Moving Forward...

In your examination of your priorities (how you spend your time and your money), were you surprised? Are your "priorities" taking you in the direction that you desire and will they give you a life of joy, satisfaction and contentment?

If not, what needs to change? Create your vision of what you want your life to be. "Without good direction, people lose their way..." (Proverbs 11:14)

Make your vision...YOUR REALITY.

In Kevin McCarthy's book, The On-Person Person: Making Your Life Make Sense, he uses the illustration of a light switch. The light switch has an "ON" and "OFF" position. The challenge: Would your daily activities and your priorities be considered in the "ON" or "OFF" position? Are your activities taking your towards the life that you want to create?

What's your vision? I would love to hear from you!!!!

Don't know where to start? I would love to coach you...to be your champion...to help you identify your vision and to achieve it!

Living in Joy,
Stacey

Values and Priorities

What do you value? What are your priorities? How do you find the answers? Take an inventory and answer a couple of questions:
1) How do you spend your time?
2) How do you spend your money?

Chances are that the answers to both of these questions will bring clarity to your true values and your priorities. God's Word tells us in Matthew 6:21, "for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also." Are they in alignment with what you want for yourself? Does your walk match your talk?

You want 2012 to be different, but you don't know where to begin or what direction to take. I encourage you to begin with gaining an awareness and a clear understanding of where you are currently. What is your starting point? Focus not on what's behind you or get too caught up in where you want to be. Examining your current values and priorities will provide a foundation to build upon. Do you like your inventory? What would you like to be different? I have heard, said and repeated many times that if you want different results....you must do things differently. 

How do you want 2012 to be different? What do you need to change? Tweak? Continue doing?

Examine your heart....

Excited about your journey to reaching your full potential and living the life that you are meant to live!

   

 

2012...Who is in control?

Who has control? Who likes control? Indeed, I struggle with letting go and "giving" up control. In Isaiah 41:13 the Word of God says, "For I am the Lord, your God, who takes hold of your right hande and says to you, Do not fear; I will help you." Release what YOU are holding onto and trying to control. Set it down and "lift up holy hand in prayer." (I Timothy 2:8) What does God have planned for you in 2012? What is around the riverbend? My encouragement to you is to live each day in obedience, in prayer and in JOY....by letting go of your heart's desires and allow your heart's desires to become Christ's desires for YOU.  Live in obedience. Live in prayer. Live in JOY!

Come to Me, My Sweet Child

Walk beside me; I will be with you.

There has been a fog over you...surrounding you

But, I have been guiding you all the while.

I have never left you - even in your darkest hour.

I wanted you to surrender control to Me;

To listen to Me;

To let Me be the light of your path.

You have trusted Me in all of your frustration and doubt.

Oh, My Sweet Daughter, you finally allowed me to break through the hardened walls of your heart.

I sent people into your life to remind you that you are a gift.

I formed you.

I created you.

I inspire you.

Embrace your gifts and talents that you have received from Me.

Do not hide them! Do not quench My Spirit.

My message that I give for you to deliver to others....

My desire is for all...

Love Me fully; 

Love yourself as I love you;

Love others because I first loved others.

 

Passionately, I live to "encourage, comfort and urge others (you) to live lives worthy of God, who calls them (you) into His Kingdom and Glory." I Thess 2:12

Our Thoughts

Most of us learned at an early age that we must speak kindly to others. I am certain that many of us would not have to think very long before we could recall a time that a parent, grandparent, aunt, uncle, teacher, or  caregiver corrected the way that we spoke to a sibling or playmate. I can, indeed, remember telling,  my own children on multiple occassions not to say anything at all if they had nothing positive or nice to say to each other. How often do we apply that to ourselves? Is your mind filled with negative self-talk or positive, kind words?

Romans 12:2 "Let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think."
Proverbs 4:23 "Be careful how you think; your life is shaped by your thoughts."

How are you talking to yourself? What are you thinking about yourself, your world, your success? How are your thoughts helping you reach your goals and dreams? Are your words to yourself positive and uplifting?

Challenge: "Be sweet" to yourself! Cherish and honor YOU, today! "Let God begin to transform you into a new person by changing the way you think." (Romans 12:2) Change how you talk to yourself.

Be ENCOURAGED!

Living in Joy!

LIFT Life Coaching

LIFT Life Coaching....
Executive Coaching and Motivational Speaking
L...Living fully
I...Inspiring
F...Fulfilling God's Purpose
T...Transforming

Mission:
"Encouraging, comforting and urging you to live lives worthy of God, who calls you into His kingdom and glory." I Thessalonians 2:12