Spring Cleaning Your Beliefs: Challenge Your Thoughts to Change Your Life
Do you realize that a belief is just a thought that you repeatedly keep thinking? And that these thought patterns-turned-beliefs become hardwired over time when you don’t challenge them? As a result, you hold onto beliefs that do not serve you and hold you back in life. By changing your beliefs and challenging your thoughts, you can change your life.
Why We Avoid Difficult Conversations
Have you ever felt like you’re avoiding, dreading or wishing you didn’t need to have a difficult conversation with someone? And have you ever stopped to think about why this is a topic you’d rather put off than face head-on? The primary reason is because as humans, we don’t want to hurt another human. We hold a belief that some part of what we need to say could be hurtful to the other person. However, the real truth is that not being honest about our feelings is what hurts others most and damages trust in the long run. What conversation do you know you must have, but are avoiding with someone close to you?
Transform Empathy Into Compassion to Offer Greater Love and Support
I want to “double click” on empathy and compassion to help us show up differently for others when they need extra love, understanding and support. You might recall this technique from my past communications, a Conversational Intelligence® tool used to find the deeper meaning behind the words we use. Have you ever stopped to think about the meanings and actions behind these two words?
Interrupting Negative Thought Patterns: Using Words to Shift Limiting Beliefs for a Healthier, Happier Life
Buddha said, “With our thoughts, we create the world.” I know this is true for me; how about you? When my thoughts are not good-feeling, the world around me feels heavy and hopeless. When I choose better thoughts, the world feels brighter and opportunities seem to knock at my door. Look inward and see if this is true for you. You hold the power to shift your limiting beliefs through words, leading to a healthier, happier life.
Higher-Quality Conversations Lead to Greater Relationships and Connection with Self and Others
My focus lately is on transforming the quality of our conversations. It’s common to read a message or a blog about a topic and tuck the info away, likely to be forgotten in our world of information overload. As we know from neuroscience research and how the brain operates, exposure to new concepts takes hold with repetition. This is such a critical topic to me because how we converse is at the very heart of our connections and relationships, with self and others.
Words Carry Energy, Power and Meaning
Words have the power to support and encourage us as we strive for our biggest dreams, and they also have the power to stop us in our tracks before taking the first steps toward all that we want in life. When we’re born and begin learning to navigate the world, we pick up on energy, non-verbal cues and the words that are happening all around us. This is part of our human development and becomes a significant piece of who we are today, as adults. It’s surprising how little focus and awareness there is about the influence of these factors in our lives from such a young age. There is incredible power, meaning and energy in words and how we all use them, with ourselves and toward others.
Cultivate Your Mental Toughness with Mindfulness and Healthy Daily Habits
What comes to mind when you hear the term mental toughness? This is a tool we can build and strengthen with regular practice to consistently feel good in our minds and bodies. It’s cultivated through our routines, learning to manage our emotions, recognizing our needs and creating healthy daily habits.
What You Give, You Get: Embracing the Universal Law through Intention and Positivity
One of the primary laws of the universe is “What you give, you get.” I like to look at this as the power of reciprocity! An easy way to start working with this law is to set a morning intention each day. I set mine around something positive. Today my intention is to be kind, creative and full of light energy to share with those I meet. This is the first step in my day to send positivity out into the universe.
What Do You Love? The Intersection of Falling in Love with Your Work, Success and Fulfillment
Did you know that a majority of people do work they are good at, but don’t love, instead of the work they’re great at AND love? This is a sad fact, as these are drastically different situations that affect us deeply. It is entirely possible to love your work, find success and experience fulfillment. I would love to invite you to take a look at your day-to-day responsibilities and your work. If I asked you if you LOVE what you do on a daily basis, how would you respond? Do you love the way you spend the majority of your time?
Free Will and Great Health
Life really is about making choices. We have free will to decide our thoughts, how we manage our lives and care for our health. No one can take that away from you. I remember when my awareness expanded while reading the book Man’s Search for Meaning and I had the realization that no one can control what we think about.
Let Your Heart Lead the Way
We all have big dreams and aspirations that live deep inside us. Some are known and some are waiting to come out. We can tap into our dreams and aspirations, our guiding light, by tuning into our heart center each day, and inviting it to lead the way and inform our life and leadership. You might be amazed at what it’s trying to tell you.
Filler Words: How the Patterns in Our Speech Affect Our Connections
Filler words might seem innocuous, but they are far from it. We all speak in patterns and though these words are common in peoples’ conversations, they are blind spots that break down connection. This results in those conversing feeling unheard and misunderstood. The only way to change this is by becoming aware of your patterns and interrupting them.
Prime Your Conversational Spaces for Increased Trust, Connection and Success
Every conversation happens in time and space. Something you might not have been taught is that we have more control in this space than we think. Priming your conversational space is the preparation that results in more successful outcomes and stronger connections in all of your conversations. Read on to learn how to implement these tools for greater trust, connection, success and conversational outcomes.
Leading with Aspiration in Your Life and Leadership
This is such an exciting time of year, the holidays are here, and they can bring up a lot of emotions. Everyone has different emotions associated with Christmas, some positive and some challenging or painful. Our bodies and minds store all of these emotional memories, and they can resurface in various ways, often unconsciously. Using tools such as breath, appreciation and gratitude can help us manage these waves of emotions.
Managing Our Waves of Emotions to Become a Super Attractor
This is such an exciting time of year, the holidays are here, and they can bring up a lot of emotions. Everyone has different emotions associated with Christmas, some positive and some challenging or painful. Our bodies and minds store all of these emotional memories, and they can resurface in various ways, often unconsciously. Using tools such as breath, appreciation and gratitude can help us manage these waves of emotions.
Manifesting More of What You Want in Your Life
With each new year we feel a burst of inspiration and a fresh perspective for the positive changes we’re going to make in our lives. Let’s turn the focus to practices such as manifesting and journaling, instead of resolutions. Many of us were taught from a young age that resolutions are the way to implement this change. However, research shows that by day 11, the momentum runs dry and we’re left feeling defeated and guilty for not being able to stay true to these resolutions. This perceived failure actually has the opposite effect than what we intended: negative belief systems are created around goal setting and commitment, which aren’t necessarily true.
Conversation and Communication: Words Are Powerful
Conversation is our greatest tool to connect with others. Our words and non-verbal cues can either enhance or diminish our connections, through communication. They either build trust or create distrust. It would have been so helpful and life-changing if we had known from a young age the power our words hold. What we do with them and how we use them matters.
Leadership: Heart & Mindfulness
Have you ever thought about where you lead from in your leadership? What if you had an intention every day to lead your life and leadership with your heart first and then your head? Mindfulness is key. Leading from your heart requires your awareness and faith to thrive in this unique intelligence system.
Managing Constant Change
Throughout life, although managing change is constant, it’s one of the hardest things for people to move through and adapt. It’s also how we grow, become more resilient and develop confidence throughout life. We’ve seen an abundance of change on a collective level in recent years as the entire world has been adapting to continuous shifts through the global pandemic.
Gratitude for Meditation
My meditation journey began as a tool I never knew I needed. My life has shifted in significant ways since I began meditating, and I’d like to discuss my gratitude for this practice which is so transformative and has the power to affect your life in positive ways as well.