Always have a Dream

Take the time to dream about your perfect future because we must allow the dream to take shape in our minds before we can create it in our reality.

“We create our tomorrows by what we dream today.”

A key to living the life of our dreams is to look for and then allow ourselves to enjoy the pleasures in living today, as we also enjoy dreaming about and creating our magnificent tomorrows.

It makes every day a wonderful day to live.

So what is your dream?
Happy Dreaming and Happy New Year!

PS. Thank you to my dear friend Cherilyn for giving me the beautiful plaque that reads: “We create our tomorrows by what we dream today.” I think she knew the right gift for me! Words can be so inspiring, don't you think?

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 to live your dreams in 2008? I am available for individual phone coaching sessions, group teleclasses, speaking engagements and other fun and empowering events. There is even a new eCourse available on my site! Live the dream!

Lighten up

Maybe this coming year we make the decision to take ourselves less seriously.

Let’s take time to laugh more …. to play and enjoy life more …. to love more and allow ourselves to be loved.

The heaviness and pressures of the world need not be ours. When we focus on ease and lightness, we attract more of that. So really by attracting that into our lives we are increasing the lightness in the world.

When we lighten up – we can also more easily live our dreams.

Funny hats are optional – but I think mine will have a giant pink feather.

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 to live your dreams in 2008? I am available for individual phone coaching sessions, group teleclasses, speaking engagements and other fun and empowering events. There is even a new eCourse available on my site! Live the dream!

What about a New Year?

A new year is coming. Soon it will be 2008.
What do you want 2008 to look like for you?

I’m not actually talking about needing to set goals here. Often goal setting just creates anxiety – who wants that pressure? I am talking about creating your ideal scene for the New Year. Be easy and relaxed with it. What would you like to have happen in 2008? More important how would you like to feel?

Write it out – visualize it – make a dream board of it – make a tape recording of how you will feel living it - think about the joy you will feel achieving that lifestyle every day. Follow the inspirations you receive and soon you will indeed be living it. It can really be that easy.

As a life coach, I write and talk about this a lot. In fact - I live it. My vision is to live my life as an example. I live my ideal life every day. It really works.

One of my visions for the New Year is to help even more people find that life can be lived in a very gentle and flowing way. Some have already found that, some do not choose that – however, I am confident that for the ones that do, we will find each other. I am confident that the perfect ways and opportunities to accomplish this will present themselves.

What do you want for yourself in 2008? Maybe our visions overlap? I am as close as an email away anytime.

It’s funny you know, because we can actually do this anytime we choose to… but we have a new year starting so let’s use that! I’m really looking forward to 2008. How about you?

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 to live your dreams in 2008? I am available for individual phone coaching sessions, group teleclasses, speaking engagements and other fun and empowering events. There is even a new eCourse available on my site! Live the dream!

Live this moment

This moment is now. Experience it, feel it, enjoy it.
What feels good right now?

If we don’t enjoy this moment now, when are we going to? We can’t live in the future - and we can’t live in the past – the only moment we have is now.

When we focus on this moment and not on what else we have to do, we receive more pleasure from this moment. Also, according to the Law of Attraction that means we are creating more pleasant moments for our future because we are enjoying this one. Can it get any easier?

May you love experiencing this moment, and may you live all your dreams one beautiful moment at a time.

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 to live your dreams? I am available for individual phone coaching sessions, group teleclasses, speaking engagements and other fun and empowering events.

Peace

Peace on Earth - starts with peace within us. If our peace is clear enough, our picture is clear enough, and our belief is strong enough, we can make a difference in our lives and a difference in the world. People around us will feel it. Our energy will go out into the world and will touch many.

Peace on earth – starts with us. With our one little thought, one little action, and one little belief at a time, we can make all the difference in the world.

When we believe we can make a difference - we do! Whatever we focus on, we will see more of. What is your focus for yourself and the world?

May you experience an abundance of peace and love always in your life.

Merry Christmas! 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 to live your dreams? I am available for individual phone coaching sessions, group teleclasses, speaking engagements and other fun and empowering events.

