Friday Focus

Good morning,
Grace and peace be unto you!

Thankful Thursdays

Good morning
Grace and peace be unto you!

Too many of us allow our path to be determined by our circumstances instead of telling our circumstances how they will be a part of our path. Unfortunately, none of us can see that invisible expiration date stamped on the bottom of our foot, but believe you me, we will all expire one day. When you do will you have lived life to it's fullest or go to your grave with should have, could have and would have's? Just do it.

I have shared with many of you my struggles over the last few years but especially in the last few months (a good coaching friend of mine told me at my age it is normal to question life so that helps). While contemplating life and all of its intricacies one thing that has become more clear. You only get one life and it was intended to be lived. Take some risk. Go on vacation. If you leave that job, that you think you can not miss, tomorrow they will have somebody in your seat the next day. Say, yes and be more adventurous.

Saddle up buttercup time to take life by the reigns and ride it for all it is worth.
Until Tomorrow
#liveBlessed

Wednesday Word

Good morning,
Grace and peace be unto you!

Transformation Tuesday

Good morning,
Grace and peace be unto you!

For most people, a holidays are the chance to relax, spend time with your loved ones, see some sights, and make some memories. But it's not like that for everyone.

New statistics from a survey carried out by Booking.com indicate that just over one in three people (36%) worry about things going wrong during the holidays and it pushes them toward anxiety attacks.

So, what can you do if you know this is an issue?

1. Use essential oil blends to help you relax and be at peace as you travel. These can be in roller bottles, creams, or just in the palm of your hand.  www.doterra.com/michellevann

2. Use some breathing techniques to calm yourself. When panics begins to set in the first thing that changes is the breathing. Learn to focus and take control of your breathing.

3. Be prepared. Have everything you need printed and in an easily accessible bag. Consider having music or relaxation tracts downloaded to your playlist to elimate going into a panic attack. (Having them on your device will elimate any technical difficulties)

4. Practice some mindfulness activities, prayers and\or meditations to help center your mind, body, and spirit. When you are centered negative feels have no place.

While this is not an exhaustive list I hope it gives you some ideas of things to do.
If you have further questions or would like to know more about any of these. Hit me up. iasisjmv@gmail.com

Until tomorrow
#liveBlessed

Monday Motivation

Good morning,
Grace and peace be unto you!

I saw this quote the other day and wanted to share it with you because, as women we can be relentless on ourselves. We don't really need others to bash us because we take care of all by ourselves.

What if for the next 36 days we;
1.Forgive yourself for EVERYTHING from the past.
2. Talk kindly to yourself, about yourself.
3. Treated yourself with the loving kindness you extend to others.
4. Put you first (everyone else will not die, they might learn they can do it themselves)
5. Take time to figure out what you really like, not what society tells us to like.

If you are going to take the challenge click the link below for the Facebook support group. Changing old habits is  hard but we have to go into 2019 stronger and wiser. We must use all the tools we have been giving to live our best life.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1969301060029754/

Friday Focus

Good morning,
Grace and Peace be unto you!

I pray that you had an awesome time on Thanksgiving and that you were able to spend time with those that you love. You might be watching this while you are standing in a black Friday line but I just want to encourage you to really take your temperature. Yes, take your temperature. Are you at the right temperature to birth forth what God has placed in your life? There are only 38 more days of 2018.

When you think about how an egg is incubated into a chick there is a great emphasis placed on the amount of light/heat that it is exposed to so that it grows appropriately. Many of us just like that little chick are growing and going through different stages to bring us to the place where we are going to have to peck our way out. Some situations are designed specifically for you so that you will be strong enough to live. Yes, it is time to live the abundant life you were promised.

Until Monday
#liveBlessed

Thankful Thursday.

Good morning, 
Grace and Peace be unto you!

As we wake up this morning I just wanted to share a prayer with you. 

Father God, today I thank You for the provisions of my life...
I thank You for the people in my life...
I thank You for the opportunities You have given to me in my life...
I thank You for the acceptance and forgiveness You have lavished upon me in spite of my sinful actions and choices...

I thank You for the healing You have brought into my life—physical and emotional... I thank You for the way You have brought me back from the darkness that
lurks in my soul and the choices I could have made that would have landed
me in a pit—or the choices I have made that did land me in a pit...
I thank You for the desires of my heart that You have satisfied with good things...

And the desires that I have not yet seen satisfied. Help me to be confident because of the grace You have given to me in so many others ways, that even my unmet desires would be something I could be grateful for...Amen.

Excerpted with permission from Day 31 of Prayers for Today (Moody Publishers, 2011) by Pastor Kurt Bjorklund.

Until tomorrow  #liveBlessed