Just like the seasons, people have the ability to change. ~ Laurie Buchanan It’s that time of year! The days are shorter and the feeling of fall is in the air. The fall harvest, and especially picking apples, remind me of my grandmother’s famous apple pie. Such fond memories! For some of you, where you live the leaves are changing colors. The trees will soon be shedding their leaves in preparation for the winter. This is a natural process for the trees to be ready in the spring for new growth. Fall brings a feeling of great change for many of you. Something about the rhythm of nature affects your biological and inner core rhythms. It gives you a time to “pause” and transition from the summer to winter. This natural rhythm of the seasons reminds you of what you can do to prepare yourself for change. What can you shed to get ready for the next season in your life? Are there old tapes, beliefs or ways of being that no longer serve you? Like the trees, you may have some “leaves” that are ready to be shed. The trees shed leaves so that in the spring, a “rebirth” can happen where the old leaves use to be. What old beliefs or ways are you holding onto that are stopping your new growth? Perhaps this season of change will help you look at what needs to be shed in your life so you can move forward into “new growth”. If you are here on this Earth at this time, you are changing! Most of you can feel the changes in the world and within you. At times, it feels difficult to work through the changes. Other times, the changes just flow. Whatever is happening with you and in your world, you can be the creator of what “new” you would like in your life. Yes, you are capable and responsible for creating the life you want to live! Take a step for you, any step, even a baby step, to shed the old and then grow the new. When the winds of change blow, remember . . . sometimes what appears dead is simply preparing for a new season. ~ Jane Lee Logan Let’s look at some ways to get you started with this process. Take any area of your life – family, work, relationships, health, self-love or any aspect of your life where you want to make changes. Find about 30 minutes to do “brainstorming” about that area of your life. Several “rules” with brainstorming. You are making a list of any and everything pertaining to that subject with no thinking or judgement. After 30 minutes, look at your list and see what “jumps out at you” or feels right for you to pursue as a possibility. Here is an example of a brainstorming exercise one person did about her career. She wanted to make a change but didn’t know what to do because of her fear that she couldn’t give up a good paying job to do what she really loved! Her current position was sitting at a computer all day as a customer service rep for a large corporation. She listed all the things she would like in a career. Two things popped out when she looked at her list. She loved animals and being outdoors. She found a way to start a part-time pet sitting business on the weekends. She loved caring for and walking dogs. Soon she expanded her pet services and was busy during the week before and after her full-time job. Because she loved animals and enjoyed what she was doing, people loved her and the service she provided. Business picked up. It took time, but eventually she was able to expand her business to include part-time employees to help her. Needless to say, she is now enjoying what she does and is not sitting behind a computer all day! Gratitude for the turning of the seasons. May we attune our hearts to their enduring message of renewal. ~ Kristin Granger You can make big or small changes in any area of your life. Change is happening regardless of what you do or don’t do. Wouldn’t you like to be a part of the process of change and create what you would like in your life? As you go into fall, look for what you can shed to make room for the new. Maybe you will come up with a new recipe that becomes famous or create something else that everyone will want to have. You have gifts and talents that no one else in this world has! Believe in yourself and know that anything is possible for you! Thank you for liking, sharing 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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What I know for sure is that speaking your truth is the most powerful tool we all have. ~ Oprah Winfrey What do you speak every day? Not what is your native language but what and how do you speak. What words do you use in the workplace, with your friends and family? Are you authentically you in your conversations with others? Are you speaking your truth? Or, are you saying what you believe the person wants to hear from you? At times you may find yourself being very careful what you say to someone. You don’t want to offend or upset the person. You pick and choose your words. You aren’t necessarily lying to the person yet you are not being completely truthful either! I’m sure there have been times when you were very concerned about what to say to a person. Perhaps you weren’t sure how they would take what you had to say. You felt they may not hear what you were saying with the message that you intended. Communication can be tricky at times. Everyone comes from a different perspective because of their own life experiences. How you say something and your body language can also greatly impact how the message is received. Writing is another form of speaking. In the current times, it can be even trickier than speaking with someone. Tests and emails can be easily misread. Something you might want to consider when you are “speaking with writing." Your health can be affected by what you do and do not say. When what you say does not line up with your truth, it can affect your physical, mental and emotional wellbeing. The stress of not speaking your truth can be obvious as well as very subtle. Either way, it still causes stress! When you speak your truth from your heart, it is beneficial not only for you but also the person you are speaking with. When you first speak about something and you speak your truth with love, there is no chance later that you will have to remember the “half-truth” you told earlier. There is stress caused simply by trying to remember exactly what you told the person in the first place. Best to speak your truth! You should feel comfortable speaking your truth no matter what situation you find yourself in. No matter what you feel or say about something, it will not “line up” with everyone. So why not speak truth as you know so it is good for you? Find someone you trust that you can practice speaking your truth in a “safe space”. A place where you know that you will not be judged or criticized for what you have to say about something. Speak from your heart in a kind way knowing that this is healthy for you on so many levels. Telling someone the truth is a loving act. ~ Mai Pancoas People come in and out of our lives. Wouldn’t you rather spend your life with people who honor you and your opinion even if they don’t agree with you? Love yourself enough to be true to yourself. Then take that truth and speak with others, in love, with love. Wouldn’t it be a much different world if we all would speak our truth in the language of love? Thank you for liking, sharing 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.
