Fearless Friday – Motivational Minute 363

It’s Fearless Friday!

Today’s Motivational Minute is…

Lose so you can Win!  

I know you are probably saying WHAT?  Well I was watching American Idol yesterday and Fantasia sang a song on the show that said ‘Sometimes you have to lose so you can win again.’  Those words immediately spoke to me.  I don’t know about you but I have had a few loses in my life that have lead to BIG wins.  However when they first occurred, I wasn’t so sure.  Maybe you are going through some thing or maybe things aren’t turning out quite the way you thought.  Well I am here to tell you that sometimes you have to lose to win.  Don’t let fear of the unknown keep you locked in a box that you were never supposed to be in.

Be Fearless | Break the mold | LET GO of yesterday | EMBRACE today | So you can WIN tomorrow.

YOUR TURN… on this Fearless Friday, take a moment to let me know what you know you need to ‘lose’ in order to WIN.  What and/or who do you know in your heart of hearts you need to walk away from.

Share your thoughts below 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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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!

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

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

Detra…

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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Believe BIG

 

Napoleon Hill said “What the mind can conceive and believe it can achieve.” In prayer this morning God revealed to me that many of us don’t have a problem conceiving. We can think big dreams, we can see the ‘possibility’ of having more. The problem is in the believing. We see it but we don’t believe it for ourselves. It’s ok for someone to be blessed but not us. What the mind can conceive AND believe, it can achieve. The blessings of God are not just for everyone else. YOU are included in that number! Seeing isn’t always believing. Sometimes you see it but you don’t believe it which why is you don’t have it. STOP IT! I don’t know who this is for. But you can have what you see! Start believing it!

Now there are others who are even afraid to think big because you don’t believe it can happen. You are afraid of failing. You think are aren’t worthy. Well guess what? Get moving… Fail forward and TRUST and BELIEVE you are worthy and worth it!  So start conceiving today… start thinking beyond your wildest dreams for healing, for bigger faith, for living in ultimate purpose… for being a lender instead of a borrower. GO ahead… now once you start thinking it…. add God’s word to it so you can start believing… ‘as a man thinks in his heart so is he.’  Once you get past conceiving, and master believing, you WILL ACHIEVE!!

Until next time…

Detra M. Trueheart,

Your Life Empowerment Coach

 

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Motivational Minute 353

Today’s Motivational Minute…

You only get one life! Why not live it to the fullest?

Until next time…

Detra M. Trueheart, Your Personal Life and Empowerment Coach

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Get up after falling…

This is an exciting time for my family!  My son is starting to learn how to walk and as I watch him take one step, then two steps, then stumble and fall and then get back up,  I am reminded that this is how life is for just about all of us when we feel ourselves moving to the next level, if we are willing to admit it.  In pursuit of purpose, we start on one level and then as we feel the pull to transition to the next level, we take one step forward, fall, then take another step and stumble, take two steps and then fall again.  At some point, we get tired and resort to what’s SAFE …crawling again (going back to what’s comfortable or easy for us).

That is exactly what my son is doing.  He takes a few steps, falls down, gets back up out of excitement and falls immediately back down due to his inability to maintain his balance (I will deal with the issue of balance on another day).  After falling a few times, he gives up on trying to walk and then goes back to crawling again.  I know some of you reading this know exactly what I am talking about because you have children and have seen this happen with them.  However there are those of you who know exactly what I am talking about because you are the one who is being pulled to a new level and/or in a new direction and you aren’t quite sure how to get there.  But as you take those small steps you find it getting easier to move toward that place that you know purpose resides.  Now some of you, who immediately after falling, resort back to what’s easy and comfortable, daring to never take another step out of fear of falling again.   It is easier for you to rest in what you already know rather than the unknown of what is up ahead waiting for you.  Let me say this to you… PLEASE DO NOT GET DISCOURAGED and PLEASE DO NOT STOP WHERE YOU ARE!

