The Power of Resilience: How to Stay Motivated Despite Challenges

The Power of Resilience: How to Stay Motivated Despite Challenges

This insightful article provides a deep dive into effective strategies for overcoming obstacles to achieve your goals, maintaining your focus on long-term aspirations, and coping with failures in personal goal achievement. Whether you're struggling with maintaining progress towards your goals during tough times, redefining your objectives after a setback, or need guidance on boosting your confidence in goal achievement, this post covers it all. With expert advice on coping strategies for stress, the role of mental health in achieving goals, and techniques for overcoming the fear of failure, you'll gain invaluable tools to help recalibrate your goals and continue your pursuit of success. Join us in exploring how mindset shifts and resilience-building practices can transform challenges into stepping stones towards your dreams.

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How to Come Home Even If You Don't Know the Way

How to Come Home Even If You Don't Know the Way

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A Guest Post Opportunity You Need to Know

A Guest Post Opportunity You Need to Know

As I venture onward, I invite you to join me in writing from your heart, and speaking only that which truly resonates with your soul!

Sharing is a basic human need for belonging and community. We let others in by courageously opening ourselves up.  With courage and vulnerability, we speak our mind. Opening our hearts through communication of any means, we can actually authentically connect with others in a way that makes our brilliant souls sing.

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How To Get Inspired When You’re Not Feeling It

How To Get Inspired When You’re Not Feeling It

Inspiration leads to motivation. These two go hand in hand … and you need both to succeed and actually ACHIEVE. YOUR. GOALS.

The brilliant Nadalie Bardo shares her points for inspiration and motivation in this post to help you decipher the spark that lights your flame AND the fire that moves you to action.

Exhale the frustration and take a deep breath of inspiration with these 5 ways to get inspired each and every day.

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5 Steps to Independence :: What You Need to Know About Being Free

5 Steps to Independence :: What You Need to Know About Being Free

To Americans and French alike: Freedom isn’t free.  We stand on the wide collective shoulders of those who have come before us!

Living in the Bastille neighborhood of Paris, France has given me much to think about, and be grateful for. 

Check out these 5 practices to non-attachment. come home to yourself, and alas gain your personal independence today.

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What You Need To Know About A Positive Mindset When All Things Are New

What You Need To Know About A Positive Mindset When All Things Are New

We have arrived in Paris! Everything is different, and the line between delightful and utterly inconvenient is fine. Accordingly, I remember to keep the open and positive mindset my living requires.

The Trifecta of Self-Mastery: The prescription for optimal health and well-being is everywhere present (1) eat right, (2) exercise regularly and (3) get plenty of rest.

I share about the Bastille, our new neighborhood in Paris, and, as a reminder to myself, relate the physical self-care we take outwardly and apply it to the care of the inner life.

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Anxious to Amazing in 45 Minutes a Day

Anxious to Amazing in 45 Minutes a Day

We all feel anxious from time to time. Sometimes, anxiety may escalate to a point where curling up in fetal posting at the corner of the room feels like a wonderful escape.

When all may seems too much, dedicating a few minutes a day at the beginning of the day can change your life.

By investing just 45 minutes a day, Lucy Smith shares how she transformed her life by choosing to engage in activities that support her personal growth.

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5 Things I Am Grateful My Father Taught Me

5 Things I Am Grateful My Father Taught Me

I thank my father for teaching me much more than words can describe. I honor his Soul and his Spirit. I am so grateful for who he has been to me.

My relationship with him, exactly as it is, shapes who I am today.

My experience of losing my faith and myself many times in the jungle of life has enabled me to find myself with great courage time and again.  Each time, I return home to my heart, stronger, and with greater conviction of the blessing that is life. 

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The Truth About Mindfulness In The Midst of Changing Times

The Truth About Mindfulness In The Midst of Changing Times

Your life is what you are present to. When we practice getting out of autopilot, we become present, even for a moment, with what is unfolding in front of us.

Truth is, the present moment, right now is the only moment we’ve got. We no longer can do anything about the past. Each moment that passes is a fleeting moment: fragile, temporal, and never to be seen or experienced again.  The future is yet to be, and if we attempt to focus solely on our future, we will miss what is in front of us, right here, right now.  

Through the practice of mindful living, we can learn to live each moment of this precious life.

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Letting Go of Being Strong and 21 Tips to Surrender You Need to Know

Letting Go of Being Strong and 21 Tips to Surrender You Need to Know

Immersed in faith, strength and surrender go hand in hand.  These two attributes: one of being strong, and the other of letting go,  are polarities.  Even though they may seem to be diametrically opposite, they are but 2 sides of the same coin.

The beautiful Kim Bourbeau Smith offers us an inspired post on Letting Go of Being Strong, ALL the Time.

Additionally, we offer 21 Tips to Surrender Yourself to Self Care, releasing your soul from needing to be constantly “on” all the time. The 21 tips to surrender and practice self-care will bring you back to groundedness and homeostasis when you find yourself off balance.

