Soulful Suggestions

There was a quote I heard many moons ago that has always stuck with me..."respond to every call that excites your spirit". Some might resonate straight away, some might wonder what it even means, and some, well some of you are just here wondering what this space is all about (welcome). This is what I know though. Rumi had it so right. Life is about living. Crazy I know. But to live goes much deeper than just living. 

Living, to me, means to follow our heart, soul & spirit and doing what makes us FEEL good. It means leaving everything you've got on the table every single day. It means telling everyone you love just how much they mean to you. It means laughing with no inhibition. It means to love with no titles. It means to be free. To be a spirit on this earth responding to every call your heart and soul ask of you. 

Sometimes we get lost though, we forget what it means to live and laugh and love. Truly. To truly live and laugh and love. We forget that life isn't about being ruled by time, or schedules or societal norms which we never should have accepted in the first place. 

Your goal this week is to just live a beautiful life. A life you're proud of. With your favourite things and favourite people. Don't worry about bed times or work deadlines. Focus on how many strangers you can say hello to, and hugs you can give out. Don't worry about the number on the bathroom scales or in your bank account - instead, focus on the beautiful free things of life. Your breathe. Your bed. The clouds in the sky and your favourite music. 

And if you've forgotten just what excites your soul and spirit, I have a few little reminders for you with love below ...

How to overcome your mind

You have, in your divine possession a weapon so powerful it could change everything for you. Your financial situation, your emotional situation, your wellbeing situation, whatever it is you can think of that isn’t working for you right now in life....this weapon could change.

I’m not talking something woo woo or evil either ... I’m talking about your mind.

I’m sure you’ve heard it once before, maybe even a million times, but i’m here to put out a gentle reminder to your soul again – what you think you manifest and attract. Whether you like to believe or admit it or not – and maybe that is half the problem in the first place – your mind and thoughts create your reality.

You know those moments where you seem to say, ALOT, “god i KNEW that would happen, it always happens to me” ... of course it does. Because you think it does so that is exactly what you attract. We are divine beings of light more powerful than you could ever imagine, and that mind o’ yours – it is there to manifest whatever it is you are choosing to put in there – be it good or bad thoughts or programs.

Have you ever tried to be complexly conscious of your thought? That is, gone a whole day and caught every negative thought that pops in to your head? There will be positive ones of course as well, but we want to try to change the negative ones to change your thought patterns and change your life.

Let’s begin shall we?  

How to overcome your mind

1.  Acknowledge the thought

Catch every negative thought & write it down. Sure, this might be time consuming, and even a little painful but the purpose of this is for you to become consciously aware of just how many negative thoughts you are actually thinking.

2. Bring it up, and honour why you feel that way

You do this quickly. Every feeling wants to be felt, and generally a negative thought is attached to some sort of feeling. Bring that up, welcome it up in to your consciousness and thank it for coming but just know it’s time for it to leave, thank it for coming and send it on it’s way. 

3. Replace it with a positive thought or different way of thinking

As soon as you have caught the negative thought, acknowledged it and sent it on it’s way, you need to immediately replace it with a positive one. Turn the ego talk from ‘I’m not good enough’ or ‘there is no way I’m ever going to get this done’ in to one that comes from love, like; ‘I am worthy and I deserve love & happiness’ and ‘I have plenty of time and space in my life and this task will be done with ease and calm’ .... Can you feel the empowerment already? Negative thoughts disarm you, they instantly disempower and when your brain doesn't know the difference between what is real and what isn’t, if you are telling yourself you’re not good enough or can’t do something, guess what it’s going to believe? SWITCH those thoughts. Banish the negative and welcome in the positive. Empowering thoughts, positive talk in your head, will instantly change your situation.

A good little tip that I live by; Don’t believe a single thought that isn’t positive.

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Remember, we are always manifesting! ALWAYS!! Anything good in your life, you invited it in, and anything bad, you invited it in. Each of our thoughts creates an energy flow within and around our physical being, our brains can’t tell the difference between what is real and what is not, so you have the power to manifest the GOOD over the bad every single time.

Oh, and beautiful, one more thing ...

Know the universe has your back. 

