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‘Tis The Season To Be Grateful

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As everyone in the U.S. is making final preparations for Thanksgiving tomorrow, I too have been MIA on the blog front, however I thought it was important for me to do a post on gratitude.  While I could go on about how gratitude is beneficial in life and in the pursuit of your dreams (and it is), I instead want to focus on the people, blogs, and many inspirations I have had in my life over the last year who have helped me (directly and indirectly) get moving on my dream.

I am grateful for:

  • Kenetha Stanton for inspiring me through her beautiful words to create a blog of my own (for the third time) and for providing the insight into how many of the WP functions work
  • Michelle Ward the When I Grow Up Coach who inspired me through her blog, her story, and the pursuit of her dreams to never let go of mine, and for tweeting a link to a post I wrote about her a few months back-pretty exciting stuff!
  • Jess Lively who also has reminded me through her candid details about her successes and disappointments the importance of ‘just keep going’ in life and in business
  • My amazing readers for following my journey, commenting on my posts, and just being here.  For those of you who follow my blog, you have no idea how grateful I am to you. THANK YOU!
  • My lovely coworker(you know who you are!) who told me to take a leap of faith in creating my business when I thought there were so many other things to do first and who has given me many pep-talks when I needed them.  That initial conversation was a game-changer for my dreams and everything else that followed.
  • Erin McNaughton aka my guinea pig client who took a leap of faith into the wonderful world of coaching with a newbie like myself and who has had amazing results from the 4 months we worked together.  Not only is she incredibly talented, but she is also inspiring, motivated, and the best first client a girl could ask for.
  • My other clients who have also followed suit in working with me.  You all are amazing and YOU are the reason I do the work that I do.
  • For those of you thinking of working with me in the future, thank you for considering me.  I would be honored to be a part of your journey to live the life of your dreams.
  • Last but not least, all of the many blogs that lift me up, make me laugh, cry, and leave me inspired to continue doing this amazing work.  There are too many to list, but know that I am so grateful for you as well.

I hope you all can spend some time reflecting on what you are grateful for this holiday season.  May you enjoy your holiday if you are celebrating and I will be back in full blogging-action next week.

Happy Thanksgiving and as always, thanks for reading. 🙂

 

November Theme: Gratitude & Giving

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Happy Friday you Darling Dreamers!

It’s the end of another week and the start of a new month!  I can’t believe in 2 months we will be moving into yet another year of wonderful goodness.  Can you feel the energy speeding up with the holidays quickly approaching?  I sure can!

I have been thinking about 2014 a lot over the last few weeks.  While each year feels like an opportunity to start anew, 2014 seems even more like a clean slate.  Maybe it has to do with my current job coming to an end and the options for the future still to be determined.

Every year around this time, I get excited for the newness and a fresh opportunity to make huge strides in my life and to make it an even better year than the one before.  I tend to do a bit of reflection on the past year to identify the growth, evolution, and lessons learned as well as figure out what I still want to work on.  Then, I might sit down to write a letter to myself for the year ahead or create a vision board of what I want to achieve (depending on how I am feeling).

Do you do any type of reflection before you set your intentions for the coming year?  I asked around to some of my friends and many of them said they haven’t even begun to think of what they want in 2014.  Have you?

If you haven’t, I encourage you to take some time to do just that.  Ask yourself the following questions:

What did I accomplish in 2013?

What lessons did I learn?

What didn’t I accomplish that I wanted to?

What was holding me back?

That last question is a big one and it may not be something you can readily identify.  Many people would answer that with a simple word : Life.

When it comes to resolutions, intentions, goals, and big dreams there are a number of things that can hold a person back.  Maybe you are fearful of failure (who isn’t?).  Maybe you have a fear of the unknown.  Some people fear success.  Others say that lack of motivation, inspiration, and a plan to do what they love is the issue.  Maybe it’s time, resources, money, connections, confidence, that is keeping you where you are.  Or maybe you have no clue what it is.

Identifying what has held you back from achieving your deepest desires is a step in the right direction.  Knowledge is power, so knowing what it is is half the battle.  The other half is knowing what to do to get through it.

As we move swiftly into the November and the holiday season, I encourage you to take some time to reflect on 2013 so far.  Don’t just identify the marks you missed, but make sure to identify the things you did well.  The good, great, and amazing moments of 2013 should be celebrated!

With that said, I wanted to let you know that I have created a theme for November and that theme is Gratitude & Giving.  With the holiday season upon us and a new year just around the corner, I wanted to extend some amazing (and FREE) opportunities/gifts for you lovely readers.  While I am planning for 2014 to be an incredible-blow-my-mind-adventure, I also want to place my focus on the abundance and beauty that is in my life in this very moment.

