Category: Transform Your Life

Is Your Master Life Plan Flexible Enough to Make This Your Best Year Yet?

Written by Maria Connolly. Posted in Life Skills, Transform Your Life.

Every December, I engage in a powerful ritual called Best Year Yet. It’s a time when I pause, reflect, and realign my vision for the year ahead. This process often reveals something profound, a shift in how I understand myself in connection with performance and potential. This new understanding is the foundation that helps me adjust my Master Life Plan.

I created my Master Life Plan years ago with the intention that it be flexible — allowing me to grow or rest as I need. It guides me throughout each coming year, making it better than the last. Do you do something similar to get ready for a new year?

The Body Remembers: Surprising Ways Family Dynamics Affect You

Written by Maria Connolly. Posted in Controlling Stress, Dream Big - Start Small, Transform Your Life.

There’s something profound about returning to the places and people that shaped us. Recently, I went back to Italy to visit my family, spending time with my mom and my brother—who holds a special place in my heart. Being back in the home I grew up in was a comforting experience, but it also stirred up a mixture of memories, both joyful and challenging. I felt firsthand how deeply the body remembers, holding traces of these formative experiences even when we aren’t consciously aware of them.

Courageous Self-Loyalty in a Busy World — It’s Not Selfish. It’s Vital!

Written by Maria Connolly. Posted in Dream Big - Start Small, Transform Your Life.

Do you value and expect loyalty from those closest to you? When we’re loyal, we’ve got their back no matter what. We never lose faith in them, because we know how devastating disloyalty is — it’s the ultimate betrayal. So, let me ask, Do you have that kind of loyalty for yourself? Or do you think loyalty to others means giving up self-loyalty?

Yes, in good relationships we all make sacrifices and compromises. That’s the give-and-take that helps us dance through life. However, all give and no take makes us off-balanced and unwell. Take, for example, Zoe…

Skill Set vs. Mindset – Which Will Help You Achieve the Life You Love?

Written by Maria Connolly. Posted in Dream Big - Start Small, Embodied Leadership, Transform Your Life.

From day one, we focused on learning new skills – learning to walk, read, or ride a bike. Academically, we were encouraged to acquire new skills and we dedicated ourselves to building our resume by attending school, getting a degree, and signing up for continuing education. Obviously, a well-rounded skill set is important but what about your mindset? In skill set vs. mindset is there a clear winner when you’re trying to design the life you love?

Change Your Perspective & Expectations – The Hidden Power to Make Everything Better

Written by Maria Connolly. Posted in Dream Big - Start Small, Transform Your Life.

Have you ever dropped something and can’t find it? If it’s valuable, you won’t be content with standing in one spot and briefly glancing down. No, you’ll move around, bend over, stoop down, and even get on your knees to look under everything, until you find it. The same goes for life. We’re not stuck with one view. We have the power to take a step back and look at things from a new angle. And that’s what the Inner Fitness Challenge Tool #7 — Change Your Perspective / Finetune Your Expectations reminds you to do.

Truth be told, there may be certain ideas and beliefs we developed when we were younger that keep us looking at certain things from a child-like angle. We get activated by a challenge and might lack a heightened adult perspective, so we react in a way we regret. But we can develop a heightened perspective —the ability to see an event from multiple perspectives, not just the perspective of our younger self.

Category: Transform Your Life

Is Your Master Life Plan Flexible Enough to Make This Your Best Year Yet?

The Body Remembers: Surprising Ways Family Dynamics Affect You

Courageous Self-Loyalty in a Busy World — It’s Not Selfish. It’s Vital!

Skill Set vs. Mindset – Which Will Help You Achieve the Life You Love?

Change Your Perspective & Expectations – The Hidden Power to Make Everything Better

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