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5 Things Every Relationship Needs to Stop Doing

April 30, 2015 by Power of Positivity

Relationships are hard. Our ideas about the “perfect” relationship often get in the way of the work we need to do. It’s easy to lose sight of the goal – which should be to live a happy life together.

In fact, according to Lisa Blum, Psy.D, a clinical psychologist in Southern California, “The strongest most enduring relationships take lots of hard work.”

“Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.” ~ Hugh Mackay

Knowing nothing is perfect, and those relationships are complex, it makes sense to be mindful of how we approach them.

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” – Lao Tzu

Here are 5 things every relationship needs to stop doing:

1 – Stop Taking Each Other For Granted

Once the honeymoon period of your relationship is over, it is easy to become complacent and take each other for granted. Not intentionally, of course, it just happens. It starts by forgetting to thank your partner when he picks you up from work or can be something as simple as answering your phone during dinner.

The Fix: Start being grateful

Appreciating your partner and being thankful for the little things they do, set a foundation of gratitude in your relationship. Research suggests that expressing gratitude to your partner can make your relationship stronger, make your partner feel valued and increase your commitment to the relationship and your partner.

And it’s not just external expressions of gratitude that are beneficial either. Internal expressions of gratitude for your relationship are just as important. Feeling grateful for your partner and your relationship but not necessarily expressing it will increase your and your partner’s satisfaction levels.

2 – Stop Being Couch Potatoes

In order to be happy in a relationship, you must first be happy with yourself. When life gets busy and hectic, making exercising together a priority can be challenging. There are a million reasons to skip your workout but how does that make you feel – sluggish or lazy, maybe? Those are not feelings you want to bring into your relationship.

The Fix: Start exercising together

Exercising together is a great way to build a stronger relationship. Couples that exercise together will see physical benefits, but you will be surprised to learn that your emotional connections also become stronger.

3 – Stop Trying to One-Up Each Other

Everyone knows that communication is a critical building block to a solid foundation but communicating with each other is only half the battle. The other half is communicating using the same language. Much of any day is spent trying to impress colleagues, friends, and acquaintances. You might not be consciously doing it, but it’s happening. When that need to impress comes into your relationships, it can work against you.

The Fix: Start talking the same language

Stop trying to be better and start finding common ground. When you and your partner are working from the same vocabulary list including quantifiers, pronouns, and adjectives, you have a higher likelihood of getting on the same page and keeping it together.

4 – Stop Clinging to Each Other

A relationship is only as strong as its two parts, and when those two parts get lost, the bond weakens. The initial attraction in any relationship is the individual qualities of each person. Fostering those characteristics and allowing you and your partner to continue to grow as individuals will make your relationship healthier and more satisfying.

The Fix: Don’t be afraid to spend time apart

Make self-discovery and growth a priority. Learn to appreciate each other during absences. It emphasizes the value of your relationship and makes you covet what you have.

5 – Stop Setting Expectations

Setting expectations beyond love can backfire. As two people work together on a relationship, the people and the relationship will evolve. The problem with expectations is they rarely evolve in pre-determined ways. Setting expectations means you are setting yourself up for disappointment.

The Fix: Let the relationship naturally evolve

Love freely, nurture your love and allow it to grow without limitations. Let your love for each other, not your expectations, determine where your relationship will go. Every relationship goes through ups and downs, peaks and valleys. There will be days when you are so in love that you can’t think of anything else and then there will be days when you feel like giving up. That is normal. What is not normal is giving up.

Final Thoughts on Stopping Poor Relationship Habits

Remember, you are in a partnership and partnerships require respect, commitment, communication, and compromise. It’s not all about you. Instead, it is a formula that includes both you and your partner. That means their happiness is just as important as yours. And when you make each other’s happiness a priority, you will see your relationship thrive.

6 Ways to Increase Your Emotional Intelligence

April 30, 2015 by Power of Positivity

What makes someone successful? Is it book smarts, street smarts or a combination of the two? Is someone naturally gifted in their field? In fact, most successful people have emotional intelligence.