Give freely

What do you personally have to give to your family, your friends, your neighbors, your coworkers, and the world?

If you are not sure – my hint would be that it is whatever you love to do or share.

Give freely of whatever it is …. Maybe it is encouraging words, a helping hand or even a smile.

When we give freely of whatever we have to offer, many good things end up coming back to us in return. Many a dream is lived like this. Yes, it really can be that simple.

Start the ball rolling – live your dreams through giving freely. It makes for an amazing life.

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 to live your dreams? I am available for individual phone coaching sessions, group teleclasses, speaking engagements and other fun and empowering events.

When do we say enough?

The age of technology – does it enhance our quality of life?

What do most of us try to do these days? We try to do more in less time. We fill up our days. We try to multi task everywhere. We carry cellular phones, pagers, and blackberries. When is it enough?

It is enough whenever each of us says it is. We can turn off the phones, computers and pagers for any amount of time, any time we choose. We can give our undivided attention to enjoying one thing at a time, whenever we choose.

All of this technology can enhance or lives. The only thing we need to remember is that we control it – not the other way around.

Try giving yourself just 15 minutes a day to sit undisturbed by anything and allow yourself to be alone with your thoughts. Does it sound scary? You’ll get used to it.

You see our inner voice has the key to how we can live our dreams and sometimes we have to turn off the constant distractions and noise in order to hear it. Try 15 minutes a day. It could change your life! Start whenever you choose.

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 to live your dreams? I am available for individual phone coaching sessions, group teleclasses, speaking engagements and other fun and empowering events.

What is up with self sabotage?

Self sabotage is us, usually trying to protect ourselves from our imagined evils and dangers. We get scared of unknowns and change; it is perfectly normal for most of us in different situations. That is why we have the phrase, “Feel the fear and do it anyway.”

A question: What if there was nothing to fear? What if our life comes with a safe playground? What if we can choose everything that happens to us and all we choose for ourselves is good stuff? I certainly enjoy living like that.

Others may live with the fear, but that is their choice. We can never choose for another, but we can choose for ourselves.

When we say no to self sabotage because we really believe there is nothing to fear as there are only wonderful experiences in life, we start living dreams faster than we could dream of.

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 saying no to fear so that you can live your dreams? I am available for individual phone coaching sessions, group teleclasses, speaking engagements and other fun and empowering events.

I love your movie!

We create our own reality.

What if I told you that nothing in life is real? That we make it all up as we go along? Interesting idea isn’t it?

Would you feel like you were directing a movie? You can actually write, direct and star in your own movie. The movie is called your life. Better that you write it than someone else, don’t you think?

This is your movie so ……….
What reality do you want to create for yourself?
How do you want to be living?
Who and what do you want to choose to have around you?

Extras will pop up looking for places and roles but you ultimately choose whether they can be in your movie. Choose, choose, and choose it all!

Make your movie (your life) everything you desire.

Don’t forget a big, bold, fancy title!
What a New Year this will be!

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 creating your movie and living your dreams? I am available for individual phone coaching sessions, group teleclasses, speaking engagements and other fun and empowering events.

What do you desire?

Whatever you vividly imagine,
Ardently desire.
Sincerely believe,
And enthusiastically act upon,
Must inevitably come to pass.

- Paul J. Meyer

That I think, states the full story of the Law of Attraction. Vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe …. And then act on those inspirations that we receive without question … And we shall have it! Maybe even sooner than we thought. Many of mine have happened way sooner than I thought.

Remember, we don’t have to know how it will happen – we just need to trust that we will be guided. Then when we recieve our inner guidance - we need to trust it and act upon it. Sometimes it can be hard to believe that what we are guided to do can feel so easy - but that is part of the secret.

What is your dream? If you have not already - Start the process now!

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 to live your dreams? I am available for individual phone coaching sessions, group teleclasses, speaking engagements and other fun and empowering events.

Today is: Take a break day!

Ever get caught up in thinking you have so much work to do that you cannot take a break? Me too! But that is when we need the break most!

