New Year - New You

Happy New Year to you!! I am so excited to start off this year with a guest post from someone who is an expert on mindset. May we all go into the new year understanding the incredible power of our own MIND.


Staci is a Professional Speaker & Gratitude Neuroscientist. She teaches how to build a better brain using scientific gratitude. You can actually learn to change the chemicals in your brain and live a grateful life.


 You can check her out and learn more about her business www.THEgratitudebusiness.com



Excuses, excuses, excuses...

most all of us have heard them,

but more importantly...

most ALL of us have used them!!!


As I am approaching my 53rd birthday, on January 1st,

I have begun to feel the "sting" of age creeping up on me....

especially when I’m worn-down or tired.

In moments of exhaustion, frustration, and overwhelm,

I've caught myself several times recently thinking of

excuses for why things didn't go like I wanted.


Almost instantly- our MINDS can go to things like:


* I've been working so hard & I didn't have time

* I’m not able to do things like that anymore

*I don't have the money to do that

* I'm too old for that


BUT.... today, I got to visit with my friend

Anne Lorimor,

who is now officially

The Guinness Book World Record Holder

for the oldest person EVER to climb Mount Kilimanjaro

at the age of 89...

and saw FIRST-HAND

the power of a woman who chooses to live with NO EXCUSES!


It was exactly 1 year ago

that I met this kind, gentle, INCREDIBLE woman,

and it was my honor

to get to visit with her again today......


As I talked with her, and listened to the miraculous story

of how she climbed this mighty mountain

for the 2nd time,

I knew... that excuses are ONLY as

powerful as our mind allows them to be!


There are people all over the world

who have accomplished feats that others felt were impossible.

WHY is that?

Neuroscience will tell you it's because of a MINDSET shift.

I know.... many of you are thinking,

"You just don't know what I've been through,

or you just don't understand my life"....

and you'd be right- I DON'T.

But... I do know this:


There are people with no arms or legs

who swim and run marathons,

There are people who have been alcoholics

for most of their lives who stop drinking,

There are homeless people who become millionaires, and

There are people who have suffered unimaginable abuse

who grew up to live productive lives,


and..... if there was 1, then there can be 2.


So, let's all make a vow, as we head into 2020

to learn a lesson from Anne Lorimor,

and STOP MAKING EXCUSES.


Yes, it will be hard.

Yes, it will likely hurt....

and Yes, it may cost you something.


But, of all the things I have learned

along this journey into how the brain works-

THIS ONE is at the top of my list:

We are what our MIND believes we ARE!





Henry Ford said it best,

"Whether you think you can, or you think you can't –

You're RIGHT!"


May we all move into the final days of this DECADE

knowing that what we THINK we can do in 2020

is all a matter of how we use our excuses.


Bliss and Blessings,

Staci Danford M.B.E.

 

KERRY SMITH