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Life is like a rollercoaster.
“There are two kinds of people:
Those who don’t do what they want to do,
so they write down in a diary about what they haven’t done,
and those who haven’t time to write about it because they’re out doing it.”
~ Richard Flournoy and Lewis R. Foster
Reading this quote brought a smile to my face. Some days I am the first person they described and other days the second one. We are all human beings and our actions are dictated largely by our attitude.
Some days I wake up in the morning feeling motivated and other times I want to pull the covers over my head. Either way I have to get out of bed and take action. Feeling motivated means going with the flow and implementing action steps that will move my business forward. When feeling overwhelmed, it takes courage to start thinking and moving in another direction.
What is a person to do? Acknowledge what is going on and support yourself accordingly.
When feeling discouraged it is time for pampering. We all need a vacation from our daily routines. The important thing to remember is that it’s important to regroup and learn what is happening in our lives. Instead of fighting our thoughts, feelings and blaming ourselves just go with the flow. Acceptance improves our attitude and we learn from our experiences. Have faith. You will start feeling motivated again.
Below are ways to pamper yourself:
- Cook yourself a healthy and delicious breakfast. My favorite pancake recipe:
- ¼ Cup of Cottage Cheese
- 1 egg
- 1 package of oatmeal
- 6 oz. container of yogurt
- 1 cup of blueberries
Combine the cottage cheese, egg and oatmeal together and cook on a medium flame. When pancake is cooked top it with the yogurt and blueberries. ENJOY!
- Exercise! It makes you feel alive and good again.
- Pick out clothes that make you feel good.
- Work for a few hours. Continue acknowledging yourself. Example: After writing an article, acknowledge yourself for how easy it is to write and express your ideas.
- Sit back in a chair and just relax. Do absolutely nothing!!
- If inclined, take a bubble bath.
- Journal about your magnificence. I know this may be hard. Just get started and the ideas will flow. Example of getting started: Helen, I want to thank you for taking the time to acknowledge how I am feeling. This has made a big impact I am starting to regain my self-confidence and my day is beginning to change…
- Give yourself permission to just be you and do whatever you want.
Enjoy the time!
Life is like a rollercoaster. By keeping a positive attitude, accepting our thoughts and feelings, and pampering ourselves makes the ride worthwhile.
Good Luck!
Helen
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Within you right now is the power
“Within you right now is the power
to do things you never dreamed possible.
This power becomes available to you
just as soon as you can change your beliefs.”
~ Maxwell Maltz
What a strong quote! If you stop and think about the quote it definitely makes sense. How many times in your life after changing your beliefs do miracles start happening.
For the past six months I have been thinking how hard everything is in my life. My business has been growing at a slow pace and that nagging thought of being a widow has been getting to me. I have been living in the victim role for awhile.
I attended an iPEC Life Potential Training and my thinking did a 360 degree turn. I realized I was the creator of my choices. I could feel sorry for myself or celebrate my life. At that point, I decided to celebrate my life, my beliefs changed and miracles started happening.
Instead of focusing on my business’ growth, I started thinking about how Love Yourself Coaching was providing a service. Thinking about this new concept, out of the clear blue sky, the phone rang and it was from a client who I worked with a few years ago. She called to tell me how our coaching sessions changed her life and wanted to start working together again. This is one example of how Love Yourself Coaching is changing the lives of one person at a time. This situation strengthened my belief system.
Taking the following steps will assist you in changing your beliefs.
- Write down your beliefs about your business.
- Read through them and underline your positive beliefs
- List all your positive thoughts
- Pick one thought that jumps out at you
- Say the following affirmation each day after your first cup of coffee or tea
- I choose to believe that (your positive thought) is happening right now. Example: I choose to belief that my coaching practice is constantly helping small business owners create prosperous businesses while loving themselves.
Now It Is Your Turn
Please share with the Love Yourself – It Matters! Community your affirmation. By letting others know about your belief makes it a reality. At the same time the Universe will hear it and support you in making it real.
“Good Things Happen
When You
Go For ItT!”
~ Alan Webb
Today is a new day! Let’s take out our magic wand, wave it around and create “Good Things” all day.