Emotional intelligence is knowing how to remain calm in the face of adversity and collected and focused despite external challenges. Moreover, it is the quality that makes people happy and successful.

That is good news because unlike being naturally-gifted, emotional intelligence is a skill that can be learned, practiced and improved.

In a study on emotional intelligence, a group of participants given emotional intelligence training were better able to handle difficult situations and manage their emotions than the group that received no training at all. The study also showed that the one-time training lasted well beyond the experiment. This means the work you do now will benefit you well into the future.

Here are 6 ways to develop your emotional intelligence:

1 – Be Self-Aware

The first step to increasing your emotional intelligence is to understand your emotions by becoming aware of them. We are often told to hide our feelings but to tap into your emotional intelligence you need to feel.

Start by observing what you are feeling during one given day. Stop yourself and let yourself feel whatever it is you’re feeling.

Feel it and then describe it. When you describe it, you are becoming more aware and will begin to understand your emotional triggers and patterns.

2 – Adapt Your Emotions

Now that you are becoming more aware of your emotions start looking for patterns and triggers. Look back at a situation where your emotions got the best of you and think of what you would do differently if you had remained calm and collected.

This mental exercise isn’t about beating yourself up; it is about learning from your past experiences to better prepare you for the future. The best place to be when reacting to a situation is in a place of calm. Once you begin to recognize the patterns, you can talk yourself out of overreacting and begin to react with more intention.

3 – Forgive

Forgiveness is often misinterpreted as letting someone off the hook. The reality is forgiveness is about taking back emotional control over your feelings and releasing the control someone else has over you. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself.

Forgiveness is acknowledging that the action happened and how it made you feel. There is nothing there that can be changed. You can choose to reside in the feelings of the past or choose to move through them. Moving through it and letting it go is the one the healthiest and most beneficial things you can do for yourself.

4 – Be Empathetic

Understanding your feelings is only half the equation, the other half is understanding and being able to imagine how others feel. Empathy connects you to another person through shared feelings.

By nature we are selfish beings; we want what we want. And that works just fine until you have to interact with another selfish person. It is through shared feelings that we begin to find our true, authentic self. Our ability to empathize with people gives us the courage to live outside of ourselves.

5 – Manage Criticism

We are critical beings, and one of the best and easiest ways to increase emotional intelligence is to stop taking everything so seriously. In other words, lighten up.

How you manage the criticism you receive, can impact every area of your life. If you are holding onto critical statements and carrying them with you throughout the day, that negativity is infecting everything you touch.

It’s important to realize that most criticism that evokes negative feelings in us is usually designed for that purpose by the other person. When we react negatively to criticism, whether constructive or not, we are reacting out of our fears and insecurities.

Go back to becoming more self-aware and adapt your emotions to the situation. When you begin to react to criticism from a place of calm rather than anger, you begin to see the criticism as a valuable tool for improving your performance and showing someone’s true colors.

6 – Stand Up for What Is Right

When you begin to develop your emotional intelligence, you are just trying to get better acquainted with your feelings and how to adapt them to serve you better. Every interaction comes with emotions from everyone involved, and now it’s time to take your emotional intelligence to a new level by standing up for what is right.

Gossiping is a prime example. When you are in a conversation that includes gossip, you might not have the most positive feelings yet you let the gossip go on. There are a million reasons why you do: you don’t want to offend anyone, you want to be part of the crowd, or you don’t know how to take a stand.

By not doing what is right, which is speaking from your experience, you are not adapting your emotions to the situation, you are giving in to them. Do what’s right and take a stand for your truth. It is not always easy swimming upstream, but the effort always pays off in the end.

Developing and growing your emotional intelligence is something that anyone can do. It doesn’t require a high IQ or access to higher education, it simply requires you to become vulnerable enough to listen and learn from your feelings.

10 Things You Don’t Need to Live an Awesome Life

April 26, 2015 by Power of Positivity

We spend the majority of our lives just waiting for them to get better somehow. But, we often forget about the power and happiness that lies within us already, activated by our awareness and willingness to dig deep inside ourselves to find real meaning.