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6 Simple Ways to Love Your Mom

6 Simple Ways to Love Your Mom

Come re-discover these 6 Simple Ways to Love Your Mom 🙋🏻‍♀️

Take it from an orphan, you don’t know what you’ve got in a Mama until she's gone. This post is written to the sons and daughters who still have living Mothers - Moms - Mommies in their lives. Regardless of age, the relationship dynamic or otherwise, there is always room to strengthen the maternal bond. 

True love and overflowing gratitude come from the heart. Whether you are starting, building or repairing your relationship with your mom, the heart is a very good place to start. ❤️ 

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What You Need to Know About Change and How to Be Awesome 😎

What You Need to Know About Change and How to Be Awesome 😎

C.H.A.N.G.E. :: The 6 Step Road Map of Change 

COMPREHEND IT :: HUNGER for it :: ACCEPT IT :: NURTURE IT ::  GROW with it :: EMBODY IT

These steps will empower you to harness the wisdom within in times of uncertainty and transition.  If you feel resistant to change, remember that change is part of life, and inevitable.  We can either fight it tooth and nail, deny it and suffer, OR embrace it with open arms, make the best of it, live our faith...and be AWESOME. 

 

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6 Steps To Vulnerability And How To Stay Safe You Need To Know

6 Steps To Vulnerability And How To Stay Safe You Need To Know

AUTHENTICITY & MINDFULNESS: Letting our guard down and becoming vulnerable is a courageous practice we must all consider if we want to coexist in a world that encourages connected, conscious, open-hearted living. To be vulnerable is to be close to or intimate with; allowing ourselves to be vulnerable or close to something is an act of courage It is to know undeniably that we are grounded in our Truth, regardless of what another’s version of reality is.

The practice of vulnerability is against the grain. However, standing firm in our Truth is precisely the reason we need to bring the idea of vulnerability and safety home to heart and integrate it in our personal practice.

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The Irrefutable Benefits Of Gratitude That Will Improve Your Life

The Irrefutable Benefits Of Gratitude That Will Improve Your Life

If you've every wondered what good it would do to give thanks, or if you have wondered whether giving thanks is worth a try, this article will provide you with compelling, irrefutable benefits to turn practice into habit. 

Giving thanks will fuel your soul ... and your good!!  Learn more about Gratitude as the Key to Happiness!

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How to Be My Hero: 9+ Ways to Support Your Favorite Blogger

How to Be My Hero: 9+ Ways to Support Your Favorite Blogger

Many have asked how they can support me, this blog and the work at Path of Presence. 

Financial contributions (gold coins, and the like) to continue this blog is always welcome! Just kidding! Your generous support goes much further than just monetary gifts.  It is the intent and energy of how we come together as a community that fosters goodwill and continued blossoming.  LEarn more about how to support your favorite blogger and be part of the consciousness he or she fosters.

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What You Need to Know About Being Recognized by Peers

What You Need to Know About Being Recognized by Peers

I received amazing news that I have been nominated for the prestigious Blogger Recognition Award.  Aniela-Maria Codita of https://www.puntodistile.com, nominated me and while I am grateful and thrilled, I am also terrified to share this publicly.  Albeit, here I am.

The Blogger Recognition Award is given to bloggers by bloggers to encourage and acknowledge the hard work and effort that goes into creating posts.  It’s an opportunity for bloggers to recognize one another for our respective contributions through our blog, and to the blogging community.

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The 5 Love Languages and What You Need to Know

The 5 Love Languages and What You Need to Know

The 5 Love Languages is a framework of expression.  

It is a system to process how we understand love, how we express ourselves (and our love), and what we understand as Love.  

Using this framework as a foundation for healthy relationship enables heart-to-heart communication about what you need (and what the other needs) to give and receive love.  Read on and take the quiz(zes) to see what your Love Language is!

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The Triumphant Practice of Blissing Out You Need to Know

The Triumphant Practice of Blissing Out You Need to Know

The radical and triumphant practice of following your bliss is a total reversal of what we have been taught. Yet, in this consciousness of life, there is space. The practice of slowing down is against the grain.  And in the space between the space is where we find our bliss.  

We get the opportunity to truly live: present and awake.  This is what you need to know as you step away from the regimented scheduling and planning of life. 

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The Power Of Beginning This Year With Thank You

The Power Of Beginning This Year With Thank You

Shift the energy from which your resolutions come and give thanks.  Beginning this year with sufficiency by thanksgiving for the abundance that flourishes in your life, will support you, shift your mindset and your entire way of living from lack of abundance, from insufficiency to overflow. 

This embrace of your personal power will empower you to allow life to flow easily through you, and as you as you live another fantastic 525,600 minutes of 2018.

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Choose to Be Crazy Happy: 5 Tips To Increase Positivity

Choose to Be Crazy Happy:  5 Tips To Increase Positivity

Whether you are a baseline optimist or pessimist, there is a path to positivity. 

Awareness of whether you lean toward being the grouchy cynic or the Mary Poppins in life will help you connect the pieces from your starting point to the end result you desire.  This is especially applicable during times of resolutions, renewals and goal follow-throughs. 

Instead of setting yourself up for disappointment, choose to be crazy happy by implementing and integrating these 5 tips to increase positivity.

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