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Overcoming Procrastination with Mindfulness in 3 Simple, Easy Steps

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

Some days it feels like you’re drowning, because you want to do a task but you can’t get started. Mindfully practicing the following steps to overcoming procrastination will change your life.

Some days it feels like you’re drowning. You know you want to do something, but you can’t get started. You feel too overwhelmed. What makes us feel like that? 

It’s not a flaw in your character. It’s a chemical process in your brain! Neuroscience explains why we procrastinate. And when you understand why, then you can find ways of naturally working with your brain chemistry. 

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How to Cultivate Inner Goodness — The Missing Value We Absolutely Need

Written by Maria Connolly. Posted in Life Skills, Self-Leadership Skills.

Cultivating inner goodness as one of our core values makes us capable of living more meaningfully and spreading goodness outwardly to our community. What I love about my community of people is that you want to make a difference, living a meaningful life that’s filled with purpose. To do that we focus on one of the most important elements to fulfilling your potential — being wholly connected with your core values. Over time you’ll find that you refine and re-define what your core values are. In youth, you may focus on ambition. In later years, you may focus on resilience. In my list of core values, I left out one that I believe we need now more than ever: cultivating inner goodness.  

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How Defining Your Values Gives You More Energy for What Matters Most

Written by Maria Connolly. Posted in Life Skills, Self-Leadership Skills.

While you can’t create more time, by defining your values you can increase your energy and the mindful way you use time.Does it feel like you never have enough time or energy? While you can’t create more time, you can increase your energy and the way you use your time. How? By defining your values – identifying what’s most important to you. They are your source of intention, power, energy and motivation. On the other hand, if you’re trying to do something that doesn’t matter, you’ll give it up and this creates negative energy zappers, “Here’s another project I quit, failed at, and left unfinished. I’m such a loser. I can’t get anything right”

Your energy comes from four main sources — your body, emotions, mind, and spirit. The good news is that you can systematically expand and renew your energy by intentionally eliminating practices that deplete you while increasing behaviors that support you.

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Recovery: How to Use This Power Skill for Peak Emotional Fitness

Written by Maria Connolly. Posted in Change Your Life, Self-Leadership Skills.

The Universal Recovery Principles, which apply to physical, emotional and psychological recovery, help us play the long game without being overwhelmed.When people think of the steps to recovery, they often associate it with drug or alcohol abuse or trauma. As a result, the word “recovery” has an element of judgment or negativity attached to it… “Oh, you’re in recovery, well we won’t talk about that!” Added to that, the common attitude toward being successful in business and the sports world is that we must “Hustle and push through it, Rest is for wimps!” Thankfully, despite this negativity, people are finally recognizing how vital recovery is to our ability to perform at our very best.

In the following example, you’ll see why recovery is so essential…

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9 Brilliant Ways to Keep Momentum Alive – The Ultimate Plan for Life!

Written by Maria Connolly. Posted in Change Your Life, Self-Leadership Skills.

Instead of goal lists, supportive life routines keep momentum alive because they don’t add negative self-judgment, mindless reactions or self-loathing.Your future is built upon the choices you make today. However, we may forget that ‘where we are right now’ can be one of our strongest stability points. Remembering to stop, breathe, and regroup or simply slowing down and acknowledging that you’re okay can keep your momentum alive. 

Part of my personal POWER routine is to use my Best Year Yet Tool. I find a quiet space and ask a series of searching questions to observe and celebrate everything accomplished during the present year. And from this, I create a plan and momentum for the upcoming year. 

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