When something really matters, you should never give up or give in. ~ Gordon Brown Have you ever really thought or felt about what matters to you? Are you passionate about something? Is there something in your life that brings you joy? In the busy-ness of life, it is easy to lose touch with what really matters. If it was just you and you had no responsibilities, what would you do? What is important to you? What really matters? Some of you would say that your health and wellness matters the most. Someone might say the adventure and magic of traveling, visiting new places feeds their soul. You might say that your awakening, your realization that you are more than what you see in the mirror, is a path that really matters to you. If you have never really contemplated what matters to you, take some time to just “sit or be” with what your heart is telling you. Regardless of your age or what is happening in your life, get in touch with that inner knowing. Go within and ask yourself “What really matters to me at this time on my life journey?” Once you have established one or several things that would make “your heart sing” even at the thought of doing them, then it is time to come up with a plan to incorporate them into your daily life. Those of you who feel you are in a rut, don’t feel joy or feel hopeless with your day-to-day existence, then this is especially important for you. I know you are busy, but could you find a way to commit even 30 minutes a day to you? You might be thinking “There is no way I have even 15 minutes in my day to do something for me!” I would challenge you to make YOU your #1 priority and find time to nurture you, your soul. Could you wake up 30 minutes earlier or take 30 minutes before you go to bed for yourself? What about taking a break during the day? Or how about when you transition from work to home, you take some time for yourself. One mom told me that when she took time for herself, she was a better mother, wife and person. Because of the demands of being a working mom with a busy family, she woke up 30 minutes earlier before anyone else was awake. This was her special quiet time every day that was just for her. A professional single mother told me she would take time on her lunch hour for herself. She knew her child was being cared for at daycare. And, she was able to leave the demands of work behind during that time. Sometimes she would workout, or sit outside and read the latest book that had her attention or attend a lunch focus group about a local issue she was passionate about. She was able to focus on just herself and what mattered to her. What was interesting, she felt her performance was better at work on the days she did this. She also felt this helped her be a better mother. I love the analogy of when you are flying on a plane and there is an emergency. If you are flying with someone that would need your assistance to put on their oxygen mask, you are told to put your oxygen mask on first. If you pass out from lack of oxygen, you are not going be able to help anyone! You have to take care of you by putting on your oxygen mask before you can help others. Take time to do what matters to you, what you care about. What a wonderful way to love and take care of yourself. When you take care of you, it is a gift you give yourself and everyone around you. It is not being selfish!!! As you take time to do what you are passionate about and what brings you joy, you can then allow that to flow to others. Do what really matters to you. What a gift! Thank you for sharing, liking and commenting below about this blog. Feedback is always welcome. Are you ready to live the life you desire and deserve? Julie Wilson is a Life Coach who is dedicated to help you live a life you love! For more information, click the button below.
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The best way to predict the future is to create it. ~ Peter Drucker Are you on autopilot from the time the alarm goes off till you fall into bed at the end of your day? Do you go through the motions hoping you will make it through the day? Then you wake up the next day to find you are going through the same process all over again! You can choose how you go through the day. You can unconsciously move through the day or be a conscious creator. “What,” you say, “me a creator?” Yes, YOU are a creator! You have the power to create your day. Creation starts with the present moment. The more you are conscious in the NOW moment, your imagination, creativity and intuition can be focused on just that moment. That is where the magic can happen! Creation can begin from the heart center. Have you ever done something that you didn’t even have to think about doing it? You just did it because it felt good. You followed what some people call your gut feeling, your intuition, that inner knowing. You followed what felt right to you and went for it. Everyone has that inner guidance system, everyone! Intuition is your inner GPS. It helps you and guides you on the road we call life. It’s technology you have always had but in the world we live in now, it is being used more and more. And like all technology, it gets upgrades from time to time. The more you use your intuition, the stronger it gets. Take a moment and recall something you did where you trusted your gut, your intuition. Did it go as well as you thought it would? Not so well? Was it better than you imagined? If you listed ten times when you trusted your inner knowing, I feel certain you would find that most of the time things turned out very well. Humanity is moving from a “thinking” world to more of a “feeling” world. No, you aren’t going to stop using your brain! You will find, though, that thinking and rethinking about something does not help you. When you can move to a place of asking yourself “How do I feel about ABC?” and seeing how you feel, then you are getting answers from your heart. You are tapping into your intuition. When you know something feels right, it lines up with you. That is such a powerful point of creation. Trusting your gut feeling, your inner knowing, is a beautiful starting place to create your world. You are the best authority for what would be most beneficial for you. All the answers for you are within you. Try an experiment this week. Pick any day and as you make decisions during that day, ask yourself, “How do I feel about what I am deciding to do?” “How do I feel about what I am creating with the decision I am making?” How do I feel about skipping breakfast versus eating something healthy to start my day? How do I feel about putting my name into the hat for project XYZ at work? How do I feel about having lunch with my friend today? How do I feel about working late versus having dinner with my family? Feel into every decision that day. Let your heart do the guiding rather than your brain. What feels best for you? Trust your inner guidance. Time for the master creator to help you create a life you love! Thank you for sharing, liking and commenting below about this blog. Feedback is always welcome. Are you ready to live the life you desire and deserve? Julie Wilson is a Life Coach who is dedicated to help you live a life you love! For more information, click the button below.
