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.

Who says?

Do you ever feel like you have to live a certain way... or behave or act in a certain way because, society, your friends, your family or your neighbours expect it?

Why? Who can say what is the correct way to ... look, act, feel or do?
What if you want to do something different?
What if you want to wear rubber boots in the sunshine?
What if you want to live in a different way?
Then make the choice to be different if it is what you really desire.
Choose it if it makes you happy.

No one should dictate what is acceptable for you. Only you can do that.
Wouldn’t life be boring if we were all the same?
Shake it up, spice it up ... live life on your terms!


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.

We master life by living it

Nobody has everything mastered.
It would be a mistake to compare ourselves to anyone and feel that maybe they do know all the answers or have the perfect life and we don’t.

Everybody has those moments in their lives that they would prefer to do again.
Everyone has areas they think they could be better at.
We can only do the best we can every day and in every moment.
And that is really all that we need to do in life.
Oh yeah, we need to enjoy life too.

You are a master because you are living life.
It doesn’t have to be perfect ... just enjoyed.
Go enjoy some moments today.

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.

Pump us up!

We can pump up our self esteem ... our attitude ... our joy for life ... our imagination ... our fitness level ... our knowledge of something ... our quest for fun ... whatever we desire!

How can we pump ourselves up?
We can pump ourselves up with ... what we read, how we talk, what we talk about, who we talk with, what we watch, music, dance, movement ... we can choose to study ... we can choose to exercise our mind and/or our body ... we can change with whom and what we talk about ... and we can allow ourselves more free time to do just what we desire to do. I bet you did not know that relaxing can also pump you up did you? Yep! It can.

Pumped up we feel great ... we feel like we can do anything ... and it is important to feel that way because we can do anything! Now you just know it.

Will you choose to pump yourself up today? Do it and feel great.

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.

Ten things I know about life

- We get more of whatever we put our focus on.
- A doughnut tastes better than a stick of celery.
- It feels good to hug a friend.
- It feels great to get a hug.
- We get back tenfold whatever we give ... love, kindness, appreciation....
- It feels good to hear the words ‘thank you’.
- Whatever we believe becomes true for us ... but it is not necessarily true for everybody else.
- We can always choose what we think or how we respond.
- Being right is not always important.
- A whole bunch of you will go back to count if I listed 10 things. Is it really important?

Now you can add yours and we will all be really smart sharing like this!

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.

I am cheering for you!

What do you desire for or in your life?
I am cheering for you and I know if your desire is strong enough, it is yours.

What do you desire?
Clarify it. Visualize it. Write about it. Talk about it. Plan for it. Expect it.
Allow it into your life. Welcome it.

Accept no worry about how, when, who or where.
Know it is yours simply because you asked and it will be.

I am cheering for you.
Can you feel it?
Rah, rah, rah!

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.

Do something different

Are you feeling bored or stuck in any areas of your life?
It happens to us all at one time or another.
Sometimes it sneaks up on us...
We used to be content and then suddenly we are not.
Sometimes we let it sit with us for so long it saps our energy.
Perhaps not the best way to enjoy our life to the fullest...

When we feel bored or stuck it means it is time to play ... time to shake it up a little.
That sounds like fun doesn’t it?
What can you do differently? What new things can you try?
What little shifts can you make in your actions and in your thoughts?
How can you play with life?

Our ideas often want to take us a little out of our comfort zone...
But you know it feels great to stretch that old comfort zone.
Go ahead and give your ideas a try and suddenly life will feel good again.

I just started Zumba classes at a brand new gym where I did not know anybody.
Maybe not a big thing but ... I’m feeling pretty good ... pretty empowered ... pretty full of life...
Hmm, maybe my new excitement and joy is spilling over into other areas of my life?
My life does seem better...

Do something to shake up your world and let me know how it feels.

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.

Can you enjoy your journey?

What if we look at life as a journey ... a wonderful adventure?
Would we do things differently?
Would we look at everything differently?

My friend, Maria Tripaldi recently posted the following thought in Facebook:

“The journey has always been about laughing together, loving each other, seeking adventure, believing in our dreams and making a difference...but sometimes we forget.”

I like Maria’s adventurous journey.
Maria, I will try to always remember.
Love you.

PS. The beauty of the journey is that we each get to explore life in our own way and in our own directions – and we can change it at any time. What and where do you choose to explore?

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.

Choose today

What will you choose to do with today?
It is always our choice what we do with every day.

Will you go to work? Then do it in joy because you chose to.
Will you be taking care of your children?
Will you be working out?
Whatever you choose to do...
Do it with joy because you chose to do it.

What we do with today is always our choice...
Even if we pretend it is not.

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.

You are loved

You are loved.
You are.
You are loved unconditionally.
You are.
You are divinely loved.
You are.
By many, many, many.
You know it.
Instinctively you know it.
Are you feeling loved yet?
Envelop yourself in the feeling.
It is how you are supposed to feel.

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.

End in mind

We can spend all our time reacting to everything going on in our life ...
Or we can choose to create what we desire to have happen in our life.

It’s not so complicated.
Visualize or write about what you desire for your life.
What is the end picture?
Get it to the point where you are excited.
Do you have it?

Now work/play your way back and purposefully choose the steps that will create it.
Choose to make order from what may seem like chaos.

Life won’t just happen to you anymore and on occasions where it feels like it does ...
You can make your own choices with your end in mind.

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.

More happiness is ...

One can never have too many thoughts of happiness is ...... with their life.

Happiness is ... allowing myself quiet time to reflect.
Happiness is ... allowing myself to fully enjoy the beauty in each day.
Happiness is ... a swim in a cool pool on a hot day.
Happiness is ... a child’s arms around me.
Happiness is ... the hug of a good friend.

Now it is your turn.
Happiness is ...

Find the happiness’s in your life and celebrate them.

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.

The power of one

The power of one is the power of ourselves.

We tend to look outside for our answers and our truths.

We must look inside.

The solutions, the answers ... we have it all.

We simply have to sit quietly and allow it, and accept it and trust it and know it is right.

We cannot decide what may be right for the whole world ...

But we certainly can know and trust that we know what is right for us.

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.

Loving Life

Do you love life?
There is always something to love about life.
In fact I bet you can find many, many things.

Sometimes I want to focus on the little dot I find that is not to love.
And frankly that is just plain silly because it will become bigger with my focus wont it?

The question is where do you choose to place your focus?
A focus on loving life gets you more to love ...
That is where we want to be!

In fact it’s possible nothing else but what we love really matters.
Focus on what you love in life and life will focus on you with love.
Life can often surprise us with its simplicity.

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.