A life of well-being, meaning and purpose.
When you are working with your character strengths and apply them with intention, everything you want to build becomes more possible.
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Acceptance is not the end of action — it’s the beginning of wise action. When you begin with acceptance, you stop resisting reality, and you free your strength to shape what comes next.
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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.
When cultivated intentionally, positivity broadens your thinking, strengthens your resilience, and builds a life that not only survives challenges but thrives in spite of them.
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The foundation for an Excelerated Life™ begins with three “bricks”. Excelerated Acceptance™ allows us to “get real” by identifying and accepting the things we struggle with. Using Excelerated Response™, we address the things we can change. And with the practice of Excelerated Values™, we define our principles and standards of behavior and identify what is important in life. It starts with Values.
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At the end of our lives, it’s not the number of emails we answered, the errands we checked off, or the promotions we earned that matter most. It’s the quality of our relationships. When you invest in your relationships, you build the foundation for a flourishing life.
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Tolerating minor annoyances doesn’t mean they’ll simply fade away. They pile up. Each one seems minor on its own, but together they create an undercurrent of frustration and distraction. When you plug the leaks, you reclaim the energy you were losing to frustration, procrastination, and unfinished business. That freed energy can now be directed toward what truly matters.
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Reclaim your hidden strengths and use them to live more intentionally in midlife and beyond. You no longer have to hide or hide from your shadow side. By leveraging your strengths, you can transform that side into something positive.
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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 “Flourish Where You Are Planted”“Bloom where you are planted” is an expression to encourage you and me to make the most of what we have, where we are. While we can’t always choose our circumstances or environment, we can choose our attitude and our actions. We can, in fact, choose to flourish.