It’s no secret that we desire to experience positive emotions. But did you know that this is actually a core need in your work environment in order to feel satisfied by your job? You might assume that work is a place for effort and determination, not feeling good. But positive emotions can help you balance the seriousness and pressure of work with light-heartedness and a reminder of what really matters in your life.

While you won’t always get the validation you’re seeking from higher-ups, you can always increase your sense of competence by choosing to better yourself. Go the extra mile and invest in your education and training.

When you value the relationships you have at work, you’ll find them to be more supportive and healthy. When you reach out to help a colleague feel more seen and accepted, you’ll receive that same support back.

Remember that moving through your day with mindful intention is empowering. It helps you manage your emotions, tap into your intuition, and make inspired decisions. Simply bringing more mindfulness into your day can boost your sense of autonomy.

You can envision that a tree swaying in strong winds becomes much more stable by rooting deeper into the ground. And it’s the same with your emotional storms. When you’re feeling overwhelmed or stressed, you need deeper roots to support you and keep you stable.

As you get to know yourself on a deeper level, you’ll find the chess move that provides you with the most support and encouragement to help you manage your emotions effectively.

If parents want to give their children a gift, the best thing they can do is to teach them to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, and keep on learning. That way, their children don’t have to be slaves of praise. They will have a lifelong way to build and repair their own confidence.

Life requires commitment and trust. Sometimes you have to put your head down and keep going, step by step on your journey. You won’t always get immediate results or rewards for your work. Many times, the journey itself is the purpose and the gift.

Getting it done is making progress; it’s moving forward. When something is done, it can be examined, learned from, and improved upon. But if you’re unwilling to share something until it’s perfect, your creation might never see the light of day.

Life is a dance between making it happen and letting it happen.

If you sit and observe, you’ll see how restless your mind is. If you try to calm it, it makes things worse. But over time, it does calm; and your intuition blossoms, and you see much more. It’s a discipline; you have to practice it.

Having a game plan can help you shift out of resistance and avoidance into empowered action.

Vulnerability is not knowing victory or defeat, it’s understanding the necessity of both; it’s engaging. It’s being all in.

If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, ‘Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.

It’s important to be humble and to be honest about where you have room to grow. But when you trust yourself to keep learning and improving, there’s no need to ever feel like an imposter. You are worthy of all the wonderful things that come your way. And it’s up to you to believe it.

“Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.” – Melody Beattie

If you keep your vision on the end goal, you will always have a compass guiding you forward.

Each time you’re focusing on a personal struggle, see if you can match it with a reflection of admiration, just to keep things in perspective - you are doing an amazing job! You are wonderful, and you’re worth celebrating.

Resilience is the willingness to be uncomfortable in the pursuit of your goals. Sometimes it’s the discomfort itself that shows you’re on the right track to growth and expansion. While thinking-mode might keep you safe in your comfort zone, doing-mode is what will help you become all that you’re meant to be.