"How in the hell am I suppose to think and feel prosperous, wealthy, and abundant when every moment of my daily life is a big giant in-your-face reminder that I am financially struggling...in a big way?!" OMG, I GET IT! I really do! I grew up in poverty, have lived most of my adult life in extreme poverty, and continue to struggle financially. It's hard to look around and not feel like scarcity and lack is all there is, and that financial wealth and abundance is somehow just not available or attainable for you. You may even look at others and their current state of affairs and think, "Psh, fuck that. All that wealth and prosperity mindset talk is bullshit. It is obviously not working for them!" You see that is where you are wrong. Thinking and feeling wealthy and prosperous doesn't happen overnight. Changing your mindset and overcoming limiting beliefs takes time and dedication, EVEN through the hardships and difficulties. It is when we are enduring hardships that it is MOST crucial that we maintain a wealth and abundance mindset. Manifesting BIG THINGS takes time and consistent effort. You have to KEEP AT IT. When the doubt comes, keep at it. When you feel like you are moving backwards, keep at it. When everywhere you look is lack and not enough, keep at it. When you feel like giving up, keep at it. When you feel like it isn't working, keep at it. When others try to discourage you, keep at it. When life throws a curve ball at you, keep at it. When you fail, keep at it. When others don't believe in you, keep at it. When even a small breakthrough comes, keep at it. When things start to feel like they are getting better, keep at it. When you have a set-back, keep at it. When you have a good day, be thankful, and keep at it. When you gain positive momentum, keep at it. When things finally come together, keep at it. When you look around you and realize you have finally arrived, KEEP AT IT. Yes it hard work. No, it is NOT always easy. Yes, there will be many days you just want to throw your hands up and quit. No, it will not happen overnight. But if you are ready to say, "What have I got to loose? I'm going to work at changing my mindset and overcoming my limiting beliefs like it's MY JOB. I'm ready to manifest something big!" then my Wealth Alchemy Manifestation series is for YOU. And it's FREE! We can walk this journey together. Brightest blessings, Teigan Draig About the author:
Teigan Draig is a Spiritual Life Coach offering one on one and group spiritual life coaching to empower women to explore healing & transformation so they may live a balanced happy life that fosters joyful freedom, bold independence, and gentle strength. The freedom to be your truest self and live the life you deserve and love is a very powerful thing! Teigan resides in Ohio with her son--the light of her life, and their adorably demanding cat, Dime.
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Setting goals is a very positive and wonderful thing. Setting goals gives us something to work towards and affords a sense of achievement when we reach our goals. The incredible rewards of all our hard work and dedication keeps us focused on moving forward and encourages us to set new goals and dream new dreams. Achieving our goals motivates us to pursue continued growth and development. However, not achieving our goals despite all our hard work and dedication can be devastating, discouraging, and depressing. We often fall into the “why even bother” mindset, which is vastly damaging and detrimental to our sense of self-worth and confidence. We become unmotivated to pursue new goals for fear of failing...again, which in turn causes us to become stuck in a repeating pattern of discontent and unhappiness; completely lacking any motivation to work to bring change to our lives. When we fail to achieve our goals it most often isn’t due to a lack of effort, but rather failing to create and implement an achievable action plan to work towards our goals. When creating an action plan to achieve our goals, we need to remember to work SMARTER, not HARDER. If you are diligently and faithfully working toward your goals, yet still failing to achieve them, there are 5 keys reasons you are not reaching your goals. Are you setting the right kind of goals and creating an action plan that you can faithfully stick to. Ask yourself if your goals are SMART. Specific Measurable Attainable Realistic Timely Goals that do not meet SMART criteria may be difficult to achieve, or may not offer long-term satisfaction after they are achieved. Identifying clear goals helps minimize wasted time and energy on things that drain your determination, motivation, and initiative. Specific In being specific and detailed, you lay out exactly what you wish to accomplish with your goal, and why. Will it be necessary to involve other people in the achievement of your goal? If so, who are they? The challenges, obstacles, and restraints involved in achieving your goal also need to be identified, so that you can plan for ways to deal with them if or when they present themselves. When a goal is too vague and lacks specific details, you will most likely lose interest, and struggle to find the determination to achieve it. Measurable