AMY HANSEN

There are many distractions that try and tempt you away from working on achieving your goals.  These are usually the easier, more mundane tasks that don’t move the needle.  In fact, these tasks most likely have nothing to do with helping you to achieve your goals.  Rather, these tasks take you further away.  Learn how you can begin avoiding distractions from your goals.

Challenges

Distractions are ultimately challenges that you must overcome if you want to achieve your goals.  Each challenge tests your resolve, determination, and perseverance.  It’s a way to see how badly you really want to achieve your goal.  It’s up to you to pass the test and avoid these distractions.  However, you can’t always avoid distractions.  An emergency or something important can pop up out of nowhere.  Your challenge is to decide if the distraction is necessary and crucial enough to take priority over your goal.

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Your intuition is your inner knowing.  It’s that gut feeling you have where you’re not quite sure how you know, but you just know.  However, that doesn’t always happen.  Sometimes you’re faced with a difficult decision and you’re just unsure what to do.  You find yourself overthinking and getting wrapped up in all the different possible outcomes.  Yet, this doesn’t help you, it only hurts you.  Find out what you can do when you find yourself overthinking.

Overthinking

Often when you’re faced with a difficult decision, you get into overthinking.  You think about all the worst case scenarios that could maybe happen.  Your attention is on the what if’s which aren’t usually the most positive outcomes.  This creates a bunch of anxiety for you because these different scenarios are outside of your control.  The noise in your mind increases in intensity and volume as you...

There are three archetypes that are holding you back from achieving your goal.  See if you recognize yourself in any of the following three archetypes.  Once you identify one or all that are culprits for you, your newfound awareness will help you remedy these self-sabotaging archetypes so that you can take action and achieve your goal.

Procrastinator

The first archetype is procrastination.  Underneath procrastination is this belief that you can’t actually achieve what you truly want.  Therefore, you procrastinate.  You put off working on existing action items that you know you should be completing.  You leave unfinished tasks on your to do list until another day when you might feel like it.  Although, you never feel like completing it.  You’re self-sabotaging by procrastinating.  This only creates more stress, worry, and sadness within you as your goal remains unachieved.  Take notice of when you’re...

You’re either still making progress towards your goals and going full steam ahead or you’ve already fallen off track.  There are many reasons why you give up on your goals.  But, you might be self sabotaging your success and you don’t even know it.  Self sabotage happens when you’re unclear of your goal, you’re not taking action, you’re comparing yourself to others, or you’re easily distracted by new shiny objects.  None of these things will help you get to where you want to go.  Let’s take a look at how you are self sabotaging your success.

Clear Vision

The first thing you need to do is to make sure you are completely clear on your vision.  Know where you’re headed and what you’re working to achieve.  Get really specific about the goal you want to achieve.  If you don’t know where you’re going then it’s going to be difficult to figure out how to get there.

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Your lack of clarity is holding you back from achieving your goals.  If you don’t know what you want, then you won’t know where you’re headed.  This blurry vision for your future is only keeping you stuck.  You may have a bit of an idea of what you want your future to look like, but you’re not entirely clear on what you want to achieve.  This creates confusion and chaos as you waste time jumping from one idea to the next.  It’s time to get specific about what exactly it is that you want to achieve.  Here is how to create clarity on your goals.

Dream

First, give yourself permission to dream big for a moment.  Think about what you want to achieve, experience, and feel in the future.  There is no limit to what you can achieve in your dreams.  Allow yourself to explore the possibilities.  Take time to really visualize your future either one month, one year, or even five years from now.  Envision...

It’s the start of a new year and it’s almost like a blank slate.  You have the power to make things happen this year.  It’s time to get clear on what exactly that is for you.  If you continue doing the exact same things as you’ve always done, another year will pass by without any change.  You’ll reach the end of the year and look back with only more of the same things.  But, learning, growing, and evolving is a huge part of life.  Embrace change and get excited about the new things coming this year.  Let’s figure out what you want in the new year.

What You Want

The first step is to visualize yourself at the end of this year looking back on what you have achieved.  Looking back, do you see more of the same or did you step outside your comfort zone and push yourself to finally go after some big goals this year?  Think about what you want to see happen this year.  Write down the places you...

As this year comes to an end, it’s time to release this year so that you can fully step into the new year ready and excited for what’s to come.  This year may not have been what you had hoped.  But, there is still hope for next year.  You cannot carry any negative feelings with you into the new year.  Learn how releasing this year will enable you to receive more positivity, success, and happiness in the new year.

Lessons Learned

For this year, what’s done is done.  You can’t go back and change it.  You can only learn and move forward from here.  Let go of the sadness and disappointments from this year.  Do not carry those with you into the new year.  Thank each one for showing up in your life, no matter how difficult.  Realize that you have come out stronger because of each challenging moment.  Then, let each one go.  You cannot continue to carry this dark cloud and heavy baggage with you...

Now is the perfect time to take a moment reflecting over this year.  It may have been a crazy, hectic year for you.  It may not have gone exactly as you had planned but here you are!  Reflecting over this year will help you to set yourself up for success in the new year.  Here are four steps to help you with your reflection process.

Goals

Begin your reflection process by remembering the goals you set for yourself this year.  Take a look at how you did and what progress you made towards your goals.  Maybe you’ve fallen off track or perhaps you’ve crushed it this year.  Think about what worked and what didn’t.  Focus on doing more of what worked and leaving behind what didn’t this year.

Joy

Next, ask yourself what you’re most proud of this year.  This could be a major accomplishment or successfully navigating a challenging situation.  Perhaps it was even just spending time with family and...

As the year winds down, it’s time to take a deeper look at where you are and where you want to be.  Be honest with yourself if you’re just floating through life’s daily motions or if you gave it your all and tried your hardest to achieve your goals this year.  If you’re patting yourself on the back for a job well done, then celebrate that success.  If you’re not quite where you’d like to be then use the following three questions to help you set yourself up for an incredible new year.  These questions can also be used if you’re ending this year on a high and you’re ready to crush next year’s goals too.  Use these three important life changing questions dive deeper into realizing what you truly want to make happen in your life.

Experiences

The first question to ask yourself is, what do you want to experience in your life?  You’re here to have a human experience so decide what you want...

It’s time to take back your personal power to achieve your goals and dreams in life.  Personal power is not necessarily coming from a place of authority.  Rather, it’s your inner self-esteem and confidence.  It is defined as being more of an attitude or state of mind.  When you think and act from a place of personal power, you’re stepping into the truest version of yourself.

Confidence

When you have personal power, you’re confident in your decisions.  You’re not looking to someone else for acceptance or approval.  You’re not seeking advice or feedback on what to do next before you take action.  You strongly believe that you’ll be able to figure it out as you go.  Even if you make a mistake or misstep, you know you’ll learn from it and be able to move forward to make a more informed decision.  Personal power gives you a sense of confidence you wouldn’t otherwise have.

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