From my own life experience, and from what has worked for me, I recommend finding personal growth resources and building relationships with other like-minded women to help you grow in your life, career and personal life. This means that you build a community of women around you. Actively seek out women who have what you want or aspire to. Don’t just settle. You need women who will help you stretch your personal growth beyond your current limits. This community of resources consists of what I like to call modern day feminine support groups or hope building groups. Your goals should be to be part of tight-knit groups that foster your growth, trust, and bonding relationships. Don’t be shy to be part of multiple feminine support groups if that is what it takes.

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There is a lot to be said about the idea of attracting abundance by setting goals and going through a formalized process to ensure that our goals are achieved. There is a great process that each of us can use to help us manifest and accomplish our goals even faster and that is the idea of “Acting As If.” Not only is this a very uncomplicated process but it is one that is a lot of fun to do as well.

Attracting love and abundance exercises

Let’s say you want to attract your dream car. It is great to think about what make and model you want and even the color. Now, to take this a step further, take your dream car out for a test ride. As you sit in the car, enjoy that new car smell, touch the upholstery and imagine yourself driving it to and from work everyday. By doing this, you are adding an emotional attachment to your thoughts and actions. You are acting “as if” you have already accomplished your goals for your dream car and thus you will be attracting it much faster.

Perhaps you are serious about quitting your job but haven’t yet found another job that you intend to leave your current position to pursue. Now, get in front of your computer and type out your letter of resignation. Imagine how great you will feel when you submit it to your employer and the excitement you will feel about starting a new career. You won’t hand the letter in until you have your new position but set your goals to read this letter to yourself every day. This was one of the action steps I took in my own life at one point and it worked great!

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My very good friend Nikole recently said, “Every time we become aware and refrain from gossip about another person, we evolve and grow.” Gossip, intentional or unintentional, betrays trust and confidence, separates friendships, and stirs up dissension. Even when meant to be without harm, gossip is opposite of Love and always breaks trust and self integrity.

We’ve all been a victim of unfair gossip in the past, and we’ve all made the mistake to be the self starter of gossip one point or another. While some people thrive on the opportunity to destroy others (and we all know a few such people), others are addicted to small-talk gossip, mindless, idle chit-chat – but one is not better than the other. In fact, some of the worst gossip starts from idle chit-chat.

Sometimes we start to discuss a situation about a friend, a colleague, or someone we do not even know personally. Before we become aware of it, we find ourselves involved in talking behind someone’s back, revealing things shared in confidence, repeating hearsay, and dishonoring trust before we can become self aware about what happened. Small talk and gossip should never be something to bond over and should not be used a means to occupy idleness. Gossip is never helpful, and it is hardly ever without consequence.

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Building trust in relationships by always telling the truth

Imagine a world of perfect honesty and transparency.. Probably an unlikely scenario, but you certainly can do your part and it will go a long way in building an authentic, intimate and lasting relationships. It’s surprisingly simple to find yourself saying a little white lie to protect your friends or family, or even a situation at work. But if you tell the truth even when the truth isn’t perfectly pleasant, you will build self value that communicates to the outside world and your relationship that you are trust worthy and of strong character. If the foundation of your persona is one of unwavering truth, your true self will shine more confidence to the outside world that will draw the right relationships in your life, people will sense comfort and goodness when they are around you.

Building trust in relationships through vulnerability

We all have so much fear when it comes to being the first one to share a secret or to say I love you or to admit that we are wrong, or to be the first to apologize. Research has actually shown that the happiest, most stable, and successful people have no fear of building trust by being vulnerable. Of course, there are situations at work or with people who have proven not to be trusted when it is not appropriate to volunteer personal information or be an open book. But with those you care about and value, don’t be afraid to live out loud, to take down your boundaries, and to love unconditionally, to pour hope into them, to share your dreams and to say I love you first.

Building trust in relationships by sticking to your promises

You all have a few friends who you call flakes, and hopefully you are not like this yourself. To build a foundation of trust, you have to do what you say you will do. If you make plans, stick to them, don’t cancel on coffee or dinner at the last minute because you are tired or have a last minute burst of social anxiety. If is important to honor your commitments because it makes your anyone in a relationship with you feel safe. Honoring your promises and makes you responsible, reliable and trust worthy. On the flipside, don’t overpromise. Be mindful of your time and make promises you know you can keep. Especially when building trust in new relationships you really want people to know your true best self. Your friends want to know that their time is valued and that they can count on you.

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How to keep your hair beautiful and healthy is an important concern. The truth is that your hair is your best accessory; it is a symbol of health and style. Nothing adds to your confidence like shiny, bouncy, luscious, long hair. When it relates to healthy hair growth, for the most part, natural treatments are better than chemical treatments for your hair. We are truly grateful that these are cheap, easy to use and most of us have them in our kitchen already! Here are some home remedies that will get you a full head of celebrity hair. No more split ends, dandruff, or thinning hair. All you need is a little patience!

