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nerdygaymormon · 9 months

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#finlaysonfife #tumblrstake #growth and development

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briannaisadorable · 1 year

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Being vulnerable with yourself, by yourself.

That's the self love we never knew we needed.

#vulnerable #self-love #self-care #growth #growth and development #love #care #live #life #goals #heaven #fitness #wellness #wealth #health #repost #honest #retrospect #alt #in your orbit

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chaosnoirjpg · 2 months

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Forgiving Myself and Self Love

It’s February, Love day is less than 72 hours away as of today. It is no surprise that in this entry I will be exploring how to forgive yourself and learning to love yourself.

Love, always

I am not a big believer in the maxim, loving yourself so you can be loved in return. This implies that you are unable to be loved because you are not worthy. This is extremely damaging and disempowering to the psyche. We are not put on this earth to degrade ourselves, to fit in boxes that demand we shine less so mediocrity can be tolerated. Let us explore a more freeing kind perspective on love. Know this, you are always worthy and deserving of love. No matter what you think or believe of yourself, no matter what you have done, no matter your faults. Whatever you believe that makes you undeserving of love, you are worthy still, forever and always. This allows love to be experienced as truly unconditional. This is what it means to be free, to be empowered.

Who taught you to hate yourself? What happened to instill mistrust and doubt in yourself? Whatever happened and who ever entered your life and stole your light, know that those people and events happened to shed light on who you are. That pain and suffering you endured can be transmuted and transformed into something great if you choose it.

Relationships are a vessel of growth for ourselves. The relationships of our lives are a reflection of what we are able to perceive. When we tolerate relationships that belittle and abuse us, we reinforce within ourselves that we are not worthy of experiencing kindness, gentleness, and reverence. This is where I believe the love yourself so you can be loved idiom originated from. Just because we have been treated poorly and that is all we know doesn’t mean we are not worthy of experiencing love. This means we are unaware of better. You can only meet people as deeply as they have met themselves.

Empowerment via Knowledge

To become empowered is to choose. To choose is to become aware. To become aware, you examine your thoughts (actions, beliefs, etc) without judgment and test those thoughts and belief systems without expectation. Prove to yourself that you thought wrong, you were misinformed and miseducated. Now that you are aware, you can choose to learn better, do better, and be better. Understanding that you have a choice in the matter of your life and how you experience life.

You are not a static being, you are constantly changing though you may not be aware. Ask yourself, “How can I think better thoughts so I can feel better and do better and act better. Thus changing my life for the better”. The answer may come in forms you could never fathom. There are ways to pick up the answers via listening to the messages and learning the lessons. Each way can be unique to the individual, however a common one is sitting in silence/stillness and listening to the world around you. You are practicing getting to know yourself. The more you learn about yourself the more you can trust yourself.

Love will be able to reach you no matter where you are in your life. Love will evolve with you as you evolve. Love will reach you when you are ready for it. Love is always with you, no matter the lovelessness around you, no matter the lovelessness you experienced. This is a more gentle view of what love can do, a more empowering view. You are less likely to waste energy searching for love when you relax into the knowing that love is always with you. Love may just be in a different form than you expected. The only seeking you would do is in training your senses to listen out for love’s presence. We do the best we can with the knowledge we had.

Mistakes as a Conduit to Learning

Not too long ago, parents were indoctrinated into capital punishment as being a proficient way to instill morals into their children. This is what they called discipline. An online therapist that changed an active spanking-parent’s perspective in just one session, asked a devastating question to the public, “Adults who were spanked as a child, how do you forgive yourself?” The comment section was a mess of people realizing something had gone awry in their upbringing. The one comment that struck me, “I’m supposed to forgive myself?”

The answer to that is yes and here is why. When you are unable to forgive yourself, you are subconsciously using all your energy to hold space for hate, anger, intolerance and blame. There is no room for love to grow. Love and resentment cannot exist in a healthy way. When we choose forgiveness we are able to break the blockages and allow our energy to flow in more fruitful ways.

Let's reframe mistakes and failures so that we can more easily forgive ourselves.

Mistakes are an opportunity to learn. Life is full of experiences and it is our human brain that views the outcomes as good or bad, these experiences are chances to grow. A mistake is an opportunity to evolve and the negative connotation of the word mistake can prevent you from trying again. There is no judgment involved with the soul’s lesson. What you view as a mistake is just another path. When one door closes, another one opens. Learn to enjoy the process and not the destination. (The Soul’s Journey: Lesson Cards by James Van Praagh, p. 40-41)

See how changing your perspective can change your world. Opening your mind to becoming more free and fluid, ever changing and evolving into better and greater. Forgiveness removes the blockages to let love flow.

