Ground Yourself In Gratitude

Please know that I have moments, and I’m sure you do as well, when I’ll look around me and think, I wish nothing would ever change. Soon the moment will change. Today, I am much more aware of how my actions impact others and how I spend my moments. I clearly understand the value of time, from having nearly lost my life to allergic reactions and at other moments. Be the one with awareness of others and do not become a trampler of other people’s hearts, minds, and souls. Compassion becomes nonexistent when people run roughshod over others to get what they want without practicing conscious ambition. When you practice conscious ambition, you are allowed, of course, to want or need more and get what you want or need, but you go about it with respect for yourself and others around you. May gratitude guide you. You can actually replace gratitude with any uplifting and powerful word. If you need to say it to others, please borrow it and say, May love guide you, May gratitude guide you, and so forth. These are wonderful phrases to give someone some direction with their heart in mind. Have conscious ambition practices rooted within you.

Put One Foot In Front Of The Other

Be aware that we aren’t all the same. We don’t have the same experiences that have brought us to this moment, and we don’t all have the same vibration or energy. We are all different and yet the same in so many ways that bring us together. Others are more aware and some less so, so be conscious of your heart and your time, as well as how you move around the universe with your heart guiding you to be aware of others. Surround yourself with love. As you encounter the souls who haven’t yet learned this, be kind. They will be better for having encountered me. While they may be the biggest jerk you’ve encountered to this moment, when you apply compassion, they are better for having encountered you. As for that moment, perhaps they haven’t experienced what you’ve experienced, and your moment will guide them or change their course. Conscious ambition creates the pause to guide you to make considerate and compassionate choices and behaviors. I’d like to challenge everyone reading this to take a moment to champion others. Another person’s win might be your best day! There is plenty of room for all of us to be happy and succeed.

Being Alive

Herald and compliment others whenever possible. People need to hear it and be reminded. As you do your best to encounter others with kindness, let’s explore how you are encountering your own self. Let’s move the focus back entirely on you. When you are assessing anything, raw honesty is at play. If you aren’t completely honest with yourself and others, well, what’s the point, really? We fear being shamed, blamed, or disliked, or worse, we feel like we don’t align or fit in. Align your heart to you and assess you and only you. What’s happening in my life? Am I feeling stressed or joy? What am I saying to myself? So just what are you saying to yourself? Are you kind to yourself? We must be our own champions. Many times when people arrive with me for coaching, I’ll hear I really don’t care what others think, or I don’t really care about myself. I have heard both of those statements more times than I care to remember! I’ll think to myself, Well, I think you are awesome! In these moments, to help you connect back to yourself, sometimes it requires someone believing in you, maybe even more than you believe in yourself at that moment in time. Another’s assessment of you might be so much better than you think. Going back to encountering others for a moment, know that your assessment of another might brighten that person’s life.

Who Do You Think You're Fooling?

So when you are lost, when you don’t know what exactly to do, or when the answers aren’t clear and things are foggy, please surround yourself with those who know the way. They are your champions and the people who believe in you. And then please, as they are giving you energy, be sure to fill up their emotional bank account with some kindness, appreciation, confidence, and compliments, so that they are not depleted. I’m sure a moment will come when they also need their reserves for their own moments or others’. I’m getting better at this with age, but I still have my moments. I am a former gymnast, and on me, every single pound shows. There just is nowhere for it to go. It’s been a struggle at times. I focus on gratitude and the positives, and my usual approach is to watch my health carefully. In June 2020, I stepped on the scale and nearly fell off it. I said to myself, The cat is on here with me. Well, maybe all three cats are on here. No, maybe my husband put his foot on it and the joke is on me. I stepped off and had a panic moment. It wasn’t pandemic weight gain either. Every part of me knew. I remember thinking to myself that I had let this go far too long and it was going to be impossible to reclaim myself. It was a moment when I nearly folded up Best Ever You, feeling like I was definitely not my best ever anything. Truth and raw honesty here. I cried and felt like I had drifted so far from myself that my body wasn’t going to cooperate to come back to what I feel is normal for me. I told my business partner, Kris, that I was going to take ten to twelve days off and detox from caffeine, sugar, and salt, and to take over while I did this. Even if you are aware of being nice to yourself more often than not, we all have insecurities and unsure moments, especially with as huge a topic as change.