Friday, September 28, 2007

Take time to be selfish

Were you told that to be selfish was a bad thing by any chance?

I think that selfishness can be misunderstood. Sometimes we need to be a little selfish.

How can we give to others without first giving to ourselves what we need? We have to feel fulfilled in order to give to others – otherwise we are coming from a place of lack. Lack because we feel that we are not getting what we need. That is a yucky place to be.

Give yourself permission to be selfish. What do you need to give yourself? Does it involve other people? They are not mind readers – so ask for what you want. Ask for help, ask for time … just ask for what you need. Try it – it is surprisingly easy and people love to help. We always seem to forget that people generally love to be helpful.

When we take the time to focus on ourselves and satisfy our needs – we always find that we have so much more to give and share. What we have to give will seem bottomless when we fulfill our needs first. When we give with genuine love and generosity because we are fulfilled, it comes back to us 100 fold.

That dream is becoming easier to achieve all the time. Who knew selfishness could be so beneficial?

With great love, Suzanne

Suzanne Marie Bandick
Live Your Dreams Life Coach

For more information see http://www.liveyourdreamscoaching.com

Would you like some help so that you can live all of your dreams? I am available for individual phone coaching sessions, group teleclasses, speaking engagements and other fun and empowering events.

Thursday, September 27, 2007

Every day is a gift

Every day is an incredible gift and the best part is, we get to play with it right up until we go to bed! Then the next day we get a new one!

If we believe that every day is a wonderful present – maybe a whole bunch of presents - we will always be looking for the next good thing about it.

That puts us a whole lot closer to attaining our dreams – even living our dreams, don’t you think?

With great love, Suzanne

Suzanne Marie Bandick
Live Your Dreams Life Coach

P.S. For more information see http://www.liveyourdreamscoaching.com

Would you like some help to live all of your dreams? I am available for individual phone coaching sessions, group teleclasses, speaking engagements and other fun and empowering events.

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Respond to life

Every day we get to decide how we will respond to everything that shows up in our lives.

If it is good stuff – well that is easy. But if it is: bad traffic, someone’s late, extra work, … (you can add to the list of possibilities) that can be different.

Really, we can react or we can respond to pretty well every situation. A reaction is what we don’t want – it is like when the doctor says you have a reaction to the medication he gave you – that is never good. You know, when someone hits you physically or verbally sometimes we might react without thinking and hurt that person and that is not really a good idea either. No one feels good after that.

A response though, is something we can choose. It usually means we take a minute to choose it. Taking a minute in most situations can be a good idea.

Of course we can also work on some immediate responses. For instance, when someone asks about our day we can have an automatic response of - it’s going fantastically well or awesome or great. That makes me feel good every time I respond like that. The bonus is, it causes me to focus on what is indeed fantastic, awesome or great about my day!

When we are focused on the good stuff with all our responses to our day, we can’t help but be well on our way to living our dream. In fact, maybe we have started living it already.

Neat eh, how such a small adjustment in a response can have such a big effect!

With great love, Suzanne

Suzanne Marie Bandick
Live Your Dreams Life Coach

P.S. For more information see http://www.liveyourdreamscoaching.com

Would you like some help practicing responses to events in your life so that it is easier to live all of your dreams? I am available for individual phone coaching sessions, group teleclasses, speaking engagements and other fun and empowering events.

Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Easy and relaxed ....

I think we have become very good at complicating life. We are more than capable of creating must do’s and should have’s for ourselves and everyone around us.

Wouldn’t it be nice if our life was easy and relaxed instead? Well, why can’t it be?
Really – why can’t it be?

We can certainly choose to have an easy and relaxed life. For example the next time something seems too complicated – we could just say no thanks – I’m waiting for the simpler version.

We can start asking ourselves what is the easiest way to do this? How can I make this simpler? Our minds are very powerful – I bet we will come up with several easier ways. We just have to ask for it.

Life is feeling much more easy and relaxed already. I don't think that achieving that dream will be so hard after all.

With great love, Suzanne

Suzanne Marie Bandick
Live Your Dreams Life Coach

P.S. For more information see http://www.liveyourdreamscoaching.com

Would you like some help learning how to live all of your dreams in an easy and relaxed way? I am available for individual phone coaching sessions, group teleclasses, speaking engagements and other fun and empowering events.

