When I first started my coaching business, I tagged myself as the "Coach who has an Attitude about Gratitude!" I still am that coach. I have taught and practiced gratitude for over eight years. 

What I have learned is that when it becomes a chore or a "have to" then it is time to shake up how you are recording and practicing gratitude. There are so many ways to practice gratitude and the benefits of having a practice of gratitude have been proven scientifically. 

Here are just a few ways to incorporate and practice gratitude in your daily life:

1. Think back over the past year and remember those individuals who have done a kind act or helped you in some way. Send them a thank you note (not an email, but an actual handwritten note!) Not sure about their address? Message them and ask them for it. 
2. As you awaken tomorrow morning and get out of bed, say, "Thank you" for another day, each step you take, give thanks for the ability to breath, that you have warm running water, that you are able to go to work, that you have a paycheck…. You get the idea!
3. Call up a friend and invite them over for dinner to just thank them for being in your life.

As you can see, creating a gratitude practice doesn't have to be a huge endeavor. 

The benefits of creating a practice of gratitude? Studies have shown that people who practice gratitude sleep on average 30 minutes more a night. Individuals have reported having better emotional health, some have even reported weight loss!

So here is to beginning a practice of gratitude. Let me know what ways you are practicing and what you noticed since beginning the practice. 

How many times have I felt I needed something when in reality it was a want?

A need is something that is for survival and growth: Love, food, clothes.

A want are those things that are extra like the gourmet food, the designer clothes, the love we think someone else has.

What really happens is that we build things up in our minds and then feel like we have failed when we haven't achieved them.

A great way to reboot is to step back and focus on what is truly important, reminding ourselves that we are here, we are loved, we have our basic needs met. The other "stuff" is just that: STUFF.

Take a moment today and focus on what is REALLY important to you. Ask yourself, "Is this something I need or is it a want?" Create a Need vs. Want list and refocus your energy on what is needed.

Hugs,  love, and a deep bow of appreciation to each of you.

Judy

Starting on Tuesday September 18, 2018, there will be a week long Empowerment Challenge!!!

We will dive deep into what empowerment means for us individually and as women. How we empower ourselves, others and how we pay it forward to the world!

Here is to an awe inspiring week of empowerment.

Interested in joining the challenge?  Then click the following link and join the private group:  
https://www.facebook.com/groups/womenwhoempowerwomen/.

I will be doing some Facebook live events during the challenge. You need to be in the group to see these special sessions!

​See you there!

​Life is short and we all get bogged down on things "to do". 

We forget that there are times in our life when we just need to live. 

We get caught up in the whole "I have to…" mentality that we neglect to realize that our life is passing us by. 

Take a moment today to put on the brakes, breathe.

Release all the "have to's" and just be present with where you are now, in this moment, breathe.

Remind yourself that this moment is the one moment you are present for, breathe.

Release all that "stuff" we all keep bottled up, breathe and just be.

Your journey starts with you

Join us on September 25, 2018 to launch your new journey!

Click the link below for more details:
www.theauthenticitycoach.com/whew.html

:
)Are you ready to get on your best path yet? How about a friend or colleague you know would benefit? 

If your answer is YES, W.H.E.W. (Women who Empower Women) is the solution. 

This Mastermind Coaching Group will help de-clutter your mind, dive deep into that idea, and get that creative piece of work off the ground, putting your feet on a path that makes your heart sing!

Launch date:
     September 25th
Group options:

1. 9 - 10:30 AM EDT
2. 6:30 - 8  PM EDT

To join us: 
​     https://www.theauthenticitycoach.com/whew.html

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We all hit bumps in the road in our life, our careers, our personal life. It is up to us to take a moment and examine what we want to do during those times.

Are we going to go into turtle mode?

Are we going to hit those bumps like we were in the "Dukes of Hazards" car and yell YEE HAW at the top of our lungs? 

Either way is okay. Just don't forget to come out of your shell if you go into turtle mode. Reach out to someone, let them know what is happening; talk, find a coach, do whatever you need to do when you hit those bumps, but do something.

The journey within begins with the knowledge that you, at times, need to go without. Without the noise, without the "having to do" and without the noise of everyday. Let's explore: What does the journey without mean for you?