Sometimes, we have a soundtrack of negative statements that we speak over ourselves and it runs in the background of our mind, acting as a filter for our daily choices. Here are some helpful prompts and examples to reframe your thoughts into more positive, compassionate statements.

Transform negative self-talk with positive statements using helpful prompts and examples.

Reframing Your Self-Talk

Set your intentions for the day with this visualization. What type of attitude do you want to have? What character qualities will you embody? What are you looking forward to? Who needs you to be on your A-game?

Visualize your daily intentions by deciding your attitude, character qualities, goals, and who needs your best performance.

Set the Intention of Your Day

When life doesn't go as planned, it can lead to disappointment, fear, anger, sadness, or a range of emotions. You may find yourself clinging defiantly to the way that things "should" have been. This inner conflict between what is and what should have been can keep you emotionally stuck. Releasing the "ideal" you've created allows space for both to coexist and ultimately bring acceptance and peace.

Letting go of expectations brings peace amidst life's uncertainties - acceptance, not resistance.

When Life Doesn't Go As Planned

Sometimes life doesn't go as planned and we may feel disappointed, sad, or as if we've failed. Flip that inner script to one that is positive and reflective of personal growth and lessons learned.

When life doesn't go as planned, change your inner script to focus on personal growth and lessons learned.

Flip The Failure Script

It's so easy to fall into the trap of trying to do #allthethings. All-or-nothing or perfectionist mindset can keep you stuck in procrastination or overworking and neither one is desirable. Here's one powerful question you can ask yourself to find clarity and quiet your inner perfectionist.

Avoid all-or-nothing mindset by asking one powerful question to find clarity and quiet your inner perfectionist.

Quieting Your Inner Perfectionist

Sometimes, the fear of discomfort can keep us stuck in undesirable situations. You may feel frustrated with where you are now, but too fearful to step into what's next. All growth requires a bit of discomfort, but we can reframe our thoughts when we understand the natural process of change.

Fear of discomfort can keep us from growth, but reframing our thoughts and understanding the process of change can help us move forward.

Letting Go And Leaping Forward

Every unfinished thing in your personal or professional life is a leak in your life force. Subconsciously, it’s like a sandbag on your energy and personal power… keeping one foot in the past. Things left undone choke off your momentum to move forward.

Unfinished tasks drain your energy and hinder progress, keeping you stuck in the past.

The Power of Completion

Friends come and go in our lives for a season and a reason. Whether they are just passing through or firmly rooted forever, we can appreciate the gift they are to us.

Friends are a gift who come and go in our lives for a season or forever, but we can appreciate them for the time we have together.

Friendships For All Seasons

Every day, in the choices we make, we're steering our lives toward success or failure. With as little as 1% daily effort, you can triple your results in one year. The key is to start somewhere...

Small daily efforts can lead to big results; start now.

The Power of 1%

Giving yourself permission to pause is the ultimate act of self-love and self-compassion. Self-care isn't selfish, it's necessary. Here are some gentle ways to find clarity and calm.

Self-care is necessary, so give yourself permission to pause for clarity and calm.

Permission To Pause

The inner critic can be very loud and disruptive when we are striving to grow and expand our comfort zone. Taming is a matter of awareness, acknowledgment, and reassurance that all is well. You can learn to coexist with the inner critic without allowing it to steer you off your path.

Taming your inner critic is possible through awareness, acknowledgment, and reassurance to coexist with it and stay on your path to growth.

Taming The Inner Critic

When frustrating things happen in life, it's easy to get stuck in your head trying to figure out "why." "Why did this happen to me? What is the meaning of this in my life?" Reflection is good, but too much of it can be a form of self-sabotage. Learn to nurture your solution-oriented thoughts and find inner peace.

Don't get stuck in negative reflection, nurture solution-oriented thoughts to find inner peace when frustrating things happen in life.

Let Go And Go With The Flow

What if self-sabotage was actually self-compassion - a subconscious means of protecting yourself? Self-sabotage comes as a result of conflicting desires. Deeply held beliefs drive your behavior, keeping you stuck between what you want and your ability to make a change. When you dig deeper into the beliefs behind your actions, you can find the grace and forgiveness you need to find lasting change and happiness.

