‘Pragmatic Optimism’ is knowing that everything will be ok while we follow the recommendations made by authorities, showing good citizenship, being socially responsible and staying at home. 🦋
Everything is going to be alright. Intuitively, we know this. We also know that we are strong, powerful and resilient.
Globally, we know that the pandemic will flatten, the dust will settle and we will return to normal, a slightly altered normal but normal nevertheless.
Let us remember…
That cool heads prevail, to discern the facts from the drama. To be informed but to stop news binging. To talk ourselves down from our anxiety by disproving our fear based inner dialogue with actual facts.
And …
To breath deeply, to reduce our anxiety quickly and naturally.
To journal about our thoughts and feelings with pen and paper.
Review our options.
To think creatively.
Act responsibly, follow the rules laid out by our government and medical officials.
Focus our attention on daily random acts of kindness, ours and others.
Fear is normal, leverage it, get proactive, creative and productive.
Also …
Clean, organize and purge your home, car, office, electronic files ….
Start that creative project you’ve been thinking about.
Learn something new, read watch a documentary or e-learning …
Go for walks in the park. Play with your children. Jog. Meditate. Workout …
Reach out with a helping hand to the vulnerable and frail in your community.
Mend those fences, forgive and make peace.
Watch or listen to comedy! Dance! Listen to nature sounds, meditative music and your favourite bands, musicians.
Engage …
This is our time to govern our thoughts and feelings, open our heart and reach out to others with a helping hand and kindness.
If there was ever a time to have an immersive self-empowerment experience it’s now. Consciously, let us embody our authentic power and move forward with our innate creative power.
You are not alone, we are in this crisis together …
If you have positive, empowering, proactive, or pragmatic thoughts and recommendations to share, please comment below. 🦋
How might your life be different if you decided to stop tolerating or suffering your own thoughts, void of clarity, confidence and courage.
How would your life be different if you dared yourself to move out of your comfort zone, tackled your fears and gave your self permission to live a more authentic version of whom you are?
Mmmm, imagine the joy, freedom, expansiveness, passion, aliveness, you would feel if you dared yourself to experience the life which is in your heart.
What are three things you can do today to start moving in the direction of your dreams? 🦋
Challenges are significant opportunities waiting to be enlivened. Appreciative inquiry, attentiveness and proactivity can alchemize our challenges into golden moments of good fortune.🦋
A toxic person is usually characterized as being insecure, self-centred, jealous, manipulative, domineering and controlling.
How do you know if you are in relationship with a toxic person? They tend to suck the sweetness out of your life and emotionally shred you.
The following are 10 common signs that a person is toxic;
🦋 You’re left feeling emotionally exhausted after spending time with them.
🦋 They try to intimidate, blame or shame you to get their way.
🦋 They try control you with guilt.
🦋 They easily anger and lash out.
🦋 They can’t take ‘no’ as an answer.
🦋 They see themselves as a victim, to garner attention and sympathy.
🦋 They give ambiguous back-handed compliments.
🦋 They have no respect for your boundaries.
🦋 They don’t take responsibility for their own feelings.
🦋 They are self-centred, uncaring and unsupportive.
Essentially, toxic people are not interested in you and your life. They are interested in how you can be an asset for them, how they can use you for their own benefit.
You cannot change them!
You deserve to have respectful, supportive and appreciative people in your life. Life is too short to spend time with people who don’t inspire you to be your best self, living your authentic life.
I hope you will use this post as a springboard to immunize yourself against the toxic people in your life, to walk away! 🦋
Discomfort is the currency of success in life, love and leadership. If you feel uncomfortable, out of your depth, overwhelmed or scared then know that you have inadvertently stumbled or intentionally pitched yourself out of your loathsome yet comfortable rut. You are on a life altering adventure, moving towards the light of where you belong, your brilliant life, career and relationship. Lean in, level up and just keep going. You’ve got this. 🦋
I will never be fearless nor do I want to be. Fear is my ally. When fear creeps into my thoughts I know I’m on the right path. Fear alerts me that what I’m about to do is important for my soul’s calling, my personal evolution and empowerment When fear slithers into my consciousness it signals that it is time to suit up with courage and get moving in the direction of my heart’s desire. 🦋
With commitment we can never fail. Without commitment we will fail. If it’s important we commit 100% . If it’s sort of important, we will sort of commit and then wonder why something is not working out as we had hoped. Outcomes never lie. Go all in for yourself, make the commitment, take the risk and ride the tiger to the end. 🦋
With her commitment to self-knowledge and self-awareness, an empowered woman is able to wield her power to choose her response in all situations and circumstances. She knows that her freedom and the quality of her life is inherent in her day to day choices. 🦋
The compelling reason for almost everything we do or not do is to feel one of our coveted feelings. What are your coveted feelings and what do you usually do to feel them? 🦋
Thoughts inspire feelings. Change your thoughts and you will feel differently. Yes, but you can’t really change your thinking until you are aware of your thoughts and you understand them. 🦋
The question ‘why’ is a door way into our inner world, our thoughts, the driving force of all of our experiences. Here are a few ‘why’ questions you may want to ask yourself. Warning, these questions may inspire you to own your power. Why am I choosing to think that? Why am I choosing to feel that? Why am I choosing to do that? Why am I choosing to create that. Why am I choosing to sabotage that? Why am I choosing to doubt myself? Why am I procrastinating? Why am I overweight, in debt, struggling at work, still in this relationship, not in a relationship … 🦋
Emotional suffering is a choice, a habit that supports the nonsensical notion, that ‘they’ not you are responsible for what you think and thus what you feel.