“Choose being kind over being right and you’ll be right every time.” ~ Richard Carlson It happens to all of us. We get in a discussion with a friend, colleague, family member or even a stranger, and you have a different point of view than the other person about what is being discussed. Sometimes it may not be a discussion but more of a heated argument! It seems as though it is human nature, in most incidents, that each person in the discussion has to prove their point and be right! It’s as if neither person will budge even a little from their thoughts and perspectives about the topic being discussed. They’re so set in what they think and believe, nothing will make them change their mind! It is fact that everyone has their own opinion and truth about things, events and people. We can agree or disagree on many topics and beliefs with others but we still have our own perspective based on what we have experienced in our life. Our uniqueness, truths and beliefs are an important thread of the fabric of humanity. Yes, it is very important that you are who you are and believe what you believe based on what is true for you. And, it is just as important that we remember that each person has their own truths. It doesn’t make them any more “right” than you and vice versa. Each thread of the fabric is important or else the fabric will unravel. The next time you find yourself in a discussion with someone and you do not agree with them, could you stop for a minute and listen to what they are saying? I mean really listen to what they are telling you. You don’t have to agree with everything being stated but you do have the choice to listen with an open mind and heart. You know what your life has been like and there is not one other person who has walked in your shoes to know exactly what you have experienced and felt. The same is true for everyone you meet. What if you take a moment to hear what they are saying and see if you can learn something new? What if you can expand your understanding of the world through this person and it helps you form new beliefs or truths for you? Stand up for what you believe in and what is true for you. That’s admirable. As you do this, though, don’t be so “right” and so closed minded that you cannot even think that there may be another “right” side to consider. We can’t know everything about everything . . . no one knows everything! If you understand that everyone has a different perspective based on what they have experienced in their life, then you might consider the following statement to be true. There is your side of the story, their side of the story and perhaps a different, truer side of the story neither one of you has considered! The next time you find yourself in a discussion with someone and you have very different points of view, perhaps you can choose to step back and listen with an open heart to what the other person is saying. You still don’t have to agree with them. You can continue to believe what you feel is correct for you. Maybe when all is said and done, though, it won’t be about who was right or wrong. It will be about who went to the greater length to consider the other person’s perspective. ![]() You each hold an important thread of the fabric. You can choose to strengthen those threads by being remembered for caring enough to listen to the other person. Or, you can argue your point to prove you are “right”. What do you choose? 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.
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.