You're meant to be here, where you are, doing what you're doing, having met who you met....TRUST THAT...and know the universe has your back 10000% ... GET OUT OF THE UNIVERSES WAY. Don't set big shiny intentions and get in to a place of having, then doubt...the universe is going to provide you what you need when you need it and when you trust it that much...life just works. Get in to that true place of having and knowing....when you're in that place of knowing (KNOWING you will succeed and be happy and be loved and give love in return) ... you don't vibrate fear or disbelief. When you KNOW that you will be ok, you know that true happiness is yours, and you know you'll succeed, the unvierse has your back and your mind becomes an ally, not the enemy. 

You are love, light and a soul waiting to live it's purpose and change the world. Let your mind guide you to that, not hold you back from it. 

Wishing you days of positive thoughts, high energy and beautiful manifestations.

Images; here & here

My love soaked love letter to you; Your Permission Slip to live

Find your story & tell that 

Dear beautiful souls, 

I had something huge on my heart the last few days and it all came out this morning as I sat and wrote in my diary. I want to start living your truth. Finding your story & telling that. Living loudly, and with love. But I think so many of us are still so scared of consequences - friends reactions, societys acceptance, that we don't even take the first steps to live that truth and follow our purpose. 

So here is your permission slip that I know so many people are still waiting for. If you think you don't need a permission slip to LIVE either then answer me this. 

Are you still someone who worries about what people think about you? What people might be saying? What a group of your friends might talk about when they get together without you (you need to dump those friends by the way if this is still happening in 2013) Do you wear certain things or not wear certain things to be 'in' or normal. Are you careful about what you say or do or how you might come across because of how you might be perceived? Do you still walk in to a room and think 'I wonder if they like me' instead of thinking ' I wonder if I'll like them?' Do you have anxiety? Are you really sad a lot of the time? Stressed? Un aligned? Do you resent aspects of your life??

WHY? I could not pour ANY more love in to these words. WHY?? WHYYY would you try so hard to dampen your spirit and not live your truth when you have been gifted this life and you were born to stand out? Your heart was made to love and for you to live a life of purpose. 

If you didn't wake up this morning (tragically) and yesterday was your last day on earth...are you proud of what you did? Who you were? What you said? How you loved? How you lived? No?? The only person you are doing a disservice to is yourself.

YOU ARE ALIVE & YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL. Wake up. For goodness sake wake up. 

Why live a life anything less than extraordinary?? You weren't born to fit in. You weren't born to be a bitch either. Or judgmental. Or angry. Or jealous. Or spiteful. Your purpose isn't to align with shit friends that hold you back from being you. That anxiety & depression that is so devastatingly rampant in our generation today? It's our bodies way of giving us a clue that the normal way of living isn't right. 

So here is your permission slip. 

You are beautiful. Incredibly worthy. You have a voice. You have a heart that pumps so you can give of yourself in this world. You should go and live. Be who you want to be. Do what you want to do. Wear what you want to wear. Travel where you want to travel. LIVE. Don't give your power away ... Find your voice. Light your spirit back on fire. HAVE FUN. Dream a little bigger & just truly understand and honour your worth.

You are an INCREDIBLE human being. I just needed you to know that as you started your new week again. 

I'll be here, cheering you on as ALWAYS, 

With a huge amount of love & light. 

Anna xx

Dear Life; Gratitude Overload

Dear life, 

You are pretty beautifully overwhelming at the moment. I feel at a stage where as soon as I open my eyes when my alarm goes off, and realise I'm alive, I've been given one more day, I am already at gratitude overload. I think there might be something to this as well. They say gratitude attracts abundance, and life, I so get that. Where gratitude goes, abundance and energy flows. I just really want to honour you at this present moment. Honour that we are here, on a planet that you support 6 billion human souls on, breathing air that you give us. If I had nothing and no one to be grateful for, that in itself is enough. That is just the thing though life, I DO have so much to be grateful for and I just wanted to say thanks. 

Thank you. No, I mean really, reallyyyy thank you. Thank you for Morgs, who shows me a love so deep I know it will last the ages and for loving someone enough to give that deep beautiful love back. For my mum - who at 25 still calls me pumpkin and darling heart and cooks me dinner if Morgs is away. For having a WHY in life so deep and so great nothing and no one will stop me. For butchers that do free taste testings. Thanks for Visionary's. Thank you for books and words that inspire me to live harder, better, and stronger. Thank you for fresh flowers that are a staple in our household. Thanks for deliciously sexy weather with a little bit of rain and a little bit of sun all at the same time. For choice - to feel love instead of anger and hope instead of sadness. Thanks for peppermint tea and Winter sheets. For people that are fellow life enthuiasts - the ones that show up, engage; dig it, and just totally and utterly love life. Thank you for profanities, and being ok with saying the word Fuck when I'm crazy excited. Thanks for gratitude. Thank you for friends who make life so fundamentally extraordinary. Thank you for deep, deep belly laughs. For divine acoustic music, for jam donuts. For hugs and high fives - I just love a good one of each. Thanks for the invention of planes to take my love & I anywhere in this big beautiful world we desire. Thank you for the ocean. For Massages and for delicious dinners shared with your favourite people. 

