AMY HANSEN

It’s a perfect time for reflection as this year comes to an end.  Reflect over what you’ve gone through, who you’ve become, and what you’ve had to do.  More importantly, you can reflect over just how much you’ve grown.  This is a time to celebrate your success, lessons learned, and your growth this year.

Growth Areas

You’ve lived through a whole entire year through all the ups and downs.  Since the start of the year, you’ve learned and grown a lot.  Take inventory of the areas you’ve grown in. One particular area of your life may have been a huge focal point this year.  But, usually you’ve grown in more areas than one.  These are the areas that challenged you, forced you to think, be creative, stay strong, and level up.  This has helped you become who you are now, which is smarter, wiser, and ready for the next challenge.  Growth can be hard to measure but it’s through the challenges in life that can really show you how much you’ve grown.

Before You

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What you think and believe about success will become your reality.  Therefore, if you want massive abundance in your life, you must first look at what you think and believe about your ability to achieve success.  Choose to start believing in yourself, your goals, dreams, and unlimited potential.  Let go of the limiting mindset that’s holding you back.  When you do, amazing things will happen.  You’ll open yourself up to receiving so much success, abundance, and happiness in life.  You have unlimited potential if you were to just believe.

Defying Gravity

One of the most powerful songs in the Broadway musical Wicked is Defying Gravity.  This song is about letting go of the limits that are holding you back and being able to truly step into your own personal power where no one can stop you.  It’s helping you to believe in yourself and that anything is possible for your life.  It’s changing your thoughts and beliefs to see your unlimited future potential.  Your success is inevitable...

Your thoughts are one of the most powerful things that will either help or hinder you from achieving your goals in life.  It’s what you believe is possible for your life.  As Henry Ford said, whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.  What you think and believe to be true is how you will base your decisions.  It will also determine how you respond to certain life events.  If you want to open yourself up to unlimited future possibilities in your life then you’re going to have to be cognizant of what you think and believe.

Your Thoughts

Your thoughts and beliefs dictate what actions you take.  If you believe you’re capable of success then you’ll bravely take action.  If you believe you’re incapable and act from a place of fear, then you hold yourself back from taking action towards your goals and life’s biggest dreams.  You’ll quickly cast away any unlimited future possibilities because you have doubt and don’t believe it’s possible for you.  What’s going to...

You have certain goals and dreams for your life.  When you don’t take action towards those things, you’re preventing yourself from making progress.  You’re sidelining your goals and dreams for something that may give you instant satisfaction now.  Whether that’s sitting on the couch watching tv, scrolling social media, or eating fast food.  Usually, these things are easier than doing the hard work to achieve your goals.  It requires less thought, effort, and time.  The amount of output you have to give is less than actually doing the necessary, more difficult tasks to achieve your goals.  But, this is taking the easy way out.  It’s being lazy.  It’s procrastinating.  It’s putting off your goals and dreams for another day.  However, your goals and dreams won’t wait forever.  It’s time to get yourself into action.  Learn how to be committed to taking action towards your goals so that you can make progress and achieve success!

Positive Action

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Sometimes you don’t want to take action towards your goals.  You’ve lost your motivation and everything else sounds better than working towards your goal.  However, you know not taking action towards your goal is the beginning of the end.  One day without taking action towards your goal turns into two days, three days, a week, a month, a year, etc.  It’s time to get excited about your goals again.  Learn how you can rediscover your motivation to achieve your goals so that you can get back into action and make progress towards your life’s biggest dreams.

Motivation

One of the most common misconceptions when it comes to achieving your goals is that you should feel motivated all the time.  This is simply not true.  There will be many times where you don’t feel motivated to work towards your goals.  Everything else that’s easier sounds like more fun.  You’ll even procrastinate by cleaning or doing other household chores rather than the more difficult tasks required to achieve your ...

Turning your dreams into reality can feel like a lot of work.  You’re pushing yourself to take action and work to make progress towards your biggest goals in life.  But, sometimes that can lead to burn out.  Especially if you feel like you’re the constant hamster wheel of setting bigger and bigger goals for yourself.  Having goals is an important part of your life but not the point where you work yourself to the brink of exhaustion.  You must learn to balance taking care of yourself while still making progress towards your goals in order to avoid burning out from chasing after your dreams.

Your Identity

Working to achieve your goals can become a part of your identity.  You’re known as an overachiever, ambitious, and hard working.  The moment you achieve one goal, you’re onto the next.  You’re constantly looking for how you can achieve a higher level of success just to see how far you can go.  You have this desire to learn and grow while goals give your life a sense of purpose. ...

Often you live life on auto pilot.  You go through the motions of your mundane, monotonous daily routine without giving it much thought.  It’s time to uninstall that programming and start being conscious of the life you want to be living.  Sleepily floating through life will not get to you achieve big goals and dreams.  It certainly won’t allow you to live life to your full potential.  Learn to turn your goals and dreams into reality rather than living life with unachieved regret.

Your Dreams

Begin by dreaming about the future and what you want to achieve.  Reconnect to your goals and dreams in life.  Take time to close your eyes and visualize where you want to be in the future.  Go for a mindful walk outside without any distractions and just be with your thoughts.  Think about what you want to achieve.  Come back and journal your thoughts to get crystal clear on your future goals.  Don’t limit yourself.  Dream big and believe that you can turn your dreams into reality.  You of...

In order to achieve massive success in your life, you have to know where you want to go in the future.  Imagine yourself years into the future.  Think about what you want your dream life to look and feel like.  You need to give yourself some direction so that you know where you want to be headed.  Otherwise, you’re just aimlessly floating through life without a clear direction.  Write down your dream life on paper so that you can gain even more clarity on what you want to make happen.  Begin this process by writing a letter from future you to your present self.

Your Future

Write a letter to the present you from the you ten years in the future.  Visualize the life you’re living and what you’ve accomplished.  See yourself in the future and what you’re doing, where you’re living, who you’re with, etc.  Bring that visual into vivid detail so that you can get really clear on what you want to make happen in your future.  Set a goal for yourself and write down what you see.  Choose a ...

Often you become so comfortable in your current comfort zone of what’s familiar, stepping outside of that seems scary.  Stepping into the unknown future is uncertain.  You don’t know what you’re going to encounter or how it’s going to turn out.  You only know that it’s very unfamiliar territory and it’s easier just to remain in comfort zone.  However, if you feel like you’re meant for more and want to live life to your full potential, then it’s time to learn how to step into the unknown future.

Door To Your Future

You can either live in your current comfort zone or look forward and envision a future that is different than where you are today.  If you desire something different than what you have right now, then you must make a choice.  You can choose to either stay where you are or open the door into your unknown future.  You might be afraid of opening this door but, what’s waiting for you on the other side could be incredibly amazing.  You see, your mind usually goes to the wo...

There is an old version of you, the current version of you, and the future version of who you will become.  Your life experiences help develop who you are by what you go through.  Challenges and obstacles in life are meant to help you become better than you were yesterday.  But, sometimes you look backwards towards the past and wish you were that previous version of you.  Yet, that’s not possible.  It’s time you find yourself and start embracing the current version of you so that you can look towards the future version of who you’re becoming.

Old You

You may keep trying to move forward by trying to go back.  You want to go back to when things were simpler, easier, and when you didn’t have to try so hard.  This is the you who hadn’t walked through fire yet.  It’s the version of you who feels effortless compared to what you’ve been through since then.  You may think this previous version of you is the better, more preferable you.  However, you’re just shrinking back into yourself...