Over the last four-ish months, while traveling and now that I'm back, I’ve been developing and promoting my Change Reflection Series—a space for the heart and mind to connect. After all, change happens in the heart just as much as in the mind, if not more. ❤️🧠 What Was Planned... and What’s Changing Today and for the next three weeks you would have received your daily videos. They would have covered Weeks 8 and 9 where we explore overcoming internal and external barriers, wi

🌟 Welcome to Week 6 of our Change Reflection Series! ❤️ A space where your heart and your mind can connect. Last week, we uncovered the surprising good side of hopelessness  and explored how embracing reality can spark urgency and motivation. This week, we’re taking the next step: diving into the neuroscience of urgency and how to harness it to drive meaningful change. 🧠 This week’s article is packed with fascinating insights, including references to Dr. Andrew Huberman’s e

🌟 Welcome to Week 6 of our Change Reflection Series! ❤️ A space where your heart and your mind can connect. This week, we’re diving into the neuroscience of urgency—how it works in our brains and how to harness it to drive meaningful change. In today’s reflection, we’re focusing on engaging our fear circuits to create emotional urgency by using the powerful exercise of playing the movie forward . 📽️ Imagine this: Think about any frustrations or setbacks in your life that yo

🌟 Welcome to Week 6 of our Change Reflection Series! ❤️ A space where your heart and your mind can connect. Yesterday we engaged our fear circuits to create emotional urgency by using the powerful exercise of playing the movie forward . Today we're exploring how visualizing positive outcomes can energize us and create internal urgency. When we focus on the rewards of change, we engage our dopamine system to stay motivated. 📽️ Imagine this: What change have you been pushing

🌟 Welcome to Week 6 of our Change Reflection Series! ❤️ A space where your heart and your mind can connect. Yesterday, we explored how visualizing positive outcomes can create internal urgency. Today we're shifting our focus to external pressure —the kind that helps us move forward and sustain urgency. 🔑 Accountability and deadlines  are powerful tools for creating external pressure. They keep us aligned with our goals and help maintain momentum. But let’s be honest: doing

🌟 Happy Friday, and welcome to the last day of week 6 in our Change Reflection Series! ❤️ A space where your heart and your mind can connect. This week, we explored how to balance our brain’s fear circuits and dopamine system to sustain urgency and stay motivated. Tapping into both fear and reward in harmony is key to driving meaningful progress. Before diving into next week’s practical tools—like accountability systems, milestones, and frequent feedback—let’s pause to refle

🌟 Welcome to Week 7 of our Change Reflection Series! ❤️ A space where your heart and your mind can connect. Last week, we embarked on a journey to create urgency and motivation, helping us move toward meaningful change and our personal better. This week, we’re diving deeper, exploring the powerful role of structure  and measuring progress  in driving and sustaining momentum. ✨ Structure  keeps us focused on what truly matters, offering a clear path to our goals. 📏 Measuring

🌟 Welcome to Week 7 of our Change Reflection Series! ❤️ A space where your heart and your mind can connect. This week, we’re diving into structures and measuring progress —the essential tools for creating and maintaining motivation and urgency on the path to change. Today’s focus? Staying motivated by keeping your long-term vision front and center  and reminding yourself of all the goodness that will come from achieving it. 🖊️ Writing down your goals  and the positive outco

🌟 Welcome to Week 7 of our Change Reflection Series! ❤️ A space where your heart and your mind can connect. Yesterday, we reflected on keeping our long-term vision front and center—reminding ourselves of all the good things that will come from achieving it. Today, we’re taking it one step further by focusing on the practical actions  that will bring that vision to life. ✨ Deadlines and milestones  are the tools that turn dreams into achievable realities. They create urgency,

🌟 Welcome to Week 7 of our Change Reflection Series! ❤️ A space where your heart and your mind can connect. Yesterday, we reflected on how milestones and deadlines  create urgency and guide us toward our dreams. Today, we’re shifting our focus to the structures  that support us along the way. Structure is the foundation that helps us stay focused and keeps us moving forward. It can take many forms: 📋 Plans  that map out our steps. 🕒 Timelines  that keep us accountable. 🤝