To get out of the house, or leave the office, to go for a walk in the garden, or make a trip to the store, or to take a walk in the park, or to give ourselves permission to do whatever strikes our fancy can be the best thing we can do for our productivity and our creativity.

We will come back and suddenly everything will flow, we will be energized and have new ideas. I have even had problems solved while I was on break.

Take a break today and improve your life. It will help put you on the right track for living all those dreams! Tell anyone who asks, that I gave you permission. You’re very welcome! Enjoy the day!

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 to live your dreams? I am available for individual phone coaching sessions, group teleclasses, speaking engagements and other fun and empowering events.

Thank you for sharing

Have you ever had family, friends and strangers want to give you unsolicited advice on how to do something or even how to live your life? Yes, I am sure we all know several people who like to do that – it must make them feel useful.

So what do we actually do when this phenomenon happens to us? Do we get angry? Walk away? Deck them? Or do we listen politely?

The new phrase I want to teach you today is: Thank you for sharing.

Ultimately, we make up our own mind and choose our own life. Others may offer advice and suggestions but we can choose whether to follow it or not.

So let’s just remember the new catch phrase is: Thank you for sharing. We can say it out loud or say it in our head. It doesn’t matter as it is not really for them (they are happy as they gave their advice). The phrase is for our benefit. It also is a phrase that shows our gratitude because they obviously care for us.

I try to never give unsolicited advice – except of course to my kids – do they count? Yes, they do – but it is so hard not to give them advice. That is why I already taught them the phrase in case I don’t catch myself in time. I hear … Thank you for sharing …. And we just laugh.

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 to live your dreams? I am available for individual phone coaching sessions, group teleclasses, speaking engagements and other fun and empowering events.

Unconditional Love

To be able to share love unconditionally is a wonderful gift. It is a gift to yourself and an awesome gift to the people you bestow it upon.

Unconditional love means that no one has to do or be anything special to earn our love. How refreshing is that? It certainly saves us a lot of time, energy and stress trying to figure out who can have our love and why. I’m all about simplifying life. How about you?

Unconditional love is a gift that is worth sharing. Let’s spread it around everywhere thick like mustard on a corned beef sandwich and we will be helping everyone live their dreams.

It is a great life! Thank you for sharing this lifetime with me!

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 to live your dreams? I am available for individual phone coaching sessions, group teleclasses, speaking engagements and other fun and empowering events.

Self empowerment

Who can empower us better than us?

Maybe we need to check what we say to ourselves. How do we talk to ourselves and about ourselves? Do we say empowering things?

Were you told as a child no to brag? Maybe to be told that was a mistake. Bragging can be good – it is healthy to brag when we brag to ourselves about ourselves! We could start a success journal and every day we could write what we are most proud of about ourselves.

We really can be doing anything we can think of – if we think we can. Now, how about getting started on those dreams?

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 with your self empowerment in order to live your dreams more easily? I am available for individual phone coaching sessions, group teleclasses, speaking engagements and other fun and empowering events.

Find your holiday joy

Now is the time to center ourselves and find our joy and our reason to celebrate this holiday.

We need to make sure it is very clear because we may need to come back to it often as it is possible to get buffeted by influences outside of ourselves.

When we do the things that bring us joy – we can more easily bring joy to others. People don’t feel much joy flowing from us when we are all stressed out.

Do less this year, take short cuts, do the things you love to do, don’t do the things you dislike, and enjoy everything more.

Our enjoyment of the season and our life in general, gives others permission to follow their joy too. What a great thing to spread around this year!

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 to live your dreams more easily? I am available for individual phone coaching sessions, group teleclasses, speaking engagements and other fun and empowering events.

Live each day

Let’s live each day to the fullest. So, what does that really mean? Well each person’s play book may be a little different ….. but here is what mine says:

It means we have enjoyed and savored many moments in each of our days.
It means we say and do most everything we have chosen to.
It means we have given and received love.
It means that we have no regrets.
It means that we feel the joy every day of moving forward in the direction of our dreams. Even the littlest of steps towards our dreams count.

When we “live each day to the fullest” we are starting to live our dreams already. That is a happy thought isn’t it? What would your play book say about “living each day?”

