Tenacious Tuesday – Motivational Minute 388

It’s Tenacious Tuesday!

Today’s Motivational Minute is …

Don’t Let Go!  

Although it may seem like allllll hell is coming against you and things may not seem like they are working out how you imagined, DON’T LET GO!  If it seems like the very people who you thought would and should support you, but question the very essence of what you are doing, DON’T LET GO!  When it seems like nothing is coming to together and you are even losing sight of your goal, your dream, your purpose, DON’T LET GO!

WHY?

Because everything you are going through will be used to catapult you into your purpose and destiny.  It will be used for God’s glory.  It will be used to be a blessing to someone else.  What you are going through isn’t for you, it’s for someone else.  They are waiting for you to come out and share your story.

So

Don’t Give Up

&

DON’T LET GO! 

YOUR TURN… on this Tenacious Tuesday, tell me what you are on the verge of letting go?  Have you been on the verge of letting go?  Did you?  If so, why and did you regret not holding on just a little longer?  If not, what kept you from letting go?

Share your thoughts in the comments section. I would love to hear from you. There may be someone who just might be blessed by what you share!

Here’s to you living life IN & On Purpose…

Detra M. Trueheart,

Your Life Empowerment Coach

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Tenacious Tuesday – Motivational Minute 381

It’s Tenacious Tuesday!

Today’s Motivational Minute is …

Keep going no matter how you feel.  You don’t operate according to your feelings, they operate according to you!  Get them under control and get to work!  You might be tired, you might be frustrated and you might even want to quit, but DON’T.  Just keep moving with one foot right in front of the other and soon you will see that it was all worth it! Everything worth having is worth working hard for.

YOUR TURN… on this Tenacious-Tuesday, are you almost ready to quit?  Tell me how you plan to keep going and persevere past your feelings.

Share your thoughts in the comments section. I would love to hear from you. There may be someone who just might be blessed by what you share!

Here’s to you living life IN & On Purpose…

Detra M. Trueheart,

Your Personal Life and Empowerment Coach

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Motivational Monday – Motivational Minute 380

It’s Motivational Monday!

Today’s Motivational Minute is…

Discipline yourself to do the necessary (short-term) things required to make your long-term goals a reality.  Remember, you don’t have to do forever but you do have to do it TODAY… and maybe tomorrow!

YOUR TURN… on this Motivational Monday, tell me the one thing you have been putting off that you need to do today.  After you share it in the comments section, get to work!

Share your thoughts in the comments section. ==> I would love to hear from you. There may be someone who just might be blessed by what you share!

Here’s to you living life IN & On Purpose…

Detra M. Trueheart,

Your Personal Life and Empowerment Coach

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Spirit-Filled Sunday – Motivational Minute 372

It’s Spirit-Filled Sunday!

Today’s Motivational Minute is… 

BELIEVE!! — Simple yet POWERFUL if you do it.  Belief only works when you work it! 

 

 

YOUR TURN… on this Spirit-Filled Sunday, is there an area of your life you need to believe God for?  What it is?  Do you REALLY believe that you can receive it? If not, what’s holding your belief back?

Share your thoughts in the comments section. I would love to hear from you. There may be someone who just might be blessed by what you share!

Here’s to you living life IN & On Purpose…

Detra M. Trueheart,

Your Personal Life and Empowerment Coach

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Thankful Thursday – Motivational Minute 369

It’s Thankful Thursday!

Today’s Motivational Minute is….

Take a few minutes to look around and see all the blessings you have been afforded and say THANK YOU!  You may not be where you want to be, but you most certainly aren’t where you used to be.   Be thankful for the journey and the progress you’ve made in your life.  Developing the habit of having an attitude of gratitude is necessary for you to embrace every blessing, big and small that comes into your life.

YOUR TURN… on this Thankful Thursday, tell me what you see when you look around.  What blessings are there right before your very eyes that you fail to acknowledge each day?  How can you develop the habit of having an attitude of gratitude each day?

Share your thoughts in the comments section. I would love to hear from you. There may be someone who just might be blessed by what you share!

Here’s to you living life IN & On Purpose…

Detra M. Trueheart,

Your Personal Life and Empowerment Coach

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Spirit-Filled Sunday – Motivational Minute 365

It’s Spirit-Filled Sunday!

Today’s Motivational Minute is …

And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily as to the Lord, and not unto men… (Colossians 3:23)

YOUR TURN… on this Spirit-Filled Sunday, take some time to think about how you can do what you do unto the Lord and not unto man.  What would you do differently if what you did want to glorify only God and NOT MAN?

