Maintaining THE Mindset

“Training your mind to be the present moment is the number one key to making healthier choices.” – Susan Albers

When embracing the new year everyone wants to recreate themselves and take chances in life starting with a new beginning. It is up to ourself how we choose to be accountable of our dreams as well as each goal that can help us reach our greatest desires. By creating small motivators to support the person we aspire to become having a routine is crucial to our development. It encourages us to wake up each day with purpose and motivation to truly feel alive. This takes dedication and patience. Patience is key to maintaining a well balanced mindset during your individual journey.

“With patience we have the power to accept and hold.” - Thich Nhat Hanh

Train your mind and adapt to learning how to be patient with life. Once you are able to master this, you can master anything. Because with patience you are able to effortlessly accept and adapt to the challenges around you and take this as a new opportunity to further help you grow. Rather than rushing what the Universe placed in front of you and forcing the unknown. A way you can visualize this is through a one-thousand piece jigsaw puzzle. When you open the box the pieces are scattered everywhere, you have to dump out the box to first see all of the materials you have in this moment. You then take control of what you can by sorting all of the edge pieces into their own pile while learning along the way other little pieces begin to connect. After you have completed the outer edges of the puzzle one by one you then move into the inside. For awhile each piece you received is trial and error. Until you find where it fits, then the next piece and so on. You take breaks every now and then and come back to the puzzle when your mind is ready to revisit the peaceful challenge again. While continuing to find more pieces that connect with each other you begin to feel pride in yourself for tackling all one-thousand pieces and creating the bigger picture. You grow the most when putting the puzzle together more than afterwards because then you can truly rest until the next puzzle. This is a reminder that the journey will always create something beautiful and patience is key to achieve that. If one started a puzzle with connecting all the wrong pieces together the puzzle would never be complete. But by accepting each piece as a lesson and guide to where the next one goes little by little you are able to reach the end of the journey and grow not only your mind but outlook on life. With all good things patience is key, without it you find yourself in the unknown and become stuck.

In order to train our mind and live in each moment of our journey we can choose what motivates ourselves. There are simple things we can do to grow our mindset and learn about how we become the most inspiring version of ourselves, and it all starts here.

• Making your bed as soon as you wake up.

• Starting each morning off with mediation and/or breathing exercises.

• Picking up a book that will inspire you for the day.

• Fill your world with affirmations for all that you desire. With maintaining a healthy mindset everyday affirmations are important to further affirm positivity in all realms of deepening the mind.

• Do not get on your phone hours within waking up.

• Play music to get your mind excited.

• Acknowledge alone time and socializing.

• Take a much needed shower to rinse off all negative feelings, and replenish your mind and body with only positivity to come your way.

• Cleanse your face and replace with gratitude for your inner and outer beauty.

With everyday do your best and be proud of all you can accomplish. Your best will look different everyday. This is a new year with new opportunities, live in the moment of all you experience because this is your journey to living the life of your dreams.