Joyce Lee Life Coaching Moment

You know.. I get a lot of pleasant emails from women who find meaning and enjoy the daily messages that I send on Loving the Woman In the Mirror facebook group.   The energy of those messages is soft and flowing and loving…

"and another thing!!!..."

Then… for every several hundred of the soft kind, I get a woman who SHOUTS at me, calls me names and threatens to report me as spam… yikes… (sometimes the anger is waaaaay over the top)…

My very first instinct when someone sends me one of the second kind of email is to push right back (I’m human, too…)  but within a split second…

I stop… breathe… and find center…

• I do not give my power away to someone I’ve never met, who doesn’t know me…
• I take full responsibility for the energy that I send out…

I have been in the process of disintegrating that ‘push-back’ button for a long time… it used to be huge… it used to be really sensitive… not anymore… it’s almost completely gone but for a fleeting memory…

I got to thinking about how ‘pissy’ I used to get when:

• someone cut me off in traffic
• some cut in front in a line up
• someone interrupted me
• someone ignored me
• etc… etc…

Not anymore… rarely at least… I did mention the being human part right?  lol…  Now I am centered, and grounded and I maintain my cool… regardless of what shows up out of the blue…

So what about you… how big is your ‘push-back’ button?  Is it big?  Is it just itching to be used?

• What drives you crazy, makes you mad, gets your goat, pushes your button?
• Are you more grounded now? Have you changed?

I am really interested… please share your thoughts…

Joyce

Sugar cookies, eggnog, fruit cake, chocolate, decadent desserts, wine, mashed potatoes with gravy, stuffing, butter, whipped cream, nuts…did I mention chocolate?

Gift wrapping, 24 hour shopping, line-ups, debit machines, parties… all that glitters…

T’is the season of the feasts. T’is the season of excess.

Are you worried that you are going to overindulge in all the holiday excess that shows up everywhere this time of the year?

• Are you already stressed about the weight you are doomed to gain?
• Are you already making your New Year’s Resolutions?
• Did you get into trouble last year?
• Have you thought about the kinds of situations you will find your self in and planned for them?

What will your holiday season look like this year?

I am looking forward to a glimpse into your way of walking through this time of the year…

Peace on Earth…

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Optimism is a great way to create a life. I have experienced life on both sides of this concept and I really have to say that I prefer my life as an optimist over the alternatives.

Here is a list of behaviors you may want to be mindful of:

1. Develop and nourish your personal spiritual relationship
2. Consistently affirm your intention to embrace your power, health, well-th and beauty
3. Be so strong inside that nothing can unbalance you or take you away from center
4. Be grateful, give thank, appreciate everything
5. Celebrate the success of others
6. Trust that you deserve a happy life, that happiness is your natural state
7. Have a mindfully cheerful face… smile a lot, laugh out loud, look for the humor
8. Surround your self with optimistic friends
9. Talk about what is right in your world, in the world
10. Practice talking about yourself in a positive manner
11. Intend to express the real you, the wonderful you

You know… I think I do all these things on a fairly consistent basis at this stage of my life.  Little by little, step by step…

What about you?