Your Day And Your Life Unstuck With Sherry Essig

Your magic doesn’t come from a wand, a spell-book, and a cupboard full of potions, but from seeing your options … and exercising them.

When you show up as the real deal, that person you really are, you get to fully leverage your strengths and it takes a whole lot less effort. It's hard work being someone you're not! Start with one small act a day, build from there, and before you know it the real you will be sitting at your desk.

It’s never inappropriate to be who you are. And it’s so easy to forget this. It’s not unusual to get caught up in thinking you have to be someone you’re not in order to be successful, have an impact, achieve a particular goal, or any of the other things we worry about. But it’s not true. You do your best work, have your greatest impact, are happiest, and are at your most extraordinary when you’re the best version of YOU.

You can’t create lasting change through sheer force of will. Change has to start with an awareness of the choices you’re making. And when change is built on a foundation of awareness it will have staying power.

Just a few outdoor mini-breaks can recharge your batteries, increase your productivity, and reduce stress. That's quite a return on a small time investment. Challenge yourself to find one simple way to bring a few minutes of the outdoors into your life.

Leadership is influencing people and results to have a positive impact in your world. Holding a leadership position is not the same as being a leader. You're a leader because of how you show up and what you do – because of your actions. Here are eight qualities to cultivate that will help you be a more effective leader and leave a stronger positive footprint wherever you choose to walk.

When you’re feeling unmotivated, overwhelmed, time-constrained, or any other flavor of stuck, oomph is in short supply. It’s almost impossible to find the energy to jump in and just go for it. Enter incremental baby steps. They don’t take a lot of oomph, and that makes them powerful.

When you live in the fantasy that achieving your goals or creating change in your life should be as smooth a ride as coasting along the LA beach bike path, you throw the door open for your inner critic. He/she will offer up all manner of criticism, trying to tempt you into giving up. Here are five critical steps that will help keep you on track towards your goals, especially when the going gets tough.

We all carry around a bunch rules based on shoulds, shouldn’ts, musts, and mustn’ts. Adherence to those rules won’t help you thrive. Your personality and strengths won’t shine through that wall of rules. What makes you uniquely you won’t rise to the top. It’s time to break some rules so you can live your full potential.

When you try to please everyone, you won’t please anyone. We infect ourselves with pleasing-itis for all sorts of reasons: to avoid risk or failure; to be liked; to feel safe. It does none of those things. You will always be your most successful and - more importantly - happiest when you are authentic, unique, and living your values.

Questions have the effect of knock-knock-knocking on your brain and gut. They shake you out of ruts, wake you up, shine a light on your opportunities to make changes, and help you see things differently. The right questions are potent and will help you create what you want in your life.

Breakthroughs come when you give your brain a break. And in the world of 24-hour connection we now live in you rarely have the conditions needed to release your unconscious thought process. No matter where you're stuck, options and ideas come from creative thinking … and that starts in your unconscious. So the quickest path to getting those juices flowing is to allow space for more brain breaks in your life.

In order to not sell yourself short, you have to take a stand for yourself. That’s not always easy. Taking a stand for yourself is an act of courage … and an act of love. To confidently and authentically take a stand for yourself, you have to believe you deserve it. And that takes some serious self-love.

When you're busy being who you think you're supposed to be, you aren't living from your strengths. Instead, you use up an enormous amount of energy stifling the real you. And eventually your self-esteem erodes. None of which fuels your career. But when you embrace who you are and step out of your comfort zone, just the opposite happens.

When you consistently and repetitively practice, new patterns start taking root. However, stop practicing or get inconsistent, and you’ll slide right back into your old patterns. Use the following four-step process to turn your new actions and routines into habits so you can set yourself up for sustainable success.

How you're feeling often shows up in those around you, including your four-legged friends. Increase your mindfulness by seeing how others react.

Shoulding on yourself serves no useful purpose. In fact, it’s worse than useless. The more time you spend in the land of Self-Should the more it creates stress, drains energy, saps your creativity, wears you out, wastes time, occupies mind-space, negatively affects your self-esteem, and just generally makes you feel yucky. Here are two key steps to keep you from getting stuck in should.

To positively impact your mindset, increase your sense of personal power, and achieve more of what matters to you, try banishing these four words and phrases from your vocabulary.

5 key ways you can make things easier and flow more smoothly in every part of your life.

5 key ways you can make things easier and flow more smoothly in every part of your life.