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Willpower and Motivation

Motivation and Willpower

Understanding your brain so you can push through to the Gutsy Life Have you ever wondered if there is a way to improve or increase willpower, self control and motivation? In this post I cover the science behind your brain so you can understand willpower and motivation and maximize both. The key to understanding willpower […]

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Overcoming Self-Doubt

overcoming self doubt

Self-doubt is a common topic among my group of friends, am I right? Especially with women, self-doubt tends to be the main reason women hold themselves back form really going for it in life. The truth is: self-doubt is a limiting belief; it is based on many limiting beliefs you have been telling yourself or […]

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Expectations and Goal Setting

It is week three of 2020 and I am feeling overwhelmed by my goals and my plans for myself this year and the next ten years. Am I alone? I spent the whole month of December focused on all things goal setting and it brought up a lot of ‘feelings’ for me about my own […]

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This is Your Brain on Fear

Overcome fear

Overcoming fear starts with understanding that fear is a primitive emotion that creates a mostly automatic alarm system in our body to warn against threats to survival. Fear is a feeling. Feelings are physical responses in the body. This feeling comes from our thoughts. Millenia ago, when our brains were first evolving fear existed as […]

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Reflections on My Decade in Review Exercise

I just completed my Decade in Review Workbook and I wanted to post some reflections I had on the whole process and why I created the Workbook the way I did. To get an in depth breakdown on how to do a Decade in review Check out this post. And to Get the Gutsy Life […]

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Observations vs. Expectations

I had a realization today in a coaching session. I was asked to rank myself, or my satisfaction, in 12 key areas of my life on a scale from 1 to 10. Sitting there looking at these areas of my life made me realize I there was quite an imbalance in my life regarding these […]

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My Reflections on an Abundance Mindset

I set out to write a post about abundance and I realized I still had work to do with my limiting beliefs. I realized that they are very close; you cannot have an abundance mindset if you let your limiting beliefs define you. Limiting beliefs come from a scarcity mindset. Understanding the concept of a […]

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Trust the Process

Coach’s Corner November 26, 2019 I have decided it would be good to start documenting and sharing my journey to becoming a life coach; what I am learning in school, what that is showing me about myself, what I am struggling with throughout the process, what starting a business is like and all of the […]

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