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How well do you keep commitments you make? The consequences can be really big for not following through when other people are involved. Relationships are affected by it. Trust is affected – not only your trust in yourself, but other people’s conclusions about how trustworthy you are. This is a big deal. All those judgments [...]
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Speaking from (way too much) personal experience, I know how it feels to be critical of other people — not so great. Even if I’m feeling so right about it all! It’s still a crummy feeling to experience. And it doesn’t change a darn thing except making me feel worse. So I want to pass [...]
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Keeping commitments to yourself is a huge deal because it’s the basis for trusting yourself. And sometimes you might be at the end of your list for keeping commitments. The things you’ve promised other people always come first. But this works like the oxygen mask on the airplane does: You have to take care of [...]
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This challenge showed up with a client yesterday, so I dusted off a topic from last year to remind us all about how tricky it can be to do EFT about the people we’re closest to. Resentment and hurt and love are often tangled up together. So when you tap on an issue with these [...]
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In my last post, I wrote about a huge urge to quit – to completely stop a big project I was working on. Now I want to share how I used EFT to get back in the groove with it. First I realized the urge was just my subconscious trying to protect me from possible [...]
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It happened to me last week. I was blind-sided by the urge to quit. Not just a quiet nudge but an overpowering, all-consuming command to quit. Everything in me was telling me to just give up on the big project I had been working on – something I had put a lot of time, thought [...]
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In the last post, I promised you some tips about how to use EFT to help you use self kindness as a strategy — and a habit. Here are my tapping suggestions: These are the steps to take to start using self kindness on a regular basis for yourself: 1. First, investigate your resistance to [...]
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Being gentle with yourself feels good. And it sounds like a good idea to strive for some day. But do you know that it’s also a very practical tool? I’ll tell you why I know this is true in this short video. I have been talking about motivation and also about self blame. Now here’s [...]
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I love the word “oops.” It just feels good. And it sounds kind of funny — like comic book-y funny, doesn’t it? Oops! Even a little musical with that upward lilt at the end. I was thinking about what power there really is in that tiny word. Choosing oops as a response sends you in [...]
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If you’re looking to mentors, inspirational speakers or books for motivation, you’re looking in the wrong places. Here’s a short video on what I’ve discovered about getting motivated. Today I want to share some more thoughts about motivation. The big secret is that motivation is already here. You don’t have to go somewhere else to [...]
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