Your task is not to seek love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. ~Rumi

Defining Love

My favorite definitions of love are from bell hooks and Bossy Bruja are as followed:

Love is the will to nurture our own and another's spiritual growth. ~bell hooks, All About Love

Love is the constant and unconditional givingness of God. Divine grace and mercy, infinite patience, tireless support, enduring passion, unbelievable favor, kindness, gentleness, complete forgiveness and total understanding. ~Bossy Bruja

Love is not this vague and elusive entity that plagues us during cuffing season and Black history month. Love is an action, love is a choice. Love is not something that sneaks up on you when you least expect it. Love is not a thing you fall into. Love is a conscious choice to commit to the fulfillment of your soul. Love is the ability to learn, grow and evolve your spirit. You are love itself, already and always. You are the one experiencing the expansion of your spirit. You may have had to learn how to go on your spiritual journey through doubt, fear and judgment but you got there. You learned that you are bigger than your doubts, your fears, yours and others judgements. You stayed curious and hungry for enrichment. Love is not a feeling or emotion. Love is the learning, the growing, and the evolving. You experience this on your own or with others friends, family and lovers. All relationships are an experience, a stepping stone along your path of life.

How do you define love? How have you experienced love?

Now, with all that being typed, do you trust yourself to make happy and healthy decisions? That is for another entry.

#love #self love #self acceptance #acceptance #forgiveness #forgiving #feelings #childhood #teenage hood #adulthood #growing up #growth and development #empowerment #bell hooks #healing #love day #Valentine’s Day

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elysian101 · 10 months

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I'm sorry i couldn't love you the way you needed me too.

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#words #note to self #tw selfhate #self care #self worth #growth and development #growth capital #change #mindset #self love #self loathing #short poem #original poem #poetry #poetic #personal #personal growth

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nightengaleneedles · 7 months

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This WIP Wednesday the work in progress is Trey! They recently remade Gale's fursona shoulder pet, and we took some pictures of the two side by side.

On the right is the original Gale shoulder pet, made approximately 5 years ago. On the left, the new and improved version. As you can see, in he past few years, our shoulder pets have gotten a little bit larger, a little bit sweeter, and a lot more detailed!

Trey's skill with applique continues to grow in leaps and bounds!

#wip wednesday #plush #growth and development

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autumnkbuntion · 2 years

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Self-Love, Self-Care ✨️

“To care for yourself is to know love for what it truly is.”

- AUTUMN K. BUNTION

ALL PHOTOGRAPHS INCLUDED IN WERE TAKEN ON THE DATE: Tuesday - June (06) 08, 2022 📸

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autumnbuntion · 2 years

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Self-Love, Self-Care ✨️

"To care for yourself is to know love for what it truly is."

- AUTUMN K. BUNTION

ALL PHOTOGRAPHS INCLUDED IN WERE TAKEN ON THE DATE: Tuesday - June (06) 08, 2022 📸

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minimumlie · 13 days

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I was doing a review of psychology across the lifespan and I’m really tired of Erik Erikson. Surely, we have newer people to focus on. Surely, surely, we don’t need to use the guy who was barely born in the 1900s and institutionalized his daughter who had Down Syndrome.

Reminds me of how the Big Psychology Guy is constantly Freud. Bro got scared by his peers and decided to claim that everybody wants to fuck their parents.

We must have newer people exploring psychology and creating better theories nowadays. With the rise of awareness in mental health and neurodivergence, it's weird that we keep using sources that are ancient.

In other areas, we constantly strive for the most accurate and recent information, so it's just kinda wild to use 50+ year old information related to the mind.