Apple Cider Vinegar For Beautiful Hair

Everyone has a little apple cider vinegar in her or his kitchen cabinet. Vinegar is one of the easiest and simplest natural hair growth home remedies. Apple cider helps hair grow because it contains important minerals and enzymes. Try applying a cup of apple cider vinegar mixed with 1 ½ cups of water on your scalp to remove bacteria and dead skin cells that block the pores where hair grows. You can do this in the shower, before you shampoo and condition your hair. Use the mixture like a shampoo, massaging your scalp for a couple of minutes and rinsing off the mixture from your hair.

Hair Growth Supplements

Yes, supplements are important and they work. There are a lot of great hair and nail supplements on the market. The key to how to grow hair faster and healthier is taking these consistently. Give yourself at least three months to start to see lasting results. Daily intake of biotin and folic acid pills strengthens hair and adds volume. Some other good vitamins to include are A, D, E, K, C and B6, silica, magnesium, zinc, sulphur. But be careful, there is such a thing as too much when taking vitamins. Be patient in taking your daily dose and you will notice a difference in your hair health and growth.

Healthy Diet for Hair Growth

A well balanced diet plays a very important part in promoting hair growth. Make sure your diet is rich in vitamin B12, iron, zinc and calcium to prevent hair loss. Since protein is essential to grow healthy hair, your diet should contain fish, lentils, cheese, nuts and eggs. If you are vegan, make sure you are getting enough supplements to make up the difference.

The Original Post is Located Here: How To Grow Hair Faster – Celebrity Hair Home Remedies

Let’s be honest – your work takes up most of your day. If you take away the time needed for sleeping, eating, and errands, you can most likely break up the day into 80% work and only 20% everything else. This means that if you hate your job, your boss, or the company you represent, the majority of your valuable time on this earth is spent in an unfulfilling way. Sad but true. If this is the case, here are a few things you can do to.

Evaluate the Root Cause of the Problem

If you hate your job, take out a piece of paper and start writing what you love and just can’t stand about your current situation. Is your company poorly run, offers a product you can’t stand behind, is your role unchallenging and boring, or is your boss an insecure maniac you can’t be around, much less spend most of your day trying to please? Do you like your industry, or do you think you need a total career change?

No job is perfect but it is important to figure out what makes you unhappy. Before calling it quits and starting to look elsewhere, it is useful to identify if there are any changes you can make. Write your list and sleep on it. Think outside the box. Is there something you haven’t seen before? Can you transfer to another department? Can you talk to your boss in an open and honest conversation about your challenges with his or her approach to your team and assignments. Be honest with yourself. Are you doing all you can do to achieve excellence in your role.

Are you contributing to your team above and beyond, regardless of the fact that most of your colleagues just simply suck? Can you pave the way and lead by example? Think about your work being your worship. You are given certain talents and skills, how can you develop them in and outside your role in a purpose-driven way? If you are a janitor – maybe during this season in your life you can focus on being the best janitor in your city, while in the meantime acquiring skills to advance into something more meaningful that has been on your heart for years.

The Original Post is Located Here: What To Do When You Hate Your Job?

The love we often feel and give to the world is self serving, personal love. We feel love in response to some condition, quality, desire, or need. In personal love, we are drawn to and love those who are loving to us, provide us with some resource, fill a craving or desire for gratification, or fulfill some incompleteness. Personal love is ephemeral and full of conditions and limitations. As soon as someone doesn’t meet our expectations, personal love easily turns to emptiness, fear, anger or even hatred. As soon as our checklist of desires isn’t met, we become disappointed, unstable and depressed.

Unconditional love, on the other hand, is not about approval, fear, envy, security, or attention. While love is often misunderstood as an emotion, in actuality, it is a way of being in the world. It is a way of having perfect unity between the self, the Universe, God, everyone and everything without any attachments or judgment. Unconditional love is without plans, expectations, or animosities. It is giving love to ourselves and others with compassion and openness – with no strings attached to what we give.

While we may be compassionate givers, volunteers, speakers of kind words, our motivations are often not for the sake of love itself. Often, we give because it is fashionable to do so. We may not admit it, but we give love in an attempt to build ourselves up, demonstrate our kindness and usefulness, improve our self image or self esteem. Yet, although beautifully wrapped in good cause, this love is an empty offering.

When we give conditional, personal love, conditional love is what we receive back. When we chain ourselves to what we give, we find ourselves bound and stuck emotionally, psychologically and mentally. We are all holding on to so many chains that it’s unbearable, yet we wonder why the love we give doesn’t go anywhere.

In turn we block our ability to receive love, because we believe that others, like us, can’t reflect unconditional love to us.

