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Sunset at Hopi Point at Grand CanyonHow to Intentionally Write Your Way to Success
Writing is a secret success weapon that’s often overlooked. There’s tremendous power in penning your thoughts, ideas and strategies. Learn about the power of writing with intention and how it can help you reach your business goals.

How to Develop Focus by Eliminating Distractions
The ability to focus is one of the most important time management skills that you can possess. The greater your ability to focus, the quicker you can complete a task. Even though it’s a skill you have to develop, it’s well worth the time and effort. In this article are 9 tips that are powerful ways to remove distractions from your life and be able to focus better.

Changing Your Mindset to Achieve Success
Many of us stunt our growth and stop ourselves from getting what we want by our mindset. We have that voice in our heads that we listen to that tells us that we can’t do something. That kind of thinking keeps us stuck. Here are several tips on how to change your mindset from “I can’t” to “I can.”

~ Linda-Ann Stewart

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Trending Articles of the Week

Sunset Crater plant Self Esteem and Confidence Are Often Confused
Self-esteem is self-respect and self-confidence a belief in yourself. There needs to be a harmony between your self-confidence and self-esteem for you to be more authentic. Learn some ways to cultivate both of these so you’re more comfortable with yourself and more effective in your world.

The Success Secrets of Focus
High achievers have learned how to center their attention on the right things at the right time for optimum results. When you focus your time and energy doing the things that you are most skilled at, you eventually reap big rewards. Learn some simple habits that can help you get focused and be more successful.

What Values Do You Live By?
Values are not what we talk about. They are how we live. They determine why we make and live the choices we eventually do. Sometimes we live by one set of standards but judge ourselves by another. Here are some tips on how you can align your values with who you are.

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Trending Articles of the Week

Rainbow at SnowbowlDo You Rescue or Empower People? How to be Most Helpful
Sometimes, trying to make things better for those you care about actually undercuts their self-confidence. When you support them to find their own answers, the solutions are more powerful for them.

Handwriting vs typing: is the pen still mightier than the keyboard?
Computers may dominate our lives, but research suggests that mastery of penmanship brings us important cognitive benefits. Researchers think that giving up handwriting will affect how future generations learn to read. A study indicated that note-taking with a pen, rather than a laptop, gives students a better grasp of the subject.

The 2 Types of People to Eliminate From Your Life Forever
These are people who want everyone as unhappy as they are and they’ll do everything they can to bring you down. They’ll undermine your successes and create chaos to keep you distracted. Learn how to recognize dream-killers and crazy-makers and why you need to let them go.

~ Linda-Ann Stewart

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Trending Articles of the Week

Flagstaff ArboretumHow to Cope with Intense Emotions
A powerful way to diffuse difficult, tense and stressful situations is to take a neutral or objective position to it. This article gives 2 simple ways to detach from viewing negative situations and shifting into being calmer and more resourceful.

10 Little Things You Can Do To Feel Happier Instantly
A lot of people see happiness as a destination, but according to the author, happiness is really a by-product of engaging in meaningful and fulfilling projects and activities. The 10 suggestions to help you feel happier range from being present, being nice to others to being nice to yourself. These small actions will make a huge impact in your life.

Changing Lens: How To Shift Your Focus On Strengths vs. Weaknesses
When trying to grow, change, and improve do you focus on fixing your weaknesses or nurturing your strengths? This article addresses ways of motivating yourself to improve. It discusses the how to focus on your strengths and also on how to avoid motivating yourself through negative means (criticism versus encouragement).

~ Linda-Ann Stewart

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Trending Articles of the Week

Grand Canyon Rim Trail8 Ways to Enhance Self-Love
One the greatest struggles you probably face is to accept and love yourself because most of us seem to be programmed to ridicule ourselves. To love yourself, you have to treat yourself better, mentally, emotionally and physically. Take these tips to start making progress in recognizing how important you are to yourself.

Clarity Is the First Step Towards Success
Without the clarity of knowing your destination, you can get off track by any number of distractions. Distractions can be everything from day-to-day living to listening to other people and their opinions. Learn some questions to ask yourself before you set out on your journey, so that you can plan the trip to your goal.

3 Weird Questions to Help You Find Your Life Purpose
To create the life you want, you have to think big and magical. You have to be able to see the bigger picture and not get caught in the details. You also have to be able to take the good with the not-so-good. Use these three questions that will help you explore your life purpose from a completely new angle.

