goal setting

Don’t Let Your Big Goals Intimidate You: Break Them Into Smaller Steps

I think we’ve all done it. We’ve set a goal for ourselves or we have a big project that we want to accomplish and then, within a few weeks or months we feel overwhelmed with the whole thing and want to give up. So, we set that goal again later that year because we’d really […]

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Are You Ready for More Solo-Coaching? Check Out Where Your Journey Will Progress Next!

The last time we were doing some solo-coaching here on Submissive Guide we had just gotten started trying to learn what coaching is and how to hold meetings with yourself, journal your thoughts and understand your current goals. I even bundled it up into an ebook if you want the whole first series. Solo Coaching

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Uprooting Self-Sabotaging Behaviors: Learning How to Make Changes that Stick

There are many relationships both inside and outside of the Lifestyle that exist under undue strain and eventually crumble under the weight of the behaviors that are a result of self-sabotage, and all too often these habitual patterns aren’t recognized though they are repeated with great frequency. A cycle of strife is perpetuated year in

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Create SMART Goals For Your New Year’s Resolutions and Reach Your Goals This Year!

The end of the year looms, and in these darkest of days, all our flaws, our struggles, and our shortcomings seem to shine brighter for the lack of light. And so our journeys to create new and better versions of ourselves commence. We’ll go to the gym every day. We’ll eat right. We’ll stop procrastinating.

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Words as Motivation – Submissive Meditation Monday

This entry is part 3 of 19 in the series Submissive Meditation Monday

I’m devoting this Monday to meditation, reflection and devotion to  submission. I hope to select  topics that will get you thinking differently about some part of your life or  submission and then just maybe grow a little bit further. If you have ideas for  topics that might work for a Meditation Monday,  please email me. Three months ago I encountered a

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Creating Realistic Submissive Goals Sets You Up for Success

Last year I wrote about the importance of revising your contracts at the start of the New Year so you can make sure that it reflects your current relationship parameters and hard/soft limits.  I’m still a single submissive, and (for the time being) I’m enjoying this journey of self-discovery and self-improvement.  One thing that single submissives must always remember is

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A Submissive’s New Year’s Resolutions: Letting Go and Offering Forgiveness

“To err is human.  To forgive is divine.” The start of a new year is a very popular time for resolutions and goals, but it’s also a great time for letting go of the past and letting bygones be bygones.  In theory, it’s a great idea.  Who doesn’t want a fresh start to the New

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A Submissive’s New Year’s Resolutions: Goal Setting in a D/s or M/s Dynamic

Every December as the holidays wane, we start thinking about New Year’s resolutions and ways to make our lives better.  The New Year is a fresh start and optimism is contagious.  For submissives, though, resolutions mean so much more.  Frankly, I’ve decided that the world would be a better place if everyone had a Dom/me

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A Submissive’s New Year’s Resolutions: Reviewing and Updating your Checklist

When I first discovered my submissive side, Sir gave me a BDSM checklist to fill out. It was a spreadsheet over six pages long with categories such as sex, bondage, S&M, role-playing, and toys. The columns include basic yes/no/maybe options, as well as soft/hard limit and “only with Sir.” The list was so comprehensive and

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Creating a Personal Submissive Protocol

This entry is part 3 of 35 in the series Rituals, Rules and Protocol

Protocol. It’s a word that is used in BDSM groups online and off with a sort of secrecy and awe. It’s relegated to those in 24/7 type relationships and rarely discussed as what it really is. Protocol is a defined set of rules and behaviors for special situations. That’s it. You don’t have to be in any

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Submission By Choice: Learned Submission

This entry is part 19 of 30 in the series Novice Submissives Start Here

Submission has been called a gift. It has been said to be a natural characteristic. Submission is also a choice. When I first entered the lifestyle, no one would have mistaken me for a submissive. I am strong willed, commanding and independent. I have a dominant personality. Nature, society and the way I was brought

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