Category: Personal Development

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Personal Development

Question of the Day: What Is Your Impression or Experience of Stock Market Investing?

My most recent self-educational fixation (not for the first time) has been to improve my understanding of stock markets and financial investing with stocks. I’ve found it to be far more interesting than expected, with respect to how the market itself works, and regarding the tendencies of mind I encounter when considering investments. I’m curious about other people’s experiences of these matters: What has been … Continue reading Question of the Day: What Is Your Impression or Experience of Stock Market Investing?

SeekerFive12 Comments
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Personal Development

The Ripple Effects: Understanding the Impact of Your Actions

During our everyday routine, it’s easy to underestimate the consequences of our actions. Whether it’s the words we speak, our decisions, or our paths, every action sets off a ripple effect, often reaching farther than we anticipate. Today our world is fast-paced, digital footprints linger and connections run deep. Therefore it’s crucial to pause and consider the profound impact we have on others and the … Continue reading The Ripple Effects: Understanding the Impact of Your Actions

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Personal Development

Change: Understanding the Evolutionary Roots of Fear

In the timeless words of Buddha and Aristotle, change is an undeniable fact of life. However, the pace of change in our modern world has reached unprecedented levels, ushering in disruptions across social, technological, political, and environmental dimensions. As we grapple with this constant state of flux, managing uncertainty becomes a pressing challenge for many, often evoking fear. The Acceleration of Change in Our Modern … Continue reading Change: Understanding the Evolutionary Roots of Fear

crisbiecoach7 Comments
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Creativity, Gratitude, Health and Wellbeing, Inspiration, Personal Development, Self-awareness, Spirituality

Life Is A Healing Journey

Dive deep into the inspiring journey of Anuschka Alborzian, a holistic coach who defied the odds after surviving a stage four brain tumor. Her transformative story is a testament to the power of miracles. In this interview, Anuschka opens up about her most challenging moments, the profound experiences during her health struggles, and the incredible rebirth that led her to a fully present life. From … Continue reading Life Is A Healing Journey

People Life Politics And Bullshit9 Comments
Personal Development, Self-awareness

How Essentialism Can Help You Get More Out of Life

Do you consider yourself a minimalist? My focus on decluttering and sustainability might lead some to call me a minimalist. I’m not a fan of labels, but I prefer the term essentialist. If you’re not familiar with essentialism, read on to learn about its core principles, and how they can help you get more out of life. I heard the term essentialism for the first … Continue reading How Essentialism Can Help You Get More Out of Life

Michelle (Boomer Eco Crusader)14 Comments
Personal Development

Pete Walker’s Four Grieving Processes: Angering, Crying, Verbal Ventilating, and Passively Feeling

In this post, I write about four processes that deserve more attention and are applicable to regular life, to philosophy as something lived, and to recovery from Complex PTSD (Cptsd). We might, I think, refer to these “grieving” processes as “emotional processing” processes. Pete Walker, however, is employing the term “grieving” in a somewhat broad sense. It doesn’t only relate to death in the literal … Continue reading Pete Walker’s Four Grieving Processes: Angering, Crying, Verbal Ventilating, and Passively Feeling

SeekerFive7 Comments
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Creativity, Personal Development

Happy New Year – Sharing resolutions or not, that is the question!

Happy New Year to everyone at Wise and Shine. Wishing a good year for all our readers and our team. I hope that you have an abundance of health, wealth and happiness. As we begin a new year we reflect on the past year, making plans for the year ahead. We engage in the custom of making New Year Resolutions. I’ve done my bit too, … Continue reading Happy New Year – Sharing resolutions or not, that is the question!

Brenda13 Comments
Personal Development, Self-awareness

A Blank Page – Write Your Best Chapter in 2024!

Happy New Year! It’s hard to believe it’s 2024. Are you a new year’s resolution person, or is today just another day for you? Regardless of how you feel about resolutions, opening up a new calendar at the start of the year provides a blank page and a new opportunity. Are you ready to write your best chapter in 2024? Let’s get started! Let’s be … Continue reading A Blank Page – Write Your Best Chapter in 2024!

Michelle (Boomer Eco Crusader)26 Comments
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Creativity, Gratitude, Inspiration, Personal Development, Purpose

Who am I?

The Ramana Maharshi self-inquiry meditation inspired my “Who am I?” poem. I send massive gratitude to Ramana Maharshi for inspiring me to shape this poem. – Who am I? I was born in the city of Isfahan That’s the place my parents met They fell in love, danced the flame of love and drama kind of – Who am I? I am a daughter A Sister A … Continue reading Who am I?

