Ushering in a Fresh Start by Jena Bell

It’s the dawn of the new season, the days are longer, the sun is brighter and the air is fresher.  For kids, spending endless days adrift sprinkle their thoughts. For adults and BOSS entrepreneurs, it’s thank God, the days are longer! I hear you. The summertime is definitely a time to spring forward. June marks the beginning of the second half of the year and a time to assess where you are with your goals.  As you look over the past two quarters, are you on track? If the answer to the question is positive attribution of progression, keep going! But if not, it’s time to reassess and restart.  That’s the typical advice right? But this advice comes a little short sided. The reality is often times we find it difficult to simply restart. The advice assumes one is mentally and emotionally at the starting line ready to hit the mark.  If that were the case, wouldn’t you have progressed? There is something holding you back and until you face it, the second half, same results.

Maybe uncertainty, “comfort-zone syndrome,” confidence blockers, or “belief blinders” could be holding your back from seeing your possibilities. These are just a few prevalent abundance blockers impacting women. As women, the tendency is to self critique, better known as paralysis by critical analysis. Let’s face it, the enemy within is greater than the enemy outside. How many of you are guilty of saying, “ I know I am my own worst critic?” Sound familiar? I hear it often. Look, even I am guilty of that one. It’s the “perfectionist" syndrome blocking your own genius.

Well, it’s time to shift. I share these 5 tips to help you shift your mental blockers to trail blazing with a Fresh Start.

1. Practice Self-Awareness. Become aware of self-criticism and conscious of the stories you tell yourself. These negative stories contribute to over analysis-paralysis that stops you from stepping into your greatness.
2. Set aside emotions. Emotions shift focus to the negative aspects and impair your ability to see other perspectives. This may be a time to heal old wounds that continue to lurk beneath the surface.
3. Look to life lessons and draw on wisdom for guidance. Life’s best lessons allow you to matriculate the school of life with objectivity.
4. Focus on positive proof of your greatness. I refer to it as building your own “proof of concept’ of your magnetic greatness. Success leaves clues. Find your clues.
5. Focus on your goals and vision for the second half of the year with the perspective it’s a fresh start. Focus on what’s ahead, not what’s gone or not done.

Practice the art of shifting the mind from critical critique to objective focus and action orientation. I help women struggling to get passed challenges by turning around any situation. If you would like to Connect contact me.

Jena L Bell, Author, Mirror Affirmations, International Speaker and Founder, Purpose on the Rise and Pathways to Abundance. I can be reached at www.purposeonthrise.com or Connect with Jena, Instagram, Linked-In, Facebook.