Just as my son may take one step here then five steps there, falls in between, then gets back up when he thinks he is ready to take a few more steps, you too should not worry about falling but about getting back up and getting yourself moving forward toward your life of purpose and significance.  What you are not realizing is that falling gives you small doses of confidence, so that when you take that next step, you have the assurance of knowing that if you took the previous one, you can take another.  It may seem scary and it may seem impossible, but trust that as you take more steps, like my son, you will get the hang of ‘walking.’

To help you find comfort in falling, here are a few things that I learned while watching my son:

1. When you fall don’t get upset, it’s part of the process.  In fact instead of getting discouraged, give yourself credit for taking that first step.  He gets so excited when he realizes he has taken a few steps on his own.  That excitement propels him to want to take more steps.
2. Surround yourself with people who will be just as excited about your small accomplishments as your large ones.  It is extremely important to have supportive people around you when in the infancy stages of life transitions.  One of the reasons, my son loses his balance is because we get so excited that he has taken steps that our screams and claps get him all worked up as well.   Sometimes not even knowing how big of deal his one, two or five steps were, he looks back at us wondering what all of the excitement is about.
3. Even if you only take one step, know that it is getting you one step closer to that place you desire to be.  REMEMBER… it all starts with that first step.  You can’t get ahead if you don’t get started.
4. Take on the innocence and naiveté of an infant.  My son takes his steps not based on the fear of falling but with the confidence that he can do it. Take the risk anyway.  You will never know unless you try.  Sometimes you have stop thinking so much and like Nike says, ‘Just Do It.’  Thinking too much will cause you to develop what is called ‘analysis paralysis,’ where you think about something so much that you think yourself out taking any action.
5. Get back up.  Don’t stay down there for long.  Although that is where you may feel most comfortable, know that ‘crawling’ is not your ultimate destination.  You were meant to not only walk but to run.  So keep moving.

Don’t let fear of falling keep you from the pursuit of living life in and on purpose. Get out there, get up after each fall and take at least one step today!  Don’t wait until tomorrow start NOW!

Here’s to YOU living life in and on purpose… Remember to thine own self be TRUE, for out of the abundance of the HEART, the mouth SPEAKS!

Until next time…

Detra M. Trueheart, Your Personal Life Empowerment Coach

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Motivational Minute 345

Today’s Motivational Minute…

Everyone won’t be happy about your success.  Some people will try to tell  you that your dream is too big but don’t let that stop you from pursuing your big dreams and goals.  Don’t let their insecurities become yours.

Remember to thine own self be TRUE, for out of the abundance of the HEART, the mouth SPEAKS… speak life and be true!

Until next time…

Detra M. Trueheart, Your Personal Life and Empowerment Coach

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Motivational Minute 342

Today’s Motivational Minute …

There are times when we have to do things on our own to learn from them but there are times when we need others to help us along the way.  Be open to allowing others to help you along the way when needed and be bold when you don’t have the support of others.

Remember to thine own self be TRUE, for out of the abundance of the HEART, the mouth SPEAKS… speak life and be true!

Until next time…

Detra M. Trueheart, Your Personal Life and Empowerment Coach

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Motivational Minute 339

Today’s Motivational Minute …

When others are trying to pull you up or push you in to the next level, don’t let fear and your ego keep you from taking the next step.  God uses people to bless you, the key is to recognize and discern who they are.

Remember to thine own self be TRUE, for out of the abundance of the HEART, the mouth SPEAKS… speak life and be true!

Until next time…

Detra M. Trueheart, Your Personal Life and Empowerment Coach

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Motivational Minute 338

Today’s Motivational Minute …

Stop allowing other people’s expectations and/or limitations to become your reality and ultimate destination.  Be aware of your thoughts, feelings, and emotions and learn to manage them.  When you do you will then learn to reject that which doesn’t line up with where God has purposed for you to be.  Expect excellence and your best,  NOT perfection.

Remember to thine own self be TRUE, for out of the abundance of the HEART, the mouth SPEAKS… speak life and be true!

Until next time…

Detra M. Trueheart, Your Personal Life and Empowerment Coach

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