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Training Your Focus
We all have a negativity bias that causes us to see what’s wrong faster and more frequently than what is right. This bias operates at the preconscious level. We don’t even know it is happening but we can surely take a quick look at our past and perhaps current experiences to see it rearing its ugly head. We have all had days where everything seemed to go great except for one incident that we can’t stop thinking about. If left to our negativity bias, this one incident can cast such a dark shadow that we no longer even see the positives. These...
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We’ve heard time and time again, reflection should be an important part of anything we do. Teachers ask up to reflect on a lesson they gave, coaches ask us to reflect on how the practice or game went, we even ask ourselves to think about how a day went that we were nervous about. But have you ever stopped and reflected on reflecting? Did you know there is actually a process you can follow when you reflect that best supports your happiness? Well, there is, and it looks like this. This is a simple guide to the process of...
read moreEye of the Beholder.
beauty is in the eye of the beholder phrase of beauty proverb:beauty cannot be judged objectively, for what one person finds beautiful or admirable may not appeal to another. Photography is a wonderful hobby or art. If you look at the works of some of the greatest photographers, you will see each focuses on and captures images differently. This itself is a great lesson in valuing your own uniqueness. There are always going to be others that find you beautiful or the way you go through life beautiful. Open the picture...
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