Gratitude

Gratitude gives us the basis for our life.
It costs nothing but means so much.
No matter where we are in our lives at any given moment …
Gratitude makes it better.

What are you grateful for right now, right this second?
It feels good to think about doesn’t it?
Our best lives flow from gratitude.

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/.

Love is from source

Source is where we feel our power …
Source is where we feel content and calm …
Source is where we know we can do anything.
Source is full of love for us.

Sometimes we may not feel content, or calm or powerful.
That means we are not feeling the power, strength and energy of our source.

Love is the key to finding our way back to source.
Can you feel love and gratitude?
Can you show love and gratitude to yourself and those around you?

With love we find source and when we find source we find it’s been waiting with love for us all along. It can feel like every moment is a dream when we connect to our source.

With great love, Suzanne

Suzanne Marie Bandick
Live Your Dreams Life Coach

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Look for the gift

What if all we receive from life are gifts?
What if we receive a gift and we don’t recognize it?
What if we mistake it for a problem or a challenge?
What if we actually complain about it?
Would you keep giving gifts to someone who complained about them?

Let’s decide now to look for our gifts everywhere – in everything.
You know what is like, sometimes gifts can seem odd.
But we can always show gratitude while we figure out what to do with it or how to use it.

Soon all our different gifts will become easier and easier to recognize.
And I think we will find it easier to truly appreciate them all.
Get ready because I’m thinking we are going to find a lot of gifts now!
Wow! I love gifts. Don’t you?

With great love, Suzanne

Suzanne Marie Bandick
Live Your Dreams Life Coach

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Be Bold

Be bold in your asking.
Be bold in your allowing.
Be bold in your accepting.

There is no need to hide what we desire.
Ask for what you want boldly and openly.
Accept that it is yours because you asked.

There is no need to be shy about accepting it.
Accept it with love and gratitude.

The Universe is happy to see you happy.
We are all happy to see you happy.

With great love, Suzanne

Suzanne Marie Bandick
Live Your Dreams Life Coach

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How do you like birthdays?

It’s my birthday! Well it will actually be my birthday on Sunday, but it brings up a good question … How do you celebrate your birthday?

Do you look back on all the good stuff of last year and then plan for more good stuff to come?
I do. I love and cherish every year – past, present and future.

Some highlights from my last year - I started my successful online coaching club, my daughter graduated from high school, I visited Canada with my family for three weeks, had the time to travel and settle our daughter into University, had several speaking engagements, wrote two more books, bought more property in Mexico, and went to Florida with my husband for a romantic week long get away.

Now I’ve made some great choices for what I desire this coming year and some of them may involve you so you can get excited too! Some highlights - I am planning retreats, publishing my 3rd book, getting all of my books in print (currently they are eBooks only), and more holidays!

Birthdays are a celebration of life! Plus it is great to look forward to a triple fudge chocolate cake that my son is baking! What a great life I have.

Actually any time is a perfect time to find gratitude for all the good that has happened in your life and then to plan what you are going to look forward to.

With great love, Suzanne

Suzanne Marie Bandick
Live Your Dreams Life Coach

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Giving and receiving

Giving and receiving are like a matched gift set. They always come together and should never be split apart.

For many of us giving is easy. However when we give we should also allow ourselves to receive. The other person wants to be able to experience giving too. We don’t usually do or give something with the anticipation of getting back, but it always come back from somewhere and it is important we allow it into our lives otherwise we stop the flow and we have split the gift.

Likewise when someone gives to us we can say thank you. The thank you on our part given with heartfelt meaning is a way to show gratitude. Hmm, that is powerful too isn’t it?

When we can give and receive with ease and love we are creating another wonderful circle in our lives that will bring us untold amounts of pleasure. It makes a beautiful and comfortable place for dreams to be lived.

With great love, Suzanne

Suzanne Marie Bandick
Live Your Dreams Life Coach

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What are you thankful for?

US Thanksgiving is this week. A day of thanksgiving is a great way to point out the importance of giving thanks in our life – maybe it is even a good springboard to continue thinking about and stating our gratitude every day. After all the Law of Attraction states that we get more of what we think about, talk about and focus on. Gratitude seems like a mighty fine focus.