It’s not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean. ~ Tony Robbins Many of you reading this blog have carried a heavy load of what I would call “incorrect beliefs”. These beliefs were formed from what your parents and family believed, what the media told you and what our society determined to be “truth”. But what are your truths, your beliefs? Your brain takes in everything you experience and everything that you are exposed to. Your brain does not know the difference between what is your truth and the truth of someone else. Your brain is full of beliefs and tapes that are playing that most likely are not your beliefs. When the media tells you that you need this product to be beautiful and you believe it, that is what gets programmed into your brain. You have formed a belief about you that most likely is not true. You now have a belief, whether conscious or unconscious, that drives some of your actions. These actions may not always be for your best good! It is believed that by the time children reach the age of between five and eight years old that all their beliefs are deeply embedded within them. Everything they have experienced, been told and believed is recorded in the subconscious. All of that is recorded at the age the child experienced it and has the potential to affect them throughout the rest of their life, even as adults. Can you see as an adult that some of your thoughts and actions are driven by these deeply held beliefs that were formed early in your life? These beliefs were formed through the eyes of a child and may not be the truth of who you really are now in this moment. Of course, you continue to form beliefs throughout your lifetime but these early, possibly incorrect beliefs form a foundation for many of the beliefs you have now and continue to form. Let’s say you have an older brother and you are five years old. Your mom was reading your favorite book with you and had to stop to help your brother with homework. She never came back to finish reading the book to you because your brother needed her help. His homework took a long time to finish. Now it was time to go to bed. Your mother hurriedly puts you to bed because she has so much to do before she can go to bed. From your perspective, you feel she lovingly tucks your brother in for the night. Then from your childlike point of view, you form the belief “I must not be loveable because my mother spends more time with my brother than me. She must love him and not me.” An incorrect belief is formed. As you continue your life with this belief, this tape, of “I must not be loveable. There must be something wrong with me.” Your brain is like a computer with programs running in the background. These background programs can affect all areas of your life. Your relationships, your work, your self-worth, all of that can be affected at any age based on a belief that you formed as a five-year-old. Most of you have a practice of Spring cleaning your home. Have you ever thought about Spring cleaning your brain? There are many beliefs that are holding you back or are no longer true for you. As you tend to the garden of your mind, is it time to clean up your beliefs? And, when you get rid of the old or what is no longer serving you, it makes room for the new to come in. Regardless of your age, there is no better time than now to examine what you believe to be true for you. Are your beliefs that you are not good enough or smart enough stopping you from changing careers? Starting a new hobby? Writing a book? You are good enough and you are smart enough. You can’t fail. You fail only when you don't even try. Take time to look deeply at what you have been told over the course of your life. Are there some beliefs that you have that you know are incorrect? Are you ready to let those go and run a new program in the computer of your brain? Time for an upgrade . . . a new version 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 live a life you love! For more information, click the button below.
Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here. ~ Marianne Williamson If I were to ask you if you live your life in love or fear, what would your answer be? In your day-to-day life, what do you base your actions, your decisions on? Love or fear? Everything comes from love or fear, everything! There is a countless number of feelings and emotions under the “umbrella” of love. The “feel good” feelings of joy, peace, optimism, trust, happiness, passion, excitement, etc. all are a form of love. They lift you up. They contribute to you feeling better about yourself and life in general. There are many “not so good” feelings and emotions that fall under the “umbrella” of fear. Anger, sadness, anxiety, disappointment, control, frustration, negativity, etc. are all a form of fear. These are the heavy emotions and feelings. If you stay in the energy of fear, you tend to not feel so good about your life and your world. It is a conscious choice in every moment how you perceive something and how you allow it to make you feel. You can look for the “good” in something and focus on that. Or, you can see only the “bad” in the same thing and focus on that aspect of it. Your choice. What do you choose to allow into your life? Some of you reading this probably are wondering if I am crazy when I asked the last question. In your mind, you don’t “allow” the negative things to happen to you. You may feel they are done “to” you. It is common to play the “blame game” with everything and everyone in your life. We all have done it, including myself when I was younger. I didn’t realize that I was responsible for how I perceived something. Now I realize I am the only one who can experience something and decide the outcome of that experience for myself. I bet you know someone who has had what you would consider a horrifying experience and they were able to find the blessings in that experience. Not always easy to focus on the good in such an experience. When you have something very personal happen in your life, would you rather look at the experience with love or fear? Knowing what you know about the “feel good” feelings of love, wouldn’t you rather live your life with those feelings and emotions? Can you understand that regardless of what has happened, you will feel better when you focus on the good in everything and everyone. You have a choice . . . feel good or feel bad. I know it is hard at times to focus on the positive with what is happening in the world around you. Life happens. There are bills to pay, health issues, job responsibilities and the list goes on. When you are experiencing something that may not be so positive, can you consciously tell yourself that you are going to find the good in what is happening? Or, can you think positive thoughts about the outcome? I can tell you that your life will feel more in the flow and positive when you are able to look for the good in your life. One other factor that may help you be more positive is the implications for your health and overall well-being. When you have negative thoughts and feelings, your physical, mental and emotional bodies are under great stress. You are setting yourself up for illness. This is a proven scientific fact. At first it may seem like a lot of work to focus on the good in your life. For some of you, it may take time for you to make this shift in your thinking and understanding. Even if you can change your feelings about one thing a day from fear to love, you are helping yourself tremendously. Make a commitment to yourself. Look for the good in everyone and everything. Do it for you! Your life, your choice . . . love or fear! Thank you for sharing, liking and commenting below. Feedback is always welcome. Are you ready to live the life you desire and deserve? Julie Wilson is a life coach that is dedicated to help you live a life you love! For more information, click the button below.