Self-sabotage may be self-compassion, but conflicting desires and beliefs keep you stuck; understanding them leads to lasting change and happiness.

From Self-Sabotage to Self-Compassion

Start your day by aligning your body, mind, and spirit with nourishing activities. These include physical activity, emotional/mental growth, and spiritual grounding. You can take as long as you like, so don't overthink it. Start with gentle stretching or a brisk walk. Read or listen to a personal development book to expand your mind. Spend time in meditation, prayer, or journaling. The most important thing is to do what works for you. Prioritize nourishing and aligning your body, mind, and spirit first thing every day.

Nourish body, mind, and spirit through physical activity, mental growth, and spiritual grounding each morning to align and prioritize your day.

The Best Morning Routine

Having a healthy sleep habit can be transformative to your physical health and overall well-being. Here are some easy first steps to create a powerful sleep habit.

Improve your physical health and well-being by creating a healthy sleep habit; follow easy first steps.

The Healing Power Of Sleep

Posture and mindset go hand-in-hand; one leads to the other. For example, when you feel confident, you stand tall, speak clearly, and carry the energy of confidence. But when you feel doubtful and unsure, your shoulders droop, your eyes are downcast and your voice wavers. Shift your posture and your mindset will follow!

Posture affects mindset: standing tall boosts confidence while droopy shoulders indicate doubt, so changing posture can improve mindset.

Stand Tall, Feel Confident!

Is your schedule unmanageable? Do you feel like you'll never "have time" for what you really want? Here's the thing... no one is busy without permission. Constant busyness is exhausting, and it can be the perfect smokescreen to avoid dealing with deeper issues. Let's meditate on the cost of being busy all the time and how you can stop the cycle.

Constant busyness is exhausting and can be a smokescreen to avoid deeper issues; meditate on the cost and learn how to stop the cycle.

Redeeming Your Time

We all experience anxiety at one time or another. Sometimes, it can be challenging to detach yourself from the emotions of a stressful situation. For many, anxiety can become a habit - as if anxious thoughts and worry will somehow affect the outcome in a positive way. The truth is, anxious thoughts give power to the problem, not the solution. It can block our path to living our best life. Learning to find peace in chaos, opens us up to the best outcomes.

Anxious thoughts give power to the problem not the solution, hindering one's ability to live their best life; find peace in chaos for better outcomes.

Anxiety Relief

Have you ever wanted to change your circumstances but felt like the gap between where you are and where you want to be is just too big to bridge? What if you had a mentor who walked this path before and could guide you through and show you the way? It's time to meet your inner mentor.

Meet your inner mentor to bridge the gap between where you are and where you want to be.

Meet Your Inner Mentor

It's fairly common to have a medical emergency kit, but what about a stressful day emergency kit? What tools and remedies do you need when you're having a rough day? Here are a few simple ideas to create your own stressful day emergency kit.

Tips on creating a stressful day emergency kit with simple ideas and remedies.

The Stressful Day Emergency Kit

Prime your day with these 10 powerful affirmations to help you set the tone for your body, mind, and spirit today. Beautiful, soothing background music to help you settle into the mind space of positivity, love, gratitude, and empowering energy. Fill your mind with the peace and serenity you desire.

10 affirmations with background music to set a positive tone for your mind, body and spirit. Fill your mind with peace, love, gratitude and empowerment.

Morning Meditation to Prime Your Day

The Yellow Wallpaper is a short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. It is written as a series of entries in a secret diary that describes the narrator’s depression following the birth of her child. The narrator’s husband, a respected physician, diagnoses her behavior as “hysteria” and prescribes rest in an old country estate. During their 3 month stay, she spends her days in bed and becomes obsessed with the peculiar yellow wallpaper and the woman who seems to be trapped behind it.

A woman's descent into madness is chronicled in The Yellow Wallpaper, a short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, as she becomes obsessed with the wallpaper.