#psychology #growth and development #nursing student #neurodivergent #freud #fucking freud #erikson #erik fucking erikson

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oaresearchpaper · 2 months

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#Sowing dates #Temperature #Growth and development #Genotypes #Sindh

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rare-rap · 3 months

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sugarsprinklesoul · 2 months

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Abilities that will forever benefit you

The ability to walk away

The ability to manage your time

The ability to remain consistent

The ability to self analyze

The ability to learn how to learn

The ability to understand others

The ability to listen

The ability to express your thoughts and feelings

The ability to break down tasks

The ability to adapt

The ability to control your mind

The ability to ask for help

The ability to act upon facts not feelings

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wingedcatblizzard · 3 months

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#self love #mental illness #let's heal together #quotes #books and libraries #i own the copyrights #growing #positivity #growth and development #theme: to your future self #prose

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babemomy · 3 months

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To Wake or Not to Wake: Deciphering the Dilemma of Waking a Sleeping Baby to Feed

Introduction should i wake my baby to feed? Understanding the importance of a baby’s sleep and feeding patterns The controversial question: should you wake your baby to feed? The purpose of this article: providing informed guidance on making this decision Factors to Consider When Deciding to Wake a Baby A. Age-related considerations for newborns The first few weeks: necessity of frequent…

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#growth and development #should i wake my baby to feed #Weight gain and health concerns

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pearlsofourlives · 4 months

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Courage: The Path to Healing

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#"Courage to Heal: Overcoming Emotional Challenges with Strength"#growth and development #inspiration

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performance-enablers · 4 months

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Top team as the growth accelerator

As we get set to enjoy the year end break, here is something radical to mull over.

(The last week is usually a vacation or at least an easy week. And a few minutes of reflection -call it work if you like😊, can be refreshing when you have a long break).

If you are prioritizing which lever of growth to focus on, do look at your executive team first.

Why do I say this?

Not because executive team members are not as competent as others in the organization. They are naturally among the most competent. That’s why they are there at the top. (And I never forget that it is this group that gives work to people like me😊)

Yet, I say this for two reasons.

One is more in the form of an analogy that you have probably heard.

It was our first Prime Minister who had famously remarked: “If you educate a man, you educate an individual. However, if you educate a woman, you educate a whole family”.

My view is that when you enhance the effectiveness of an executive team member, you enhance the effectiveness of his whole team.

When an executive team member is at her best i.e. she can engage and inspire his team; excels in leading execution; can think long term and strategize etc., her entire team / division benefits from this, in terms of performance, engagement and inspiration.

If he faces any challenge in aligning his team, keeping it in the best shape, that’s when the help of others- internal or external to the organization, will produce real value as the team can see the leader as a role model and his keenness to raise their effectiveness.

Now take the executive team as a collective, an entity by itself.

When the whole team is truly aligned on the mission of the organization, it’s vision, the strategy and the core value it wants to live by, the spirit gradually percolates down to the rest of the organization. Over a period of time, the whole organization mirrors the way the executive team is functioning (#SteveJobs). And the results are spectacular.

Lest you should think that I am only sharing a personal view point, take a look at some of the studies.

First, the impact of an executive team member when he/she operates as an effective leader.

Besides what we see around, here is the excerpt from the research by Heidrick & Struggles on 3000 leaders drawn from diverse industries and functions, worldwide:

“ …Furthermore, leaders’ ability to inspire meaning and purpose in others not only affects their own effectiveness and the effectiveness of the organization but also has a notable positive effect on their team members’ effectiveness and ability to think about the future, which also builds organizational capacity.” (Karen R. West & Megan Herbst, April 2020).

Gallup ‘s research over 25 years has brought out that 50-70% of the employee’s perception of the work environment is driven by the actions of their managers. And organizations that take care to provide positive work environment, see improvements in customer satisfaction, greater innovation, and generate 25% higher profits than organizations that do not provide a positive employee experience.

The research by Vantage Leadership Consulting g ( Jacqueline Ackerman , 2023) on 50 executive teams found team performance to be highly correlated to the leader performance i.e. when team leaders are more effective, their teams are more effective.

And there are more.

Now look at the executive team as a unit.

New York Times best-selling author and an acclaimed management consultant Patrick Lencioni had remarked way back in 2002 “Not finance. Not strategy. Not technology. It is teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it is so powerful and rare.”

Again, Jacqueline Ackermanof Vantage Leadership Consulting avers “…In over 45 years of consulting, we have found that high-performing teams are indeed rare. Many teams underperform or are average (at best), and while there are myriad of reasons for this, the role of the team leader in creating high-performing teams is worth exploring.

The leadership team has a significant impact on an organization's performance. Effective leadership styles that align with organizational culture and values can foster a positive workplace environment and enhance organizational performance (Gomathy, Karthikeya, Sirkar and Sai, @International Journal of Scientific Research on Engineering and Management, May 2023).

And there are more.

Hope this is enough to establish that the top team needs to be right on the top when it comes to the growth levers for an organization.

The top team members being small in no., organizations can afford to pay personalized attention to them, as individuals and as a team.

