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Are You In the Day Or Is the Day In You?

Get up, decide who you want to be, and go for it. It’s your life

Waking up refreshed, we get ready to move into a new day. Each day is a new beginning, a chance to review, reset, and take steps to get closer to where we would like to be.

Then the day starts to happen. Sometimes there are things that you enjoy, and often there are things that you don’t. Before you know it, the optimism of the morning is a distant memory and you are back in the routine of fighting and struggling just to keep it together.

Any thoughts of thriving are out the window.

Imposing restrictions on what it takes for us to feel joy can be disheartening. If you depend on others to act a certain way in order for you to be happy, then you have lost control of the one thing in life you have power over – your inner state of being.

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Learning to Live In My Lane

When you need a little help from a friend to get where you want to go, just ask!

When did I get to be so bossy?

I heard myself telling someone what they absolutely had to do to lose weight, to feel better, to live a much more fantastic life like I was, and then it hit me…

I was acting like a preacher and I never wanted to be one!

The truth is, everyone is unique, as different as a snowflake, and there is no one-size-fits-all plan. Especially when it comes to physical, mental, and emotional well-being.

I’m not you, you’re not me, and that is how it’s meant to be.

So why do we fall into the trap of believing that when we solve our own problems, we have uncovered the secrets of the universe, the Holy Grail, the “this will work for everyone in the world because I discovered it and it works for me!” mindset?

For me it was because after years of suffering, I finally found some things that worked. I know what it’s like to feel sick, to suffer from pain, indigestion, insomnia, and to just not feel well. Through years of studying, trying different things, and remembering what worked and what didn’t, I was able to get through all of the tough times and come out on the other side feeling good.

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