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You’ve been given the gift of choice! Each and every day you wake up to a world chock-full of opportunities. Here’s a valuable tool from Nicole Greer, the Vibrant Coach, to help you discover the sweet spot where you are aware of your decisions, in control of your destiny, and making choices which result in the life you want.
The quality of your thinking becomes the quality of your life, so you need to stop and observe your thinking. When you think in terms of what's possible, light floods your mind with opportunities, illuminates connections and creates fusion between ideas and strategies, systems and the smarts needed to carry out ideas.
Do you long for more? Is something empty deep down inside? Do you long to be fulfilled? Of course you do; this is the human condition. Remember back in psychology class, when you studied Maslow's Hierarchy of needs? Here's a refresher…
Where do you get your energy? Energy is the power to perform. You require energy to support every thought, word, action and interaction in your life. When you don’t have enough energy to do what you want and need to do, you have an energy deficit.
There are six kinds of energy—intellectual, emotional, spiritual, physical, social and money. The way you manage your energy will impact your ability to live each day with vitality.
Confidence is an energy that's formed and strengthened by taking next right steps. Building this energy is essential to living a Vibrant Life, because confidence is the conduit to developing all other abilities. If you want to really live vibrantly—radiating your gifting into the world, on mission, in service to making the world a better place—confidence must be built, stored and at the ready.
Confidence building is huge, and it will require willingness.
Gratitude builds a bridge to wealth. Yes, it can build a bridge to financial wealth. Perhaps more surprisingly—and more importantly—it builds a bridge to a rich, fulfilling life. In reality, building a rich fulfilling life actually makes financial riches more probable.
I base my life on the conviction that a “Vibrant Life” is pulsating with energy and enthusiasm. I am grateful to my creator that I have a natural inclination for the positive. While some may not identify with this bent, I can tell you that even I, a serious optimist, need to fuel myself to live a vibrant life. And I have learned that gratitude is high-octane fuel! When you are grateful, you get filled up—fulfilled, energized and (consequently) enthusiastic. In essence, when you cultivate gratitude you become VIBRANT!
I need you. And, you need me. While most of you reading this are industrious, hard-working, impressive individuals, the truth is you cannot go it alone. You must depend on others.
Though you may have a sparkling personality, great skills, and a treasured talent, you don’t have everything you need to navigate life. The reality is: as individuals, we are limited. When we try to do it all ourselves, we come up short. The possibilities really open up when we join with others who complement and round out who we are at the core. That’s why we get married, join a social club, and have a best friend. These alliances make us stronger. They can help make our dreams come true. Our alliances can change the world.
Love is the fuel that makes all things possible.
Don’t go looking for it in all the wrong places. In fact, don’t even try to figure out the right places! Love is not something you find. Love is something you tap into. Love was the beginning of you. At your conception, love produced your very existence. Love dwells in every cell of your body. The challenge is to acknowledge this reality and make a commitment to love.
Love is a choice you make. Love is a commitment. And most importantly, love is a verb. You have to “do” love. Love done every day, in every thought, word, and action is the ultimate habit work.
If “life is what you make of it,” then we must seize the day. In Latin, the familiar phrase is Carpe Diem. Literally translated, “Carpe diem” means to enjoy the day or to pluck is as if it were a perfect piece of fruit. The energy implied, but often overlooked, is full of joy!
Imagine what your life would be like if you met each day joyfully, taking on the things that you know would create your best year yet?
It would be AMAZING. Right?
Just think about it. Within your power is the opportunity to:
People without confidence suffer more than people with confidence. That's because they're in a state of worry, anxiety and even self-loathing. They wonder: Am I worthy? Am I enough? Do I have what it takes?
Look closely at these questions. Can they be answered? Of course they can. What's required is self-assessment. When faced with an opportunity that calls your skills, talents and gifts into question—leaving you less than confident—it’s time to take stock.