It’s a new day and a new day to work on my goals.
Yet, I keep hearing ‘You can’t do this’, ‘No one wants to hear about it’, ‘You don’t know what you are doing’, ‘You are not worthy’, ….my inner child or I like to call it my ‘Tasmanian Devil’ is working extremely hard to derail my plans of refocusing on my goals, getting into action today and doing what I want to do to reach my goals. I woke up excited to get started, I had a plan already ready to go, my roadmap ready and then good ole’ ‘Tasmanian Devil’ decides to swirl in like a hurricane and quickly flip my motivation into self-doubt, paralysis and even imposter syndrome.
All of my old negative thoughts and the oodles of life plans that I have made be uprooted, taken away from me or derailed all came flooding back with gale force winds. From not being able to bear children and be the Mom I have dreamed about being since I was a child, to trusting others with my heart while they ripped it out and broke my trust, to promising my childhood best friend that we would be better at staying in touch and yet failing to follow through and now I’ll never have that opportunity again until I’m in heaven, to allowing my career to create my identity and purpose, to loosing that career due to downsizing and absolutely crushing my self-confidence and really question what my purpose is.
I’ve had so many amazing plans and lifegoals, they were all mapped out, the bags were packed, the ticket was purchased and I was ready to get on the train and go for it. Yet, so many times my plans came to an abrupt stop and I have been left sitting on the platform watching as the train, my train…..leave without me while I sat on the bench
Frozen in fear
Frozen in self-doubt
Frozen in procrastination
Frozen in all the ‘what if’s’
The train leaves the station while I’m unable to move and the crushing wave of unworthiness surrounds me.
It’s been so incredibly hard to have had so many beautiful visions/plans for my life be derailed by others and by myself. I know that my life experiences have been extremely powerful from teaching me many lessons, to allowing me many opportunities to see new perspectives, to pushing me out of my comfort zone, and also reminding me of my strengths and what’s important to me. On the flip side, my life experiences and the many words that others have spoken over me have also been soul crushing at times…when I allow them to.
So, today as I sit here on that proverbial train platform as the train is coming into the station. I recognized the pattern and put some of the training I have learned into action.
I hear you ‘Tasmanian Devil’
I see you
I feel the hurricane winds you are spinning around me
I appreciate what you are trying to do today but hear me loud and clear…..
I AM stronger than this!
I AM meant for more!
I AM worthy!
I BELIEVE in myself!
I CAN do hard things!
I DESERVE to shine my light!
This is MY train; it will be leaving the station
I WILL confidently step onto this train without you ‘Tasmanian Devil’.
Your ticket is not valid on this train.
It’s time to flip the script and change the outcome. Time to step into the plan I have mapped out for myself. Will it be perfect…probably not but that’s part of the adventure and it will all be worth it.
And whenever my ‘Tasmanian Devil’ tries to buy a ticket to derail my plans again, I will remember that I have the tools at my fingertips, I just have to use them so I can continue to keep taking these imperfect steps, one step at a time, towards becoming the best version of me.
I’ve got this!
If you want my help silencing your inner narratives or ‘Tasmanian Devil’, I’m here to help you too!
Juliette
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A friendly reminder that in order to grow or to make changes, it all takes time.
Give yourself grace, forgive yourself if you have fallen off the track or stopped working on your goals or changing your habits.
Don’t compare your process to others, as hard as that is sometimes.
With it being Spring, it’s a perfect time to drive the point home.
When you plant seeds in your garden, do they burst out of the ground the next morning? No, it takes time for them to grow.
You need to enhance your soil so that your plants have the right growing conditions, you need to fertilize, weed, tend to your gardens each and every week.
You need to water your plants to help them grow and make sure they have the right amount of sun or shade, depending on the item you are growing.
If you didn’t have a successful garden last year and fail to make any changes, is it reasonable to expect that your garden will be successful this year?
I know I have said this before but I’m going to say it again because it’s so true:
“If you change nothing. Nothing changes.” ~Joyce Brothers
You will get the same results next year and every year after that, unless you make some changes. You might have a little bit of change.
If you don’t tend to your garden weekly by weeding it, eventually the weeds will choke out the plants you want to grow.
And those plants that need sun, simply won’t grow to their full potential if you plant them in the shade. And if you forget to water your plants....well, we all know what happens when things get dehydrated, don’t we?
As you are planting new seeds for your life, you are:
- adjusting your growing environment by being mindful of what you are reading/watching/listening to;
- practicing gratitude and enriching your soul;
- weeding the garden around you and removing the toxicity around you, including people, your thoughts and the words you are speaking to yourself;
- removing yourself from negative people and situations in your life;
- removing toxic products and habits and replacing them with healthier ones;
- nourishing your body with healthier foods, supplements, exercise; and
- empowering yourself to shine by showering yourself with self-love, gratitude, positivity and putting your needs and desires before others.
