Tag: lessons
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Perception and Critical Thinking: How Attention Affects Intention
In today’s world, we are often tasked with processing debilitating levels of information at nearly all times. To meet this need, oftentimes the first sacrifice is our emotional investment in the activities around us: if we tried to keep up, pathetically, with emotional investment of all that happens, we would exhaust ourselves before breaching even…
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Communication Strengths and Weaknesses to Improve Your Daily Relationships
Be courageous when reason fails you be courageousin the final reckoning it is the only thing that counts. Zbigniew Herbert Who hasn’t wished they could communicate themselves more clearly? Whether shyness, anxiety, lack of vocabulary or language, lack of knowledge, lack of confidence… there are hundreds of influences that may impede one’s ability to communicate.…
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Associative Behaviors: Processing a More Engaged Environment
Growing up in Farmington, learning moments often got thrust upon me in unconventional and difficult-to-immediately-resolve situations. For instance, at a friend’s birthday party when I was 8 or 9, his father took us for a ride in a large offroader through some fields full of cat grass, cottontail, and old corn stalks. The rare beauty…
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Understanding Behavioral and Emotional Strengths for Satisfaction
Looking at yourself, it can be difficult to have the mindfulness to consider what types of situations your parsing is especially effective for. I think often about how mismatched strengths are causes of strife – I am an excellent organizer; however, pair me with another organizer and we are bound to be sluggishly incompetent as…
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Strength as Feelings and the Circus of Consideration
The major arcana of tarot can be powerful associative and spiritual indicators for mindstates. The strength card, one that I hope for and find great inspiration in any reading, is ripe with exploratory definitions and situations that, when contextualized properly, yield unrepentant conviction. Looking into strength as feelings can yield quite a bit for many…
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Defining Emotional Goals: Keys to Personal Growth
Setting tolerable goals empowers oneself to find identifiable pathways to growth and success. When I was in college, one of my greatest stabilizing mechanisms was writing lists upon lists upon lists. I would get so obsessed with organizing myself that I wouldn’t ever attend to what needed doing. Eventually, I turned my list-writing into a…