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9 Brilliant Ways to Keep Momentum Alive – The Ultimate Plan for Life!

Written by Maria Connolly. Posted in Change Your Life, Self-Leadership Skills.

Instead of goal lists, supportive life routines keep momentum alive because they don’t add negative self-judgment, mindless reactions or self-loathing.Your future is built upon the choices you make today. However, we may forget that ‘where we are right now’ can be one of our strongest stability points. Remembering to stop, breathe, and regroup or simply slowing down and acknowledging that you’re okay can keep your momentum alive. 

Part of my personal POWER routine is to use my Best Year Yet Tool. I find a quiet space and ask a series of searching questions to observe and celebrate everything accomplished during the present year. And from this, I create a plan and momentum for the upcoming year. 

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Why Setting Powerful Intentions Is The Failproof Way to Keep Your Resolutions

Written by Maria Connolly. Posted in Mindfulness.

Find examples of setting powerful intentions that work in harmony with life systems that build daily practices that support how you want to be and live.As you review this last year, did you accomplish most of what you set out to at the beginning of the year? Every New Year people make resolutions they don’t keep. Why is that? Often it’s not the resolution that’s the problem; it’s that the intention behind the resolution wasn’t powerful enough. Consider why setting powerful intentions is the way to guarantee you keep your resolutions…

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Why Resourceful Life Routines and Systems Are Better Than Resolutions

Written by Maria Connolly. Posted in Spirituality.

When you use life routines and systems instead of resolutions, there’s never failure and you can be happy because your process is how you want to live.Have you noticed how many goals and resolutions are based on not liking yourself? Most New Year’s Resolutions are approached from a scarcity mentality based upon negative thinking…”I’m not skinny enough; I’m not smart enough; I don’t have enough money; I don’t have the life I want to live”. This can be so discouraging! The thing you dislike about yourself can easily overshadow all of the wonderful things you are.

A far superior way of creating change is implementing life routines and systems that support the change you desire. After all, a resolution or goal is a closed-end objective that may occur sometime in the future. It works outside of the reality of who you are today because if you were that person, you wouldn’t be making that goal. A life routine, on the other hand, is something that you practice until it becomes automatic.

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Do You Follow These 7 Easy, Baby Steps to Success? This Process Works!

Written by Maria Connolly. Posted in Change Your Life, Self-Leadership Skills, Stepping Forward.

Learn from a real-life example showing how to use the seven baby steps to success and you’ll have the skills to make any of your Big Dreams come true.“I wish…” We do it all the time, don’t we? We learned about making wishes from fairy tales. Magically, what you desire appears, without any effort. That’s not how real life happens, however. Yet so many of our goals remain wishes. “I wish I could  lose weight.” “I wish I could write a book.” “I wish I could start a new career.” Wishing alone doesn’t make your dreams come true. There’s more to traveling the steps to success.

Yes, wishing, wanting and dreaming are quite important to our human experience. They are the genesis from which we create a desire to do something different, to be more.

I urge you to be a Dreamer and dream big. But don’t stop there. Being a Dreamer won’t make your dreams come true. They’ll eventually languish in a drawer and will never see the light of day. So what’s next?

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How to Strengthen Your Spiritual Foundation for Greater Peace and Joy

Written by Maria Connolly. Posted in Health and Wellness, Self-Leadership Skills.

Just improving physical, mental, and emotional health doesn’t satisfy a deeper need – our spiritual foundation — here’s how to mindfully strengthen it.When people think of improving their health, they often think of improving physical, mental, and emotional health. All these are good and essential, however, it doesn’t satisfy a deeper health that we all innately have – our spiritual health. Just as we can do strength training for greater physical stamina, we can also work on strengthening our spiritual foundation.

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