How to deal with kryptonite

The other night I had dinner with a lovely lady who ended up being like kryptonite to me. You know, that is the substance that makes Superman go weak.

She exuded negative energy – at least it touched me as negative energy. Somehow she hit many of the vulnerabilities I was feeling that night – I did not even realize I had those vulnerabilities.  I know she did not even know she was affecting me so much with her words. It was not her fault really. She was simply saying what was on her mind and I was the one affected so I am the one that needs to work on why I felt that way.

So how to boost myself back up and return to the feeling of my own unique power and strength? I went to I am statements.  Let me explain further ... because one day this may help you.

I am statements.....

When I was a teenager I used to write on the inside cover of my notebooks at school.....I am kind. I am loving. I am strong. I am beautiful. I am a winner. I am smart. I am confident. I am happy. I am healthy.  I am amazing. I am special. I am loved. I am sexy ....Well you can imagine how I was teased from classmates when they saw it all written in my notebook. I have no idea why I choose to write it repeatedly in all my school notebooks. Interestingly it did not stop me from continuing to do it for the whole year.

Why does it seem more socially acceptable to keep such things to yourself?

I think now – What if .... All kids were encouraged to write out good thoughts about themselves? Simple I am statements. How much power would they feel? And how would that effect lives? We may not be kids anymore but try writing some I am statements today and feel the empowerment you feel from it.

I am Suzanne and I am empowered. Thank you.

With great love, Suzanne

Suzanne Marie Bandick

Live Your Dreams Life Coach

You can design your perfect Christmas

It is December and the holiday season is fast approaching once again. It can be a very fun and enjoyable time of year and it can also be a very stressful time of year.

Over the holidays we can easily get tied up in a bunch of have to do’s and less than joyful feelings. In fact, the holiday season can get very complicated with all the demands, the people, and even the media pressure for perfection. We all know that is not what was meant to happen and how we are supposed to feel right? Right!

Now is the time to center ourselves and find our joy and our reason to celebrate. We can then make all our decisions from this centered point. We need to make sure it is very clear to us because we will need to come back to it often so that we don’t get buffeted by other people’s emotions.

My suggestion is for you to decide what your picture perfect holiday season looks like, smells like, and tastes like. Who do you want around you? What do you want to do? How do you want to feel? Write it out, visualize it and talk about it if you like. Give yourself permission to make the decisions, choices and changes you need to make. We can design every holiday season just like everything else in our life.

What does your dream holiday season look like? The more we each focus on what we want; the more ideal our holiday season and life will be.


With great love, Suzanne

Suzanne Marie Bandick
Live Your Dreams Life Coach

I am also available for individual phone coaching sessions, email coaching, group teleclasses, speaking engagements and other fun and empowering events. www.liveyourdreamscoaching.com.

Tired of self help info

Are we on overload?

Are you getting tired of trying to read everything that comes into your email box on how to improve your life? And so many of them say buy this book or listen to this call for ultimate happiness or wealth or something...

Gosh if we read, and listened to, and watched everything on the subject of living a good life; we wouldn’t have the time to go about actually living our life.

Of course in my effort to continually improve myself maybe I just subscribe to too many things. I think the challenge with all this info is that it can make us feel inadequate, like we somehow do not measure up. NOTHING could be further from the truth.

I for one am growing tired of trying to keep up with it all to perfect my life! Perhaps that is a big part of the reason I have not been writing many blogs lately. I am reminded that there are some people who end up spending all their time reading about and studying life to get it right ... and then there are others out there just living it and enjoying it moment by moment. They have no idea if they are doing it right or not but they are out living it and maybe that is really what it is all about. We will learn along the way.

It is important to live life. My belief is that we already know it all anyway, we just have to live what we know and trust what we know and we will experience truth and life all along the way.

So I may write less frequently but you can bet I am out there enjoying life and I hope to help you do the same by my example. Who needs to get it perfect as long as we enjoy ourselves?

All we need to remember is that if we don’t like something we can change our thoughts or perception of it, and if we do like something, we can just request more of the same please.

Life can be easy to live and enjoy and that is why none of us was born with a book on how to do it in our hands. Now let’s go live and just make our adjustments on the way.

With great love, Suzanne

Suzanne Marie Bandick
Live Your Dreams Life Coach

I am also available for individual phone coaching sessions, email coaching, group teleclasses, speaking engagements and other fun and empowering events. http://www.liveyourdreamscoaching.com.

Live and love out loud

The louder we live and love the better.

Say what you want... talk about what you enjoy...
Wear what you want to...
Do what you are inspired to do...
Live how you are inspired to live…
Tell the people you love that you love them and why.

Does that sound bold?
Good. It is time to live life to the fullest.
It is time to live and love out loud.

What other opportunities do you have in this lifetime?


With great love, Suzanne

Suzanne Marie Bandick
Live Your Dreams Life Coach

I am also available for individual phone coaching sessions, email coaching, group teleclasses, speaking engagements and other fun and empowering events. http://www.liveyourdreamscoaching.com.

Take care of you

In our effort to do what we feel is right for our families and our friends we can forget to take care of ourselves and our needs. Who suffers when we do that?

Everyone around us suffers when we forget to take care of ourselves. We can become short tempered, lose patience, be less loving, and feel drained as well as put upon. Does that sound like a good space to be in? Not if we desire to have joyous lives full of love and kindness.

The rule: Take as much care of yourself as the people you love.
When we do this, everyone around us feels it.

Sharing the love starts with you and yourself.
Allow yourself to feel good. Then you can spread that around.
Go ahead you know how to do it.

With great love, Suzanne

Suzanne Marie Bandick
Live Your Dreams Life Coach

I am also available for individual phone coaching sessions, email coaching, group teleclasses, speaking engagements and other fun and empowering events. http://www.liveyourdreamscoaching.com.

Dream often ... Dream big

I subscribe to daily messages from Neale Donald Walsch and I simply must share with you part of one of his messages from last week because it is about the very dreams we talk about.

... Dreams get you into the future and add excitement to the present.
Robert Conklin said that, and he was right.

So dream away, and dream often, and dream big.
And never let anyone talk you out of your dreams.

What is your dream today? Is it vast enough, bold enough?

Thank you for the share Neale Donald Walsch.
May your dreams be big, vast and bold so you have lots to play with.

With great love, Suzanne

Suzanne Marie Bandick
Live Your Dreams Life Coach

I am also available for individual phone coaching sessions, email coaching, group teleclasses, speaking engagements and other fun and empowering events. http://www.liveyourdreamscoaching.com.

What if everything is changing?

Lots of changes are happening in the world today...

The way I see it is ... when everything is changing ... maybe we need to change the way we look at everything.

Do you have assumptions of what is correct in life? What is normal? What is truth?
Are you sure all these things are correct? What if everything changes?
What if the way things have always been done does not work anymore?

Maybe we will have to create some new beliefs ... some new truths.
What works for you now? It may really be time to think outside of the box.

It does not have to be scary, it can just be different.
Different can be fun. Different can make us feel fully alive.

Maybe where we live will become different... Maybe the way we live will become different... Maybe how we earn our money will become different... Maybe what is truly important in our lives will be seen differently. These can all be good things.

If many things have already changed, maybe now we just need to adjust our thoughts to find some really awesome things.

With great love, Suzanne

Suzanne Marie Bandick
Live Your Dreams Life Coach

I am also available for individual phone coaching sessions, email coaching, group teleclasses, speaking engagements and other fun and empowering events. http://www.liveyourdreamscoaching.com.