You came to this Earth as a complete, limitless being, and you can start living an awesome life NOW, without waiting for certain conditions to be met. Despite what you may have heard before, you certainly don’t need these things to enjoy life to the fullest.

10 Things You Don’t Need to Live an Awesome Life

1. A Ton of Friends

As you grow up, you learn the importance of having a few good friends rather than a few handfuls of distant acquaintances. The saying “quality over quantity” really applies here; have a close circle of friends who you can confide in and share both the good and bad times with – you won’t feel the need to count when you really connect with the people in your life.

2. Approval of Others

You might feel comforted and reassured when others agree with you, but you don’t need their consent – you just want it to feel accepted. However, the highest form of acceptance comes when you rely on yourself and no one else for validation.

At the end of the day, caring so much what others say about how you choose to live your life will drain your energy and make you doubt your inner voice. Truthfully, you don’t need their approval as long as you trust in your gut feelings to guide you.

3. A Detailed Map of the Future

You could plan to go to college for four years, score a high-paying job, get married, buy a house, and settle down and have kids. But, what if life had different plans for you? What if you started your degree and realized you didn’t really have a passion for it? What if you developed a strong interest in yoga during your time in college, and decided to get certified to teach yoga instead?

Of course, your own scenario will probably differ from this one, but the point remains: don’t get so caught up in planning out your future that you freak out when things don’t go as intended. You don’t need to have such a rigid agenda for your future, because most of the time, life will direct you to a path you didn’t expect to find.

4. Perfection

Many times, people fall into an all too common trap: thinking they will attain happiness when they meet all the conditions to live a “perfect” life. But, what happens when they never meet all of those conditions? Will they never find happiness?

Truthfully, you don’t need to have all your ducks in a row in order to live a happy life; what you do need, however, is an optimistic, resilient attitude, and the willpower to keep going no matter what obstacles you face.

5. An Obsession with Money

Money – it can either help or hurt people, depending on how you look at it. It’s fine to desire enough money to live comfortably, but when it becomes an obsession of possession, you have crossed into unhealthy territory.

Don’t give in to the hype; money can buy basic necessities, freedoms, and help many people when you allow it, but it doesn’t define you as a person – your true value lies in the size of your heart. Money is a form of energy that can help us live an awesome life, as long as we own it and it doesn’t own us. Even so, money isn’t most important – when you focus on what money can’t buy, you’ll realize you already have what truly matters in life.

6. Living Up to Society’s Expectations

Maybe you feel pressured to have a “normal” life just because everyone else does, but trust me, you don’t need a 9-5 job, a 30-year mortgage, lots of material possessions, an impeccable credit score, or even a car, to feel happy. Society drills these expectations into people’s heads, and influences people to believe they just cannot live in any other way than the one sold to the masses. Don’t worry about measuring up to any standards; just follow your heart and focus on what makes you the happiest. Remember, life doesn’t come with a manual on how to live it; you get to write it as you go along.

7. Always Having a Romantic Relationship

Sure, romantic relationships can bring so much happiness and comfort into one’s life, but many people still use others to provide them with stability and pleasure without first finding it themselves. Just because you don’t currently have a partner doesn’t mean that you won’t in the future; just focus on living in the present and cultivating your own happiness. As you create a life you love, you will attract a like-minded partner who not only loves you but loves him or herself as well (which is just as important).

8. A Stress-Free Life

This one might come as a surprise, but short-term stress has actually been shown to have benefits by boosting brainpower, increasing immunity and resilience, and instilling motivation.

Realistically, no one can live a life completely free of stressors, but you can adjust your attitude so that no matter what situation you encounter, you can get through it triumphantly while becoming a better person in the process.

9. Constant Praise from Others

It feels good when people commend us for our accomplishments, but you should feel equally as proud of your achievements even if no one cheers you on. Family and friends will most likely support you, but don’t become so addicted to the compliments that you feel you need them to boost your self-esteem.

You can still feel awesome about yourself and have a high level of self-worth even if others don’t offer you continual praise.

