3 Reasons Why You Should Be Setting An Intention Everyday

Happy Monday Beautiful!  I hope all is well in your world and that you’ve been enjoying plenty of Pumpkin Spice anything and all the wonderful, rich flavors that Fall time has to offer!  Personally I can pretty much take, or leave the whole pumpkin spice craze.  I know, I might lose friends with that statement, giving that so many folks are down right Pumpkin Spice Junkies, but I just don’t see the big deal.  Sure, its good.  I mean I won’t turn it down, but I surely wasn’t running out buying up all the pumpkin spice everything in September when it first started coming out for the season.  And its not my first choice of coffee, I ain’t hatin though, Just Sayin.  K, we’re going to get off that little tangent and move onto a topic that is a bit more meaningful to you and to me then Fall’s favorite flavor.

That is the sincere importance of setting an intention.
According to Wikipedia, an intention is, “A mental state that represents a commitment to carrying out an action or actions in the future.  Intention involves mental activities such as planning and forethought.”  Before I started living with more intention and before I actually started bringing intention into my daily life I would get disappointed, A lot, at all of the little life situations, scenerios and actions that would happen out of my control.  Not just that, a lot of time I felt like I was walking through life Willy Nilly.  Kinda aimlessly.  Almost like I was letting life happen around me, like I had no control over any part of my life and I was supposed to just go along with everything going on around me and be cool with wherever life took me.  Gosh even just writing this and feeling back into those emotions of helplessness I sure as hell don’t want to go around feeling like I’m wandering around again on auto pilot!  I am so happy to have found a better way!  A way to live the life that I love, in a way that feels passionate, meaningful and purpose driven!  I seriously can’t wait to share it with you sweetness!  Today we’re going to go over 3 simple reasons why You should live an intentional life day by day.  And the why will turn out to be the how in a lot of ways as you’ll see, so lets get to it!

#1. Provides Clarity.
When you walk into a situation or a day with a set goal in mind it makes it easier to keep that very goal in the forefront for your mind and that’s a beautiful thing because, whatever you intentionally focus on in your life will grow!  Focus=Energy=Results.
#2. Helps to Ground You.
Again when you approach a situation or day with no set intention everything could still turn out just fine, but that’s not the case the majority of the time because us humans like to put expectations on people and outcomes.  And even though you didn’t ‘intentionally’ set any type of intention on that day or situation a lot of times you already have an inner expectation of how its going to go and when
it doesn’t go that way you will be left disappointed and maybe even hurt.
 VS. when you take the short amount of quiet time in the morning to set an intention for the day you are setting yourself up for a more relaxed and focused day because you will come to realize the only thing that you can control is how You show up.  We cannot control the actions of others or the outcomes to situations, but we can certainly control how we choose to look at them and deal with them, and that, my beautiful friend is where the magic starts to come into play with this whole ideal of living with intention.
#3. Alleviates Anxiety.
This is so great, this part of setting an intention really surprised me for some reason because I figured if I was just ‘going with the flow’ I’d have less stress and anxiety but for me that turned out to be furthest from the truth.  When I just went with the flow like I was saying before I felt like I was just going through life on auto pilot.  Beacause in essence I wasn’t designing the life of my dreams, I wasn’t getting any closer to my goals.  I wasn’t bringing any type of Real Intention into my life.  So now by taking time each morning for anywhere between 5-20 minutes to feel into what I want out of the day, or what I want to bring to the day, or what kind of goal I am working towards that day it keeps these emotions and goals in the forefront of my mind and that is the intention that I bring with me through the day.  And that alleviates anxiety for me in a really big way because I am in control of how I Show Up.  What I’m bringing to the day VS. letting the day ‘Have its Way’ with me so to speak.
Before I go I want to share with you a situation where I was so insanely grateful to have set up an intention before a trip that Chad and I went on.  We were going to the mountains for a few days just the two of us, we hadn’t been able to do a weekend away just us in a while and I was so excited!  And I had come to the realization that I put the most expectations on him, me, and my daughter.  It can really ruin a day when your busy trying to control someone else, Not Cool.  It sucks but that is my reality.  So by knowing that  I set the  intention before we even left (I wrote it all out on a piece of paper) that I wanted to walk into this weekend with an open heart, love and understanding, non judgement and zero expectations.  None on him, none on me.  You want to know what?  It was literallly one of the Best weekends of my entire life Y’all!  For Real!  The power of setting intentions is No Joke and if your aren’t doing it yet I Urge you to go ahead and Start, Today, Right Now!

