Discover Yourself and Find the Hidden Positive Spirituality in Your Life

Posted on July 14, 2018 by SPT-Techgirl66

Discover Yourself and Find the Hidden Positive Spirituality in Your Life

Do you ever feel lost, with no idea where your life is headed? Do you wish you could find a sense of direction, meaning and purpose for your life? Thankfully, you can discover the passion inside of you and experience the truly fulfilling life you were born to live.

To truly experience this rich, fulfilling life, you must become familiar with the dreams and aspirations that lie deep within your heart. For some, these values and hopes have been buried underneath a life of obligation, stress, and worry. Today, you can begin to chart a new path by embracing the hidden positive spirituality within yourself.

Try these tips when you’re ready to take your life to the next level:

Make time for yourself. In as little as a few minutes each day, you can revitalize your mood and energy level. Simply take a few minutes today to pamper yourself. If you lack the time, remember that you must feel energized before you have the energy to give back to others.
- Find simple pleasures that give you rest and make you smile. Relax in a warm bubble bath. Read a few pages of the book you’ve wanted to read for so long. Take time away from the craziness and pamper yourself. In as little as five or ten minutes, you’ll emerge from your “me” time with renewed vigor and a fresh perspective.
Try prayer, meditation, or yoga. When you’re stressed, the skill of quieting your mind and hearing the still small voice inside of you is vital. Prayer and meditation takes you away from the world and into your inner sanctuary for a few brief moments. With practice, you can activate your sense of peace anywhere and in any stressful circumstance.
- Similarly, yoga seeks to connect you with the spiritual part of who you are. Through body movements and exploration of the body/mind connection, you gain a greater sense of who you are and where you’re going.
Choose to see the good. A healthy mind is the key to a happy life. Every situation offers a unique set of challenges and blessings. When you’re faced with a challenging situation, ask yourself, “What’s great about this?” Shift your focus to the blessings, and focus on finding solutions, instead of lamenting over the problems. When you do, you’ll find peace.
Take a vacation. Sometimes, a change of perspective can only come from a change of scenery. A few days of relaxation or pursuing hobbies that you’re passionate about can invigorate your life and help you regain a positive perspective.
- You can take an unforgettable vacation in as little as a few hours. Visit your city’s bureau of tourism for ideas on attractions that you may have missed right in your hometown. You may only have to travel a small distance for a memory that will last a lifetime and a perspective that fuels you toward the peace you deserve.

If you follow these tips, you’ll discover the hopes, dreams, and values that lie deep within you. Once you’ve discovered what matters most to you. You can orient your life in a way that brings meaning to you and those around you.

Build Confidence With Daily Affirmations

Posted on July 7, 2018 by SPT-Techgirl66

Build Confidence With Daily Affirmations

Do you suffer from low self-esteem? When something negative happens in your life, do you beat yourself up about it time and time again?

Focusing on phrases such as: “That was stupid,” “I am so fat,” “No one loves me,” and a host of other negative statements can easily zap the happiness right out of your life.

Luckily, this doesn’t have to be permanent. Positive affirmations can turn your negativity around. Affirmations are simply statements or phrases, which focus on the positive rather than the negative.

These mantras can actually reprogram your subconscious thinking and bring you a plethora of good benefits that you’ll enjoy for years to come!

Here are some easy ways to incorporate positive affirmations into your life:

Affirmations should always be in the present tense.

Begin your statements with “I can” “I have” or “I am,” instead of a phrase like “I will” or “I may.”

Examples of this would be “I have a beautiful body” and “I am so intelligent,” instead of “I will never be so stupid again.”

Choose statements that focus on the positive attributes you want to encourage, saying them as if you already exhibit that behavior.

Address yourself by name when expressing your affirmations.

Believe it or not, this does make a big difference. When you say: “I, Dawn, am a beautiful person both inside and out,” it makes your affirmation more powerful because you hear the lovely sound of your own name!

Using your name in the affirmations allows your subconscious to process the words even quicker.

Focus on one or two affirmations to start with.