What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Does it seem that no matter where you are or what you are doing, often there is a comparison of some kind happening? From the moment a child is born, their family and society compare them. It continues through life in school, at the job and in relationships. Not only do we compare people, we compare just about everything in our life and world. We compare one sport team to another team, this diet with another diet, and even apples to oranges! Sometimes we get into a conversation, often a debate, with someone about who or what is the best. You may even find yourself having an inner dialogue comparing yourself with someone. Why do we do these comparisons? Our world tends to be dualistic. You are either right or wrong, good or bad. Things seem to appear black or white. Why does something have to be this or that? What if there was something in between that was an even better option? It is okay to look at two things, people, situations and compare them, but that doesn’t make one better than the other one. This isn’t an “either or” decision. It can be but it doesn’t have to be. Comparison can be healthy to help you see differences for what you do and do not what for yourself. It is when comparison becomes obsessive and demoralizing, that it is harmful. Comparison can hold you back. It becomes a big waste of time and energy! This may be where you may have to change some of your beliefs when making comparisons. You will have to be open to more than two possibilities of right or wrong, good or bad for what you are looking at. There is so much more than what we know is possible for us. As you become aware of looking at things differently, you open yourself up to a whole new world! What if you looked at the best of both in your comparison and came up with an even better decision, solution, answer than deciding on either one. What if you choose to view your world from a different perspective? Instead of living in a black and white world, you added some color to your world. You can use comparison to better yourself if done in a helpful way. You can take your gifts and combine them with bits and pieces of what you perceive is great about someone else. As you do this, remember though, you will never, ever be that person. You can only be you showing up as the best possible version of you! Have you thought about comparing where you are in your life compared to where you use to be? Look at where you started and all that you have accomplished. Perhaps there is more you would like to accomplish. That is a comparison that can be healthy for you. You are comparing you to you! A flower does not think of competing with the flower next to it. It just blooms. Zen Shin No two flowers are the same, yet each is beautiful and unique in its own way! And so it is with you. There is only one special, one of a kind, you! Rather than compare yourself to others, look for the beautiful gifts that only you possess. Thank you for adding your beautiful colors to the world! Thank you for sharing, liking and commenting below about this blog. Feedback is always welcome. Are you ready to live the life you desire and deserve? Julie Wilson is a Life Coach who is dedicated to help you live a life you love! For more information, click the button below.