Monday, September 24, 2007

Hakuna Matata

What does it mean? Hakuna Matata means ........

What a wonderful life! Life is worry free for the rest of our days! Life is problem free! .... that is the philosophy you see.

Hakuna Matata - this is the title to a wonderful Disney song found in The Lion King. And it is all the more special because it is sung by a warthog! Ah, the magic of Disney.

Let's think about this philosophy for a minute ..... what if we adopted it as our philosophy? What if we believed that life was problem free and that we had no more worries for the rest of our days? Life would be pretty wonderful! Let's try adopting that philosophy and see how much closer it brings us to our dreams. Ooh, mine are much closer now. Go ahead and throw those worries out the window - they only spoil our present anyway. Hakuna Matata!

Now to make it really stick - look up the song on the Internet and we can all sing along!

With great love, Suzanne

Suzanne Marie Bandick
Live Your Dreams Life Coach

P.S. For more information see http://www.liveyourdreamscoaching.com

Would you like some help singing Hakuna Matata in your life to live all of your dreams? I am available for individual phone coaching sessions, group teleclasses, speaking engagements and other fun and empowering events.

Thursday, September 20, 2007

Stand in the now and look ahead

What if we decided that no matter what was going on in our life right now that we were in the perfect place - having the perfect experiences that we needed right now to take us exactly where we now choose to go?

We may arrive at our dream the fastest if we:

1. Decide that the past does not matter – no need to analyze it – it’s already happened. It takes up way too much valuable time and energy to analyze all those years! Oops, am I aging myself talking about all those years?

2. Decide to develop gratitude for where we are right now because it will help us get to where we want to go.

3. Place our focus on where we want to go.

What? The future is suddenly looking so bright that you have to wear shades? I know it!

When we appreciate the now and look with anticipation for our glorious future – we’ll be walking into that dream faster than we ever thought possible before.

Enjoy yourself! I see a big celebration party coming up …….

With great love, Suzanne

Suzanne Marie Bandick
Live Your Dreams Life Coach

P.S. For more information see http://www.liveyourdreamscoaching.com

Would you like some help to live all of your dreams? I am available for individual phone coaching sessions, group teleclasses, speaking engagements and other fun and empowering events.

Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Be hopeful

Let’s practice hopeful, happy thoughts.
Let’s try going through life with a positive expectation.
What do you think we will predominantly get in our lives?

That’s right. We will get more positive stuff happening – and that will lead to more hopeful and happy thoughts. Oops we created a circle where life may just end up getting better and better! Okay I want to participate in that. How about you?

Yep, we can be actually living our dreams one positive, hopeful, happy thought at a time!
So what is your happy thought?

With great love, Suzanne

Suzanne Marie Bandick
Live Your Dreams Life Coach

P.S. For more information see http://www.liveyourdreamscoaching.com
Would you like help to live your dream? I am available for individual phone coaching sessions, group teleclasses, speaking engagements and other fun and empowering events.

Tuesday, September 18, 2007

"Marathon, you Can Do It!"


Remember our 62 year old first time marathoner from past posts? Now we have his latest update as he counts down to October 7th! This is a great live your dreams story!

The title of the book is, "Marathon, You Can Do It!" I read it and believed it!

Some of you know I started this over 5 months ago. None of you have heard from me for a long time. But in the dark of the early mornings, in the glare of the sun, wind and rain the training went on. The long runs got longer until I did the 23 miler with my daughter a few weeks ago. She completed the run... BUT, I found the wall at 21 1/2 miles!! I completed it only by walking! That is an experience one can only appreciate if it's happened to them.

On Saturday, the 15th, our training program called for a 26 miler! As I got ready the night before there was the BIG question..... Could I get by 21 1/2 miles? A restless night to say the least but by 5 AM it was settled. Face the beast and believe what the book said... "YOU CAN DO IT!"

Somewhere after 5 hr. 30 min. the distance of 26.26 miles [42.26km] was history! Remember this is just a training run. The race is on the 7th of Oct. So now it's just stay injury free till then.

Oh! Did I mention that I received a bronze and a silver for my effort? Well first I found the penny, then the quarter!! Twenty-six cents!! How strange is that?! By the way, the book didn't say anything about the penny a mile stuff.

