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These days we are bombarded mostly by social media telling us we have to be consistent. We have to be consistently posting to gain followers and so on. While yes its true you do have to be consistent to achieve success in many avenues such as sports you must consistently practice or school you have to study on a regular basis or yes in business to succeed you do have to be consistent. But my friends its not worth it if all its doing is stressing you out. Especially in times where you are delving into uncharted territory and reinventing yourself or pivoting in your life, you must give yourself the grace to not be consistent. We all have other things going on in our lives. We are all living different lives, we all have different responsibilities. So give yourself the grace to perhaps not be so consistent every day. Trust me the calmness and focus on your daily action steps to move yourself forward in whatever it is you are working on in your journey is worth much more than stressing out daily because you just can't get it all done every day.



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In honour of The Kentucky Derby this week I have titled this episode 'Get Back on the Horse'.
As some of you may know I have quite an extensive background in horses and in racehorses. In this episode I tell you a couple stories from my experiences that have taught me often times how we deal with life is a lot like riding horses.
Its how we handle things when our lives don't always go according to plan, how we handle those sudden unexpected right turns that shapes us.
I hope you enjoy this episode and you find my tips helpful.

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You are the sum of the 5 people around you.....just let that sink in for a minute. So lets talk about how that relates to achieving your goals and dreams. Are you around negative people in your social circle that are unhealthy for you? 
I know we all can get caught up in gossiping at times ...trust me in my past I took part in plenty of it....until one day it hit me....If they are talking about others like that how do they talk about me? I mean I'm far from perfect. 
Do you have a circle of people around you that lift you up? I'm telling you friends if you aren't around authentically positive people you need to be. 
Something that I heard at a real estate conference back in the beginning of my career from Brian Buffini, if you are in real estate you may have heard of him. He said "not everyone will be happy for your success" and I've always remembered this. Sometimes it is the closest people to you that for what ever reason because of their inner thoughts are not happy for us when we take the steps to a more fulfilling life. Maybe when we were at our low point we made them feel better about themselves, maybe they are jealous and wish they had the courage to try something new, or maybe they say they are happy for you but their actions don't match their words. My advice to you is don't let anyone in your life keep you in a box of your previous self. I'm here to say perhaps you don't need to spend so much time around those people or at all that are not authentically in your corner. 
This is one of the reasons why when I decided I was going to make some huge changes in my life I moved to another city. I had a circle of people that I thought were friends but they were such a negative influence on my life that just being in different environment away from them gave me such a different mindset.
Speaking of environment, this has such a huge impact on our mindset as well. Where are you spending your time? What do you listen to ? What do you watch on TV? Do you wake up and watch the news every day? I mean these days there is not much positive on the news is there? Yes they are just doing their jobs but we can all pretty much guess at this point what is going to be on there. What about books? Podcasts? Are you ingesting positive goal achieving oriented material? You see friends your mindset is affected by everything and everyone in your environment. Don't get me wrong I love a good "Housewives" episode, but I try to limit the drama to once or twice a week. 
You see it may sound harsh but I don't have the time to be around anyone or anything that doesn't align with my goals and lifestyle. I don't tolerate disrespectful behaviour from the people I choose to spend my precious time with. The minute I feel that there is too much drama or I'm being disrespected in some way I am going to distance myself. 
You see if you just met me or if even some people who know me think of me as the person they see now, but I fought a lot of roadblocks to be the person you see today and you can be sure I'm not letting anyone take the healthy and positive mindset I've worked so hard at away from me.  You shouldn't either. Surround yourself with positive goal and success oriented people with a good positive outlook . People who are going to genuinely be in your corner, not just those that like your instagram posts or tell you what they think you want to hear because they are on auto pilot and they think that makes them a good friend or feel better about themselves in some way. 
Some people will leave your circle and that's ok, that's part of the growing process. Not everyone can handle or deserves to be on this journey with you. Find a community of like minded peopl

