Motivational Moments By Author Tricia Andreassen Saturday, January 28 2023
We all have moments where we reflect on our past and the journey we have been on we assess our struggles, our failures and our losses more than we celebrate the wins. It is how our brains process. We tend to look at our weaknesses and what we didn't accomplish. Many years I struggled through these experiences. I didn't celebrate that I was an teenage entrepreneur who had bought my first property at 19. I felt like a failure because I lost a property to foreclosure after co-buying with a boyfriend who was mentally abusive. I didn't celebrate the accomplishment of going through a emotionally devastating divorce shortly after a miscarriage at 3 months and having the courage and strength to start over with less than 3 thousand in my bank account and no car. I didn't realize that growing up in an abusive and low income home somehow had given me the desire and the dream to want more...to be more...to give more. Over these years I have worked on rewriting the story of my life path as I now know with certainty that there are no accidents. God gives us the opportunities to take our hardships, our achievements and our losses into a collage that creates the story of our life. Right now in this moment we all have the choice to look through a different lens and honor the greatness, the resilience that exists in all of us. When that happens we can change our life. We can impact others in great and positive ways. We can change the world. #FindYourHappy#TriciaAndreassen #YourStoryCanChangeYourLife
Monday, January 23 2023
A common theme has been in front of me over the last two weeks. In the midst of growth, uncertainty, tiredness and purpose we can all loose our way for a moment. It may be losing way in the way we communicate with others. It may be losing way in the way we are "present" for the other person. It may be not understanding the other person's private struggles and obligations. It can be difficult to lo...ok at these obstacles as temporary set backs and also re-evaluate who is in your inner circle. Your inner circle are those who support you no matter what. With you through thick and thin. Even in the midst of things and your heart may hurt and you may cry remember that the reason you are feeling this is because your heart is so vested in the process and is so vested in the calling of how things can move mountains when the right people come together with the right purpose behind it. Sunday, January 15 2023
My spirit is telling me or calling me to write about the spirit itself. I believe that anxiety comes often when we put the limits of time upon our self when in actuality there is no meaning of time. Studies say it time and time again that there really is no time as it is a manmade thing to account for things more easily. So if that is the case how do we begin to understand that time can be our prisoner; a prisoner of our goals; a prisoner of our beliefs which set limitations upon ourselves. When we release the meaning of time and embrace the present and go with what our soul is telling us, then we will align to the purpose of what we are being called to achieve for our best self. I personally get caught up in deadlines and that is the achiever in me. At the same time it is the perception from others that most likely drive me proving that I am reaching something of achievement that they will appreciate which in turn makes me feel more worthy. Wow. Just writing that gives me such clarity of how we are so deeply rooted in looking for acceptance or appreciation from others. Imagine being in a mindset that is calming respectful of your inner voice? You know, the voice that whispers to you? The voice that you know speaks the truth of what your soul really needs? I can sincerely admit that I go in and out of this process. As much as I have made this my lifelong study to be a student and maven for mindset, spirit and energy healing the human ego worms its way in and I get drawn back into the dangers of things that suck my purpose. Recently I was coaching someone who related themselves to being the “fixer”; the role that somehow it is their responsibility to make things okay in other people’s lives. Somewhere along the way her beautifully constructed heart was eaten away a little bit at a time. You know, like termites that eat the wood from the inside out? Her vision of what she wanted to her career, the dreams she had once and the goals that once had been clear were faded or perhaps she would even say, “Lost”. The struggle is understanding that even though an executive leader knows where the gap lies it may not be their responsibility (or authority) to make those changes FOR that person. Sometimes that is the most difficult because the leader wants the project to get done but at the same time these actions can set up the organization for long term failure. As my phone started ringing every thirty minutes of so starting at 6:00am I realize that I have the choice as a leader. I can choose to focus my energy on the healing properties that feed my soul to be a stronger spirit and person. For me that is reading my Bible, sitting quietly and journaling, exercising and gaining clarity on what I want today to represent in my life. Before I can be the daughter, mother, wife, lover, business partner, friend or whatever role that is called upon me I must fill the first role which is the soul within me that I was created for FIRST. Here are some ways to tap into the place that finds a way back to yourself; the dream; the spirit inside of you. 1. Clear time just for you. – Now you may say to me Tricia, there is no time to do that. I am being pulled in so many different directions that I couldn’t find the time if I wanted to. As your coach and spirit connector I want to challenge you on this. Last year I started getting up at 4am to revel in the quiet time of the morning; lighting my candles, reading my Bible, and personal journaling from a place with no agenda. It became such a beautiful time in my day that it came to be my favorite part of the day. It became the place where I could hear my inner voice and my desires speak to me. It was in these moments that set the course for having the energy and love to give others with expecting nothing in return. Contemplate the power of the process. Our subconscious does quite a bit of work for us, holding our bodies together and operating so that it all flows for you to be alive. Think of this as a way to give a Thank You back to your soul for rejuvenation. 3. Journal – It may be that you have never thought of yourself as a writer and to journal you don’t have to be. I am sure if you ever wrote a love letter to someone you weren’t thinking about being a writer. The words just flowed from somewhere deep within you where you had tapped into the emotion you had within you. That is the beauty of journaling. There are thoughts, feelings, limiting beliefs, and deep rooted fears that often get buried in the day to day mechanics of our life. If you really want to find a way back to yourself and figure out what your inner voice is trying to say to you then I say “LEAN IN”. You know….. when we were children sharing a secret we would cup our hand around our ear and lean our bodies in to the other person so we could hear what they needed to tell us? These three things above will help you do just that. www.UnstoppableWarrior.com |