People Life Politics And Bullshit11 Comments
Creativity, Critical Thinking, Gratitude, Health and Wellbeing, Inspiration, Language, Life Hacks, Personal Development, Purpose, Relationships, Self-awareness, Spirituality, Work and Life

Repost: The Importance of Language When Making New Year’s Resolutions

It’s that time of year again when people think about the new year and how they’d like to make changes in their lives going forward.  We often refer to these proposed life modifications as “new year’s resolutions.” The other day, while stepping out of the shower, the idea hit me—insights come as flashes of insight and often at the strangest times—that the way we verbalize … Continue reading Repost: The Importance of Language When Making New Year’s Resolutions

Troy Headrick9 Comments
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Critical Thinking, Gratitude, Health and Wellbeing, Inspiration, Personal Development, Pointless Overthinking, Self-awareness

The art of vitality

A journey of awareness Mastering the art of vitality has been a journey of awareness for me, and this is how it started. A few years ago, I removed the “digital validation machine” that I kept under my dressing table. Every morning, when I got up, I visited that “digital validation machine” and  watched the numbers change. They grew higher and higher, and my eyes … Continue reading The art of vitality

People Life Politics And Bullshit12 Comments
Creativity, Critical Thinking, Gratitude, Health and Wellbeing, Inspiration, Life Hacks, People and Places, Personal Development, Purpose, Relationships, Self-awareness, Spirituality, Work and Life

Repost: The Real Secret to Being Happier and More Successful in the Workplace

In “What I’ve Learned about Life while Watching My Father Age,” a blog I wrote several weeks ago, I mentioned that I’d been reading On Death and Dying, a wonderfully insightful book written by Elisabeth Kϋbler-Ross.  Throughout that tome, the author argues that doctors need to take a more “human” approach while treating dying patients.  She also points out that the field of medicine stresses the … Continue reading Repost: The Real Secret to Being Happier and More Successful in the Workplace

Troy Headrick14 Comments
Critical Thinking, Inspiration, Personal Development, Relationships, Self-awareness, Spirituality

A Tantra Way of Living

Some days ago I received an email and it gave me Déjà vu. This story started back in 2022.  I had been told that I should explore Tantra on many occasions over the years. Tantra? Should I explore sexuality with random partners and call it spiritual sex? No, thank you, that is not for me, I thought.  Maybe it triggered my ultra-Iranian origins ; who … Continue reading A Tantra Way of Living

People Life Politics And Bullshit6 Comments
Creativity, Critical Thinking, Gratitude, Health and Wellbeing, Inspiration, Language, Life Hacks, People and Places, Personal Development, Purpose, Relationships, Self-awareness, Spirituality, Work and Life

Repost: Places that “Made” Me: Installment Three

My greatest regret during my Peace Corps experience is that I wasn’t into taking photos at that time.  I was into living life, though, as hard as it could be lived, tiptoeing right up to the line of being wildly self-destructive.  It’s just that I don’t have much of a photographic record of all that living beyond the boundaries.  I do have memories, tons of … Continue reading Repost: Places that “Made” Me: Installment Three

Troy Headrick21 Comments
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Creativity, Life Hacks, People and Places, Personal Development, Politics

Where is home? They say home is where your heart belongs

Where is home? It is a question that has been growing within me more, the older I become. My life has been greatly affected by politics, moving, and family patterns. This has given me a broader insight regarding life, the world and humanity, than most people around me.  In this video, I am talking about where is home, my experience as a foreigner and uprooting … Continue reading Where is home? They say home is where your heart belongs

People Life Politics And Bullshit21 Comments
Creativity, Critical Thinking, Gratitude, Health and Wellbeing, Inspiration, Language, People and Places, Personal Development, Purpose, Relationships, Self-awareness, Spirituality, Work and Life

Repost: Places that “Made” Me: Installment Two

If you read my first installment, you know that I was a Peace Corps Volunteer and was sent to PĨock, Poland, a beautiful and fascinating city located on the Vistula River, to complete my Pre-Service Training (PST), a demanding educational regime that was designed to see if I’d be up to the various challenges I’d certainly encounter once I was sent off to the town or city … Continue reading Repost: Places that “Made” Me: Installment Two

Troy Headrick15 Comments
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Creativity, Inspiration, Personal Development

Judge Me, Judge Me Not

When I was 17 years old, I worked in a grocery store. One day a co-worker and I were pushing a giant skid full of milk cartons through the store. The skid was piled high with milk crates and was much taller than we were.  We were using a skid mover, which was being steered by yet another coworker; driver in the front, two “engines“ in the back.  Continue reading Judge Me, Judge Me Not

Todd Fulginiti36 Comments
Creativity, Critical Thinking, Gratitude, Health and Wellbeing, Inspiration, Language, People and Places, Personal Development, Purpose, Relationships, Self-awareness, Spirituality, Work and Life

Repost: Places that “Made” Me: Installment One

My mind works in mysterious ways.  For example, three or four days ago, for no particular reason, the following question popped into my head:  I wonder who said, “Clothes make the man”?  I then almost immediately forgot that I’d asked this question—my brain having its own unique way of functioning—and went about my daily business. This morning I got online and found out that Mark … Continue reading Repost: Places that “Made” Me: Installment One

Troy Headrick12 Comments