10. Power

I don’t mean the power you have within – I mean seeking it outside yourself and using it to dominate others. Many of the top corporations in the world got to where they are today because of their incessant fixation on power. You don’t need to exert control and force upon others in order to feel important and worthwhile; in fact, this behavior will only isolate you from the majority of society. Stay humble, and remember that the strongest people in the world have won the most vicious battle ever fought: the war with the mind.

“Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power. -Tao Te Ching”

20 Secrets to Creating Meaningful Relationships

April 25, 2015 by Power of Positivity

Unfortunately, relationships don’t come equipped with instruction manuals and lifetime warranties – we just have to learn from experience and take our chances with the people who come into our lives. Even so, you can ensure more successful, deeper relationships by keeping these things in mind:

20 Secrets to Creating Meaningful Relationships

1 – Understand Yourself More to Understand Others Better

The deeper your knowledge of yourself, the more engaging your relationships with others will be. You have to dive into your soul’s depths and look at yourself before you can surface again; otherwise, your understanding of people won’t ever exist beyond shallow waters.

“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.” – Lao Tzu

2 – Don’t Allow Others to Dictate Your Emotions

Nothing outside yourself should determine how you feel because you get to choose your emotions in each moment. Others might influence your feelings, but they should never get the best of you. To become the master of yourself, you must realize that only you govern your mind, not anyone else.

3 – Never Sacrifice Who You Are for Someone Else

Put your best self forward, and don’t worry about what others have to say. If you feel like someone doesn’t appreciate who you are, let them go. We came here to express ourselves authentically, not suppress ourselves to appeal to others’ wishes.

4 – Everyone Is Just a Reflection of You

Realize that everyone walking this Earth is just another you. They breathe the same air, have the same basic needs, and have a heart that beats with purpose just like you do. We all have slight differences, but our similarities connect us profoundly and serve as a bond.

5 – Don’t Expect Anything from Others

High expectations often come with great disappointments. By having no expectations, you will get a pleasant surprise when you come across honorable people, and have an easier time brushing off those with bad intentions.

6 – Give People Your Undivided Attention When They Speak

In this age of instant connection with the world online, we have largely forgotten how to converse with people in person. When someone speaks, put down your phone and really clue in to what they have to say; active listening enhances relationships, improves trust, and makes the other person feel like they matter.

7 – Loving Yourself More Attracts Others Capable of Giving that Love Back to You

Since you attract what you are, cultivating more self-love within and becoming more empathetic toward yourself will allow others who reciprocate those feelings into your life. Remember, you have an invisible energy field around you called your aura that others can sense, so increase your vibration to attract better people into your life.

8 – Open Your Heart Fully, and Don’t Let the Fear of Getting Hurt Hold You Back

All of us have been through some sort of pain in the past, but letting it control you will only block love from entering your life. Once you realize that everyone comes into your life to teach you something, you can transcend that pain and open yourself up to new experiences.

9 – Give Unconditional Love No Matter if It’s Returned

The more love you give, the more will come back to you. Once everyone can overcome the ego and embody their true loving nature, we will see a world with much less hurt and more thriving relationships.

10 – The Right People Will Come Along When You Stop Looking for Them

“Don’t chase people. Be yourself, do your own thing and work hard. The right people – the ones who really belong in your life – will come to you. And stay.” – Will Smith

When you stop chasing and allow your point of attraction to bring your experiences to you, life begins to align itself exactly as it should. The life and relationships you want will come to you – just continue to be patient and think positively.

11 – Every Relationship Can Teach You Valuable Lessons

Don’t ever consider a relationship a waste of time or failure – every person you encounter plays an important role in your evolution as a spiritual being. Honor all relationships in your life, no matter how fleeting the connection.

12 – A Few Good Friends Are Better Than A Thousand Acquaintances

As you get older, you will learn to appreciate quality friends and lose interest in counting how many you have. At the end of the day, it’s not how many connections you’ve made but the depth of those connections that truly matter.

13 – Don’t Mistake Lust for Love

Lust is an egoic, skin-deep desire. Love, however, takes time and effort to cultivate and doesn’t have any motive other than to exist. Lust is selfish; love is selfless.

