Moving beyond our comfort zone for growth

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Life Outside The Comfort Zone: Moving Beyond Fear For Growth, is a guest article written by Sharon Torres. Feeling safe is important for survival. Taking yourself beyond that zone can initially cause panic & fear for safety. Helpful to venturing outside your comfort zone is understanding what lies beyond.

Raise Our Spirit With This Daily Video & Gift

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See a new video and gift here each day to raise our spirit. Take care of each other and be gentle with yourselves during these times. Forward Steps subscribers receive an email each day to revisit this page. I also add a resource for you to explore each day. You can see that beneath the video of the day.

Chinese New Year Day Taboos

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Chinese New Year Day is here. Happy new year! There are some taboos on the Chinese New Year Day to which you might want to pay attention. Read this list of some of these. As well as that you can collect a fun and free Chinese horoscope astrology reading for your life over the next 12-months.

10 Top Forward Steps Blog Posts For 2019

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Enjoy the 10 top Forward Steps blog posts for 2019, as voted by you when you shared them to your social media sites, using the share buttons at the posts. The following have been posted here in order of popularity. Did your favorite take home the top prize? If not, go share it at your favorite social site.

Top 200 Secrets Of Success In Life

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Top 200 secrets of success in life might have some quite “old-fashioned” thoughts. Yet, many of them can still be applied and will provide great outcomes for a successful life. I’ll leave it for you to choose which you will use and which you might want to tweak to suit your life or which to leave altogether.

Let Your Own Higher Self Become Your Guide

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What is the higher self? How can it serve you? It is an aspect of you that knows everything about you and can serve you in many different ways. There are no limits to the understanding and answers it can give you about life. Open up the channel to your higher self. Your higher self wants to talk to you!

This Will Change Your Life 60-Mins Inspiration

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An audio to which you might return several times. I placed the “This Will Change Your Life” audio into a video for you, with nice scenery to view while listening. Without a doubt, you’ll hear things that you have heard before. Listen as though you’ve NEVER heard this, ever before. This will change your life!

Flow Poem Video, eBook and Quotes To Share

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Flow is a state of being when we are completely focused and fully immersed in what we are doing. Enjoy a video and ebook of Christopher Westra’s poem about flow. Below the selection of quotes about flow, you can enjoy Christopher’s poem in full & see the quotes set in images for sharing with friends.

Facing Your Fears For Achieving Your Goals

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Overcome your fears for achieving your goals. You have a choice. You might not realize it, yet deep down everyone is afraid. The big difference between you and all those people you can see who are successful is that they confronted their fears. They worked through their issues and went ahead.

Peace of Mind And Feeling Calm Every Day

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Peace of mind is defined as a mental state of calmness or tranquility, a feeling of freedom from worry and anxiety. When you regularly find yourself hitting the wall, perhaps it’s time to find ways of reducing those highs and lows, by increasing feelings of calm and peace of mind in your day to day.

Myth Of Talent and 7 Keys To Being A Success

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Many people resent those who they see as talented, believing that because someone is naturally good at something, that’s all it takes. This is the myth of talent. Further below in this article you will find the 7 keys to being a success. Not too many of us really think of the blood, sweat and tears involved.

9 Ways To Develop Resilience And Grit

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Develop resilience & persistence using these 9 techniques. If you’re not resilient, persistent & gritty, you might never make the most of your other positive attributes. Think about the five most successful people you know. They’re possibly not that talented, yet they know how to get things done & persist.

Spin To Win One Of 9 Free Positive eBooks

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See the self improvement “spin to win” wheel right here. Test your luck at winning one of these free self improvement ebooks for download. There are 8 personal development ebooks for you to download and read. That is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment. One book at a time.

Ask A Question About Life & Get An Answer

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Ask a question about your life, then add your details to spin the wheel to get an answer (as well as a free personal development gift to help you keep stepping forwards). Questions are a great access to what is really going on. Remember, this wheel is only a fun game. Follow your common sense please!

Increase Your Self-Trust (Simple Hacks)

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Many of us would like to have more self-trust. Chances are, you don’t treat yourself like the people you trust & maybe you don’t behave according to your definition of “trustworthy”. It’s painful to doubt yourself and keeps you from transforming. Here are a few ideas to help you increase your self-trust.

Positive Energy Reservoir For Our Planet

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Practicing coherence has a positive energy carryover effect that helps to cushion you through stressors and challenges that occur daily. In coherence, energy is accumulated, not wasted, leaving you more energy to manifest intention and harmonious outcomes and increases individual heart coherence.

