AMY HANSEN

Each moment, you are walking along a path.  You might not always know where this road will lead, but you keep putting one foot in front of the other in order to achieve your goals.  Let’s talk about the roads you travel to achieve your goals.

Roads

Some of these roads are dark, poorly lit, and covered in fog where you can barely see the next step.  Think spooky like Halloween where the path is even a bit scary.  You want to hurry down these roads to get to somewhere safer.  Other roads are brightly lit, clear, open fields where you can see for miles ahead and feel the sun on your face.  These are the more relaxing journeys in life.  You can almost take your time and soak up every moment.  But, sometimes you’re going to have to choose which road to take and it’s not always the easy one.

Crossroads

There will be times when you come to a crossroads in your life and you’ll have to choose which path to continue forward on.  This is where you can get in your head of trying to decid...

Envision looking up into the sky.  You may see strictly blue sky, a bunch of white clouds, or even some grey clouds on the horizon.  Figuratively, all of these clouds represent your thoughts.  Each cloud will pass by and all you need to do is observe the thought.  Then, you can decide what action step to take towards your goals from there.  Let’s take a deeper look at the clouds are your thoughts.

Blue Sky

When you see clear, blue sky with no clouds, there aren’t any issues in your life.  You’re just floating through life, not giving it much thought.  There isn’t anything to stress or worry about.  You’re just simply going through the motions of life.  You’re accepting life as it is.  There aren’t any obstacles or hurdles in your path.  It just smooth sailing, which isn’t entirely bad.  However, it isn’t pushing you or challenging you to become your best self and achieve your dreams in life.

White Clouds

When you notice white clouds, those are clouds of love, acceptance, happin...

Achieving your goals can feel overwhelming with the amount of stuff you have to do.  It just feels too big that there is too much to do.  Therefore, it becomes easier to just do nothing instead of doing the difficult work to achieve your goals.  Learn to love to take action towards your goals so that you can create the momentum you need to achieve what you want to accomplish in your life.

Write It Down

The first step in feeling less overwhelmed to achieve your goals is to get all of the tasks out of your head and down on paper.  Stop letting those tasks swirl around in your head as you worry that you might forget to do something.  Take time to write down all the things you have been putting off that you need to get done.  Visually seeing what you need to do automatically lets your brain relax.  It’s almost like a giant sigh for your brain.  You no longer need to stress out about forgetting anything.  Your brain will love you for writing everything down and keeping it organized in ...

You can be overwhelmed not only by the amount of stuff you have to do, but also overwhelmed by fear.  Being overwhelmed by fear holds you back from achieving your goals because you are not taking action. You are too afraid to move forward because of what you believe will happen.  All of the worst case scenarios keep replaying on repeat in head which only increases your fear, worry, and anxiety.  Being overwhelmed by fear can keep you paralyzed from taking action towards your goals.

Overwhelm

You are overwhelmed by fear.  You want to have the perfect plan.  You want everything to go perfectly.  You don’t want to make a mistake or embarrass yourself.  You want to know the best, right, next action step to take.  Your fears can be extremely overwhelming and consuming.  All of the fears swimming around in your head are holding you back from taking action towards your goals.  It’s time to stop letting fear overwhelm you.

Name Your Fears

Start by considering which fears you’re feeli...

Uncomfortable emotions can be loud and hard to overcome.  It’s like someone is screaming from the grandstands.  It’s obnoxious, belligerent, and overpowering to where you can’t hear anything else.  It’s all consuming and it’s all you can see, just red.  You’re living in this uncomfortable emotional state that is messing with your nervous system.  It’s like your nervous system is on overdrive, fight or flight mode, pure survival, and you cannot escape it.  You’re maxed out to the core and something has got to give.  You have to learn to recognize fight or flight mode so that you can manage your stress response and regulate your nervous system.  When you do this, you’ll be able to see clearly and be able to take the next action step to achieve your goals.

Definition

Fight or flight mode is defined as an automatic, physical reaction to stress or danger.  You usually have a fast heart rate, high blood pressure, and a sudden burst of energy to escape the danger.  Fight or flight mode i...

