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Achieve Your Goals. Reach Your Full Potential!
8 or 9 out of 10 people QUIT their New year’s GOALS and by Mid-February. They quickly fall back into the cycle of stagnation. The real question is, “Why is this the case? “How can people break the cycle of a “goal-quitting” ritual and become successful “goal-setter and achievers?” When it comes to goal success…
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Boosting Your Daily Motivation For Action: H.O.P.E.
We all have goals and dreams we want to accomplish. However, it’s obvious that finding the motivation to get started can be difficult. After beginning, your interest or excitement may die down. Look at your motivations. If nothing motivates you to continue, consider adjusting your options or the timing. Only put it on the backContinue…
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3 Simple Tools For Overcoming INACTION & INDECISION
Have you ever reached a point where you really want something, and you believe you can get it, but you find it difficult to decide or take the steps to go for it? Personally, I have struggled with overcoming inaction in my own life before. There were those dark times when I felt stuck. IContinue…
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ACTION brings Your Purpose + Passion + Vision to LIFE!
Taking practical steps is what helps you turn regrets into progress, pain into change, and a challenging situation into a manageable one. This is what helps you shift your focus from problems of the past to possibilities of the future.
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3 Basic Reminders on Your Purpose Discovery Journey
In this week’s post, we will quickly go through three basic “reminders on the journey of finding and refining a life of purpose. By the end, you should have a fairly solid tool you can immediately employ in your life, to help give it a meaningful direction or reinforce your passion and direction! 1. PrincipleContinue…
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Life Purpose Journey= Joy + Talent + Value
Determining what our purpose is in life can be one of the hardest questions that we as humans always try to answer. This week’s post is about having a conversation about the fundamental role timing plays in our search for purpose and how that connects to what we do that brings us joy, shows ourContinue…
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Looking to Stay Motivated? Identify What Demotivates you: The 3’P’s.
To meaningfully solve a problem, an excellent starting point is knowing what is causing it. Therefore, to stay motivated, we need to know what tends to demotivate us. What drains your energy? What sucks up your motivation? You have the desire to take the next step, but you lack the motivation and energy to makeContinue…
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Affirm Your Uniqueness: Your Self-Motivation and Confidence Matter!
I believe that everyone is capable of doing something great. The goal is to believe that you can build a life that you will not run away from. It’s hard to motivate others when we are not motivated. It’s hard to like and appreciate others and the daily beauty around us when we don’t likeContinue…
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Changing your disabling beliefs with the “Self-Talk Interrupt” Formula.
Your beliefs can be changed. You can start right now to change any limiting or disabling beliefs that are holding you back from creating the life you want. Use this practical and simple “Self-Talk Interrupt” formula to help you overcome any disabling beliefs that may be holding you back: Identify underlying beliefs/self-talk: When you thinkContinue…
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Say No to Procrastination: “Fear-Pain-Pleasure” Framework.
The force from the “Fear-Pain-Pleasure” framework influences our daily actions and decisions. It induces excitement and motivation in us to make a change or take the next step. It also creates fear in some people which causes them to keep putting things off or get stuck in old limiting patterns. We slowly allow fear andContinue…
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Overcoming 3 Most Common Fears that Drain Your Motivation.
We seek motivation from others, but the true motivation that endures as we set to achieve our goals comes from within. Self-motivation is essential for tapping into our success, happiness, and life purpose. When we are not self-motivated to accomplish our aspirations, the tendency for outside influencers to draw us into mediocrity increases. The biggestContinue…
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3 Tips to Overcoming procrastination
Our good intentions fall through the cracks when they are mostly undermined by our indecision to act. For most people, in addition to fear, the greatest hindrance to making progress, making change, and creating happiness is procrastination. When it comes to taking practical steps to unleash your potential and creating vital changes for a happierContinue…
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“I-CAN-DO” Formula: Create a Change and Reach Your Goal.
Wanting to take a deeper look at important areas of your life in a simple but powerful way? Wanting to set clear goals that will ensure commitment, flexibility, and success? Looking for a simple and self-taught tool for assessing and living a balanced life? Here is a powerful Self-Taught Model that you can use to beginContinue…
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4 Ways to Manage Frustrations.
