Authentic Self

Allowing Your Individuality to Shine Can be Scary

It should feel natural to stand out and reveal your true self to the world. However, worrying about what others will think and the fear of being judged will keep us playing small. The opinions you formed about yourself early in life can still haunt you into adulthood.

However, the world needs your individuality. Life is never completely satisfying while you’re pretending to be less than who you really are.

Life is never completely satisfying while you’re pretending to be less than who you really are.

Let the world see your Magical Essence Shine:

1. Understand everyone tries to fit in. We all possess an innate desire to fit in with the crowd. You feel uncomfortable standing out, but this is where you’ll find the most success and satisfaction.

Most of the famous people you can name overcame the need to remain anonymous. They were willing to put their best and unique gifts out into the world…

2. Know that people are respected for daring to be unique. Think about the people you know that are willing to be themselves regardless of the circumstances. Their level of comfort is attractive to others. We love people with this ability and want to be more like them.

Understand people will show jealousy when you feel comfortable letting your true self shine. You can gain so much more socially by presenting your authentic self. Give it a try.

3. Identify what’s unique about you. What can you do better than most people? What are your natural gifts and talents? What can you bring to the world that’s in short supply? What is your greatest value to the world? How are you different from others?

4. Small steps can make it more comfortable to show yourself to the world. Suppose you’re good at painting, but you fear showing anyone your work. You might choose to post your artwork anonymously online. Or you might try to sell your art in an out of town gallery.

What can you do to begin expressing yourself to the world slowly and comfortably? Maybe you can start with your friends.
Give your opinions freely. One way to show your individuality is to just share your opinions when appropriate.

5. Focus on the positive. When you receive some results from taking that first step, focus on the positive. Allow yourself to enjoy the compliments. Notice how any criticism doesn’t really mean a thing. The better you can make yourself feel, the more comfortable you’ll be taking a bigger step.

6. Find like-minded people. There are people out there trying to do the same thing you are. Keeping with the artist theme, you could find other artists to spend time with. You can support each other. You can learn from each other. You’ll feel braver if you’re part of a community.

7. Continue to grow. Always be pushing forward. You don’t have to go fast to end up someplace great. You simply need to keep moving.

The key to massive success is to keep yourself just slightly uncomfortable and get used to that feeling.
The world needs your best, so be willing to put it out there in a bigger and better way.

We admire those that are willing to be themselves. In a sea of seemingly average people, those brave enough to present themselves honestly to the world are valued and respected. You can be one of those people. Take a deep breath and reveal your true self. Share your talents and your weirdness. The world needs you.

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Using Positive Energy to Reach Your Destiny

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The type of energy that surrounds you is an important determining factor in how you feel. The energy you have on the inside can also affect your mood in a positive or negative way. You can use positive energy to manifest your ultimate destiny. The power is inside of you, and you can begin to harness this power starting today.

How you think about yourself and your world shapes what you do. The way you see your future often manifests itself in reality. If you see yourself as happy and healthy, you’re more likely to feel that way. If you see yourself reaching your goals, you’re more likely to work for and attain them. Hold on to the dreams you have in your heart.

How you think about yourself and your world shapes what you do.

Even if your dreams have yet to come true, your destiny still awaits you. It’s only a matter of time before you manifest the result of the energy inside of you. Hard work is often required to get to the destiny you know you can realize. Hard work can be made easier by the way you approach it, and that’s where positive energy comes into the picture.

Meeting Your Goals Through Positive Thinking

Many people today have a negative mindset, but you can choose to be different. You can keep your thoughts positive and ensure that you’re working toward the destiny you want to experience. Avoid negative people who tell you what you cannot achieve. You can achieve what you set out to accomplish as long as you remain focused and positive about your experiences.

In order to stay positive about reaching your destiny, try to:

Avoid spending time with or listening to negative people.
Take time each day to meditate on what you really want to see in your life.
Plan your time and energy, so it’s not wasted on less important things.
Focus on reaching your goal and visualize it in your mind.
Spend time with others who share your goals, dreams, and values.

Shaping your destiny using positive energy is easier than most people think. The key is your refusal to give up. It may take some time before you begin to see the positive results you’re after. Your destiny is worth the wait. As long as you have life, you have hope and a future. Internalize and meditate on this truth every day.

The more you hold onto this powerful information, the more likely you’ll be to succeed. This is because you know that you’re strong, brave, and capable. You’re capable of far more than you realize. When you tap into your potential and think positively about that potential, you’ll receive strength that’ll help you grow and develop as a person.

