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Why Bother Reframing Our Thinking?

When was the last time you felt disappointed, defeated, let down and disillusioned? Disappointment happens to us all and if we let it, it can make us feel like powerless losers, incapable dweebs, or rejected victims. But, if we can reframe our “loser” thinking, then we build resistance to prolonging our discouragement and get back…
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Learning

Why Bother Becoming Competent?

Recently, I came across an interesting learning model, Hierarchy of Competence. This model was popular in the 1960s and 1970s. It piqued my interest though because first of all, it made sense and secondly, it seems logical. Out With the Old There are four levels to this model. Level one is called unconscious incompetence. We’ve…
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Learning

Why Bother Changing our Eating Patterns?

Our choice to change a particular habit or set of habits comes with an awareness of the fundamental need to change. But, how do we know if and when we need to change?        Patterns Whatever habits we incorporate into our lives, over the course of time, become routine and comfortable patterns. We…
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Faith

Why Bother Considering Trusting Again?

To trust means to put our confidence in someone or something because we believe that who or what we’ve chosen to trust will be reliable. We might place our trust in a philosophy we’ve spent time studying, or a way of living that we believe works well, or in a person we think is for…
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