As humans, it is natural that when things don’t go our way and we feel powerless to change a situation or its outcome, we get frustrated. We all express our frustrations in different forms: Hitting the table, snapping fingers, smacking lips, rolling eyes, sucking teeth, punching walls, we kick an object, we hit ourselves, weContinue…
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3 Ways To Reframe Negative Situations
Re-framing = Changing the perspective of a situation. Imagine this: Each life experience or situation is like a photo inside a frame. Now, that frame influences the appearance of the photo. Also, the way the photo is seen could be influenced by other factors it such as the environment it is placed in, where itContinue…
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3 Simple Steps to Overcoming Your Fears
Let’s start with these questions: Have you been in a situation where you become so afraid of taking the next step? What about the fear of making a change? Have you ever been afraid of something, but you later found that it wasn’t as bad as you had thought? For example, as a young boy, IContinue…
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4 Ways To Activate Your Mood For An Awesome Week: Mirror Talk
Happy Mood For An AWESOME Week!
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4 Powerful Steps to Overcome What Diminishes Your Potential?
Daily Practical Steps to Happiness and Change: #4. Identify and overcome the diminishers of your potential with 4 powerful steps. It’s Another New Week! We all have potential in abundance to do many things. While the potential of some people continue to thrive, some others’ potential continues to be limited or diminished. But where doContinue…
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WOW Your Potential to Life!= “I CAN Vs I CAN’T”
Daily Practical Steps to Making Change and Creating Happiness: #3. Cultivate a Growth Mindset to Overcome the “Why You can’t” with the “How You can!” As we begin a new week in this new year, here is another daily practical step to take as we look at overcoming those little blocks that tend to diminishContinue…
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Daily practical steps to Change and Happiness: #2
Hello there! Here are 3 daily practical steps to overcome Negative Self-Talks with Positive Thoughts as you create change and happiness. Watch the video below: We are identifying and overcoming those barriers holding us back from creating change and happiness. And we are doing this by taking daily practical steps. Replace your Automatic Negative ThoughtsContinue…
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#1: Daily practical steps: Making a change for happiness
Change is hard, right? But the truth is, change is possible! The desire for change is always around us. There was a time as I continued healing through my past life circumstances, I wanted to change some specific aspect of my journey. I wanted to be in a better place to let go, and rewriteContinue…
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Happy CHRISTMAS. Happy YOU!
It’s Christmas! The holidays have come. The question is: After everything that has happened this year, how are you feeling about celebrations? Your Hope. Your Faith. Your Love. Your Courage– Don’t lose them. You might have had a difficult year, and so, you may not want to be in the mood to celebrate the holidays.Continue…
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Is HAPPINESS just a CHOICE?
Hey there! Let me ask you a question: What do you think about when people say, “Happiness is a choice?” You just say “I choose happiness”, and you will become Mr. or Mrs. Happy. And you can start spreading happiness all over the place. This would be nice! You and I know that even thoughContinue…
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Refocus . Worry Less . Do More
As we journey together to a joyful and fulfilling life, let’s look at “Focus as another key element on this journey. It may seem common but, indeed, our “Focus” can work either ‘For’ us or ‘Against’ us. The deciding factor here has always been one of the greatest gifts we all have been given: Choice!Continue…
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Gratitude Gladdens The Heart.
Happy Thanksgiving!! This year, many things may look different, but a GRATEFUL HEART remains constant. Yes, a new experience may have changed our minds, but the GRATITUDE we feel for each other has not changed. When gratitude floods our hearts, pain and challenges are not entirely seen as obstacles, but as steppingstones to a greaterContinue…
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SALT and LIGHT
Be the SALT NOT an INSULT. Be the LIGHT in others’ FRIGHT mode. How do you maintain your unique flavor and brightness regardless of all odds? Here are 4 useful tips: Thinking of holding back your joy and light when you go unnoticed or unappreciated even after you have done your best? Considering you beingContinue…
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At the Heart of Leadership = People + Service
The “Why + Who + What + How + When + Where” of leadership = Serve. Empower. Transform. Why leadership? Who is involved in it? What does leadership mean to you? How does it work? When and where does leadership happen? Providing answers to these questions further suggest 3 reasons: • reason for accepting theContinue…
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You Get To Define Who You Are!