There will never be enough words to truly show you how grateful I am that I am given day after day to live - but hopefully by living on purpose and living with passion and love - everyday - will show you my deep, deep appreciation for you. 

Now excuse me life, I'm off to live another day xxx

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p.s I would LOVE to hear what you are grateful for in the comments below. As I said, Gratitude attracts abundance, so get to saying thanks for all the wonderful little (& big) things in your life x 

Spring brings new Intentions

There is a certain energy in the air at the moment. A call of spirit. A sense of calm. An excitement of new beginnings and strong intentions and I can't help but think it has all be inspired by a change in seasons. 

Yesterday in the Southern Hemisphere, Spring Sprung and with new seasons comes fresh change, and I'm not just talking about the return of our warm sun or delicious sunny weather. I'm talking about energy shifts and big bold intentions. 

We are currently in September, a mere 4 months off from the end of the year, and as I woke this morning, I was overwhelmingly inspired to sit and pour some love in to setting my own intentions for the final leg of the year and this beautiful new season that is upon us. 

So what is an intention? If you're new to them, they aren't goals. To me, they are love soaked promises to your soul and being of how you want to feel, act and love. To live, with intention. Living with intention, Setting your intentions, it all creates wonderfully powerful magic in your life. At that moment, when purpose and intention align, the universe screams YES and life flows. Synchronicity is abundant and you gel with life with gusto and love. 

Intention is sexy. It's real. & if done right, with love and authentic energy - it will catapulte your life next level. An incredibly wise man named Buddha once said; "The mind is everything; what you think, you become" - and Buddha you were so, SO right. 

So grab a pen and paper, and let's get down with intention setting to live the rest of this year out with an incredible bang. 

in·ten·tion

  [in-ten-shuhn]

noun

1.

an act or instance of determining mentally upon some action or result.

2.

the end or object intended; purpose.

3.

the act or fact of intending.

Dear Universe, 

+ I operate constantly from a deep place of love. I give love freely, radiate love and connect to my source of love at all times. 

+ I wake with incredible energy deeply grateful for each day from the moment I am awake. 

+ I live on purpose and with purpose. I am aligned to my souls calling and I will help all others I come in to contact with do the same if they choose that. 

+ I attract loving, supportive, successful, divine, authentic people in to my life who bring the best out in me and I give those qualities back. 

+ I go through my days with ease and love and attract abundance at all times. 

+ I am the healthiest I have ever been and that fills me with love and joy. 

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Your turn gorgeous. There are 4 months of 2013 left. Let go of the anxiety about not yet hitting some goals you might of set at the start of the year and instead live with love and intention (& don't ever forget gratitude).You see, intentions aren't about what you will try to do or achieve goals wise, or pushing yourself - it's about living your truth and attracting more of the energy you want in your life. 

Your intentions will set you off on a path of attracting who and what you need in your life and will see your life become aligned and your spirit live on purpose. 

I would love to hear some of your intentions in the comments below. 

Images: here & here 

Working out your ideal day + Living that

Everyday is another chance to change your life 

The sun starts streaming through the cracks of your blinds, you wake, and roll over next to the love of your life, your eyes are barely even open but you're already smiling for the day. You don't know what time it is, but it doesn't matter, you don't work, you haven't for months now, and life is bliss. 

You roll out of bed when you're ready and begin your morning routine. You hit the gym, not because you have to, but because you love to move your body and starting your day this way is what makes you happy. You wander home when you're ready, never worrying about what time it is, and make yourself a delicious nutritious smoothie, do some dry body brushing, take care of your skin with coconut oil, have a long hot shower, you do whatever it is that sets your day off right. 

Then the day is yours. You do your coaching calls or you don't. You go to the beach and write out your goals and gratitudes that you do every single day. You eat delicious salad and organic goodness for lunch in the Winter sun. You stop for an impromptu coffee at your favourite cafe back on the beach, because, well, because you can.

