AMY HANSEN

The life you want to live may seem far away.  It might even seem impossible to get there.  The fears, worries, and self doubts, bubble up of who are you to dream something this big.  But, I have news for you.  This dream has been put on your heart for a reason.  The fact that your conscious mind thought it, means that it’s possible for you.  You can turn your dreams into reality.  You just need to start believing that you can do so.  Here is how to live your dream life now.

Inner Critic

Learning to embrace your inner critic who speaks all of your fears, worries, and self doubts will help you to make massive leaps forward towards living the life of your dreams.  However, if you succumb, to the fears, worries, and self doubts of your inner critic, you’ll only remain stuck exactly where you currently are.  Sure, that might not seem that bad right now.  After all, it’s your current reality and comfort...

It’s hard to get anything done when fear and self doubt creep in.  You feel unmotivated and stop taking action towards your goals and dreams in life.  Listening to that voice keeps you stuck where you currently are.  If you’re fed up with listening to the voice of fear and self doubt then it’s time to quiet it.  Here is how to quiet the voice that is holding you back from achieving your goals and living your dream life.

Self Doubt

One of thing biggest things that holds you back from going after your goals and dreams in life is self doubt.  Self doubt makes you question yourself and your actions.  That voice inside your head that gives you all the reasons why you should stay stuck and remain where you currently are.  That voice just wants to protect you and keep you safe.  But, it doesn’t necessarily know what’s best for you.  It just knows what’s familiar.  This is the voice of self doubt.

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Worrying about the future can consume your thoughts and energy.  You play out all the different scenarios in your mind and worry about each one of them coming to fruition.  But, this is not beneficial to you.  In fact, it’s rather draining and leaves you in negative state of mind.  It’s almost like you’re in fight or flight mode while you are waiting for something bad you foresee to happen.  Living life from this place will only do you more harm than good.  That’s why it’s important to learn how to let go of worrying.

Worry

Worry is a feeling that doesn’t have much benefit.   Think about the last time you worried about something and what that did for you.  Usually nothing.  It only leaves you feeling sad, full of fear and anxious about the future.  This is not the place you want to be.  You want to be happy and full of excitement for the amazing things to come in your future. ...

Sometimes feedback can stop you and hold you back from going after your goals in life.  Someone says something that makes you second guess and question what you’ve been working towards.  Self doubt creeps in and the next thing you know, your goals have fallen to the wayside, never to be achieved.  You cannot let feedback prevent you from achieving your goals and living your dream life.  Use the following four tips to help you receive feedback.

Determine The Source

The first tip in receiving feedback is to determine the source.  Look at who is giving you the feedback.  If it’s someone who has achieved what you are working towards, then this is a reputable source.  This person should have some good insights for you that you can take into consideration.  Your friends and family will also give you feedback.  However, this feedback may be unsolicited.  Their own fears, self doubts, and worries may come out because...

If you want to live life to your full potential one of the key things you can do is focus on getting better each day.  That simply means becoming better than you were yesterday in order to become the best version of yourself.  This daily continuous improvement will help you become your highest self and reach your full potential.  There are a few things you can do to help you become better than you were yesterday.

Go From Novice To Expert

One of the easiest things you can do to become better than you were yesterday is to learn new things.  Find something that you don’t know much about and go from being a novice to an expert.  It’s fun, exciting, and challenging to do things you haven’t yet mastered.  This is what keeps you moving forward in life.  You will have something to work towards that gives your life direction and purpose.  Discover things that you can go from novice to expert at.

Try A New Hobby

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A lot of times you can feel like you’re just drifting along in life.  Before you know it, you’ve arrived at a destination you didn’t realize.  This sense of drifting along in your comfort zone can feel easy and safe.  But, years down the road you’ll find yourself in a place that you didn’t think you’d ever choose.  Change can be difficult and scary when you step outside your comfort zone.  It’s so much easier to just drift along in the I’m fine coma of life.  However, if you want to live your best, most fulfilling life to your full potential, you’re going to have to step outside your comfort zone and take back control of your life instead of drifting aimlessly through it.  Here are four steps to stop drifting through life.

Acknowledge The Drift

Drifting along in the wrong direction in life happens.  However, you do have the power to stop it.  The first step is to realize that...

The dreaded feeling of time passing you by, feeling like you’ve wasted it, and missed out on so many opportunities.  That feeling is gut wrenching.  That is not the life you want to live.  You want to live life to your full potential and not get to the end with regrets of what could have or should have been.  Here is how you can live life to your full potential.

The Choice

This may be hard to hear but, you can choose your future or it can choose it for you as you float along, aimlessly through life.  The choice is yours.  Think about what you’re okay with.  If you’re okay living a mediocre life, without a clear purpose and direction, then that’s okay.  But, if you really want to live your best life, then you won’t be okay with limiting yourself to living life below anything other than your full potential.  Now is the time to make a choice.

Outside Your Comfort Zone

If you want to live life to...

If you’re fed up with feeling a bit lost and stuck in your current daily routine, then it’s time to take some action.  But, not just any action.  Otherwise, you’ll be taking tons of action on something that isn’t making any progress towards where you really want to be in your life.  Here is a three step process to help you figure out how to get from where you are to where you want to be.

Where You Are

The first step is to figure out where you are.  This is the essential starting place before figuring out where you want to be.  Take a look at your life and do a mental assessment.  Ask yourself how you’re feeling about your career, finances, environment, relationships, etc.  Make note if something feels a bit off or disconnected.  This marks a flag for an area where you need to focus your attention.

Where You Want To Be

Now that you know where you are, the next step is figure out where you want to...

In your life, there are four main zones.  Each zone has a different purpose and way of being.  The key is to acknowledge which zone you’re in so that you can recognize if you’re stuck in a particular zone that is preventing you from achieving your goals and living your dream life.  Here are the four zones of living.

Comfort Zone

You’re probably most familiar with your comfort zone.  This is where you feel the safest.  You know exactly what to expect because you’ve done it all before.  You’re in complete control over what happens when you’re living in this zone.  There is nothing to be scared of.  Yes, this zone may sound warm and comfy, but this is where you really remain stuck in life.  There is no room for growth and to experience new things.  There are no goals to achieve because you are comfy right where you are.  In your comfort zone, you live life on repeat doing the same things...

When you set a goal, you can get really excited about it.  But, while you’re working towards your goal, an obstacle often occurs that causes you falter.  You may keep going or quit all together.  It’s important to recognize the obstacles in your path that are preventing you from achieving your goals.  Here are three obstacles holding you back from achieving your goals and how to over come them.

Acknowledge Your Habits

One obstacle you face on a daily basis is your own personal habits.  You may have a few habits that are keeping you from making progress towards your goals.  Perhaps that’s sleeping in, procrastinating, watching tv, scrolling social media, etc.  Acknowledge the habits that are hindering you.  For a few days, you may need to keep a daily log as to how you’re spending your time.  This will allow you to easily spot the chunks of time you’re wasting on unproductive things.

Replace Your...