Situations in our lives do not define who we are… except if we let them. Life circumstances may be happening now. But you happened first! Therefore, let your life circumstances make you and not break you. You were already here. You already know what quitting feels like…but what happens if you don’t quit? Being knockedContinue…
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Managing Expectations for Joy (#2)
Dealing with Joy limiting Expectations When we become obsessed with perfection in all areas, we do end up with frustration in most areas. It starts with identifying and understanding what falls within your control or influence: like your attitude, what you choose to do with your time, your reaction, skills, education. Concentrate your time andContinue…
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Refocusing Joy Limiting Expectations
Focusing on setting Expectations for Joy We do mean well when we hold certain expectations. Sometimes, as our thoughts, emotions, and imagination continue to fluctuate around those expectations and their outcomes, the tendency for our joy to start getting limited by those mixed feelings increases as our focus starts wavering. Here are three reminders asContinue…
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4 Critical Leadership Choices
With leadership choices being so powerful, what choices are you making as a leader? In this video, I share 4 critical choices every leader makes whether intentionally or unintentionally. Every leadership requires the making of choices, and because the attitude of leaders can be contagious, those choices have a profound impact on the effectiveness ofContinue…
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Why suppress your uniqueness?
The beauty of you being yourself. Do you tend to alter your uniqueness while trying to be seen as “normal or not weird?” I invite you to watch this video as I share the top 3 fears to overcome so that they don’t suppress your uniqueness or hold back your joy, excitement, and enthusiasm. Who areContinue…
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Living Happily Ever After…?RECOGNIZE! RE-ENERGIZE! RISE!
Perfect Moment To Unleash Your Joy Today! RECOGNIZE, RE-ENERGIZE and RISE to Unleash your Joy Today! You can stop waiting for something outside of you to change before you can start living a fulfilling life. Because, when what is INSIDE of us changes, then the force becomes greater to transform what is OUTSIDE of us.Continue…
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Can old dogs learn new tricks? Can People Change?
Are you getting stuck at a point, and you feel like giving up because you think people don’t change or old dogs don‘t learn new tricks? I invite you to watch this video as I share top 7 tips for overcoming these limiting beliefs: Here are 7 tips to overcome your doubt or beliefs that couldContinue…
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“Enemies of Progress?” 3 C’s Of How To LET GO.
What is holding you back? I invite you to watch this video as I share my top 3 tips for letting go of our “Enemies of Progress.” So, how do we master our inner struggle to let go of those things that might be holding us hostage, hindering our progress, and limiting us from fully unleashingContinue…
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Dealing with Joy Limiting Expectations (#1)
Your expectations: Limiting or uplifting? Are your expectations for yourself and others too high that they suck the joy out of you when they are not met as expected, or are they set at a flexible level so that you have room for grace, learning, and growth for yourself and others? When we become obsessedContinue…
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Time: Unleashing Joy in your Expecting (Future) moments
Joy in your Expectations How high, low, or flexible are your expectations for events and people in your life? We all have expectations in our lives. Of course, it is good for us to know what we want out of life, what we want from people we interact with, what we want to do inContinue…
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Time: Unleashing Joy in your Experiencing (the Now) Moments.
Joy in your “Now” Moments. The Now moments are the active, and lively moments. You use the Now moments to talk about the past and future moments. Time should be seen as a progression from the REMEMBERING (past or gone) to the EXPERIENCING (Now, active or lively) to the EXPECTING (next, maybe or yet toContinue…
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Leading Through Tough Times: A Leader’s 4 “Shows” To boost Team’s Confidence & Engagement.
A Leader’s “4 Shows”: Building Team’s Spirit During Crisis. Leading when things are normal, comfortable, and pleasing can bring out one side of a leader’s demeanor. The other side can be put to a test when tough times hit, things become abnormal, and leadership becomes even more timely, needed, and right. (Details in video below):Continue…
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Time: Unleashing Joy in your Remembering (the Past) Moments.
Joy in your Past Moments Time is a useful factor that fluctuates our happiness as it swings between our external and internal focus. Cultivating more happiness within any frame of time has to be an intentional and mindful effort. Time should be seen as a progression from the REMEMBERING (past or gone) to the EXPERIENCINGContinue…
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Be Strong & Courageous! No Quitting!
