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* Self Improvement and Personal Growth Weekly Newsletter *
Issue #870, Week of May 11-12, 2015
Publisher: David Riklan - http://www.SelfGrowth.com
In this issue:
-- Quotes of the Week
-- Article: Five Ways to Empower Your Thoughts - By Tony Fahkry
-- Article: How Do You Respond To Adversity? - By Don Dulin
-- Book Review: Better Than Before: Mastering the Habits of Our Everyday Lives - By Gretchen Rubin
-- How to Subscribe and Unsubscribe from this Newsletter
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*** Quotes of the Week ***
------------------------------------------------------------ The only people who never fail are those who never try. - Ilka Chase, 1900-1978
Ask yourself this question: "Will this matter a year from now?" - Richard Carlson, 1961-2006
Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself. - Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910 ------------------------------------------------------------
*** Article: Five Ways to Empower Your Thoughts - By Tony Fahkry ***
------------------------------------------------------------ Your thoughts shape your identity -- those fragments of mind which pass through your brain 70,000 times a day, create the fundamental person that is you. If you are not convinced of this, recall your last angry thought and note how it affected your physiology. Man's orientation toward stress nowadays stems from recurring restless thoughts which become stuck in a feedback loop.
Use the following points to empower your thoughts without succumbing to the incessant inner dialogue. I encourage you not to be besieged by thoughts since they do not happen to you. Thoughts arise through you, as long as you remain in a state of equilibrium.
** To read the full article, go here.
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*** Article: How Do You Respond To Adversity? - By Don Dulin ***
------------------------------------------------------------ We all face adversity in our lives. For the most part, we can't choose what troubles come our way. But, we can choose how to respond to these troubles. We can let them consume us and make us miserable, we can let them harden us and become angry at life and the world in general, or we can learn to make the best of adversity, seeing the proverbial glass half-full and not allowing it to get us down.
That is the great thing about life. We can't choose what happens to us, but we can choose how we respond to things. Many times, if we respond to an event positively, positive results oftentimes occur. On the other hand, if we respond to an event negatively, a negative result oftentimes occurs. The key then, is to learn to respond to adversity in a positive way. But how do we do this effectively? Here are 3 ways to look at adversity so that you can respond to it more favorably.
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*** Book Review: Better Than Before: Mastering the Habits of Our Everyday Lives - By Gretchen Rubin ***
------------------------------------------------------------ The author of the blockbuster New York Times bestsellers, The Happiness Project and Happier at Home, tackles the critical question: How do we change?
Gretchen Rubin's answer: through habits. Habits are the invisible architecture of everyday life. It takes work to make a habit, but once that habit is set, we can harness the energy of habits to build happier, stronger, more productive lives.
So if habits are a key to change, then what we really need to know is: How do we change our habits?
Better than Before answers that question. It presents a practical, concrete framework to allow readers to understand their habits--and to change them for good. Infused with Rubin's compelling voice, rigorous research, and easy humor, and packed with vivid stories of lives transformed, Better than Before explains the (sometimes counter-intuitive) core principles of habit formation.
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