There is no instinct like that of the heart. ~ Lord Byron Does it feel like you are experiencing a "speed up" of time? That everything is different or changing in your world? Stop for a minute and look at where you are right now in your life and where you were three to five years ago. Do you see that you, your life, is not at all the same as it used to be? For some of you, the changes that have happened in your life are exciting. For others, the changes may make you feel depressed or fearful or you name the emotion. Change can be scary or it can be exciting. Your choice how you perceive it! Certain beliefs are ingrained in us from the moment we are born. Our family, friends, society, teachers, the media and the environment condition our mind and our beliefs about everything! These beliefs may change and morph into something slightly different but they basically stay the same unless you do something to consciously change those beliefs. Earlier when you looked at where you were three to five years ago, I believe most of you would say that you “thought” about it. As some of you have experienced, you are very good at thinking and rethinking things. When you do this, you spin your wheels and don’t move forward! Have you every stopped to really look at your beliefs? When considering your beliefs, there is one simple, little change you can make. Ask yourself “How do I feel about this?” Rather than thinking and rethinking about something, you “feel” about it. Would you like to feel good about the changes, the choices, you are making in your life? You can do this when you are examining your beliefs, choices before you or any decision you have to make. In an earlier blog, Feel Good Decisions, I wrote about making decisions from a place of love for yourself. Making decisions based on what felt best for you to do. You can now take this one step further and use the “feeling” method to ask yourself if your current beliefs are still true for you. As the world changes and you go through your own changes, some of your beliefs may no longer be true for who you are now. If you are feeling like you are stuck or not moving forward in life, your beliefs may be holding you back. As an example, when you were young, everyone made fun of how you dressed. They teased you and called you ugly. You believed it. That belief became so ingrained within you it affected your self-confidence. Now at age thirty, that lack of self-confidence is affecting your work performance even though you have the most experience of anyone in your department and have won numerous work excellence awards. Regardless of your age, there is no time like the present to examine your beliefs and see if there are some you would like to change. This may seem overwhelming to you. Just take one area of your life and start with those beliefs. Only do what your heart tells you. ~ Princess Diana Some people say the feelings from their heart are God, their soul, their gut or their intuition talking to them. Regardless of what you personally call it, allow yourself to be guided by what you are feeling. Will you be right all the time? Probably not, especially at first because you will doubt yourself. The more you trust your feelings, the inner knowing, the more you will be confident that you can trust your feelings about everything in your life. Wait till you see how that feels! 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.
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.