Look at where you are today. Embrace it and tell yourself that you’re ready to move forward. Visualize where you’ll be in a week, a month, a year, and in five years. Take the time to see these pictures in your head, so you have a clear image in your mind of what success looks like.

Set big goals, dream big dreams, and visualize about them coming to pass. When you speak to yourself about these dreams, talk about when you reach your goals and not if. You really can harness positive energy to manifest the destiny of your dreams, starting today!

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How Finding Your Passion Can Improve Your Life

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Everybody feels passionate about something. Sometimes it takes a while to figure out exactly what that is, but you have big dreams inside of you that are driven by your deepest values and convictions. Your dreams are your True ME (Magical Essence) expressing itself.

Discovering your deepest passions will dramatically increase your sense of joy, happiness, and confidence in every area of your life.

Where Do You Find Your Passion?

1. Finding Your Passion in Work

The most popular advice for career success is to find something you love, and then find a way to make money doing it. If you can find a way to support yourself working in a field you enjoy, you’ll get up every morning looking forward to doing something that hardly feels like work.

Sometimes, however, you’re stuck in a position that’s less than ideal. If you explore the values and dreams within yourself and match them to particular aspects of your job, your daily grind can quickly turn into a daily pleasure. By finding deep meaning in what you do, your enthusiasm for work will naturally increase.

2. Finding Your Passion in Your Social Life

When you find your passion, you can seek out others who share that passion and revel in it. You can open yourself up to a whole new circle of people and experiences.

When a group of people who share the same passion get together and talk about it, entertaining dialogue always ensues. Whether it’s a vigorous debate or a lengthy rant, it’s always good fuel for your soul.

Discovering the passion inside of you makes you a more interesting person. Even when you’re spending time with people who have totally different interests, you can exchange ideas on a whole new level and enjoy each other’s company more when you have more to share.

Discovering the passion inside of you makes you a more interesting person.

Your friends, family, and colleagues may feed off your interest and enthusiasm. Your passion may become contagious, and you may win them over to your cause. With more in common, you’ll experience a deeper relationship and more meaningful fellowship when you share your passion with others.

3. Finding Your Passion in Your Recreation

Are you easily bored or anxious? The quickest antidote is to discover what makes you tick.

Your passion is the fuel that ignites the joy you were created to experience. Infusing your passion into your weekly schedule, even in small amounts, can have a dramatic effect on the happiness you feel throughout the rest of the week.

4. Finding Your Passion Through Romance

Knowing what your passion is can give you a barometer for potential romantic partners. If you find someone who shares your passion or is at least supportive of it, you can develop a relationship where you can share your passion with someone who feels passionate about you.

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Experience the power of finding your passion today. All it takes is a few minutes of quiet time alone, an open mind, and a determination to live the life of joy that you were born to live.

Grab a piece of paper and a pen and ask yourself some questions:

What causes stir your emotions?
What do you enjoy spending time doing?
What bothers you about the world around you?
How can you make it better?
What things make you smile?
What recreational activities do you enjoy?

As you explore, you’ll discover the passion that burns deep within your heart. Ask yourself how you can pursue that passion, starting today, even if it’s only on a small scale. Your life will never be the same.

What small thing will you today to ignite your inner passion? I’d love to hear how you will pursue your passion, so leave a comment and let us know!

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Confidently Dare to be Your True Self

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Are you comfortable being yourself in all situations?

If you’re like most people, you’re 90% you when you’re with close friends, 50% yourself with casual acquaintances, and hide yourself from strangers. Being your true self, your true ME in all settings and situations is scary, but ultimately empowering and relaxing. Imagine the relief you’ll experience.

You no longer worry about what others think about you. You can relax and just be yourself and feel satisfied. You know you are good enough!

Be yourself and enjoy the life you’re meant to experience.

Follow These 9 Suggestions to Stay True to You

1. Meditate. Meditation quiets the part of you that judges and labels everything around you. Gain some insight into the real you by meditating regularly.

2. Tell the truth. When you’re truthful, you reveal yourself. Be honest about your mistakes and shortcomings.

3. Be unique. Your true ME is unlike everyone else. What music do you listen to when you’re alone? How do you dress? What are your talents? Do you keep the unique parts to yourself or are you willing to share them with the world?

Being your true self, your true ME in all settings and situations is scary, but ultimately empowering and relaxing.

4. Examine the areas in your life that feel inauthentic. When and where do you feel like you’re lacking authenticity? Often it will be during interactions with strangers, first dates, new social experiences, and more formal occasions.

A lack of authenticity can also occur when you spend time with your parents and siblings or any other person who doesn’t support you. They just need you to be someone you’re not for them to feel okay about themselves. So, it’s easy for you to fall back into your old roles.
Think about the times you’re inauthentic and ask yourself why.