Your goal must be measurable. How will you know when you have achieved your goal? This step is where you will answer the details of how much, or how many. How much weight do you want to lose? How many new clients would you like to work towards retaining? Leaving the numbers blank in this step leads to uncertainty and possibly a fear of the unknown. You will be significantly less likely to work towards achieving a goal you are unable to measure or count. Attainable It is important to identify the steps you will need to take in order to achieve your goal. You must ask yourself if you are able to grow and expand in order to achieve a very large goal, or even a seemingly impossible goal? If a goal seems impossible, it is best to break it down into smaller more attainable goals that progress toward achieving the large goal. If a goal feels unattainable to you, you are not likely to put forth much genuine effort in achieving it. Realistic How will your goal help you achieve happiness or fulfillment in your life? If your goal is not aligned with your personal core values, you are much less likely to put in the required effort to achieve the goal. You are also much more likely to work towards and achieve a goal that is in alignment with your personal strengths and needs. When planning your goal, ensure it is in alignment with what you personally value. You are most likely to work towards a goal that will result in deep fulfillment and meaning once it is achieved. Timely What is the time frame you are allotting for yourself to achieve your goal? It is important that you plan a realistic time frame within which you desire to achieve your goal. Is your goal achievable in 5 days, 5 weeks, or 5 months, and what can you do within this time frame? Don’t be afraid to challenge yourself with your time frame, but also don’t box yourself into a time frame that is too short, constrictive, or stressful. This will just cause you to become overwhelmed and possibly even give up, which would obviously be counterproductive. Give yourself enough time to realistically achieve your goal. I encourage you to write down your goals and include as much detail as possible. Don’t be afraid to dream big, and then break your larger goals into smaller achievable goals. Then, when you are ready to create an action plan to work on your goals, make sure it’s a SMART one. Brightest blessings, lovelies! Teigan Draig About the author: Teigan Draig is a Spiritual Life Coach offering one on one and group spiritual life coaching to empower women to explore healing & transformation so they may live a balanced happy life that fosters joyful freedom, bold independence, and gentle strength. The freedom to be your truest self and live the life you deserve and love is a very powerful thing! Teigan resides in Ohio with her son--the light of her life, and their adorably demanding cat, Dime. Wear your magick, your weirdness, your witchiness proud! When I started coaching I suddenly felt like I had to hide my magick. I was afraid that I wouldn't be able to find coaching clients if people knew I was pagan; if they knew I was, "GASP!" a witch! I deeply and genuinely wanted to help women and have the freedom of a successful career, but I was afraid I wouldn't be accepted for who I really am. I hid the most genuine aspects of myself: my Spiritual Universe believing, crystal collecting, nature hugging, spell casting, tarot card reading, Goddess loving, magick making, butterfly beautiful WITCH. The truth is, I genuinely love helping other witchy and/or spiritual women love themselves, find their FIRE BREATHING DRAGON selves, and rock their spiritual witch life. I am not hiding my MAGICK anymore. I incorporate my spirituality and magick into everything I do, including my coaching practice. That is why I made the decision 6 months ago to make the shift from health coaching to spiritual life coaching. Within the last 5 months I have written two 10 week group coaching programs, a 5 week structured transformation mini-course, an Element of Fire masterclass with guided meditation, a complete parent's guide for teaching kids self-worth, a wealth alchemy manifestation teaching series, and a host of other miscellaneous content. I built, designed, and completed my 5th website, designed branding and marketing graphics, and stared a YouTube Channel. I was interviewed and featured in a national healthy living magazine, and learned a new healing modality that I am now teaching. WOW! YES, I AM proud of what I have been able to accomplish in the last 6 months. That is the wonderful magickal beauty of growth and transformation. We are able to do things we never thought possible, and achieve things we never thought we could or would do. I encourage YOU to never stop pursuing transformation. Then you too, can look back over the last 6 months and see how far you have come, and be proud of what you have accomplished! I am leaning into my purpose and living fully Divine-led. I am rocking my Magickal Butterfly Witch, and wearing it proud! Rock who YOU are and wear it proud. Never let anyone steal your sparkle or dull your shine. YOU ARE MAGICKAL! Brightest blessings, lovelies! Teigan Draig About the author: Teigan Draig is a Spiritual