AMY HANSEN

Worrying about the future can consume your thoughts and energy.  You play out all the different scenarios in your mind and worry about each one of them coming to fruition.  But, this is not beneficial to you.  In fact, it’s rather draining and leaves you in negative state of mind.  It’s almost like you’re in fight or flight mode while you are waiting for something bad you foresee to happen.  Living life from this place will only do you more harm than good.  That’s why it’s important to learn how to let go of worrying.

Worry

Worry is a feeling that doesn’t have much benefit.   Think about the last time you worried about something and what that did for you.  Usually nothing.  It only leaves you feeling sad, full of fear and anxious about the future.  This is not the place you want to be.  You want to be happy and full of excitement for the amazing things to come in your future. ...

Sometimes feedback can stop you and hold you back from going after your goals in life.  Someone says something that makes you second guess and question what you’ve been working towards.  Self doubt creeps in and the next thing you know, your goals have fallen to the wayside, never to be achieved.  You cannot let feedback prevent you from achieving your goals and living your dream life.  Use the following four tips to help you receive feedback.

Determine The Source

The first tip in receiving feedback is to determine the source.  Look at who is giving you the feedback.  If it’s someone who has achieved what you are working towards, then this is a reputable source.  This person should have some good insights for you that you can take into consideration.  Your friends and family will also give you feedback.  However, this feedback may be unsolicited.  Their own fears, self doubts, and worries may come out because...

If you want to live life to your full potential one of the key things you can do is focus on getting better each day.  That simply means becoming better than you were yesterday in order to become the best version of yourself.  This daily continuous improvement will help you become your highest self and reach your full potential.  There are a few things you can do to help you become better than you were yesterday.

Go From Novice To Expert

One of the easiest things you can do to become better than you were yesterday is to learn new things.  Find something that you don’t know much about and go from being a novice to an expert.  It’s fun, exciting, and challenging to do things you haven’t yet mastered.  This is what keeps you moving forward in life.  You will have something to work towards that gives your life direction and purpose.  Discover things that you can go from novice to expert at.

Try A New Hobby

Learning...

A lot of times you can feel like you’re just drifting along in life.  Before you know it, you’ve arrived at a destination you didn’t realize.  This sense of drifting along in your comfort zone can feel easy and safe.  But, years down the road you’ll find yourself in a place that you didn’t think you’d ever choose.  Change can be difficult and scary when you step outside your comfort zone.  It’s so much easier to just drift along in the I’m fine coma of life.  However, if you want to live your best, most fulfilling life to your full potential, you’re going to have to step outside your comfort zone and take back control of your life instead of drifting aimlessly through it.  Here are four steps to stop drifting through life.

Acknowledge The Drift

Drifting along in the wrong direction in life happens.  However, you do have the power to stop it.  The first step is to realize that...

The dreaded feeling of time passing you by, feeling like you’ve wasted it, and missed out on so many opportunities.  That feeling is gut wrenching.  That is not the life you want to live.  You want to live life to your full potential and not get to the end with regrets of what could have or should have been.  Here is how you can live life to your full potential.

The Choice

This may be hard to hear but, you can choose your future or it can choose it for you as you float along, aimlessly through life.  The choice is yours.  Think about what you’re okay with.  If you’re okay living a mediocre life, without a clear purpose and direction, then that’s okay.  But, if you really want to live your best life, then you won’t be okay with limiting yourself to living life below anything other than your full potential.  Now is the time to make a choice.

Outside Your Comfort Zone

If you want to live life to...

If you’re fed up with feeling a bit lost and stuck in your current daily routine, then it’s time to take some action.  But, not just any action.  Otherwise, you’ll be taking tons of action on something that isn’t making any progress towards where you really want to be in your life.  Here is a three step process to help you figure out how to get from where you are to where you want to be.

Where You Are

The first step is to figure out where you are.  This is the essential starting place before figuring out where you want to be.  Take a look at your life and do a mental assessment.  Ask yourself how you’re feeling about your career, finances, environment, relationships, etc.  Make note if something feels a bit off or disconnected.  This marks a flag for an area where you need to focus your attention.

Where You Want To Be

Now that you know where you are, the next step is figure out where you want to...

In your life, there are four main zones.  Each zone has a different purpose and way of being.  The key is to acknowledge which zone you’re in so that you can recognize if you’re stuck in a particular zone that is preventing you from achieving your goals and living your dream life.  Here are the four zones of living.

Comfort Zone

You’re probably most familiar with your comfort zone.  This is where you feel the safest.  You know exactly what to expect because you’ve done it all before.  You’re in complete control over what happens when you’re living in this zone.  There is nothing to be scared of.  Yes, this zone may sound warm and comfy, but this is where you really remain stuck in life.  There is no room for growth and to experience new things.  There are no goals to achieve because you are comfy right where you are.  In your comfort zone, you live life on repeat doing the same things...

When you set a goal, you can get really excited about it.  But, while you’re working towards your goal, an obstacle often occurs that causes you falter.  You may keep going or quit all together.  It’s important to recognize the obstacles in your path that are preventing you from achieving your goals.  Here are three obstacles holding you back from achieving your goals and how to over come them.

Acknowledge Your Habits

One obstacle you face on a daily basis is your own personal habits.  You may have a few habits that are keeping you from making progress towards your goals.  Perhaps that’s sleeping in, procrastinating, watching tv, scrolling social media, etc.  Acknowledge the habits that are hindering you.  For a few days, you may need to keep a daily log as to how you’re spending your time.  This will allow you to easily spot the chunks of time you’re wasting on unproductive things.

Replace Your...

In order to achieve your goal, you’re going to have to take action.  Each little step you take will move you closer to your goal.  But, often times these steps can be scary because it’s something you’ve never done before.  If you want something different for your life you’re going to have do something different.  That means stepping outside your comfort zone and doing things that are new to you.  Here is how to take action in spite of fear.

Fearful Action

Start by thinking of three actions related to your goal that scare you.  These are most likely the things that you have been avoiding because you’re too afraid.  Now is the time.  Stop letting fear take over and begin taking action.  It is said to feel the fear and do it anyway.  It’s time to step outside your comfort zone and take action on these tasks.  By doing so, you will not only build confidence in yourself, but also your...

If you’ve set goals in the past and have struggled to achieve them, then part of the problem may be the goal itself.  Sometimes you set the wrong goal.  You start working towards a goal only to realize you’re no longer excited by it or it’s not what you really wanted.  It’s so important to set the right goal that aligns with how you want to feel in life.  These three questions will help you do just that.

What Do You Want?

The first step in goal setting is to get really clear on what exactly it is that you want.  Be specific about it.  Your goal should be more than you want to lose weight.  Add an aspect of measure to your goal.  Such as, you want to lose five pounds by the end of the month.  Make sure that your goal has specificity and can be measured so that anyone will be able to know if you’ve achieved your goal.  This clarity in defining your goal will make it so much easier to know what...