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Happy, Healthy, Successful Life Formula: Knowing vs. Doing

Person holding hands up at the top of a mountain

Everyone wants the formula for a happy, healthy, successful life. In fact, most of us spend enormous energy to find that formula, and we do it all our life. Recently, I had talks with many clients and friends and realized that the problem is not finding the formula but implementing it.

Most people say they know what to do but they just can’t do it. When I teach them something and they have an awakening or awareness or realization, most of the time, it is not because they don’t know what to do but because they found a way to implement something they already knew.

Did it happen to you that you read a book, went to a seminar, heard a podcast, and said, “I knew that”, but still you don’t do what you know?

Well, it happens to all of us.

This post is part 48 of 49 in the series Make a List

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Published: January 14, 2025 by Ronit Baras
Last modified: January 13, 2025In: Personal Development Tags: men, art, meditation, how to, choice, change, focus, touch, gratitude

Increase Your Confidence Through Kindness

Woman looking at clouds spelling Believe in Yourself

We all want to be confident and raise confident children. In my workshops, when I ask parents to grant their kids four wishes, confidence is high on their list. Confidence is the faith we have that things will happen in a certain way or that we’ll manage whatever happens. It is a sense of satisfaction or happiness about things that happened or about to happen.

Most parents are very surprised when I tell them that kindness is a fantastic way to boost our confidence, so, let me show you what the connection is.

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Published: December 10, 2024 by Ronit Baras
Last modified: December 17, 2024In: Personal Development Tags: how to, happiness, relationships / marriage, positive attitude tips, self confidence / self esteem / self worth, personal development / personal growth / personality development / self improvement, school, kindness, love, skills, men, art

I Didn’t Know I Was Already an Artist!

Artist's hands moulding clay

A very common question I ask all my clients is, “What would you do if you had no money constraints and didn’t have to work?” It is a good question because it allows the mind to free itself from the constraints of life and allows itself to want, simply want.

In life, instead of learning to want and go for our dreams, we learn to comply, to suppress our wants and do what is expected of us. We are born dreamers. Research says that this is at its peak when we are about 5 years old, starts to decline around 8 and reaches total devastation around 16 years old. By that stage, what seems hard is a “sign” we are not capable of achieving our dreams.

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Published: December 3, 2024 by Ronit Baras
Last modified: December 4, 2024In: Personal Development Tags: how to, choice, lifestyle, creative / creativity, focus, school, love, men, art

Make a List: 100 Ways to Be Kind to Myself

Happy woman sitting in a forest

Last week, I wrote about self-kindness and how to write a list of “100 ways to be kind to myself”. Kindness spreads like a ripple, so it must start from within us. I hope that by now, you have a basic list, but if you do not, please stop reading, make your own list and only then continue to read my list below.

Why?

The process of making up the list sends a message to your subconscious that you are important. However, if you copy someone else’s list, this does not happen.

Here is a list of things you can do to be kind to yourself. Only take those that suit your personality and adjust them to your preferences and to what makes you happy.

This post is part 41 of 49 in the series Make a List

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Published: April 19, 2017 by Ronit Baras
Last modified: December 9, 2024In: Personal Development Tags: love, acceptance / judgment / tolerance, art, self confidence / self esteem / self worth, music, personal development / personal growth / personality development / self improvement, money, list, emotional intelligence, kindness, how to, beliefs, change, social skills, body image, positive attitude tips, focus

Make a List: Self-Kindness

Girl looking happy in fetal position

I have written a lot about kindness. I think that it makes the world go around and I like to think about it as a ripple. One act of kindness ripples and touches the lives of those who are far away from us.

The movie Pay it Forward showed the power of kindness in making the world a better place. I remember at the age of 16, I was a school captain and we had a teacher, named Reuben, who helped us a lot to change the lives of the students in our school. One day, a girl in the group asked him why he was dedicating so much time to us. He said, “If I make a difference in the lives of six of you, and each of you makes a difference in the lives of six other people, eventually, this world will be a better place”. I was 16 years old and this gave me a perfect understanding of the ripple effect of kindness.

For the last 32 years, I have been teaching emotional intelligence and kindness. used to be the part in EQ that we relate to others. In the last 10 years, it has changed for me as I became the state director of a not-for-profit organization, called “Together for Humanity”, which delivers diversity education.

Why?

This post is part 40 of 49 in the series Make a List

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Published: April 12, 2017 by Ronit Baras
Last modified: December 9, 2024In: Personal Development Tags: body image, positive attitude tips, school, touch, acceptance / judgment / tolerance, love, self confidence / self esteem / self worth, men, personal development / personal growth / personality development / self improvement, art, list, emotional intelligence, kindness, how to, beliefs, change, social skills

Singing Family Full of Joy

Noff with a microphone and Tsoof on guitar

On my happy list, I wrote, “It makes me happy to listen to my kids singing”. This was true even when they were babies. I remember my youngest daughter Noff joining us in Alicia Keys’ song Fallin’ when she was one year old. She always joined on time and it made us all very happy.

Singing is a very sensitive thing for me. Well, it was very sensitive. Today, when I run workshops or stand in front of a big crowd during my presentations, no one can guess that years ago, when I was young, I sometimes had no voice. Speaking was difficult for me and singing was not even an option.