The first step, ask yourself what would you like to see happen today. Just GoFor It!!
I will start the ball rolling. What surfaced for me was to make a difference in someone’s life today. On a daily basis, we make a difference in the lives of people we interact with. Going out and planning to do something special for someone takes it to a new level.
Who and what could I do for someone today that would put a smile on their face? Many things popped into my mind especially my daughter, Mindi. She started her own accounting practice last year, has been working very hard and now moving out of her home office into an office building. Mindi feels stressed all the time with what is happening and trying to make time for her family. What could I do to acknowledge her as a beautiful and successful woman? My first thought was to take her out for lunch and that would create more stress. Sending her flowers is another option and they are going away for a week so that would not work. Then the thought came to mind, just bring her a beautiful card that says how proud I am of her and give her a big hug.
Sometimes little things make the biggest difference. What could you do today for someone in your life that is experiencing difficulties? Please share your plan and the impact it made in their life.
Let’s go out today and make a difference in someone’s life. Enjoy!
Take Care,
Helen
Yesterday I started consciously thinking, “It is my responsibility to create joy, happiness and abundance in my life.”
With this new mind frame I am feeling positive, full of energy and miracles have been happening all day.
Today I met with the members of the Love Yourself Coaching Team to discuss ways to bring the company’s mission for supporting coaches/entrepreneurs in building prosperous businesses. The beautiful part was we were all honest with each other and supportive at the same time. Everyone was stepping out of their comfort zone.
Ideas were flowing right and left. Stay tuned to see what new opportunities will be offered.
As we were talking it became very clear to me that I was living up to my new way of being by creating abundance in my life.
Now It Is Your Turn
What new way of thinking do you want to focus on in your life?
A simple way to change your mindset is by taking the small steps below.
- Write down all the things that are going wrong in your life. Go ahead and have a good time complaining. No one will read your list.
- Read over the list and find one or two items that make your stomach turn. Example: I will not have enough money to pay my bills this month.
- Write all about your fear and don’t hold back.
- What did you learn? Example: This has been a fear of mine since childhood, have always survived and eventually paid all my bills. At the present time I have a good credit rating and able to pay my bills on time.
- What is your new mindset? Example: It is my responsibility to pay my bills on time.
Please share with the Love Yourself -It Matters! Community your ideas and concerns regarding the changing of your mindset. Together we will support each other in moving forward with our lives.
Wishing you joy, happiness and abundance in your life!
Yesterday, out of the clear blue sky, I started thinking about my business and what a struggle it has been thru the years to enroll clients.
My thoughts turned to should I continue or start pursuing other options. This thought gave me chills. Making myself sit with these feelings was not an easy task. I wanted to go for coffee, take a walk or read a book.
I sat in the chair knowing the answer was not to run away. After a few minutes my thoughts turned to what I have accomplished in the last eight years. Love Yourself Coaching offers three different Coaches’ Coaching Circles, the Monday Wake-Up Calls and individual coaching. These programs provide support to coaches and entrepreneurs. All of a sudden, I started feeling excited about my business and how I was helping others succeed.
The key is to feel your feelings. During that process you will find new solutions or remind yourself of your accomplishments
Please share with the Love Yourself – It Matters! Community what your fears are and together we will support each other.
Taking Care of Yourself
Most of us keep thinking, “I wish things were different then I would be happier.” How would you feel if your wishes, (i.e. perfect weight, fantastic relationship, no debits or loved your job) happened today?
Let me tell you a little story, Marge (name changed) was very unhappy with her life. She felt fat, was always fighting with her husband and daughter and there was never enough money for a vacation. She always felt if she lost the weight and got a better paying job everything would be better. Marge only wished for these things and never took the small steps to make them happen.
She went around complaining until one day, she was buying coffee at WAWA and heard someone saying, “I learned if I want my life to be better I had to make changes and start taking care of myself.” Marge heard what the man said and thought maybe if I want my life to be better I have to start taking care of myself.