Long Handled Spoons (A Short Parable)

Enjoy a short tale about the long handled spoons, a short parable about co-operation and working together. See the quick video and read The Long Handled Spoons story, here. “Collaborative dialogue is an attempt to dance with the unknown at the risk of losing what we think we know.” -Oli Anderson

Eight Pillars Of Prosperity By James Allen

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Get your free ebook copy of The Eight Pillars of Prosperity by James Allen after viewing the video. This book is incredibly overlooked & underrated, most probably because James Allen’s As a Man Thinketh is so popular. It offers some of the most insightful revelations on how true prosperity is acquired.

Conquering An Overwhelming Sense Of Loss

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Are you in a personal situation in which you cannot begin to imagine conquering an overwhelming sense of loss? Watch this video in which Tony Robbins helps Jim overcome the devastating loss of his entire savings & more. Faced with his loss, Jim found himself unable to imagine a future for himself.

100 Year Old Way To Get More Things Done

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See this 100 year old way to get more things done. Use Ivy Lee’s method as shown in the video at this post. It’s another of those great habits that will help “outgrow” any tendencies to procrastinate. Seeing how much you’ve accomplished will give you that boost of confidence you need to keep at it.

If You Have A Dream, Don’t Just Sit There!

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If you have a dream, don’t just sit there. Begin taking forward steps. There’s a reason why so many intelligent people fail. They tend to overthink everything and are often afraid to take risks. If that’s your case, there are some very powerful reasons to start taking action. When you do, you will get results.

Optimism VS Pessimism Story & 5 Benefits

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Enjoy a video with a short story about optimism vs pessimism, as well as 5 benefits of optimism. Next time, when you feel like there is no way out of an unfavorable situation, ask yourself, “What would an optimist say?” Take an action you believe they might take if they found themselves in your situation.

The Black Dot Inspirational Short Story

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Enjoy this inspirational short story about The Black Dot. The dark spots are very small compared to everything good in our lives. However, those are what we allow to pollute our minds. Take your eyes away from the black spots in your life. Appreciate each moment and blessing that life offers you.

12 Ways To Instantly Improve Your Mood

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Here are 12 ways to improve your mood in less than a minute. If you’re feeling a bit blue, you might be surprised to hear that are lots of ways to lift your mood instantly. Skeptical? Try these and see! As you begin to feel more positive, maintain those good habits and you’ll continue to feel better.

Taking Risks Has These 3 Clear Benefits

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If you don’t accept taking risks of losing, you can never have the reward of winning. It is the risk that gives you the chance to come out on top. When you really understand this, you can easily see that risk-taking is a positive and beneficial behavior that allows success to develop in both life and business.

6 Ways Failure Is As Important As Success

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No one likes to fail. Failure does not feel good. You might feel like giving up or blaming someone else or beating yourself up. Yet, you might be surprised to hear that, many successful people are not only grateful for their past failures. They ascribe their present success to having tried and failed in the past.

Replace Your Thoughts And Life Changes

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Your life changes forever when you replace your thoughts. Your thoughts, your convictions, manifest the surrounding reality. Your life, good or bad, is nothing more than a reflection of the thoughts you’ve planted in your mind and nourished. These thoughts became behaviors. Behaviors became results.

Life Is No Brief Candle To Me

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George Bernard Shaw once was quoted as saying, “Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch, which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.” Enjoy and share this brief article about that very quotation.

Learning To Love Yourself (6 Benefits)

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Learning to love yourself comes with some incredible benefits. No matter how much the hardest among us deny this, we all have a desire to be loved. Rejection can leave us feeling disillusioned with how we expect relationships to play out. Here are six amazing benefits of learning to love yourself.

4 Ways To Protect Yourself From Negativity

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Negativity affects your life on every level. It has the power to ruin relationships, decrease work performance & increase stress levels. You can challenge and overcome it by changing your mindset. Not sure where to start? Check out these four smart, effective ways to protect yourself from negativity.

Tolerance And Acceptance (Taking A Stand)

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With acceptance of what is, provides opportunity to acknowledge what we’re actually dealing with. Use a few of these 30 tips and 30 conversation starters to support expanding your mastery of tolerance, acceptance and taking a stand. You can still take a stand while accepting the reality of a situation.

21 Persuasion Tips To Help Reach Your Goals

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Use these 21 persuasion tips to help you reach your goals. We all need the support of other people to help us in our goal setting efforts. The saying “No man is an island” is an undeniable truth. Some like to call this influence, some argue this is foolery. However you might choose to view it, it is effective.

10 Top Forward Steps Blog Posts For 2018

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Enjoy the 10 top Forward Steps blog posts for 2018, as voted by you when you shared them to your social media sites, using the share buttons at the posts. The following have been posted here in order of popularity. Did your favorite take home the top prize? If not, go share it at your favorite social site.

