AMY HANSEN

One of the best ways to take action towards your goals is to be strategically messy.  The path to achieving your goals is not a straight line.  There are a lot of obstacles, detours, and challenges that you’ll experience along the way.  The path will look messy but you can be strategic about it.  This is how you can take strategic, messy action to achieve your goals.

Strategically Messy

Imagine a blank, white piece of paper.  You start taking action towards your goals and a line begins to draw on the page.  It may go up, down, backwards, sideways, around.  It may look like you just scribbled all over the page.  Yet, with each action you gain new information.  You make adjustments and keep going.  This is where the strategic part comes into play.  From what you’ve learned in the past, you can course correct.  You know not to go in certain directions, repeat past unfavorable experiences, or revisit certain spots.  With each action step you’re taking, you’re getting new information t...

One of the main reasons you’re not taking action towards your goals is because you don’t think you feel ready.  The truth is, you’ll never be fully ready.  You just have to start now which is often easier said than done.  You get in your head where your fears, worries, and doubts take over.  You start to believe that you can’t achieve your goals because you’re just not quite ready.  Instead of waiting for the perfect path, feeling like you know all the steps, you must learn to take the leap to achieve your goals!

Not Ready

Consider how you are holding yourself back from taking action to achieve your goals and why.  Maybe you’re wanting to feel ready or have the perfect path because you think if you do then it will be less challenging, difficult, embarrassing, and undoubtedly lead you to easier success.  Unfortunately, that time is never going to come and your goals will remain unachieved if you simply continue waiting.  You’re never going to feel one hundred percent ready or have ...

Gemstones and crystals are often used for therapeutic practices.  It is believed that each stone has particular energetic properties to help with healing, set an intention, or align your mood.  These stones vary in shape, size, color, and texture.  Gemstones can actually give you an extra boost of energy you need to help you achieve your goals.

Gemstones

There are a wide array of gemstone.  There are stones of healing, peace, and safety.  There are stones of creativity, protection, and abundance.  Common gemstones include rose quartz which is a light pink in color and is known as the heart stone of unconditional love.  Then, there is the captivating golden, brown mix of tigers eye which is known for courage.  There are also black stones like onyx for strength and green jade for good luck.  Clear quartz is known as the master healer and is used to balance all energy levels.  Each month of the year has a designated gemstone which is your birthstone.  There are so many stones, no mat...

You’ve been carrying around some deep feelings about things that have happened in the past.  You can either continue to carry that weight on your shoulders in your backpack or you can choose to set it down and leave it right here.  You get to decide if what you’ve been carrying around is really helping you or slowing you down and preventing you from achieving your goals.  Let’s take a look at what’s exactly in your backpack.

Backpack Visualization

In order to fully imagine this process, visualize an actual backpack.  See yourself opening the backpack and inside there are a ton of rocks.  The rock vary in shape, size, color, and weight.  Some rocks may be large, jagged, ugly, and heavy.  While other rocks may be smaller, smooth, beautiful, and light.  Each rock represents past experiences, memories, and beliefs you think to be true.  You’ve picked up each rock over the course of your life.  Maybe you’ve held onto it as a reminder of what you’ve been through so that you’ll never for...

I’m sure you’ve heard of writing a letter from your future self.  This is when you write a letter to your current self from the perspective of your future self.  This letter is full of ideas, advice, things to let go of, what you had to do, and who you had to become in order to achieve your goals in the future.  Some websites offer to send you your future self email on a specific date of your choosing as a reminder of what you wrote.  But, instead of envisioning yourself in the future and looking back at today, you’re going to do the opposite.  From where you are today, imagine what’s required of you to get you to where you want to be.  A lot of this stems from what you have to let go of and the important decisions you have to make in order to move forward in your life.

Different Future

There are things that have happened in your life that have helped shape where you currently are.  But, your future looks drastically different than where you are today.  Which is a good thing becau...

