"You are the artist of yourself and your life. When you decide who you want to be and where you want to go, you just start. You put one foot in front of the other and go." ~Ashley Johns
A new decade is almost here. There's something about that that feels gigantic in the best way possible, exciting and full of possibility! I've always loved fresh starts, an open sky full of dreams and ideas I can create. Endless. Limitless.
What will you create in this next decade?
Who do you want to be?
Whether you've never set intentions in your life or you just want to level up your intention setting game, I'm going to show you how to get clear on what you want, decide where you're going and make a plan of action to get you moving that way.
I know you want to feel that you're living from your heart, not from habit. That you're free to create the life of your dreams, not follow what everyone else is doing. That you want to be happy and proud of yourself and keep growing into what's possible.
Getting intentional in your life is an act of self love. It's a choice to start looking forward and building what you want deep down.
When you choose to live from a space of intentionality, you live from your heart and what you really want vs. letting life run you. You carry out your truest desires and purpose for your life. You're connected to what you want, who you want to be and you take action to move that way.
"Our intention creates our reality." ~Wayne Dyer
Before you can look forward with clarity, it's so important to see what's behind you and reflect where you're at now. And p.s. you can do these 5 steps for yourself in personal, business and financial and you can do it every single week or month if you want. It's a really great exercise to stay on top of the intention you bring in your life.
Take your notebook out and give yourself time and space to answer the question below.
What did you do this year? Start jotting down all the things that happened this year. The goals you hit, the moves you made, the changes that happened, the tough challenges you faced and anything else that stands out.
Another idea: make a list for each month. This works better for some people to reflect on each month rather than the whole. Open your calendar and remember what happened in each month then write it down.
Think of this as the year in review.
Learning comes from reflecting.
Reflecting on what worked and what didn't work. Reflecting on what lit you up and what didn't. Reflecting on what felt really awesome and what felt off.
When I took my Goal Coaching course, there was a concept that says, "The power of knowing what you want, comes from knowing what you don't want."
I like to think of the reflection step as shaking the snow globe up so you can see the whole picture. It's not an easy step to reflect back and tune into the feelings that didn't feel good but it's a necessary step. So take a deep breath and stay with it. Most times we gotta go through the mud to become the lotus ;)
It's about asking yourself where you want to go, who you want to be and how you want to feel in 2021!
Important things to remember when setting intention:
"Intention comes from your heart. From what's true for you."
Now it's your turn. Take some time with yourself, light a candle, turn an inspiring playlist on and jam out to creating some magic!
When you're finished with your intentions, it's time to go back and crystallize them. What I mean by this is go back and verify that they're all true for you and adjust if needed. The intention is to feel whole and complete and look at your list and say to yourself, HELL YAH, that's it baby. If there are words, intentions or the phrasing of them that isn't a hell yes, go back and refine until it is. You'll know it by the feeling of it. Trust your intuition, she knows her shit.
Action follows intention.
Think about it: when you decide you're going to be healthier and you say, "I will be the healthiest version of myself this year," your actions will look very different with this intention vs. if you didn't have an intention. The times I wasn't intentional about what I put in my mouth, I would put whatever felt good in the moment in my mouth. The action changes based off the intention you set for yourself.
The result follows your action.If the intention is the compass guiding your ship forward to where you want to go, the action is the person steering the boat. {{that's you}} The result is where you go and where you end up down the road. The result follows your action.
Now that you have crystal clear intentions of where you're going, who you want to be and how you want to feel over the next year, it's time to create a list of action steps that you'll follow over this next year that support the intentions you have.
In your journal, rewrite your first intention and the action steps in the format below. As an example, I'll show you one of mine:
I will embrace the challenges that come my way because I know they hold all the gold in lessons.
Do this with each intention. When you do this for each intention, you're creating scenarios to set yourself up for success. You're creating action steps that literally anchor you as the person taking on this new path. Just as a captain would make sure she knows where she's going, she'd also know how she's going to get there and the back up plans if something goes wrong. She's prepared and ready for any situation and knows her plan has to be steady, firm and strong to withstand any obstacles.
This is what you're doing with each intention and action steps you create. You'll also notice when you list out the action steps for each intention, you might feel this literal anchoring feeling. You're teaching your subconscious mind to be ready to respond no matter what comes up. The next time I face a challenge, I am literally prepared for how to respond to it because I've mapped it out and in doing so, I'm directing my subconscious before it even has a chance to react in its old way. I'm literally laying down the course for it to follow.
When you're finished with your action steps for each intention, you've completed the mission of setting your Powerful AF Intentions for 2021!
Look to them every single day. Create a mantra around the theme of your intentions. After I did my intentions and action steps, I looked back at them and looked for the main themes. My mantra for 2021 is: HEART | LIGHTHOUSE | GROWTH
Your turn. Ready, go!
You can then choose FFJ Limitless Bracelets, the custom Mantra Necklace or any other jewelry that is aligned with your intentions/mantra! Wear it everyday and stay committed to your path.
I believe in you. You can have anything you want, you can be anything you want and you can feel however you choose to feel. It starts with you and my hope is that you have this new guide for yourself and these new set of intentions and action steps to carry you forward into not only your next level but the fiercest year you can imagine for yourself.
Want to create vision board? Your Complete Guide On How To Make A Vision Board To Attract What You Want
A couple weeks back I was packing for our move to Arizona and caught a glimpse of myself in the mirror. My hair was up in a messy top knot, my eyebrows were a hot mess and I looked at my reflection wondering where the girl I know had gone.
