Purely Nourished

Through­out life we are faced with many uncom­fort­able and unfa­vor­able expe­ri­ences. It is what we do with those sit­u­a­tions that make us stronger. Every day we are given the choice to be strong, suck it up, and work past our dif­fi­cul­ties. Unfor­tu­nately many times we break under the pres­sure, we become lost and find our­selves search­ing for sat­is­fac­tion in all the wrong places, walk­ing all over peo­ple and hurt­ing the peo­ple that mean the most. We make up lit­tle white lies to make our­selves believe we are still in control.

How do we stay strong, cen­tered and push through these road blocks? and How do we move for­ward and learn from our expe­ri­ences and save our­selves the regrets? Remind your­self that there is a way out and it doesn’t have to be messy.  Hold­ing fast to the expe­ri­ence with­out dis­tract­ing your­self will ease the pain. Ini­tially you may feel uneasy but full aware­ness of the expe­ri­ence  will allow you to deal with your ten­sion. Fil­ing the expe­ri­ence in the back of your mind will only make it more dif­fi­cult to make amends with in the future.

Ini­tially it’s ben­e­fi­cial to find time and space for your­self. Take time to write in a jour­nal or sit alone and find peace in your medi­a­tion. It’s amaz­ing what ten min­utes of silence with your­self can do for you. It can teach you where the dis­com­fort is emerg­ing from, how to approach it, and the con­fi­dence to move on. Exer­cis­ing is another way to work past the dis­com­fort. Releas­ing endor­phins will imme­di­ately lighten your mood and give you more moti­va­tion to move past bar­ri­ers. Tak­ing time to dis­cover what you want to hap­pen with the sit­u­a­tion, as well as what the sit­u­a­tion is try­ing to teach you is what will make the process more favorable.

Have you ever been in an unfa­vor­able sit­u­a­tion where you wanted to react imme­di­ately but instead took a few min­utes to think it through. Remem­ber how much more ratio­nal your reac­tion became? Just sit­ting for 3 min­utes can make all the dif­fer­ence in your abil­ity to prop­erly access a situation.

Life will throw you a wealth of expe­ri­ences, any­thing from: a lost job, a dis­agree­ment with a good friend, or an end to some­thing you may thought was a “sure thing”. You must con­sciously choose how you will first observe and then over­come any expe­ri­ence big or small that you must face.

Real­ize that “This too shall pass.” and know that you are in charge of how you live your life as well as how you feel. No one can make you feel unwor­thy with­out your own con­sent. So take a step back and real­ize when life throws you lemons you are more than capa­ble of mak­ing lemonade! :)

We have made it, 2010!! What does that mean? A fresh start to live the life you’ve always imag­ined. It means set­ting new goals and stick­ing to them. What have you always wanted to accom­plish? It’s time to make that dream a real­ity. Let go of all those neg­a­tive thoughts and feel­ings and know that you are capa­ble of any­thing you put your mind to.

Well lets get to it. Grab a pen and paper and start brain storming.

What do you hope to accom­plish in your life? What kind of things get you teem­ing with excite­ment at the thought of accom­plish­ing? Jot those things down! What moti­vates you? Is there some­thing or some­one that inspires you? What do you want out of your career? How about your health? What about for you and you alone? Do you want to take up bal­let or paint­ing? Great! Now lets try to find out more about what you want out of life in a spe­cific time frame. What do you see your­self doing in the next 10 years? In 5 Years. In a year? What about for the next six months. Ok. Great!

Take a deep breath.

Have you dis­cov­ered any­thing you hadn’t real­ized before? Now we are going to come up with spe­cific sim­ple goals to help you attain your life goals. These mini goals should be spe­cific, mea­sur­able, achiev­able, rel­e­vant and have an appro­pri­ate time frame.

Spe­cific: Who, what, when, where, why? Answer all of these ques­tions when you set your goal.

Mea­sur­able: Is there a way to mea­sure progress?

Achiev­able: Is your goal realistic?

Rel­e­vant: Decide if this goal will impact the desired result. Will it help you accom­plish your greater life goals?

Time-Frame: Decide a tie frame to com­plete this goal. Make sure that the time frame is realistic.

Jot down a descrip­tion of your goal and it’s objec­tive. Then decide how you will mea­sure the goal. (use quan­ti­ta­tive mea­sures) And last decide how impor­tant the spe­cific goal is. Repeat this process until you have writ­ten down every­thing that is nec­es­sary to accom­plish your greater life goals. Now put these goals in order of importance.

Trans­fer these goals to a more pol­ished ver­sion. Maybe type it up. Do some doo­dling to dec­o­rate. Does it look like some­thing that will be moti­vat­ing when you look at it? Great!

Post it some­where where you will see it often. Your bath­room mir­ror, fridge, or make it tiny and put it in your wallet.

Maybe set­ting goals is not a prob­lem of yours though. Maybe you’ve set hun­dreds of thou­sands of goals. Prob­lem is you have a hard time fol­low­ing through. No wor­ries. I am here to share some tips to not only keep those goals but to reach them. Isn’t that the point of set­ting goals in the first place?

Pos­i­tive Think­ing: “Whether you think you can or that you can’t, you are usu­ally right. Believe in your­self. Envi­sion your­self as the com­pleted goal. What does your life look like? By focus­ing on pos­i­tive thoughts you will bring more good into your life. Where you focus your atten­tion, your thoughts will follow.

Check in with your­self and your goals every cou­ple of days. That can be as sim­ple as glanc­ing over your list. Keep those goals at the fore­front of your mind.

Take step-by-step actions towards your goals. Do one thing a day to bring you closer to accom­plish­ing your goals.

Trust your­self and your abil­i­ties. You have so much to offer!

Be Flex­i­ble. Let’s face it; Inter­ests change, sit­u­a­tions in life change, you change. It is ok to make adjust­ments to your goals every once in a while. Hav­ing flex­i­bil­ity allows you to bend and sway with obsta­cles and recover quick to what you set out to do.

Well there you are. You are 10 steps closer to achiev­ing your life goals. Remem­ber you can do any­thing you put your mind to!

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