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 to live each day so that you are living your dreams more easily? I am available for individual phone coaching sessions, group teleclasses, speaking engagements and other fun and empowering events.

The power of a lift

Lifting others up - we lift ourselves. When we empower others - we empower ourselves.

When we make people feel good – it makes us feel good – and they usually want to return the favor to us and others they interact with.

What kind of world would we have if everyone did and said little things to lift everyone around them up?

It doesn’t have to big and it doesn’t have to be false. When we are genuine and honest with our praise, it does not take anything away from us – indeed it gives us something wonderful back.

Who can we lift up today? How many? Could be fun!

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 to live your dreams more easily? I am available for individual phone coaching sessions, group teleclasses, speaking engagements and other fun and empowering events.

Appreciation

When we show appreciation for the people and things around us, it is like a many sided crystal – the light bounces off of everybody and everything and comes right back to us.

We cannot give away appreciation and gratitude without having it come back to us from every possible direction.

When we find ways to appreciate all that is currently good in our life (this creates our focus) we end up actually having even more come into our life to appreciate (Law of Attraction).

Appreciate freely and watch the world light up. I bet your dream will soon be lit up too.

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 to live your dreams more easily? I am available for individual phone coaching sessions, group teleclasses, speaking engagements and other fun and empowering events.

Choose the holiday season you want now

It is December and the holiday season is fast approaching once again. It is one of my favorite times of the year for many reasons. However, over the holidays we can easily get tied up in a bunch of have to do’s and less than joyous feelings. In fact, it can get very complicated with all the demands 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! I’m glad you agree.

The good news is that we can design and create our picture perfect holiday season just like we can everything else in our life.

What does your picture perfect holiday season looks like? Who do you want around you? What do you want to do? How do you want to feel? Write it out in detail, visualize it often, and even talk about it if you like. Give yourself permission to make the decisions, choices and changes you need to make to help this vision become true.

Before you know it – you will be living it – exactly like you pictured – and it will have happened so easily …..

So what does your dream holiday season look like? Share it here if you want. The more we each focus on what we want the more ideal our holiday season and our life will be.

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 to live your dreams more easily? I am available for individual phone coaching sessions, group teleclasses, speaking engagements and other fun and empowering events.

Be true to yourself

Have others tried to design your life? You cannot live a life someone else has designed for you - and you’ll never do it well enough to please them, so why bother even trying to? Also, it is hard for others to live a life that we may have carefully chosen for them – not with any great amount of happiness anyway.

I’m a mother of two teenage children so I remind myself of that every day. They have their own life to live and their own choices to make. I helped bring them into the world so that they could have their own adventure – not my adventure.

Letting everybody live their own life actually let’s each of us be free to live ours.

How do you want your life to look? What do you want it to be filled with? Really think about it, because you get to design your life. You and only you get to design it. Feel free to thank people for their suggestions on it though ….. Occasionally they even make a good suggestion …. Go figure.

We can spend a lot of time designing our life too because we are only concentrating on our life - not 100 others. Wow! Life gets simpler every day! That means there are fewer dreams to concentrate on too!

May you enjoy designing your dream life!

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 to live your dreams more easily? I am available for individual phone coaching sessions, group teleclasses, speaking engagements and other fun and empowering events.

This year's Holiday Buffet

December is here which prompted this idea, but this is a special feast you can serve up for any event, anytime. People never get tired of it, so you can offer it as often as you want. Every chance you get, serve up …..

Heaping servings of Respect,
Lots of Passion
Plates of Compassion
Big bowls of Appreciation
Sprinkles of Kindness
Sprigs of Joy
And …. Large dollops of Love.

Don't forget the big servings of Self Respect for yourself.

People will enjoy it so much you may get requests all year long. The biggest compliment to your buffet of course comes from others desires to serve it to you as well.

Are there any dishes you would like to add?
Because everyone’s additions make it better you know!

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 to live your dreams easily? I am available for individual phone coaching sessions, group teleclasses, speaking engagements and other fun and empowering events.