Soar With Your Dreams Inspired Life Vision Board Workshop

Close your eyes and imagine a workshop filled with passion, artistic expression, colour, and joy. Imagine the amazing creativity that would flow onto your personal Inspired Life Vision Board. Oh, the possibilities!

In this fun and informal workshop, Susan will help you focus and visualize your ideal life’s vision filled with what you want to be, do, or have. You will open your Inspired Imagination and see, feel, hear and touch your personal vision for your life.

Your inner artist will be inspired by Sadie, a passionate and colourful artist. She will open your artistic senses and give you the tools to put your passion on paper.

You will have fun creating your own personal vision board that visually represents your goals and dreams.

The vision board will help you focus your intent and help you start to manifest your dreams into reality. Your vision board will help you attract the things you want in your life.

It's time to liberate your imagination, manifest your goals, and soar with your dreams!

Cost: $30.00 - includes all materials
When: Saturday, February 8
Time: 10 am to 3 pm
Where: JTW Natural Health Guidance Centre
106 Victoria St. East
Amherst, NS

Only 10 Spots Available! Pre-Payment is required to reserve your spot!

This workshop will sell-out quickly - Register and Pay by Calling Charlene at 667-1119

Confidence Boosting

Confidence is a tool you can use in your everyday life to do all kinds of cool stuff, not least to stop second-guessing yourself, manage your fears and become able to do more of the things that really matter to you.  But not many people realize that their self-confidence works just like  muscle - it grows in response to the level of performance required of it.  Either you use it or you lose it. 

Confidence Boosting Tips:

Write a list of the things you’re tolerating and putting up with in your life, then write down how you can remove, minimize or diminish each one.  

Get crystal clear on the things that truly matter to you. 

If they’re not in your life, you need to bring them in

Stop playing different roles and squeezing yourself into boxes based on what you think people expect you to act like.

Learn to catch yourself every single time you tell yourself that you can’t have, won’t get or aren't good enough to get what you want.

Take yourself off auto-pilot – make deliberate decisions on what really matters to you.

You've got a whole bunch of out-dated rules that determine what you do, don’t do, should do and shouldn't do.  These rules limit your thinking and limit your behaviour.  Tear up your rule book and notice how free you are to make great decisions.

When you feel like stamping your foot and yelling “I deserve better than this!”, take a step back and say 

“I can BE better than this.”

Take a chance on something tomorrow.  

Anything, big or small, just take a chance.

You need to be around people who make you feel like YOU, so spend more time with the people who support and encourage you and less with those who undermine you.

Keep comparing yourself to others?  Stop it

You’re just fantastic as you are

If there’s something you've been struggling to understand for a while, stop trying to understand it.  Accept it just as it is, fully and wholly.

Don’t say “Yes” to taking on a task simply because you don’t want to rock the boat – you can politely decline requests you can’t meet and don’t need to create an excuse for it.

Still beating yourself up for failing or screwing up? It might not be a barrel of laughs but it’s not going to help you get through it.  Much better to recognize that everything, whether it turns out or not, is how you practice living a rich life

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Do one thing each day that makes you smile

Your 3-Step Plan to Overcoming Limiting Beliefs

Now that you have identified your personal limiting beliefs (April 15th post), it's time to change them.  Think of your limiting beliefs as your subconscious blueprint and blueprints can be changed so they reflect what you really want! The first step is to understand what a limiting belief is and that it may not be true. Just say to yourself, "it's possible that I believe some things about myself and the world around me that are not true." Great!  You have successfully opened the door to let your new belief in. The second step is really important: Replace the old belief with a positive new one. If you want to create permanent behaviour change, you can't just get rid of the old mental pattern, you have to replace it with a completely new one that will take its place. You want to create a new path, create new tracks, otherwise the old one can come back. The final step is repetition and reinforcement through affirmation. The most powerful affirmations are worded to be immediate and personal.  Adding a phrase like 'quickly and easily' to the beginning or end of each affirmation helps to lift the pressure of having to 'make things happen.' My personal favourite affirmations are: Every Day in Every Way, I'm Getting Better and Better My monthly income exceeds my monthly expenses quickly and easily I repeat these 3 times every morning before I get out of bed to enjoy my day. The primary way to get a new pattern into the unconscious part of your mind is through reinforcement and repetition.  Positive affirmations work by reprogramming your thinking and beliefs.  The way to get effective results is with constant repetition.   Affirmations train your subconscious to believe that what you want is possible, attainable, and already happening. Words are your most powerful tool - they can bring pain or happiness, forgiveness or anger/hatred.  You generate your own emotions through your choice of words.  Make sure that the words you tell yourself are helping you follow your dreams and your heart. My Success Recommendation:  write down your goals with corresponding success beliefs in the form of affirmations  and just keep repeating them. . Choose your new belief and then plant the seed through positive affirmations.

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Are Your Limiting Beliefs Holding You Back?

You can tell what you believe by what you get.

-Alan Cohen

Limiting beliefs zap your energy and keep you stuck by telling you over and over again that you can't achieve your goals or that you're not worthy of acceptance and success.