With this in mind, I would like to thank you each again for being in my life. I have without a doubt the best clients, friends, family and husband that anyone could wish for. You guys are the greatest!

Isn’t it interesting that the more I give thanks for all the wonderful people in my life the more perfect to me everyone becomes? In fact more wonderful people seem to enter my life every day. What can I say? I am truly blessed.

Thank you for reading and thank you for being one of the special people in my life. Life would be so dull without you!

With great love, Suzanne

Suzanne Marie Bandick
Live Your Dreams Life Coach

By the way, to hear this recorded in my own voice go here.

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The perfect moment is now

What is the good stuff that is happening in your life, right now, at this moment while you sit reading this? Try picking just one … perhaps you are feeling in good health, or your body feels like it is the perfect temperature, maybe a nice song is on, your tummy is satisfied, your chair is comfortable, your computer is working, you have a computer or access to one, you have a happy thought ….

We can choose to enjoy all the good we find in this moment … or we can choose to ignore it and maybe focus on something that feels less good.

Which do you think will bring your dreams to you the fastest and easiest?
We can start with I am grateful for …….. and end it with thank you.

With great love, Suzanne

Suzanne Marie Bandick
Live Your Dreams Life Coach

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Perk ups for down days!

Yes, we all get down moments in our lives.
How we choose to deal with these down moments determines how fast we recover.

I suggest that you keep a list of things that bring you up. Like ….

- Going bowling
- Listening to uplifting music
- Reading something inspirational
- Eating Jello
- Working out
- Reading and writing in your Gratitude journal
- Thinking about something or someone you love.

Remember you can’t just list them, you have to do some.
There don’t you feel perkier already?

More Jello please. Just writing about it makes me laugh!

With great love, Suzanne

Suzanne Marie Bandick
Live Your Dreams Life Coach

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Is knowing enough?

When we learn about something – we can say we know about it.

We can know about the benefits of stating our gratitude and we can know about the ancient Hawaiian healing art of Ho’oponopono. But does knowing about it make it a part of our life?

When we choose to go beyond just knowing and we decide to incorporate this learning into our life that is when the magic can happen.

We need to try what we learn – we need to try using it. We can only internalize it by discussions and playing with it. Then we can start living it.

Maybe sometimes it is best to go beyond just knowing and explore.
Dreams can often be achieved from our explorations.

May you always enjoy your explorations on the way to your dreams.

PS. I'm back and you may be happy to know that my spiffy hat with the big pink feather was a hit!

With great love, Suzanne

Suzanne Marie Bandick
Live Your Dreams Life Coach

Now you can join the The Live Your Dreams Coaching Club! We all have a dream and it may be easier to achieve if we don't feel like we are all alone in our quest. Join the club that can empower you daily!

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

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

Where can gratitude take us?

How far can gratitude go?

Gratitude can go beyond us just feeling grateful.
We can tell people of our gratitude for them.
I appreciate you because _________. Thank you.
I am happy to have you in my life.

We can show people our gratitude.
What nice thing can we do for someone to show our gratitude today?
I baked my husband his favorite cookies yesterday even though they are time consuming to make. I told him it was because I was grateful to have him in my life and I appreciate everything he does for our family. Today he is taking me to lunch.

Simple and often amazing things can happen when we share our gratitude.
I believe gratitude can give us the best of life.
To feel and show gratitude makes me feel like I am living my dream now.

Some things are just best shared.
Go ahead share some gratitude today.

P.S. - Thank you for reading my blog. I am truly grateful for you.

With great love, Suzanne

Suzanne Marie Bandick
Live Your Dreams Life Coach

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Thank you!

Thank you for being you.
Thank you for being in my life.
Thank you for reading this blog.
I am filled with gratitude for you.

May your day be joyous and ….
May you experience immense gratitude in your life.

With great love, Suzanne

Suzanne Marie Bandick
Live Your Dreams Life Coach

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Outrageous Abundance is Real!

I believe we can have outrageous abundance in our lives! How about you? Can you believe it?

