AMY HANSEN

In order to achieve more happiness in life, take a look at the following five areas.  Commit to setting a goal in each area so that you can life a happier life.

1. Self Care

The first area to look at is self care.  Often you take care of everyone else but yourself.  It is said that you need to put your own oxygen mask on first before you can help others.  Make yourself a priority.  Schedule time for self care.  It is essential for your overall health and happiness in life.  Don’t let it fall to the wayside.  Focus on taking care of you.  Set a goal to do at least one self care activity each week.  When you feel good about yourself, you’ll be happier in life.

2. Relationships

Family and friends are incredibly important to living a happier life.  Having conversations and being around others that make you laugh allows you to thoroughly enjoy life.  The relationships you foster are ones that...

The fear of failure often hinders you from going after your dreams.  This fear stems from the lessons you learned at a young age.  In school you are taught that you must have the right answer in order to succeed.  Today, now that you’re grown and in the real world, it’s difficult to take action on your dreams because you’re afraid that you might have the wrong answer.  You fear that you’re doing it wrong or making an incorrect choice that will ultimately lead to failure.

Failures commonly leave you faced with ridicule, anger, frustration, and yelling that you didn’t do something right.  The truth is, you made a mistake and now it feels like the whole world is coming to an end.  Even the littlest of errors make it seem like you’re incapable of doing a great job.  This only reinforces the belief that you’re not competent and should just quit now.

The fear of getting it wrong and that it’s...

A new year means new goals and unlimited possibilities.  However, one of the biggest things that can hold you back from going after your goals is fear.  The fear of the unknown, fear of failure, fear of doing it wrong, and most of all, fear of what other people will think.  How you overcome these fears isn’t an easy feat.  But, you can overcome your fears with these three steps to achieve your goals this year.

1. Create New Beliefs

The first step to overcoming your fears and achieving your goals is to realize that fear isn’t real.  Fear is made up in your mind.  It is said that fear is false evidence appearing real.  Take a look at the fears that you have and create new beliefs around them.  Your new beliefs could include, life is full of surprise and the unknown.  Or even, there is no failure but rather only lessons to learn.  Change your mindset around fear.  Eliminate the beliefs that are holding you back...

Your fears are holding you back from living your dream life.  You have created your own limiting beliefs that are only keeping you stuck in your current situation.  This simple four step process will help you conquer your fears and change your beliefs so that you’ll start taking action on your biggest goals.

1. Pick A Fear

The first step is to simply choose one fear that’s holding you back from going after your dreams.  Then think about what you believe to be true about that fear.  In other words, name the limiting belief that is keeping you stuck.  This could be that you’re not good enough, you’re inexperienced, who are you to be doing this, you’re not ready, now’s not the right time, you need more information, you’re too young/old, etc.  Dig deep and think about what fear is limiting your ability to truly live life to the fullest.

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The words you speak to yourself are incredibly powerful.  If you were to stop and listen to words that you’re telling yourself, what would you hear?  You may be surprised to hear a lot of negative self talk.

You are your own worst critic.  The negative self talk you speak about yourself is awful and it happens every day.  But, you would never let someone else talk to you like that.  Furthermore, you would never speak those negative words about someone else.  Yet, the negative self talk you tell yourself is somehow acceptable.  This negative self talk can keep you stuck from going after your goals and what you want in life.  It’s time to change that.

In order to stop the negative self talk you need to change how you speak to yourself.  One simple way is to choose an inspiring song.  This will be your go to song that will empower you, motivate you, bring you more positivity, and keep you pushing forward toward...

Last year may have been your best year yet or perhaps it was a struggle.  Either way, it’s the start of a new year and it’s time to make it unbelievably successful!

The best way to start off the new year is to get intentional.  That means deciding on what you want to accomplish and how you want to feel this year.

Begin by thinking about your accomplishments last year and what you’re most proud of.  Choose one of those accomplishments to bring with you into the new year.  Don’t think too hard because you definitely have something to be proud of.  No matter how big or small it might be, you have accomplished something amazing last year.

Now that you have your accomplishment, here are four areas help you get intentional in the new year.

Energy

Think about the energy around the accomplishment you chose.  It should be flowing with positivity and energize you.  This accomplishment is evidence that you...

As the end of the year approaches, take a moment to reflect.  Reflect over the past year and what you have learned.  Here are five lessons over this past year.

You Have All The Power

You have all the power within you.  You don’t need to learn more, become more, get permission, or be perfect.  You are so much more powerful than you realize.  Self doubt often creeps in making you believe that you’re not capable of achieving your goals.  But you have all the power within you to achieve success.  Everything you could possibly ever want is at your fingertips if you just simply believed in yourself.

Have Unwavering Belief

Have unwavering belief that you’re destined for success.  If you had no fear or worries about the outcome, because you knew without a doubt that your success was inevitable, think of everything you would do and achieve.  You would do things that once scared you because you knew that there was no...

Preparing for the new year means taking a moment to look back in time and reflect on the past year.  It also means looking forward into the future and allowing yourself to dream about what you want to achieve in the new year.  Make the new year your best yet!  Here are six steps to prepare for the new year.

1. Celebrate

Start by taking inventory of the things that have worked well for you over the past year.  List your biggest successes, your achievements, and what you’re most proud of.  Think about what things you did in order to create success this past year.  You may want to continue these things in the new year.  Take time now to celebrate your wins!

2. Lessons Learned

Review the past year of what didn’t work so well.  Be open and honest with yourself.  Dig deep as to why things didn’t go as you had hoped.  Honestly, hardly anything goes exactly as planned.  Make these lessons that...

A mantra is a statement or phrase that is repeated frequently to aid in concentration.  A mantra gives you focus and clarity on a certain belief you want to have.  This is especially helpful in the new year when you’re trying to make things happen and achieve your goals.

Creating a mantra for the new year is a statement that you will live by.  You are setting an intention for the new year as to who you want to be and what you want to accomplish.

Here are the four steps on how to create a mantra for the new year.

1. List Your Struggles

Think about what you may be struggling with that’s currently holding you back from going after your dreams.

Procrastination

You may be simply procrastinating on doing things that will move you closer to your goals.  Often you find yourself working on all the easy things like laundry, errands, and binging on Netflix.  Instead you should be tackling the more difficult tasks that will help...

The end of the year is approaching and it’s a good time to stop and pause to reflect on the year that is coming to a close.  You may be thinking you’re not where you want to be or perhaps you’ve blown your expectations out of the water and far exceeded what you expected to achieve this year.  Either way, it’s important to review what’s worked and what didn’t work in order to set you up for success in the new year.

Here are five things to review before the new year.

1. Achievements

Think about the past year and what has gone well for you.  Write down your achievements and successes.  It doesn’t matter how big or small they are.  Think about the things that you’re most proud of and that bring a smile to your face.  Now that you have your achievements, you may be considering setting higher benchmarks to achieve in the new year.  Take some time right now and set goals for the new year.

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