The Top Ten Limiting Beliefs are:

1. I'm too selfish/loud/shy
2. I'm a bad.... (eg I'm a bad parent/friend/son)
3. I will never be successful
4. There is never enough money (or money doesn't grow on trees)
5. It's too late for me to.... (change my career etc)
6. I will never....(be successful, find love, travel etc)
7. I always disappoint people
8. I am not pretty/slim/clever enough
9. I'm not good enough/I don't deserve...(happiness success, wealth, love)
10. "I can't do it!"

Many limiting beliefs feel so normal that you don't even notice them. They are perceived as facts, rather than as mere beliefs that can be questioned and then changed. A 'belief' doesn't mean it's a fact - it's actually only your perception of the truth and this can be changed, with some work.

If you experience negative thoughts or feelings on a regular basis, or there are patterns in your life that you can't seem to figure out (bad relationships or continuous problems with money for example) it is VERY likely that you have a hidden limiting belief.

The life that you create is largely determined by your beliefs. Limiting beliefs hold you back from being the best that you can be and from being open to unlimited possibilities. Breaking Free of your Limiting Beliefs is the first step to personal transformation.

Look at the Top Ten Limiting Beliefs list. Do any of them sound familiar? If they do, jot them down and think about the ways they are negatively impacting your life - money, relationships, career, goals.

Watch for my next blog post where I'll give you the essential 3-step plan for Breaking Free of your Limiting Beliefs.

Rekindle Joy and Playfulness

Spring is here!  Spring  is a magical time of renewal and rejuvenation.  It's the perfect time year to rekindle your sense of joy and playfulness. Being playful reduces stress and stimulates creativity.

• Add Play Days to your calendar.
• Give yourself permission to play and have fun.
• Take "Recess" instead of lunch.
• Live everyday with curiosity.
• Explore more.
• Do something new simply because it looks interesting.
• Share positive and pleasant news with others.
• Savour pleasant experiences and extend positive emotions.
• Let loose and be silly.
• Laugh Lots! You will positively change your outlook, mood and your life!
• Make Friends with and Embrace Change and Flexibility.

Have Fun..... Let Loose........ Celebrate and Embrace your Life!

"Life is playfulness...We need to play so that we can rediscover the magic all around us." Flora Colao

Coaching Works!

Practice Forgiveness

Forgiveness may not be your usual reaction when you make a mistake. How often are you your own worst critic - judging yourself unreasonably and beating yourself up when things go wrong? 

When you make a mistake, learn from it,

 forgive yourself, and move on.

Forgiving others is difficult, especially if they are the cause of a great hurt in your life. Yet not forgiving costs you so much when living with anger, blame, resentment and other negative feelings. They rob you of joy and peace of mind.

Forgiveness is defined as "ceasing to resent".

Forgiveness is an act of will. You can choose to forgive even if you don't feel like it. The act of forgiveness is the first step. The feeling may come later but by then it's less important as you have already moved on with your life.

If someone hurts you or takes advantage of you, do what you need to do to handle the situation, and take the necessary action to prevent it happening again. Then, forgive them and move on.

Self-Care Exercise

“Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head” - Anne Landers

Forgiving yourself or another person for a past misdeed does not imply that you have forgotten what happened.  It simply means you have chosen to move forward with your life and live free of resentment, quilt or angst.

Forgiveness frees us to live our lives, pursue our dreams, look forward with joy to the future, and enjoy every moment of the present!

It's easier to forgive others when you practice forgiving yourself.

As you reflect on your life, what could you forgive yourself for?

When you have clarity on something that could be forgiven, say to yourself:

I forgive myself for ________________     Then let it go.

Is there someone you need to forgive? Say to yourself:

I choose to forgive ______________(name) and I forgive him/her for __________    Then let it go.

Notice the positive change in your feelings and emotions and outlook as you adopt forgiveness.

     Remember, forgiveness is a gift to yourself.

Helping Others

Make it a Great Day

It's morning and you wake to the smell of fresh coffee, birds singing, and think to yourself this is going to be a great day! I'm going to do this and accomplish that and enjoy my day. All smiles you start your amazing day.

It is easy to wake up and look forward to your day and start off on a positive note and then all of a sudden something happens and your positive attitude starts to show negative edges....the first sign that you are about to sabotage your Great Day.

You start thinking "It's Going to be One of Those Days". That statement constructs your own self-fulfilling prophecy and you will find tons of evidence to support your newly constructed fable of a bad day. Someone will hold you up in traffic - see, I told you it's one of those days! Or, your boss will call you and want you to come to her office - yikes! - one more layer to your one of those days fable. Can you see the pattern of supposed negative events that you are setting in motion to sabotage your day?

Other examples of negative thoughts becoming your personal truth and affecting your happiness - no one likes me - I'm sure he/she is having an affair. If you believe either of these statements to be absolutely true, you will stack up all sorts of pre-conceived, mythological evidence to prove it!

The Solution is Within You

Next time you find yourself stacking up all the evidence to support your It's Going to be One of Those Days fable, stop, and see the positive alternative:

Perfect! While I'm stuck in traffic I can listen to great music!

{Smile} She wants to compliment me on the report I finished last week.

What new challenges will be given to me today?

Every bullet point of proof, every negative nuance that you add to your personal fable erodes your happiness, peace of mind, relationships and negatively impacts your Great Day!

It's your Great Day and yours alone. Keep it by being positive and looking at what is possible as opposed to what is not.

You are in charge of your mind, therefore your results!