Tools & Exercises:

R.E.F.I.N.E. Template

Our summary template is designed to help you get the most out of the content you consume and help you to R.E.F.I.N.E. your life:

Reflect on the content, Enhance the way you learn, Focus on key takeaways, Implement leanings into your life, Navigate through life’s challenges, Embark on a journey of continued growth!

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Core Values Exercise

Core values are the fundamental principles that guide our actions in life. These principles or beliefs are what we view as being of central importance and are the foundation on which we perform work and conduct ourselves. This exercise is designed to ground you to these foundational principles and help enable you to create the best version of yourself.

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Exploration Guide

While we are confident that this coaching program will assist you in exploring your life, it’s important to remember that it is steady progress. You know there is more potential left to be discovered in you. You know you can grow and have even greater levels of joy and fulfillment you can reach.

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Guiding you on your personal development journey:

Step 1 - Exploring that spark of interest inside:

Exploring that spark of interest
Why is Continued Self-Improvement Important?
Why is Continued Self-Improvement Important?

It is the opposite of taking big steps, but slowly challenging yourself to work on yourself daily. It goes by belief that you can achieve greater strides by going small. So let’s assess what it means to implement continuous self-improvement in our daily lives.

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What aspects of your life do you want to enhance?
What aspects of your life do you want to enhance?
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Understanding & Building Upon Your Core Values
Understanding & Building Upon Your Core Values

Helping you to align learnings with your deepest values in life

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Self Reflection Exercises
Self Reflection Exercises
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Step 2 - Turning that spark into a fire:

Turning that spark into a fire
Elements to Consider When Choosing Learning Content
Elements to Consider When Choosing Learning Content

When it comes to looking for that perfect read it’s important to find one that we can easily be acquainted to. It doesn’t mean it has to meet our whole personality, but in terms of looking it’s important that a good read can match some general criteria.

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Can’t Decide What to Read Next? Let Us Help!
Can’t Decide What to Read Next? Let Us Help!

Learn about some of our favorite books

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3 Steps on How to Select a Good Read
3 Steps on How to Select a Good Read

Time and attention are both limited resources. When we have a strong drive and trigger to read a book, we must set ourselves up to find a good read. In just 10-15 minutes, you will be able to come up with a shortlist of good reads.

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Step 3 - Identifying the best content format for you:

Understanding what learning format works best for me
Understanding What Learning Format is Best For Me
Understanding What Learning Format is Best For Me

We have to assess the best method of learning for us because it will help us succeed in the long run. Here are three different learning styles listed, and hopefully, you'll assess and reevaluate what learning style matches you best, especially when it comes to reading something informal.

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Choosing Learning Content to Match Your Learning Style
Choosing Learning Content to Match Your Learning Style

Everyone learns differently. Your learning style refers to the preferential way you absorb, process, comprehend and retain information. Understanding your preferred types of learning styles can drastically impact your learning experience.

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Step 4 - Enhancing how you learn:

Enhancing how you learn
When Should I Choose an Audiobook Over a Physical Book?
When Should I Choose an Audiobook Over a Physical Book?

When it comes to narrowing down and choosing the latter, it’s best to ask these questions when it becomes apparent that you might need to consider selecting an audiobook.

Perfect the Art of the Ask to Further Your Learning
Perfect the Art of the Ask to Further Your Learning

An excellent cold email has two things: a clear message (why you're reaching out) and an easy-to-understand ask (the action you want the recipient to take). Here is a simple framework that will work most of the time.

Reading Techniques: Pros and Cons of the Digital World
Reading Techniques: Pros and Cons of the Digital World

Reading has become less constrained now that we can read from our phones or tablets at ease, as well as a more convenient fit as a mobile device. What is the cost of doing away with the paperback? Is digital a resolve for everybody?

How to Further Enhance the Skills You Are Good At
How to Further Enhance the Skills You Are Good At
How to Know When You Are Reading Effectively?
How to Know When You Are Reading Effectively?

Mindless reading is where there is cognitive dissonance when in the middle of viewing words and material. It’s well known amongst reading comprehension teachers and here are a few techniques they’ve shared that will help you know that you’re reading effectively.

My 6 Tips on Speed Reading
My 6 Tips on Speed Reading

With many pages, chapters, repetitive words, and phrases, it’s easy to get disinterested in something you’ve already started. Here are some tips on how to speed read, stay focused on the material you’re covering and make you a top speed reader.