14 – Break Free From the Prison of What Others Think of You

The most successful relationships happen between those who feel perfectly comfortable in their own skin. People will talk regardless of your words and actions, so you may as well be yourself.

15 – Strive to Become the Most Authentic Version of Yourself

You have to spend the rest of your life in your skin – would you rather live out your days trying to escape yourself or accepting yourself and letting your spirit soar?

16 – Bring Positive Energy Into All Your Relationships

“What you allow is what will continue.” – Unknown

If you permit negativity into your relationships and don’t try to transmute it with positive energy, your relationships will inevitably suffer. Bring kindness and sincerity to your relationships; negativity won’t have any room to exist.

17 – We See Others How We See Ourselves

If you only notice the flaws in people, you likely see yourself as a flawed, inferior being. Work on changing your perception of yourself, and you will also see others in a different light.

18 – Don’t Attempt to Change People

People won’t change unless they want to, so just love everyone as they are, imperfections and all.

19 – Free Yourself from Suffering

Suffering is a choice; the more you let it linger, the more you see it appear in your relationships. Let go of pain and watch your relationships flourish.

20 – Accept that Others Make Mistakes From Time to Time

Avoid putting people on a pedestal – everyone slips up at some point, so forgive them. Every mistake offers an opportunity for growth, and solid relationships thrive on people committed to bettering themselves.

10 Affirmations You Never Want to Tell Yourself

April 25, 2015 by Power of Positivity

We talk a lot here about the power of positive affirmations because they can truly improve your life if you practice them consistently. A few demeaning thoughts here and there might seem innocent enough, but they can quickly multiply if you don’t counter them with more positive thoughts.

If you tell yourself any of the following affirmations regularly, make sure you stop telling them to yourself right now, and swap them out for more uplifting, positive affirmations instead.

Here Are 10 Affirmations You Never Want to Tell Yourself

1. “I’ll never be good enough.”

By far, this sentence right here disempowers people more than anything else. It automatically sets you up for failure before you even begin because it instills the limiting belief that you don’t possess the qualities to succeed in life. Remember, you incarnated here during these times because you have a specific purpose and the strength to bear all of life’s struggles. You ARE good enough because otherwise, you wouldn’t have been called upon to make a difference.

2. “I can’t.”

Think of how much you have accomplished in your life so far and how many opportunities you’ve found by overcoming obstacles. Your ego always wants to take the lead and discourage you from moving forward, but your heart can quickly overpower your mind if you believe in it. Remember, what you think about comes about, so by believing you can’t do something, you will manifest that exact reality. Empower yourself, and realize that the only limits in life are the ones you place on yourself.

3. “I’ll never get out of this situation.”

Just because your present doesn’t represent the life you want doesn’t mean that the universe won’t help you create a better reality. Struggles are inevitable in life, but remember, those who have met the most challenges will receive the most rewards later on. Good things take time, so don’t doubt what the universe has for you. It may not seem like it, but everything ALWAYS works in divine order, and your current situation reflects your vibration. Change your vibration to change your situation.

4. “My life is a mess.”

Learn to see the beauty in chaos. Just because you don’t have everything in order and live a “perfect” existence doesn’t mean you can’t have an enjoyable life. The happiest people make the best of their situation, change what they can, and forget what they can’t. We often magnify our problems but don’t give thanks for our blessings. Focus on what you love about your life, and your problems will suddenly seem less severe.

5. “I need to live up to other’s expectations to make them happy.”

If others only feel happy when you meet certain conditions, that’s a problem with themselves, not you. Therefore, it only makes sense to make yourself happy, and others can either hop on board the happy train or complain about everything because they had a different idea of how you should live. At the end of your life, you’ll want to look back and say you lived how YOU wanted, not how others suggested you should.

6. “Everything is hopeless.”

