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Kara Lawson: Handle Hard Better Coach is back with another motivational speech. This time she reminds us that things don't get easier in life, we just become better equipped to handle them....

How many times do you have to hear something to believe it.
I'm talking about the important messages that our friends, family, mentors, teachers, coaches, and sometimes strangers say to us that are the most important messages about our unique strengths and gifts.
I don't know about you, but although I think of myself as a good listener to other people, I realized recently that my track record of listening to the messages directed at me could use some work - serious work!
Starting in my teens and throughout my young adulthood, many people told me that I was creative. I had nothing to hang that idea on. I knew I wasn't an artist in the traditional sense.
I sometimes joke with the graphic artists I work with that they have nothing to worry about - I draw stick figures.
It never occurred to me that my creativity resided in my imagination, in the world of ideas and strategies.
I didn't know how to explore it and took a circuitous route to define ways to use it that would work for me
The point is that I spent years wandering around - I got good experience and created many different things, still not thinking about how I was creative. Yikes.
I was stuck in a typical thinking framework that promotes academic success as the only measure that counted- ugh.
More importantly, though, because of all the assumptions crowding my mind, I didn't hear the important messages delivered to me with love.
At one point, I gave up all those assumptions and realized I could use my creativity, which changed my life.
Think back on messages you have heard many times and perhaps discounted for whatever reason.
Others can often see what we cannot, and the ones willing to tell us are the messengers of hope and brilliance.
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The one thing that I am trying to do now is to listen to those messages. Then follow them up with more curiosity.
It happens too often that when we don't understand something we

When you get the time wrong, it's good to encourage yourself by saying:
"Self, you're moving too fast. Just correct it and move on!"

The Magic of Encouraging Yourself

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The Magic of Encouraging Yourself