1. Contemplation: Rejuvenate

2. Citation of the Week: “If it doesn’t challenge you it doesn’t change you.” —Fred Devito

3. Conversation Consideration: You can’t spell Challenge without Change

4. Check Your Reality: (Ask yourself hard questions.) Do you listen to criticism and use it as information to grow?

Now, let’s sweep the brain…

Contemplation: Rejuvenate.

What are you giving new energy to today? How are you caring for your mind, your body, your soul?

Sometimes it’s as simple as a long hot shower or making the time for a book you’ve been wanting to read.

For me, it’s reading Atlas of the Heart by Brene Brown. This will be a book that I read and reread for years to come. Taking each page in and sitting with it.

Have you read it?

Some ideas for you to consider for rejuvenation:

• Spend time outside

• Read a book

• Make your favorite meal

• Try meditation and breathing exercises

• Rest

• Explore a new hobby

What will you try? Need support with ideas?

Citation of the week: Each day is an opportunity to learn something new. To grow. Sometimes we are given the same lesson over and over until we take the time to be aware of the challenge and learn something from it

Are you able to see challenges as gifts?

Are you able to see challenges as opportunities?

What are you finding challenging this week?

Need support? I can help!

Conversation consideration: You can’t spell Challenge without Change

So yeah, there is a theme this week. But, if you are going to rise the challenge, you have to be prepared to change.

• The quicker you can adapt to change, the quicker you will flourish.

• This requires resilience to achieve. Resilience allows you to bounce back quicker from challenges and rise to a higher level of performance.

• ALL of this is achieved with practice and creating habits towards the change you want to see.

Check Your Reality: (Ask yourself hard questions.) Do you listen to criticism and use it as information to grow?

There are several types of criticism

• Destructive - given with intent to harm or insult | does not offer suggestions | focuses on the creator, not the work.

• Constructive - given with compassion | offers suggestions to improve | intention is to help.

• Mixed - combination of motives, the intent is to help and put you down | a personal opinion disguised as constructive criticism.

• Self - that voice in your head | an imaginary standard | comparing your insides to other’s outsides.

I’d like to focus on the self criticism for today. Because at a higher level of personal improvement you can examine your thoughts, emotions and behaviors in an objective manner. Internal constructive criticism.

All in an effort to grow.

“Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose.” ~ Wayne W. Dyer

I’d love to hear what you think!