6 useful choices What choice are we making during life circumstances? Remember that holding on or giving up, winning or losing in life has a lot to do with the alignment of our attitude and mindset with our DESIRES (what we want), BELIEFS (we can), MOTIVATION (we want to), and ACTIONS (doing). Here are sixContinue…
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You Are Not Done!
Nurture your Multipliers, Overcome your Diminishers & Self-Examine for a Change. In our day to day interactions, people and situations can either multiply or diminish us by limiting or empowering our abilities, energy, efforts, and strengths. Check out the video below for more information on this. Instead of quitting, and thinking that you are done,Continue…
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Don’t Give Up, Don’t Lose Heart: Be Encouraged!
Don’t Give Up and Don’t Lose Heart: Be Encouraged! Cultivating Positive Attitude in Hard Times
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Useful Reminders During Crisis
Useful Reminders For Overcoming Crisis Our schedules have changed. Activities seem abnormal, and life seems to be going at a slower pace. In every life circumstance, what happens to us can be a source of an experience that needs to be defined but what we choose to do with that experience makes the difference. HereContinue…
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Courage For Your BEST SELF During Hard Times
During hard life circumstances, we are pressed to let go off our strengths. However, let’s remember that we are so much stronger than we can imagine. We are God’s masterpiece (Ephesians 2:10)! Everything ends. Whether it’s good or bad, it doesn’t last forever. During hard times, our minds tend to expand the situation as theyContinue…
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Overcoming Patterns and Conditioning limiting your happiness
Rewiring for joy Have you ever experienced a situation where somebody is talking about something and you suddenly feel like an emotional resistance? What about in a conversation where somebody becomes suddenly defensive, withdrawn or curiously engaged? This can simply due to a condition or a word or phrase that served as a trigger. TriggersContinue…
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You are God’s Masterpiece!
You are Amazing and Beautiful just the way you are. You are Amazing and Beautiful just the way you are: God’s Masterpiece! Ephesians 2:10 “For you are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.” We have been expertly andContinue…
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Layers of limitations to happiness: Layer 6: Limiting Identity and Self-image
Identity: Limiting or Uplifting? Joy Limiting Identity? – Renew . Regenerate . Replace What identity do you hold? Deep down at our unconscious levels, some of our roles, expectations, phrases we use are defined based on what we experienced in our childhood or background, or what we saw in people around us while growing up,Continue…
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Maximizing Joy through the beauty and complexity of Life: Its Hardness. Its Awesomeness
The beauty and complexity of Life: Its Hardness. Its Awesomeness Maximizing Joy through the beauty and complexity of Life: Its Hardness. Its Awesomeness It is true! We all have this belief that life is hard, really hard. Do we all also hold the belief that life is awesome? It’s about doing a quick check onContinue…
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Layers of limitations to happiness: Layer 5: Not Harmonizing Joy with your TWO-SELVES
Your Experiencing-Self Versus Your Remembering-Self Harmonizing Joy with your TWO-SELVES Time: Your Experiencing-self Versus Your Remembering-self Question: You are anticipating to go on an amazing vacation. Do you imagine it in the form of feeling the experience itself or in the form of the memory you are going to get from it? Our Experiencing SelfContinue…
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Layers of limitations to happiness: Clichés as limiting Beliefs- #2
Cliché # 2: No Pain, No Gain Beware of clichés that could easily transform into limiting beliefs. This phrase, “Without pains, no gains” can be dated back in the 1500s. Some of the earliest people who coined this phrase were lining it up with resilience, and becoming psychologically stronger as we go through pain, andContinue…
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Layers of limitations to happiness: Clichés as limiting Beliefs- #1
Cliché #1: Money is the root of all evil. Money doesn’t grow on trees. Limiting belief/ Cliché # 1: Clichés about Money: Money is the root of all evil. Money doesn’t grow on trees. These are two of the many clichés that we hold, and some of us started hearing them since when we were children.Continue…
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Dilemma: “Not Losing Joy while Paying Attention to Negative Emotions Around You.”