It really is as easy as sitting quietly in the morning and focusing in on what you want your intention to be that day.  You can visualize, you can write it down, or you can say it out loud.  Whatever works for you and whatever resonates with you.  For now don’t over think it, just do it and I promise you’ll be so grateful you did!

Remember in your core that you are made of love and light!  The world is ready and waiting for you to shine your brightness onto the rest of us!  Have a great day friends! MUAH!!!

Starter’s Guide To Tuning Into What Your Body Needs

Hi there Friend!  I am so glad to have you here with me today!  This post today is literally a guide for me to keep myself accountable as I am very much a newbie in the realm of surrendering and listening to what exactly my own body needs.  I hope there will be a few nuggets of wisdom or an ‘AHA’ moment you will get from it as well and then we can hold each other accountable in the future.

OK, so I used to be really good at abusing my body.  I would even go as far as to say I was a Pro at it.  It was my norm for many years to completly ignore the signs, signals and symptoms my body would try to whisper, or rather, scream to me.  I learned how to push it past its extreme abilities, I learned how to damn near starve it, I also learned how to poison it with toxic chemicals and drugs and then do it some more until all that was left was a malnourished and dehydrated body.  Another thing I learned was to get angry at my body when it would finally get to a breaking point and inevitably get sick or slow way the hell down.  I felt detached from my body.  I took it completely for granted and I was probably the furthest distance away from tuning into what my body needed then I can even express to you.

Fast forward about 9 years and a complete lifestyle change I have started to learn to look at my body as a blessing.  An invaluable gift.  A gift that deserves to be worshipped, loved, cared for and tuned into.  This took many years of healing in all areas of my life to finally get to this point right here.  To view my body as a precious and delicate gift that deserves the utmost care is not a place I ever would have thought I’d be capable of getting to.  Now when I take a look back on the way that I so easily, without question or hesitation abused my own body I mourn for that girl, the girl that hadn’t learned there was a better way, there was a happier, healthier, more fulfilling and loving way.

I started slow.  For me it started with eating healthier and working out in a healthier manner, meaning, not trying to run my body into the ground every workout, rather adding some yoga in, doing shorter workout sessions.  Taking the time to feel into and tune into how my body feels that day.  Do I feel energetic and strong?  Ok, cool, do HIIT.  Do I feel slow and sluggish?  Not a problem, do some light yoga or, you know what?  Skip a day!  Not a big freaking deal.  You might be reading this and thinking, “Duh, why not skip a day, What’s the big deal?”  Well I used to make it a big deal.  That used to be a big part of the way I used to abuse my body by pushing it harder and harder when really by body was screaming for a rest day.

The next tool I have found to be tremendously helpful on this beautiful journey of tuning into my own bodies needs is to meditate.  Meditation is proven to have major health benefits.  An article written by The Pharmacy Times says, “Meditaion helps mitigate stress by decreasing activity in the sympathetic nervous system, otherwise known as the “fight or flight” response, which is typically responsible for constricting blood vessels and raising blood pressure and the heart rate.”
I literally cannot say enough good about the powerful effects that meditaion can have on your life.  Like it’s just insanely amazing to me how this one simple technique can enhance your life in so many incredible ways!  Meditaion has helped me to get more tuned into all areas of my life, especially my body.  So if you think you simply cannot find the time, life is just too crazy and hectic to add in one more thing, think of it like this, if you devote 10 minutes out of your day every single day for quiet time that is literally only 2% spent out of your day.  And that 2% is you making a declaration the YOU matter!  You matter enough to You that you will devote those 10 divine minutes going inside and tuning into You and Your needs.  Sounds pretty freaking great to me if I do say so myself!

