It's Your Time

How you start your morning sets the tone for your entire day. In this episode, Michelle shares her personal morning routine, how it has evolved, and the resources that have helped her build habits that stick. From Mel Robbins' 5-Second Rule to The Miracle Morning, you'll learn practical tools for energy, focus, and consistency. Whether you want to create calm, increase productivity, or just feel more intentional, this episode will inspire you to design a morning routine that works for your life.

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Our morning routines set us up for the day. It is so important to begin the way you want - start each day in a way that sets you up for success.

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Last week we discussed setting our goals and ways to keep them. This week I want to talk to you about the responsibility you hold in creating those goals. It can be very easy to look at a difficult situation and think about how other people are to blame. But I want to show you why it can be helpful for you to take responsibility for a situation, and how to do it.

• When you're frustrated and complaining, what are you not doing? Your job.
• Find new solutions
• When you take responsibility, you hold the power
• Emotional adulthood
• Self-blame becomes self-shame
• Taking action

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This is that time of year when everyone is talking about a fresh start and their goals for the new year. And while you can get a fresh start every single day, this is the time of year to really think about your goals and how you are going to take steps to achieve them. I want to help you work through your goals, why they are important to you, and how, with some intention and reflection, you can make it happen.

• Become the person that accomplishes that goal
• Visualize: what will you be like when the goal is accomplished? What will you act like? How will you feel?
• Be specific
• Being committed, no matter what
• Get curious. Why do you think you haven't done it already?
• Get 1% better every day
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I want to share with you some of the lessons I learned in 2019. I am doing this work along with you every single day, and I want to look back and reflect on what I learned so that I can continue to guide you. You get to take what you want from this year and you get to leave what you don't want, in the past. You do not have to bring it to you. Leave what is not useful. Take what fuels you to make 2020 the best year yet.

Topics in this episode:

• My vision board
• Believe new things
• We have the perfect amount of time.
• • Start by recognizing that you are choosing to go to your job every day.
• Self-reflection prompts:
• • What worked?
  • What didn't work?
  • What will I do next time?
• When we're people-pleasing, we are not living our unique life.
• You have to slow down in order to speed up
• Your feelings drive your actions

It's important to invest in yourself and the life you want. If you are ready, this is the work I do with my clients. We'll start by hopping on a quick call to make sure we're on the same page, talk about where you're at, and where you want to go and how I can get you there. If you're ready, go to https://michellebourquecoaching.com/work-with-me/

What is the upper limit problem that is holding you back and keeping you from the next level? This is something I read about when I recently re-read The Big Leap, by Gay Hendricks. In his book, Gay details the things that often hold us back and how to confront them so that we can reach our zone of genius.

• Defining the inner thermostat level
• Why we self-sabotage
• The four zones of comfort
• Zone of incompetence
  • What can you delegate?
  • How to get your time back
• Zone of competence
  • "I'll just do it myself"
  • The importance of moving from comfort to fulfillment
• Zone of excellence
  • Why this doesn't quite feel satisfying
• Zone of genius
  • The zone in which you thrive
• Defining the upper limit problem and how to identify it
• The 4 hidden barriers that are holding you back

Take time this week to look at these barriers. Do any of them resonate with you? Start paying attention to your day to day interactions with yourself. What stories do you tell yourself? They may feel real and true, but they are not. Once you start with the awareness, you can begin to see where the root problem is and you can begin to dismantle your upper limit problem.

If you are ready to take a big leap, but you're not really sure how to do it for yourself, I want to help you. This is the time to invest in yourself. Head over to https://michellebourquecoaching.com/work-with-me/. We'll get on a quick call to see where you're at, where you want to go, and if it's a good fit. If you're not quite ready for the call, but you want more free content, go to https://michellebourquecoaching.com/freebie/ and you can download a three-step guide to find more work/life balance.