Signs it May Be Time for a Career Change

Inevitably, we spend much of our lives working. Because of this truth, it is important that we dedicate time to identifying what is important to us, …

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I Am Patiently Anticipating Life’s Beautiful Gifts

There is a feeling in the air, a stirring in my gut, and a subtle voice in my ear showing me that life as I know it is on the verge of change. I can’t explain this unwavering belief that I have. There is no physical proof, just a change in the tides coming in quick. I sense it in my bones, and the anxiety that awakens me most mornings has dissipated with a calming embrace secretly holding me tight. After a long year of self-reflection, heartache, setbacks, and monumental strides forward, there is an unexplained joyful fulfillment hovering over me.  I have a secret excitement building inside me, like a first-time skydiver anticipating their freefall. Is this the part in the journey of my life where my heart and mind merge into synchronicity on the eve of my desires manifesting? Something beautiful is taking place in my soul, and I feel so blessed to be “awake” during this metamorphosis.

I wish I could articulate into words the precise changes or miracles that are about to take place in my life. Maybe writing these words down will confirm what I already know to be true: A divine hand is being placed on my shoulder, leading me to a life of abundance. I’ve always been hardest on myself, turned right when I should have gone left, taken roads harder traveled, and kept myself in a state of self-loathing, only to come out questioning the meaning of life. This morning, after many years of ups and downs and methodical affirmations to blindly trick my brain into believing I had confidence, something changed. I am exhilarated with the converging of energy taking place inside of my body. A myriad of love is surrounding me with emotions like a young child at Christmas anticipating Santa’s arrival.

Right now, I am affirming that all of the years of hardship and struggle that I’ve endured were in fact life lessons to bring me to this very point in my voyage of existence. My heart is in a position to receive love in all areas of my life in full capacity. I understand that I’ve always deserved love, but I wasn’t in a sphere to accept or acknowledge it, and now I am. I’ve always looked back on the years of my life with great trepidation, with regret, and my body would react in a visceral and physical way as a result. Today is the first day of the rest of my life, I know what it feels like now to let go and trust that the best is yet to come. Today, worries feel to me as wasted energy that has finally passed from my realm of thinking. Today is not about the outcome of the happiness that I know is coming, it is about the comfort and peace in the feeling I have right now.

My desire to please everyone around me, coupled with the internal strife of wanting the happiness I crave, has been soothed with a complete surrender in the belief that I have the most beautiful life approaching me on the horizon, a life more delicious than I could have ever imagined. Today I am reveling in my own sense of love surrounding me and living in the present moment of “it’s done.” I am a firecracker of eagerness waiting to see what the Universe has planned for me, because I know it is going to be phenomenally breathtaking! For the first time in my life, I am excited to live—excited to live in my body, excited to live in my mind and soul—and appreciative of the blessings I have that are leading me to a life of complete fulfillment.  I am no longer a force of resistance trying to control my outcome, I am a passenger of trust knowing that I naturally deserve complete love.

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Semtech Appoints New Directors to Its Board

Semtech Corporation (Nasdaq: SMTC), a leading supplier of high performance analog and mixed-signal semiconductors and advanced algorithms, today announced that the Company has increased the size of its board of directors to 11 members and has appointed Paula LuPriore and Martin S.J. Burvill to fill …

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70+ Empowering Self-Help Books Every Man Should Read

Want to improve your relationships, health (both mental and physical) and/or career? All you need is a good book to help set you on the right track. Really. Keep scrolling to discover the empowering, life-changing self-help books our editors swear by.

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To The Selfless Individual: The World Doesn’t Deserve You, But You Deserve Yourself

Everybody admires the selfless, generous, and compassionate person. Everyone wishes they had their soul and hearts, but they don’t know the darkness they go through to be who they are.

Every selfless person that exists today wishes they had the capacity to just harden their hearts, to avoid being taken advantage of repeatedly. If you’re reading this and you’re classified as someone selfless, you know exactly what I’m talking about. You know how deteriorating it is to carry the burden of everyone else just to be their light and their saving grace.

You aren’t as perfect as people perceive you to be. When you’re around everyone, you have this bubbly and enthusiastic personality—it’s in your nature to make others feel good. However, you have boundaries, and in putting others first, people forget that you need to put yourself first, too.

You don’t have an endless capacity. Other people are drawn to you because of your ability to give without the expectation of asking anything in return. While this is a gift, it can be the most painful curse. You’re selfless, but you’re still human. With your capacity to give, what happens when you give every inch to yourself to everyone and end up empty? What happens then?

They don’t always deserve you. The harshest truth is even if they don’t deserve your kindness and generosity, you still give because it’s in your nature. Even if it ends up being the wrong choice, at the end of the day, you did your part in being the light to others.

Selfless people are so busy giving their energy and time to other people just because that’s who they are, while others are so busy taking them for granted. It’s easy to feel drained and exhausted when you try to become everything to everyone—fixing, changing, or saving the chaos of this world. If you’re a selfless person, I hope this is your sign to remember that you deserve the world more than anyone else. If someone else takes your ability to give for granted, I hope you know when to stop and give it to yourself for a change. The world doesn’t always deserve you, but you deserve yourself. 

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Rick Richey : “Be Humble”

Be Humble. You are amazing — until you think so. Humility does not mean that you cannot climb to the top of your industry, but it does mean that you …

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Use These Four Strategies To Overcome Self-Doubt

In Measure for Measure, William Shakespeare wrote that: “Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to …

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