Lastly I do a check in with myself about three times a day.  In the morning I tune in with my body and how its feeling, do I need to skip a workout or get in there and crush it?  Then around lunch time I feel into my body as I eat, am I pretty much inhaling my food or am I enjoying every bite, eating slowly and stopping when I feel full?  Then towards the end of the day I check in with my body I check in with my emotions, how do I feel, how was the day?  Is there anything I could improve on, or is there anything I need to stop and pat myself on the back for?

All of these tools laid out here are a work in progress.  Every single part of this process is something that I strive to improve on, I strive to tune in more and more everyday.  Lawd knows I don’t have it all figured out but I’ll tell you what, the progress I’ve made in my life thus far has been a freaking game changer in the most epic way!  Seriously, that is why I am soooo passionate about sharing with you every week!  It literally lights me up from the inside out!
You Rock!  Tune into your body and show it the love and care that it so rightfully deserves!

Remember in your core that you are made of love and light!  The world is ready and waiting for you to shine your brightness onto the rest of us!  Have a great day friends!  MUAH!!!!

Learn To Surrender

~What is it to surrender?
~Why would we want to surrender and whom do we surrender to?
~What are the benefits of surrendering in any given situation and is surrendering giving up or becoming passive and detached?

These questions right here are the exact thoughts that were popping up in my head when I was first faced with the idea of ‘active surrender.’  As I’ve mentioned here before I am a recovering control freak, its something I still have to be aware of daily.  I had a really hard time learning how to surrender in short because I didn’t even realize or acknowledge the degree of control freak ness I had established in my life.  Hell, I thought I was quite laid back and chill.  I wouldn’t have acknowledged for a second that I had any type of real issue with control.  That right there is the immense power of the mind.  We have the power to create our reality.

The reason I started to become a little more open and receptive to this idea of surrender was because I often would get completely and utterely disappointed and upset when things or situations wouldn’t go the way I planned, imagined or expected.  I would allow these circumstances that I thought I had complete control over ruin my whole entire day or sometimes more if they didn’t go my way.
What the shit?
I’m not the almighty, I don’t have that type of power, so why the hell was I putting that kind of pressure on myself anyhow?

I’ve come to learn my beautiful friend, that surrender is very far from being passive.  In fact the reason some call it active surrender is because surrendering is very much so an act.  It is an act of will and it is an act of faith.  Faith in whatever and whom ever you believe to be a power greater them yourself.  You actively hand over your fears, your control and the entire outcome to the universe, God, Buddha, the pope, Jesus, the trees, Shakti, whomever and whatever is your almighty.

As we go through our own unique journeys of life one thing that we all want more of is love.  We humans can’t get enough of it. It’s what fuels us.  One element that goes hand and hand with love is peace.  When we are at a state of peace in our being we feel love and receive love much more easily.  So to feel peace more frequently in our lives we must learn to surrender that which we cannot control.  The biggest tool that I have found in my everlasting journey of active surrender is to acknowledge the fear that is present in the situation I am trying to control.  Once I simply look at and acknowledge where the fear is coming from I can start to let it go.  I don’t need to berate myself for feeling it and I don’t need to try and change it I must simply look at it with an honest and open heart and then, Surrender.  Choose faith in that moment instead of the fear.  Take the leap, do the thing.  Whatever it is I have the power to be stronger then my fear and So Do You!

