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How to Stand Up for Yourself

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The director of a small but busy public library in the Midwest, Marcia Fanning (not her real name) says she was meek and didn’t really stand up for herself for many years: “I let people walk all over me, and I ended up being really unhappy a lot of [the] time.”. Best practices for standing up for yourself. I apologized.

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If You Want to Change Your Life, Change What You Think

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It’s easy to become overwhelmed and crushed by a negative situation, and to give up before you give yourself a significant chance to rebound. We are sorry to inform you that your confidence is dead. This article was published in August 2016 and has been updated. Incoming!). I don’t have what it takes to handle this. (It

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4 Ways to Turn Obstacles into Opportunities

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If he had given up, we wouldn’t have the legend we have today. Giving up is not my style. It’s easy to give up; it’s much harder to stick to the plan. Have the confidence to be the exception, the outlier that overcomes all obstacles—someone who is willing to bet on themselves. Every person has obstacles in their life.

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38 Gratitude Quotes to Keep You Focused on the Positive

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To give thanks for yesterday, today and tomorrow and all that you’ve experienced because each up and every down you face is a landmark on your journey that makes you who you are. Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.” — Alfred North Whitehead 12.

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10 Daily Habits Holding You Back from Growth

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Some of those choices are extraordinary, but most of them are simple habits that add up, one step and one day at a time. I love getting up before everyone else when the house is quiet. Procrastination can mask a lack of confidence, or a fear of being wrong or being criticized. There’s no such thing as an overnight success.

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11 Ways to Handle Confrontation

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And it’s probably because you’re either scared that the conversation is going to be terribly awkward and so you put it on the backburner, or you’re frustrated but don’t want to make a big deal of it and so you just bottle it up. Bottling it up and not addressing it is the worst course of action. Wrong, wrong, wrong.

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10 Habits of Ultra-Likeable Leaders

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Even in undeniably negative situations, likeable leaders emanate an enthusiastic hope for the future, a confidence that they can help make tomorrow better than today. Likeable leaders don’t puff themselves up or pretend to be something they’re not, because they don’t have to. They’re even-keeled. They demonstrate integrity.