Giving in to the idea that you can’t make changes in your life only makes you a victim, leaving you powerless, afraid, and frustrated. You can only cultivate a more hopeful, positive attitude about life by changing yourself first because then the outside world will match your vibration. Where you once saw destruction, you will see opportunities to plant the seeds of change. Where you once saw angry people, you will see people give your love to so that their faith in humanity might be restored. It’s only hopeless if you believe it is, so try to see the positive in any situation.

7. “Life is too hard.”

“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.” – Khalil Gibran

Remember this quote next time you feel you can’t take another step; every battle you fight only makes you more resilient and capable. Every struggle makes you stronger, so don’t let them get you down; feel thankful for the lessons you’ve learned, and use them to sculpt the life you’ve envisioned for yourself.

8. “I feel so alone.”

We have over 7 billion people on this planet, so even if you feel lonely at times, know that someone, somewhere, is going through the same thing as you. If you feel alone, get to know yourself better, and learn to enjoy your own company. You can’t feel alone if you enjoy who you’re spending time with, which will help you connect deeper with others.

9. “It’s too late for me to change my life.”

Whether you’re 35 or 75, you can ALWAYS make a difference in your life. Age is just a number, and time is everlasting. Just do what you can in each moment you have breath in your body, and you won’t have any regrets. Make the most of what you have, and don’t allow the past to dictate your present or future. You have the power to mold your life however you choose, and life can change in an instant based on the choices you make in the moment.

10. “I give up.”

The moment you say this to yourself, you admit defeat. You reject any further experiences for growth that you might have had, and instead tell yourself that you don’t have what it takes to keep going. But, you forget that you have limitless potential and came here to embody your highest self. You have everything you need within, so don’t let your ego tell you otherwise.

Keep this powerful quote in mind anytime you feel negative thoughts creeping up:

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.” – Marianne Williamson

What positive affirmations do you use daily? Share in the conversation below!

5 Ways to Stop Feeling Overwhelmed

April 25, 2015 by Power of Positivity

Feeling overwhelmed is pretty common in today’s society. Managing overwhelm is a key component for working through challenges and living a happier life.

The feeling of being overwhelmed is more than just trying to figure out how to juggle a bunch of stuff at once. Overwhelm is about learning to manage life and everything it throws at us.

Here are 5 simple ways to stop feeling overwhelmed

It all starts by asking yourself one simple question…

1 – Assess What You Can Do Right Now

Sometimes stepping out of the place where you are feeling overwhelmed and trying to put things in perspective is all that is needed to help get you back to a centered place. By asking yourself what you can do right now, you are evaluating the situation and what actions you can take.

Asking yourself, “what can I do right now?” helps:

Provide a here and now awareness being in the present moment.
Slow down of the mind and body
Suspend judgment of the situation

Once you start putting a plan in place with the simplest of first steps, your mind and body can relax, focus and get to work on solving the issue at hand.

2 – Value Your Time

The lack of clarity about what is important in our lives is one of the main reasons why people end up feeling overwhelmed. Establishing clarity can be one of the most impactful solutions to overwhelm.

Setting boundaries around the use of your time is key. Protect your family time and work time equally. They may not always be equal to the amount of hours allocated, but they should be equal in how fervently you protect them. Start scheduling blocks of time on your calendar and establish some rules around that time.

Family time might mean you won’t check emails, Facebook or texts. Work time might mean not calling home to chit chat with your significant other, or it might mean putting rules on your todo list that supports your big goals. Wherever you are and whatever you are doing deserves your attention. By focusing on the now, you are avoiding overloading your brain.

3 – Learn to Say No

It’s often hard to say no because, as humans, our natural tendency is to please others. There is a lot of talk about the word “no” and learning to say it. It takes many people well into adulthood to get comfortable saying it. But once they do, their world is changed for the better.

The first step to saying no is to stop saying yes. That might seem obvious but what needs to happen is for you to take time when you asked for something. Stop the automatic yes and allow for the opportunity to say no.

Give”no” a try. It is a sure way to help you manage life and end the feeling of overwhelm. Start slowly at first, and you will soon realize that the only pressure to say yes comes from you.

4 – Ask for Help

It is often our limited thinking that prevents us from asking for help when surrounded by people willing and available to accommodate us.