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I've gotta say. I'm so excited to see what's ahead this year. How are you feeling about 2022? Are you excited, apprehensive? Do you have, have some goals written out? On this episode, I gotta say at the risk of being cliche and doing the overdone topic of the new year and preparing for the year ahead, like everybody does we're gonna do it too. I want to look at it in a different way though, if you follow the live your real life now social media you know, I'm a huge advocate for setting goals, but what I'm gonna chat about today is who do you need to become in order to achieve those goals? What kind of mindset will you need? What new habits will you need to develop? What habits will you need to steer away from? Basically what I'm saying is it's so great to take the first step up of deciding on your goals but if you don't have the habits and mindset you'll require in order to reach those goals, it could be more of an uphill battle than it needs to be. This is something that I always incorporate into my prep for the year ahead. So for me, I have some big, hairy business goals for 2022. I know there's a certain mindset I'm going to have to adopt in order to get there. I will have to come out of my shell a little more in order to get my message that I want you all to hear out there. You see there's times that I'm so scared to put new ideas out there for the world to see just like you might feel at times when starting something new. But you know, if all I do is so to say hi behind the camera, it's not going to fulfill my business goals. So I said to myself, when I was sitting down writing my goals what do I have to be? Who do I have to be? Who's the woman that has already achieved that goal. I will work on being her. 
What mindset does she have? I will work on being that person who has already achieved that goal and is working with that mindset of, uh, confidence of, of not being afraid to put herself out there. So next the habits, what kind of habits does that Jennifer need to have? What kind of habits does that Jennifer that has already achieved those big hair business goals? What does she do? Well, one of them is I know I need to schedule myself better.  I teach time blocking to my clients when we talk about time management. But recently I haven't myself been very good at it while running two businesses, I found that I don't stick to the time blocking as much. And then, so I get a little too spread out. So there's a habit that isn't serving me that I need to steer away from in another habit that I will work on develop. 
So it's really like working your way backwards. So think to yourself when I achieve this goal, what is the habit or what are the habits that got me there? What is my mindset once I've achieved success? Okay. So I'm gonna be that person. Now, when I talk about this, it always reminds me of a scene from that movie, the boiler room that tells you how old I am . But, uh, and some of you might not know it. Uh, it's with Ben LIC and it's about stockbrokers. And he always says to them, the new stockbrokers, he says, act as if, act as that version of you that has already achieved your goals. You know, this works for so many things, uh, business goals. Yes, absolutely. But also say you're like me, and maybe you gained a couple pounds over the holidays and maybe you didn't have the best nutrition or maybe you didn't go to the gym. 
In my case at all. I mean, right now our gyms are closed, but I gotta tell you the two days before they close, I went two days straight to the gym. like probably a couple other people did. So I was sitting up doing my goals. And one of my goals is I'm gonna lose those extra pounds. I'm gonna work on being a bit fitter. S

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As the holiday season is in full swing, it is the time to reflect and appreciate all the blessings
we have.

This is the time of year when we realize what is truly important...our health, our friends, and
our family. When we put things in perspective it takes away alot of unnecessary stress and
brings a sense of calm over us.

You may be thinking to yourself, “it has been a horrible year and the pandemic is the cause of
everything that is negative in my life”. Well, I am here to say....nope, sorry...but that is just not
the case.

While the pandemic may have brought on many challenges, it is actually the power of our
thoughts that directly influences our feelings. When you think about it...it’s kind of incredible!

That means....you actually have the power to feel joy, sadness, and excitement whenever you
choose. Take a moment....and really think about that. If you start thinking about things that
make you happy...you begin to feel happy and visa versa.

So, from this moment on, I want you to try to think good thoughts only. I want you to find the
strength to see past the challenges this past year has presented. I want to focus on the
positives only and learn to embrace the idea of loving who you are right now and to think of all
possibilities the future holds. I want you to truly feel the joy of living in the moment and enjoy
this festive season.

Merry Christmas and may the New Year bring you a new perspective to help you to  LIVE Your
REAL Life.

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Hello, my lovely ladies, and welcome to the live your real life podcast. My name is Jennifer, and I'm here to chat with you about all things on how to achieve your goals. While we through this thing called life, I'm a woman who has reinvented herself more times than I can count to become this successful yet, sometimes imperfect and messy woman. I am today. I've built a successful real estate business with my husband through learning some hard lessons, making difficult, not always right choices. I teach you the tried and true strategies on living your best life. We talk real, talk about all things, goal setting, time management, mindset, self image, relationships, entrepreneurship, and more. Think of this as a lunch with your best girlfriends talking and learning and sharing in a cool, safe and loving environment. 