Follow your dreams, believe in yourself and don’t give up. ~ Rachel Corri Dreams really can and do come true! I am sure at some time in your life you have had a vision in your mind of something exciting you would love to do or become. That is a powerful way to start any creation! Many life changing events and inventions have come from a dream or desire. What dream have you had that you haven’t taken the first step to bring it into solid form? What would you do if you knew your dream could come true? Within each one of you is a creative person waiting to step forward. Yes, you! No matter what you have been told or what you believe about yourself, you have creative energies within you! A dream is a thought form that is energy. Once you do anything to take that energy from thought to action, you are creating. You may not have all the resources initially to make that dream come true, but you can still put some action behind the dream to get the ball rolling! As you stay focused in the present moment with your dream, doing what you can do, watch how resources start to line up to support your dream. Someone has the materials you need to get started at a reasonable price. Or someone happens to know someone who has the expertise to help you take your dream from a thought to reality. You don’t have to have all the answers or resources to get started. What would you do if you knew you would not fail? ~ Robert H Schulle Take a minute or two and think about something you were really excited about that you wanted to do or create. Some of you have had dreams and visions about your life since you were a young child. You might have a dream that you just can’t let go of. Focus on the excitement of your idea. What has held you back from moving forward with that dream? Many of you have a fear of failure. Or, you believe you are not good enough or smart enough to make your dream come true. Some of the greatest successes have come from some of the biggest “failures”. In learning what not to do, you are one step closer to making your dream a reality. In trying, you have succeeded!! Other ways that you can block your dream is to believe everything has to be perfect before fulfilling your dream. You may believe you have to have the complete package tied with a bow before you can launch your creation. We live in an imperfect world so why put pressure on yourself that you have to have a “perfect package” before releasing your dream out into the world! Sometimes in creating your dream and putting it out there, you find it takes on a life of its own. Often this is way better than anything you could imagine! Instead of getting caught up with the belief that everything has to go a certain way, surrender to the process. Trust that all is unfolding according to your Divine life path. Don’t let others tell you that something is not possible. You can do or become anything you choose to do or become! Some of the most successful people have had very little advanced training. Some examples are that they have become well known speakers, singers, mentors, teachers and entrepreneurs. Years ago, people thought the light bulb, telephone, television and even cars were crazy ideas! Don’t let other people’s beliefs hold you back from the joy of making your dream a reality. Believe in yourself and know that anything is possible! Sweet dreams! Thank you for sharing, liking and commenting below about this blog. Feedback is always welcome. Are you ready to live the life you desire and deserve? Julie Wilson is a Life Coach who is dedicated to help you be the best version of YOU! For more information, click the button below.
If you do what you love, you’ll never work a day in your life. ~ Marc Anthony Wouldn’t it be wonderful to wake up everyday excited about what you will do that day? Whether your day is working in an office by yourself or in a manufacturing plant with 100 other people or as a stay-at-home parent, how would it feel if you loved what you do? Not sure you could ever love your job? If not, there are things you can do to at least like what you do! When you love someone, there are certain feelings you have that are uplifting and “feel good” feelings. You spend most of your waking hours “working". Wouldn’t you love to have the same “feel good” feelings about your daily work? Some of you reading this are thinking “I don’t like my job and I can’t leave it. I have too many responsibilities to just resign and do something different.” There are jobs that many of you are doing that you just can’t leave, at least not right now. That may be true for you. If so, I would ask you to consider looking at ways to change your attitude about what you do . . . even if you don’t like what you are doing at all. When you are doing something you don’t like, whether it is career based or in any other area of your life, you are harming yourself on all levels of you. It will affect you mentally, emotionally, physically and spiritually. You may not be able to leave your job, but you can change how you feel about that job or anything else in your life. Your mind, your attitude, plays a major role in how you see and perceive things. If you only see the negative about your job, you will continue to see more negative things related to your job. Soon you won’t find one thing to feel good about in what you are doing. Imagine being enthusiastic about your day! Even if you like what you are currently doing, would you like to take it to the next level and love what you do? Regardless of how you feel about your job, let’s see if you can feel better about what you do. Imagine waking up and being enthusiastic about your day! Take a moment or two and do this simple exercise. Think about the last day you spent working in your job. Quickly review the day and find at least 1-3 things that happened that you at least liked a little. Perhaps there was one thing you really liked or loved that happened that day. I know you can find at least one thing that was “good” about your day. Write everything down that is coming to you. Keep this list where you can review it throughout the day, especially those times when you feel things are not going so well. Focus on what you wrote on your list. No matter what your day has been like, I challenge you to find more things to add to this list. Find the things you felt that were even somewhat “positive or feel good” that happened and add them to your list. This exercise of focusing on the “positive” of your job will help you feel more positive about what you do. Another thing you can do is to find something you enjoy doing and do more of it! This is at work or some other area of your life. Maybe you enjoy being outdoors and you schedule time to take a walk several times a week. While you are walking, stay focused on what you are doing and why you love being outdoors. Practice focusing on what you love about your life. Pay attention to any and everything you love, or like a lot, that is happening in your life. As you do this, see if it helps you find even more to love about your job, your life. Wouldn’t it be exciting to wake up every day knowing that your day will be filled with what you love to do?!!! Thank you for sharing, liking and commenting below about this blog. Feedback is always welcome. Are you ready to live the life you desire and deserve? Julie Wilson is a Life Coach who is dedicated to help you be the best version of YOU! For more information, click the button below.
Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough. ~ Oprah Winfrey It’s Thanksgiving time here in the United States and many people seem to be more thankful, more grateful than other times of the year. They are generous and loving in their actions. People helping those that are in need – giving to food drives, clothing drives, toys for children and basic living necessities for the elderly. It is so uplifting this time of year to see the good will of so many towards others in their communities. What if this “giving” spirit could continue year-round? What would the world, or your part of the world, look and feel like? I have found that the more I am grateful for, the more I have to be grateful for! It is from this attitude of gratitude that I seem to have more to share with people. Gratitude and attitude are not challenges; they are choices. ~ Robert Breathe Being grateful for what you do have, helps you see how much you have to be grateful for! No matter what your current financial circumstances may be, you probably have more than half the people living in this world. You really do! You may be reading this and thinking “Julie has no idea how much money I have.” You are correct, I don’t! What I do know is that you have a lot to be grateful for regardless of the balance in your bank account. You have the resources of your time, your talents, your smile, your kind words. All of these can be shared with others and it doesn’t cost you a penny! If you are down and negative about how much you don’t have, that is what will continue for you. Everything is energy, including money. You are blocking the flow of money or anything else you want when you focus on the “lack” of it in your life. If you can find a way to focus on what you do have and be grateful for that, you will soon find that you have more to be grateful for. I will share an easy exercise you can do that has helped many people have more gratitude in their life. Every day find time to write down at least three things you are grateful for. It can be something as simple as “I am grateful that the sun is shining and it’s a beautiful morning!” Or, “I am grateful for my family.” Or, “I am grateful that I have enough money to pay my electric bill.” Anything that you are grateful for, write it down. Some people have a “Gratitude Journal” while others use a spiral notebook or pad. It doesn’t matter. What matters is that you are consistent in doing this every day! I also suggest you do this at the same time every day so that it becomes part of your routine – in the morning or before going to bed. Whatever time is convenient for you is a good time! Many years ago, I worked with a woman who was very unhappy in her job but did not want to find another job and move because she had a child in high school. I suggested she find something good about her job and focus on that one thing she liked while at work. I also suggested she write down three things every day that she was grateful for. Before long, she was writing ten things down, then twenty and after several months she was writing over fifty things a day that she was grateful for! Soon everything turned around in her job, she was moved to a new position she loved and she ended up staying there till she retired. When I starting counting my blessings, my whole life turned around. ~ Willie Nelson There are many ways that you can have an attitude of gratitude in your life. I have only shared one way that I have seen to be helpful. I know there are other ways to do this. I’d love for you to share below with the other readers what you do to count your blessings and be grateful. I am grateful for all the beautiful people who have blessed my life over the years. May your life be abundant in all ways that uplift and support you. Thank you for the blessing of you! Thank you for sharing, liking and commenting below about this blog. Feedback is always welcome. Are you ready to live the life you desire and deserve? Julie Wilson is a Life Coach who is dedicated to help you be the best version of YOU! For more information, click the button below.
