My mom, my sis & I LOVE the holidays.

We live for it. We celebrate Christmas, but it’s about the entire season for us.

We get into and enjoy the whole experience throughout the month of December.

The atmosphere, the shopping, the repetitive songs, Love Actually, the wrapping and most of all surprising each other.

My mom (Debbi) was a FANTASTIC Santa when we were kids and as we got older we wanted return the favor and keep the Santa magic alive.

It turned into a standing tradition where we get each other lots of gifts and wake up together Christmas morning. (Like kids, but we're not.)

I’m now 39, my sister Stephanie is 36. We’ve never spent a Xmas morning apart. Boyfriends have come and gone and come again, but we do not, will not, break this tradition.

We sit by the tree for hours with our coffee and the on-demand yule log loop on the TV trying to extend the present opening ceremony as long as we possibly can.

Because we loved the experience so...

Have you ever tried affirmations with no luck, or worse, attracted the opposite of what you wanted?

Many do & it gives one of the most powerful and easy to use mindset tools a bad wrap!

Just so we're all on the same page, an affirmation is: "the assertion that something exists or is true" or a "statement that is declared to be true".

Key word - TRUE. (you can't lie to the U)

Your entire perceived reality is a reflection of what you believe is true.

Affirming new intentional beliefs helps make them TRUE for your Sub C mind & once that happens, what you want to experience will show up.

Here’s a basic guideline so you can design your own with confidence knowing that they won't backfire on you!

#1 BE SPECIFIC.

Make sure the U knows what you're really requesting.

If you need or want $10,000, but you're just asking for "money" that can mean ANYTHING to the U whose been around for a long time.

We used to use farm animals & grain as money back in the day and I'm pretty...

I've made a lot of changes in my life over the years, big & small & I know first hand that it can be SO. DAMN. HARD.

What I've realized is that every time I've been successful (& by successful I mean not only did I make the changes happen, but they stuck, for GOOD) was when I've used my 6 Step EASY PEASY LOA™ process to create them.

If you've ever been or have known an (addicted) smoker you know how friggin' hard it is to quit!

Yes, I used to be a "smoker".

And I’m not apologizing for it because I LOVED IT.

Like, really loved it. I mean looooovvvvvvvvveeeeddddd iiiiiiit. So much, with all of my heart, omg it was WONDERFUL.

Especially with my morning coffee. Life did not get any more heavenly than that.

At the time I started to consider quitting, I was still a designer in the fashion industry which was getting really old & I was stepping into a "new me” as a health coach.

Obviously my smoking & being a health coach...

I went to design school w/ my 2 bffs & we would always procrastinate doing our work.
We created a phrase that we used for the last stretch of time before our work was due in class.

It was called “THE DANGER ZONE” (cue Kenny Loggins). We were in it often & it was no joke.

When the danger zone was declared, everything else that wasn’t the work was put on hold. Food, sleep, personal hygiene… etc. Mass quantities of adrenaline were then dumped into our systems & intense laser beam like focus set in.

It was no longer about inspiration & creation, those feel good, this was about something much more pure – getting it DONE.

These habits followed me into my career as a designer & I believed it was just how I was, how I worked.

I believed that I NEEDED those insane bursts of adrenaline in order to complete things. That I’d never be one of those people who set out to get things done ahead of time.
I...