Cheerful by Choice

Special guest Krystal Holm shares with us how to use the environment to help us choose happiness, overcome (or ignore) the idea of perfectionism, and just love life a little more.

Find Krystal on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/FengShuiKrystal/

or at her website https://www.krystalholm.com/declutteryourmindset

Find Lydia at https://www.LydiaTaggart.com

What do we have that helps us remember and recognize where we are, where we want to go?

Let's reverse engineer that with the foundation of declarations:

I am strong. I am organized. I belong.

Old stories might come up and remind you about all the pain you have been through in life.

What happens when we wrap them in gratitude?

Whose voice are you listening to?

You voice is the one that matters most. In this episode Lydia shares a story about her voice and making decisions.

Special guest Shelly Drymon shares her story of running away from home and creating who she wanted to be.  Her insights on feeling what we feel, what can be done about it, and creating new habits will inspire you as it did me. 

Find Shelly at Women Over 50 a life redesigned

Here's a fun story to illustrate being stuck and what we can do about it.

Let me know in the comments what you take away from it. 

It's not always about finding the positive in a situation. 

People would see me with all my kids at the park or grocery store or anywhere I would go and they would always ask me, "How do you DO it?!?!?!"

This one foundational piece made it possible and it will help you find more peace and happiness too. 

It has been said that to find happiness you must forgive, which often is interpreted as ignoring the situation.  That is not the solution. 

Listen in to learn what I did this weekend about how important it is to forgive and not just ignore things.

Here is more evidence that you CAN change and choose happiness.  Listen in for another way how.