Life Coach offering one on one and group spiritual life coaching to empower women to explore healing & transformation so they may live a balanced happy life that fosters joyful freedom, bold independence, and gentle strength. The freedom to be your truest self and live the life you deserve and love is a very powerful thing! Teigan resides in Ohio with her son--the light of her life, and their adorably demanding cat, Dime. Self-love is beautiful, comforting, and absolutely vital to your well-being. It is filling your own well so that you may have more to give in service to others. You cannot love and have compassion for others if you are not loving and having compassion for yourself. Self-love does not have to be elaborate and time consuming, although it certainly can be if you want it to be. It is simply honoring yourself and caring for yourself in mind, body, and spirit. I am often asked about ways to practice self-love. Use your interests and passions as a guide to help you come up with ways to practice self-love that are enjoyable to you. Below is a list of 35 ideas for practicing self-love. Use it as inspiration to help you come up with your own ways to practice self-love that are unique to you. 35 Ways to Practice Self-Love
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Thank you for reading! Brightest blessings, lovelies, ![]() I take a step out my front door and am no longer greeted by the lush green leaves and aromatic smell of lilacs. The lilac bush by the sidewalk is now naked against the harsh winter wind. Its leaves, carried away long ago by autumn’s breeze. Its feet are buried deep under a blanket of sparkling white snow. The bush looks lonely there in the snow, forsaken by its cloak of pale green leaves, abandoned by its lavender blooms. Its spindly stalks reach toward the sky, begging to be warmed once more by the sun. How I long to once again smell the sweet fragrance of lilacs in full bloom. I find a small consolation in the tiny buds sprouting from the tips of the bush’s limbs. The buds wait patiently to be kissed by the warm spring sun, waking them from their long winter sleep. Lilacs bud in the fall after all its leaves have dropped. ![]() The buds remain dormant until coaxed to open in early spring by warmer temperatures and longer periods of sunlight. Tiny lilac buds are the promise that spring will return. The little bush steadily holds its ground, ready to brave all of winter’s woes. The bush summons all its strength, pushes its roots deeper into the ground, and waits. It knows that spring will return, and with it new beginnings. As I observe this display of strength in these dark months, I am encouraged. The little lilac bush, having been stripped of its glory, stands firm embracing the daunting challenge of surviving the winter. It eagerly anticipates the day its first bud will open. I reflect on the bush’s innocent determination and realize that I could learn from its example. In the face of tribulation the little bush doesn’t give up, and neither should I. In observing this seemingly trivial thing, I am reminded that in life we go through seasons of change. We experience spring when we go through times of growth. Summer is upon us during our times of peace and happiness. We are in autumn when we go through transition, and in winter we experience our darkest hours. It is in winter that we need to remain steadfast and strong, knowing that spring promises to come again. Brightest blessings lovelies, Teigan I hate the stigma around self-love. In today’s society its common for many people to see it as an accomplishment that they survived the week on 3 hours of sleep fueled by mass amounts of coffee and sarcasm. Yet these people make very little effort to nourish and care for themselves. Why? Because today’s society tells us that it is selfish to love and care for yourself, and to put yourself first. People are droning through life exhausted, battered, bruised, and depressed. Many people I know secretly have feelings of inadequacy, unworthiness, and powerlessness. They are afraid to engage in any type of self-care, or they make excuses as to why they can’t take care of themselves. Many see self-love as an act of selfishness and “pampering” or spoiling themselves. The mainstream media promotes pampering and self-love as a luxury for the spoiled and wealthy. I strongly disagree. Loving and taking care of one’s self should be a guilt-free practice that we all engage in. It is not wrong or selfish for you to spend time nourishing your own body and soul. The Inner Child (the truest, most innocent part of your being) needs this nourishing self-love to thrive, not only emotionally, but spiritually as well. Our physical bodies need to be properly nourished and cared for to be healthy and full of vitality, but self-love isn’t just about caring for yourself physically. When you do not truly love and take care of all aspects of yourself, you give your power away. A big part of self-love is setting personal boundaries. If you are too physically, emotionally, and mentally tired to stand up for yourself, you allow others to control and manipulate you. When you allow others to control and manipulate you, you give them power over what you