SHINE BRIGHT LIKE A DIAMOND 💎

Happy second week of December! BRR!  It’s been cold here in Minnesota with all the winds! Even though it’s cold, I have to confess,  I am sleeping way better than I did in the hot summer months so I am reframing this cold weather as a negativity and  appreciating the positive by stating that my sleep has improved with the colder weather. I’ll take this as a win! 

Now that we are in the holiday season, how are you all feeling and doing? I know that many people are probably feeling tired, exhausted, overwhelmed, and just ready to rest.  Again, remember to have your B’s (Boundaries)!  Even though last week’s blog discussed having boundaries during the holidays, the boundaries that were talked about do not have to only be reinforced during the holidays. These boundaries can be implemented throughout the year! 

As the year comes to an end, most of us reflect on our year and how things went. We assess the positive, the difficulties, the WTF’s, and the I’m soo DONE with 2024! In my conversations with people (both professionally and personally), the majority have indicated that this year has been a very challenging year due to life circumstances, the economy, the future of this country, and just feeling very defeated overall. 

It’s very easy to feel lost, defeated, helpless, and hopeless. Sometimes, it’s easier and safer to just give into the negativity, remain a victim of your circumstances, be angry at the world, and the people who you believed did you wrong. 

Once you start on this path, it can be very difficult to come back from.  Blaming others, lacking accountability, not believing that you need to improve, learn, or grow, is going to set you back in many areas of your life. 

When you choose low vibration, low quality, anger, and choose to remain a victim, unfortunately, you will also attract what you put out. When you’re feeling this way, you attract what you believe you deserve. 

Now, I’m not going to sugar coat and pretend everything is fine. The world is going to SHITS right now and A LOT of it is beyond YOUR CONTROL. If you have been  reading my blog, you will also notice that besides talking about boundaries, I also emphasize and question all my readers to ask themselves, “what is in your control?” If anything is beyond your control, it’s better to leave it,  and focus on areas of your life that are within your control. 

When you start to focus on what you can control, you begin to realize how much is actually within your control,  and how much POWER you do have over your life. That’s when you realize that you can do amazing things when you have the MINDSET. 

Your MINSET is everything. One of the things that I work with my clients on is having the type of mindset that focuses on empowerment. When a person empowers themselves instead of having limiting beliefs (we all tend to have limited thinking and beliefs at the beginning of our journey), they begin to believe, have compassion, and reframe their thoughts, and experiences from failure/s to asking themselves, “what did I learn about myself from this experience,” as part of their growth process. 

Your decisions, your power, your control, and your mindset are the ultimate pieces that contribute to your GLOW UP. Now, I know some of you will say, “Well Poiab! What about fillers, ozempic, and botox? So many people use those to help them glow up and it works! Isn’t looking HOT is what it’s all about?” If a person looks hot, that’s all that matters right? 

Look, I don’t judge. If you are a person who chooses to use the above as part of your physical glow up, go right ahead. I have no doubt that looking great is part of many people’s glow up but I’m talking about the internal glow up that has an aura that shines where people have done and continue to do their INTERNAL work. The truth is, botox, fillers, ozempic, a big butt, and having a toned body can only take you so far. If you haven’t done your internal work, having all the above won’t matter; as a matter of fact, that could be part of someone’s mask, trying to hide whatever internal and unhealed wounds that haven’t been worked on by masking that they have perfection. 

How many of us have walked in a crowd and seen this amazing, vibrant, woman, just walking by, minding her own business, and thought, “WOW! What’s her secret?”; or have others from your past or current acquaintances who you haven’t seen for a while see you again and tell you “Wow! You look amazing! There’s a GLOW to you! What did you do?!” 

The truth is,  you took your power back, and decided that you will no longer allow others, past hurt, and pain to keep you captive and stuck. You are no longer a diamond in the rough. Instead, you empowered yourself to be an expensive and rare jewel, who knows their worth, and created boundaries where only the best  have access to you at your permission. 

Essentially, you my dear, are shining bright like a DIAMOND. You are shining bright because your unique light has the power to transform not only your life but also the world around you. Here’s what happens when you embrace the brightness: 

• You Are Uniquely Designed to Shine: In a world full of everyone trying to be like everyone else and looking like everyone else, when you decide to be true to yourself, showcase your talents, your perspectives, and energy, the right people will be drawn to you, Your light will shine by being one of kind. So SHINE AWAY! 

• You Inspire Others: First off, you decided that you will inspire yourself and in turn, when you start shining, people are drawn to your light. Your aura and shine gives other people the courage to shine and gives others the motivation to embrace their own light. Your aura is so strong that people find hope and accept that it’s okay to be unapologetically authentic.

• You Were Born to Thrive, Not Just Survive: Darling,  you were born to thrive, not just languish, wish you life away, trying to survive, and make it to the weekend, and repeat. Nope! NOT YOU! Truth is, you dimmed your light for so long and that limited your prosperity and joy. You told yourself that you would NEVER go back.  Shining bright allows you to live your life to the fullest, vibrantly, and now, you only accept GOOD VIBRATIONS. 

• Your Light Makes a Difference:  Ever notice that kind and happy people never troll, aren’t cruel or say negative things? That’s because they do not share the same space as others who are miserable, full of negativity, and want to bring others down. Instead, happy and kind people are letting their actions speak. They do this  through acts of  kindness, creativity, or are in leadership roles that empower others. 

• It Builds Resilience and Confidence:  When you allow yourself to shine, you embrace your strengths, which creates resilience in the aptitudes of challenges. Your confidence, vibrations, and aura glows when you live in alignment with your true self.

• You Attract Abundance:  When you have positivity, believe in yourself, have an abundant mindset, you start noticing how your life changes for the abundant!  You start attracting the energy that you represent.  When you radiate positivity, opportunities, and like-minded people are drawn to you. By shining brightly, you create momentum in both your personal and professional life.

• You Break Free from Limiting Beliefs:  When you own your brilliance, you don’t play or stay small.  Your brilliance and enlightenment demonstrates that you’re not afraid to show your light; there’s no limit in what you can achieve as  you boldly go after what you want and desire. 

There you have it darlings! Remember, shining brightly goes beyond the external and focuses on the internal shine and aura that shows who YOU are as a person.  It's about the internal part of you that includes your emotional, psychological, and most importantly, your spiritual. 

When you forge your own path and OWN who you are, you learn that shining bright isn’t about perfection; it’s about authenticity, courage, and living in your truth. When you shine, you become the best version of yourself. 

SO, LADIES, SHINE AWAY! BECAUSE WHEN YOU DO, YOUR BRILLIANCE IS CONTAGIOUS AND YOUR AURA CAN’T BE CONTAINED. EMBRACE YOUR LIGHT AND SHINE BRIGHT LIKE THE DIAMOND YOU ARE. ✨💎