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Using active listening skills reduces the chance of miscommunication. Without the ability to listen effectively, messages are easily misunderstood . Follow Me: Instagram Facebook Website/Blog

My health and wellness journey is ever-evolving. I set out on this journey to improve my health, mainly to lose weight. My weight loss journey has transformed into a total wellness journey. Our thoughts, feelings, and attitudes can affect how our bodies function, and how we function physically can affect our mental state. Together we can work to build your unique roadmap to success. Please reach out to me @ shinebydesign.info@gmail.com

Life truly is what you make it. Most people life by default - just letting things happen - no dreams or goals - just living or worse existing. Living a life you design means you are making choices that will create the life you want. For more information about the Optavia LifeBook, email me @ shinebydesign.info@gmail.com

We don't have to live by default. We get to create the life we live by the decisions we make! We just don't need to JUST live because we GET to live. We need to create a life that lets our lights shine as bright as they possible can! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mrs.mcmahen/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Mrs-McMahen-102098601499879

If you are attempting to deal with any trauma or negative emotion, boundaries are crucial to your efforts. My advice is to look at the number one thing that is a negative influence on your life and start there. Then, little by little, create additional boundaries that feel right to you. If you don’t follow me on Pinterest, look me up at https://www.pinterest.com/mrsmcmahen/. I have a board dedicated to boundaries and have pinned many examples for inspiration.

So the big question is how do you heal? How do you get those nasty, agonizing negative emotions out? Instead of focusing this podcast on all the things you need to do, I want to start with four things you need to not do. You will never be able to begin the process of healing if you do not remove these things from your thinking.

I tell y'all in my intro that “you are going to have to be brutally honest with yourself”, and now it’s time for me to take my own advice. I typically write my podcasts with myself in mind but I rarely share my struggles. It's time to share my struggles and the opportunity to live without the chains of guilt and shame holding you back. 

One of the best things in life you can be is that girl that roots for the other girl. The one who helps her find solutions to her challenges, tells her she is amazing, and encourage her dreams. With each woman you help rise you lift yourself and the satisfaction is next to none!

Sometimes we overlook the little things and we take them for granted. There are many ordinary things in our lives that are positive and we need to try to not overlook them.

You can’t let every little thing get to you and you can’t wear your feelings on your sleeve, but being tenderhearted and compassionate is one of the most beautiful things you can be.

So, what exactly is my Happy Hustle? Well, hustle to me means you will do whatever it takes to reach a goal. So a Happy Hustle means to do that with all the positivity, rainbows, and sparkle you can find. I want everyone to reach their goals. I want everyone to be happy and completely obsessed with the life they get to live every single day. This doesn’t happen by accident and it takes a lot of work. But anything worth having is worth working for.

I don’t have a big gem for you today. I want to take a few moments to point out just how sweet our babies can be. Whether you are a parent or a lucky bonus aunt like me, take the time to understand these littles. They live in a different world than we do, and they won’t be little long. Let them play, encourage their imagination, and take the time to enjoy those big joys in the little things with them.

Why are clean sheets fresh out of the dryer so amazing? Why do they make a bad day better and make comfort and relaxation inevitable? Is it because they are simply magical or is it maybe because It's our mindset which is really enjoying the clean and fresh place? This morning I want to talk to you about how you can creating a peaceful positive mindset begins with cleaning up your personal environment. http://betterme.org/cleansweep.html

Are you surviving or thriving? Are you continuing to live and merely exist or are you living well, growing, developing, prospering, and flourishing. How do you know if you are surviving or thriving, how do you know it’s your time to thrive, and how do you begin to thrive?

I think sometimes we see being blessed as being “spoiled” by God. But friends being blessed isn’t about getting everything you want. So, how do we know if we are blessed. I think it all starts with being able to identify what a blessing truly is. There are so many ways we are blessed that we overlook as Americans and Children of God. So stay with me as I count our blessings. Click here for The Blessings Jar book! Click here for the Blessings Jar (comes with 10 cut outs to write blessings on)! Click here for extra cut outs to write your blessings on! Here are the links if you are unable to follow the link above: https://amzn.to/30i6EIG  https://amzn.to/2Mzpd3d https://amzn.to/37dv07V

Get ready for your morning to be served Sunny Side Up! I won't say every morning just yet but that is my long term goal. My goal with Sunny Side Up is to bring you a short message that will bring joy to your soul and give you good thoughts to start your day. Remember how things begin most times effect how they end. Today we are talking about the blessing of Framily. Click Here to see this precious FRAMILY sign

God tells us in 1 Peter 4:8 and following - Above all, Keep loving one another earnestly. Offer hospitality to one another without grumbling. Minister to one another. What powerful scripture. I love how God gives us direction and never once says it is dependent upon other peoples actions. He never once said “if they deserve it, love them.” The question we all ask at some point is how do we do this. How do we love people we don’t know or know if we like, or even more people we don’t like? Today I’ll give you my thoughts on this topic! Click Here to check out Simple Acts of Kindness: 500+ Ways to Make a Difference Here is the link to copy and paste if you are unable to follow the link above: https://amzn.to/30hQOhs 

What you believe matters. Your beliefs form who you are and the decisions you make. Can you choose your beliefs? What if you don’t know what you believe or what to believe. Stick around and we’ll go through some fundamentals about beliefs and how you can experience and share the blessings of beliefs.

Sometimes we get distracted by what society tells us is a successful and fulfilled life. That leaves us feeling stuck and stuck feels completely awful. But if you think about it, being stuck isn’t a real feeling. Stuck is a result of what we are really feeling and usually happens when we start comparing ourselves to an idea of what we’re supposed to be or comparing ourselves to other people.

The mind has a powerful way of attracting things that are in harmony with it, good and bad. So make sure you are taking control of your mindset -  your happiness depends on it.