AMY HANSEN

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...

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...