Hi lovely ladies. I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday with friends and family. It's boxing day today here in Canada. And I always around this time of year start thinking about what I can do for the following year. What did I achieve? What didn't I achieve? Um, I'm not a huge new year's Eve celebration person. Don't get me wrong. I love a great cocktail party. Anybody knows, knows I love socializing. I love dressing up and celebrating. Um, but I don't love the expectation of new year's Eve. So normally I just lay low and I always finally sometimes have a better time. I've done the big parties and sometimes I get let down these days, I just lay low. Maybe it's my age. I don't know. maybe because for so many years I always had to work on new year's day. So I feel like that's also why I just stay home. That's sort of out of habit, but this year I'm staying home. And one thing I plan on doing between now and the new year is something that I usually do. I usually take stock of what I did the year before, what I didn't do, the goals I have and what I want to accomplish in the following year. So, not a new year's resolution, a goal plan, a plan with measurable goals, action steps in a timeframe that you want to achieve the goal by. And I always, always, always write these goals down. So one thing I always say is take the time to reflect on the things that you maybe didn't get done for whatever reason. And this isn't an exercise to beat yourself up. That's not what this is about. It's about making a new plan for next year. Maybe your action steps that you were too big from last year and you gave up because you didn't see any success or maybe you decide you're going to have the same goal for next year, but you'll break the action steps down so you can celebrate your wins no matter how small they are in order to stay motivated. 
Maybe you didn't have a timeframe that you wanted to achieve this goal by. So you didn't know when you were going to achieve it in your head. You didn't have that timeframe. So you just kind of went along thinking you had all the time in the world. Maybe you didn't know where to start. Maybe you need someone to hold you accountable or someone to, with motivation or give you the confidence to keep moving. I've been there. I've been there myself, sometimes just having the goal on your own. You don't know where to start. But one thing I do also is I write down how my life would look if I achieved just one of my goals. So how would your life look if you achieved just one of your goals into 2022, the first step is not just writing down all the things, all the dreams and goals you have, but also writing down how your life will look when you achieve these goals and dreams. This was literally my first step. When I decided I wanted to make some changes and start living the life. I'd always imagined. 

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Hello, my lovely ladies, and welcome to the live your real life podcast. My name is Jennifer, and I'm here to chat with you about all things on how to achieve your goals. While we through this thing called life, I'm a woman who has reinvented herself more times than I can count to become this successful yet, sometimes imperfect and messy woman. I am today. I've built a successful real estate business with my husband through learning some hard lessons, making difficult, not always right choices. I teach you the tried and true strategies on living your best life. We talk real, talk about all things, goal setting, time management, mindset, self image, relationships, entrepreneurship, and more. Think of this as a lunch with your best girlfriends talking and learning and sharing in a cool, safe and loving environment. 

Hi ladies. Welcome back. So it's just under one week until Christmas who's freaking out yet. You know, it's super, super strange, because I totally love Christmas. I mean I love decorating my house. I love the music, jazz music, Christmas carols are the best. I love the holidays celebrations that consist of cocktail parties. Getting together with friends. I love buying presents. I love dressing up. I love all the things, but you know, I always seem to experience a certain level of anxiety around Christmas time. I think for me it might be because no matter what I always feel like I can't be where people want me to be, or I can't be everywhere all at the same time. Uh, my husband and I don't have any kids. So yes, we have it pretty easy compared to people who have children. Uh, but you know, I find a lot of women tell me they find it really hard to set boundaries around Christmas time or around the holidays in general. 
I know that for us, sometimes my husband and I on holiday, we just want to celebrate our on our own. Uh, you know, maybe stay at home, have a glass of wine, actually relax. Uh, but how do you tell friends and family members that instead of driving all over God's snowy earth to get together, that you just want to stay home, an open present and enjoy each other's company for once or that you would rather go to Mexico on holiday instead. I mean, I feel like just because it's the holidays, it doesn't mean that you're automatically free to travel night and day for three days does it. So I save, anyone's experiencing what I experience. I say it's okay to say, you know what? That day we've chosen to stay home and celebrate Christmas ourselves as a, a family. You can either say, you'll come by another time or just leave it at that. 
Your time is your time. We're all busy. We all deserve some downtime around the holidays. So if you find it too stressful to drive from place to place this holiday season, then be honest and let people know it has nothing to do with not wanting to celebrate the holidays, but they're your holidays too. Anyone who truly has your best interest at heart, I know they will understand. And if they don't well, can't really control that. What I always say is you can't control how other people act. You can only control how you react to it. So learn to set your boundaries, whatever they may be and have a less stressful holiday season this year. 

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Hi my lovely ladies, welcome to the Live your REAL Life podcast. 

My name is Jennifer and I’m here to chat with you about all things on how to achieve your goals while we navigate through this thing called life.

I am a woman who has reinvented herself more times than I can count to become this successful yet sometimes imperfect and messy woman I am today. I’ve built a successful real estate business with my husband through learning some hard lessons and making difficult not always right choices. 

I teach you the tried-and-true strategies on living your best life. We really talk about all things goal setting, time management, mindset, self-image, relationships, entrepreneurship and more…

Think of this as a lunch with your best girlfriends talking and learning and sharing in a cool, safe and loving environment. 

This podcast is for educational purposes only and does not constitute financial or investment advice. All opinions are my own.

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This podcast is for educational purposes only and does not constitute financial or investment advice. All opinions are my own.