If you were to have a table of advisors who you trusted their thoughts, feelings, opinions, and judgement, who would sit at your table?  At this table, you can share what you’ve been through or are going through without judgement and get feedback and advice on your next action steps.  It’s a place to spill the beans, let loose, and discuss what’s on your mind and deep within your heart.  You don’t have to filter what you say or risk feeling embarrassed.  This is a no judgement zone where your trusted advisors will listen, let you been seen, and then give their feedback, but only if you ask for it.  Let’s determine who would sit at your table of advisors.

Past

At your table of advisors, you may have people who are deceased.  These could be relatives, historians, scientists, or spiritual beings to help guide you.  Maybe you’ve had conversations with these people in the past.  Or, perhaps you’ve felt inspired by someone’s words whether written or spoken in an empowering speech.  Your...

Sometimes you’re stuck in the in between.  That time between choosing a goal and actually achieving it.  There is a lot of work that goes into achieving your goal.  But, it’s done through consistent action.  If you’re feeling stuck or unsure of what action step to take next then it’s time to get clear on what you need to do today to get you closer to achieving your goals.  It’s making one action step decision.  It’s not filling out the complete roadmap or even the next ten steps.  It’s just the one next step.  Your future self is waiting on one brave decision.  Let’s make that decision today!

One Brave Decision

First, you need to get clear on what that one decision is going to be.  Think about what you need in order to achieve your goals.  Do you need more time, money, or resources to achieve your goal?  Then, you make a decision to get more of that!  Achieving your goals is going to require something of you that you haven’t done before.  This can feel a bit intimidating but makin...

If your future self were to give you advice right now, there are a few things that would come up.  One major theme is to just give you the confidence to keep taking action towards your goals.  To not give up when things become difficult because your future self knows the outcome and it’s not the worst case scenario you’re replaying in your mind.  It’s that amazing possibility of what if this does turn into something amazing and you actually do achieve your goal.  Your future self knows this is absolutely possible.  Now it’s time to make your current self believe it.  Here is what your future self needs you to know right now so that you can achieve your goals and live your dream life.

Confidence To Feel Ready

Your future self wants you to stop waiting until you feel ready.  You’re never going to feel “ready.”  You just have to take action and go!  This is how confidence is truly built.  You don’t wait for the confidence to feel ready because it will never arrive.  It’s the small, c...

Your future self is guiding you all along.  It’s present celebrating with you in your amazingly, happy moments and even during life’s difficult challenges.  Sometimes this voice can be tough to hear or even understand.  But, it’s there.  Here are six ways you need to be listening for the voice of your future self.

Intuition

Your future self speaks through your intuition.  This is the intuitive nudges that guide you along your life’s journey.  Your intuition is defined as a form of quick, subconscious knowledge that allows for immediate understanding in a situation.  You don’t have to wait for conscious reasoning to analyze and process your thoughts.  It can be felt as a gut feeling to just know when or how to take a certain action.  Your intuition gives you instant insights, especially in tough situations.

Challenges

You’ll notice your intuition speaks up in the discomfort during the challenges and tough times. It may be difficult to detect because it’s so quiet to hear over ...

Letting go of control and trusting your future self can sound almost impossible.  It feels like you’re throwing caution to the wind.  You’re just supposed to magically trust and believe that everything will work out in your favor.  But, what if you’re not seeing results, feel like you’re messing up, and falling farther behind?  It’s hard to trust that there is a light at the end of the tunnel when it feels so dark where you currently are.

Self Doubt

Maybe nothing feels like it’s going right in your life.  This is when self doubt, fear, and worry find their opening and climb right in.  Imagine those three banging pots, pans, using blow horns, and streamers as if it’s a party bus.  Those negative voices start to get really loud about why you can’t achieve your goals and how you should just quit right now before you embarrass yourself any more.  But, there are a few tools you can use to quiet those voices quickly and effectively.  Here are four ways you can stop listening to the nega...