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How to Revisit, Reclaim and Redefine Your ONE Word

Learn how to Revisit, Reclaim, and possibly Redefine one of the most important words in your vocabulary.

At the beginning of each year many of us choose one word to represent our intention for the year.  I heard from many of you and your words were: Faith, Listen, Positive, Less, Love, Unite, Focus, Create, Slow, Discovery, Intentional-Joy, Grace, Quiet, Heal.

An important part about choosing a single word to focus on throughout the year is to keep it at the forefront of our thoughts so we are intentional about bringing about the transformation we hope for.

Whether you’ve had your WORD on your mind everyday or you haven’t really thought much about it for the last several weeks or months, today’s video is for you.  I discuss the 3 R process: Revisit, Reclaim, Redefine.

I’d love to hear from you.  Which of the Rs symbolized where you are? Let me know in the comments below.

Join me for Your Intentional Life Facebook Live series every Wednesday morning.

As always, I appreciate you spending time with me here today!

Please share if you have friends, family, and co-workers that could benefit from the power of setting an intentional word in their life.

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Meditation 101

This week we’re diving into the basics of MEDITATION.

In today’s video I’ll be covering ideas to get you started on your meditation journey, including:

  • The benefits of meditation, of which there are many.
  • The 3 types of meditation I practice (and what happened when I stopped meditating for a couple of months).
  • The 3 free meditation apps I recommend.

Here are links to the meditation apps I mentioned and highly recommend:

Calm (I use the free version.)
Insight Timer (I use the free version.)
Headspace (I’ve not used, but have heard from many trusted friends that they enjoy.)

Whether you try meditating for 5 minutes or an hour per day, I highly recommend you try it for at least 30 days.  I’m pretty sure you’ll see benefits that will make you a meditator for life!

Let me know if you have any questions, or have suggestions,based on your meditation practice.

As always, I appreciate you spending time with me here today.

Jill xo

P.S. You know that sharing is caring, so please share away. : )

If you didn’t catch my video last week on practicing everyday mindfulness, watch it here.

I also created a guide which will get you from distracted to enjoying the present moment in less than 1 minute.
Download that free guide right here:

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Your Guide To Everyday Mindfulness

Mindfulness

Mindfulness is the basic human ability to be present.

You’d think those three words, “basic-human-ability” would make it a no-brainer for us to be able to really be present in the moments that fill our lives, but alas, as with so many good things, it’s just not that easy.  Mindfulness takes work.

That’s why the word “practice” is so often combined with the word “mindfulness.”  Just like anything we want to get better at, we must practice.  You can’t expect to perform a perfect cartwheel without practice, right?  The same goes with mindfulness.  Daily practice will help you to create mindful habits, which will, in turn, create a lifestyle of living in present moments.

I created a guide called, The Practice of Everyday Mindfulness that has lots of normal, everyday events that you can practice at being more mindful. If you’d like to lower your stress, increase focus and clarity, and improve your relationships, I suggest you download it immediately.  : )

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In today’s video I discuss what mindfulness is, how it can make your life better and how you can begin practicing mindfulness today.

I’d like to hear what works for you in your efforts to be more present.  Do you practice mindfulness?  Is there something else that helps you reach this state of awareness?  Have you tried any of the exercises I suggest in today’s video?

As always, I appreciate you spending time with me here today.

Share my blog with a friend, family-member or co-worker that might find this topic interesting and/or helpful.

Here’s to experiencing more mindful moments in our day-to-day lives.

Jill xx

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How To Weather The Storms In Your Life

Are you prepared to weather the storms in life?

Our friends in Texas are dealing with catastrophic devastation due to hurricane Harvey.  As the storm was approaching, there were alerts as to how to prepare for the storm that was approaching.  Clearly, no matter the amount of precautions you take, some storms will devastate despite our best efforts.  Nevertheless, it’s still always a good plan to prepare.

Isn’t this the case with our own personal storms?  Whether it be emotional, spiritual or physical, as the storms in life approach — and we know they will — we are wise to heed similar disaster preparedness suggestions.  In today’s video, see how the 4 most common disaster preparedness techniques relates to how we handle our personal life-storms.

I’d love to hear from you?  Can you relate to these storm warning suggestions?  Have you seen that one applies more than the others?  Tell me in the comments below.

As always, I appreciate you spending time with me here today!

Jill xx

P.S. There many opportunities to help those affected by the Harvey storm, but I was particularly moved to hear author Brene Brown request donations for one of the most basic items: NEW underwear.  There is a basic level of dignity that wearing clean underwear brings and many of the people going through the aftermath of Harvey right now, do not have even this most basic item.  Please watch Brene’s video with donation instructions here.

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