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January 9, 2025January 10, 2025

Get On Solid Ground: Building a Strong Foundation for an Excelerated Life™

When you try to create your life on a shaky foundation, you risk stagnation – getting stuck in place, making no progress; burnout – trying to do too much with too little; and frustration – feeling your lack of progress and taking it out on your loved ones or yourself. However, the practices that get you on solid ground free up energy, time, and other resources so you can focus on growth and self-actualization. You are going deep so you can build high.

May 16, 2024November 30, 2024

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.

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November 9, 2023November 25, 2023

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.

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June 1, 2023June 1, 2023

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.

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December 8, 2022October 6, 2023

Courage to Accept

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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July 28, 2022July 28, 2022

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.

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March 17, 2022October 6, 2023

Choose Acceptance Over Struggle

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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December 16, 2021December 16, 2021

Excelerated Acceptance™ and the 24 Character Strengths

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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September 9, 2021December 4, 2021

Hard Life

“It’s a hard life
It’s a hard life
It’s a very hard life
It’s a hard life wherever you go.”
Nancy Griffith (“It’s A Hard Life Wherever You Go”)

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July 22, 2021July 23, 2021

Acceptance Is The First Step

Acceptance is the first step. True acceptance is hard. Changing and moving forward is harder. But the hardest thing of all is staying stuck where you are. You can pay the price of doing the hard work of accepting, then moving on. Or you can pay the higher price of doing nothing and stay stuck where you are. Either way, you’re going to pay. Why not choose the cost that leads to peace of mind and growth?
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