It's so easy to let negative thoughts and emotions creep into your life and take over your mental health. That voice in your head can seem so loud and persistent, but you are in full control of that dialogue. All you need is positive reinforcement to remind yourself that everything is going to be okay.

Every day, we face challenges. Life is a process of growth and understanding. Once you understand anxiety and how it works, it doesn’t seem so intimidating anymore. What we give power to, or invest in, is what has the potential to control us. Think about your life and see it for what it’s worth. You have so much in store, so much within you worth celebrating. You are the key to your success. You are what holds the pieces together for your timeline.

Take a leap of faith and dare to step outside of the box when necessary. Take control of your future and do it with confidence, love and strength.

Everyone has bad mental health days. It’s natural. Days where it’s harder to think positively and where motivation is non-existent. Don’t pretend to be fine when you aren’t. Learn to love yourself as a whole, not in doses. Not feeling okay is a sign that things need to change, and most times for the better.

Suppressing your emotions makes you ill. Not feeling okay motivates you to take action. Not feeling okay helps you grow and learn so much about yourself. Sometimes blessings are disguised as scary and painful.

As times goes on, you will learn about the importance of self-care and self-compassion.

How can we be more understanding of ourselves and others? Making the effort to see things from someone else’s perspective can strengthen relationships and your understanding of the people around you.

Being empathetic for other people’s position can help with conflict resolution and negotiation. Close-mindedness is part of our nature. But controlling our mind is the difference between constant progress and making the same mistakes over and over. You never know what someone is going through. Your act of understanding and kindness might be exactly what they need to lift them up and help them get through a bad day.

What is the meaning of having a purpose? Your purpose can represent so many different levels of your life and how you are as an individual. Each one of us has a mission to embark on and that mission requires us to tap into our source of purpose.

The main focus of this life is self discovery. Each day is a new opportunity to further our mission and unlock our true potential.

When we decide to focus on one thing, we set aside everything else and work on it. But it’s easy for our minds to start wandering.

Try to limit any form of distraction.

Be sure to rest enough, it will boost your decision making skills and make it easier to work towards your goals.

Learning how to improve your concentration is all about creating the right mindset – something which might require modifying your attitude and environment. 

how you look at life and your surroundings can easily be changed with a little bit of willpower. 

learning to get things done more efficiently is a life changing opportunity.

Resilience is the ability to adjust to situations of daily life through coping methods.

When challenges occur, we often need a strategy to not feed into negativity or absorb the wrong energy. The coping skills need to outweigh the adversity, in order to grow and adapt a new mindset and understanding of a series of situations.

Words hold a lot of meaning. How we speak can influence so many different outcomes. It’s all about self control. Take your control back by standing behind what you say and realizing the purpose to it all.

Striving for excellence is a good thing. However, perfectionism, is an unrealistic and unrelenting expectation that you’ll excel at everything, always do and say the “right” thing, and be everything to everyone.

The problem is that when we expect the impossible from ourselves and others, we’re bound to be disappointed and frustrated.

Perfectionism is one of the ways we try to feel in control and worthy.

Our unmet expectations and drive for perfection can cause us a host of problems :

- A harsh inner-critic,

nagging and criticizing others,

all-or-nothing thinking,

overworking and difficulty relaxing,

reluctance to try new things,

fear of failure, ruminating,

anxiety, and depression.

Overall, most of us try to earn our worthiness by being perfect.

Perfectionism doesn’t build high self-esteem

It might seem like people who are goal-driven, work hard, and achieve a lot have high self-esteem, but in reality, perfectionists and codependents are constantly trying to prove and perfect themselves because they don’t feel good about ourselves.

The path of taking our power back and healing the triggers starts with inner supportive voice that is able to release the inner resistance in form of conflicting beliefs or fear of failure.

We learn from mistakes. Allow yourself to learn and move forward, instead of beating yourself up over a perfect, but unrealized fantasy.

The world is not black and white. See adversity as a blessing in disguise, use it as a guide to better yourself and to become comfortable with imperfection.