“You must learn to let go.  Release the stress.  You were never in control anyway.” ~Steve Maraboli

Remember in your core that you are made of love and light!  The world is ready and waiting for you to shine your brightness onto the rest of us!
Have a great day friends! MUAH!!!

What Do You Think About Yourself?

Good morning darling one, I pray that all is well in your world today!  Before we dive deep into today's topic I wanted to take a moment to let you know how freaking grateful I am that you have taken precious time out of your day to read this post and any of the other posts prior.  You could be doing any number of other important activities in your day and yet here you are, you’ve chosen to give me a few minutes of your time and I am couldn’t be more grateful!  Seriously I do not take this lightly it makes me feel so very honored to have this time with you here.  That is why the beginning of next year I’ll be upgrading my blog site to something a bit more sophisticated and more user friendly.  I know this site has a few bugs and since I claim to be no computer wiz in the slightest I have ran into a few kinks here and there that can be uliminated if we go ahead with a different company.  So when that time comes I will share all the details and we’ll switch on over together!

OK, so you know those times when someone new comes into your life, maybe you get a new co worker, or maybe your sister starts dating someone new and you ask one of your other siblings or seasoned co worker, “What do you think about the new person?”  Usually you judge by this persons vibe, their actions, the way they’re dressed, how they interact with people around them, even how they look.  It usually doesn’t take us too long to size someone new up.
The question I pose here today is, “What do you think about YOURSELF?”  Really take a moment here and think about it.  You can write it down if you’d like.  For me the way I think of myself has come a hell of a long way that’s for sure, I used to think Very Poorly about myself.  I still fight those feelings on a daily basis and I probably always will that is why exercises like this is so important to do because if we don’t draw attention to the way our mind is working and how it is potentially self sabotaging us, we can never make any positive changes to correct it.
So, for instance I think that I am hard working, determined, controlling at times, loving, kind, perfectionist, good listener, manic at times, strong, stubborn and focused, (I’d like to add funny to the list, but the jury is still out.)

Next I want you to think about which of these qualities cause you pain.  Which ones harm you?  Which ones harm others?  Do any of these ‘traits’ seem to get in the way from growing more fully into your highest potential?  The ones that cause me and others pain is the controlling trait, manic and stubborn, also sometimes the funny one, HeHe!
Ok so because I acknowledge that I have the tendency to act controlling what I have practiced doing over the course of about a year now, is simply seeing and acknowledging when that trait pops up.  When I am trying to perfectly curate a chill family outing, or when I am throwing a hissy fit like a damned child because things aren’t going my way that is me trying to control something that I simply cannot control.  It is out of my hands and in order to have any chance of salvaging the day or finding peace I must let go.
When I begin to act manic is when I tend to cause harm to myself.  What will happen is I will start a project and I won’t stop until my body is about to fall over.  Usually I won’t eat, I keep working, keep going, I tell myself I can’t stop, can’t take any breaks until the project is completed and the job is done.  This trait I’ve gotten a pretty good hold on, not that it doesn’t happen at all anymore but I have gotten a lot better about recognizing when I’m slipping into that mindset and I’ll immediately stop and get a glass of water or make some tea and sit down for a snack.  That forces me to take a look at how important this project is and if it’s worth risking my health or not.
Lastly the stubborn trait is a work in progress, lol!  Hey, we’re only human after all!  With this trait my attention now goes to why am I feeling so stubborn at this moment?  Is this an issue of personal boundaries right now or is this just me simply being not willing to bend?  What are my motives?  Are they pure or are they selfish?  I have come to learn that bringing mindfulness to these tendencies are the absolute key to recognizing them and transcending them into more productive states of being and all around a more peaceful state of mind.

