AMY HANSEN

It can be so easy to get wrapped up in the drama of spreading negativity.  Whether it’s a rumor about someone else or news being shared around that isn’t the most compelling.  You may find yourself getting sucked into following someone who is extremely passionate about discrediting someone or proving something wrong.  Being super vocal about the matter and continuing to spread the negativity will only hurt you.  Especially if you don’t know the exact facts behind the situation.  If the matter doesn’t concern you to begin with and your involvement won’t change the outcome, then it’s time to get yourself out of the negativity.

Negativity Doesn’t Serve You

Getting sucked into negativity will only send you in a direction you don’t need to go.  You’ll find yourself wasting time and getting pulled into the negative drama that does not serve you.  You have better things to do with your life than getting drawn into the negativity being spread by others.  Put blinders on and focus on the a...

Mentors can be extremely helpful when it comes to achieving your goals.   They can give you guidance and advice on your next action steps.  However, it’s important to find the right mentor for you.  One that encourages you to take action and helps you to believe in your ability to achieve the goal that you’re working towards.

Experienced Mentor

A lot of times, your mentor has many more years of experience and much more support staff.  In fact, your mentor may have a team that helps them.  Or if they are solo, they’ve just perfected the method to where they can complete tasks quickly.  Either way, your mentor may feel miles ahead and far from where you currently are in your goal journey.  The important part is to not let this discourage you.

Mindset

Seeing a mentor many miles ahead is often the point where you start getting in your own head about who are you to try and achieve something like this.  You’ve seen a mentor already achieve it, so you begin to think who are you to d...

Finding mentors can be a great resource to help you achieve your goals.  In fact, you may be thinking that the fastest way to achieve your goals is just to model what someone else has already successfully accomplished.  Yet, that’s not necessary the answer to successfully achieving your goals.

Mentor

Most of the time, you search for a mentor who has gone before you and achieved the success you’re working towards.  You believe this mentor will help shortcut the distance between where you are and where you want to be if you follow the exact steps that they took.  Mentors share their missteps and words of advice to help prevent you from making the same mistakes they made.  All to help you achieve your goal faster and easier.  However, what they did may not feel right to you.

Trial & Error

The truth is, a lot of mentors have figured it out on their own through trial and error.  They took steps, had failures, made adjustments, and ultimately just kept going until they achieved suc...

Visualization is a powerful tool that can help you achieve your goals.  However, visualization alone won’t automatically achieve your goals for you.  You still have to do the work and take the necessary action steps in order to achieve your goals.  Here is how to use visualization to take action on achieving your goals.

Why Visualize

Visualization will help you achieve your goals by keeping your goal at the forefront of your mind so that you're constantly thinking about ways to achieve it.  This will help you stay motivated and focused on taking the necessary action steps towards achieving your goal.  You must keep the vision of achieving your goal in your mind if you want to make it a reality.  Otherwise, you’ll forget about it and the goal will remain unachieved.

Visualize Action

Begin by visualizing yourself taking small action steps towards achieving your goal.  This will help solidify in your mind the actions you need to be taking in order to achieve it.  In your visuali...

Visualizing yourself in the future can help you to achieve your goals.  It’s been scientifically proven that simply visualizing yourself achieving your goal stimulates the same region in your brain as you actually achieving it in real life.  This is because your brain doesn’t know how to tell the difference between real and imagination.  That’s pretty powerful stuff!  That also means that you have the power to create your future by showing your brain images of what you want to bring into your life.  Start by painting a clear picture in your mind of the future you want to live.  Here are five questions to help you envision your ideal future.

What Do You Want To Achieve?

Begin by getting really clear on what it is that you want to achieve.  You may have heard of a smart goal.  A smart goal is one that is specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time bound with a set deadline.  A smart goal could be that you want to lose 5 pounds by the end of the month.  This goal is specific...

Visualization is so powerful.  It’s almost like a really good movie or book that can transport you to another time.  If you need guidance then use the power of visualization to help you.  Perhaps you’re struggling to achieve your goals, you lack confidence, or just need inspiration and clarity on what the next steps to take are.  Use the power of visualization to help guide you to the right spot so that you can find the answers you need in order to successfully achieve your goals.

Future You

You can visualize yourself in the future, the woman who has achieved her goals.  You can intensify this visual and the more real you make it, the more your subconscious will believe it.  Getting in touch with that future version of you will give you the faith and belief in yourself that you can achieve your goals.  All because you’ve visualized seeing it come to fruition.  It becomes evidence and proof that this is your future reality.  You have visualized it and spoken it into reality so it i...

One of the most interesting fears is the fear of success.  The fear of success is believing that if you do achieve your goals, your life will change and be worse off than where you currently are.  So, you’d rather not achieve your goals than take the risk of losing what you currently have.  The fear of the unknown that things may change in your future if you do achieve your goals keeps you stuck in your comfort zone.  You must learn how to change your fear of success if you ever want to successfully achieve your goals.

Comfort Zone

The prospect of achieving your goals sounds like a good idea.  But, not at the risk of losing what you currently have.  This is because you are comfortable right where you currently are.  The fear of success will keep you stuck in your comfort zone without taking any action on achieving your goals.  You just continue doing what you’ve always done without making any progress.  However, not making progress means you’re not growing.  This is when you can g...

Think about your fears when it comes to working on achieving your goals.  A few things may come up for you.  Such as, the fear of failure and judgement.  These fears arise when you are trying to do something you’ve never done before.  Allowing yourself to succumb to these fears will prevent you from taking action on your goals.  If you want to achieve your goals, you must learn how to change your perspective on your fears.

Fear Perspective

Start by taking a look at your fears.  Your fear of failure stems from a deeper level of what failing will mean about you as a person.  You may believe failing means that you’re not smart enough or that you’ll look silly in front of others.  Speaking of looking silly, this is when the fear of judgement appears.  You’re afraid of putting yourself out there and being seen because if you make a mistake, everyone will see it and judge you.  You worry it will be out there for eternity which will damage your reputation and change how people see you.  ...

Your inner resistance includes the fears, worries, and self doubts that are holding you back from living your dream life.  You have formed stories and beliefs as to why you cannot do certain tasks which is why you’ve been stuck in your comfort zone.  Your inner resistance is preventing you from living life to your full potential.  Here is how to overcome your inner resistance.

Current Self

Your current self craves familiarity.  You want to know exactly what to expect and what’s going to happen in the future.  This is why you are stuck in your daily mundane routine of doing what you’ve always done.  This comfort zone provides you with a sense of certainty and safety.  Your current self has this mentality that this is how you’ve always done things and it’s worked so far, so why change something that might put that at risk?  But, deep down you know that you want more for yourself and your future.

Future Self

When you think about your future you can see all the possibilities.  Yo...

Consider how you’ve been feeling lately.  Maybe you’re overwhelmed, stressed, and a bit down.  This negative energy is only holding you back.  It’s time to get to the bottom of the negative energy that is preventing you from taking action on achieving your goals.  When you shed light on this energy and bring it to the surface, you can address it in order to let it go.  Then, and only then, will you be able to finally start taking the action required to achieve your goals.  It’s time to let go of the negative energy.

What Is Negative Energy?

Negative energy is a state of mind you’re in that prevents you from living life to your full potential.  It’s often what keeps you stuck in your current situation.  You feel unhappy and in the depths of despair.  It can be both mentally and physically exhausting.  It’s not a place you want to be or stay in for an extended period of time.  You know you want to let go of the negative energy to shift your mind into a more positive state so that yo...