Time is not against you. Life is yours to live. 

You are, in every sense of the word, living your ideal day. You are doing what you want, with who you want, when you want. 

What I just explained above, is my current life. I was 20 when I first heard of this idea through Tony Robbins, in a nutshell, he said, work out your perfect day - what it looks like, what it feels like, what it tastes like. He then challenged if you were living it? No? Why not? Find your why and then your how will come. 

So this is my challenge to you today. What does YOUR ideal look like? What does it feel like? Taste like? What are you doing? Who are you with? Where are you in the world? I want you to start living that. You don't have to not work either. We can get you to that stage, but you can still allow aspects of an ideal day in to your busy lifestyle starting straight away, & here are some of my tips how; 

1. Get clear on exactly what your ideal day looks like 

It's writing and creative time. Get a new page up on the computer or grab a paper and pen and start writing what your ideal really does look like. It doesn't need to be grand, remember, this is your every day life. For me, it began and ended with the sun, and it involved ALL of the above. Notice how a lot of it is what I wanted to feel. I was always so stressed about time - I had none, so my ideal day I wanted freedom of choice, to not worry about time, and to spend it where I wanted - like one day at the beach, the next at the zoo. It was freedom and joy and space in my life for me. What's yours? Write. Write for no-one but you. It might be sleeping in until 11am everyday, and that's fine if that's YOUR ideal day. Who is in your ideal day? Where are you? Just keep writing. 

2. See what comes up from that & start being more concious of those things in your life

Go back and read it a few times now. See what is coming up a lot for you. Is it family time? Freedom? Not rushing? Financial freedom? Work out what are the categories that come up the most for you and identify why those are most important to you. We can never have what we want if we don't even know what it is we want. So get clear, crystal clear - this all forms part of your why. 

3. Start small but start today

Don't think you have to quit your job and rush out immediately to start living your ideal day - because although I would love for you to be able to do that, it needs to be realistic. You would be surprised however just how much of your ideal day you can start incorporating in to your current lifestyle before living it fully. Do you want to just have 30 minutes to yourself every morning to sit and write goals? It might mean that you just have to get up a little earlier and you can actually start doing it. Think of it like this as well, say daily yoga is on your list, why not just start doing a half an hour class once a week. Like attracts like, you manifest what you think about and do, so if you start living aspects of your ideal day in your everyday life you will attract more of that a lot faster than  you realise. 

4. Visualise how it feels to live your ideal day & Write out your goals & gratitude's every single day 

If you do one thing on the path to manifesting and living your ideal day, Visualising living said day, and writing your goals and gratitudes without fail, every.single.day will get you there and attract what you need in your life with so much ease and abundance. You don't need to write out your ideal day every day, but what is your ideal day going to give you. More time to spend with the kids? Write that. A more loving, passionate, calm, extraordinary relationship? Write that. Complete financial freedom with $x,xxxx rolling in residually each week? Write that. Never write that you WANT it either. To want something means you are in a state of lacking. Come from a place of having. Write that you already have it. This is what your daily goals should look like; 

+ I have a residual income of $3,000 a week or better with ease that allows me to live incredibly comfortable.

+ I have a loving, passionate, wonderful relationship/marriage with (insert persons name here) and we love, adore and support one another unconditionally. 

+ I have a successful business that touches millions of lives yearly and allows me to express myself freely and live on purpose.

See the difference between wanting something and having it. My gorgeous soul sister and business partner Peta Kelly said to me the other week "How on earth is the universe going to know what you want if you aren't telling it daily" - and she's right. 

5. Work towards it daily. Little by little, day by day.  

Never ever ever stop working towards it. Your birth right is a life filled with love, joy and peace. I am going to say that again. It is your birth right, to live a life that is filled with love, joy and peace. So go get it. I won't take any excuses from anyone that they can't do this. If you work on getting there, every single day, incorporating things that are part of your ideal day little by little - creating more space, more time, more calm, more happiness, more presence - you will get there. 

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I have shared in this space before my ideal day. It was the week I shared I was leaving my job because I was in a position to do so financially and work on my other purpose and passions in life - like coaching and  chasing down dreams. I had an incredibly powerful week though this week - this is only my 2nd week not working and being home - as every single day, really was me living my ideal day. Why am I sharing this? Because I want you to see that you CAN do this. I don't write about it and have no experience or idea. I did the above steps, over and over and over and now get to reap the benefits. The travel part too - Since quitting I have bought tickets to Sydney, Bali and soon to be Singapore and booked a big romantic weekend down south. 