Although you possess many positive attributes, it’s best to focus only on one or two when you’re first starting out. If you start with twenty positive affirmations, your subconscious may be overwhelmed or dismiss the deeper meaning.

For example, if you meet someone who goes on and on about how great and beautiful you are, what’s your reaction? Usually after the second or third compliment, you tend to wonder if this person is actually being sincere! The same principal applies to practicing many affirmations at once.

Focus on one or two, and when they’re firmly planted into your subconscious, you can move on to more.

Practice your affirmations as often as possible.

Our subconscious mind is more open to suggestions when we first open our eyes in the morning and then again when we’re ready to fall asleep at night.

The more often you recite your affirmations, the faster you’ll experience lasting changes.

Don’t fret if you’re having trouble writing your affirmations.

There are many books and self-improvement websites that include hundreds of good, daily affirmations. You can then pick out one or two that you’d like to focus on and get started.

Don’t let something as insignificant as not being able to compose a positive mantra hold you back from making changes and incorporating happiness into your life!

Low self-esteem is something that holds us back from living the life we deserve. You can rebuild your confidence and self-esteem with daily affirmations and experience the joy of life you’ve been missing. Try it and you’ll love it!

A Foolproof Plan to Boost Your Confidence

Posted on June 30, 2018 by SPT-Techgirl66

A Foolproof Plan to Boost Your Confidence

Do you feel like you could benefit from strengthening your confidence?

While it’s not 100% imperative to have confidence, it certainly makes life a lot easier.

You can still accomplish things without self-confidence, but would you actually try? If you don’t believe you’re going to be successful, you’ll likely throw in the towel before getting very far. Confidence can be elusive as our success ebbs and wanes.

How can you maintain your confidence through the ups and downs of life?

Try these tips. They’ll raise your self-confidence through the roof:

Know thyself. Make a list of all of your strengths and capabilities. Include things that you seem to have a talent for but have never actually tried. Perhaps you’re reliable, intelligent, coordinated, and have excellent musical abilities.
- Putting your positive qualities on paper will show you the many reasons you have to be self-confident. You’re already doing better than you think.
List your major achievements. Think about all the amazing things you’ve already accomplished. We tend to mentally linger on our perceived failures. Try lingering on the good stuff for a change. We can choose our thoughts, so choose wisely.
Make a list of your daily accomplishments. At the end of each day, make a list of all the things you accomplished.
- Maybe you remembered to take the trash to the curb, pay all your bills on time, exercised for 30 minutes, and helped your child fix her bike.
- It might sound trivial, but each of these little things matter.
Learn how to motivate yourself. Real, justified confidence comes from the ability to achieve goals. Achieving goals largely comes from the ability to stay motivated.
- We all know it’s easier to put things off, procrastinate, and invent excuses for not applying ourselves.
- Set yourself up to be successful each day. Come up with a few daily activities that will improve your life and also provide a sense of accomplishment.
- For example, you might decide to read a certain number of pages in a book each night or exercise for 45 minutes each morning.
- Stick with your plan and you’ll begin to trust yourself to follow through.
Take good care of yourself. Looking and feeling your best can contribute to your self-confidence. Take the time to stay healthy and fit. Dress well and practice good grooming habits.
- If you take good care of yourself, you’ll start to believe you deserve it. And others will believe you deserve it, too. That’s great for your confidence level!
Set goals to boost your confidence. Setting goals is important. It allows you to see what areas of your life require the most confidence. If you have the goal of finding your perfect life partner, you might require more confidence than when it comes to introducing yourself to others.
Challenge your mind on a regular basis. Continue learning new things and keep your mind sharp. Everyone around you will find you interesting.
- Consider reading, doing brain puzzles, staying on top of current events, improving your vocabulary, and playing games that require a lot of thought.
Work at it every day. Work to complete these simple steps continuously. Strive to better yourself in all of these areas each day.
- Self-confidence is not a one-time event. It has to be cultivated over time. Growing your self-confidence is not much different from growing vegetables in a garden.

Having a high level of confidence makes life so much more enjoyable. By executing a simple action plan, increasing your confidence can be fun and interesting.