5. Spend your time on things you enjoy. What do you really enjoy? Do you play on the softball league so you’ll fit in? Would you rather be taking rumba lessons? Spend your free time on the things that you’re most passionate about.

6. Do one thing you want to do but are afraid to try. The people at the office might laugh if you take up the cello or take an acting class. However, secretly, they’ll be jealous that you have the nerve to do something unconventional. Everyone you know is stifled and bored. You can rise above all of that.

7. Express your opinion. Not necessarily all of the time, but give your opinion if it won’t hurt anyone. Going to see a movie with some friends? Tell them the movie you’d most like to see. The family wants to go to the public pool or the park? Let your opinion be known.

8. Go outside. An indoor environment is unnatural. The air is heated or cooled. The lighting is artificial. You can’t see the sun, hear the birds, or feel the grass beneath your feet. Get yourself into a more natural environment and you’ll find it easier to connect to the divine side of yourself.p

9. Strengthen your boundaries. Where your boundaries are weak, your true self is being smothered. These are the places we allow others to determine the rules and set the frame. You’ll know these places by the high amounts of energy they drain from you.

Overcome your need to fit in and impress others. No matter what you do, some people will be impressed and others won’t. Why worry about it? Let your Magical Essence shine. You’re an amazing person. Allow yourself to be that person every day.

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9 Wonderful Ways to Enhance Your Self-Love

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You’re probably too hard on yourself. It’s much easier to make your way through the world if you love yourself. Perhaps the greatest struggle we all face is the effort to accept and love ourselves despite our many flaws. This may take a little work, especially, if you consistently criticize and put yourself down.

To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance

~Oscar Wilde

Love yourself more each day with these strategies:

Give yourself an earnest compliment each day. Have you ever felt like you needed a compliment? Go ahead and give yourself one! Think about all your great qualities and congratulate yourself on one of them. There’s no reason to wait for someone else to get around to saying something nice. Give yourself a nice compliment right now.

Look in the mirror and tell yourself how awesome you are… because you are!

Look in the mirror and tell yourself how awesome you are… because you are!

Make a list of your accomplishments. You’ve accomplished plenty of great things. Make a list of all of them. Be creative and give this exercise some thought. You’ll find that your life has been more impressive than you realized.

This exercise is very powerful and scary to do. While evicting impostor syndrome out of my life last year, I put together a values book that included listing my skills and accomplishes. What a shift in how I felt about myself and I continue to add it regularly.
Did you make the list?

Eat in a healthier manner. Take better care of yourself by making some changes to your diet. We could all use a little improvement in this department. You know which foods are healthy. Add a few of them to your diet and drop a few of the less healthy foods.

Show yourself that you’re important. You wouldn’t feed junk food to your child or beloved pet. Give yourself the same level of importance.

Support a cause you believe in. Spending time on something you think is important is a great way to show yourself that you’re a good person. You’ll feel better about yourself and put a smile on your face.
Be grateful. Appreciating what you have makes it easier to love yourself. No one enjoys being around a complainer. Think about your life and make a list of the things and people that fill you with gratitude. It’s surprising how much of a great life you already have.

Before you get out of bed in the morning, start appreciating everything around you.
Give thanks for the talents and gifts that make you a marvelous person.

Forgive your past self. Sure, you’ve made some mistakes and probably done and said a few awful things along the way. But that period of your life is over now. Why drag the past into the present? You can make a fresh start each day. Let it go.
Make one small improvement. As great as you are, you can be even better. Make one small change that will enhance your life in some way. Maybe it’s exercising for a few minutes each week or calling your mom once a week. Show yourself that you can grow and become a better version of yourself. Try these easy ideas:

Pay all of your bills on time.
Be more patient with your family.
Be on time for work each day.
Do five pushups each morning.

Do one thing each day makes you happy. If not today, when? There’s no time like the present to begin enjoying your life. Start taking those guitar lessons, finally get a pet, or volunteer at the local food bank. Start loving your life and yourself.

Do one thing each day makes you happy

Avoid people that drag you down. Odds are that at least one of your relationships is poisoning your life. It might be a friendship, a romantic relationship, or a relationship with a family member. Value yourself enough to avoid negative people and relationships.

You have many wonderful qualities that you’ve been overlooking. Believe that you deserve love from yourself and those in your life. A little self-love will enhance every part of your life.

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Do You Know Your Life Purpose?

by Ann Rusnak

If you’re like most people, figuring out what you’re supposed to do with your life can be a challenge.