Share your thoughts in the comments section. I would love to hear from you. There may be someone who just might be blessed by what you share!

Here’s to you living life IN & On Purpose…

Detra M. Trueheart,

Your Personal Life and Empowerment Coach

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FREE Monthly Motivational Call Tonight at 8pm!

Happy April 4!!!

I am just elated because on this evening I will host the first of my monthly motivational coaching calls.  Over the last few months I have had a number of conversations with individuals who know they have greatness inside of them but seem to be stuck in a paralyzed state of FEAR.  While praying about the direction God wanted me to take to best serve you, I realized that some people just need a little push, a little umph… a little bit of mojo or even a swift kick in the butt!

Well here is your answer… it’s time out for letting FEAR run rampant in our lives and keep us from living God’s Best.  If you know you need to take more than just safe steps into greatness, this call is for you.  It’s time for massive action steps into your purpose and destiny!

Over the past few months, I’ve been in prayer about how best to serve you and those who God has assigned to me. I know that many of you struggle with launching out and pursuing God’s best for you. So to help you live God’s best life I will be hosting a 30 minute coaching call EVERY MONTH to help jump-start you into purpose. Sometimes that’s all we need is a little push, right? It is my desire that this will be the little push needed to start you on your journey to living life IN and ON PURPOSE.  The best part of this is that it’s FREE and it’s only 30 minutes.  Believe me you… I know how important your time is and I know that you sometimes need something quick, concise, and to the point and that’s the purpose of these calls.

Therefore on the first Thursday of each month there will be a new topic and strategic tips for immediate implementation EACH month to help you break the mold, challenge the status quo and live life IN & ON purpose.

For April, we will be dealing with a topic that almost everyone has at some point dealt with or is still dealing with. There isn’t a week that goes by where I don’t meet people who are caught in a very frustrating and deadly trap.

They invest a lot of time and energy thinking ‘how great or different things would be if I (fill in the blank).’ Now I’m not talking about hoping and wishing the grass was greener on the other side. I am referring to people who KNOW they are supposed to be doing something great but CAN’T get started or just WON’T get started.

Many times they take one or two or even three steps but these are safe steps. However when it comes to taking massive action, they FREEZE.

Why you might ask???

Because of one word…. FEAR!

That’s right.

When asked ‘what are you afraid of’ or ‘what’s holding you back’, many will say “I don’t know.”

Over the years I’ve met so many people, young and old, who just won’t move forward because of this one BIG LITTLE word. They are afraid of what others will say, think or do in response to a decision they need to make. They are afraid of the unknown. They are afraid of failing and even succeeding.

YES!!!! Some people are even afraid of success. These people shrink into the background and dim their light so that others won’t try to dim it for them. OR because they’re afraid their ‘light’ won’t be accepted.

There are so many reasons people are afraid but on tonight, Thursday April 4 at 8pm, I want you to join me for a 30 minute POWER PACKED Coaching Call entitled

‘FearFULL to FearLESS: 3 ways to kick FEAR to the curb’.

This will be the first of our monthly motivational calls where we will dig deep into a topic that as I stated many of you either struggle to overcome or have asked me about on numerous occasions.

Using practical and faith-based principles, on this call, you will learn how deal with fear and move forward into purpose.

Did I mention the call is FREE!! — Yes FREE!!!

It’s time to turn things around and break the mold. It’s YOUR time to start taking massive action so you can start living life IN and ON Purpose!

Join me for this FREE, high-value coaching call where I’ll share with you the 3 simple but powerful secrets to overcoming and moving through your fear!

==> Just click here to REGISTER & to reserve your spot. <==

I look forward to ‘seeing’ on the call this evening!

Break the Mold, Challenge the Status Quo & Live Life IN & ON Purpose,

Detra…

What you put in you get out…

So first before I get started, I wanted to say HIIIIII!!

I know it has been a minute since I have posted anything but things have been a bit hectic on the home front so I felt I needed to take a break for a minute.  I needed to refocus and take some time to get some clarity on a few things.  In doing so, I have been increasing my reading and most of my books have focused on prayer but the most recent books I have decided to read are relative to priorities, time management and balance.  The first is John Maxwell’s “Today Matters” and the other is Joyce Meyer’s “100 ways to Simplify Your Life.”