Consider drawing up your own personalized self-confidence action plan. It can be incredibly rewarding. By taking charge of your life, you’ll boost your confidence even higher.1.

7 Steps to Social Confidence

Posted on June 23, 2018 by SPT-Techgirl66

7 Steps to Social Confidence

Depending on your natural personality type and your social experiences as a child, you might be the most socially confident person you know or the least. Of course, most of us fall somewhere in the middle. However, there’s always room for improvement, regardless of your current skills and expertise.

Your ability to interact with others impacts your self-concept, career, social life, and personal life.

Life is more fun and a lot easier if you feel confident around others. The skills that make this possible are well-known but can be uncomfortable to develop. There’s no reason not to greatly increase your abilities if you’re willing to be a little bold.

Follow these steps to build your confidence around others:

Talk to a lot of people. You become more comfortable with something when you do it a lot. Most confidence issues are based on fear. By talking to a lot of people, you’ll show yourself that there’s nothing to be afraid of. Fortunately, there are people everywhere.
- Consider getting a part-time job that involves speaking to people. You could be a waiter, salesperson, customer service rep or any other job that requires interacting with others. You’ll earn some extra money, too.
- Schedule your social life. Be sure you have a few hours of social activity planned into your life each week. Get out of the house and have a little fun with others.
Study confident, powerful characters in movies. Look at movies with strong characters and note how they stand, move, and use eye contact. What is it that makes them appear so in control and formidable? Which movie character do you wish you could be like? Study them.
Have controlled emotional reactions. Think of James Bond. You could tell him he has mustard on his shirt and a satellite was about to fall on the building. He would smirk at you, say something funny, and then take another bite of his hotdog before taking any action. The most confident people underreact.
Maintain confident eye contact. Look everyone in the eye with great confidence. You’re not in a staring contest, but you can’t lower your eyes in deference if you want to be viewed as a powerful person. Practice your eye contact with everyone that crosses your path.
Stand tall. Slouching and appearing smaller than you really are has no place in your life. Imagine you were the president of the United States and were walking among your greatest supporters. How would you stand?
- Try to maintain that same posture whether you’re addressing the masses or taking your trash cans to the curb.
Create social opportunities. There are many ways you can make yourself the center of attention.
- Have a party.
- Start a meetup group.
- Become a “guest speaker” in a Facebook Live group
- Inform your peers of one of your goals, such as losing weight.
- Attend networking events.
- Get a group of people together to go out to the movies or to dinner.
- Get some friends together a group chat
Expect success. Remind yourself of your successful social interactions in the past. Visualize success in the future. Have high expectations for interactions in all social situations.

Imagine entering a room full of strangers and boldly speaking with the most attractive or influential person there. The world would truly be your oyster. That confidence would overflow into other parts of your life.

The skills of confident and effective communicators are widely known and available to all. Get a handle on this important part of your life. Your life will never be the same.

11 Tips If You Struggle With Self Love

Posted on June 16, 2018 by SPT-Techgirl66

11 Tips if You Struggle With Self-Love

How can you be happy if you don’t love yourself? Having a high degree of self-love makes it easier to take good care of yourself. If you love and respect yourself, others are more likely to respect you, too. When you love yourself, you’re more gentle, kind, and considerate with yourself.

Life can be hard. It’s even harder when you’re hard on yourself. Ideally, you are your biggest fan in life.

Use these ideas to show yourself more love:

