Nikki's Old Blog formerly Bound By Happiness

Change the way you think! Change the way you feel! Change the way you live! Live a happier, healthier life. Change those negative thoughts into positive thoughts. Remind yourself daily that you are an awesome person!

Positive Affirmations are specific statements that help you overcome negative thoughts. They help you change your negative thinking into positive thinking. They help you visualize and believe in yourself. They'll help you make positive changes to different areas of your life. Affirm it, believe it!

Positive affirmations need to be repeated daily. You can post them in the areas you spend most of your day. Put up a post it note or a picture. Read it out loud daily. They may not be true at the time that you start saying them, but the goal is for them to become true. Repetition causes your affirmations to sink into your subconscious mind and you'll start to believe them and eventually become them. Overtime, your positive affirmations will outweigh the negative thoughts you used to have.

You can use positive affirmations to help with self confidence, ambition, positivity, career, love life, etc. I recently watched The Secret movie, available on Netflix. In the movie, there was a guy who taped a $1 bill to his ceiling. On the $1 bill he added five zeros to make it a $100,000 bill. He looked at the bill every morning when he woke up. By the end of the first year after pasting his bill to the ceiling, he made around $94,000 that year. He affirmed every day that he would make the money. If he could do it, you can do it too!

Below is a list of affirmations you can use for different aspects of your life.

HAPPINESS

I am happy.
I enjoy every aspect of the day. Being happy is my motto.
My happiness attracts happiness. I only interact with happy people.
The simplest things in life bring me joy.
I am joyful and content with my life in this current moment.

LOVE

I love my partner exactly how he/she is.
I respect my partner.
I communicate my desires and needs clearly and confidently with my partner.
My partner and I have fun together and find new ways to enjoy our time together.
My partner and I communicate openly and resolve conflict peacefully and respectfully.

MONEY / SUCCESS

I expect to be successful in all of my endeavors. Success is my natural state.
I love money. Money loves me.
I am a money magnet.
Money flows to me easily.
Financial success comes to me easily and effortlessly.

HEALTH

I’m honest with myself about the reality of what and how I eat.
I enjoy being in my body, and I nourish it each day.
Preparing fresh, healthy meals instead of processed food is an act of love toward myself and those I cook for.
Eating healthy empowers me and gives me control over my life.
I only eat healthy food.

Those are just a few affirmations I suggest using. If you do a quick google search, you'll find a million more different affirmations for all aspects of life.

Repeat your positive affirmations multiple times daily. Write them down at the same time you are speaking them. Be sure that your affirmations are in present tense, as if it is your current situation.

I'm going to start using a few positive affirmations myself. In 30 days, I'll make a post about how my life has changed since using my positive affirmations. I'd invite you to do the same. Start your positive affirmations today and in 30 days, comment on my affirmation post about how your life has improved since using positive affirmations.

Why should I create a vision board?

A vision board helps you clarify and visualize your goals. By seeing your goals every day, it will keep your mind on your goals. Your vision board should represent what you want your life to look like.

The first step in creating a vision board is to figure out what your goals are. Your vision board should closely represent the goals you want to achieve. What are your goals? Write them down. Think about what goals you have for each area of your life. The categories you should think about when creating your vision board include:

· Health and Fitness – Do you want to get in shape? Do you want to lose weight? Do you want to eat healthier?

· Career – Do you want a raise or promotion? Do you want to change your career completely and start on a new path?

· Education – Do you want to go back to school? What books do you want to read? What skills do you want to learn?

· Emotional health – What makes you happy? What would get you out of your slump?

· Relationships – Do you want more friends? Do you want a boyfriend or potentially a husband? Do you want children?

After you’ve created a list of your goals, it’s time to put them on your board. Search through magazines and online. Collect the images, quotes, etc. that make you feel good about yourself. Your board should not only include the things you want but how you want to feel. Put things on your board that make you feel great. Maybe they are pictures from events that you went to that you’d like to do again.

You can also include positive quotes and daily affirmations. Daily affirmations are affirming statements that you say out loud to yourself on a regular basis. By repeating your affirmations, it retrains your subconscious mind with positive thoughts, removing the negative thoughts that are preventing you from accomplishing your goals.

Let your vision board serve as a reminder of your goals and daily affirmations. Put your board somewhere that you will give you the ability to look at it daily. Constantly remind yourself of your goals.