do and who you do it with. Self-care is also accepting your flaws and imperfections and learning to love yourself there. None of us are perfect, but we can strive to be better each day by engaging in personal growth and development. You need to learn to love and nurture yourself, not only by taking care of your physical body, but your mind and spirit too. You must know without a doubt that you have value and are loved. You can’t rely on others to fulfill you and care for your needs. YOU have to fill your own well. You can’t give if your well is empty, but don’t wait until your well has run dry to make it rain. You have to continually fill yourself with nourishing love, encouraging positive self-talk, and uplifting joy and happiness. There is absolutely NO guilt in taking care of your own needs. Think of it this way. When you are injured physically you know you have to nurse and properly care for the wound in order for it to heal. If you don’t care for the wound, it becomes infectious, takes much longer to heal (if it heals at all), and spreads toxins throughout your body. Your emotional and mental health, which directly governs your sense of self-worth, must be meticulously cared for and nourished in the same way, otherwise emotional and mental toxins infiltrate into every aspect of your life. Guilt-Free Self-Love Challenge I challenge you, this week and moving forward, to start practice guilt-free self-love. Here are just a few ideas you might like to try. I encourage you to come up with some of your own ideas as well.
Enjoy every moment. I’d love to hear about how you participated in my Guilt-Free Self-Love Challenge in the comments below. Brightest blessings, my Lovelies, Teigan What It Means To Be In Your Power To stand in your personal power is a very freeing feeling. What exactly does it mean to be in your power? To be in your power means to stand in your truth about who you are, and what your values are. It is treating others and yourself with kindness, gentleness, and love with balance and gentle strength. Practicing self-care, setting personal boundaries, and not allowing others to define you or how you feel about yourself are some fundamental ways to stand in your personal power. Ways We Give Our Power Away Are you a people pleaser, always saying yes to anything asked of you? Do you give in to the demands of your kids, significant other, co-workers, or even your boss? Do you invalidate your own feelings or desires for the sake of others, or to please them? When we need the approval or validation of others to feel good about ourselves, we are giving our personal power away. When we think negative thoughts about ourselves and engage in negative self-talk, or excessive self-criticism, we are giving our power away. So how do we take back our personal power? By finding our fire. 3 Ways To Take Back Your Power 1. Self-Care Self-care is the first step to taking back our power. Engaging in regular self-care is the foundation and innermost truth of being able to stand in our power. When we practice a regular self-care routine, we are able to love ourselves with full acceptance, stable balance, and liberating freedom. When we ourselves are full of peace, love, joy, kindness, gentleness, strength, and acceptance, we are then able to richly pour into and bless others. 2. Acceptance When we are able to fully accept our flaws and imperfections and learn to love ourselves there, we are then able to stand in the gentle strength of knowing who we are; our strengths, and our weaknesses. We are then able to meet others right where they are and give them love and acceptance regardless of our differences. Disengage in negative self-talk. Speak life and love to yourself. Build yourself up, instead of tearing yourself down. With acceptance, life becomes more enjoyable and peaceful. 3. Set Personal Boundaries We are in control of how others treat us. What we allow will continue. To stand in your power, you must set personal boundaries. Find your fire to say no when you mean no. Speak up for yourself and don’t give in when others try to make you feel guilty for not giving in to their demands. Develop healthy personal and emotional boundaries that give you control of how you spend your time and who you spend it with. Finding your fire requires self-care, acceptance, and balance, while facilitating strength, confidence, and independence. Standing in your power and knowing your inner truth is the key to living a peaceful balanced life full of joy and abundance. Taking Action I've made learning how to practice self-love easy. The Healing Art of Self-Care: 8 Fundamental Ways To Love Yourself is a 10 week course where I will teach you how to take back your power through nourishing guilt-free self-care. Learn to set personal boundaries, know and accept your worth, make time to take care of your needs, speak love to your soul, make healthy choices in your physical, mental, and spiritual life, explore creativity, find inner peace and happiness, and more. It's time to start giving yourself the love you deeply need and deserve. Yes, you ARE worth it! Click here to preview this course. Brightest Blessings, Lovelies, Teigan |
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