Are You Radiating All Your Beauty?
Don’t get me wrong, I love to look good. In fact I can’t think of too many women who don’t enjoy a compliment about how well-radiant-healthy-slim-knock your socks off gorgeous they are looking. But looking good on the outside and feeling great on the inside are two very different things. Very, very different. Unfortunately no matter how much effort (and expense!) you put into looking attractive, if you aren’t feeling good about yourself on the inside it will ultimately show through and undermine how truly attractive you on the outside. Of course, you may still receive the odd compliment here and there, but it will provide only a short lived “hit” to your ego if you don’t feel great about yourself and the life you are living.
If you want to become someone who people are really attracted to, who is truly radiant, then take a moment to think about the issues that are causing you to feel a lack of self confidence, stressed, uninspired, depressed, angry, resentful or “all of the above”. I promise you will gain a far greater ‘return on your investment’ by redirecting some of your focus from coordinating your handbag, shoes and lipstick to addressing those aspects of your inner life which you don’t feel absolutely fabulous about. The fact is, only by feeling really good about you (the whole you, inside and out) can you can radiate outwardall the beauty that is inside you.
Maybe there are aspects of your life you feel dissatisfied with and yet, for one reason or another, you decide not to address - in your relationships, your career (or lack thereof), your finances, your health, your recreation. The present never seems like a good time. Maybe after summer, maybe next year. We humans have an innate resistance to change, even at the expense of living lives we don’t fully enjoy. To overcome our procrastination and inertia you must therefore be committed to doing what it takes feel good about who you are and the life you are living.
Below are a series of steps to help you transform those aspects of your life that are stopping you from glowing in life. The most important step is the first one - making a commitment to action. This requires letting go the old excuses that have kept you stuck and tapping into your innate reserve of courage to move beyond your comfort zone and, in doing so, discover strength and beauty inside you that you never thought you had. The question is, are you ready?
You are beautiful. What a shame it would be not to radiate the fullness of your beauty to those who pass your way in life. I therefore invite you not to settle for less than what you want out of life and make a commitment to your own happiness and to the full expression of all the beauty that resides in you. Right now as you read these words, is as good a time as you will ever have to begin the work of transforming the life you have now to the one you really want to live! After
all, if not now….when?
9 STEPS TO MAXIMIZING YOUR RADIANCE
So get out your journal (if you don’t have one, buy one!) and write down your answers to the following questions.
You can repeat this exercise for each area of your life you don’t feel great about.
1. Which area of you life are you dissatisfied with and committed to improving?
2. Why haven’t you done anything to effectively address this issue until now (i.e. what has been the pay-off that’s kept you resigned to the status quo) and how much it has cost you (in terms of your inability to fully enjoy your life, the quality of your relationships, ) for not doing so?
3. Imagine you could have this aspect of your life made ‘perfect’ with the wave of my magic wand and describe what it would be like?
4. How will you feel about yourself and what will the impact be on your life (and your joy/stress levels) if this aspect of your life is just the same a year from now (I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but with no action it will likely just get worse)?
5. How will you feel if a year from now you have accomplished this goal and/or made the changes that you would like? How would it impact your experience of each day including how you feel about your future?
6. What is the first thing you could do that would make a positive difference in relation to this area of your life? Write down a deadline for when you will do it.
For example:
Job – speak to boss, HR, contact recruitment company, polish up resume, research
Health – buy sneakers, join gym, throwing out all the candy in your home
Issue with your spouse/work colleague – organize a time to have a conversation with them, contact counselor
Finance – put together a budget of expenses
7. Write down all the other actions you can think of that you know would be helpful in addressing this problem and beside them write down a deadline by which you will begin taking them.
8. Get support! The simplest way is to share with someone what you’ve committed to and ask them to hold you accountable to the actions you’ve written down. You might also join a club of likeminded individuals or consider hiring a coach to get you into action and keep you moving forward despite the inevitable obstacles you encounter along the way.
9. Act as if! Sure, you may still have some miles to journey to feel 100% great about your life, but once you’ve stepped forward in that direction you are already on your way. So, beginning today, act as if you were already the kind of person you wanted to be someone who feels great about who they are and what they’re up to in life. Put your shoulders back, stand tall and walk out into the world with a smile on your face that says to people that you are a woman who is committed to making the most of life and giving your very best to it!
About the Author
Margie Warrell is an Executive & Life Coach, Speaker and Author who empowers people to find the courage to pursue the goals
that inspire them with greater success, fulfillment and balance. Margie works with individuals, teams and organizations to
strengthen communication, enhance relationships and promote individual leadership. Margie has written two books:
• “101 Ways to Improve Your Life, Volume 2”, co-authored with John Gray, Richard Carlson, Jack Canfield, Bob Proctor
and other leading success experts
• “FIND YOUR COURAGE! Unleash Your Full Potential and Live the Life You Really Want”
For free resources, more information or to subscribe to her free monthly eNewsletter “Your Greatest Life!” visit
www.margiewarrell.com, email mailto:info@margiewarrell.com or phone 214.686.4155.
*SINewswatch would like to thank Margie Warrell for granting permission to reprint this article.
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