So, for your first gift, you can download your copy of my article : 20 Ways To Keep Your Dream Alive!  All you have to do is sign up for my newsletter and I promise NOT to send you unnecessary, boring, emails just to send them.  This list is truly my VIP list, so you are going to want to take full advantage of the awesome gifts that are coming this month.

I hope you have a magnificent weekend and as always, thanks for reading!

Love

Gratitude: Life Purpose and Inspirational Clients

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This week has been a bit hairy, but in between juggling many tasks, I felt something I have been longing to feel for years.

A feeling of “Yes, THIS is what I am meant to do!”

I have always known that I wanted to be a life coach at honestly thought I would be pretty good at it, but this week I received the ooey-gooey feeling of exhilaration mixed with joy mixed with inspiration that let me know, this is my purpose.

image from michelleparsons.com
image from michelleparsons.com

I wish I could tell you the exact moment it hit, but I can’t.  I honestly think it was a culmination of working with two incredible clients this week who both had some major breakthroughs.  I had a feeling of awe, wonder, and excitement for their growth and am honored to be able to work with such wonderful women.  I also realized that with each new session we complete, I am also learning and evolving into a better coach.  I constantly leave my sessions feeling inspired, amazed, and content with the work I am doing.

If you told me a year ago I would be a life coach, and I would be enjoying the work that I do so much that I have a hard time falling asleep, I wouldn’t have believed you.  At that time I didn’t know it was possible.  I didn’t know, what I didn’t know.

I had no idea it was possible to simply follow your heart and allow the pieces to fall into place.  I didn’t know there was another path to the most logical and sensible path I kept revisiting.  I didn’t know I had the power to create a life and career that I both loved and appreciated daily.

I just didn’t know…

My guess is that many of you feel the same way.  You may not see the way out of a particular job or know how to get things rolling with your dream life.  Maybe all the reasons you think you can’t do it right now seem logical, but I bet if you tapped into your heart and could hear what it had to say, you would realize there are a million ways your dream can come true.  The logical option is only one.

My life purpose is to help people follow their hearts to live the life of their dreams.  It is to facilitate and co-create an amazing journey where clients leave their sessions feeling refreshed, revitalized, and inspired to keep going.

If you are interested in what coaching can do for you, feel free to contact me at lamisha@lifeoncedreamt.com to set up a FREE 30-minute intro session.  I would love to chat with you!

Gratitude: Dreaming And Achieving

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If you would have told me 10 years, 5 years, or even a year ago that I would be taking a leap into the unknown of starting my own business, I would think you were nuts.  The old me would never have thought that I would have the ability, fortitude, and inspiration to start my own business and yet here I am.

While I am still in the very early stages of my business (and really client-wise nothing has changed since yesterday), I feel different.  I feel a sense of peace, excitement, and overall joy for what I have created and what is to come.  I am not worried about where my clients will come from or the amount of money I will make from my new venture.  In fact I feel the exact opposite.

Instead of worry, I am filled with faith.  Faith that those people who are meant to work with me will find me and as long as I follow my inspiration and intuition everything will fall into place. 

Today, I am grateful, proud, and excited to say that what was once a dream for me is now reality and I can’t wait to help others make their thoughts, visions, and inspirations materialize. 

I now know that no matter how big your dreams may seem or how difficult you perceive the path to be, nothing is impossible.  In fact, the process of creating the life of your dreams doesn’t even have to be hard!  It can be fun, exhilarating, and enjoyable no matter what it is.  

Believe me when I say, if I can do it, you can too!

I hope you have a wonderful weekend and spend some time envisioning the life of your dreams and believing it can happen!

A Feeling of Contentment

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Have you ever had a time when everything felt just right?  A time when you weren’t focused on any struggles, worries, difficulties, or challenges? 

I had that moment today.

Today, I experienced an overwhelming sense of peace and contentment.  A feeling I haven’t known very well in the past few years, but it felt eerily familiar.  Almost like this is how life is supposed to feel.

In that moment I was grateful for the work I have done thus far, for my clients, for my growth, and for the awareness that everything is going to be just fine.  I didn’t worry about my to-do list or the items I have wanted to get done before the launch of my business.  I didn’t worry about how, when, why, or who I would be working with in the future. 

I simply allowed myself to revel in the moment of contentment.

Thinking about it now, the feeling is coming back and it is amazing.

I encourage you to take some time this weekend to simply reflect on the week and bring your awareness to this very moment.  Can you find that space of contentment and gratitude for everything in your life right now?  If you can, enjoy it and embrace it and know that everything is working out exactly as it should.  Know that your dreams will manifest and whatever worries that have plagued your mind will be ok. 

May you find that feeling of contentment and enjoy a peaceful weekend and as always, thanks for reading!