Once you start this practice of simply bringing more awareness of your traits that is when you learn how to manipulate them and bring forth more of what makes you good, the traits that bring you joy!  For instance if one of your primary traits is anger instead of ‘allowing’ a situation to anger you to the point where you spiral out of control and damn near black out you can get to a point where you witness the anger, you feel it, you acknowledge it, and then you start to ask yourself, “Is this situation really worth me flying off the handle and ruining my whole day?”  Probably not. If one of your traits is sarcasm that can be funny and great in lots of situations and yet in others can be cruel and rude.  Same thing you can simply be the witness, get to know and become more mindful of your timing and your motives behind the actions.

The coolest part about being the witness and getting to know our primary traits is that once we own them, learn them, witness them and possibly transcend them (if we want to enhance them or add more) we can then choose how to show up, how to use them.  Now I am admittedly not fully there yet.  I’m getting closer and closer everyday.  Some days I’m showing up exactly like I have visualized and all is well!  Other days I let the fact that I got up on the wrong side of the bed rule my world.  Boo.  The more we practice this daily the more we will have control over these traits and emotions and the more we will be in control of what primary trait we decide to run the day.  Days that we spend with our loved ones we might want love, generosity, compassion and good listener run the day.  Days when we’re working to meet a dead line we want our hard working, perfectionist, determined traits running the show.  Ya feel me? It’s simply amazing the power of our mindset, we have been given a super computer in our head, its time we use it to our highest good right!?

Thank you again for taking the time to be here with me today my sweet friend!
Remember in your core that you are made of love and light!  The world is ready and waiting for you to shine your brightness onto the rest of us! Have a wonderful day beautiful!  MUAH!!!

Create Time for Play Every D*** Day

Hey good lookin how you doin?  No seriously I hope you are doing amazing especially after the nasty Hurricane Florence us southeast coast peeps just went through.  Luckily here where I live in SC we got very, very minimal damage, an insanely long week off school and work and a bad case of cabin fever.  Our NC friends weren’t as lucky though, and my prayers are with them as they rebuild, recover and regroup.
Today’s post will be brief and to the point, a quickie if you will, (hehe) yet that doesn’t in any way shape or form negate how serious and important this topic is.  I simply want the purpose of this post to get you thinking a little bit, get your playful and fun time juices flowing again.
OK, so the past week I’ve had a lot on my mind, I had an unplanned week off of work and therefore had lots and lots of time to think.  Normally if I had a planned staycation or even vacation for that matter I would have had mostly all of that time accounted for.  Sure I would leave time here and there for chill time, workout time, meditation time, reading time but to be perfectly honest I am a complete busy body and if I don’t create time to relax I will absolutely stuff that time with chores and, you know adulting stuff.
So since I didn’t have this time accounted for guess what happened?  I freaking played!  I played games with my daughter, I colored, we had a jam out session one night, I read, baked, it was so damn great!  I viewed the time as a gift and I wanted to make the most of every second of it.
Do you make time to just play?
Unfortunately I do not.  My daughter Izabella is 9 years old now and she is hanging outside with friends a lot of time now which is great!  Yet now because she is outside more or with friends more I’ve added more chores or more work into that time free time that I used to spend playing with her, I think because I look at it like I need to use that time ‘wisely’ and I guess my brain views the wisest idea being Adulting.  Boo.
I want to view my time in my everyday life as a gift just like I viewed it from being off one week of work because, isn’t it!?  Isn’t everyday that we wake up on this earth a f***ing gift from God?
Hell ya it is!  I don’t want to squander it filling each and every crevice of free time doing damn chores.  Nope.  Done.  I’m not saying I’m going to allow my household to go to hell in a hand basket, no, I’m proposing something different.
I’m proposing a challenge.
I am going to do a 30 day Play Challenge!
I am going to create 10 minutes dedicated for strictly play in my day for 30 days straight.
And I want you to do it with me!
I’m dead serious and this is what we’ll do,
OK so, play can be whatever you refer to play as.  It could be a jam out session on your way to work rocking out instead of listening to the audio book or podcast.  It could be playing frisbee with your dog, coloring, dancing while you cook, card game, board game, coloring, bubble pop on your phone, tickling someone, being tickled, the possibilities are endless and its literally whatever floats your boat.  The only rule, give it 10 minutes of your undivided attention, that’s it.
At the end of the 30 days I want to know how you feel!  You can Direct Message me by clicking on my Instagram link using the Instagram tab on the right of this page.  If you start tomorrow that means that by October 18 you will have reached your 30 days.  I am super excited to try this experiment with you!  I can’t wait to see the results of what adding consistent play in my life will do!
So I will update you on Monday Oct 22’s blog post on my results!
Let the Play begin!