Step 5 - Making time for self-improvement:

Make time self improvement
How to Set Up an Ideal Reading Cycle
How to Set Up an Ideal Reading Cycle

There are those of us that made resolutions to read more this year. Some of us complied with ten, some of us idealized that we can read up to 100 by the end. Well, it’s already been half a year gone, and let’s admit that we haven’t really reached near half of our goals. So let’s take the time to self-reflect and look at how we can make a better reading cycle and move forward.

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Bite-Size Schedule’s: How to Make Time to Read
Bite-Size Schedule’s: How to Make Time to Read

Hey, we’ve all been there: the 9 to 5 job, with the 40-hour workweek. Then there are the in-between commutes, and then our after-work processions of chores and errands...With that time crunch. What can one do to still be an effective reader and feed their mind from the daily dread?

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Reading Hacks - How to Easily Read a Book in a Month
Reading Hacks - How to Easily Read a Book in a Month

If reading one book might allow you to gain one new insight, vicariously live through another person's experience, or debunk a misunderstanding, you become a different person whenever you read a book. Find four simple tips to start your reading journey.

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Step 6 - Reflecing & Growing from Your Learnings:

Reflect and grow from your learnings
How Self-Reflection Brought Me New Insights About Myself
How Self-Reflection Brought Me New Insights About Myself
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How Might Sleep Affect Reading and Retaining?
How Might Sleep Affect Reading and Retaining?

Ever since most of us were young, we were often reminded to get plenty of sleep and its importance in helping us “grow big and strong”. As we get older, we often neglect our sleep due to work, school, family, etc. However, it still plays a pivotal role in our growth, specifically our ability to learn and memorize information.

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Try These Core Value Exercises After Mindful Reading
Try These Core Value Exercises After Mindful Reading

When you read something for your spiritual appetite, how often do you consider bringing the values encompassed in your own life? Do you feel you can possess those values head on, day-to-day? Are there situations getting in the way? With the Core Value Exercises, you can help evaluate yourself on a personal and spiritual level while also getting to know yourself better.

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Eliminating Brain Fog With a Healthy Diet
Eliminating Brain Fog With a Healthy Diet

When it comes to stress-inducing schedules we tend to make poor choices in our eating habits. We will usually opt for a nice, warm quick cheeseburger from our fast food joint down the corner if it means saving an extra fifteen minutes on our lunch break, or take that donut when needing something quick at our desk. These choices are convenient for a time, but it’s costly

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How to Make Yourself Immune to Pain - 10 Lessons from the Toughest Man Alive!
How to Make Yourself Immune to Pain - 10 Lessons from the Toughest Man Alive!

What would Goggins do?

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Step 7 - Teach and be taught:

Step 8 - Teach and be taught
What Does Asking Good Questions Mean?
What Does Asking Good Questions Mean?

What does it mean to ask questions? And what counts as a good question? A good question is a framed complex thought that cuts straight to the main point and issue. How does asking good questions give us an overall benefit? Let’s assess how making a formulated complex thought helps us achieve more.

Methods to Acquire Knowledge Effectively
Methods to Acquire Knowledge Effectively

As one gets older, obtaining more knowledge and skill can get much more stressful and complicated. We no longer have that simple flexibility of just attending school and going home to study. Now we have to insert our time between work, family, and other commitments. If you are especially keen on absorbing information or topics you’ve just read and want to retain, here are some simple tricks that can help.

How to Write Takeaways for Books
How to Write Takeaways for Books

Takeaways are usually small reflection summaries from a reader. Unlike a summarization that states the obviousness of a plot, you're sharing the most profound emotional reflection that impacted you from reading the book in just three sentences. Here are some tips for writing your takeaways, whether that be for your boss, your personal literacy blog, or maybe when you're self-reflecting in your book journal.

Step 8 - Self Mastery As a Community

Self-mastery as a community
My Experience with Reiki
My Experience with Reiki

I stumbled into Reiki for the first time one year ago during my yoga teacher training, though my relationship with it was short-lived due to pandemic-related shutdowns. A few weeks ago, I reconnected with the practice after returning to my former studio and completing my Reiki training.

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My Experience with Bullet Journaling
My Experience with Bullet Journaling

One of the biggest benefits of bullet journaling’s rapid logging was that I had to slow down and be more mindful of what I was writing for it to be effective. By using the tangible medium of pen and ink to physically write out my thoughts, journaling began to feel more “personal”, I had penned every letter in my journal and filled its empty spaces with my drawings and pictures.

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Me, me, and Compassion
Me, me, and Compassion

If arguments for compassion do not persuade you, or if the plight of others is something simply not on your radar as a cause for concern, then perhaps contemplating the possibility of waking up in one of these bodies when you eventually leave yours might make you begin to think twice about how you spend this life.

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