate were shown, it’s still what made us who we are in the end. You would probably agree when I say that 2020 has become a sh*tstorm full of disappointments, bad news, and an unending wave of problems that came…
Finding Yourself: An Essential Journey To Self-Discovery
I am so delighted to share with you this long-awaited collaboration with one of my favorite bloggers, Ashley of Beautiful Disaster Lit blog. Ashley is one of the most authentic and badass bloggers I truthfully admire, and who writes strongly about what she believes in. Do check out her blog here! Smoking to some local strain, and listening to Lauv’s I Like Me Better this night, I am writing about Finding Yourself. To tell you honestly, I got nothing at first. Then one day, during this one meditation period, I kind of surprisingly asked myself “What is my purpose?” Believe it or not, this one question got me typing this…
8 Powerful Tips You Can Use When You Start Self-Hosting Your Blog
I know that self-hosting your bog is a lot different and more complex process. There were a handful of things I learned from my experience. Aside from that, to me, it felt like blogging became an opening to a bigger set of opportunities and growth. I think one of the things you’re gonna have to deal with is that when you are in the process of self-managing your blog, you can’t just ignore the things that other bloggers talk about and give importance to. Once you decide to be on the blogging journey, it’s no doubt that you have to step up your plans for your blog too. Why? Because…
The Basics of Understanding Self-Hosting
Self-hosting is a really difficult process, especially for beginner bloggers. Since I have gone self-hosted, I feel like I have learned so much about blogging that I didn’t even understand before. I’ve been hearing a lot of questions asked about having a self-hosted blog. Questions like, “what’s it really like when you have a self-hosted blog?” or like, “what do I get from having a self-hosted blog?” or simpler questions like, “What is self-hosting?” The truth is, I was as clueless as they were before I got into this path. I didn’t know what it meant to have a self-hosted blog. Related Post: 8 Powerful Tips You Can Use When…
