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Continue reading “When Hard Times Become Turning Points”Life’s hardest moments often arrive uninvited, shattering routines and assumptions. Yet beneath the disruption, they quietly open space for reflection and reinvention. Challenges push us toward strengths we didn’t know we had, revealing new directions and inner resources. In that tension between struggle and possibility, unexpected growth begins.
Continue reading “Acceptance Is the Key”Acceptance is the practice of identifying struggles and accepting people, situations, and circumstances for what they are, not what you wish they were. True freedom and peace come from acknowledging what is, rather than fighting against it or wishing it were different. Acceptance is the key.
Continue reading “Acceptance Without Judgment”Acceptance doesn’t mean you approve of everything that happens; it simply means you acknowledge reality as it is. By embracing Excelerated Acceptance™, you free yourself from the draining cycle of resistance and open the door to greater ease, clarity, and resilience.
Continue reading “The Things We Cannot Change”Acceptance is the catalyst for transformation. Through Excelerated Acceptance™, we learn to navigate life’s challenges with grace and resilience. We accept our emotions, our imperfections, and the uncontrollable aspects of life, allowing us to focus our energy on what we can change.
Continue reading “Learning to Accept”Acceptance is not tolerating and acceptance is definitely not approval. Acceptance and forgiveness are linked, in that one requires the other. Acceptance and surrender are similar in some ways, different in others. Acceptance is the first step in taking action against resignation and it is often the first step that leads to understanding. While acceptance may be linked to other concepts, nothing can take its place. Only by identifying and accepting the things you are struggling with can you begin to deal with them in positive, specific ways.
Continue reading “When Acceptance Is Hard”We will always face situations that we find distressing, aggravating, troubling, infuriating, sorrowful, or heartbreaking. Many of these we have no control over. However, we have a choice to accept or to “fight against reality”. When acceptance is hard, try to remember you have a choice. Choose the path of acceptance.
When faced with a scary or upsetting situation, you need the courage to accept it. When you find the courage to accept frightening or shocking events, you gain the opportunity to turn them into something positive.
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Continue reading “Lessons and Blessings”In order to change and grow, you must learn more than you know right now and be more than you are right now. Acceptance is the first step. Acceptance helps us see the blessing in the lessons and the lesson in the blessings.
If you can’t walk away from a situation and you can’t change it, acceptance becomes the only viable option if you want to find any peace. There are things in life that we can’t change and we can’t walk away from. Acceptance gives us the clarity to understand the situation for what it is. Own your outcomes and choose acceptance over struggle.
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One way to use the Character Strengths, including your top Signature Strengths, is to discover ways to combine them with the 18 practices of the Excelerated Life™. Here is a look at combining the practice of Excelerated Acceptance™ with each of the 24 character strengths.
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