It can be hard to ask for help because no one wants to impose on others. It’s easy to pretend we have it all together and can do it all by ourselves. But why would we want to?

Look at it from the other side of the coin, You probably can’t wait to help others. Helping others is a natural positivity tonic. Since helping others makes you feel good, why not let someone else feel good by helping you?

5 – Brain Dump

Our brains are not designed to be storage units, yet we use it as such by carrying our todo lists in our heads.

The problem with this is we keep adding to this list but rarely take anything off, so our brain becomes … you guessed it, overwhelmed.

Focus on alleviating some of the pressure we put on our brains by getting things out of your head and down on paper or some digital note-taking device. Your to-do list is better served when in a safe place.

The process of getting things out of your brain and onto paper is commonly known as brain dumping. You are doing exactly what it says, clearing your mind by dumping your ideas, thoughts, and tasks somewhere where you can reference in the future. Doing this releases the pressure on your brain to remember. Writing down everything means everything. Dump it all. Seeing what’s on your mind as individual tasks and not as one big list, makes everything seem much more manageable and achievable.

Becoming overwhelmed is something we create when we allow ourselves to take on too much responsibility. Doing things to manage what is on our plate will help manage it and make us happier in the end.

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Here are 5 things every relationship needs to stop doing:

1 – Stop Taking Each Other For Granted

The Fix: Start being grateful

2 – Stop Being Couch Potatoes

The Fix: Start exercising together

3 – Stop Trying to One-Up Each Other

The Fix: Start talking the same language

4 – Stop Clinging to Each Other

The Fix: Don’t be afraid to spend time apart

5 – Stop Setting Expectations

The Fix: Let the relationship naturally evolve

Final Thoughts on Stopping Poor Relationship Habits

Here are 6 ways to develop your emotional intelligence:

1 – Be Self-Aware

2 – Adapt Your Emotions

3 – Forgive

4 – Be Empathetic

5 – Manage Criticism

6 – Stand Up for What Is Right

10 Things You Don’t Need to Live an Awesome Life

1. A Ton of Friends

2. Approval of Others

3. A Detailed Map of the Future

4. Perfection

5. An Obsession with Money

6. Living Up to Society’s Expectations

7. Always Having a Romantic Relationship

8. A Stress-Free Life

9. Constant Praise from Others

10. Power

20 Secrets to Creating Meaningful Relationships

1 – Understand Yourself More to Understand Others Better

2 – Don’t Allow Others to Dictate Your Emotions

3 – Never Sacrifice Who You Are for Someone Else

4 – Everyone Is Just a Reflection of You

5 – Don’t Expect Anything from Others

6 – Give People Your Undivided Attention When They Speak

7 – Loving Yourself More Attracts Others Capable of Giving that Love Back to You

8 – Open Your Heart Fully, and Don’t Let the Fear of Getting Hurt Hold You Back

9 – Give Unconditional Love No Matter if It’s Returned

10 – The Right People Will Come Along When You Stop Looking for Them

11 – Every Relationship Can Teach You Valuable Lessons

12 – A Few Good Friends Are Better Than A Thousand Acquaintances

13 – Don’t Mistake Lust for Love

14 – Break Free From the Prison of What Others Think of You

15 – Strive to Become the Most Authentic Version of Yourself

16 – Bring Positive Energy Into All Your Relationships

17 – We See Others How We See Ourselves

18 – Don’t Attempt to Change People

19 – Free Yourself from Suffering

20 – Accept that Others Make Mistakes From Time to Time

Here Are 10 Affirmations You Never Want to Tell Yourself

1. “I’ll never be good enough.”

2. “I can’t.”

3. “I’ll never get out of this situation.”

4. “My life is a mess.”

5. “I need to live up to other’s expectations to make them happy.”

6. “Everything is hopeless.”

7. “Life is too hard.”

8. “I feel so alone.”

9. “It’s too late for me to change my life.”

10. “I give up.”

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1 – Assess What You Can Do Right Now

2 – Value Your Time

3 – Learn to Say No

4 – Ask for Help

5 – Brain Dump

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