Organizations can craft learning journeys that best cater to their learning needs – be it mentoring and coaching, on-the-job learning / action learning projects, workshops and courses to build right perspectives etc.

Learning activity has always been challenged for its #ROI. This approach may well have some of the answers.

Your thoughts are always welcome.

#executive team #growth and development

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the-joy-of-knowledge · 3 months

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25 Laws of power for women

Conceal your goals especially the ones that are appealing. Losing weight, reinventing yourself, marrying wealthy. Instead talk about your altruistic goals - to help children, invest in education, this will chase insecure people with vile intentions.

Do not give anyone your source of power: Was is a book that changed your life? a mentor? a movie? Never give up your secret to success. If forced to do say allude to God, the universe, the a random phenomenon

Use the patriarchy to your favor; we live in a world that is, only associate with men who have power, use that power for good.

Never appear too perfect but be selectively vulnerable when needed. Only share something that you will be comfortable saying. You might say “I forget my keys all the time,” “I don’t know how to perfectly park a car “. But never disclose something you are not comfortable with just because you are afraid of being perfect.

Maintain distance in relationships. Friends are the best and you need them. But if you feel that they are becoming too dependent, see them at your own will. But also the reverse could be the case. Your friend may keep a distance, and that is the way of life. You have got to move on from it.

Develop your own style that makes you unique, beautiful, and elegant. Avoid trying to fit in the crowd of people who claim to care less about their style yet have too many opinions about other women’s style

Avoid male friends at all cost, you will have male colleagues, male bosses, male acquaintances, business partners. Keep it that way. You do not want a Truman Capote divulging your secrets to the world. Do not keep a man who does not fit your standard.

You do not have to win at every game. Pick and choose what is best for you and leave room for others. And step down if you have attained that level of success, do not let the society do it for you.

Trust people but remember that we are all humans. So trust with discretion!

Confuse people with kindness; people are not always comfortable with beautiful and intelligent women. That power is too intimidating so confuse them by being genuinely generous, curious, kind, and passionate.

Keep your strong opinions to yourself.. if you support a movement, a way of life, do so silently.

We all have dirty laundry, wash them privately, don’t expose yourself. Remain silent when people try to attack you or shame you. Whatever is not confirmed is not true. You are the only one who knows all the truth about you.

Don’t attract pity or praise: People who pity you do not help you, in fact they might think that you are weak and could mock you at their annual gossipping meeting. And if you are doing things for the sake of praise you are wasting your time.

Choose yourself all the time; never put any one’s feelings above yours.

Trust your own intuition if you feel someone is being malicious towards you, giving you back handed compliments then you should let them go

Never speak bad of another woman. Do not lazy around gossipping. Keep your hands clean and your conscience clear.

Avoid women with low self esteem they will bring you down. For some reason they do not like seeing other women who are doing better than them

Be careful who you seek validation from. Not everyone needs to be pleased. If they are in no way capable of contributing to your life in the ways you prefer, then don’t ask them for their opinions or please them.

Do not compete with other women, if you do you are only putting them on a pedestal. You are making the the standard by which you measure your progress. If you do compete, begin digging your grave.

Do not give unsolicited advice, do not share the inner workings of your mind, If your mouth is very charitable you better start journaling.

Be well-rounded and interesting. It attracts people. It also keeps you busy because you are continually improving and learning. An idle mind is an easily subdued one.

Avoid women who want to live vicariously through you; they want to know who you know, shop where you shop, befriend who you befriend, wear what you wear.

Pay attention to the source of your discomfort; get rid of them. You tell them your dreams and they remind you of all your hindrances. They ask why are you dressed so fancy as though fancy isn’t subjective. They undermine you interests and goals. They will also be quick to bring you down because they are afraid of your potential.

Do not fear power or please power. When we see powerful people we try to hard to befriend them, to be close to them but you need to be comfortable without them. Don’t push yourself in the name of friendship, do not try too hard to be in their inner circle. Your independence of mind is the most important. Instead become a powerful woman, aloof to the presence of power but aware of its importance. Be an ingenious and intelligent and use your creativity to uplift yourself. When you do so it will be hard to ignore you. Even the powerful will become an ally.

Enjoy moments of solitude. Use that time to develop yourself, improve your body, learn new skills, create with your mind, read widely, become more elegant, then launch yourself.

Remember the most powerful women are the most intelligent. Inspired by Robert Greene's 48 Laws of Power. Use at your discretion.

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