Wrapping-up our 3-part series on indulgent emotions, brings us to the ever-tricky procrastination and boredom.
When You're "Too Busy" or "Too Tired" To Get Things Done...
Indulgent Emotions (Part 1)
All the flowers-chocolate- champagne energy that goes along with Valentine’s Day got me thinking a lot about excess and opulence. But not in the way you’re probably thinking.
Occasional indulgences are wonderful. Eat that cake! Take that long bubble bath. Buy yourself the most perfect bouquet you’ve ever seen.
But…be super careful not to live there. Indulgence is a place for visiting, not for taking up permanent residence.
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Vulnerability is Empowering
Playing the victim in your life is a quick way to feel miserable, as it creates feelings of helplessness, anger, and fear.
And during this stressful time, who needs even more of *that*? We don’t want to live life feeling defeated! So how can we regain some power and a sense of control? We flip the script!
Flipping the script on victim mentality involves practicing radical vulnerability—the willingness to feel whatever comes up.
Are You Giving Away Your Power With a Victim Mentality?
PANDEMIC POWER: Embracing Your Emotions
Our emotions are probably all over the place right now—and for good reason!
You may be stressed because a loved one has contracted the virus or works in a high-risk job, facing financial overwhelm due to loss of income, or just frustrated being stuck in your house with your entire family for weeks.
A lot of us are feeling intense emotions because of the pandemic, with few outlets for them. If you’re anxious, afraid, lonely, stressed-out, please know you’re not alone, and that all of your feelings are both VALID and NORMAL. It’s an overwhelming time, and your psyche is just trying to keep up and process everything!
5 Steps to Reduce Fear and Anxiety During a Pandemic
Are you anxious? Even intermittently? As long as you are human, and you are, then the answer is of course you are. You have a human brain. Your brain’s function as an organ is to keep you safe from threats and danger. So again, it would be weird if you didn’t feel anxious. Everyone is feeling it. And guess what, that’s ok.
These are intense times, my dear.
Don’t resist your feelings. No matter what you’re thinking. It's okay.
I want to make it clear. 100% clear that right now in this time of uncertainty, that it's ok to have any and all thoughts and feeling you are having during this time.
The key to success and happiness is to identify the feeling and instead of resisting them – allow – and allow yourself to process them – feel them all the way through.
Here are 7 steps to help you do that.
Got Confidence?
This is going to change your life and here's why. Confidence is the single most important feeling or “tool” that you can use to fuel your dreams. And I’m gonna give you the secret formula to increase your self-confidence today!
I just got back from our second and last in-person Master Coach Training. Where my coach and mentor asked us what’s difference between confidence and self-confidence. I loved her take on it.
Just a fun little note we flew on a private jet from Dallas to Austin. Hello? See the picture? That was a surprise and so much fun. Here’s a picture of me getting off the jet headed for our two days together so that the best of the best could get into every nook and cranny of each of our minds to uncover all the BS that could be holding us back from making our wildest dreams a reality and be able to do the same for our clients. That’s what’s required to become a master coach - basically master your own mind.
How to Transform Anger Into True Empowerment
Have you ever wondered why we hate our anger so much? Or why it is that we can be so afraid of being angry?
Anger is one of our basic emotions but anger can be a tricky emotion for many reasons.
First of all, most of us were socialized that being angry was very un-ladylike. It was not readily accepted or encouraged and even frowned upon in the societies or the families that we grew up in.
How many people do you know that have a healthy expression of anger?
Probably not too many right? Why is that?
Fact vs. Story = Miserable vs. Happy
4 Ways to Love What You Have (Relationships, Jobs, Etc.)
You have the option to feel any way you want at any time. Your thoughts cause your feelings, and thoughts are optional.
You need to know this. You always have the option to feel however you choose to feel. This is always available to you. Sometimes we choose to feel sad and angry and frustrated, and that's fine. That's our choice. We can choose to feel however we want, but you have to know and remember that it is always a choice. Your choice.
It's when we start to believe that how we feel isn't a choice that we get ourselves into trouble. We leave jobs and relationships we think we dislike only to find ourselves in a similar situation because we don’t realize this fact that we get to choose our emotions.
How to Feel Better Right Now With 7 Simple Steps to Processing Emotions
This one thought has set me and so many of my clients free: "The worst thing that can happen is a negative emotion." And you can be liberated too, woman. Hear me roar!
Think about it for a second, it’s not the circumstance itself that is hard. It’s the thoughts you have about the circumstances that cause you pain. Emotions are just chemicals in your body that vibrate. When you feel stress your body releases a chemical called cortisol. This chemical vibrates. You can learn how to process stress and any other emotion with these simple steps below.
Suffering is optional
Our thoughts about anything that happen in life are 💯% optional. I’m gonna teach you how to become a pro at managing your emotions. It’s probably the single most empowering thing you can learn to do in life.
Emotional Courage
Your Badass Life is awaiting you.
What to do when hard things happen, or you want to make some scary changes:
Practice emotional courage.
The worst thing that can happen in life is a feeling.
Take a moment and REALLY think about that. Oh and that 10 years relationship you had, the worse thing about it was a feeling. Isn't that crazy. We think it's all the circumstances, but it's actually the feelings.
When you practice emotional courage, you can and do get through anything in your life because you are willing to feel any emotion.
Emotions as a Skill to Create Your Irresistible Life
One day she learned how to feel love no matter what…and you can too.
Do you know that right now you can feel exactly as you wish?
When you learn to feel emotions as a skill, you can use them as tools to literally create anything you want in life!
What do you want to create? It can be absolutely anything.
I decided I wanted to feel more LOVE in my life.
Lots of love for my life and the people in it. I decided to selfishly practice unconditional love. I know that may sound cheesy, but I don’t care because it works and it feels good. It’s not some airy-fairy kind of thing I’m talking about, it’s real emotion.
Who Makes You Feel Angry or Upset Regularly?
Think about what happens when someone makes you so angry. Such as, he was late when he said he’d be on time or she had a girls night and didn’t invite you or he didn’t pick up the groceries you asked him to pick up twice, etc.
You avoid them, snap at them, give them a piece of your mind, tell them it’s their fault, you take some action driven by your frustration. Your behavior is reasonable, right? I’m sorry, no, wrong.
Expecting another person to deal with your feelings is not you dealing with your own feelings.