Make sleep a priority. Everybody needs sleep. When we don’t think very highly of ourselves, we often don’t get enough sleep. It’s easy for all the things and people in our lives to get our time and attention. This leaves too little time for sufficient sleep.
Feed your body better food. If you don’t love yourself, you might not be eating as well as you should be. Show yourself that you’re a priority by giving yourself healthy food to eat.
Feed your mind better things, too. It’s not just your body. It’s your mind, too. Consider the thoughts, TV, and websites that you’re giving your mind to chew on. Are you spending your time the way you would want your 18-year-old child to spend his time?
Exercise. Taking care of your body with exercise is a sign of self-love. You don’t have to train for a triathlon but get some exercise each day.
Look your best. When people aren’t happy with themselves, their general appearance is one of the first things to slide. Give yourself the attention you need to look your best each day. Be the best-dressed and best-groomed person in the room wherever you go.
Make time to relax. Rest and relaxation are critical to enjoying life. Schedule time into your day to kick back and do whatever you enjoy.
Forgive yourself. It’s pretty tough to love yourself if you haven’t forgiven yourself for your past mistakes and failures. There’s nothing you can do about the past, so it only makes sense to let it go and forgive yourself. The things that happened in the past are best left there.
List your best qualities. Those lacking in self-love can quickly rattle off their shortcomings but struggle to identify their positive characteristics. Remind yourself of all the amazing qualities you have. Write down your positive qualities, even if they’re only slightly positive. List them all.
List your greatest triumphs. You’ve done some amazing things. Put pen to paper and write them all down. Go back to the beginning and relive your better moments.
Separate from those that don’t treat you well. If someone in your life is a regular detractor, consider giving them their walking papers. There are so many people in the world that it doesn’t make sense to put up with someone that doesn’t treat you well.
Start making the changes you’ve been avoiding. You have a good idea of the changes you’d like to make in your life. Let today to be the day you start implementing a few of those ideas.

If you can’t love yourself, who else will, other than your mother? Treat yourself like you matter, and you’ll begin to believe that you do. Our beliefs can be led by our actions. We can change our beliefs to justify our behaviors. Put your attention on your strengths and successes. Take care of your mind and body.

You’re the only person you have 24/7. Everyone else is available on a limited basis. So, make yourself a priority in your life. You’ll be glad you did!

The person I see when I look in the mirror is who I want to be

Posted on February 1, 2017 by SPT-Techgirl66

The person I see when I look in the mirror is who I want to be.

I love the person I see when I look in the mirror. When I stand before myself, I see a beautiful, talented, hard-working individual willing to do whatever it takes to fulfill my dreams.

Not only do I love my personality, but I also love my physical appearance. In my inner dialogue, I build myself up with encouragement. Criticism is absent from my mind.

Whenever I am displeased with what I see, I make adjustments to my lifestyle to achieve the desired results. I make every necessary effort to be the person I want to look at. I work out on a regular basis to keep my body in the shape it deserves.

I am the only one who determines what I want to look like. As long as I love what I see in the mirror, the opinions of others are irrelevant.

When I stand before my own reflection in the mirror, I am filled with pride at who I am. The sacrifices I make daily to improve my image are paying off.

Loving who I see in the mirror requires forgiving myself of past wrongs and being patient with myself as I progress toward my goals.

At mealtimes, I keep in mind that everything I eat has an effect on my body. Having this mentality helps me exercise good judgment during meals.

Today, I choose to embrace myself just the way I am. I choose to accept my imperfections and work on the things that I desire to change.

Self-Reflection Questions:

What is my favorite physical attribute?
What is one thing I would like to change?
How can I make my inner dialogue more encouraging?

Self love means accepting who I am

Posted on January 25, 2017 by SPT-Techgirl66

Self-love means accepting who I am.

Beneath my exterior is a soul that deserves to be honored. It forms the essence of my being and is meant to be treated with respect. Self-love means accepting who I am on the inside. The perspective of the outside world is irrelevant.

When I achieve a sincere love for the person who I am on the inside, positive self-talk occurs naturally. Building self-love happens from the inside out.

Becoming worthy of love starts with having a character of integrity. I ensure that each of my interactions with others is handled openly and honestly. I am trustworthy and proud to be a person who speaks from the heart.

My honesty inspires others to put their trust in me. Knowing that I am a safe place for others gives me a good feeling about myself.

I also approach others with kindness, regardless of the relationship we share. Leading with kindness makes room for peaceful resolution and effective collaboration. I promote positivity.

Although I have flaws, my positive traits far exceed anything that I sometimes feel insecure about. I celebrate my strengths and embrace my imperfections. There is so much about me that is lovable.

Today, I am exactly the person who I am supposed to be, and I love every ounce of my being. There is power in truly accepting myself just the way I am. With confidence, I go through each day conquering big challenges and feeling proud of my victories.

