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Spring Cleaning for Your Soul, Day 15: Repurpose Your Life
The season of spring gives the impression of starting out shy, with a few early flowers popping their heads out to test the air before the big show of color makes its striking debut. In the same way that spring unfolds one tiny, brave seedling; one sprout at a time, gaining momentum as it goes… so can you commit to living a life of purpose. On the final day of our Spring Cleaning for Your Soul challenge, we’ll set down roots for making meaningful and important changes in your life. Making Meaningful Changes in Life Remember that, like spring, positive change in your life comes one single moment and one…
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Spring Cleaning for Your Soul, Day 14: Nurture Joy in the Small Moments
Did you ever notice that the miraculous-seeming “big” things are actually a collection of very small things all grouped together? Being able to view the world as a whole made up of miniscule yet necessary pieces is the first step in understanding how even “little things” that you do can make a big impact on the world at large. In today’s Spring Cleaning for Your Soul challenge, we’ll put into practice the art of seeking and finding joy in the small and seemingly insignificant moments of our day. Joy Is Key Being joyful has everything to do with being present. Think of the beauty of the spring season that is…
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Spring Cleaning for Your Soul, Day 10: Make Room for Gratitude
Still following along with our Spring Cleaning for Your Soul Challenge? Today we’ll touch upon the importance of gratitude. Did you know that finding time to be grateful for all the blessings in your life actually can help to bring you even more blessings in abundance? This is because a happy, positive outlook creates good feelings. These are then shared with others to intensify the positive feelings all around. There is even science behind the benefit of gratitude. Positive psychology studies have been conducted which show that people who take part in a daily gratitude practice manage to reduce stress levels and increase feelings of happiness and well-being. Not only…
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Spring Cleaning for Your Soul, Day 9: Simplify your Schedule
Hello and welcome to Day 9 of the Spring Cleaning for Your Soul Challenge. We hope you’re enjoying following along with our enlightening exercises. Feel free to write to us via email and let us know how this series is working for you. For Day 9 of our soul cleanse and purge process, we will touch upon the concept of simplifying our schedule. Many people don’t enjoy following a routine. They feel that it hampers their personal freedom. Another reason why having a schedule can seem so stifling is that we then become tempted to fill up any open spot on the calendar with more activities and events. Then, when…
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Spring Cleaning for Your Soul, Day 8: Organize Your Mental Clutter
Welcome to Day 8 of our Spring Cleaning for Your Soul challenge. Thank you for continuing to follow along! Nature does a cyclical purge each winter. This clearing is necessary to make way for new life in spring time. Whatever dies returns again in a new and nourishing form. Think of a pine tree, shedding its needles to form an insulating carpet for the forest floor. The spent needles decompose along with other dead plant matter, into the most rich, fertile and life giving soil. Death brings life in a new form. So now we see how nature’s built-in cleaning process is really a readying for new growth. Our planet…
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Spring Cleaning for Your Soul, Day 7: Buff and Shine Your Attitude
Welcome to Day 7 of the Spring Cleaning for Your Soul challenge. Today we’ll focus on spring cleaning our attitude. Your attitude goes a long way for shaping what happens over the course of your day. If you approach life from a pessimistic viewpoint, you’re sure to attract more of what you’re putting out there. Since spring is such a lovely time of year, with much beauty to tantalize the senses, why not spend some time freshening up your attitude? Indeed, a poor attitude can feel like wearing a heavy wool coat when it’s hot out. The feeling weighs on you and can seem suffocating. You want to shed that…
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Spring Cleaning for Your Soul, Day 1: Freshen Up Your Perspective
Welcome to Day 1 of our Spring Cleaning for the Soul challenge! We’re so happy to be here with you at this joyful time of year. Spring is a time of cleansing. Our planet does a natural self cleaning during this season of renewal and rebirth. The trees that shed their dying leaves in the fall now use that energy to burst forth new growth. The brown, dead grass that covered the ground in winter makes way for fresh green shoots poking up from the soil. It’s pretty amazing that with each passing year, nature knows just what to do. Stepping out into the warm sunlight, kissed by gentle spring…
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Spring Cleaning for Your Soul
Ahh, spring. It’s a time of rebirth, renewal… a fresh start and a return to life. Much like the plants that have shed their outer layers to reveal new growth living beneath the surface, spring can be a time to cleanse our minds and hearts of outdated habits, attitudes and beliefs that no longer serve us. In doing so, we can clear the path to developing new, smarter ways of being that are more in support of who we are and what we value most. Do you feel like spring is the perfect opportunity to relieve yourself of inner burdens that weigh you down? Would you like to use this…
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How to Reset Your Mindset
We are creatures of habit, and that includes our mindset and thought patterns. You have probably noticed this when something stressful or upsetting happens; your mind tends to go the same place it always does. While this can be frustrating, it is also very possible to change how you react by changing your entire mindset. Flip the Script Flipping the script is about taking your normal thought processes, and flipping them. All those negative thoughts and the negative self-talk can be turned around into something positive. Remember the point is not to put pressure on yourself and force yourself to be positive all the time. That just isn’t realistic. Let…
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Day 30. Be Grateful for Friends
On the last day of our Attitude for Gratitude Challenge, we will simply appreciate our friends. What is it about certain people that makes you want to have them as a friend? Do you keep a “collection” of people that you enjoy adding to as you go forth and experience life? Much like a coin collection, you’ll want to hang onto people who provide value for you. Since everybody is different, that value could really be anything you want it to be. Often, we become friends with people based on shared special interests. It’s way better to attend a Pink Floyd cover band concert with your good ole friends, than…
