The Growth Digest

Taking your personal growth journey to the next level with the best stories from E.B. Johnson.

These are the best and most popular stories from E.B. Johnson on Practical Growth(and beyond) this week. Discover how you can safeguard your wellbeing and build better relationships. All while manifesting a life that is authentically your own.

You can’t escape the truth anymore. You know it. I know it. Everyone knows it. Your relationship is toxic. It makes you feel bad, and you’re stressed out about it all the time. Odds are, you don’t even recognize yourself or your loved one anymore. Why are you holding on to something that doesn’t make you happy? What are you nurturing something that detracts from the quality of your life? Although it will be hard, you have to admit the truth to yourself. It’s time to leave your toxic relationship once and for all…

Are you someone who gets up easily in the morning? Do you enjoy getting an early start to your day? Well, like it or not, becoming a morning person can have a lot of benefits for your mental and physical health. If you’re looking to give yourself one last push to get things done, then try getting up earlier. Establish the right morning routine and you’ll change the way you see yourself and your day-to-day life…

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Getting where we want in life requires that we do the deep work. This involves wading into the depths of our past and confronting the darkest parts of ourselves. It’s the hard work that turns our perspective upside down. And it’s the key to opportunity and the future we always imagined for ourselves. If you want to create a life that’s purpose-driven and worthwhile, then you have to commit to doing some arduous mental and emotional work. We change the outside world only when we change the inside world first…

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There’s no way around it. While the world does a lot of damage to us, we’re ultimately the ones who get end up getting in the way of the smallest of improvements we can make. We avoid real self-honesty because it hurts. Being honest forces us to admit that we have to rethink the way we see ourselves and the world around us.

A. My entire life. Once I hit a certain age, I just started doing the things I wanted, and I refused to apologize for any of it. You name it. Going out and partying with my friends. Traveling. Refusing to get married and have children. Moving abroad (that was a big one).

Every single one of those things posed issues to my family that resulted in judgement and ultimate estrangement. I’ll never apologize for any of it, because I had a right to be young, live my life, and figure out who I was — away from their assumptions and expectations of me.

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