AMY HANSEN

There are so many decisions you have to make on a daily basis.  You can’t expect every single one of them to be all correct or perfect.  You just have to make the best decisions with where you’re at and what information you currently have.  The biggest struggle is making a decision from your head or your heart and having to change directions when you realize you’ve made a wrong decision.

Major And Minor Decisions

Some decisions in life are small like what to have for dinner, while others are major life decisions that can change the trajectory of your life.  Such as, a new job, moving, or getting married.  Making a poor choice with a small decision is easier to bounce back from.  For example, you can choose to eat a healthier meal the next time around.  Major life decisions take more work and you can easily become stuck in analysis paralysis.  This can prevent you from ever making a decision in the first place because you’re worried you’ll choose incorrectly.  You just sit there...

Making decisions is constant part of life.  It is estimated that you make over 35,000 decisions each day.  That can feel overwhelming at times and you might even shut down saying you’ve made enough decisions for the day.  But, you’ll have to make a decision.  Perhaps you struggle to make sure it’s the “right” decision or wonder if something else would be better.  Making decisions will always be there.  You can decide to stay where you are or go after your goals and dreams in life.

Trust

Making decisions is not easy.  You may play it out like a chess game in your head, thinking if you do this and then this happens to try to plan out the best moves to make.  You want to see what’s coming.  Yet, you can only see so far ahead.  Sometimes you just have to take the leap and trust that you’ll be able to figure it out.  In fact, you’ve figured it out this far in life.  You’ll just have to keep making decisions to move forward and trust that you’ll get to where you need to go.

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If you fast forward into the future to your 90 year old self, would you regret not going after your goals and dreams in life?  There are so many unrealized goals and dreams that are never achieved because of fear.  The fear of making a mistake, getting it wrong, looking silly, needing more expertise, not being the right time, etc.  It’s almost as if you believe that there will be a light bulb that goes off saying now is the perfect opportunity for you to go after your goals and dreams.  Yet, that never happens.  Instead, your goals and dreams fall to the back burner and just collect dust.  However, you can turn your dreams into reality by overcoming the limiting beliefs that are holding you back and keeping you stuck.

Journal Your Goals And Dreams

The first step is to journal all of your thoughts about your goals and dreams.  Think about everything you want to achieve in your lifetime.  Don’t sensor yourself and put limitations on your goals and dreams.  Give yourself permissio...

If you’ve found yourself on a constant hamster wheel of doing the same thing, then it’s time to make some changes.  It’s for your own good.  You can’t keep doing the same things you’ve always done and expect a different result.  That is the definition of insanity.  If you want to achieve big goals and dreams in your life then you’re going to have to do some things differently.  Otherwise, you would have achieved all your goals and dreams already.  To live life to your full potential, you have to have the willingness to create change within you, no matter how difficult that is.

Comfort Zone

Stepping outside your comfort zone and doing things that you’ve never done before can be scary.  But, that’s the only way you’re going to achieve your goals and dreams.  It’s the game of life and you’re playing to win!  You want to experience amazing things in your lifetime but you’re holding yourself back.  You’re afraid of change and everything that’s outside the safety of your comfort zone...

Remaining in your comfort zone feels safe.  There is so much discomfort of the unknown.  You think of the worst case scenario from that one time something bad happened when you stepped outside of your comfort zone.  You just want to protect yourself.  Your brain reminds you of previous traumatic events that leave you feeling scared, terrified, and paralyzed to step outside your comfort zone.  But, there is a clear sign of when you’re ready to step outside your comfort zone.

Familiarity

You hold yourself back from the going after your goals and dreams in life.  All because you’re programmed to seek what you already know.  You’re constantly trying to find what you’re most used to.  You’re guided by the comfort of staying close to what feels familiar and safe.  You reject what doesn’t, even if it is possibility better for you in the long run. 

Control

It’s natural to experience resistance to something unknown because it’s ultimately a loss of what you can control.  Your comfo...