Just check your gratitude journal. Doesn’t that make you feel abundant? Can you take that abundant feeling of gratitude and magnify it? When we magnify that feeling we will create even more abundance in our lives until suddenly we have outrageous abundance in our lives!

People will say Wow! We will just laugh because we know how easy it is to have outrageous abundance. We are enjoying it to the max!

What? You don’t have a gratitude journal? What do you want to do now?

Let’s accept that we can have outrageous abundance in our lives! Then it will become the norm.
Are you appreciating and picturing it 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. There is even a new eCourse available on my site! Live your dream!

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How much do we take for granted?

I walk to and from my yoga class in the mornings. Lately I have been noticing how well my body moves. I have a comfortable gate, and my hips and legs work smoothly with no pain. How wonderful it makes me feel. I feel healthy.

Our body is an easy one to take for granted until we get sick. Let’s be different – let’s appreciate our bodies when we are not even near being sick.

Gratitude does not have to be some elaborate elusive thing – we don’t ever have to go looking too far. What might you be taking for granted?

My body may not be totally perfect to me but I like the way it moves. Wanna see me walk?

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. There is even a new eCourse available on my site! Live your dream!

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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.

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.

Gratitude - is it always obvious?

It is easy to feel gratitude over obvious things – but what about the not so obvious?

Last week I slipped on a slight incline and my left foot twisted backwards so that the top of my foot from my toe nail to my ankle scraped the cement. It hurt for the week – I did not think much about it – and certainly did not extend any gratitude for it. I figured I had other things to be grateful for and focused on them.

Several days after it happened, it was pointed out to me how lucky I was – I could have broken my ankle! That honestly had never even occurred to me! So I didn’t even think that was something to be grateful for! I do Yoga so it must keep me more limber – now another extension found for my gratitude.

How many times do we have something less than wonderful happen in our lives and it does not even occur to us to give thanks because it could have been so much worse? Where is our focus? Maybe the event even stopped us from being somewhere or doing something else that would have not been good for us? Sometimes the things we have to be grateful for are not obvious, but they are always there!

This week let’s try to look from a new perspective and see what new gratitude’s we will find in unexpected things.

I’ll be living my dreams one gratitude at a time. Thank you dearest foot, thank you Universe for the reminder, thank you all for reading ……..

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 finding all the things to be grateful for 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.

Beautiful moments for life

A good life is made up of a series of beautiful little moments. Can you recognize them all when they happen? We can wait for these moments to happen to us or we can start the ball rolling.

Could you offer thanks to someone today?
Could you play with someone today?
Could you hug someone today?
Could you stop and admire something beautiful?

When we offer beautiful moments, we not only get to enjoy them ourselves but we start a process where we receive the gift of more than we can count returned.

Our life is the sum of our moments. Let’s choose to make them beautiful and worth remembering. May the road to living your dreams be filled with beautiful moments.

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

Living in the moment is so now!

There is great power to be found in really living in and enjoying each of our moments. We will find great power and great satisfaction in it. Great power because this moment presets our next moment and great satisfaction because now is when we get to truly enjoy it.

By the way, just to be perfectly clear, we are talking about this current moment. What can you appreciate about your life in this moment?

Focusing on our current moment certainly stops us from ruminating on our past and it will stop us from freaking out about a future that may or may not happen.

What do we do if we are not liking this moment? Now is the time to change it to one we like better. We always have that power either physically or with our thoughts.

There we are again - living our dreams one good moment at a time. This is lovely! What do 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 help to live your dreams? I am available for individual phone coaching sessions, group teleclasses, speaking engagements and other fun and empowering events.

Just be happy

Sometimes the easiest way of all to start living our dreams and attracting more of what we desire to us is just to find our happiness right now – right this minute.

What can you be happy about now? What can you plan so that you can feel happy and look forward to today? It only takes a minute to recognize or find something (even if it is a little thing) to be happy about.

Then the neatest thing in the world happens…..our happy moment attracts more happy moments into our life and before we know it we are living all of our dreams – one happy moment at a time.

Some things are easy really!

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