So here it is again, in all my soulful truth - my ideal day. CHOOSE YOURS. & let's make it happen for you.

My perfect day begins and ends with the sun. I wake up as it streams through my big glass windows waking me next to my fiance in our beautiful big warm house by the beach (or with rain pattering against the glass in winter).

I get up and drink my breakfast smoothie and laugh and smile and feel energised about the day ahead. I go for my morning run or do some yoga, or even both – time is not against me so I plod along as I please smiling all the while at how overwhelmingly grateful I am for this day.

I then have some hours engaged with my clients – I show up in our space online or in the corner of an organic coffee shop – with love & ready to give all of me and my advice, buzzing with energy as we dig deep and work on carving out their life’s path and souls purpose. Each client walks away every time feeling aligned, excited and closer to living their own dream life.

I then get back to emails in my business partners (Peta Kelly) & i’s dream office and we have our daily business meetings with natural sunlight streaming through the office, with beautiful views so we are constantly inspired and connected to our source. The meeting goes for however long we want to sit and talk about how we can give more, increase the love and good will factor and how else can we show up for our thriving community we’ve created. By afternoon I’m back at our dream home by the ocean with a big delicious green smoothie in one hand, my favourite book in the other on the balcony over looking the ocean  having some me time.

I have time every single night for date night with my hunk of a fiance Morgan and we eat by candlelit at home, or dine in our favourite restaurants with other best friends with no care for bed times  or tomorrows.

Every night I go to bed with a smile on my face knowing for that day, I left everything on the table. I loved with out wanting, I gave without expecting receiving, I showed up, I engaged, I laughed till my face  hurt & I made a difference in somebodies life (whoever I was connecting with for that day).

My ideal day is so fundamentally based around travel too. I will be in a position to look at Morgs (or call Peta or surprise my mum) and say ‘hey, let’s pack a bag and go to a tropical beach for a week or so to just unwind and relax. Or ‘lets escape to Melbourne for some shopping and restaurant hopping’ – having the freedom to do what I want, when i want with who I want – whilst always giving all of me in a loving and authentic way to inspire others to do the same encompassing my ultimate ideal days.

I would love to hear what your ideal day looks like, start to finish. Share it in the comments. Let's declare it for you, tell the universe what you want and start making it happen. 

You are beautiful, you really are

I had grand plans this morning to sit and write to you about living a life of your ideal days but instead, my heart and spirit kept pulling me towards these divine quotes about loving yourself, all of you, and I feel like there are instead women out there who needed this message today. So here is the thing gorgeous;

You are beautiful. More than beautiful. 

Even your flaws and those imperfect parts about yourself in fact even just make you more perfect. 

Your beating heart and that exquisite soul that you have, that is what makes you so beautiful. 

Not friends unfair critisicim, or societys unrealistic body and beauty pressures. Or asshole comments on social media or anything that isn't your own truth. 

YOU are beautiful. Your smile. Your laugh. Especially in those moments when you can't see your true beauty, you are. If only you could see yourself the way those that see your essence see you. 

& on off days, or bad days or dark weeks, know your power. Trust your purpose. Keep the spark flickering inside you and just KNOW how beautiful and worthy you are. 

You are a divine being of light, a life participant, a universal being with love & light to give. You have a unique purpose you were put on this earth to live. YOU MATTER. 

So next time someone trys to dim your light, or you feel defeated, or stressed out or like it doesn't matter anymore... come back to this. You are beautiful. Your heart matters, your soul matters and you matter. 

I'm back + a little update on life

1// Mr M & I pinching ourselves as we party in the Hugh Hefner suite in Vegas 
2// Fiance Morgs, Soul sista' Peta & some of the gorgeous guys on our team before a VIP night out in Vegas
3// Meet the 12 other entrepreneurs I spent the last 2 weeks with learning & growing & loving
4// My office for the day in Cabo. Living a life by my own design means I get to travel the world & work from anywhere with ease and love.

Hola gorgeous souls. I'm back, and I really mean I'm back. After a 2 week holiday packed full of business + pleasure + life changing events I am home after a 36 hour transit including 3 countries and 6 flights - oh so worth it though and I'd do it again in a heartbeat if I had to. I wanted to touch base quickly with a few little updates and just let you know what's going on around here and in my life.