When you’re in a high stress state you can feel your emotions running through your body.  You may feel a sense of anger, overwhelm, fear, or deep sadness.  All of these emotions, when coursing through your body, can cause you intense anxiety, more fear, or elevated stress.  You must learn to notice, allow, accept, and really feel into the emotions in your body.  Learn how to feel your emotions in your body so that you can use breathwork to release the resistance you’re feeling to take action towards your goals.

Emotions In Your Body

When you feel these uncomfortable emotions in your body, it’s also a great time to take a closer look at what these emotions are trying to tell you.  Maybe you’re feeling scared because you’re trying something new that’s outside of your comfort zone.  Perhaps you took action towards your goal and didn’t get the result you wanted.  Notice where these feelings come up in your body.  It may be just particular part of your body like the throat, heart, bell...

Your thoughts create your emotions.  There are certain thoughts that make you feel uncomfortable emotions such as stressed, angry, discouraged, etc.  In order to work through those uncomfortable emotions, you need to quiet the noise in your head by finding stillness in the present moment.  One of the best ways to do this is by simply breathing through uncomfortable emotions.

Emotions

Emotions are a healthy part of your overall well being and the complete life experience.  You are not a robot.  You’ll feel an array of emotions throughout your day.  One moment you could be happy, sad, upset, or anxious, etc.  Noticing these emotions can help you recognize when you need to release the tension that’s building up in your body.  It will also help you manage these emotions so that you can work through them and be able to take action towards your goals.

Negative Emotions

Often negative emotions prevent you from taking action towards your goals.  You would prefer not to feel negative ...

Another reason why you don’t take action towards your goals is because you feel overwhelmed.  You’re overwhelmed by the amount of stuff you have to do.  Your brain goes into overdrive, spinning all these thoughts around which only causes you more stress.  You just don’t even know where to start.  So, you don’t.  It’s easier to just do nothing then to try and tackle the laundry list of things you need to do.  However, the list of things to do only continues to get longer and the overwhelm continues to build.  Here is how you can get organized and reduce your overwhelm so that you know exactly what to do in order to achieve your goals.

Notice When You’re Overwhelmed

The first thing you need to do is realize when you’re feeling overwhelmed.  Overwhelm can show up as having too much to do and not knowing where to start.  Or, maybe you’ve tried rushing around and going a million miles an hour to get as much done as you can.  Only to feel exhausted and wiped out because it doesn’t feel ...

Often, you don’t take action towards your goals because you’re afraid of the unknown future.  The future seems scary because you don’t know what will happen.  Maybe you’ll choose wrong, it won’t work out, or it will go a different direction.  Your brain decides it’s safer to remain in your comfort zone of what you already know to be safe.  Safe from failure or embarrassment.  But, this isn’t how goals get achieved.  You have to learn how to change how you feel about the unknown future.

Uncomfortable Unknown

You feel uncomfortable about the unknown future.  The uncertain and the unknown is scary.  You don’t know what to expect.  You don’t know what will happen.  So, you try and control.  You play out all the different scenarios as if you can change what will happen.  If you just do this or steer your life in this direction then maybe you’ll get to where you want to go.  Or, at least prevent something bad from happen.

Excited About The Unknown

However, there is another way to t...

If you want to achieve your goals, there are five things you can stop doing right now.  These five things are hindering your progress, getting in your way, and preventing you from living your dream life.  You need to stop doing these five things in order to achieve your goals.

Overthinking

The first is overthinking.  Sometimes you get so wrapped up in your head and all your thoughts that you just forget to take action.  You’re running through all these different scenarios and thinking you need the perfect plan to achieve your goals.  Overthinking if you do this then this transpires and you try to map out this perfect plan.  You’re trying to have the entire roadmap planned out with each step.  Then, you doubt yourself and start overthinking if this is the “best right” plan.  You need to stop overthinking so that you can get yourself into action.

Procrastinating

The second thing you need to stop doing is putting things off.  You’re doing anything else other than the difficult w...