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Three Strategies to Realize Your Intentions for 2022

Do you have your word? your intentions? your goals? or your declaration or resolution?

Take your pick – they all add up to about the same – different words to benchmark or express how you want to be different, grow or accomplish in 2022.

But rest assured, irrespective of the term or process you’ve mulled over in the last few days, within a few short weeks, your opus can easily be lying on the floor with the laundry.

So, what then. How do you look back on December 31st, 2022 and say – “I have grown, I have transformed, I have become and accomplished in alignment with my vision set out on January 1st, 2022.

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Focus in Work and Business As An Expression of Self-Care

Running a solopreneur service-based business is always tricky in the summer months.

There is a general slowing of business pace, further impacted by well deserved holidays and if not carefully safeguarded this lag could impact your momentum, focus and service provision.

If you’re feeling stressed about what needs to be done, what is not getting done, and a general sense of summer mayhem – your physical and emotional energy will be further drained.

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Don't Wait Until You Have To Put Your Mask On - Fill Your Tank Every Day

By the time my butt hit my office chair this morning… honestly… I was looking up for the oxygen mask to come falling from the ceiling.

It’s pretty common to use the phrase ‘put your own mask on first’ as a way of celebrating or promoting paying attention to your self-care. But think about it... ‘put your own mask on first’… is an emergency response strategy to a pending disaster.

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Are You Truly An Optimist?

So what are you, an optimist or a pessimist?

Each of us lean toward one of these two mindsets, which is a partial result of inheritance and is partly influenced by life circumstance. We also ebb and flow from one end of the mindset continuum to the other. The good news is that with practice we can become more optimistic.

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Perfectionism is No Match for Self-Compassion

From the outside I seemed to have it all dialed down, but inside my shoes, my socks were slipping off. For I am a (recovering) perfectionist.

My three year - ongoing practice of fostering self-compassion and ditching my perfectionist inner critic has paid off. I feel like the woman I'm aspiring to be.

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