With the 16 hour time difference, 18 hour days from just wanting to soak up every.little.bit of these cities and lack of amazing wifi, there was no time for posting so I had 2 weeks of learning to let go of feeling bad about not getting to spend much time in my online space.

You have me back though - for the next ever, so stay tuned for the upcoming weeks of posts brimming to come out of my mind and on to paper.

+  I just spent the last 2 weeks living my Joie De Vivre travelling Vegas & Cabo, Mexico with my beautiful hunk of a fiance and 12 other inspiring under 30's entrepreneurs all on track for financial freedom and purpose alignment. I had won the trip through the incredible nutritional cleansing company I'm aligned with and it was literally 14 days of jaw dropping experiences, opportunities and memory creation that will last my lifetime.

+  This little space here is getting a big update. I started this blog 2 years ago in May and it truly has been on a life changing journey with me. I have grown though, in exponential ways and I want this blog to reflect that growth, so watch this space for a big upgrade and some soulful additions coming your way with love.

+  My soul sista Peta and I are collaborating in big ways to bring you a new online space with love, soul, spunk and life changing opportunities. That is going to be taking up large chunks of time to get that launched but when it does, I want you all along for the ride.

+   The next few weeks will be all about writing for me. Content for the new site, finishing off my new ebook, putting together limited coaching packages and starting the huge content for the collaboration project. Most importantly though, hanging out and pouring love in to this space so I am looking forward to getting 'back to basics' and spending my days doing the stuff that makes my soul fulfilled.

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There is so much more to share but I want to save it for a big post to pour some life lessons and blessings I've experienced recently in to you so stand by for that. The next 3 days are going to be all about honouring some other beautiful and incredible woman and bloggers I know, Anna, Emily & Brooke who will be guest posting whilst I get my feet back grounded on Australian soil so I can't wait to share the amazing posts they have written with love for you. 

My new life; As a life enthusiast, coach & dream chaser

As I sit and write this it is 7:30pm on a Sunday evening. I have had a divine day of writing, reading, packing for another holiday with the love of my life and sending some love soaked emails to girls I coach through what I do with nutritional cleansing.

I have no anxiety over tomorrow being a Monday morning, no worry about what I will or won't get achieved at work this week, or no sinking feeling in the bottom of my stomach that between the hours of 8am - 6pm, I won't get to be doing what I want to be doing I'll be stuck in my florescent light, windowless office.

That's because, I quit my job and as of Monday morning and every day after have officially committed to living a life by my own design.

It was only a mere few months ago I updated a few things in my spaces - physically and virtually. I wrote, with no real plan or idea in mind I was a "Life enthuiast & Coach" - I put words on my vision wall like "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams - Eleanor Roosevelt" and "Beyond Expectation" and "Retire my mum, & live a life of design, young, madly in love & excited". Never did I put a date, never did I dwell on working my ass of to reach it or stress out over the how, it was just written, with good intention and love and stuck everywhere and anywhere I would see it regularly. 

That was 3-4 months ago. Today? I have a residual income big enough to cover what I need it to so I don't have to work full time, from a nutritional cleansing (nc) company I adore and products I am so incredibly aligned with. I don't work anymore. Yep, fo' real. I get to live my life as I desire doing what I want, with who I want, when I want. I get to receive text messages and emails from girls I coach through my NC every single day saying what goals they hit from a health and mind perspective and how much their lives are changing too. I get to live. How I wanted to - and build from that to live with even more ease and abundance and giving as days and weeks and months pass. 

I had a secure job, with a 6 figure income and wonderful kudos and success for a 25 year old in the corporate world. So was leaving all of that behind to give living my idea life a red hot go scary? If I said yes, I think I would in fact be lying. It wasn't. At all. With a weekly residual income I now receive and having as strong a desire as I did to align with my purpose - it was an alignment that I was supported by like never before. It helps I have beautiful family, friends, business partner & best fiance in the whole entire world that were all there pouring love support & confidence in to me as I was declaring that this is what I wanted to do. 

I knew that if I kept using my healthy constant income as the excuse I couldn't leave full time work to try living my purpose and chasing my dreams, I would probably never leave. I came to realise that my dream was not for sale, and no price or income could ever be put on doing what I was born to do which is help and give and share and show up to those that need it most. To write, to coach, to inspire and to talk my talk and walk my walk and lead others to do the same. 