When she got home she decided to surf the web, found this blog and started reading the different articles. She found suggestions for how to take care of herself. The suggestion she liked best was taking a mini-vacation by spending 10 minutes a day doing something nice for herself. The next day Marge took a mini-vacation by taking a long bath and felt 100% better. The experience of taking care of herself was so rewarding she tried other suggestions and not only felt happier, and also had a better relationship with her family and started losing weight.
What can you do today to take care of yourself? Remember we are the CEO of our lives and either we can try new behaviors or only wish for things to change.
It was great hearing from Marge and how reading my blog was making such a difference in her life. I would also like to thank everyone else for leaving their comments or sending me emails on how the blog is helping them. By working together we can support each other in taking the small steps that will change our lives.
Please leave your successes, lessons learned and questions in the comment section below or send me an email at helen@loveyourselfcoaching.net.
Looking At Life In A Different Way
‘Look at life as a journey and enjoy the ride. Get the most out of the detours and realize they’re sometimes necessary.’ Donna Fargo
The above quote has a lot of meaning for me. When we see life unfolding as a beautiful gift, instead of judging what is happening in our life we allow ourselves to enjoy the ride instead of fearing it.
Let me tell you a little story about Oscar whose name has been changed. Oscar had just opened a new restaurant and was worrying constantly about making sure his customers were happy and attracting new ones. When business was good, he was on top of the world and if it slowed down he felt anxious and fearful. Oscar’s advisors told him this was normal and not to worry. Then one night a customer complained about the food in a loud voice and would not pay the bill. Oscar was distraught and was thinking about selling the business because he could not take all the pressure.
After the last customer left he sat down with his manager to discuss the incident which happened that night. His manager who had worked in the restaurant business for many, many years explained what happened was not out of the ordinary. Instead of looking at it as a horrible incident what could they learn from the situation?
After discussing the situation for awhile they both realized the customer was right, because he ordered his steak well done instead of medium. What they both learned was that the chefs had to pay more attention to what was ordered instead of just guessing. They both decided to have the waiters underline in red if a customer ordered their food in a special way.
Oscar learned that sometimes when things happen in our lives they are necessary. He started to relax, welcomed the learning experiences and enjoyed his customers. Today Oscar owns two very successful restaurants.
How would your life be different if you enjoyed the ride and learned from your not so pleasant experiences? I invite you today to take one of the small steps below, to change your perspective about life.
1. If you start to worry about something, stop for a moment and acknowledge the thought.
2. Give yourself permission to worry about it for awhile.
3. Ask yourself what can I learn from this situation?
4. Think about one thing you can do to change the situation.
5. Take action.
I would love to hear from you about your different learning experiences. Together we can support each other by contributing to this community our experiences, successes and wisdom. You are invited to leave comments on this blog or send me an email at helen@loveyourselfcoaching.net.
Does the weather affect your mood? If you answered “Yes” to this question, you are in the majority. It has been raining since Sunday and I have been wondering where the sun has been hiding? It is amazing how different you feel when the sun is shinning. I know there are scientific reasons for this happening and the only thing I want is to see the sun again.
What can you do in the meantime until the sun shows its smiling face? Some ideas are as follows:
1. Curl up with a good book.
2. Call a good friend and reminisce about the good times you had together.
3. Read or start a “Happiness Journal” which includes times and situations that put a smile on your face and how you felt.
4. Write a story about your life and the lessons learned.
5. Make yourself a cup of tea or coffee and think about a special day you had in your life and write about it.
6. Make a grateful list of all the things you are grateful for right now.
7. Take an umbrella and go for a short walk.
8. Go to Barnes and Noble and browse through the bookshelves. My husband’s favorite pastime.
9. Play a game with your children and the winner choices the next game or what they want for dinner.
10. Go to the shopping mall with a limited amount of money, looking for things you want and don’t spend a penny more.
11. Take your mini-vacation for at least an hour and do anything you want.
12. Go to the movies and enjoy your time away.
13. Take a nap.
14. Plan your next vacation.
15. Your choice of whatever you feel like doing right now.
You are the CEO of your life and can create it anyway you choice. What action steps are you going to take today to make it a day to remember? I would love to hear from you by either leaving a comment on my blog or sending me an email at helen@loveyourselfcoaching.net.
‘The world is but canvas to our imagination.’ Henry David Thoreau
