Your life is as good as your mindset

"Create a life you can't wait to wake up to" is a phrase I work towards everyday. It is much easier said than done but YOU HAVE THE POWER TO CREATE A LIFE YOU LOVE WITH WHAT YOU HAVE :) This does not mean that your life is going to be amazing all the time. However, we have the beautiful ability to shift our mindset and focus on the positives in our daily lives. When we ground ourselves in gratitude and live intentionally -- our lives will begin to grow.

It all starts when you wake up everyday. For many people getting out of bed is one of the hardest parts of the day.

Wake up and choose joy, choose gratitude, choose unconditional love, choose discipline, choose fun, choose peace.

There are many days I catch myself waking up and thinking to myself "Today is going to be tough" or "I don't know how I am going to get it all done today" or "I can't wait to go to sleep tonight". But this is no way to live. It all starts with a simple mindset shift -- "Yes, I may have a lot of things to do today but I am going to focus on one thing at a time. I am grateful for waking up today and for the opportunity of a new day"

Try to create one thing each day that you can look forward to. I am writing to you in Starbucks on this lovely sunny afternoon thinking about my mindset today:

- I woke up and let myself sleep an hour past my alarm because my body was asking for it & I thankfully had the ability to.

- I went to the gym to move my body because I knew that sweating would set me up with a clear mind for my classes.

- I ate a nutritious and satisfying breakfast to give me energy for my classes and to allow me to focus on learning.

- I went to class and invested myself in my work allowing me to get out of my head and learn something new.

If you are so focused on getting through the day - you are missing out on so much life! It is so easy to get caught up in getting through until the end of class, the end of work, the end of practice, the end of a work out, or the end of homework/studying. Maybe its getting through the week to the get to weekend or getting through weeks at a time to break.

But instead of trying so hard to make the time go by faster -- do more things that make you forget to check the time and allow yourself to find freedom in whatever your present moment may look like.

This is so much easier said than done. But I have realized that when I am intentional with my mindset, my everyday life becomes so much more full. Nothing changes if nothing changes. Do what you can and focus on what you can control. Live in the now for your future self. You don't want to look back on your life wishing you lived it differently.

Creating a life you can't wait to wake up to comes from within. Live your life completely on your own terms. Embrace who you are in this very moment and slow down. "Go & live this week as if you were really 85 and have just been granted another chance at living the full life you dreamed of" - Bree Lenehan

Be fearlessly authentic

You are loved

XO, Mo