I was feeling a little overwhelmed with everything going on and I needed to take some time to make some internal deposits to get back on track which leads me to this post.  I began to notice that as I was reading, I had been depleted.  I realized I was trying to give what I didn’t have.   I have been continuously pouring out and sowing into others but I wasn’t really taking the needed time to replenish myself.  As I was reading John Maxwell’s book today, I realized that I needed to be reading more, praying more and taking more time to replenish and refuel myself so that I could continue to give and share more.  As a speaker and a life coach, my life is about sharing and pouring into others and I have to continuously read and study resources that keep me sharp and on point.  But as with a bank account, if you continuously withdraw, at some point there isn’t anything left to take out and use if you aren’t replenishing the bank account.  As I was reading I realized that I really need to take more time for spiritual, personal and internal development.  I need to make sure I am intentional about taking care of ME or else I can’t help you take care of YOU.

I know I know I know … you are probably saying that this is something I should have paid attention to but to be honest I have been on auto pilot for some time that once I realized it I had to pull away and recharge.  However in the midst of recharging I still missed one aspect, pouring back into my gift and purpose.  Many times as people who sow into others, we work to take care of everything but the thing we are placed on this earth to do.  We get to a point where we somewhat take for granted that we don’t have to sharpen the saw as often as we should.  So on this day as I read TODAY MATTERS.  I am committed to not only making the most of my day, I am also making the most of being intentional with sowing into and refueling myself.  I intentionally take time to read those things that would help me be the best I can be so I can give my clients the best of me.  I intentionally take time to go off to quiet places to pray and seek God’s face regarding where He would desire me to be and what He would desire me to do.  I intentionally remove myself from those people, places and things that would keep me overwhelmed, distracted and unfocused.

REMEMBER… what you put in you get out.

What about you?  Now keep in mind that the focus is on making positive affirming deposits not negative pessimistic deposits because if you deposit that which is negative that is what will come out.

My Challenge you to: 

If you can relate and you know you need to spend more time filling your depleted cup, I encourage you to take inventory of what you need in order to make that happen.  Don’t ask for permission, just take the time needed to recharge.  If this makes it easier, schedule it into your appointment book or calendar.  Schedule an appointment with yourself.  Do you need to exercise?  Are there books, videos, seminars, etc. that you need to read, view or attend to get your MOJO back?  Well start with just one thing that you can start doing TODAY and then DO IT.  Don’t wait for things to be perfect because there will never be a perfect time.  Don’t wait for everything to fill in line because once one thing gets in place another may fall out of place. Be kind to yourself and cut yourself some slack for not making this a priority sooner but GET MOVING.  Start replenishing that which you give out on daily basis. If you don’t, no one else will do it for you!  I’ve shared that I am reading a few books to replenish myself, praying more and taking more time to be in a quiet place.

Share your comments below at least one thing you will do to replenish yourself.  It doesn’t have to start out as something HUGE, so long as you start.  Keep it small so you can get right to it.

Remembering the Dreamer and the DREAM

Although I will be headed back home in a few hours from a fantastic vacay with my family, I just wanted to take a few moments to encourage you to remember not only the DREAM of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr but the MAN behind the dream.  He was just an ordinary person like you or me with an EXTRAORDINARY dream to make life better for EVERYONE.  He believed that we could be great by serving, great by walking in purpose, great by just taking the first step with seeing the stair case, great by doing what is right when no one is looking, and great by living and walking in love.  When we think of Dr. King’s dream, there were many who never thought it would come to past.  Now although there are some facets of his dreams that still have yet to come to past, there are parts of the dream that have.

My question for you is what dream do you have that may seem insurmountable.  What dream do you have that others may think sounds impossible?  What dream or burden has God placed upon your heart that just won’t go away.  I imagine that as our President, Barack Obama, is being sworn in today as the President of the United States, he never quite imagined his dream of influencing and changing the world would impact the world as it has done.  I would dare say that there is something deep down on the inside of you that God has deposited within you that you just can’t shake.  There are issues that don’t sit well with you, people who you believe deserve more, places in our country and world that need a servant leader like you to take the bull by the horns and break the mold and challenge the status quo.  It is time for you to dream a dream like Dr. King and President Obama that is so BIG that it lives on long after you have left this earth.  It is time for your dreams to be lived out and become a reality. It is time for you to step up and step out.  It is your time to be great by serving…

As we celebrate Dr. King and President Obama on this great day, I will leave you with this great words from Dr. King’s speech, “The Drum Major Instinct”

But that isn’t what Jesus did; he did something altogether different. He said in substance, “Oh, I see, you want to be first. You want to be great. You want to be important. You want to be significant. Well, you ought to be. If you’re going to be my disciple, you must be.” But he reordered priorities. And he said, “Yes, don’t give up this instinct. It’s a good instinct if you use it right. (Yes) It’s a good instinct if you don’t distort it and pervert it. Don’t give it up. Keep feeling the need for being important. Keep feeling the need for being first. But I want you to be first in love. (Amen) I want you to be first in moral excellence. I want you to be first in generosity. That is what I want you to do.”