🌟 Happy Friday, and welcome to the last day of week 7 in our Change Reflection Series! ❤️ A space where your heart and your mind can connect. Yesterday, we reflected on the structures  that keep us focused and moving forward. Today, let’s dive into something deeper: the role of discomfort  and decisive action  in sparking meaningful change. Let’s be honest—our dreams and desires for change often arise from something that’s not working. Discomfort, while unpleasant, can be a

🌟 Welcome to Week 5 of the Change Reflection Series  ❤️ A space where your heart and your mind can connect. Last week we looked at different types of pain, and how the internal maps we’ve developed over time—shaped by past experiences—can influence our future. This week we’re working on embracing reality to ignite urgency and motivation. Reality isn’t always objective—our perceptions shape it. We’ll reflect on what’s keeping us stuck and explore how confronting reality can c

🌟 Welcome to Week 5 of the Change Reflection Series  ❤️ A space where your heart and your mind can connect. Yesterday, we introduced the power of facing reality and the surprising benefits of letting go of false hope. Today, we’ll explore how past experiences can offer valuable insights to help us face challenges and break free from feeling stuck. Reality, shaped by our experiences and perceptions, can feel subjective. But confronting “real” reality is a powerful catalyst fo

🌟 Welcome to Week 5 of the Change Reflection Series  ❤️ A space where your heart and your mind can connect. Yesterday, we explored how past experiences can guide us. Today, we’re reflecting on the surprising idea that sometimes, hopelessness can be a good thing. While hope is often a source of strength, false hope can hold us back—keeping us clinging to something unlikely to work and draining our energy. True progress comes when we embrace good hopelessness , letting go of w

🌟 Welcome to Week 5 of the Change Reflection Series  ❤️ A space where your heart and your mind can connect. Yesterday, we explored how hopelessness can sometimes open the door to progress. Today, we’ll reflect on the role of the past as a predictor of the future. The past often provides valuable insights into what lies ahead. Think about a situation or relationship in your life that’s been troubling you: 🌟 If nothing changes, what will it look like a year from now? If you s

🌟 Welcome to Week 5 of the Change Reflection Series  ❤️ A space where your heart and your mind can connect. Yesterday, we examined the past as a predictor of future outcomes. Today, we’ll explore what can provide us with real hope that someone  will change. Hoping for someone to change is emotionally taxing. How do we know if there’s real hope? Dr. Henry Cloud outlines nine key signs, including involvement in a proven change process, motivation, support systems, and evidence

🌟 Happy New Year, and welcome to Week 4 of the Change Reflection Series  ❤️ A space where your heart and your mind can connect. In this week’s Change Reflection series, we’re diving into the powerful topic of pain and how it shapes our lives. Last week, we explored the idea of embracing endings as a natural and necessary part of life. By normalizing endings, we reduce the brain’s instinct to see them as threats, making it easier to step into new beginnings. Building on that

🌟 Welcome to Week 4 of the Change Reflection Series ❤️ A space where your heart and your mind can connect.  This week, we’re reflecting on the ways pain—both productive and unproductive—shapes our lives and influences our ability to grow. Sometimes we adapt so deeply to unproductive pain that it starts to feel normal, keeping us stuck in patterns that no longer serve us. ✨ But here’s the good news: with effort and focus, we can rewire our brains to break free and move forwar

🌟 Welcome to Week 4 of the Change Reflection Series ❤️ A space where your heart and your mind can connect.  This week, we’re reflecting on the ways pain—both productive and unproductive—shapes our lives and influences our ability to grow. Sometimes we adapt so deeply to unproductive pain that it starts to feel normal, keeping us stuck in patterns that no longer serve us. Pain is meant to signal that something’s wrong, but when ignored or accepted as the new normal, it can ho

🌟 Welcome to Week 4 of the Change Reflection Series ❤️ A space where your heart and your mind can connect.  This week, we’re reflecting on the ways pain—both productive and unproductive—shapes our lives and influences our ability to grow. Yesterday, we reflected on whether there’s any pain in our lives that keeps us stuck. Over the next two days, we’ll shift our focus to the internal maps and past experiences that shape our decisions and beliefs. 📍 Sometimes, what keeps us