By doing all of these, you are tending to the beautiful garden of your life.
You are making changes to help your life grow in all the ways that are possible.
Keep tending to your garden everyday and continue to improve the soil you are growing in.
The possibilities for your life are truly endless but only if we make sure that we are tending to our garden and our environment.
Give yourself time to work on these changes.
You are changing habits that you have had for many, many years and it will take a lot of time and effort for you to cultivate the changes you are desiring. And, those changes are going to be worth it!
Keep tending to your garden and enjoy reaping the benefits you so deserve!
We all have that little inner critic that tells you false statements and unfortunately, a lot of us allow those 'false' statements to hold us back from moving in the direction we desire.
Have you ever wanted to do something, try something new, look for a new job, meet a new person, put yourself out there and then you hear this little voice in your head saying awful things like:
- 'You can't do this'
- 'You are not smart enough'
- 'You will never be successful'
- 'You are fat'
- 'You are not worthy'
- 'You don't deserve ____'
- 'You are dumb'
- 'Nobody will listen to you'
- 'They won't like you'
When you hear that little voice telling you these things, how does it make you feel?
Does it encourage you to keep moving forward with what you are desiring or does it stop you in your tracks?
Whenever that little voice is telling you that you can't move forward with something that you desire, it is just your FEAR or some even call it your Ego or your 'inner child'.
This inner voice is simply trying to hold you back and keep you in your 'safe' and 'comfort' zone.
As hard as it is.....Don't Listen to it!
You deserve to have goals and dreams and you also DESERVE to have ALL of them come to fruition!
Be excited for what you want.
See it happening. Believe that it will come true.
See how different your life is going to be because you were BRAVE enough to go after what you wanted.
And, whatever you do, keep taking those imperfect action steps so that you can continue to become a better version of yourself today, than you were yesterday!
If you just don't know how to move past these inner thoughts to help get you moving towards your dreams, this is where the Aroma Freedom Technique may be able to help you move past some of these barriers.
Want to hear more about the Aroma Freedom Technique?
Check out the information on our website (www.julietteandgraham.com) for some more helpful information and even a way to connect with me for a quick chat or even set up a one-on-one or group session.
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HERE'S TO CREATING YOUR UNSTOPPABLE MINDSET AND SHOWING YOUR INNER VOICE WHOSE BOSS!! 
Progress Over Perfection....
As we wrap up 2021, it's a great time to reflect back on the year and to celebrate ALL of our progress through the year.
The key is NOT to focus on the perfection and that 'I could have done ____ better'.
Do not beat yourself up or talk poorly to yourself for things that did not go well or as planned.
Did you have a goal or a vision for something that has not come to fruition yet?
That's OK! Maybe it went exactly how it was supposed to go.....have you ever thought of that?
I too struggle with 'Perfection', but then think.....who decided what 'Perfection' is?
Perfection is different to each of us.
Perfection stops us from taking action, it stops you dead in your tracks from moving forward, it keeps you spinning and at times down a very dark unhealthy and self-defeating path and for what reason....because we fear of what others will think, that we will fail, etc. I could go on and on with all of the ways that striving for 'perfection' has literally stopped me in so many ways and for ALL of the wrong reasons.
What we need to remember is that failing, making mistakes, all of it is part of the process. This is what makes us better. This is what helps encourage us to 'tweak', 'pivot' or 'adjust your crown', however you see it.
When babies are learning to walk...do they often wobble and fall?
Do you think Wayne Gretzky was a #1 hockey player when he 1st picked up a hockey stick?
Were the Wright Brothers successful in taking flight on their 1st attempt to fly a plane?
The answer to all of these is a resounding NO.
But what did they ALL do?
They kept trying, they kept practicing, they kept tweaking what they were doing and because of their consistency and their tenacity....they slowly and surely got better and succeeded in their goals.
They did not allow 'perfection' from stopping them.
NO ONE is perfect, even though we all have people in our lives that think they are....they really aren't!
So, today, celebrate the progress over perfection you experienced this year and may you keep the momentum going into 2022.
And if fear is still holding you back, may 2022 be the year you break free from those limiting beliefs, take action on things that are important to you and start letting your light shine brightly by empowering yourself to take progress over perfection each and every day!
Our thoughts are SO powerful.
Our thoughts can either propel us closer to our goals or keep us locked into fear, shame and self-doubt.
Our thoughts can either propel us closer to our goals or keep us locked into fear, shame and self-doubt.
We all have dreams and aspirations but do you actually believe that your dreams will come true?
