Thrive Principles: 15 Strategies For Building Your Thriving Life
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Overview
- Stop chasing happiness, and allow it to find them
- Discover deeper purpose and live it out
- Accept where they are, and then move forward
- Forgive themselves and others, easily and consistently
- Raise personal standards to live a life of excellence
- Build resilience in order to face difficult times and still thrive
- Discover their own internal resources
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781683500773 |
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Publisher: | Morgan James Publishing |
Publication date: | 03/21/2017 |
Pages: | 254 |
Sales rank: | 966,480 |
Product dimensions: | 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d) |
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Table of Contents
Introduction xiii
How This Book Can Help xv
How To Use This Book xvi
One More Note xvii
Chapter 1 Time to Thrive 1
Surviving Versus Thriving 3
How I Got Here 4
Chapter 2 A Thought is a Thought 7
Mental Noise Annoys Us All-Until It Doesn't Anymore 9
Fighting With Ourselves 10
Thoughts Lead To Feelings 11
Our Own Port in the Storm 13
How We View the World 14
H.A.L.T. 15
Gaining Mastery of the Mind 17
Feeling What You're Thinking 18
Evolving the Brain 19
Practicing Good Mental Hygiene 21
Chapter 3 Accept What Is 25
Wasted Indignation 27
Shift Happens! 29
Facing What Is 30
Facing Facts is NOT the Same as Accepting Defeat 31
Taking Full Responsibility is Fully Empowering 32
Chapter 4 Forgive Quickly and Move Forward 35
The Ritual of Forgiveness 36
Why It Can Be So Hard to Forgive 37
Staying Stuck 38
Myths About Forgiveness 39
Forgiveness is a Process 41
Wash, Rinse, Repeat 45
Forgiving For Yourself 46
Forgiveness Makes Way for Grace 47
Chapter 5 Assume 100% Responsibility 51
Becoming Fully Responsible 53
That Tiny Gap 53
No Fault Responsibility 55
If The Building Is On Fire… 56
About "Can't" 56
The Power of Self- Mastery 58
Learning Response-Ability 59
Chapter 6 Show Up 65
Living in the Present 67
Showing Up in the Moment 68
Dealing with What Gets in the Way 68
AWOL: Absent Without Leaving 70
All Present & Accounted For 71
How to Show-Up in the Moment 72
The Four P's 74
Chapter 7 Practice Gratitude 79
Thanks for Nothing 80
Too Much of a Good Thing 81
Freedom from Want 82
How Sweet It Is! 83
Appreciation as the Antidote to Deprivation 85
True Confession 86
What Good Is It To Be Grateful? 87
Gratitude Overcomes Gravity 88
Changing Poison Into Medicine 89
Viewing Our Lives in a Rear View Mirror 89
Self-Real-Eyes-ation 91
Thanks for Everything! 93
Grateful No Matter What! 94
Developing a Grateful Heart 94
Mindfulness on the Move 95
Sharing Our Gratitude: Appreciation 96
Balancing Life's Ledger Sheet 97
What We're Really Hankering For 98
Unearthing Buried Treasure 99
The Transforming Power of Gratitude 99
Post Script on Gratitude 100
Chapter 8 Practice Everyday Spirituality 102
A World Where Miracles Abound 103
What Do Spiritual People Believe? 105
Practicing Human Kindness 107
Less Than Perfect 108
The Peace That Surpasses… 109
Spirituality Rearranges Our Priorities 110
Eight Steps to Greater Inner Freedom 112
Spirituality Every Day 118
Chapter 9 Maintain Boundaries 122
Don't Fence Me In 123
Boundaries are Necessary to Thrive 124
What Boundaries Are Not 124
Drawing Boundaries 126
How to Set a Boundary & Make It Stick 128
When Free Coaching Comes Your Way 131
That Bank? 132
Chapter 10 Raise Your Standards 136
How to Raise Your Standards 139
Chapter 11 Care For Yourself 144
Dying to Live 145
The Brain in the Belly 146
The Four Keys to Good Health 147
Chapter 12 Live Your Purpose 158
What's It All About? 159
How Being of Service Brings Purpose 160
Living in a Vacuum 162
Follow Your Bliss (Sort of) 162
Finding Our Purpose Right Where We Are 164
The Lens Through Which We View the Lives We Lead 165
The Purpose Journey 166
Chapter 13 Act On Your Convictions 168
Convictions and their Repercussions 169
Conviction in Oneself 170
I Cannot Tell a Lie (Or Accept A Lie) 171
Why We May Forsake Ourselves 173
Acting on Conviction 174
Convictions vs. Certainty 176
Staying True to Oneself 177
Life Puts Us to the Test 178
Chapter 14 Be Courageous 182
How Fear Keeps Us Small 184
F.E.A.R. 186
Avoidance or Importance? 187
Existential Fear 189
Be All You Can BE 191
Leaps of Faith and Courage 193
Ordinary Heroics 193
Why Is Courage Such a Necessity of Life? 196
Chapter 15 Impact Your World 199
Random Acts of Kindness 201
Random Acting Out 202
Points or Impact 204
From Ripple to Snowball Effect 206
Igniting the Fire Within 207
How to Become a Mover and Shaker 208
Chapter 16 Grow 213
Old Dogs & New Tricks 214
Late Bloomers 216
Staying Open to All Possibilities 217
Letting Go of Ever Arriving 219
The World Opens Itself to the Curious 220
Learning from Our Challenges 221
Chapter 17 Conclusion 224
Control What You CAN Control 226
Choosing A Thriving Path 228