Stepping Up for the Working Mom

As we finish up the month of November, one where many people focus on gratitude, I want to share with you why a daily gratitude practice is key to your happiness. 

It's more than just thinking about what you appreciate in your life. It's about truly taking a moment to feel that gratitude within your body. Feel the emotions of love, peace and joy. 

In this episode I share more about why feeling gratitude is the most important piece of a gratitude practice! 

In 2018 I quit my full-time job because I wanted to live my life on my terms. I didn't want to be tied to a desk, I wanted to have freedom of time to pick my kids up from school without needing or requiring after school care. I wanted to take them to the park in the summer in the middle of the day on a Wednesday simple because I wanted to. 

It wasn't just about creating my own business, but finding a way to live my life on my terms. To find a work/life balance that fulfilled my needs as a working mom. 

I did just that by constantly following my heart, listening to my intuition and taking calculated risks. 

You can do that too!!! I can't tell you what you want for your work/life balance, but I can tell you that whatever you want is possible! 

Just as the seasons change so does our life. We are constantly moving in a new direction, and repeating the cycle over and over again. We may change what we do, but the cycle remains the same.....

First....plant the seeds
Second...take care of the seeds giving it water and sun to grow
Third...waiting for it to grow and flourish
Fourth...harvesting your good work

Each year, each day, each month we go through seasons. Learn to give yourself grace by first determining where you are in your life. Whether it's as a parent, in a relationship, with your business. Honor that season and thank it for being where you are, knowning that you are growing to get to the next stage. 

What we believe to be true isn't always truth....actually most of the time it's a story that we've created in our head and repeated over and over again until we believed that it was truth. 

If you want to make changes in your life you must find these beliefs and show yourself that they aren't true and create more empowering beliefs.  I have had to do this time and time again as I pivoted from working full-time, to full-time entrepreneur to part-time employee and part-time entrepreneur. 

I've recently made a change in my beliefs around food and exercise and I finally started eating better and losing weight that I've been carrying around for 5 years. 

Have you heard of Manifestation and Law of Attraction? 

Tried it before and it didn't work? 

Want to figure out how to make it work for you because you want to bring things or people into your life? 

This is a great intro into Manifestation and how to get started today attracting the things or people you want into your life!!! 

There is a ripple effect to the Coronavirus. It doesn't just affect us individually, or our family unit it affected everyone around me. The worry, the fear the doubt. Yet not one medical professional told me to ensure I was taking care of my mental health. Thankfully I have a bunch of tools in my tool box already that I leaned on heavily last week. 

Last week my son and I were tested (both negative), but the emotional toll it took on me was exhausting. Having to deal with taking my 5 year to get tested, then telling work I wouldn't be coming in, having my son home all week while I took Zoom meeting after Zoom meeting. 

If you find yourself in a space where your mental and emotional health is at risk, I highly recommend you do these 3 things to ensure you are taking care of you: 

1. Journal all your feelings and emotions
2. Find quiet time - meditate!!! 
3. Change your surroundings - go for a long week or get away for a day or 2 

We all have dreams, and it's easy to dream, it's not always easy to take action  on those dreams. 

Our egos tend to get in the way because the action required of us is scary and uncomfortable. But if you find yourself inspired to take action and you're afraid then trust yourself to know you are doing exactly what you need to do! 

We must know where we want to go, but we don't need to know every single step, we just need to do the next step. It's the small forward motion that will create the momentum we need to get to our dreams!! 

I'm a woman and I follow a 28 day cycle, my body and my mood fluctuates with this cycle. So 9 months ago I started actively following my cycle. I paid attention to where I was in my cycle. Then in May 2020 I went off of birth control completely and allowed my body to regulate itself. 

Through the practice of tracking my cycle and now actively seed cycling I noticed some major shifts each month. I'm slowly becoming more aware of times of low energy and times of high energy. Through this awareness I'm using my cycle to plan out my schedule, take rest when I need it and eat differently. 

When we as women listen to our bodies we can become advocates for ourselves. We can ask for what we need, when we need it. We also understand why we may be more tired and instead of pushing through that feeling and forcing ourselves to feel a different way we can lean in and allow ourselves to flow through the different parts of our cycle. 

Having courage is about taking action in spite of fear! The fear will always be there and if we wait for the fear to go away we'll never take the action. 

Inspired by recent conversations around courage, confidence, fear and showing up consistently for our business and our lives I'm sharing with you what I've learned. I hope you are inspired to take the action even when it's hard and scary. You are worth it!! 

Meditation can help you find inspiration when you feel you have none!! It allows you to quiet the body and open up the mind to all sorts of new ideas!!

I've created a 6 week meditation to boost creativity program just for you, someone who is posting content on social media, writing emails and connecting with an audience.

I know what it's like to feel like you've got nothing to say, but I'm here to tell you that you always have something to say and meditation will help you find those words.

Join me at nikkigingrich.com/meditation 

We start on October 12, 2020