Thanks for your emails and support.

The Marathoner.

With great love, Suzanne

Suzanne Marie Bandick
Live Your Dreams Life Coach

P.S. For more information see http://www.liveyourdreamscoaching.com/

Would you like help to live your dream? I am available for individual phone coaching sessions, group teleclasses, speaking engagements and other fun and empowering events.

Monday, September 17, 2007

Will you try?

Sometimes it seems easier not to try, not to move, and just to stay in the same place … but what effect does this decision have on how we feel about ourselves and our life on a day to day basis?

The decision of whether or not to take the first steps towards our dream is always ours. It has to be our decision because only we know how it feels. To live our dream or not to live our dream – that is the question each of us must ask.

The answer will be found in how we feel about each scenario. How does it feel when we think of staying put? How does it feel to think about going for it?

Which makes us feel better? That is the only guide we should listen to.

With great love, Suzanne

Suzanne Marie Bandick
Live Your Dreams Life Coach

P.S. For more information see http://www.liveyourdreamscoaching.com/

Would you like assistance on how to live your dream? I am available for individual phone coaching sessions, group teleclasses, speaking engagements and other fun and empowering events.

Friday, September 14, 2007

Are you in your ideal career?

If you need to work every day – are you doing something that you really enjoy? We spend a lot of time in our jobs not to enjoy ourselves at it. Imagine, how would it feel to enjoy it?

If your answer is that you love your job - I am so happy for you. It feels wonderful and rewarding doesn’t it? If your answer is that you hate your job - are you on your way to being able to do what you love?

Sometimes excuses can get in the way – do you have any?

There are many ways to make money doing what we love and many ways to make the transition from your current “just get by” job to your new “I love my day” job.

The first thing I would suggest you do is to give yourself permission to decide what you really want to be doing. How specific can you be in what you want? What does the change require? If you take away the excuses, can you see some little steps that could get you to your new dream job or career?

Would you be willing to start moving forward even if you can’t quite see how your end goal can be accomplished? You see, it is only in our desire and by our tentative first steps in the direction we want to go that our full “how” is often shown. Then it can seem like things happen as if by magic. Opportunities arise and people will just show up in our life that will help us reach our goal.

That is when some people will say to you that you were so lucky! The real truth will be: You were willing to take the first steps. It is not really so hard to get lucky.

Go ahead – be daring – take the steps towards your dream job – and then prepare to get lucky!

With great love, Suzanne

Suzanne Marie Bandick
Live Your Dreams Life Coach

P.S. For more information see http://www.liveyourdreamscoaching.com/

Would you like help living your dream with your ideal career? I am available for individual phone coaching sessions, group teleclasses, speaking engagements and other fun and empowering events.

Thursday, September 13, 2007

Let's not complicate life

I recommend that we try to keep everything in our lives simple.

How do we do that? I’m glad you asked. Here are some ideas to get started with ……

- If you love someone tell them.
- Let’s stop worrying about things ahead of time. Really, how pointless is that?
- If we need something, we can ask for it. Yes, it can be that easy.

Things don’t have to be fancy or complicated for us to be able to live our dreams.
Keeping things simple will get us to living our dreams the fastest.

If we picture that everything in our life will be easy - chances are they will be.
Let’s try living our dreams the easy way! How many of you are in?

I can hear it now - we'll all be murmuring - how much easier can this get? And the Universe will be answering - even easier - I'll show you!

With great love, Suzanne

Suzanne Marie Bandick
Live Your Dreams Life Coach

P.S. For more information see http://www.liveyourdreamscoaching.com

Would you like help making life less complicated so that it is easier to live all of your dreams? I am available for individual phone coaching sessions, group teleclasses, speaking engagements and other fun and empowering events.

Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Feel the love

One of my coaching clients sent me this to start my day this morning:

“The shortest distance between two points is love.”

Yes! We can do and achieve amazing things in our lives with the simple power of love. Love and gratitude can change lives. When we find the things in our life that we can feel love and gratitude for - that is the beginning, for we are starting a process that will overflow into everything else in our lives and the lives of those around us.