You can create your vision board many different ways. You can get a pin or magnet board and use tacks to hang up the items you want to look at. You can get a poster board and glue everything to the poster board. If you’re tech savvy, you can create a digital vision board and use it as your phone, tablet, or computer background.

Let your vision board serve as a constant reminder of who you intend to be. I’ve given you a few tips on creating one and at this point, there are no excuses. Create your board, accomplish your goals!

Here a few example vision boards from around the web to get you started:

So, it's the new year and eating healthy is what's on everyone's agenda. I wanted to start incorporating some healthy meals in with the plethora of unhealthy meals I eat. One of the healthy meals I enjoyed over the summer in 2016 was Spaghetti Squash. Spaghetti Squash can be used as a substitute for pasta and that's exactly what I used it for. Once you put the seasonings and sauce on it, you can't really tell you're eating squash instead of spaghetti.

It's actually really easy to cook a spaghetti squash. You'll find a plethora of different recipes online for different variations of how to make a squash. Some tell you to cut the squash in half before putting it in the oven but the squash is so difficult to cut. If you don't have a very, very, very sharp knife to do it, you're going to have a hard time. In my opinion, the best way to cook the squash is by poking holes in the shell of the squash with a fork. Be sure to poke the holes around the whole squash. Then you roast it in the oven for about 45 minutes at 375 degrees. After 45 minutes, take the squash out and let it cool for about 10 minutes. Once the squash has cooled a bit, cut the top and bottom ends of the squash off. Next, cut the squash in half, from top to bottom. It should look like this:

Next you'll take the seeds out. Once you have the seeds out, use a fork and scrape it from side to side. The squash innings will begin to look like noodles. Put them in a bowl or pan. Depending on how you want to prepare your squash.

I melted a stick of butter in a pan, sauteed onions and garlic in the pan. I then added shrimp into the butter and sauteed until the shrimp was pink. After that I put my squash noodles into the pan and mixed it together. Put it in a bowl and sprinkle some parmesan cheese on it and you've got yourself a delicious meal. I don't have a picture of my finished product because I made it earlier this week and forgot to take pictures. Comment below if you have any questions! Enjoy!

Do you ever feel like you’re constantly helping other people and that you actually jump at the chance to help other people but you can’t help yourself? Yea. Me too! I am constantly looking for ways to help the people around me improve their lives. I come up with amazing business ideas and then I give them to other people. I motivate other people to pursue the business venture ideas I have for myself. If only I had the motivation…

This blog is my attempt to get on the road to change. I’m using this blog as a source of motivation for myself. Hopefully I can build a following and stick with it. At the current point in my life, I have a decent job and I live in a nice house. I own a nice car and I’m not necessarily broke but I’m not financially stable. My goal is to become financially stable with money to spend traveling the world. I want to create a job in which I control my own hours. I’m starting to feel stagnant and stuck and typically when that happens, I unexpectedly quit jobs and then more poor decisions follow. I need a change.

How does one get out of a slump? How can we get our motivation back?

First, focusing on one goal is key. I have discovered that when I try to accomplish too many things at one time, I rarely get anything done. I feel so overwhelmed by the things that I need to do. I become “tired” and end up sitting on the couch and watching TV instead of being productive. It’s hard focusing on one main goal but if I make a list and do one thing at a time on the list, I can get things done in a more efficient manner than trying to do all five things on my list at one time.

Next, finding inspiration is important. Who or what inspires you? Did the puppy finally learning to go up and down the stairs inspire you to keep trying? Did the baby learning to walk inspire you? Does Michelle Obama inspire you? What is your goal? Maybe Google can provide some inspiration. Research other people who are working toward the same goal as you. Google provides an endless amount of information. You’re not alone, it’s time you learned that.

Get excited and set a date to start your goal. Building up anticipation helps you become more excited about completing your goal.

Make your goal known. Post it around your house so you won’t forget. Look at it every day! Post pictures that provide inspiration along with your goal. Let everyone around you know that you have a goal you’re trying to accomplish and commit to it publicly. Your friends and family will be able to hold you responsible for sticking with your goals.

Think positive thoughts. Your motivation will come and go but you need to retrain your thoughts to think positively. More positivity = success.

Subscribe to: Posts ( Atom )

Pages

Navigation Menu

I Feel Super Sundays! Vol. 3

Speak Up! Repeat your positive Affirmations!

Accomplishing Goals 101: Create a Vision Board

Recipe of the Week: Shrimp Scampi Spaghetti Squash

I Feel SUPER Sundays! Vol. 2

Get some MOTIVATION!

Instagram