I used to dress in blazers and high heels every day. I felt like a boss and loved that part of my morning and how it made me feel. Didn't like the part of having a boss so when that ended and I actually became my own boss (7 years ago now), one of the first things that changed was the fact that I didn't have to get up and dress up to go anywhere.
At first it felt so freeing to wear whatever I wanted and do it from the comfort of my own home. I was my own boss so I decided what went.
Well, fast forward 7 years and let me tell you, wearing pjs and workout clothes everyday, you start to slowly lose touch with yourself. Your actions change. Suddenly, I realized I stopped setting my daily intentions with the limitless bracelets. Alot of big things were affected by this one decision to not dress up. Including how I felt about myself.
It's crazy how something so superficial can really reach inside and have the power to make you feel something on a deep intrinsic level.
Not good. Disconnected. A new version of yourself that feels kind of sad and lifeless.
Enter my reflection in the mirror.
I decided I was tired of feeling the same way and doing the same thing. Dressing in what was easy had lost its appeal and was no longer serving me and my best interest.
It was time to make a change.
What will you wear? What jewelry will you rock that makes you feel good? What outfit will you put together that makes you feel like the queen you are!
Let's do this babe, Ash
So often we think our current reality is the only one we can have. And we stay in the same spot for months and even years. One of the most important things to harness in your life is the power of possibility.
What could be possible if you dreamed it, believed in it and put all your action into that vision?
Enter a vision board!
You can use old magazines if you want but I really liked doing my latest (pictured) vision board by choosing my own images on Pinterest and then printing them. It allows you more freedom to really choose the images you want on your board vs. what's just available in magazines.
SET THE MOOD: turn some music on, sip your coffee and make sure you're in a space where there are no distractions. Creating your vision board isn't something you haphazardly do, it's something you do with focused intention. Make sure you're mentally in a good place where you feel inspired and excited to do this!
HOW TO SELECT YOUR IMAGES: the best way I can encourage you here is to tell you to listen to your intuition. She's strong and she's got a bold voice all you have to do is let her speak. She speaks through emotion. When you go through Pinterest and you're intentionally there looking for what you want next in your life, you open yourself up to the signs. Let the photos choose you. When it feels right, save it. Don't worry just save anything that feels right and makes you feel how you really want to feel in your life.
AN EXAMPLE: When doing my last board, I came across a picture of a Ford Bronco. I had no idea what it had to do with my vision except that once I saved it and started thinking about it, I realized I've always loved Bronco's and now, it's my dream car. It's in my big vision and so you see the power of being open to what pulls you in. Sometimes we have things hidden so deep that all we need to do is breathe life into them and then poof, they start breathing.
HAVE FUN: Biggest thing...have fun! Enjoy this time dreaming without limitations. Envisioning without self-doubt. Just be in the moment and have fun.
1. On Pinterest, go through your favorite quotes and images then save them to your camera roll by tapping the 3 dots on the image and clicking "Download Image" {see example above}
2. Get about 40-50 images for a large poster size vision board
3. Once you have your images and you feel good, it's time to edit them down. Go through your images and make sure they are a "hell yes!" Discard the ones that aren't. Ask yourself, "Is this something I really want to call into my life?" Whatever doesn't fit in that answer as a yes, delete.
4. Once you have 30-50 solid images, download the Kodak Moments App. Select a local CVS or Walgreens to send the prints to and add your images to the app. Go through the steps and once you finish ~it usually takes an hour to develop~ put your boots on and head out to pick up your provisions.
Hit up your local CVS or Walgreens and grab:
1. a large poster
2. a glue stick
3. your printed images
good to go.
Turn on some killer music {like my Spotify Playlist}, light a candle and lay everything out on a flat surface.
Lay out your images first to get an idea of where you want them to go on my board or you can just flow with it and start pasting:)
Be sure to cover the corners of each image with your glue stick and press the pictures down so they glue completely. Enjoy yourself and let the images speak to you as you glue them.
Once you're finished, step back and look at the magic.
"Love yourself first & everything else falls in place." ~Lucille Ball
Handmade using rose quartz, high vibrational selenite, and jade.
]]>"Love yourself first & everything else falls in place." ~Lucille Ball
Loving yourself is the most important job we have as individuals. We can't love or take care of anything else with a whole heart until we take care of our own. But getting to that place is confusing. Like, how do you start loving yourself? When I started taking care of myself, it started with baby steps. For a long time, I thought it was only for women who already had confidence but slowly and surely, I learned that self-love isn't a talent or something given to you, it's a skill. And getting good at something takes practice.
It's a skill that needs your energy & attention on a daily basis and all it takes it starting with an open heart and a desire to pour into yourself and get to know you better than you do now.
And just because it's hard doesn't mean it's not possible to have, it means it's worth it to fight for! Wear your stack every day and remember that it's a journey and process and to keep showing up for you ❤︎ One step at a time.
This beautiful stack is handmade using rose quartz, high vibrational selenite, and jade.
Rose Quartz is the crystal of love. Wear it over your left wrist where your radial artery delivers the blood from your heart to your hand. Allow yourself to open your heart to unconditional love for your Self and never forget that love is life.
Selenite is a white crystal that is super high vibrational and shimmers like pearl when you stare at it. This bracelet will cleanse your space, your other bracelets and any negativity around you anytime you wear it.
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