No one can force you to think your thoughts nor feel your feelings. You are the author of your suffering.
To stop your self-inflicted suffering, begin with telling yourself a different story. 🦋
The difference between an authentic life and a life by default is the willingness to overcome the beguiling pull of resistance, to rest in the security of what is known, to sustain the comfortable, easy and safe status quo. 🦋
What we resist will persist. What we resist we become. We think we are resisting undesirable situations because they are present in our lives, but the truth is that the unwanted circumstances are in our lives because we are resisting them. The moment we accept what we have been resisting a void appears and our creative juices begin to flow in the direction of what we truly want to experience. If you decided to stop resisting and started creating, what three things would happen? 🦋
Today, ‘action’ with intent rather than habit. Determine your desired outcome. Mindfully take inspired action. When your desire, intent and action are consciously aligned, you will observe synchronicity at play and whoosh a new reality is created. This is the power of your conscious intent. 🦋
Beautiful thoughts create a beautiful life. Ugly thoughts spawn an ugly life. Yes, it’s that simple because you and only you can think your thoughts. You are the thinker of your thoughts, the creator of your experiences. 🦋
In addition to having a crystal clear vision of what a successful life looks like, starting over requires a renewed consciousness that is free of past limiting thoughts and false beliefs.
Starting over requires a vitality, an inner-persistence that can smash through our past ignorance and gather the golden nuggets of truth upon which a renewed life can be created upon. 🦋
One of the greatest values in any relationship whether it is with ourselves or with others is integrity. A true test of our integrity is a fierce refusal to compromise it because we know that without it we have nothing. 🦋
We all have the power of choice. The only action we can control in any emotionally charged situation is how we choose to ‘react’ or ‘respond’.
Our choice can affect the outcome one way or another.
When we ‘respond’ to a situation, we are consciously in our power with the intention to create positive momentum aimed at mutual understanding and satisfaction.
When we ‘react’ we tend to be out of control, defensive and combative, spiralling deeper into drama, fanning the flames of our ego.
The next time you are in a challenging situation and your ego becomes triggered by fear, and you can feel frustration, annoyance, disappointment or some other defensive emotion rising to the surface, pause.
Take a deep breath and remind yourself that you have the power to transform the energy, direction and outcome of any situation with your response.🦋
Be proud of who you’ve become, your accomplishments, your life lessons and your vision for tomorrow.
Being proud of yourself is not vanity. Pride has more to do with genuine personal deep satisfaction whereas vanity is a superficial pretence that oftentimes appears coy, flashy or loud.
The sole aim of vain posturing is to bolster ones low sense of self-esteem by garnering positive reactions from others.
Vanity is about looking good out there whereas being proud is feeling good within oneself.
Today, appreciatively take a look at you and your life experiences. Stand tall and proud. You are worthy! 🦋
We are six weeks into the new year. It’s time to check in with our aspirations, intentions and goals for 2019. It’s time to celebrate our wins and to tweak our efforts where we are lagging behind. It’s also time to recommit ourselves to what we are aiming to accomplish this year or to let certain ambitions go because they are not true to what we deeply desire to experience. The test question for manifesting any dream is ‘Am I willing to run through fire and ice to have this dream come true?’ If the answer is yes, we keep going. If the answer is no, then we may want to consider letting it go for something that is in more alignment with our truest passions. 🦋
Imagine your best life with your heart and soul, breath life into it with your creative brilliance, purposeful activity, positive expectations and certainty. Today is your tomorrow. 🦋
Let today mark a new beginning for you. Give yourself permission to say NO without feeling guilty, mean, or selfish. Every no is a yes that is aligned to your vision of living your authentic life. Anybody who gets upset and or expects you to say YES all of the time clearly doesn’t have your best interest at heart.🦋
Today Is My Tomorrow. It’s Up To Me To Create It, To Do My Best And Inhabit Every Moment. My Power Is In My Authenticity, My Highest Vision Of A Deeply Satisfying Life And The Choices I Make Each Day. 🦋
What is the one thing you could do today, that you have never done before, that would exponentially increase your capacity to manifest your most coveted goal for 2019? Do that today! 🦋
There will be days when you will doubt yourself. You will doubt your vision, abilities or resources to achieve your goals.
Your goals don’t care about how you feel or that they will be fulfilled or abandoned.
However, if you care about your personal fulfillment and you want to move forward, then push through your uncertainty by doing what needs to be done and you will feel your confidence rise up to slay your inner demons. 🦋
Today is Blue Monday. It’s also the 21st day in 2019. A good time to reaffirm our commitments, review and tweak our new year goals and plans. Note to self, enthusiastic focus is the secret sauce for my success. Let’s do this! 🦋
When our outer world experiences are consistently less than satisfactory, it is a signal to turn within, to reconnect to our heartfelt vision of what is true and meaningful.
Living in a state of deep satisfaction is not a fantasy, it is a consequence of following our inner wisdom, to live authentically. 🦋