Self-Reflection Questions:

What are some of my favorite personality traits?
How do I rebuild my confidence when I am made to feel unloved by another person?
What are some positive affirmations that I can repeat to myself each day?

Nature sustains me

Posted on January 18, 2017 by SPT-Techgirl66

Nature sustains me.

In a time when technology runs the world, I appreciate opportunities to step away from it. Immersing in natural environments keeps me conscious and self-aware.

I connect to my true self when I retreat to nature. Spending time in the beauty of unspoiled environments is renewing. It gives me a chance to recall where I am from and appreciate my humble beginnings.

When I go to the beach, I unplug from technology. I lay on the sand, close my eyes, and listen to the sounds around me. Connecting in this way is therapeutic.

Being able to listen to the waves crash and the birds chirp reminds me that I share the world with other beings. Being present in those moments encourages me to maintain environmental consciousness.

I do my part by cleaning up rubbish and debris that people leave in our natural spaces. It is the least that I am able to do to protect the Earth.

As I hike through the mountains, I am careful to avoid stomping on plants. Their contribution to the continuance of life is acknowledged. I avoid taking for granted that there are millions of plants around me. Each one serves a unique purpose in the world.

Today, my time with nature is a blessing because it keeps me conscious. I recognize the value of other lifeforms on this planet. My duty is to sustain them for generations to come. I am happy to be an environmental advocate.

Self-Reflection Questions:

How much of my financial and time resources are committed to environmental causes?
How do I practice environmental sustainability?
In what ways does spending time with nature contribute to my overall well-being?

My spirit is grounded

Posted on January 11, 2017 by SPT-Techgirl66

My spirit is grounded.

I am whole and centered. I connect with my body and mind. I observe my thoughts and listen to my body. I am aware of myself and my surroundings.

I slow down. I pause in between tasks and collect my thoughts. I focus on one thing at a time. I turn off the television and limit my time on social media.

I take deep breaths. I relax each time I exhale and take in energy each time I inhale.

I enjoy soothing activities. I work in my garden or read a novel. I bake cookies or practice Tai Chi.

I spend time outdoors. Appreciating nature helps me to feel grateful and happy. I recognize that I am part of something larger than myself.

I accept mental and physical discomfort. Minor irritations and aches become more bearable when I stop resisting them. I treat myself with compassion and carry on with my responsibilities.

I build strong relationships. Knowing that I can turn to my family and friends during difficult times makes me feel more protected and secure. Allowing others to know me and love me increases my confidence and helps me to value myself.

I rely on my faith. I meditate and pray. I talk with spiritual friends. I clarify my values and align my actions with my beliefs. I remember my purpose in life and concentrate on my priorities.

Today, I feel solid, present, and relaxed. Being grounded helps me to stay calm and productive regardless of what is going on around me.

Self-Reflection Questions:

What are 3 words I associate with being grounded?
How do I feel when I am around someone who is grounded?
Why does being grounded make me more powerful?

My potential is unlimited

Posted on January 4, 2017 by SPT-Techgirl66

My potential is unlimited.

My only true limitation is my own mind. The only thing that can limit me is myself. I have all the potential in the world necessary to accomplish anything. Everything I require is within me. I only need to get out of my own way.

Life is short, so I am motivated to make the most of my potential each day. We are all born with potential, but I am one of the few committed to make the most of mine.

When I see the scope of my potential, my passion for living goes through the roof. I am here for a purpose, and that purpose entails that I grow into the person I am capable of becoming.

I am willing to leave my comfort zone to realize my potential. Discomfort is a small price to pay to maximize my results and reach my potential.

The world needs me to make the most of my potential. I can change the world if I develop myself fully.

I seize each day and get as much as I can from it. I aggressively develop my skills and knowledge.

Today, I am determined to make the most of my potential. I hold myself responsible for being the best that I can be. I am optimistic about my future because my potential is unlimited.

Self-Reflection Questions:

What would I do if I believed I had the potential to accomplish it?
How has my limited belief in myself hurt me in the past?
What could I accomplish if I totally believed in myself?