I have huge goals and dreams and plans and you know the beautiful part about it? I can pursue all of that now because I  have time. Time to live, to serve, to coach, to give, to write - and to launch all the exciting projects I haven't had the time to properly pour the love and soulful attention it all deserved. 

My soul sista Peta Kelly - the creator of Life By My Own Design  & I among many other aligned goals loved talking about and aiming to live 'a life of perfect days' - simply, from start to finish, from waking up to falling asleep, working out what a perfect and ideal day would be, and living that. How would it feel, what would it look like? Below is a snippet of my perfect days, what I'm working towards living each and every single day - whilst earning my weekly residual income** and being able to then pour all the love and soul and time in to my businesses I'm about to launch. 

My perfect day begins and ends with the sun. I wake up as it streams through my big glass windows waking me next to my fiance in our beautiful big warm house by the beach (or with rain pattering against the glass in winter).

I get up and drink my breakfast smoothie and laugh and smile and feel energised about the day ahead. I go for my morning run or do some yoga, or even both – time is not against me so I plod along as I please smiling all the while at how overwhelmingly grateful I am for this day.
I then have some hours engaged with my clients – I show up in our space online or in the corner of an organic coffee shop – with love & ready to give all of me and my advice, buzzing with energy as we dig deep and work on carving out their life’s path and souls purpose. Each client walks away every time feeling aligned, excited and closer to living their own dream life.
I then get back to emails in my business partners (thats you pK!) & i’s dream office and we have our daily business meetings with natural sunlight streaming through the office, with beautiful views so we are constantly inspired and connected to our source. The meeting goes for however long we want to sit and talk about how we can give more, increase the love and good will factor and how else can we show up for our thriving community we’ve created. By afternoon I’m back at our dream home by the ocean with a big delicious green smoothie in one hand, my favourite book in the other on the balcony over looking the ocean  having some me time.

I have time every single night for date night with my hunk of a fiance Morgan and we eat by candlelit at home, or dine in our favourite restaurants with other best friends with no care for bed times  or tomorrows.

Every night I go to bed with a smile on my face knowing for that day, I left everything on the table. I loved with out wanting, I gave without expecting receiving, I showed up, I engaged, I laughed till my face  hurt & I made a difference in somebodies life (whoever I was connecting with for that day).

My ideal day is so fundamentally based around travel too. I will be in a position to look at Morgs (or call Peta or surprise my mum) and say ‘hey, let’s pack a bag and go to a tropical beach for a week or so to just unwind and relax. Or ‘lets escape to Melbourne for some shopping and restaurant hopping’ – having the freedom to do what I want, when i want with who I want – whilst always giving all of me in a loving and authentic way to inspire others to do the same encompassing my ultimate ideal days.

 

So here I am. I'm showing up, I leapt and allowed the universe to catch me and am now allowing all the magic and awesome and wonder joy and abundance flow in to my life that comes when you take the risk of following your purpose. 

It's exciting, exhillarating, free'ing and I will be here showing up in this space more now to take you as I write the next chapter in my life's story book. 

Thank you for all the beautiful love and incredibe words that were poured out to me in email and on Instagram over the weekend when I put my photo up and shared my little secret of dream chasing - it has been felt and beamed right back. 

Sending you huge beams of grounding, love, energy & light,
One very excited, aligned and blissed out Anna xx

** WHAT is this residual income I am talking about? It is an amount of money - however big I choose it to be from how ever much love and energy from the week before I have put in, that gets deposited in to my account weekly from my nutritional cleansing company. Not only did I end up falling in love with the products and program and am a total Isa girl now, it has allowed me to quit my full time job to focus a lot more energy in to it and grow that income even more WHILST winning free trips and getting my products all paid for. I am always here to help you with information or to give it a red hot go yourself so find me at anna.ogilvie@hotmail.com xx

4 ways to live a happier life

Life, whether you are having a great day or a bad day, truly is a beautiful, overwhelmingly extraordinary gift. Here we are on planet earth, just far enough away from the sun to sustain life, living and breathing, being gifted day after day after day.

Whatever you believe in, whatever cards you've been dealt, it is our duty and obligation to full comprehend that life truly is a gift and is yours to honour and to live with gusto.

We choose what we feel, what we experience, what we interpret, so today I am challenging you to always choose happiness and here are some of my ways I seize my days.