Feel the love and gratitude in your life and you will be well along the way to living all of your dreams. What’s that? With all that love and gratitude you feel like you’re living one of your dreams already? I’m not surprised.

Thank you Micheal for sharing that beautiful thought today. May we all live our dreams one loving thought at a time.

With great love, Suzanne

Suzanne Marie Bandick
Live Your Dreams Life Coach

P.S. For more information see http://www.liveyourdreamscoaching.com

Would you like help finding the love and gratitude in your life so that it is easier to live all of your dreams? I am available for individual phone coaching sessions, group teleclasses, speaking engagements and other fun and empowering events.

Tuesday, September 11, 2007

The benefits of cleaning up

Would you like it to be easier to see your dream? Feel your dream? Live your dream?

One of the ways to do that is easy - with a little cleaning up.

Here are some ideas:

Clean out some drawers.
Give away, throw away, or sell what you no longer use or need.
Release old energy that does not serve you. Are you upset with someone? Are you upset with yourself? Figure out how to release those feelings because that negative energy only hurts and hinders you.

I bet you will feel lighter when you do it. I bet you will suddenly even feel more energy.
I bet you will feel those dreams are a lot more attainable than you thought before ..…
Look you freed up space for one now!

With great love, Suzanne

Suzanne Marie Bandick
Live Your Dreams Life Coach

P.S. For more information see http://www.liveyourdreamscoaching.com

Would you like help cleaning up clutter in your life so that it is easier to live all of your dreams? I am available for individual phone coaching sessions, group teleclasses, speaking engagements and other fun and empowering events.

Monday, September 10, 2007

Can life really be perfect?

Is life really perfect? Maybe it is …… and maybe it is not.

We can however, choose to look for the perfection in life. We can always look for what is working and what is feeling good in our lives.

We can actually make our lives pretty perfect by the choice of our focus.

The more perfection we can find – the more perfect life gets. Hmm, have you thought lately about what is perfect in your life?

Keep up the focus and suddenly you will be living all of your dreams! What could be more perfect than that?

With great love, Suzanne

Suzanne Marie Bandick
Live Your Dreams Life Coach

P.S. For more information see http://www.liveyourdreamscoaching.com

Would you like help finding the perfection in your life so that it is easier to live all of your dreams? I am available for individual phone coaching sessions, group teleclasses, speaking engagements and other fun and empowering events.

Friday, September 7, 2007

Enjoy the beauty in each day

Even when our day, for whatever reason, is not progressing as perfectly as we would have chosen, we still have the choice of taking a few moments to stop and admire something we find beautiful.

Look for the beauty and perfection in your day and you may be surprised by how the day turns around or gets even better than it already was.

Let’s enjoy life. It is another way to ensure our dreams come to us easily. How can they not when we are looking for the beauty and perfection in every day?

Sounds easy to me, what do you think?

With great love, Suzanne

Suzanne Marie Bandick
Live Your Dreams Life Coach

P.S. For more information see http://www.liveyourdreamscoaching.com

Would you like help finding the beauty in your life so that it is easier to live all of your dreams? I am available for individual phone coaching sessions, group teleclasses, speaking engagements and other fun and empowering events.

Thursday, September 6, 2007

Our compass

I heard this somewhere….

Our dream becomes our compass.
Our compass becomes our magnet.
All the resources we need will be attracted to us.

You see? Our dream knows where we are going! We just need to trust that it will get us to our goal. I mean, would you argue with your compass that what it says is North is not North?

Trust. Trust. Trust.

With great love, Suzanne

Suzanne Marie Bandick
Live Your Dreams Life Coach

P.S. For more information see http://www.liveyourdreamscoaching.com/

Would you like help aligning your compass so that it is easier to live all of your dreams? I am available for individual phone coaching sessions, group teleclasses, speaking engagements and other fun and empowering events.

Wednesday, September 5, 2007

New 4 week "Live Your Dreams" class

I'm offering a new course packed with “Live Your Dreams” inspiration! It starts September 17th!

Stop the busyness of life for a minute and think about the following:

How would it feel if you found out that you already have the answers to all of your own questions and you could learn how to access those answers any time?

How would you feel living a life that was exactly as you chose it to be?

How would you feel if you knew how to let go of any struggle and self doubt in your life?