Dilemma: Joy Vs Negative Emotions Dilemma: Joy Vs Negative Emotions Easy to stay happy, and not be consumed by others’ negative thoughts and emotions? Do you ever get afraid or hesitant to openly acknowledge your joy? Think about moments when you were around others, and you wanted to express the joy and blessings in yourContinue…
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Forgiveness promotes Aliveness and Freedom
Inspirational: Forgive! Get Alive! Get Freedom! “I will forgive their wickedness, and I will never again remember their sins.”– (Jeremiah 31:34). YESTERDAY’S opportunities, Mistakes, and past unfortunate life circumstances? Yes, we all may have had some! What about TOMORROW? Hmm! The real truth is that not all of us may experience it, we don’t haveContinue…
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Layers of limitations to happiness: Layer 4: Limiting Beliefs
Limiting belief #1: Unfiltered cultivation of “Can’t Do”, and “Pull Yourself Down” Mindset Overcoming limiting beliefs with uplifting beliefs. Self-doubt competes with fear in killing dreams, potential, and joy We all have a belief system, which is an acceptance that a statement is true or that something exists. A good belief system refers to theContinue…
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Inspiration: You are Priceless!
You are the most valuable creation! You are not what others say you are. You are what God says you are: His valuable treasure! And He created you to look like him and gave you the power over the fish, the birds, and all animals, domestic and wild, large and small. He created your needsContinue…
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Inspiration: You Are In The Game
Inspirational: You are in the Game! Be encouraged, Be Hopeful! I went to watch a local soccer match in a neighboring community. As I sat down, I asked one of the gentlemen to know the score. The gentleman replied with a broad snail and said, “the other team is leading us by 3 goals toContinue…
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Inspiration: Wake up! Shake off! Take off!
Inspirational: Wake up! Shake off! Take off! Wow!! What a day to be able to wake up, wiggle my toes, blink my eyes, and I can move! Affirmation: Today is going to be an amazing day. Yesterday had its challenges and blessings. Today is that day to transform those challenges into vital lessons and magnifyContinue…
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Inspirational: Rejection shouldn’t be your Ejection
Eject the rejections and inject fresh energy and determination to reach your goals, and bless others with your gift. No simply can mean New Opportunities! If you can take some moments to reflect on your childhood, young adulthood, and even adulthood experiences, you will notice that you have encountered rejections along the way by schoolmates, peers, co-workers, friends, strangers, and even family. ButContinue…
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Inspirational: Perseverance pays, and the gains = overcoming doubt and fear
Perseverance pays, realizing your dreams, and overcoming doubt and fear are the gains We all have all experienced self-doubt at some point in our lives. We experience moments that things don’t seem to be going according to our plans, and we can hold doubt and fear of the uncertainty. Uncertainty is set in when weContinue…
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Layers of limitations to happiness: Layer 3: Managing Desires & Expectations
In layer 1, we started with ourselves, knowing who we truly are by embracing our uniqueness, our authentic and simplistic nature. In layer 2, we talked about happiness itself. By discovering its true origin within us, and redirecting our focus on embracing more of the inner happiness, which gives true joy, and reasons to beContinue…
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Layers of limitations to happiness: Layer 2: Finding Happiness- Within Vs Outside
Common Assumptions: True or False? – “Happiness is a choice”, “You are happy if you make up your mind to be happy”, “Hard work plus success will bring you the happiness.” I wonder: If happiness is a choice, why can’t we all decide to be happy? Why can we all just make our minds toContinue…
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Is Fighting BACK Holding You Back From Living Life FORWARD?
Is Fighting Back Holding You Back From Living Life Forward ? It’s true that many people seem to get stuck when life gets tough. We all will face challenges that can bring us stress, disappointment, or setbacks. How we choose to deal with these challenges and past life circumstances will either hold us back orContinue…
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A Grateful Mind is a Happy Mind
The MIND is responsible for our THOUGHTS and our thoughts influence our EMOTIONS – whether happy or sad, positive or negative. Filling your mind with grateful and positive thoughts will result in creating a HAPPY MIND and a HAPPY YOU. Daily Practical Steps to Cultivating a Grateful Mind Cultivating a Grateful Mindset There are manyContinue…
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