Are you doing whatever you need to make those dreams come true?
Do you believe that you are worthy of your dreams?
Are you allowing other peoples ideas, thoughts, words, judgements to hold you back?
Are you allowing what others say to you, do to you or you are perceiving them to say to you, stop you from doing what you want to do?
Are you allowing what others say to you, do to you or you are perceiving them to say to you, stop you from doing what you want to do?
I know I have!!!
And I can now recognize that it has affected me my entire life and I’m working on re-writing the script and creating new neuropathways to let go of these old beliefs and beliefs that never belonged to me in the first place.
I have been hurt physically, mentally, lied to, deceived, used and manipulated. I trust that those that come into my life have good intentions and take people at their word. And over and over again, those I have let in have hurt me in various ways and some to the core. And when this hurt happens, it makes me feel like I wasn’t worthy and yet, what I should be thinking is that they are not worthy of me.
When you continually hear negative statements or judgements from those you know and love,
you tend to believe them…and why?
Because you trust them and yet, the only person we should be trusting is ourselves.
you tend to believe them…and why?
Because you trust them and yet, the only person we should be trusting is ourselves.
Other people’s perceptions, ideas, and judgements are theirs and you should NEVER take them to heart.
You have to remember that some people, not all, but some, don’t want to see you succeed.
They want to see you fail or make you look bad so that they feel better about themselves.
You have to remember that some people, not all, but some, don’t want to see you succeed.
They want to see you fail or make you look bad so that they feel better about themselves.
The good news is that you get to decide what you believe to be true and should focus on that. You can certainly hear what they have to say but STOP letting other people’s negative thoughts, words, and actions stick to you like crazy glue. The words they are speaking over you ARE NOT the truth. Don’t take on their negativity and allow the beliefs in yourself to diminish. Stop giving others that power. Instead, empower yourself to recognize when this is happening and reaffirm to yourself that you ARE worthy of everything you desire.
See, when you want something but you doubt that it will come true, it won’t. Why? Because you don’t believe that it will come true or that we deserve it. When you believe in the negativity of our thoughts, that is what you are putting out into the universe and that is what you will receive and you attract more of the same.
This week I encountered an issue and I kept saying to myself ‘I can’t figure this out’ and I would end up in tears. My mind kept replaying all of the negative words and feelings I have felt in the past, that I’m not good enough, I won’t figure it out, I’m not smart enough, I should just quit, I’m a nobody, I am dumb, I’m on the wrong path….all of these negative thoughts and words kept me frozen in self-doubt. I started looking to others for help and I was spinning my wheels in ‘negativity land’ and it was getting me nowhere and nowhere fast.
I attended an Aroma Freedom Session by one of my mentors this week around Trust. And while I started off working on learning to trusting in my abilities, through the session it led me to work through several situations where I have been hurt in the past by loved ones where my trust has been broken. Once I worked through those feelings and memories, I was able to let them go and move forward.
I practiced my new affirmation and changed my mindset. When I started to say ‘I can’t do this’, I recognized what I was saying and flipped it to say ‘I got this…I can figure this out’.
Once I flipped the words from negative to a positive, I gave myself permission to figure it out,
I believed that I could figure it out and I did.
I AM Worthy!
I believed that I could figure it out and I did.
I AM Worthy!
And when I was able to cancel my trip to ‘negativity land’ and allow myself to believe in myself and my abilities, it reaffirmed that I can do this. I truly can do anything I want to do, if I just believe in myself. I don’t need to have all of the answers, it doesn’t need to be perfect (even though I want it to be), what I truly need to do is to believe that I am capable and worthy.
As a result of the Aroma Freedom Technique session around ‘Trust’ this week, I ended up believing in myself and allowing myself to shine.
Today, I worked with another mentor where she had us do this exercise to write down ‘I AM WORTHY’ 100 times. And when we write them, we need to believe that what we are writing is true. And yes, there were a few times when I wrote these words down that I could feel my belief slip to the negative and I could even see it in my letters, usually at the word ‘AM’, my printing would change.
I truly believe that people come into our lives for a reason, a purpose or a lesson.
There’s a reason why I have encountered this lack of belief this week, why these lessons were placed in front of me and why I made the time to be present in each of these lessons.
I AM WORTHY and I was meant to see it and believe it this week.
Thank You Universe for giving me these gifts and lessons this week and
for bringing these mentors into my life.
I am truly grateful and I AM ready to let my light shine!
Thank You Universe for giving me these gifts and lessons this week and
for bringing these mentors into my life.
I am truly grateful and I AM ready to let my light shine!
I AM WORTHY!
“Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you.
Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late.
You don’t have to like it… it’s just easier if you do.”
— Byron Katie