Be more Grateful 

Did you know that? No, did you really reallyyyyy know that? Gratitude, and expressing gratitude is so fundamental to living a more joy filled existence. Starting every day with gratitude can solely change your life. As soon as your eyes open, smile, because you have a new day that is yours to fill with anything and everything that you love. 

Have you been able to wake in a warm bed? How incredibly lucky. Were you then able to jump in to a hot shower and wash your skin? Even more amazing. Do you have the love of your life living with you or some adorable kids you have brought in to the world? GIVE THANKS.

We get so caught up in what's not going right for us these days that we forget to give thanks for what is going right - so much of our days and moments are things we take for granted, but it is all things to be grateful for. Once you start finding gratitude in the small things, like a hot cup of coffee, or a smile you got from a stranger, you will start to attract more wonderful things in to your life. Like attracts like, the law of attraction works in marvellous and beautiful ways. Like Shakti Gawain says - "If we are basically positive in attitude, expecting and envisioning pleasure, satisfaction and happiness, we will attract and create people, situations, and events which conform to our positive expectations." 

The more you strengthen your gratitude meter the happier you will become. Don't ever let another day pass without at least writing either in the morning or at night, 3 things you were happy about. Buy a journal or even just scribble it on the fridge, but jot down what you are grateful for, your gains, little or big, significant or not, and watch your life change in an instant and the law of attraction welcome up some beautiful moments for you. 

& remember....

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us be thankful - Leo Buscaglia

Quit Comparing

Does it feel like your girlfriend always seems to just be so flawless even on bad days? Or the places you hang out online recently all seem to be flooded with the same girls killing it? Or maybe you are not where you want to be weight wise and if you could just loose another 5kg like that girl you see at the gym? 

STOP IT. Right now. Don't ever waste another minute or slice of your precious energy on comparing yourself to someone or something seemingly 'better off' than you.

We were all born as complete individuals in a vast and astounding world. We each carry a unique soul, a unique set of fingerprints and a unique dna code. We each value things differently, have been brought up with different values, and react to things differently. So why would you ever for a second compare where you're at or what you look like to anybody buy yourself? 

They say the only person you should ever compete with is the person you were yesterday, and it's so true. I also loved reading the quote up above - don't compare your chapter 1 to someone else's chapter 20. Let go of comparitinitis - and start living your own story, dance to the beat of that own amazing drum and start living your own life. You are so stunningly divine and have so so much to share with the world as yourself. As soon as you can harness that and start living that truth, that's when you will grow exponetially and wonder how or why you ever compared in the first place. 

Where you're at and how you're doing it is just fine babe, perfect in fact. 

& remember...

"If you're your authentic self, you have no competition" - Scott Stratten

Be of Service

One of the fastest ways you can improve your day is by improving someone else's. The minute you take the focus off you and how you can help yourself, and instead shift your energy towards helping others, the minute your life will take a dramatic turn. 

We are here to align with our purpose and ultimately, each and every one of our purposes is to serve others. Through helping others we help ourselves. It costs nothing to smile at a stranger, to offer to carry an older person's groceries to the car, to go and read books or paint nails in the local aged care homes. It costs nothing to give a genuine compliment, to give your time at a hospital or for a great cause and it costs nothing (in hindsight) to donate small amounts to great wonderful causes. 

Life is on fire when you serve,  it gels, it aligns, you vibrate at a higher frequency - it just it makes sense. So next time you're having an off day, or week or month - give some time to a worthy cause, give an unexpected compliment or try to make a goal to make at least 10 people laugh in that day, not just because they're worth it...but you're worth it.

Exercise Daily 

That's right, you have to get up, and get moving. We all know the benefits of exercise, you know, stuff like reducing your risk of getting heart disease, increasing your level of muscle strength, enhancing your sexual desire (yup) and helping you to more effectively manage stress, but it also just feels really fucking good. 

Endorphin's are clever, amazing little things that kick in after a good solid work out, they really are a free high. Even if you can just get up and get moving for half an hour a day, be it on your lunch break, or even before and after work you will feel so so much better for it (not to mention start looking healthier and in turn happier as well). 

There really are no excuses. Winter is always going to come, so we need to just embrace the cold, if you're tired in the mornings, go to bed earlier, if you complain you have no time, then we need to talk - there are 24 useable hours in a day and you might need to just look at how effectively you're managing your time. Getting up and getting moving is so important to a happier and healthier body and brain function so make a promise to yourself that there will be no more excuses and if you do fall off the wagon, you don't waste a minute in time getting back up again. 

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