Category: Life Skills

Learn how to focus on the soft skills, the people skills like good communication, effective leadership, positive motivation, and managing your emotions.

Being in Relationship with Ourselves: The Foundation of Healing and Growth

Written by Maria Connolly. Posted in Dream Big - Start Small, Life Skills.

Today, something clicked for me while listening to a conversation between Simon Sinek and Lewis Howes. They were exploring what truly fosters healing, and Simon, who typically gravitates toward evidence-based concepts, expressed some hesitation around ideas like self-love and gratitude practices to promote being in relationship with ourselves.

What captivated me was when Simon used the metaphor of falling in love with your partner. He described how love isn’t something that simply appears fully formed, but rather develops through consistent attention, care, and presence. In that moment, I had a profound realization: we need to approach being in relationship with ourselves in exactly the same way.

Five Basic Survival Skills We Must Learn to Thrive in Today’s Challenging World

Written by Maria Connolly. Posted in Dream Big - Start Small, Life Skills.

When people talk about basic survival skills, they usually mean foraging, hunting, fire-starting, or shelter-building. But in the 21st century, we need additional kinds of survival skills.

Thinking back on my childhood, I see how my parents prepared me in some important ways for life in the 21st century. My parents taught me basic survival skills: how to adapt, deal with change, and be prepared to face any challenge. Yet there were other key skills I had to learn the hard way.

Why Intelligent People Always Bounce Back Stronger & Better

Written by Maria Connolly. Posted in Dream Big - Start Small, EMERGE Method, Handling Change.

Intelligent people? What does that mean? From my point of view, intelligent people are fully aware of their entire spectrum of intelligence and continually work to make the mind-body-spirit connections stronger. So far we’ve explored different facets of my EMERGE method based on Embody: Somatic and Energetic Intelligence, Mindset: Cognitive and Experiential Intelligence, and Engage: Emotional and Relationship Intelligence. Today we’re exploring R for Resilience: Spiritual and Intuitive Intelligence.

Making Your Bed – A Small Routine that Makes a Big Difference in Your Life

Written by Maria Connolly. Posted in Change Your Life, Transform Your Life.

Improving quality of life depends on change. Because if nothing changes in your life…nothing changes! The most impactful changes are often very small like making your bed, as Karen discovered. You’ll get a peek into her story below.

We all hear the reports that the rate of health problems such as obesity, depression, and heart disease are increasing. I believe many are in crisis. They just don’t know how to get started and stay on track.

Perhaps you’d like to exercise more, eat healthfully, or develop more resilience. But you just can’t maintain your good intentions. Rather than be in a “let life happen mode”, a “take charge of life” mode will be more helpful. Something as simple as making your bed can help.

Time Management Tips that Reduce your Stress and Increase Productivity

Written by Maria Connolly. Posted in Controlling Stress, Dream Big - Start Small, Handling Change.

Do you feel like you’re always battling against the clock and there’s not enough time to do what you need to get done, let alone what you want to do? And since your long to-do list is never finished, maybe you’re always nagged by a feeling of failure. Here’s a secret that can help: the best time management tips are built not on being task oriented but upon creating a mindful state of mind.

Category: Life Skills

Being in Relationship with Ourselves: The Foundation of Healing and Growth

Five Basic Survival Skills We Must Learn to Thrive in Today’s Challenging World

Why Intelligent People Always Bounce Back Stronger & Better

Making Your Bed – A Small Routine that Makes a Big Difference in Your Life

Time Management Tips that Reduce your Stress and Increase Productivity

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