Upside Leaders Reframe What Is Possible

There is no glory in being a martyr, or having a poverty mindset, depriving yourself of good things.

There is also no fame in trading in pieces of your Soul for shiny objects, trying to fill the hole in your heart with a daily grind to get more.

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Yet, I hear every. single. week. from someone who is STUCK in one of these 2 cycles of either deprivation or being on an endless treadmill trying to fill an inner void.

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You do not need to suffer in order to have what you want.

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It is likely you have to REPROGRAM WHAT YOU BELIEVE IS POSSIBLE – and how it is possible to achieve it.

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It’s often whether you believe you can experience a life of passion, purpose, and prosperity on your terms.

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On your terms still requires work. The right kind of work.

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It takes work to

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~ stay FOCUSED,

~ stay COMMITTED, and

~ stay CONNECTED

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to what matters most to you.

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You have no extra minutes of your life to waste.

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~ Just ask someone who has gotten a life-threatening medical diagnosis.

~ Just ask someone who has gotten home from burying a loved one.

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A few days ago, the force of giving up almost took me out at 3:15am.

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(Yes, I regularly wake up that early.)

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From what I was wearing, to what I was doing,

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it seemed as if everything touched was falling apart at the seams - literally.

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If I was one to use profanity, it would have been an F-bomb kinda day. Just sayin’…

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So, here’s the thing…

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When it’s happening to you, you may be thinking it’s you.

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Or you did something that "caused" all this lousy stuff to show up around you.

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In this situation, you’re not that unique as this experience happens to EVERYONE.

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No one is exempt from days where distractions, doubts, and frustrations show up, trying to take you out of alignment and off course.

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The people who go back to bed and hide under the covers waiting for it to go away will spend most of their life waiting.

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I choose to reframe each experience (today there were 6 of them), see it as a valuable lesson (thank you?Jennifer Hough ) – and understand I learn far more when things go sideways than when they move forward in a straight line.

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I also called in 2 lifelines throughout the day, reaching out to both?Suzanne ?and my husband Jim so that I could continue to move forward with ease and grace.

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As it turns out, both of them were having a similar kind of day! LOL.

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So you see, “on your terms” does not mean have it all your way or that every day rolls out like a red carpet; this isn’t Burger King or the Oscars.

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On your terms means you can have…

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~ incredible relationships,

~ a business or career that works for you – and not the other way around – and

~ all of the resources to do what you love to do without the stress

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…because you have REPROGRAMMED your operating system to think and see the world differently. To see challenges as learning opportunities or just part of the fabric of life that is often times messy and almost never about straight lines.?

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On your terms starts to show up for you in ways you couldn’t have envisioned.

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Better.

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And at the end of the day, that’s exactly what has happened to me.

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I stayed the course, focused, committed, and connected to what I want – and better showed up in the form of my attitude and way of being... AND

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I even signed up a new client.

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If I'd stayed frustrated and negative, I might have missed the chance of having the amazing day that I did.

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So, what are you waiting for?

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Get clear on who you are, what you want and why it matters.

And stay the course.

Regardless of whatever form of crazy distraction, frustration, or doubt shows up.

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ACTION:??

The Upside Challenge?for the week is to practice reframing challenging moments. See how you can re-orient yourself by remembering who you are, what you want, and why it matters.

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• Reach out to others.
• Note and acknowledge yourself for each time you do.?
• Tally up your wins on "reprogramming."?

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Because the world needs you and your brilliance.

Now more than ever.