18 Months to a Moment of Clarity | Nina Kaufman’s Story
Now, Nina can look back on the past 18 months with pride about how she handled the challenges while looking forward to a future of reignited passion for the life she loves.
Entries by Amy Nubson
3 Tell-Tale Signs You’re Ready for Change
Most times, the feeling of “lesser than” comes from a lack of fulfillment and the disappointment that follows.
Affirmations with Action
Knowing what you want and not doing anything about it sounds like a lifetime of pain. In order to get what you want, you need to do more than just think and dream… you need to DO.
Survive and Rebuild in a Doubt Tornado
Understanding the exact storyline you are feeding yourself and pinpointing the why behind the tale gives us so much more insight into the emotions that need to be eliminated from the messages.
Being Powerful with Power Statements
When I started using power statements regularly in my daily life I found my resiliency bouncing back against the cement walls that had seemingly shot out of the ground just to barricade me off a heck of a lot faster.
Re-Prioritizing Your Life of Lemons
True, not all lemons are disasters, most are just soul-crushing speed bumps that you can crush in return by realizing the clarity, the empowerment, and the lessons learned or skills built.
Playing Big Outside of Hiding
After reading the book, Playing Big by Tara Mohr, I recognized that by playing small I was standing in my own way for success; preventing myself from the life I wanted to lead.
No More Bracing for Impact
Mere seconds, minutes, and sometimes hours affect our beliefs at their core for the rest of our lives.
Confidence for the Record
“I start judging myself; how my hair looks, how my voice sounds, the slight stammer on certain words. I become literally my worst critic.
Prune & Grow Your Business
There are some relationships that are not worth having, no matter what you’ve been told you should be generating from them.
Confidently Start your Business
To put it plainly, to grow your own business, you must first grow yourself. Your beliefs, thoughts, ideals, values, abilities, and CONFIDENCE.
Three Steps Through Fear
To every action, there’s a reaction… We can actually survive and thrive through a whole lot more than we think we can. We are innately strong and resilient beings!
Change your Environment, Change your Life
I truly believe the relationships I made, the emotional knowledge I’ve gained, and the empathy I felt in connecting to others that were suffering in some of the same ways I was, led me to finding my purpose.
The Song of Me
Confidence is something I struggled with all my life. I listened too long to those negative thoughts, but one magical day I found my song!
You Know What, So What Now? | Part II of Finding Purpose
A lot of times, fear of the unknown or anxiety around learning new things stops us before we get too far into living our dream. Take your power back and be persistent.
Adapting on Your Terms
We find ourselves flustered and feeling lesser-than… ready to jump ship from the gloriousness we are to be something better… something we can accept. But are they really for us or for someone else?
Break the Glass to Experience the Storm
I saw myself affecting the world around me. I was becoming a master of my future by overcoming my fears of the past.
Four Steps to Rediscovery
It starts by being excited and driven by your values and passion projects, but finding our purpose can go beyond the things we enjoy doing or care about.
Finding Acceptance through Recovery
Sometimes the hardships that life deal us are too much to handle, painful or stressful. Finding acceptance after these situations is an important part of healing.
Grace and Gratitude
Show yourself empathy, understanding and grace. The power you hold is positive.
Accepting my Life on the Farm
I didn’t want to be seen as a farm kid, so I chose to be utterly unseen as anything else. By the time I was a young adult, I started realizing the negative impacts of my ability to “blend in”.
The Imposter Within
And even though others thought I was good at it, I felt like I was just goofing around. Pretending to be good at something, I wasn’t really good at.
There’s No Magical Start Date
You can start your journey at ANY point in your life. ANY age. ANY day of the week. ANY time of day. ANYwhere in the world.
The Power of Positivity
I am sure you have heard throughout your life that you can do anything you put your mind to. In one ear, it went and right out the other. But why? When did you stop believing your wildest dreams were achievable?
Steps to Becoming a Boundary Boss
When most of us think about the word boundaries, we associate it with building walls or a line of defense that negatively affects others. But in all reality, boundaries aren’t brick and mortar barricades, nor do they hurt other people.
Before the Snow Settles
Shoveling the falling snow in the snow globe helps keep my footing for when it finally stops- this is the month of December for me. Shoveling, organizing, and salting the walkway to 2022.
Something Old, Something New
Giving ourselves gifts throughout the year is not something many of us remember to do, but it’s something so necessary. These gifts remind us to refocus our attention inward from time to time, to reconnect and grow the relationship with ourselves.
Unwrapping the Power of “No”, to Create a Powerful “Yes”
If you don’t feel like your time, energy, and talents are worth anything, it’s hard to ask others to recognize them and your limits as a capable and confident human being. But how do you do this?