Do you ever feel like you are so far from the person you know that you are capable of being? For the longest time, that was the way I felt…even when I was doing everything I could to “be a better person”. If you relate, you are really going to appreciate this article.
I can remember, back when I was perpetually dieting, I would tell myself I was going to completely overhaul my diet on Monday,
Earlier this year, I was stuck in a rut in a major way. I felt like I had put so much time and energy into my business/spiritual growth and I had nothing left to give. I was exhausted, burnt out, and felt really directionless. Honestly, it was really uncomfortable going from being a really passionate person to being stuck in a rut over the course of a year.
Now, I’m grateful that it happened because I can relate to others on a whole new level.
Do you live a life where you are constantly telling yourself you’ll be happy when ____ (insert achievement here) happens? Have you ever noticed how nothing ever makes you permanently happy once you achieve it? This has been the story of my life and I wanted to share with you how I overcame the “I’ll be happy when mentality…” Let’s start with my story!
In May 2015, I moved across the country from Chicago to San Diego.
I hope you are having an amazing week :) I wanted to create a blog to let you know of an opportunity to work with me. I am teaching a class tomorrow called, “How to Discover + Eliminate What Is Draining Your Energy” and would love to have you.
To say I was exhausted last year is an understatement. It felt like no matter how much I “took care of myself”,
This surprises most people because of what I do for work, but I am not a fan of New Year’s resolutions. I don’t know about you, but when I used to set New Year’s resolutions, I would always try to bite off more than I could chew. Not to mention…I’d never accomplish them. Looking back on it, it was because I tried to change too much too soon. When we do that, we set ourselves up for heartbreaking failure and lose confidence in ourselves and our ability to accomplish our goals.
If there is one thing I have struggled with in my life, it is unconditionally loving and accepting myself (even though I haven’t always realized it). I grew up having very low self-esteem and feeling like I was never good enough. Over the years, loving myself has gotten easier and easier. If you are struggling with this too, here are some steps that may make it easier for you, too:
Step 1: Find and work on your life purpose –
One of the first components to creating your life of Vitality is to define success on your terms (not the terms that everyone else has created for you). This can be tough, because we often have to wade through decades of programming and a lot of other people’s ideas of what success looks like.
When I first started setting goals for myself, a lot of the goals that I had were actually my dad’s goals.
In my six years of coaching and my lifetime of being a self-help junkie, I have read so many tips on how to accomplish goals. Here are three tips that I have found to be some of the most useful:
Tip #1: Use a habit tracker – I have found tracking my habits each and every day is really motivating and builds a lot of momentum. You can do this on an app for your phone or on physical paper.
We all have goals we want to accomplish in our lives, but our mindset often holds us back from actually accomplishing them. Here are three mindset shifts I have found to work and that will assist you in accomplishing your goals.
Shift #1: Focus on what you are adding to your life (not what you are taking away) – So often, when we set a goal for ourselves, we focus on deprivation. Let’s say our goal is to lose weight.
If you are anything like my Vitality ladies, you may be a (recovering) perfectionist. Perfectionists have a tendency to be really hard on themselves and spend a lot of time beating themselves up. Do you relate to this? If so, I think you’ll gain a lot by reading today’s article.
The first thing I want you to do is think of a goal you are working on right now that you are “failing”