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Taking Stock of Your Life

1/31/2021

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As we step through the doorway from one year to the next, it’s natural to look back and ahead. But this year, instead of just reflecting on the past year or making New Year’s resolutions, consider using this first part of the year to take stock of your life.

Who are you? What do you believe? What do you really need?

When we discover who we really are, we stop living on auto-pilot and start to live with intention, focus and purpose. Our choices become clearer. We begin to make active choices in our life, instead of making excuses or passively living with the status quo.

Here are a few questions to get you started. Have a journal or some way to record your thoughts. (Writing by hand keeps you in touch with your breath and your heart.)

• What is aching to be expressed?
• What needs healing
• What unique gifts, talents and skills do you bring to the world? How are you using them (or not)?
• Who do you need to forgive? How about yourself?
• What beliefs are holding you back or getting in your way?
• What can you let go of in your life?
• What makes you happy?

Don’t forget to consider the vital information that other “parts” of yourself are giving you. When you use only your head, your experience of yourself and the world is more limited.

• What is your body telling you? When someone yells at you, does your stomach tie up in knots? Do your shoulders stiffen when you’ve been too focused on fulfilling others’ needs and ignoring your own? Notice the messages your body is giving you.

• Check in with your heart. The heart is the home of what is most alive in us. What does your heart have to say about your job? About how you spend your days? Does it need more play time? What, according to your heart, really matters?

• Listen to your intuition, your “gut.” Your intuition speaks volumes, but often gets ignored. What is this voice saying now?

Don’t forget to notice what you already have that is working. Acknowledge and give thanks for the gifts and the beauty and the miracles that are in your life right now. Write them down.

Tell the truth. Now is the time to start being honest about who you really are. Encouraging those unlived parts of ourselves to emerge can provide an exhilarating sense of discovery and optimism for the new year and beyond.

Wishing you a golden week,

Charise

Author’s content used under license, © 2008 Claire Communications

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Resilience

6/21/2020

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There are many key components for getting along in this life. Life, as we know it, has its ups and downs. During the ups we are flying high and soaring. But, what about the downs? How do we rebound from the curve balls that life throws at us? In one word. Resi

Resilience is defined by the Merriam-Webster as “the ability to become strong, healthy, or successful again after something bad happens.” Guess what? Every one of us possess this power of resilience. The pace of rebounding from a setback may look different for us individually, but we can all rebound. There are some occurrences that will leave us feeling unsure of how to bounce back after an awful experience. Now, you will not view every bad experience the same. However, there will be actions or events that will have you wondering how exactly will you return to a space of wholeness again. Try using the following tidbits as a guide.

1. Get the Lesson: Whatever you are going through you are to glean a lesson from the experience. Perhaps you need to change your attitude or disconnect from a relationship.

2. Develop your Tenacity: This is your persistence and the fighter in you. Most of us know that we instinctively have a fight or flight response. There will be moments where you have no choice, but to fight. Use this fighter in you to build up your character.

3. Things Will Get Better: You have to know this for yourself. The optimistic view is that if you are already feeling at your lowest, things can only go up from here.

4. Reflection: After you dance with your varying emotions, set them aside, and look deeply into the matter. Are you able to see your role in the matter? Were any signs present that you ignored of shirked aside? This is also a key moment to not allow bitterness to build up.

5. Resolve: Resolve that you will bounce back better than you were before the event. This may not occur overnight and you may go through some other transitional phases, but you can and will be stronger once you get out of the trenches.

Remember, everything in its due time and season, but be encouraged to stay strong to the best of your capabilities until life is once again golden for you.

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Living Unfearfully

6/7/2020

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Let’s jump right in. To begin, living unfearfully is not indicative of not heeding warnings. Fear is a beneficial and life sustaining mechanism. It is there to alert you of danger. To that end, there are those that allow fear to reign in their life, in affect allowing it to become a paralyzing condition. Truth be told, fear simply vibes off our own energy. While it is there to offer us protection, it is not savvy enough to discern between a real threat and nervousness.

What is it about fear that allows it to have such a stronghold in our lives.? Fear of failure. Fear of success. Fear of the unknown. Fear of the known. There is not a rule that exists that indicates we only get one win in life. You can have as many wins as you want, if you are willing to put in the work. Learn to shift your focus from what can go wrong to what can go right. In fact, learn to dismiss the concept of this idea of wrong. Everything is an opportunity to learn and grow – a lesson for your overall improvement.

Below are some steps to take to begin moving towards living unfearfully.

Exploration. Be willing to try something different. A new way of doing things. Something that challenges you and the status quo on something.
Give fear a name. Yes, you read that correctly…give your fear a name. Personalize it because it is not going anywhere. Remember, it does serve a purpose. Make fear your friend, not your foe.
Check it. Tell your fear when it’s protection is not required. Make it go have a seat while you work to unlock areas of unexplored potential.

To embrace the concept fully, we must learn to live a life with unabashed courage, throwing caution to the wind, and live unfearfully to achieve our big vision picture for our lives. This may not come to your overnight but continue to work at it and see how things begin to take shape in your life.

Wishing you a golden week,

Charise

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