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In the beginning of any journey towards a goal, it’s easy to be motivated. But along the way you might lose your inspiration to continue. The best way to get through it is to find inspiring ways to motivate yourself.

In our last post, we discussed inspirational ideas to create motivation for enduring perseverance to attain your goals.  In this post, we will examine 5 additional ideas — that gives you a total of 10! — to provide inspiration to achieve your goals:

6. Do something fun that falls in line with your goal. If you are writing a novel, then take time to write a short story for a break or visit the place your book is set in.

7. Take a class or follow a tutorial on something new that pertains to your goal.

8. Create an inspiration board or notebook. You can use Pinterest for this or good old-fashioned paper and images. Find images online or in magazines of what you want your success to look like. If you are trying to lose weight, find images of healthy foods, exercises you want to try, new sports you want to learn, the clothes you will wear.

9. Fantasize about Read more

Often we lose our inspiration to follow through on reaching a goal. There are many reasons why this happens. It could be the boring steps you have to take or it’s difficult to change the behavior you need to.

Here are 5 great ideas for inspiration when you need to boost your motivation:

1. Read inspiring stories on blogs, in magazines or books about others who have achieved the same goal you are seeking. Or watch motivational video or audio courses from top motivation coaches.

2. Your environment consists of inspirational people and things. Seek out those who are doing Read more

Having a goal you are reaching for is how you achieve what you want. The problem is often staying motivated, though. Sometimes you need help, but when should you ask for it?

Achieving a goal or changing a behavior is a big undertaking, and you need support more than ever. Even if you have a close support system, they may not be confident in helping you in something they haven’t done themselves.

The time to ask for help is when:
• You’re stuck. You may have reached a point in your road when you don’t know what step to take next. This is a great time to ask a Life Coach or mentor for help in determining what you should do. They can help you figure out the next several steps you should be taking to reach your goal.

• You fail. Read more

Dealing with depression can make people feel like their world is ending. Taking medications may be something you prefer not to do.

Tips to Reduce Depression:

Avoid consuming too many products with artificial sweeteners when trying to overcome depression. Artificial sweeteners can cause insomnia and headaches, which are two things that depression itself causes. In addition, they block serotonin from being produced. It is important to remove these items from your diet, and avoid consuming them.

You can start to overcome your depression by deciding to help others. When you lend others a hand, your mind is so occupied with positive thoughts of how you can support them that you don’t have time to dwell on negative thoughts, feelings, or emotions.

TIP! Keeping up a consistent exercise routine can be a great way to offset depression in your life. Exercise and activity is a proven way to deal with the effects of depression.

Even though Read more

Stay in the present.  To better enhance you relationship, focus on what is happening right now.  Stop bringing up the past!

Once you have discussed a problem and resolved it, exercise care to leave it in the past.  Resolve with your partner to not bring it up again.

If it happens again, obviously, you must discuss it again. If the same problem keeps coming up over and over, this means one of two things —
* either it really was never resolved or
* one of you did not keep your prior agreement

Keeping agreements is one of the most important factors in good communication. In this case you might want to try an “I” statement such as, “1 feel disrespected (disappointed, disregarded, etc.) when you don’t keep your agreements. Let’s figure out what we can do to resolve this so it doesn’t keep coming up.” If your mate is unable or unwilling to keep his/her agreements, relationship counseling or coaching would be very helpful.

To learn more about relationship mistakes … and how to handle them, click here or go to http://thelifecoachdr.com/magazine_3.pdf

For relationship success, it is extremely important to be straight-forward and honest about who you are, what you want, and what you expect. You need to be able to let your mate know what your needs, desires, thoughts, and feelings are. Dishonesty — and lack of disclosure — is a huge mistake.  For creating a healthy, long-lasting relationship, dishonesty is not OK.

Masking your desires is not being considerate.  Be careful not to confuse yourself about this.  Your partner cannot work with you on accomplishing your desires and sensitivity to your feelings if s/he does not know what those desires and feelings are.

One reason it is important for you to be clear and honest is that it gives both of you an opportunity to assess whether or not you are going to be a good match. You need to know this as soon as possible. Another reason it is important to be honest and clear with your partner is that people respect bold, honest, straight talk.

At the same time, exercise care not to go on and on explaining why you want what you want. Keep it light and simple.

Also, when you are not being direct and Read more

The New Year has just begun.  Let’s say that one of your New Years resolutions is to improve your primary love relationship.  This is a lofty goal which might encompass any number of different approaches.  What can you do — specifically — to follow through with this resolve?

One of the most beneficial elements you can undertake to better your relationship is to improve communication.  Communication is essential to your relationship’s health and well-being.  Good communication can help deepen the intimacy and loving bonds in your relationship.

To improve communication with your partner, you might choose to do 1 thing each day to better communicate with your partner.

What might you choose to do?

The five key components of good communication are —
1) Stay calm and objective;
2) Listen and understand;
3) Be honest about Read more

For flowers that bloom about our feet;
For tender grass, so fresh, so sweet;
For song of bird, and hum of bee;

For all things fair we hear or see,
Father in heaven, we thank Thee!
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Gratitude is a state of mind and heart.  What we focus on, expands and increases.  Since this is the case, focusing on giving thanks for the blessings in our lives keeps us in the dual energies of feeling blessed and mindful of abundance.

This is the PERFECT energy for more blessings to occur!

To build on this experience,
* take a few minutes and pay attention to the positive elements in your life
* write down the key positive elements
* allow the feeling of abundance to fill you … and to spill out around you, wrapping you up safely and securely

Gratitude allows you to bring MORE into your life!  Read more

“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”  — Confucius

Consider how much better your life could be if you delighted in arising and getting on your way out the door each morning.  Imagine how much you — and all those around you — might benefit by you being excited about your life.

Here are some tips to use to find your way to PASSION in your daily life:

1. Make a List of What You Love Most:  What do you get really excited about? Is it some element of your job?  Is it volunteer work that allows you to provide service? Is it a hobby that you really love?  Really thing about this … and, then, write of list of each item that you discover.
2. Make Additions to Your List:  What do you fantasize about?  Going back to school? Changing professions? Being a Big Brother/Big Sister? Use these items to add to your list (from #1).
3. Read and Study:  Do some research. Pick the most exciting option from your list and look into it. Talk to some people that are already doing it.
4. Try It Out:  See if it truly “fits” you.  Shadow a professional. Get additional practical experience.
5. Key Question:  “Is this something I would like to do every day?”

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When you leave home each day, do you KNOW what will occur as the day progresses? If you are like most of us, you remain attuned to the workings of your day … then, respond — hopefully, in a beneficial way — to each event that occurs!

The truth is that you do NOT know what will occur around you … at any given moment of the day or night.  What you CAN know — and the script that you are able, and responsible, to write is how you elect to respond to the events that occur.

For example, when you leave your home, you do not know whether the first traffic signal you will reach will be red or green.  Even something that basic is an unknown!

So, why aren’t you FILLED with apprehension and uncertainty as you begin the day?  You aren’t apprehensive because you have an approach- strategy.  You know how you will respond when you get to that first traffic light.  Namely, if the traffic light is red in your direction, you will stop and wait until it turns green.  If the traffic light is green in your direction, you will proceed cautiously through the intersection.

Armed with your strategy, you can easily handle any possible traffic-light eventuality that arises.  There is no dilemma, just a clear Plan of Action!

So, too, with other, not-so- Read more

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