Small Moves Make All the Difference
You cannot gain experience without failure. When you take small steps, you are able to slowly and carefully adapt and assimilate healthy approaches by learning from your failures and successes. These small steps help build your confidence and resilience.
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Why You Should Never Say, “Why Me?”
“Why me?” lands people in a downward spiral of negativity. Learn productive alternatives that allow you to turn your bad experiences and pain into powerful, life-transforming changes.
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The Spiral Staircase
A great mystic uses the “spiral staircase” as an analogy for life’s cycles. What today is at the bottom, will tomorrow be at the top. And like a spiral staircase, we turn our backs to the destination just before we reach its peak.
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Leave Your Past Behind
How can you leave your past behind? You must have a vision for the future. Without a vision for the future, you will gravitate toward the things that controlled you in the past.
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Strength in Vulnerability
Do you have to close yourself off to be strong? The Kabbalistic tradition teaches us that the opposite is true: Strength and vulnerability are not opposites — they work together in synergy.
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Basic Soul Awareness
In this short video, Rabbi Simon Jacobson hits upon the fundamental axiom of personal growth — that confidence and the ability to transcend the past depends on truly knowing your inner self.
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How to Renew Yourself
Regardless of how burned out you may feel, there are three basic steps you can take to spiritually and emotionally renew yourself. The fruit of your labor will be the return of a sparkle in your eye and the spirit of innovation in your heart and mind.
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When You Feel Discouraged, Get to Know Yourself
Join best-selling author and counselor-to-thousands Rabbi Simon Jacobson for an inspiring two-minute video on why getting to know your true self will give you the energy to persist.
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Spiritual Strategies to Keep Your Life Positive
All positive change is precipitated by action. The negative forces of the world and within you thrive on complacency and inaction — if you want to live a positive life, you have to do positive things and think positive thoughts.
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If You Want a Positive Life, Start With a Mission Statement
The foundation of a life based on your positive values starts with a personal mission statement.
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