How would you feel knowing you have the power to choose what you want out of life each and every day?

How would you feel if your life became easy and relaxed?

How would you feel if you loved what you were doing and who you were with all the time?

Register for this exciting play shop today to learn how it is all possible!

This 4 week “Live Your Dreams” Play Shop starts Monday September 17th, 2007.


It’s easy! You participate by phone in the comfort of your own home or office. We have 1 call a week for 4 weeks and each call will be 1 hour long. We all call into a US number so it should be an affordable call for all.


The call will be at 6:00 PM Pacific/ 8:00 PM Central/ 9:00 Eastern on Mondays. If you cannot make a call for any reason it will be recorded so that you can listen to it at a time of your choosing. Try not to miss too many though because the real fun comes from our group interaction. Plus you have unlimited email access to me during this coaching period.


It's only $99 USD for 4 weeks of coaching! Give yourself this gift today to create the life that you truly want to live. Register now!

Just send me a note and say "Yes, I want to be living all of my dreams."

Feel free to let your friends know!

With great love, Suzanne

Suzanne Marie Bandick
Live Your Dreams Life Coach
P.S. For more information see http://www.liveyourdreamscoaching.com/
Plus check out the new testimonial on my site!

Focus

Once we know what our dream is, we need to focus on it.

It is not important to know immediately how to get it – that will come with our focus. The important thing is to focus on what it looks like and how we will feel when we are living it.

It is okay to think about our dreams a lot. That is how we create the focus that allows them to happen. The more we allow ourselves to feel those good feelings of living our dreams, the happier we feel right? We can follow these good feelings all the way to our dream.

We must not let others distract us from our dream because they need to focus on their own.

The more we focus and the better we focus – the sooner we are living our dream.
It’s The Law of Attraction Again. Our focus is the magnet straight to our dream!

With great love, Suzanne

Suzanne Marie Bandick
Live Your Dreams Life Coach

P.S. For more information see http://www.liveyourdreamscoaching.com

Would you like help with your focus so that it is easier to live all of your dreams? I am available for individual phone coaching sessions, group teleclasses, speaking engagements and other fun and empowering events.

Tuesday, September 4, 2007

Calling your little kid ...

Inside I think we are all little kids.

Because we want to play … and enjoy ourselves … and explore … and see how far we can go … and see how fast we can do things … and see how much we can get … and be taken care of … and say yes to ice cream and no to chores. Really when is the last time you said, “I want to work hard.”

Does any of this ring true for you? I thought so.

Why don’t we practice letting our little kid selves play? Let’s try it for a day and see how we feel. Our world will not fall apart over one day – in fact, we may improve the quality of our life.

We can also try doing something different every day – you know, get out of the rut of things we do the same way every day. Let’s see, what’s first on your list to add some zest to your life? Do you know it?

It can be easier to live our dreams if we let our little kid selves choose how and what we do sometimes because they have fewer rules and that can lead to new results. Try it you might like it.

With great love, Suzanne
Suzanne Marie Bandick
Live Your Dreams Life Coach

P.S. For more information see http://www.liveyourdreamscoaching.com

Would you like help learning to be a kid so that it is easier to live all of your dreams? I am available for individual phone coaching sessions, group teleclasses, speaking engagements and other fun and empowering events.

Monday, September 3, 2007

Allow yourself to be innovative!

Who really wants to follow the norm anyway? Don’t tell me that it is only me that is a rebel!?

It is okay to think differently than others. That is how we suddenly get wonderful things in our lives – like peanut butter and banana sandwiches for instance.

Maybe things can be done in a different way than we were taught or we are used to. Maybe we can even think different thoughts than we were taught to.

Hmm, where might we get to with our dream then? We could actually climb out of the boxes we tend to build around ourselves and really see the sunshine and all the possibilities all around us!

I say dare to be different! We may even get more than great new sandwiches out of this!

Enjoy creating your dream - you innovative thinker you!

With great love, Suzanne
Suzanne Marie Bandick

P.S. For more information see http://www.liveyourdreamscoaching.com

Would you like help learning ways to be more innovative so that it is easier to live all of your dreams? I am available for individual phone coaching sessions, group teleclasses, speaking engagements and other fun and empowering events.

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