Remember in your core that you are made of love and light!  The world is ready and waiting for you to shine your brightness onto the rest of us!  Have a great day friends! MUAH!!!

Creating Free Flowing Energy Inside Your Home

                            Good morning and Happy Monday to you beautiful one!
Today I am super excited to introduce you to my new friend and fellow blogger Brittney Graham!  She writes a blog named Divine Independence and it is has a tons of really amazing content that I find to be super interesting and informative!  Not only does her blog rock, she is also a very authentic human and that is definitely what I am drawn to the most about her.  We decided to write a special post for one another’s audience and I couldn’t be more stoked!  At the end of today’s post you will find the links to her blog page and social media, so please show Ma Gurl some love!  Also, you can check me out on her blog, Divine Independence this Thursday where I delve deep about Embracing Your Shadows.
So, without further ado, I give you a special post today written just for you, my sweet friends from Brittney Graham.
Creating Free Flowing Energy Inside Your Home                                                               
                            
Did you know that the way that certain things are placed inside of your home could actually create negative energy? It could even be blocking positive energy from coming into your home as well. Crazy right? The practice of creating life energy that is not disruptive throughout the home is called Feng Shui. Yes, I know we have heard about this so many times, usually when they are making fun of someone practicing it on a tv show.
However, this practice is very real and can be super helpful when it comes to creating a higher vibrational environment in our homes. Beginning Feng Shui can really give you a headache, I know I got one while trying to learn everything at once. I wanted to avoid that for you, so I created a little beginners cheat list below that focuses on each area of the home.
The Kitchen
The kitchen should be an area of our home that is bright and open feeling. This creates a sense of health and prosperity. But some of us have small kitchens so that isn’t fair, right? WRONG! There are tricks that can be done to make a small kitchen feel more open and brighter. Add lights, not just over head, add a plug-in light, or a lamp as well. Also, add a mirror so that the light reflects and creates the sense of more space within the room.
Feng Shui is all about color combinations as well, that being said, it is best to start with white on the kitchen walls. This works out pretty well for those of us that have rental properties and aren’t “supposed” to paint. White represents clarity, decision, and communication. Create a little bit of color pops with small accents throughout the kitchen and BOOM you have an open and bright space!
The Living Room
Or as I like to call it, the Netflix room! Honestly though, I do not know about you, but I spend 90% of my time at home in my living room. Therefore, it was really important to me to get that room whipped into a chi free flowing state! This set of instructions are less basic then that of the kitchen because furniture makes or breaks the flow in this space.
Let's break it down:
• The Sofa: The sofa should be farthest from the front door and against a wall. Be sure to leave a few inches between the sofa and the wall so you do not harm either.  If the space will not allow for you to have a wall behind the sofa, try a long table.
• Chairs: These should be facing the sofa in a way that invites natural conversation.
• Coffee Table: Ideally you want this to be a round piece of furniture that is placed in the center of the room.
• Square or rectangular ottomans and side tables will accent the round coffee table nicely as well!
So what's with all the shapes? Well, circles represent metal, rectangular shapes represent wood, and shapes represent the earth. Bring these all together in harmony within a room, and you can help create balance.
The Bedroom
Okay, I am going to sound a little bit like your parents growing up, but seriously clean your room!
This is the one place in our homes that we should feel the least amount of stress and the most amount of relaxation. How are we going to achieve this when we have yesterday's pizza on the coffee table with the last 15 bottles of water we took out of the fridge?
Exactly.
This is also the perfect time to get rid of things that no longer serve you. If you have not touched it in over a month and it is sitting out in plain view, GET RID OF IT!
Now that we have the mess cleaned up, lets focus on our bed. Is it on the floor? If so, this needs to change ASAP. If the bed is off the floor is there anything underneath it? Nothing should be stored under the bed as it creates an energy build up.
When facing the door in your room, what is in the far right corner? This corner is about what we are inviting into our lives. To be honest, when I first started this, I had a litter box in the far-right corner of my room. So essentially, I was inviting crap into my life according to Feng Shui. Instead, try hanging a clear quartz crystal so that the morning light can cast clear energies throughout the room.
The last note I have for the bedroom is making sure that electronic devices are kept away from your sleeping area. Keep cell phones and laptops off the night stand and keep the tv on the opposite wall of the bed. Of course, it I optimal to not have a tv in the bedroom at all, but I am not saying that you can't have one or that it will create negative energy if you do. I am however saying that electronic energies seriously mess with our own energies. When we sleep we are recharging and it is hard to do that when electronics are messing with us and are close to us.
Now you have a small list of little changes that can be made throughout your home to make the energy free flowing. I just started practicing Feng Shui about a month ago and I can really feel the difference. I can feel how light my kitchen is now when I am cooking breakfast in the morning. I can feel how inviting my living room is to myself and everyone that I invite over. I can actually feel myself decompress when I lay down in my bedroom at night.

