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    Ignite Your Dreams 1% Every Day (Try the Kaizen Way)

    The fastest way to ignite your dreams is by taking a small step every day in the right direction. Making bite-sized changes avoids overwhelm, and you can really see progress when you reflect with your journals or meditation. How many times tried to make big changes all at once? Or maybe you decided to make too many small changes all at once. Chances are it didn’t last long. We only have mental energy to make decisions. And if we use it all up too quickly, we have no more for the rest of the day. Kaizen Isn’t Just A Cute Nickname Kaizen is the Sino-Japanese word for “improvement” or “change…

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    Ignite Your Life with Success Rituals

    I hope this finds you well! Today we’re going to dive deep into success rituals. These are the little routines that help you truly ignite your inner well being. A ritual is different from a habit because you’re consciously aware of your thoughts and actions while you’re doing it. A ritual is also a journey towards mastery. You work at it each day until it becomes a habit. When you chain them together, you have your success journey. Brushing your teeth is a habit. Meditating is a ritual. Today we will focus on your journey to a better you. What Are Success Rituals A success ritual has certain checkpoints that…

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    Stop Procrastinating Today

    Are you ready to get more done and stop procrastinating today? Procrastination is often caused because we distract ourselves. Our focus keeps switching. Every time we start to do the task, our brains remind us of other things we need to do. We become almost paralyzed. It’s like a stop light comes on in our brains. Why Your Brain Makes You Procrastinate In a nutshell, it’s a battle between the pleasure center (limbic system) and the little manager in your brain (prefrontal cortex). So when you procrastinate, the limbic system is taking over your prefrontal cortex. And all your plans appear to go awry for the sake of pleasure and…

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    Crush Your Goals in 2020 (Start Strong to Finish!)

    Now is the time to ignite your life and crush your goals in 2020. It’s better to start planning early rather than wait until the first of January. This way, you’ll have time to review the goals you set up for 2019 and evaluate how well you did, and if you want to continue them. Let’s say you wanted to learn Chinese in 2019. You took two classes, and really enjoyed it. What do you want to do in 2020 to continue this goal? What other training do you want? Is there a way you can practice? And what if you wanted to learn cake decorating and you took one…

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    Using Self-Discipline to Ignite Your Dreams (While Making It Fun!)

    How often do we wish we could just sit down and work through our task lists without being distracted. Some days are easier than others. Wouldn’t it be great if we could “trick” ourselves into completing things? Everyone has habits (or addictions) that they want to overcome including procrastination and lack of assertiveness. Developing will power and self-discipline will help ignite your inner strength and build up your self-mastery and decisiveness. What Is Self-Discipline (And How Do You Know You Have It?) Will power is the ability to subdue laziness and procrastination. It allows you to command or reject impulses. It also allows you to make a decision and follow…

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    Ignite Your Spring with You 2.0

    Is that the smell of Spring in the air? (or is it becoming Autumn near you?) It’s that glorious time where you really feel the change in the air. And it makes you want some changes in your life. I can’t explain it but I get the feeling of Spring Cleaning (or Fall Cleaning) when the days start to change. So with the next 100 days, let’s find something really incredible for you to do. And I’ll identify some strategies to keep you on course. 3 Ways to Set Yourself Up for Success The number one way is to only choose one clearly defined goal. If you achieve it, you…

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    Ignite Your Dreams with the Power of Focus

    Your ability to focus determines the extent to which you will be successful. And I want you to be successful in everything you do! Focus is often downplayed in success literature. They talk about drive and ambition or clear goals, or a well-defined mission. Those are all important. However, without focus, you won’t get anything actually done. What Is Focus Focus is a skill that allows you to start a task without procrastinating, and then maintain your attention and effort on the task until it is completed. This skill also allows you to avoid distractions that naturally pop up along the way to impede your progress. A wandering mind leave…

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    Are You Ready to Embrace 2019?

    It’s time for You 2.0.  Get ready to let go of fears and embrace your dreams in 2019. I’ve talked a bit in prior posts about goal setting, and will be diving in a bit deeper here so you can refine your goals. Do You Know Where You’re Going? As I mentioned in Setting Goals and Visualizing, it’s important to know where you want to go. Journaling and meditation will help you refine your dreams. If you dream you want to remodel the kitchen, and you visualize it painted in a pretty pink, you may realize that you’d rather have a buttery yellow instead. See Your Vision Clearly But you…

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    End of the Year Wrap Up

    Now is a great time to set aside time each day to review how 2018 went for you, and identify where you want to grow in 2019. So pull out your diary and schedule some time each day between now and December 31st. It’s a wonderful way for you to see how much progress you’ve made this year, and affirm your goals. Reflections Spend some time writing down the answers to some of these questions. You can use a notebook or a programme on your computer like Evernote. What Were Your Goals You may have written down some simple goals that you achieved. But now is also a great time…

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    Ignite Your Dreams with Momentum

    We’re getting close to the end of the calendar year. However, there is still plenty of time to make progress on your goals. You just need to get momentum. The great thing is that you gain momentum by doing little things every day that keep moving you forward. Commit to Your Goals Have you ever wanted something and then talked yourself out of it? Our brains think they’re helping us. This fear is caused by our amygdala or “lizard brain.” (Mel Robbins discusses this in her 5 Second Rule book) This part of our brain is the “fight or flight” central. It holds us back when we try something new.…

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