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The saying, “You don’t know what you have until it’s gone” is absolutely true. However, many times people often don’t realize it until the situation has come and passed. There has been an event in my life in which this phrase was extremely relevant. Never the less, I was lucky enough to nip it in the bud and take the opportunity to have it before it was gone.

Last summer was a very tough time in my life. My grandfather (my mothers dad) had been diagnosed with cancer about two years earlier and was waiting for his last day. It was the beginning of June when my mother asked if I could stay with my grandfather at his house during the day.

His nurses told her that there had to be some one there to watch him or else he would be placed into a nursing home.  My mother had to work and since I was home from school she thought I would be the perfect person to ask.

Even though I have always been around my grandparents growing up, it had been somewhat difficult to grasp a strong relationship with them because of the language barrier.  I am full-blooded Portuguese and my grandparents barely spoke any English.  Due to being able to understand most of the language I could speak with them here and there, but never a full-length conversation.  I saw this as an opportunity to not only look after the person I loved so much but to spend quality time with him. The time I never really got the chance to experience with my grandfather.

I willingly said that I would do it. My mother then told me that she was going to figure something out in which I would get paid for the time I spent there.  I didn’t say anything in response at the time.

The first summer day came that I would begin staying with my grandfather. I was actually taking summer classes online at the time so I had a lot to do while I was there. I chatted with my grandpa making sure he was okay and had everything he needed. He was a little grouchy about needing to have someone there. Because he was such an independent man, he didn’t see the need for it.  As the day went on he watched the Portuguese channel on the television and sat on his recliner as I sat across from him on my computer. The days after that were a lot similar. Some days my little cousins would go over and spend time with us, which I loved because I rather have them there with me then out causing trouble.

My friends would all ask me, “Doesn’t that bother you that you have to go to your grandfathers house every day?” I would respond with, “No. I actually love spending time with him, I know that I won’t be able to for much longer.”

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Have you ever had the experience of driving to a familiar destination and being completely on automatic pilot?  You arrived safely but you were not in the least self aware of the process of how you got to be at point B from point A.

If you have had this experience, you will recognize that automatic pilot is the opposite of mindfulness and being self aware.  Being on autopilot, or not paying attention, is usually when we get in an accident, stub our toe, bump our head, or burn our dinner.

Being on automatic pilot means that we are losing moments in our day.  If time feels like it goes quickly, it goes even more quickly when we are on not present.  Maybe we don’t care about losing moments, but there is a mounting body of research showing us that we should be concerned with how we spend the precious moments that make up our lives.

Mindfulness meditation is receiving a lot of attention in the psychology and medical fields.  Each year, more studies are coming out showing that there are numerous health benefits associated with this practice – enhanced immune system functioning, reduced stress and anxiety, increased feelings of self awareness and well being, reduced experiences of pain, increases in empathy and kindness, and more.

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For those who are in relationships, romantic dates are a wonderful opportunity to show love and appreciation for your significant other. Chocolate and candles (and maybe some good wine) fill the atmosphere as the world takes time to celebrate all those who are in love. That leaves a question, however—what if you aren’t in a romantic relationship?

Many equate the thought of being single to being lonely. Watching couples in restaurants or walking down the street holding hands can be a reminder of what we may be missing at this stage in our lives. That doesn’t have to be the case, however. Being in a relationship doesn’t need to be a pre-requisite for celebrating life. Here are a few important things to keep in mind.

Being single is not the same as being alone. Just because you aren’t in a romantic relationship doesn’t mean that you have no one else in your life who loves you. Don’t focus on what’s missing. Celebrate the love around you by spending time with your family or friends. The love you have for them is different than romantic love, but it’s still forgiving, comforting and often unconditional.

Don’t forget to celebrate with – YOURSELF! Do things that make you happy – whether it’s curling up with a good book or treating yourself to some pampering. Go to the gym, start a new workout routine, or look up a new recipe! Remind yourself of your strengths and talents. You’ll find that you can make yourself happier than anyone else can if you really try to.

Don’t harbor resentment for those who are in love. Don’t focus on regret, past relationships and avoid bitter feelings towards people who are in love! Seeing all the love around you should make you feel hopeful, happy, and blessed. Appreciate the love you witness, for it shows just how amazing humanity can be. Look for signs of beauty, simplicity, inspiration and kindness.

Putting love out there will bring love in return. The universe is full of give and take. What you put out there is what you’ll get back. Perform acts of love, big or small. Look for ways you can give love to others. Tell a family member you love them. Send someone a thank you note. Spend some time at an animal shelter, a children’s hospital, or a retirement home and see the joy on the faces of those you’re showing love to. Be the love you wish to see in the world.

The Original Post is Located Here: How To Celebrate Love Without Being In A Romantic Relationship