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Published: November 22, 2016 by Ronit Baras
Last modified: November 9, 2021In: Parenting Tags: role model, happiness, success experience, activity, fun, video, kids / children, self confidence / self esteem / self worth, body image, personal development / personal growth / personality development / self improvement, art, practical parenting / parents, music

World Peace and Harmony through Kindness

Recently, I was asked to take part in a panel at the United Nations World Peace Conference. The panel members were chosen for being “inspiring people who contributed to world peace”, each in a different way. My way of spreading peace is, and always has been, education. I talked about how parents and teachers can make a difference in the world around us.

The organizers asked my son, Tsoof, who is a musician, to perform at the event, but he was booked. It was a last-minute request, so it was a long-shot, but we still needed entertainment for the day. Luckily, they only needed to fill three minutes.

As a last minute idea, I suggested a song that I had been using in my presentations for 10 years. This song is a big part of my global citizenship program and on some of my free hugs campaigns. It was Jewels’ song, Hands, which I think is my spiritual motto, “Only kindness matters”.

World peace promotion using baby looking in mirror with the writing “The world is like a mirror. If you smile at it, it smiles at you”We can teach kindness in schools if we want to make this world a better place. Some people in the audience recognized the song and as I read out the lyrics, everyone was moved. As the song was played, some tears were shed.

I wish I could have thought of the lyrics myself! They are so powerful and I thank Jewel for the inspiration.

Check out the lyrics for yourself and see if you are moved by them.

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Published: September 8, 2015 by Ronit Baras
Last modified: December 9, 2024In: Personal Development, Parenting, Education / Learning Tags: school, public speaker, love, presentations, inspiration, personal development / personal growth / personality development / self improvement, men, practical parenting / parents, art, teaching / teachers, music, kindness, society, determination, free hugs, spiritual, video

Handy Family Tips: How to Get Kids to Eat Vegetables

Kid eating corn

Vegetables are good for our health, but they are not very popular. I think this is because the advertising departments of junk, sugary and chocolaty food companies are much better than the advertising departments of vegetable companies. It is very simple. If we had the same publicity for vegetables that we do for junk food, it would be easy to get kids to eat vegetables and they would do it happily.

Even more than advertising, the best way to get kids to eat vegetables is to love eating vegetables yourself and to buy lots of them for your home. If this is what kids have on hand, this is what they will eat. Obviously, this is not as easy to do as we might think. Otherwise, everyone would do it and every kid in the world would eat vegetables at every meal.

The A-Z Vegetable Challenge

One of the tricks I offer to my clients to get kids to eat vegetables and overcome eating problems is the A-Z Vegetable Challenge. Starting with the letter A, the family chooses a vegetable beginning with that letter to focus on for the week, to learn about, research, cook with and eat.

This post is part 21 of 24 in the series Handy Family Tips

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Published: January 22, 2015 by Ronit Baras
Last modified: May 17, 2021In: Parenting, Health / Wellbeing Tags: fun, cooking, kids / children, art, tips, how to, health / wellbeing, education / learning, food, practical parenting / parents, lifestyle, family matters, activity

Kindness Matters

Be kind, for everyone is fighting their battle too

Kindness matters. If you look around, it is easy to see that everyone struggles. The world is a battle field and we are in a constant state of war.

If you watch the news for five minutes, you risk believing that the world is a dangerous place. Countries fight other countries, cultures fight other cultures, people fight in the name of God and in the name of their religion, people fight their neighbors, and their spouses. They fight their friends and their children. At work, they fight the boss or their colleagues. Even if they don’t fight for survival, they fight for justice or for love. If the fight is not with others, they fight time, weight, aging.

There is no end to the struggles. No wonder life seems so exhausting. I believe the source of all the struggles is the fight with our fears.

A fight, no matter what the cause is, is still a fight. It is like a war between two, even if the two are inside of us. I have learned a very good rule in life: In war, there are no winners. Some lose more while others lose less. In any case, there are only losers. So, if we fight, no matter who and what, we always lose.

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Published: November 11, 2014 by Ronit Baras
Last modified: December 9, 2024In: Personal Development, Spirituality Tags: happiness, practical parenting / parents, society, kindness, focus, anger, love, compassion, men, video, art, justice, how to, war, role model, attitude, fear, acceptance / judgment / tolerance, personal development / personal growth / personality development / self improvement, change, list

Social Media Reality: Look Up! What Are You Missing?

Technology and social media have become a significant part of our life. Recently, I learned some valuable lessons about just how they affect us and the opportunities they make us miss.

My 13-year-old daughter, Noff, is the youngest in our family. Lately, she has been struggling with not having a mobile phone to take to school. To her, mobile phones are very cool. Some kids need them to coordinate pick-up times or for safety on the bus.

Unfortunately for her, she does not need it for any of those things. She so much wants to be part of the mobile phone in-crowd that she uses our old phones to play games. She struggles with not being like everyone else and I struggle with my parenting.

I have some beliefs and rules about social media and I know I need to adjust them to suit the times. I have three kids and I cannot apply the same parenting rules regarding media with Noff that I did with my first two.

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Published: July 24, 2014 by Ronit Baras
Last modified: November 9, 2021In: Kids / Children, Parenting Tags: home / house, social, suicide, video, internet, positive attitude tips, safety, kids / children, computer, movies, beliefs, feeling, rules, mobile phone, relationships / marriage, media, school, tv, practical parenting / parents, art, bullying, social media, music, technology

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