Bio:
Brittney Graham is a former property manager who decided that life was more than a corporate office. So, she decided to start Divine Independence, a motivational and empowering blog for everyone. She wants to be able to help those who are having a hard time taking their first step in their inner divine journey.

You can find Brittney Graham and her blog Divine Independence by visiting   www.divineindependence.com
You can also visit Brittney on Instagram by searching Divine Independence

The Importance of Cultivating a Confidence Mindset

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.  Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.  It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.  We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?  Actually, who are you not to be?  You are a child of God.  Your playing small does not serve the world.  There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you.  We are all meant to shine, as children do.  And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.  As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence liberates others.” -Marianne Williamson

Happy Labor Day you cute thang you!  Today I wanted to touch a little bit on the importance of cultivating a confident mindset. Now as I was sorting through various quotes that resonates with me on this subject I stumbled upon the one above written by Marianne Williamson and it completly rocked my world!  This quote took this subject to a whole new level for me.
I wanted to make the point on this subject that yes when we shrink around other people so they won’t feel insecure it not only harms us but it also harms them.  It is acting almost like an inabler because by shrinking and catering to their ‘ego’ you aren’t calling them to access their highest potential nor are you practicing yours.

I am not advocating being arrogant or egotistical in any way shape or form I want to make that clear.  As we evolve and grow I feel it is so important to own our growth, own our power and spread our light.  As we do that we literally give those around us permission to do the exact same thing!
Have you ever been around someone so magnetic, so loving, caring and confident and it seeps onto you?  You start to feel more empowered, more confident, more light.
I know I’ve found that scenario to be true by being around a speaker or someone that I look up to, their energy kick starts my own and I’m left feeling like I can move mountains after just being in their presence!
We can all cultivate that type of energy, that type of light for others!

So as you’re eating your BBQ and celebrating the end of summer today with family and friends I just would like you to contemplate the very wise words of Marianne Williamson.
Who are you not to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, or fabulous?  You playing small does not serve the world.  We are all meant to shine!  You do the world a major disservice when you shrink.  Yet as you shine and rise into your light you become a beacon of joy and you become a magnet for those around you that they can’t help but to be drawn to!

Remember in your core that you are made of love and light!  The world is ready and waiting for you to shine your brightness onto the rest of us!  Have a great Labor Day friends! MUAH!!!