To accept ourselves as we are means to value our imperfections as much as our perfections. ~ Sandra Bierig If you are like many people, you have a whole list of things you wish were different about you. How many times have you thought to yourself "I wish I were smarter or thinner or had prettier hair"? For whatever reason, we tend to be our own worst critic! It's time now to embrace all those aspects of you that you wish were different. In my last blog, Imperfectly Perfect You, you were "let off the hook" of being perfect. If you no longer have the pressure of being perfect, "being different" just might feel comfortable to you. Can you now accept that which cannot be changed and take steps to change that which can be changed? A big part of this is acceptance of yourself. Can you see through the so called "imperfections" and love yourself? No matter what you think or feel about yourself, there is something good and wonderful about each one of you reading this. I have found when I focus on the good, I see more of the good. Rather than focus on your "imperfections," focus on all the great things about YOU! We all have "imperfections" and that is what makes each one of us special. Many of you have heard me say "you have to love and accept yourself, warts and all." I know you don't have any warts! Think of them as imperfections. You have to love yourself, imperfections and all. You have to love and accept yourself, warts and all! How many of you have allowed your imperfections to hold you back? Have you said "I'm not creative enough to paint beautiful pictures" or "I'm not good at this or that so why bother trying to do it?" You are allowing the voice of your ego to dictate what you will and will not do. Time now for the true you to tell you what to do and be! Take a moment to think of something you have always wanted to do but never did because you didn't think you had the skills or were good enough to do it. Now get into your heart center and feel what it would be like doing that particular thing you didn't think you could do. Does it make your heart sing when you feel into the possibility of you doing it? Now that you have identified what it is you have always wanted to do but never did, you can take steps to make that happen. Any step, no matter how small, is a statement to yourself that you believe in you! Believe in yourself! What would you do if you knew you would not fail? In trying, you have succeeded, regardless of the outcome. Small successes are so much more than no successes because you did not even try. A successful person has failed so many more times than a person who has not even tried. The knowledge you gain from a so called "failure" can be turned into a beneficial success. Perhaps you always wanted to learn how to paint with acrylics. You could check out books from the library about how to paint, take a beginning acrylic painting class or watch YouTube videos that show the different painting techniques. Each painting you do is one creative step closer to painting the beautiful picture you always dreamed you would paint some day! Each one of your carries an important piece of the fabric of the world we live in. It would not be the same without you here. Yes, you have "imperfections". Embrace them! Know there is perfection in your imperfections. Love yourself . . . warts and all! Thank you for sharing, liking or commenting below about this blog. Feedback is always welcome. Are you ready to live the life you desire and deserve? Julie Wilson is a Life Coach who is dedicated to help you be the best possible version of YOU! For more information, click the button below.
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself. ~ Anna Quindien How often have you thought to yourself that you could have done something better? Or differently? Or this or that? We tend to have an inner dialogue with ourselves about how we should or could have done something differently or better if only we were more perfect. Please don't shoot the messenger . . . I'm here to tell you that you will never, ever, be perfect! We live in an imperfect world so how can you be perfect? The closest you can come to being perfect is being imperfectly perfect! We grow up in a society that tells us through advertising that our appearance needs to look a certain way, we need this job, drive this car and a whole list of other things. Then, supposedly, we will have the perfect life. Our families have expectations of us that are often a reflection of their hopes and wishes for us to be happy and have a perfect life. We grow up believing we must be all these things, and more, in order to be perfect. What is perfect? As defined in the dictionary - "being entirely without fault or defect". I could show a beautiful rare emerald to fifty people and I am sure that at least several of those people would point out something about the emerald to make it less than perfect in their eyes. Really, we each have our own definition of perfect. So many of us put an enormous amount of pressure on ourselves to be perfect. This one concept of "being perfect" has caused so much heartache and mental health issues. Is there something going on in your life that you feel you have to be perfect in order for it to be "good or right" or for you to be accepted? If you are doing the best you can with whatever it is you are doing, then you are perfect in that moment. You are drawing on all your life experiences, knowledge and wisdom to come as close to perfection as possible. As beautiful and wonderful as you are, you still have flaws. We all do! Until you can embrace all of your imperfections as well as all the wonderful qualities about you, you will never even come close to being "perfect". Don't you see that in your imperfections, it makes you more real, more perfect as a human. I do not know of one person living on this planet that is perfect! Why would you put that pressure on yourself to be the only perfect person living at this time on Earth? Is it possible for you to get comfortable with looking for the "imperfectly perfect" in all that you are and all that you do? Can you relax a little more knowing that it is okay to be imperfect? Take a deep breath and let yourself know that you are off the hook of being perfect! Take another deep breath and . . . really . . . let . . . that . . . sink in. You are off the hook of being perfect! You add an important thread to the fabric of humanity. Yes, you! Let go and lighten up about being perfect. Know that you contribute a great deal to all those around you just by being . . . imperfectly perfect you! Are you ready to live the life you desire and deserve? Julie Wilson is a Life Coach who is dedicated to help you be the best possible version of YOU! For more information, click the button below.
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