Handling The Hard Stuff

Tag: motivation

  • Don’t Expect Results for Work You Didn’t Do

    We like instant gratification. Our world is spinning faster and faster and social media is inundating us with instant kitchen transformations and hundred-pound weight loss results, without any of the process. You only see the highlights in everyone else’s life. Their process is no faster or better than yours, you just see the edited version.…

  • Embrace the Opportunities of Boredom

    We aren’t bored anymore. Something came across my feed this morning that made me stop to ponder. Without phones and the internet at our fingertips, we were forced to find ways to kill time. If we had to wait in line or stop what we were doing we spent that time observing the world or…

  • Reward Yourself

    We don’t celebrate our wins much as adults. We have a hard time prioritizing the small victories in our daily lives. And even when we do celebrate the little things, we rarely reward ourselves in big or useful ways. When I was little any celebratory act was rewarded with treats. Ice cream or chocolate or…