20 New Year Questions & Set Your Intentions

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20 New Year Questions and set your intentions. Consider that if nothing changed and you took no deliberate action in the direction of your intended future, then the things that you consider to be “problems” today could very likely be the same challenges that you spent time with at the end of last year.

7 Law Of Attraction Tips To Manifest More

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Use the following 7 Law Of Attraction Tips to manifest more of what you want. When you actively pay attention to the positive things that happen around you, it acts like a magnet that attracts similar things. Download a free gift too, to discover the lazy person’s secret to get everything you’ve ever wished.

Raise Your Vibration For Your Perfect Day

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Raise your vibration for your perfect day with this tool. Picture a life where good fortune is not some rare event that happens twice a year, it’s a daily occurrence. It bridges the gap between visualization and results. Total personal transformation into the person you’ve always wanted to be.

Parts Of Your Brain Responsible For Wealth

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Did you know that there are very specific parts of your brain responsible for creating wealth? Also, that these parts of your brain must be activated, in order for you to manifest financial success? It’s true. It’s why wealth seems to come so easily to some people, yet is such a struggle for others.

Visualize Your Goals & Make Them Happen

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Visualize your goals then take the necessary forward steps to make them happen. When people visualize anything, it makes it much more likely for them to make it a reality. They see the vision in their minds and then take steps to make it happen. If you understand the vision, it’s the right one for you.

How To Develop Mental Toughness

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How tough are you? Do you know that the level of your mental toughness is directly related to your habits? Actually not many people are aware of this. Instead they think that being mentally tough is something you were born with. It is not, you can easily develop and improve your mental toughness.

How Much Do You Value Yourself?

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How much do you value yourself? Do you know someone who has a low opinion of themselves? It could be that person is suffering from low self-esteem. Share this message with a short story, a video and free ebook download. You never know the difference it might make to that person’s day and outlook.

48 Lessons For Success In Life Video

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48 lessons for success in life in this video are 3 short lines taken from each of the 16 lessons chapters in a free ebook that you can download, here. Sample titles include See Yourself 10 Years In Future, Greatest Advice of All Time, Two Magic Words, Greatest Obstacle To Happiness plus 12 more.

Hundredth Monkey Phenomenon

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The Hundredth Monkey Phenomenon points out our responsibility and power. We are affected by lack of harmony anywhere on the planet, even if not consciously aware of it. We are not separate. What we say & do, affects the well-being of all of us. From the book The Hundredth Monkey by Ken Keyes, Jr.

Power Of Symbols For Positive Energy Effect

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Are you someone for whom beauty and spirituality is a way of life, someone who considers the jewellery you wear to be much more than something of beauty, who understands the power of symbols and intention and seek truly exceptional designs? Then, here is your best source of spiritual jewellery.

39 Personal Development Books To Read For Free

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Collect your bonus free personal development books! These free personal development books are extra to your free ebooks (sent by email). Explore the many self growth ebook downloads collated for you. These free personal development books are a collection of inspirational books to read online free.

Help To Program Your Subconscious Mind

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Enjoy this unique tool to help program your subconscious mind. Imagine if you could use your mind more effectively or if you could reach your goals with ease and comfort without constantly trying to force yourself to reach them. Now it’s possible, and if you’re interested how then, read on…

How To Master Anxiety And Worry

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Do you ever experience anxiety and worry beyond reason? Does your mind tend to overestimate the risks of life and underestimate the powers and resources you have to handle those risks? Do you feel a subtle, yet persistent, sense of anxiety that runs like an undercurrent just beneath your conscious awareness?

What You Say Matters (Words Have Power)

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I spotted What You Say Matters in the free Living On Purpose ezine from Ken Keis, President & CEO of CRG International Inc., and received permission to post it here. In many of my own writings I have emphasized similar points often enough, and Ken’s article just drove it home once more.

5 Quick Techniques To Rule Your Stress Level

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Reset your stress level once a week with one of the smaller activities listed here. It is important to consciously manage our own time out in our fast paced lives. Use these few natural activities on a weekly basis, for creating a buffer between you and the forces that consistently drain your energy.

Indivisible Sphere Of The Present (exercise)

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To help you live in Holographic Time, try out the Powerful Indivisible Sphere of the Present. Living in Holographic Time is key to being successful using Holographic Creation to manifest events, things & emotional states you desire. Thank you Christopher Westra for creating & sharing this exercise.

Get Organized And Feel Greater Freedom

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Is it your time to get organized? If you’ve got something in your life that’s not working, get it working or get it out of there. Just one or two new habits, systems or ways to deal with things that regularly get in your way each day can help to engender a sense of control and raise our energy.