And he transformed the situation by giving a new definition of greatness. And you know how he said it? He said, “Now brethren, I can’t give you greatness. And really, I can’t make you first.” This is what Jesus said to James and John. “You must earn it. True greatness comes not by favoritism, but by fitness. And the right hand and the left are not mine to give, they belong to those who are prepared.” (Amen)

And so Jesus gave us a new norm of greatness. If you want to be important—wonderful. If you want to be recognized—wonderful. If you want to be great—wonderful. But recognize that he who is greatest among you shall be your servant. (Amen) That’s a new definition of greatness.

And this morning, the thing that I like about it: by giving that definition of greatness, it means that everybody can be great, (Everybody) because everybody can serve. (Amen) You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. (All right) You don’t have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. You don’t have to know about Plato and Aristotle to serve. You don’t have to know Einstein’s theory of relativity to serve. You don’t have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve. (Amen) You only need a heart full of grace, (Yes, sir, Amen) a soul generated by love. (Yes) And you can be that servant.

Just Do It

As most of you know I launched 30 Days of Thanks back on November 1.  When God gave me the idea it was initially for me to jump-start a new direction for my business TrueheartSpeaks Enterprises.  But it was also meant for me to stay focused on everything God has done in my life.  If I was feeling this way, I knew there may have been others who had similar experiences.  I was noticing that there were many times in my life (as most of us have) that I was so focused on where I was trying to go that I was missing the importance of being THANKFUL for where I currently was in my life.  Thus, I launched ’30 Days of Thanks.’

When God gave me the idea, I almost got overtaken with analysis paralysis. This is when you think about something so much that you never get around to doing it because you spend more time thinking and planning rather than just doing it.  Well I am here to tell you that not only did I do it, I finished it, and it felt good!  Sometimes we have to get out of our own way when God is trying to get us to step out of our comfort zones to do what He purposed us to do.

Now I will tell you that it wasn’t as easy as it sounded.  Since the daily emails came out each morning at 7 am, I prepared my posts the night before.  There were nights that my 15 month old son wouldn’t go to bed until 11, sometimes 12:30 am.  Which meant I had to wait until he was sleep to get my work done, hence I wasn’t hitting the sack sometimes until 2-3 am.  There was other days where I was so exhausted that if I did plan to wake up early to complete my post, I risked the chance of it getting out late which it did a few times.  But I still DID IT.  I stayed committed to my goal and to my assignment (this is KEY).  I didn’t let the fact that it wasn’t perfect or that I was tired or that something crazy happened in my house keep me from JUST DOING IT.

This process was an important teaching lesson for me.  Because it’s easy to say YES but what’s more important is the follow through.  You can say YES to the assignment all you want but will you stay committed to seeing it through to completion?  I can say YES I DID and I am glad I did.  There was so much that God showed me that I believe the 30 Days of Thanks was more for me than those I shared the posts with.

So it has been about 2-3 weeks since the 30 Days of Thanks ended and I am still getting emails, texts, and fb posts telling me God moved in their lives because they participated in the 30 Days of Thanks.  You see you know never know how your obedience or disobedience can have an effect on those you are connected to.   I wonder how different things would have been for those who participated if I had let pride, fear and perfection keep me from doing what God told me to do.  Now I realize that God doesn’t need me to do HIS work, but I do know that because He saw fit to choose me, I needed to accept the challenge, put my big girl panties on and make it happen.  I also realize and know that there are a select group of people whose purpose and destiny is connected to me being obedient to my call and my assignment and if this is something I teach as a speaker, coach, consultant, and counselor, I needed to step up to plate even if it felt a little scary and a little different.

What about you?

So the next time, God whispers something in your ear and what He is saying doesn’t quite makes sense or the timing doesn’t quite make sense, then it’s probably God and you probably need to JUST DO IT!

What is God whispering in your ear for you to do either now or in 2013 that sounds a little scary?  Share with me in the comments below.  Also as your Personal Life Empowerment Coach, schedule a Strategy Session with me so we can get you moving past pride, fear and perfection so you can JUST DO IT.

Until next time…

Detra M. Trueheart,

Your Life Empowerment Coach

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