Amazing

Artwork: I'll Regret it Either Way by Laney Degrasse

Remember, YOU are AMAZING just as you are. We are all perfectly imperfect, if someone in your life thinks differently BYE. Do not change who you are just to please others. You are worthy of love, you are worthy of respect, and you do not need anyone to validate your worth. If you are struggling to find your mojo, click the Contact form (to the right) today to set up your free coaching session to learn how we can work together to help you love yourself and to reach your goals.

Passion!

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Think

Artwork: Burning Passion by Laney Degrasse (C)

Fearless

Artwork: Waves Of Life by Laney Degrasse (C)

L have learned that my gut usually is a great guide.  In what ways do you trust your gut?

Focus

Learning

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Last night, I started reading the book You’re Not That Great but Neither is Anyone Else. Interesting take on how to use negative emotions to fuel our drive to succeed. The one take away that resonated with me is to stop getting stuck in self-pity and shame and start using those situations to ask WHAT can I learn from this and how can I grow from this situation? I have been stuck and shameful but in reality, those situations made me a better person and drove me in ways that well wishes and compliments could never begin to make me grow. Take a moment in every situation, good and bad, and ask yourself....what can I learn here and how can this drive me to the success that I am seeking? Don’t become ambivalent and just stay there....keep moving forward and drive yourself to grow!

BE

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Happy Monday y’all! This week I will be helping you to tap back into your intuition and learn how to listen to your inner voice. Let’s work together to tap back into and to trust your inner voice. Blog will post later today....stay tuned. 

Next!

My topic this week has been about how failures are not altogether bad or an end. Failure is just a beginning, keep trying, stop beating yourself up, and keep moving forward. Check out my blog to learn how to use failure to your advantage. Next week, I think that I’m going to talk about intuition....stay tuned, Monday is THE day to learn more about how to hone your intuitive process. 

Contact me today to book your free coaching session. Let’s work together to get your goals and dreams working for you!! 

GO!!

Love Yours!

To love yourself right now, just as you are, is to give yourself heaven. Don't wait until you die. If you wait, you die now. If you love, you live now. --Alan Cohen

Power

Love?

This comes from an e-newsletter I receive from Jonathan Lockwood Huie:

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.  - Rabindranath Tagore

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.  - St. Francis of Assisi

You know you love someone when you know you want them to be happy,  even if their happiness means that you are not a part of it.  - Anonymous

Real love is never a selfish emotion. If you want something from someone - especially if that something is sex - what you are feeling is not true love. The wonderful anonymous quote above provides an infallible test for love. True love is about wanting happiness for the person you love - and not about seeking happiness for yourself. Fortunately, in most cases our own loving presence is the greatest gift we can give to a person we love. Nonetheless, the litmus test of love is knowing we would choose never to see that person again if we believed that distance would bring them greater happiness.

Read the rest of the article here:  http://www.dreamthisday.com/what-is-love/
 

Education

A few of my favorite quotes about education......

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.  - Helen Keller

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.  - William Butler Yeats

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.  - B.F. Skinner

The lessons of the past provide the path to the future.  - Anonymous

Perfection

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.  - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

None of us is perfect - and that's OK.

Life is not about perfection - or a quest for perfection. Life is about enjoying what we have - for as long as we have it.

Happy Holidays to you and your family.  Thank you for visiting my blog!

Kindness

If you haven't any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.  ~Bob Hope


Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.  ~Jesse Jackson


A good character is the best tombstone.  Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered.  Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.  ~Charles H. Spurgeon


It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.  ~Author Unknown


Today, give a stranger one of your smiles.  It might be the only sunshine he sees all day.  ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.


Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to you - not because they are nice, but because you are.  ~Author Unknown


What this world needs is a new kind of army - the army of the kind.  ~Cleveland Amory


If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.  If you want to be happy, practice compassion.  ~Dalai Lama


I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.  ~Rudyard Kipling


Never miss an opportunity to make others happy, even if you have to leave them alone in order to do it.  ~Author Unknown


A fellow who does things that count, doesn't usually stop to count them.  ~Variation of a saying by Albert Einstein


Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.  ~Mark Twain


Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.  ~Seneca


There is one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life - reciprocity.  ~Confucius


Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.  ~Author Unknown


The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway.  ~Henry Boye


The best portion of a good man's life - his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.  ~William Wordsworth


You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.  ~Frank A. Clark


The kindest word in all the world is the unkind word, unsaid.  ~Author Unknown


We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.  ~Epictetus


One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind.  ~Malayan Proverb


Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.  ~Marian Wright Edelman


Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.  ~Leo Buscaglia

Clarity

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.  - Gilbert K. Chesterton

The eye sees what it brings the power to see. - Thomas Carlyle

We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are. - Anaïs Nin

We do not always see what is before our face - sometimes we see what we hope to see, or fear we will see.

Action

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
- Dale Carnegie

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
- Dale Carnegie

Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.
- Dale Carnegie

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.
- Dale Carnegie


Don't allow your fears to hold you back from accomplishments.  If we never make mistakes then we will never learn and grow!  Overcome the fear of decision-making and step out.  Sitting and waiting for things to happen only make our lives stagnant and un-enjoyable.

Affirmations

We may not always be aware of it, but we all create and repeat affirmations constantly. The problem is, we typically don't pay attention to exactly what those affirmations are saying. Often we go through the day giving ourselves all sorts of contradictory, or even negative messages. We may project confidence to the world around us, while our inner dialogue says... I hope this works. I am so nervous about this. I hope I don't blow it. Affirmations are self fulfilling prophecies. If we say, This is never going to work... then chances are excellent it never will.
- John Assaraf

Quotes

Sharing some of my favorite quotes today...


Live this one as it was the last...leave no kind word un said. --Andrew Bailey

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. --Abraham Lincoln

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. --Plato 

Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people. --Eleanor Roosevelt

We need never be ashamed of our tears. --Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us. --Charlotte Bronte

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were. --Cherie Carter-Scott, "If Love Is a Game, These Are the Rules"

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. -- Emily Dickinson

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives. --A. Sachs

Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation. --Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991