Motivation Moments with Michelle

Today we’re going to explore the idea of rediscovering meaning, joy, and purpose in our lives.

It is easy to look at the state of your life and see every moment where things went wrong but this leads us to a place in our mind that is really negative.

Let me show you how to fix that.

Last week we talked about burnout and how important it is for each one of us to take account of what our world looks like right now and how burnout might be impacting us.

It's really important that we start to recognize the signs of burnout and we start to put interventions into place so we don't have to experience that.

Today I am going to give you 9 tips and trick you can put into place to help you better manage stress and if you are in that place of burnout you can get yourself back in control.

Burnout is a state emotional, physical, and mental exhaustion when there is excessive and prolonged stress. We start to burnout when we feel overwhelmed - when we get emotionally drained.

When it comes to dealing with burnout we have to… Recognize. Reverse. Resilience.

Today we are going to talk about boundaries. Now boundaries can be a bit of a confusing topic for some people.

We’ve heard of having strict boundaries. Some people are on the extreme, they’re like Camelot. On the other hand some boundaries look like a soccer field. No walls, there is just a person and a referee. People are running all over the place and it's chaotic because there are no boundaries.

If I’m being honest we need to be more fluid then that. It doesn’t have to be one or the other in fact your boundaries should look more like a house with a fence.

The quality of your thoughts and the expectations you have for yourself are going to continuously impact your moods, feelings and it really shifts a lot of behaviors and results in your life.

Self-care is a buzzword these days and it is really important to make sure we understand that self-care is not the same as being self-indulgent or being selfish.

Self-care means taking care of yourself so that you can be healthy, you can be well, you can do your job, you can help and care for others, and you can do all the things you need to and want to accomplish in a day.

Everyone must develop their own relationship with self-care. Yoga and stretching are great ways to start.

We are pulled in many directions based on all the demands we have in our lives some are from the world around us and some we put on ourselves. Day to day and moment to moment we have to decide what is going to happen. We choose how we spend our time.

I have put together a list of time skills so that you can do an assessment on which skills you need to develop or which things you need to improve in order to better manage your time.

It seems like throughout time and history people have always wanted to "manage" time and the thing is is that we can't manage time. We all have the same exact amount of time available to us. But having an exceptional set of skills can really help us to navigate through that time that we do have available.

Over the next two weeks, I'm going to talk about a few of these core skills that you can start to work on that will help you to better navigate through the time that you have available to you.

The world we live in is really chaotic right now and for a lot of us it doesn't matter what side we're on we are finding that we constantly feel like we're in a state of chaos.

Today we are going to talk about some mindset shifts that we can make that will help us to shift out of that chaos mindset.

We are going to continue where we left off last week and continue talking about building confidence. You have to change your perspective and your mindset and you have to choose to be more confident which is much easier said then done!