What is a life purpose anyway? For this article I’m going to define it as something that you love to do that also has a great impact on the world. And if you generate an income for doing something you love, even better. It’s that sweet spot where you’re having a great time and doing something wonderful or as many people as possible.

Most of us leave our lives up to chance. We slide into mediocrity with a profession that we can tolerate because it pays the bills and stay there or in a similar situation until we’re ready to retire.

Living your purpose usually requires taking action with the intention of finding it.

9 Ways to Take the Challenge out of Finding Your Life Purpose

Describe your ideal day. Project yourself several years into the future and imagine that your life is essentially perfect. Take a piece of paper and answer these questions… What would your life look like? Are you working? What type of work are you doing? What do you do all day? Who is in your life?

Now that you know what the end looks like, what can you do today to take the first step in that direction?

Try a Day of Solitude. Go to a remote place that inspires you. Bring plenty of water, even some snacks, a journal and pens and/or pencils. Just sit with yourself. Let your mind go. Write down the thoughts that appear.
Volunteer. Find an organization in your community that interests you. Doing something worthwhile can be a good way to discover your purpose. Even if you come up short, at least you’ll have done something important.
Assume you can do the impossible. When anything is possible, what would you do? Take action to bring your dreams to life.

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Write. Similar to solitude but not as long. Perhaps the most effective way to discover your life’s purpose is to spend an hour writing. At the top of your paper write, "My life’s purpose." Now spend the next 60 minutes writing whatever pops into your mind.

When you find something that stirs strong positive feelings within you, you’re probably on the right track.

Investigate a new hobby. We all have at least one activity we’ve been putting off until a more convenient time. Doing something new exposes you to new ideas and thoughts. Now is the time to jump in and get started. You might be surprised what you discover.
Do something that terrifies you. Skydiving? Public speaking? You might find your life’s purpose during the process of conquering this fear.

This can be challenging and it might take some time, but get started today.

Spend a day being totally inspired. From the time you wake up until the time you go to bed, attempt to spend every moment inspired. The right books, music, and movies can help you maintain an inspired mental state.

You’ll believe you can do anything. What would you do?

Ask yourself what you would do if you had $10 million. How would you spend your time? What would your life look like? Can you figure out a way to make a living doing one of the activities you would be willing to do for free if you had the time?

Keep trying the above tips until you’ve found something that really excites you. When you find your purpose, there will be no doubt. Also keep in mind that your purpose, may not be one big encompassing thing.

You will need to devote some time to thinking and planning but not so much you forget to enjoy your life. It’s having passions, and the perseverance to pursue them, that makes you a star.

Finding your life’s purpose will make life exciting and meaningful!

Stay Unstoppable,

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In Pursuit of Happiness

by Ann Rusnak

Do you seek happiness? Are you looking around you for someone or something to come along that makes you happy?

Answering yes to either or both those question is the reason happiness eludes you.

You doesn’t need create or look for happiness. It already exists within you. Happiness is a choice and it’s up to you to choose happiness.

If you don’t want to be happy you won’t be.

A great way to experience happiness every day starts with giving yourself permission to be happy. Focus on the positives of your life instead of the negative. Using affirmation can help you flip your thoughts. Once you become skilled at it, the rewards are pure joy!

Happiness Affirmations and You

Happiness affirmations can help you attain happiness mindset.

What are happiness affirmations?

A positive statement that can change your life.

Affirmations work a lot like mental imagery techniques where you visualize yourself doing something great. Instead of being visual, though, affirmations are spoken.

The words you speak have the power to evoke your emotions and activate your mind to accomplish great things. You program your mind with repetitive positive thoughts that enable you to achieve your goals and live the life you dream!

For instance, when you doubt your right to be happy, you can say to yourself, "I find reasons to laugh every day," or something as simple as, "I give myself permission to be happy."

Giving yourself permission is powerful. It breaks down your mind’s resistance.

When you’re always in pursuit of happiness, you may find that it’s elusive. That’s because your mind believes you need to look for sources outside yourself or for people to "make" you happy.

Every time you use happiness statements, you reaffirm the thought and program your brain to be happy.

Here are some more examples:

Who Can Use Happiness Affirmations?

You can! With the help of affirmations you can change your life, one happy thought at a time. You’ll be amazed at how quickly you can integrate affirmations into your life and how soon they can make a mind shift change.

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When you use positive statements, you push out the negative thoughts, leaving no room for them in your life. When you remind yourself that you have a right and a reason to be happy, you’ll feel happier, and life will suddenly become so much more enjoyable.

It’s certainly worth a try to see if you can change your life one statement at a time and end up full of happiness and joy!

Stay Unstoppable,

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