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4 Step Plan to Cultivate Trusting Your Intuition

4 Step Plan to Cultivate Trusting Your Intuition

Do you trust your decisions? Or, do you find you second guess yourself? Until I learned how to trust my intuition, I used to second guess my decisions. Now, I stop myself before asking someone else’s opinion. It’s not to say the other person’s opinion doesn’t matter, because maybe they are a subject matter expert […]

5 Ways to Choose Happy by Loving Yourself

5 Ways to Choose Happy by Loving Yourself

5 Ways to Choose Happy by Loving Yourself Hello!  How are you?  In the coming week, we will review the following affirmation card in the Choose Happy Facebook Community: “I choose to love myself as I am.  I choose to love others as they are.” If you are not a member yet, all you have […]

3 Ways to Bring Positive Energy into Your Life

3 Ways to Bring Positive Energy into Your Life

Hello!  How are you doing with The 15 Minute Self Care Habit from our last post?  If you didn’t get the chance to read it, you can find the link here. It is so important that our first 15 minutes after we wake up is positive because it impacts our day. And lately, with everything […]

The 15 Minute Self-Care Habit

The 15 Minute Self-Care Habit

Hi!  I hope you’re having a wonderful summer so far. So, what is the 15 minute self-care habit?  And why is it a good habit to adopt? Every morning, before you start doing something for others – your family or your work, and before looking at social media, do something for yourself for at least […]

The Power of Curiosity

The Power of Curiosity

Hi!  How are you?  I hope you are well and safe. This past week, I have been engaging with our community on Instagram talking about the power of curiosity. I have no special talents.  I am only passionately curious.  (Albert Einstein) Curiosity is an underestimated tool we can use to help us find our passion. […]

4 Types of Negative Self-talk

4 Types of Negative Self-talk

If you’re noticing that you’ve been having increased negative self-talk during the COVID-19 pandemic, you are not alone. The continued pandemic with no end in sight for many of us makes it difficult even for the best of us to stay positive. Let’s take a look at why we have the negative self-talk, what it […]

Decisions and the Law of Attraction

Decisions and the Law of Attraction

  Our thoughts create our reality.  Whatever we choose to focus on and where our energy is directed, we attract more of it in our life. You may be thinking, “I have so much negativity in my life right now”. Yes, you may have things that are not good right now and, if you choose […]

How to Use Affirmations to Improve Your Life

How to Use Affirmations to Improve Your Life

“I flow through life easily, accepting and embracing change”. Affirmations are statements that you say and/or write with confidence about a perceived truth that you would like in your life. Affirmations can work because it can program your mind into believing the statement you are saying and/or writing.  This is because the mind doesn’t know […]

3 Ways to Practice Gratitude

3 Ways to Practice Gratitude

 “Life moves pretty fast.  If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” (Ferris Bueller’s Day Off movie) As we approach Thanksgiving, I thought it would be timely to review how the practice of gratitude can have a positive impact in living our every day lives. It can be […]

Why Saying “No” is Important to Living a Healthy Life

Why Saying “No” is Important to Living a Healthy Life

As we near the end of August, with a new academic year about to start for those of us with children (or, if you’re returning to school), it’s a good time to reflect on what we really want in our life moving forward living in a new normal that continues to evolve under Covid19. For […]

Living a Joyful Life

Living a Joyful Life

Living a Life with Joy is Intentional Living. What does it mean to live a joyful life?  How is it different than feeling happy? How can we achieve this during COVID-19? I’ve been pondering this question lately.  Why?  Because my coaching style focuses on living life your way and bringing happiness to your every day […]

About the author

My name is Marie Mota-Lee and I’m passionate about sharing personal development knowledge so that you too can move forward in the ways that you desire in order to live your best life.

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Affirmations have been life-changing on my own journey and I’m excited to share them. They have helped me re-frame the negative self-talk so that I now feel empowered and worthy of living a happy life.

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