My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style. ~ Maya Angelou You go about your day doing what you do but are you surviving or thriving? How would you answer that question if I asked you right now? First you have to understand the difference between surviving and thriving. Surviving you are existing in spite of danger or hardship, and thriving you are prospering and flourishing. Big difference! Regardless of your current situation or circumstances, I am sure most of you reading this would love to say that you ARE thriving right now in your life. Some of you are thriving . . . while many of you may not be. If you feel “stuck in a rut” or depressed or even bored, you are not thriving. You can continue to survive or you can make a conscious choice to thrive. It’s up to you – your choice. If you decide you want to thrive, what does that mean for you and how do you do that? There are many facets to live a life where you are thriving. It can be overwhelming to make all or many of the necessary changes. Pick one piece of what thriving means to you and work on that. Once you take steps, even baby steps, toward making changes in that area, it will help you make changes in other areas of your “surviving” life to a “thriving” life. When you do not have a lot of resources in your life . . . family, friends, money, material things to live, etc, it becomes difficult to find ways to start thriving. That is understandable. Regardless of what you have or don’t have, it is your perception and attitude that contributes to the quality of your life. It’s what you make of what you have that allows you to thrive. Something that can help tremendously and will cost you nothing other than your time, is to look at your beliefs and attitudes about yourself and your life. What you think, you become! If you believe all those things you were told years ago about not being capable or good enough, that is what you will be. You may want to click on this link to read an earlier blog that tells how what you think and speak about yourself affects the life you are living. After you have made changes to your beliefs about yourself, look at what you believe about your life. No matter what is going on in your life, you have choices! You can choose to stay right where you are and that is fine. Or, you can choose right now in this moment that your life is going to take another path. You are the master of your life, not someone else. Anything is possible and miracles happen! I know you are saying that Julie doesn’t understand what I am going through and what is happening in my life. You are correct!!! I don’t know. What I do know is that you know YOU better than anyone else on this planet. If you choose, you have the strength and the wisdom within you to accomplish just about anything. I believe that anything is possible and miracles happen! Is there something about your life where you feel like you are stuck? Is it your job, relationship, health, finances? Pick one area and find one thing you can do to help you start the process of getting “unstuck”. For example, let’s look at the job you feel stuck in. Realistically you feel you can’t just quit because you have bills to pay and responsibilities. Okay, that’s fair. Is there something about your job that you love or at least like a lot? Can you focus on that part of your job and look forward to it each day? Or, is there a project at work that interest you that you could ask to help with it? Maybe you can look outside your current job and find something to do part-time that would make you happy. Have you ever had an idea of doing something on your own and possibly it could develop into your own business? Is there a hobby that intrigues you that may someday turn into more than a hobby? Any change you make in any area of your life is going to spill over and affect all areas of your life. Everything is interrelated. Whether you take a small or big step towards getting “unstuck," watch how everything in your life begins to change and flow. I'm celebrating you taking that first step to being in the flow of a thriving life! You can do it! 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.
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.
Rewriting the negative beliefs you have learned is the essence of becoming the director of your life. ~ Deborah Day Do you find that you have a story of who you are playing in your head that is like a bad rated movie? It rolls across the screen with your life story and shows you being told how to act, and what to say and think. As the movie progresses, you watch in amazement as you continue to believe what you see because you watch the same movie over and over again in your mind! In Self-talk: Reflections of Your Beliefs, I wrote about how your mind believes what you think and say about yourself. Often you are just telling yourself what you have heard people say about you. Some of the beliefs you have about YOU are so deep-rooted in you because you have heard them since birth! The beliefs we hold within us about ourselves affect our self-esteem . . . in a negative or positive way. Someone's "innocent" comment about how you dressed when you were young could have affected your self-worth, your confidence, in a negative way and impacted your beliefs about you. At another time in your life, you were complimented and praised for the delicious cookies you baked. To this day, you feel good about anything you bake! It is possible to change how you think and feel about yourself. Not always easy but you can do it! It is an "inside" job of looking at your beliefs, especially the core beliefs you have about YOU. Then you can decide what you feel is really true about you. What are your truths? Take a few minutes to think about something you were told about you that just doesn't feel right. Maybe when you were younger you were told that you weren't smart. Now that you are older and you have graduated from college with a B.A. degree, you know in your heart that you have to be smart to earn a degree. Perhaps you were told that you were fat growing up. You always believed you were fat and yet, now people compliment you on how beautiful you are! As you recognize the beliefs you have about yourself that just aren't true anymore, take time to acknowledge those beliefs. Then, in your own way, release those beliefs to make room in your mind for the new beliefs that are true about you. If some of the old beliefs try to work their way back into your mind, stop and restate them in a positive way. Verbalize out loud or in your mind the beliefs that are true for who you are at this time. ![]() Look at what beliefs you may have about you that are not true anymore. Life happens . . . people change. You are not the same person you were a year ago let alone ten years ago!!! No one knows what is true for you except YOU. Time to start believing what you know to be true about you. At first this may seem like "work" but you will find that it becomes easier as you feel better about who you are. The more you are conscious of your beliefs and the "movie" that is playing in your mind, the more you will be able to rewrite the script and play the part of the authentic YOU! Time for a new lead role in the movie of your life! 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.
