Being Me: Week 38

"Nothing holds you back more than your own insecurities" 

Being Me: Week 38 - What holds you back

September theme: Sometimes we can learn and study and know and sometimes we have to believe, trust and hope

What holds you back from pursuing your dreams? Most often it is one or several of the following:

• fear
• procrastination
• doubts
• distraction
• you avoid the truth
• you want it to be easy
• you want everything perfect

Since the move I have fallen off course with my goals and morning routine. My writing habits, my meditation, even writing on my blog has been absent since mid August and I am working on how to get it back.

Change creates change... Sometimes that is good, and sometimes not.

Often a habit slips easily away when we lose the cue that reminds us. Like the calendar to check off, or the water glass resting in a familiar place. This is common during vacations or when change occurs in our "normal" routine.

After listening to a podcast I learned how Chris and Heidi Powell work with clients for weight loss, starting with a simple promise to themselves. Since they have broken so many promises over the years, they need to build a new trust that they can follow through with a small daily act, each act, over times, builds momentum and confidence to add another.

From each success we rebuild the habits we need for change. In my early days of running, just finishing one mile felt amazing, but doing that built the confidence to try going further.

And so now it is time to get back on track with my goals. And although I still run and read, I miss the morning routine that set my days off with a perfect start.

 Themes for each month to journal, create or contemplate on your journey

• January - The best time for new beginnings is now

1. Morning routine
2. Mission statement
3. Create your YES list
4. Goals, baby steps, tiny promises
5. Putting it in motion

• February - Before anything else, find yourself, be yourself and love yourself

1. Take care of your body
2. Meditation and solitude
3. Food choices and ideas for change
4. What makes you happy

• March - All you need is tea and warm socks

1. Enjoy the simple things
2. Letting go of thoughts and things
3. Both hands
4. Mindfulness (social media and smart phones)
5. Setting intentions

• April - Water your roots so your soul can blossom

1. Water and other things we need to grow
2. Time to blossom
3. The 3 R's
4. Forgiveness

• May -  The difference between a flower and a weed is judgment

1. Stop judging yourself and others (why we judge)
2. The grass isn't always greener
3. Love is the absence of judgement
4. Stop judging yourself if you don't want to be judged

• June - Believe you can and your halfway there

1. Believe in yourself
2. Believe in others
3. What thoughts have distorted our beliefs
4. Invest in yourself

• July - Bold stripes, bright stars, brave hearts

1. Integrity
2. Taking risks
3. Abundance
4. Let your light shine

• August - We are who we choose to be

1. Who do you think you are

• September - Sometimes we can learn and study & know, and sometimes we have to believe, trust and hope

1. What do you know to be true of you
2. Books that create thought
3. What holds you back

• October - We can't become what we want by remaining what we are
• November - Small seeds of gratitude will provide a harvest of hope
• December - Unexpected kindness is the most powerful, least costly, and most underrated agent of hope

 Mission Statement:  I will improve my overall health and wellness, use kindness and inspiration with a vision that creates  a community of giving and in doing so achieve my purpose in this life.   

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