~ Linda-Ann Stewart

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Trending Articles of the Week

Flagstaff Aspen Rainbow3 Quick Ways to Boost Your Self Esteem
Self-esteem is basically about having a positive and realistic sense of who you are. You like yourself and understand your strengths. You believe in your abilities and recognize the areas where you could use a little more work. Take these tips to boost your confidence and build your sense of self-worth.

Future Me Leads the Way
The author had a meditation to visualize the person she’d become later in the year. She focused on how she looked and felt. In difficult moments, she would remember that vision. Within a couple of months, she’d become her vision of herself. Use her inspiration to envision your better and future self.

5 Tips To A Positive Life
Happiness is a choice you make. Your attitude and perception is under your complete control.
It takes effort to change your attitude and create a positive life. Take these 5 tips and start taking charge of your happiness.

~ Linda-Ann Stewart

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Trending Articles of the Week

Grand Canyon Rim TrailWhy You Need a Daily Prioritization Meeting
We live in a culture of urgency, constantly throwing our emotional energy into the latest public scandal, emergency, or cat video. Most of us work in always-switched-on companies where everything feels urgent. Call backs, emails, and meetings are wrought with peak energy. How quickly do you expect a response to an email or changes to a report?

The World Is Not Falling Apart
Never mind the headlines. We’ve never lived in such peaceful times. When you look at the numbers and the trends, things aren’t as bad as they seem. As a matter, of fact, they’re far better than they’ve ever been. As a species, as a world, we are making progress.

Is it Time for a Personal Growth Mindset?
Our focus on competition, grades, and standardized test performance is actively robbing children of the opportunity for the sort of personal growth that really matters. Each one of us has our own unique set of potentialities, and our current standardized testing climate is squelching all children from becoming who they really could be.

~ Linda-Ann Stewart

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Trending Articles of the Week

Rainbow at SnowbowlThe More We Practice Gratitude, the Happier We Are
Radio host, Thom Hartmann, drops science about the power of generating gratitude within oneself, as one of the most powerful psychological healing tools that human beings have available to us.You can get a rise in your serotonin levels (the “happy chemical”) in your brain and turn your life around, simply by focusing on what you are grateful for.

Scientists say this simple psychological shift can help you achieve your goals
Harness the power of what researchers call the “fresh-start effect.” Whenever we feel like there’s a chance to leave the old behind and achieve something new, we’re more motivated to make progress on our goals. Learn what this means and how to use it to achieve your goals.

Building Self-Confidence: Preparing Yourself for Success!
From the quietly confident doctor whose advice we rely on, to the charismatic confidence of an inspiring speaker, self-confident people have qualities that everyone admires. The good news is that self-confidence really can be learned and built on. Learn about your level of self-confidence and how to build more.

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Trending Articles of the Week

Sunset Crater, Flagstaff AZFollow the four Rs to break lifelong bad habits
Believing that the brain is not able to changed is false. The brain can be rewired and responses changed. Psychiatrist Jeffrey Schwartz had developed a mindfulness-based process which allows you to be more proactive and improve your life.

How to kick negative self-talk to the curb
We’ve all been guilty of dwelling on the negative. However, when that gloomy self-talk becomes a habit, over time it can make you depressed, anxious and stressed and be hard-wired into our brains. Learn 5 ways to erase the negative self-talk and be kinder to yourself.

5 Steps to Reduce Anxiety
We all get anxious sometimes, but we don’t have to let it control our lives. Here are some simple exercises you can use to become less anxious. All of them can be started immediately and you can take control of your life again.

~ Linda-Ann Stewart

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Trending Articles of the Week

Sunset Crater plant The Roots of Mindfulness
How a group of Jews turned a Buddhist spiritual practice into a distinctly American phenomenon—and a multi-billion-dollar industry. A fascinating article that examines how the mindfulness wave started and grew in this country.

10 Times You Should Definitely Say ‘No’ And Do Your Own Thing
Many of us tend to put ourselves and our needs behind what other people want. It can be incredibly hard to say “no” when faced with a request. But we need to put ourselves and our well being first. Here are some tips on when to say this important word.

How To Make Work More Meaningful
More than money, promotions, job security or even flexibility, we want to know that what we do has purpose in the world. Researchers have found that leaders can help make people’s work more meaningful in various ways. But studies are finding there’s one way that matters even more than receiving acknowledgement and encouragement from leaders. Learn what that factor is.

~ Linda-Ann Stewart