We are what we believe we are. ~ C.S. Lewis ![]() Your mind believes what it is told and you are what you believe. The quote above by C.S. Lewis speaks volumes! Do you believe what others tell you about you? Or, do you believe what you know to be true for you? You have experienced how it feels when someone gives you a compliment. You also know how it feels when an inconsiderate person puts you down and says ugly things about you. Even though, in most cases, the person is reflecting onto you how they feel about themselves, your mind doesn't know any different. Your mind takes this all in and believes what it is told. Whether words are spoken, written or in your thoughts, they have power. You can't control what others think or say about you, but you can control what you think and say about yourself. Your innermost thoughts about YOU affect you on every level of your being. What is your self-talk saying about you? Before going on, take a minute and write down five things you believe about yourself. You probably believe these five things because you have heard them over and over again throughout your life. When you have your five beliefs listed, look at them. I would guess that some things you wrote down could be perceived as negative. "I'm not very smart. I'm fat. No one would love someone like me." Looking at these five beliefs may make you feel sad or angry but it is possible to change those beliefs. Within you is the ability to change what you believe about yourself. You can't depend on others to build you up with compliments and praise. YOU are the only person you can depend on! The thoughts spinning around your mind have the capacity to make or break you. You have the power within you to make changes in what you believe. In general, it can be human nature to think negatively. More and more people are now doing their best to be more positive. You can too! Try this. When you think or say something negative about yourself, stop in that moment, and rephrase it into something more positive. "I'm fat" becomes "Now that I am eating healthier and taking a walk almost every day, I know that my body will slim down." It is not always easy to think or speak positive all the time. Once you start being conscious of the words you use when you speak about yourself, it will become easier. Take an inventory of the words that you say or think about yourself. Would you say the same thing to your partner, your child or a friend? If not, why would you say them to yourself? Get in the habit of using kind and loving words when speaking or thinking about yourself. I am sure that there is something good and wonderful about each one of you. Focus on all the good things about you. The more you focus on the good within you, the more good you will find to focus on!! Once you start using loving self-talk, then watch how it impacts those around you. If you don't speak and think in a kind way concerning yourself, how can you expect anyone else to speak and think about you that way? Time to change your old beliefs about you that no longer serve who you really are. Time to create new beliefs about you that are your truths! 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 worst decisions in life we make are always the one we make out of fear. ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon It seems as though we are always making decisions. It can be something as simple as deciding what to eat or as life changing as deciding to take a new job. There is a process that goes on within us that we don't often realize is happening when we make decisions. Sometimes it's as if you are paralyzed for days trying to make a decision. Other times, it only takes a second to say "yes"! Yet, underlying every decision you make is the root emotion of love or fear. Yes, every decision! In Finding Rainbows Within Change, I talked about how change can be good, and not that "scary monster under the bed." Now look a little deeper into the decisions you are making and the changes you are experiencing. What is driving those decisions and changes? Recall a decision you have made sometime in your life that had a huge impact on you, regardless if you felt the outcome was positive or negative. Feel into that decision and be honest with yourself. Did you make that decision from a place of love or fear? Let's consider the last job you were offered at the company you work for. It was a promotion but the position didn't excite you. You made the decision to take the promotion based on the fear that if you didn't take it, you might never be offered a promotion again. What if, instead, you made the decision not to take that particular position? You knew in your heart it would be difficult for you to perform the job duties day after day because it did not excite you. It could have the potential in the long run of hurting your chances for further promotions due to your performance in a job you really didn't like. In saying "no" to this job offer, your decision would have come from love . . . love for yourself! Your decision would be to do what you felt was best for you. You could also find a way to tell your employer "no" that would still leave the door open for future promotions. Let me share a tool with you that has helped many of my Life Coaching clients. Try this even if only for a day. Every time you make a decision, regardless how small or big, ask yourself, "How does this decision make me feel?" Or, "How do I feel about this decision?" Stay out of your head and in your heart. We all have made decisions to do something that didn't feel quite right. We did it anyway because of being afraid this or that would happen if we didn't do it. In the end, many times, we wish we had decided not to do it. Life is a consent decision making process. I don't know anyone who feels they have made the "right" decision every time. However, if you can make your decisions from that "feel good" place of love, perhaps it will put you on the path of making better decisions. Dig deep within you. Have the courage to make a decision based on what you feel is right for you rather than what you think you should do or what others want or expect of you. Only you can decide what is best for 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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