Tenacious Tuesday – Motivational Minute 393

It’s Tenacious Tuesday!

Today’s Motivational Minute is …

Come out of your Comfort Zone and Be Adventurous!

It’s day two of our week and it’s time to come from under that rock and out of your comfort zones. You have been living by someone else’s rules and other people’s expectations for way too long. Now it’s time to live YOUR Life, God’s way… the BEST Way. Take the risk, do it afraid and make a commitment to challenge the status quo. Life begins on the other side of comfort!

YOUR TURN… on this Tenacious Tuesday, tell me what keeps you from coming out of your comfort zone? Who told you it wasn’t possible? Who said it wasn’t realistic? If you have started taking steps to come out of your comfort zone to live life in & on purpose, how did you do it?

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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Wise Wednesday – Motivational Minute 389

It’s Wise Wednesday!

Today’s Motivational Minute is …

BE CAREFUL who you share your dreams and aspirations with!

Use wisdom with whom you share your inner most desires.  The very people who say they are for you may be against you.  Those we call ‘haters’ or wolves in sheep’s clothing.  Then there are some who to no fault of their own try to talk you out of ‘BIG’ because they are caught in ‘small.’   They actually love you, want the best for you and may even share concern for you but because they aren’t apart of your future unintentionally try to hinder you from pursuing the purpose of God because they have no clue they will stay in your past.

Be mindful

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Use wisdom about what you share and when you share it.

Everything God gives you isn’t meant to be shared at the time the deposit is made.

YOUR TURN… on this Wise Wednesday, tell me, have there been times that you shared something out of sheer excitement with someone who totally didn’t get the vision and or idea that God had given you?  Was the reaction out of sheer ignorance or did you sense a little bit of ‘haterade’ in the atmosphere?  How did you handle it?  Have you since limited what you share with this person or these people? 

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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Motivational Monday – Motivational Minute 387

It’s Motivational Monday!

Today’s Motivational Minute is …

Keep Moving FORWARD!  

The key, however, is to that you must NOT move backwards but you must keep moving forward.  You also must not stand still (unless God says so).  But with one step in front of the other, you have to believe that every step is worth it.  In spite of mistakes and in spite of your fears, KEEP Moving FORWARD!

YOUR TURN… on this Motivational Monday, what ways can you keep moving forward? What distractions are trying to keep you from moving forward.  Identify them, write them down and make a commitment to move in spite of your fears and your feelings?  If you are currently moving forward with full speed ahead, how did you do it and how are you doing it?

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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Wise Wednesday – Motivational Minute 375

It’s Wise Wednesday!

Today’s Motivational Minute is …

Make wise choices everyday that move you toward purpose instead of away from it. Every decision you make either moves you forward, backward or no where. Choose to move forward and choose to do it TODAY!

YOUR TURN… on this Wise Wednesday, tell me how have you been wise or unwise in your decision-making? Are there decisions you need to make but keep saying I’ll do it tomorrow? If so, what is it?

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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Tenacious Tuesday – Motivational Minute 374

It’s Tenacious Tuesday!

Today’s Motivational Minute is …

Think ON Purpose!  

In order for you to get total control of your life you are going to have to be INTENTIONAL and ON PURPOSE about how you think and what you think about.   If you don’t control your thoughts, they WILL control YOU!  If things aren’t turning out the way you’d like, you may need to check your thoughts and see who’s running the show…. YOU or YOUR THOUGHTS!  It’s time for you to think about what you think about and start THINKING ON PURPOSE!

The May Motivational Coaching Call is entitled “Mind Over Matter: Master Your Mind. Master You Life.”  It takes place this Thursday, May 2nd at 8pm and it’s FREE.  Won’t you join me! (Register for the call by clicking here.)

YOUR TURN… on this Tenacious Tuesday, tell me, do you think on purpose?  Do you think about what you think about or do you just accept what pops into your head?

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…

Happy 3rd Anniversary TrueheartWrites!!!

Today marks the for my blog.  When I received the notification, I was quite surprised since it doesn’t seem like it’s been three years since I started this blog.  So in celebration of my blog’s third anniversary, I would like to ask you to do me THREE favors:  Share my blog with THREE people who you think would benefit from what I share in my blog and have them subscribe to the blog so they can receive instant updates when new blog posts come out.

As I embark on a new year tomorrow, I am excited about our future and what God has in store for us.  There are a few blogging goals but since it’s my third anniversary, I will just share THREE…

1. Post weekly posts: I haven’t been as consistent as I’d like to be in posting weekly.  So this is a big goal for me this year.  Pray that I make good on this goal!

2. Write daily: I don’t write everyday, so this will be a challenge that I am looking forward to taking on.  The major challenge for me has been time and consistency, but I am determined to make the effort to write something at least once a day so that I get a good rhythm in writing.  I also believe that the more I write the better I will get at it, so I am looking forward to seeing the growth in my writing as well.

3. Add at least one video blog per month: TO be honest, I am not even sure how to post a video to my blog but you best be sure I am going to find out how to do it.  While learning I will at least post a monthly video blog to my YouTube page and post the link in my blog so you can view it.

So as we welcome a new Blog year tomorrow, here’s to you living life IN and ON purpose! It is time to Break the Mold and Challenge the Status Quo. It is also time for you to break free from the expectations and limitations of those people, places and things that keep you from living GOD’s BEST life for YOU!

Until next time…

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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Excuses

Are you ready for purpose, destiny and the marvelous future awaiting you?

If not, it’s time to start getting ready.

Stop saying you are waiting for the right time to start.  While you keeping saying you are waiting for it, it is waiting for you?  By saying that you are waiting for the right time, or the right day or the right month, you are just providing more EXCUSES to keep doing what you’ve always done, which is NOTHING.  I know it makes you feel better to say ‘I’m waiting on the right time‘ than to admit that fear is what causes you to procrastinate thus causing you to do NOTHING.

Well today, DO SOMETHING, do one thing you know you should be doing.  A little bit of progress is better than no progress at all.  One step is better than none.  Sometimes the way is made open and available to those who take the first step without seeing where it may lead.

I encourage you to stop fearing failure.  Feel the fear and do what you need to do in spite of the fear.  Many times, what we fail to realize is that it is in failure that we find success.  As you make mistakes, you learn what works and what doesn’t.  So stop making excuses and starting making things happen.

The first step you may need to do is schedule your get acquainted session with me to see if a coach is what you need to get you motivated and moving.

Until next time…

Detra M. Trueheart,

Your Life Empowerment Coach

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