Motivation for CA-Students

Loneliness can be compared to a thick winter’s fog. It stifles and strangles you, pulling you under a heavy blanket of depression, pervading all that you see. Loneliness causes you to filter life through a lense of desolation and deep despair. Your spirit becomes so heavy with the weight of your isolation that you often feel like laying down, and dying. I know. I’ve been there many times. Whether you feel loneliness in a crowd, in your marriage, in your workplace, friend circle, religion, culture or simply by yourself, there is hope. I’ve felt alone for many years of my life, either because of my temperament, or the religion that was imposed on me since birth, which taught that outsiders were “evil”, causing me to distance myself from everyone. Since then, I’ve left religion, but still find it difficult connecting with people. While I still feel like an Outsider, in the year prior to meeting Sol, I discovered how to be alone  but not feel lonely . I want ...

“Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.” C. S. Lewis “I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.” Michael Jordan “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.” Samuel Beckett Oftentimes things go OK or even better than that. But on some days they don’t. You make a mistake, have setback or you simply fail. It’s no fun. But you can’t avoid it either unless you avoid doing anything at all. So what’s needed is a smart and self-kind way to handle such situations  instead of letting them lead to vicious self-beatings  and to them dragging you down into negativity for the day or month. This week I’d like to share 9 habits that’ve helped me with that. I hope they will be useful for you too. 1. First, just accept how you feel. When you’ve just failed it will most likely hurt. Sometimes a bit. Sometimes a lot. That’s OK. Don’t try to push it away by distracting yourself o...

How many of us feel complete self-love and self-compassion? How many of us take care of our own needs and rely on the way we look at ourselves instead of seeing who we are through the eyes of our partners or our tribe? How many of us live from our core beliefs instead of living through what everyone is expecting of us? Learning  self-love  and overcoming the barriers you've built against yourself are the greatest secrets to living happily. Self-love can bring you closer to inner truth and allow you to attract and create the  happiness  you deserve in your relationship, career, and life. Self-love will bring peace, love, fulfillment, satisfaction, significance, groundedness, freedom, maturity, wisdom, and magic into your life. Here are 17 self-love steps that you can begin today to attract the love and happiness you want in your life: 1. Get to know who you are. Imagine yourself walking down the street with each one of your values. How do you feel? What do...

Highly successful people are the ones who have failed the most. As the public, we usually only learn about these individuals and their companies once they have made it big. We admire their success yet rarely witness the immense struggle they went through to get there. By not being exposed to their failures, we are unfortunately only left to compare ourselves to their achievements. This in turn can make it hard for us to validate the mistakes we make and problems we experience. We often second-guess ourselves and question our abilities; not realizing that adversity is required in order to succeed. This way of thinking has made the world afraid of failure. Even from a young age we have been taught that being wrong and making mistakes are bad. Our mind itself uses painful memories of the past to provoke negative emotions like fear and anxiety to stop us from making those same errors today. Award winning author J.K. Rowling, on the other hand, embraces failure: “It is ...

1. Eat well Tons of studies have been conducted into the connection between food and mood, and they've shown omega-3 fatty acids and B vitamins to be pretty effective: filling up on oily fish, leafy greens, nuts, eggs and poultry is a great place to start. Sure, starting the day with a green smoothie or ending it with an omelette won't make magically make you depression-free, but in addition to helping your insides function as they should, eating well is a promise to yourself each day to take care of your body, rather than giving up on it, and that's a step in the right direction. 2. Light up Seasonal Affective Disorder, also know as SAD, is a type of depression in itself, but even if you don't suffer from that condition specifically, getting more sunlight has been proven to make you feel more positive. It's tempting, but try not to burrow away in your duvet - even 30-60 minutes of sunlight will boost the levels of serotonin in your brain, so go out ...

The root of stress management is realizing stress is information that we can examine and use, and the first step in understanding that data is becoming mindful of our stress and its impact upon us, says Kathleen Hall, founder of The Stress Institute in Atlanta. While the subtleties may vary in stress management sources’ tips on how to manage stress, there are a number of constants. The following covers some of the universal ground, and a few wild cards. 1.   If you can’t avoid a stressful situation, try to alter it. Often, this involves changing the way you communicate and operate in your daily life. Express your feelings instead of bottling them up. Be willing to compromise but be more assertive. Manage your time better.  2.   If you can’t change the stressor, change yourself. Reframe problems. Try to view stressful situations from a more positive perspective. Look at the big picture. Take perspective of the stressful situation. Focus on t...