Author: Jason
Jason Connell helps people develop confidence, self-love, and self-compassion so that they can step fully into their lives. He's worked with everyone from sixth graders in Denver through senior administration members in Washington, DC.
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How five minutes of indulging anger and darkness made me happy
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How Ranting About Abundance And Gratitude Helped Me Find My Wife
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Updates after five years
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2022 personal review: lessons, losses, and victories
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2021 personal review: lessons, losses, and victories
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The tension between money and happiness
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Why change is so f*cking hard
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Starting a new dream: how I navigated a mid life career change and found my path in my 30s (and a few practical tips on finding yours, too).
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2020 personal review: lessons, losses, victories, and books
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On being nice to yourself: 3-steps to self-compassion
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Finding light in the darkness: 7 questions to help you navigate the difficult times ahead
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Owning my mistakes: 6 ideas I’ve changed my mind about
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Learning to suffer productively
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What are the Five Best Moments of Your Life So Far?
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Mindfulness meditation class recordings (and sign up)
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Calling my shot part 2: embracing the grey
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Black Lives Matter
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Finding mental health during times of uncertainty
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I’ve changed (and why I’m taking a few months off from writing)
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2019 personal review: lessons, losses, victories, and books
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Embracing the void: lessons about pain, confusion, and guidance from a later mentor
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On the beauty of setting boundaries and drowning out the world
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When the world won’t stop beating you down
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A mental model to boost happiness and productivity
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Harnessing the fires of anger
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Finding your path part 2: 7 questions to help you on your way
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The secrets we don’t share: lessons about pain and belonging from a late mentor
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Finding your path part 1: what it’s like to miss the mark
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Five seconds for a fleeting burst of joy
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An open letter to life coaches and psychotherapists: Why I’m going back to school
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2018 personal review: lessons, losses, and victories
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Embracing your dark edges
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30 ways to set boundaries: a guide for people pleasers
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The mechanics of your mind
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The curse of moderate success
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Sneaking up on happiness
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Using gratitude to shape your future
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Getting out of a rut part 2: overcoming the hidden fear and self-sabotage that’s holding you back
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Getting out of a rut part 1: emotional spring-cleaning
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Eight ways to improve your people skills
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It’s ok to not be ok from time to time
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The art of suffering: how to use pain to improve your life
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Putting yourself back together: guidance for when life collapses
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Permission to dream small
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How to avoid burnout, beat stress, and find calm amidst the storm (a guide for when life gets crazy)
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Why I turned comments off
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2017 personal review: lessons, losses, and victories
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Staring the human condition straight in the eye
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How to make friends as an adult: a guide to finding and connecting with people you love
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Why following your passions is bad career advice
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Being cool with being normal
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Why does success feel so empty?
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How to affect change in your country (even when things suck)
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Living in a world where your body is obscene
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How to quit (and why it leads to happiness)
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How to find a good therapist (and my experience with an abusive one)
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The hidden agony of men and their mental health
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What no one tells you about leaving the beaten path
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Overcoming low self-worth
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What happens when you put life ahead of work for a year?
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How to overcome the need to be a people-pleaser
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On relationships, awareness, and compassion
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My five best pranks
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Blogging year 1: how I went from 0 to 66,029 readers and what I learned along the way
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Reminders to myself part II: notes for the good times
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What happens when you’re completely honest for a year?
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Becoming a giver: the most important lesson in a decade
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Beautiful imperfection: the path to self-love
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There is no path: lessons from a monk and a billionaire
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Why I’ve lost faith in Tony Robbins (and most life coaches)
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2017: the year of hell yeah or guilt free no
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2016 personal review: the victories, losses, and lessons
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A guide to meditation: how to do it, how it changed me, its risks, and more…
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How to draw the good out of people (and yourself)
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On finding the strength to get back up
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How to make hard conversations easier (and why I had five in one day)
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Why I won’t vote for a third party this year
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3 days of silence
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Letting go of a dream: why I left professional speaking
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The emotional imprisonment of the modern male
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Defeating your inner critic
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Escaping the prison of unworthiness
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The truth about entrepreneurship
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Reminders to myself
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How to understand, cultivate, and focus your energy
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On life, death, and the moment
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The art of giving back: an unconventional approach to negotiation
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What to do when the world grows dark
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You’re not broken: the hidden dangers of personal development
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How I transformed my life: a guide to personal reinvention
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Getting to know yourself: eleven questions for deepening self-awareness
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Don’t trust me. Trust you. A guide to overcoming self-doubt.
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How to handle the emotional chaos of change
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Looking for happiness? First, let the crippling pain of existence destroy you.
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On giving up alcohol for a year
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Loving yourself is really f***ing hard: here’s how to do it
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Calling my shot…