AMY HANSEN

It’s difficult to take action on your goals when you’re afraid, petrified, and full of self doubt.  You may be telling yourself that this goal is impossible or envision it being a complete and utter failure if you even give it a try.  This is only holding you back.

The truth is, you are in control of two things.  The first being the thoughts you say to yourself and the second being what you visualize in your mind.  If you’re stating all the negative thoughts and believing all the worst case scenario images, then you will never achieve anything in life.  You will remain in your comfort zone of what is familiar.

It is human nature to be in our comfort zone of what is familiar and steer clear of what is unfamiliar and outside of our comfort zone.  However, you can expand your comfort zone and make what is unfamiliar familiar.

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At one point you didn’t know how to ride a bike, you disliked broccoli, okay you may still hate broccoli, but these things were once unfamiliar...

Here are eight areas you can focus on in order to help you live your best life!  Take the time to hand write your answers by putting pen to paper.  Go with the first thing that comes to mind and start writing.

1. Goals

Start by setting some goals.  Think about what you want to accomplish in your life.  These could be things that you want to do, places you want to visit, people you want to meet, etc.  Consider what would make you feel accomplished at the end of this year.  Write down some solid goals to work towards.

2. Charity

When you’re thinking about living your best life, it’s important to consider what difference you want to make.  Not only in your life but in the lives of others.  This could be giving back in the form of a monetary donation, time, energy, or providing someone with a resource to help out, etc.  Think about what things you would need to do in order to make a difference.  This in turnwill help you live your best life by making you feel good about contribut...

Use these eight tips to help you achieve your goal faster.

1. Get Clear

The first step to achieve your goal faster is to get absolutely clear on what your goal is.  If you have no idea what you’re trying to achieve then it will be hard to know what direction you should be moving toward.  An unclear goal is impossible to obtain.  Worse, an unclear goal will leave you stuck where you currently are.  Write your goal down on paper.  Be specific and clear on what you want to achieve. 

2. Be Consistent

Create a game plan that will help you achieve your goal and be consistent with it.  If you’re working toward your goal every other week you’ll see limited progress.  However, if you’re consistently working on your goal every day you’ll achieve it much faster.  Do at least one thing every day that will help you achieve your goal.  Schedule time first thing in the morning to ensure that it gets done.  Consistently take action on your goal.

3. Be Courageous

Fear often holds you bac...

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 you’ll remember and cherish.  The memories you create with your loved ones will last a li...

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 not perfect is what keeps you from going after your dreams.  The fear of failure all traces ...

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 and tell yourself to believe something different.  Create new beliefs for...

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.

**Please note that you’ll be able to go back through this process with additional fears.  But, first start by focusing on just one fear and one li...

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 working on your goals.

Empower

Songs can empower you like this gi...

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 can achieve big things.  Plus, it’s motivation to keep you working towards...

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 other option but success.  Have unwavering belief in yourself that yo...