Daring Greatly Life Coaching

I want to start off by thanking you all for your support and understanding during these changing times. At the guidance of Governor Wolf and the Secretary of Health, the majority of us are on Stay-At-Home orders for an extended amount of time. I am currently continuing my services through a variety of teleworking services including but not limited to: Phone Calls FaceTime... Zoom Google Duo Please know that I fully intend to support and assist everyone as much as possible throughout our quarantines. If you have questions, concerns, or would like to know how one of these options work please contact me!

I am doing something brand new, something unheard of. Even now it sprouts and grows and matures. Don’t you perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and open up flowing streams in the desert... Isaiah 43:19 TPT

New beginnings can be scary. They can be soft and gentle, or they can come on like a hurricane. But regardless of how they show up, beginnings overflow with possibilities. Learning new lessons, exploring new goals. But beginnings also come with the prospect of fear and uncertainty. There is fear in the unknown. But don’t fight it, don’t be afraid of it, don’t deny it. It’s going to happen regardless of whether you are closed or open to the new experiences and new begin...nings. It’s easy to let past experiences, heartaches, and trauma lesson the excitement and the newness of a fresh start. It may have been hard before, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it’ll be hard in the future (although it still may be!). It’s easy to let past experiences, heartaches, and trauma cause you to harden, but we need to stay open. - Passage from Jade Ana The Migrant Yogi

Experts claim that the real difference between optimists and pessimists isn’t in their level of happiness or in how they perceive a situation but in how they cope. Optimism is a mindset that enables people to view the world, other people and events in the most favorable, positive light possible. Some people describe this as the ‘half glass full’ mentality, says Dr. Aparna Iyer, psychiatrist and assistant professor at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. Optimists do acknowledge negative events, but they are more likely to avoid blaming themselves for the bad outcome, inclined to view the situation as a temporary one and likely to expect further positive events in the future.

The truth isevery day is a new start. It’s making oneself believe the truth in such a simple statement that’s the hard part. When we arrive at a wall or a dead-end street, we know we have no choice but to train our minds into doing what’s best for ourselves develop new habits, and over time some of these habits become as ingrained as the self- defeating choices we’d previously made. Change happens constantly in the world. The trick is to make change work in your favor, not against you. Written by Russell C. Smith and Michael Foster

SMART goal setting is a goal-setting method that considers certain factors about a goal relative to the person setting it. These factors are simply the five different letters in the SMART acronym for goal setting. What does the goal setting acronym SMART stand for? SSpecific MMeasurable... AAchievable RRealistic/Relevant TTime-bound Without SMART goal setting in view, much of our goals may likely end in our minds, on paper, or just midway into implementation. SMART goal setting reveals to us all the action points of our goals and helps us to have an awareness of every aspect of our goals.

Pain is a guarantee that you will be changed. No one is untouched by pain. But your response to any painful experience will determine how that pain changes you how it moves you. Will you move forward to something better or backward to a place of bitterness?

Joy is the serious business of Heaven. C. S. Lewis We seek joy as it would be a magic potion and sometimes we connect it to different goals or achievements. The truth is that joy does not belong to the material, pragmatic world. It is the inner territory of our hearts, which we can visit whenever we want.

Research by psychologist C. R. Snyder, found that hope is at the heart of our goal pursuits. Through interviewing large numbers of hopeful people, he discovered that most had three things in common: goals, pathways, and agency. First, they had a clear sense of what their goals were and felt committed to them. Second, they had pathwaysalso known as strategiesthat they believed could move them toward their goals. They were under no illusions that all (or even most) of these p...athways would work. Instead, they tended to try multiple pathways, realizing that many would inevitably be blocked. Finally, they had an abiding belief in themselves and their capabilities, something Snyder called agency. Although they recognized that working toward their goals would be difficult, they still believed that theydeep downmight be capable of doing it if they kept trying. In other words, according to this perspective, hope is a kind of planning. It involves a vision of what is important to us and how we might accomplish it, along with the belief in ourselves necessary to act. Written by Dr. David Feldman for Psychology Today

Within every challenge is an opportunity to learn, grow, and lead. The challenge of uncertainty is no different. Uncertainty causes us to think differently and creatively, and to stay focused on the present. It tests our character, our strengths, and our wisdom. You can hear John Maxwell talk on the Benefits of Embracing Uncertainty on this podcast

Life is an echo. What you send out comes back. What you sow, you reap. What you give, you get. What you see in others, exists in you. Remember, life is an echo. It always gets back to you. So give goodness.

You cannot control how other people act, what other people say or do, or what and how they think and feel. However, you CAN choose for yourself. When you think before you speak or type, you open yourself up to fanning or dousing a flame, and creating change or adding to stagnation. Use your words wisely. Think before you speak or type. Be the best you that you can be, and don’t give in to hate, fear, and negativity. written by MJ Blehart for Medium