Setting a goal is outside your normal comfort zone.  A goal pushes you and challenges you to stretch yourself.  You have to do things that you’ve never done before.  Otherwise, you would have achieved this goal already.  All of these new things are scary because it’s outside your comfort zone.  Your comfort zone is meant to keep you safe.  That’s why you keep returning to your comfort zone any time you face a challenge or get scared. 

Fear Of The Unknown

Stepping outside your comfort zone is scary.  There is so much unknown out there.  Your comfort zone is meant to keep you safe.  But, remaining there means you don’t push yourself to fully experience all that life has to offer.  Instead, you’re paralyzed by fear.  Maybe you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone before and you’ve failed, made a mistake, did something embarrassing, etc.  These past experiences don’t make stepping outside your comfort zone any easier.  In fact, it’s more challenging.  You can’t allow these past exp...

Your negative inner critic often tells you all the fears, worries, and doubts that keep you paralyzed from taking action towards your goal.  Yet, if you truly want to experience life, you must learn to have the courage to quiet your inner critic and take action anyway.  Your goals and dreams won’t wait forever.  It’s time to overcome that negative inner critic that’s been holding you back so that you can go after your goals and dreams in life!

Finding Balance

You can’t expect to achieve your goals and dreams if you never actually go after what you truly want in life.  The key is to find a balance between consciously thinking something through and following your heart.  In both cases, you have to watch for your inner critic.  Start with a blank piece of paper and draw a line down the middle.  Write down the pros of your goal on one side and the cons on the other side.  If you realize most of the cons are based in fear from your inner critic, then you know it’s time to embrace yo...

Your childhood dreams are often vastly different than the dreams you have as an adult.  This is mostly based on how much life experience you’ve had.  As a child, the world is full of possibility and anything can happen.  As an adult, your scope becomes far more limited because of past failures, missteps, or what other people have told you.  You’ve been conditioned to believe that you need to be more realistic with your goals and dreams.  You start to think that you can’t achieve anything you want.  However, this dream has been placed on your heart for a reason.  It’s time to go after your goals and dreams in life rather than keeping each one bottled up inside of you, never to be achieved.  Here is how to avoid limiting your dreams.

Childhood

As a child, you go after your goals and dreams without much fear.  You don’t have previous experiences telling you all the reasons why you shouldn’t.  Instead, you’re curious enough to give it a shot.  You take the leap and figure that the ...

Integrity is a powerful word.  To be in integrity with yourself means you do what you say you’re going to do.  This is especially important when you’re working towards achieving your goal.  If you say you’re going to do something, then do it!  Otherwise, you’ll find yourself feeling down, upset, and not taking action to achieve your goal.  Here is how you can use integrity to achieve your goal.

Committed

Being in integrity helps you to stay committed to your goal.  You consistently take action towards your goal and make accomplishing those tasks a non negotiable.  When you’re in integrity, you’re less likely to be swayed by temptations and distractions that hinder your progress.  You follow through and get the tasks completed no matter what.  Even when you face a challenge or obstacle, you remain committed to your goal.  You keep going and don’t give up.  Being in integrity holds you to a higher standard.  You’re committed to doing the work to achieve your goal because that’s w...

Often times when you’re working to achieve your goal you’ll lose motivation.  You’ll quickly lose steam to push forward and keep going.  Motivation comes and goes.  You can’t rely on it to achieve your goal.  But, what you can rely on is discipline.  The discipline within yourself to take the actions necessary to achieve your goal.  Here is how having discipline will help you to achieve your goal.

What Is Discipline?

Discipline is staying committed to your goal no matter what.  When you have discipline, you take the action to achieve your goal anyway.  You do the tough work, even when you don’t want to.  Sure, other things may sound more fun and exciting but you know you have to complete the task to achieve your goal above all else.  Working towards your goal becomes a non negotiable for you when you have discipline.

No Excuses

Having the discipline to achieve your goal is not easy.  It takes dedication and hard work.  But, in the end, discipline makes you stronger.  You h...