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How many times a day or a week do you say to someone, I just don’t have enough time!

How often do you say to yourself that all the projects and dreams you have would be happening, if you just had more time?

What’s so interesting about time is that for day-to-day tasks, we often feel we don’t have enough time. And yet, when it comes to our dreams, we tend to think we have an infinite amount of time.

Well, as shocking as it sounds- everyone has 24 hours every day or 168 hours every week. Today, I want to talk about how the amount of time you have isn’t the problem, it’s how you use those hours, minutes and seconds.

Today’s we’re talking about confidence. But what is confidence? And does it differ from self-esteem?

Self-esteem is usually speaking of how we feel about ourselves, our self-worth and is about how much we like ourselves?

Confidence, on the other hand, is typically connected to feelings around what we think we can achieve. Confidence is all about the doing.

For women, our confidence comes from knowing who you are- at your core. Not the roles you have in your life, but the woman you truly are… the real you.

I don’t know about you, but something is in the air. Everyone I speak with these days is tired of their old patterns and ready for something new. It’s like we are all little chicks, wanting to break out of our shells.

I hope you’ve identified your BIG Audacious Dream for 2021.

Start your own business.

Get fit and healthy.

Be a published author.

Become financially independent.

But often, nothing happens after we write out the dream. You might look at it from time to time, but most often, people will put it on a shelf for someday…. maybe next year….

When your dreams don’t happen, it is usually because you have no idea how to get there.

I don’t know about you, but this is about the time I start to question my New Year’s Resolutions- or BIG plans for the year.

I am positive YOU can relate. So, how do we remain excited about the year in front of us and on track with our goals and dreams?  I’ve come up with a few ideas I’m trying out. Listen to hear them. 

Today’s conversation is about the Law of Attraction and what it means when we are trying to reorganize, reinvent, or recapture joy into our lives.  As you know, my business is all about helping women to step into their real and true selves. Stepping into the Real You requires you to make some changes, and the law of attraction will support you in making those changes.

But first… You have to know what you want! I’m going to connect the Real you to the Law of Attraction because IF what you think you want, isn’t authentic and real to you, it’s not going to happen.

Today’s topic is Joy- or more specifically, how we recapture and keep joy in our lives. We all know the French phrase la Joie de Vivre or the joy of living. 

But what is joy? It is when we feel very alive, happy, and hopeful. 

So how do we recapture la joie de vivre back into our lives? Listen to find out...  

Yet most of us take on a belief as though it really was a truth. We’ll even stand firm that whatever we believe is a fact, and completely and totally the truth!

I have to watch myself because I do this all the time.

How many times does this happen? You think you know how someone else feels about you or what someone’s motives are, but it is totally based on how you are interpreting what they said or how they acted. Then you carry that belief forward to the point that you are incredibly sure you even know what they are thinking!

It is almost 2021....let’s all take a deep breath. Phew....2020 was an amazing year. We learned so much about ourselves, our partners, our friends, our careers.... how to be alone, how to be quiet, how to create boundaries.

I’m sure all of you have already started to make that list of what you want to accomplish in 2021. If 2020 taught me anything, it was that I need to be more intentional. I learned that to slow down every single day and reflect on the decisions and choices that I made that day, helped me enormously to stay on track and move forward on the goals I had for myself.

And although this year has certainly been unusual, it brought us the gift of the time and the space to get clarity on many aspects of our lives. In all our relationships, the curtains were pulled open and suddenly we saw these relationships for what they really are.

Some became closer. Some revealed flaws that we couldn’t accept. And others, that we thought were close (friends and family alike) we learned were not. People began to show their real and true selves because all the tools and accessories we use to pretend to ourselves and those around us, disappeared.

In 2020, we had to BE with ourselves all the time with none of the usual distractions.

We are women and therefore to connect with our REAL selves, we must embrace our femininity rather than hide it or only let it be seen on special occasions.

Given French women are portrayed as the ultimate of femininity, I think this contributes greatly to our Francophile obsession.  Maybe it reflects our deep desire to be feminine again.