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Own Your Day With Mind – Focus – Me!

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How can we use mindfulness to own our day?  MIND – FOCUS – ME

1. MIND – first thing in the morning we need to do something to get our mind right. BEFORE checking email. Before reading texts. Before anything! It could be prayer, meditation, stretching, visualizing, setting an intention for the day, having coffee quietly or even just sitting outside. Something that makes you feel good to get the day going on the right path. Then, when we go to check the emails or texts our mind is already in a good place and can we can react better.


2. FOCUS – we need to determine our non negotiable 1-3 items that absolutely must get done that day and when we will set aside “focus time” that day to get them done. Again, non negotiable. When will you set aside all distractions and only focus on those 1-3 things until they are completed? We can’t spend the entire day without distraction, but we can set aside a couple of hours in our day if we are honest with ourselves and let others know when we are available for interruptions outside of those hours.  That may mean no cell phone or email during that time!  We WILL SURVIVE, I promise!


3. ME – we need to pick something every single day for “me time” to take care of ourselves and increase our TRIESSENCE, which is taking care of ourselves physically, mentally and spiritually. Just one little thing a day in one of those areas is wonderful and if we pick an area we typically don’t tend to focus on it will help us find our own unique perfect balance until our TRIESSENCE grows and that’s when we find the sweet reward of finding more joy, fulfilling relationships, success and love than we ever thought possible. The cool thing is you can mix it up the next day so you won’t get tired of trying to form some new habit because you can be as creative as you want and keep changing it up, but the bonus is in doing that it WILL become a habit! That is, taking care of YOU.

That is being mindful. That is owning your day. That is work/life balance.  

MIND. FOCUS. ME.

Would you be willing to give it a go?  If not, what is holding you back?  You are worth it! You deserve it!  Your body, mind, spirit and productivity will thank you for it 🙂

Hope you have a safe and wonderful holiday!  Happy 4th of July!

Tessa Todd Morgan

Friday Meditation Ramble

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I had the privilege of coaching a professor today that has a background in Emotional Intelligence as well and we had a nice chuckle over how we all know the things we need to be doing and all of the incredible benefits of doing them, but sometimes we just need that accountability piece to make sure we take good care of ourselves! I needed it a little too much, I think, considering I had a coach for about 6 years back in the day!

When I find myself struggling to do what I know will serve me so well, I like to ask myself two questions: A) What is it going to cost me if I don’t do it? B) How will it serve me if I do? (aka how will it better my health? my life? how will it better me to live at my fullest potential, and to be my best to those around me and better serve others)

Same could go for if you are getting ready to do something you know is not so good for you, but A) What will it cost me if I do? B) How will it serve me if I don’t?

Many years ago, I had worked myself up to meditating 30 mins 2 x a day (I know, I know, wow, those were the days…I think the whites in my eyes were literally radiating light!) and I’ve gone through phases where it’s dropped off to none at all. I’ve been back on the 15 minute bandwagon recently vs. just a few minutes and upped it to 20 mins today. Hopefully, this will be my sweet spot 😉

Sometimes it takes us at least 15 minutes to settle down to get to where we can get to that perfect relaxed state that we only need to be in for a short bit to where our body and mind will remember and the benefits speak for themselves. I was amazed in my yoga practice last night how much more focused I was and able to literally just be doing yoga vs. planning out my evening or daydreaming about tomorrow during class.

Breath is life. Breath is healing. Breath is a natural medicine. It’s the #1 thing to relive anxiety. We would all be absolutely lying if we said that we don’t have two minutes, much less 20 minutes a day we could give ourselves. (Seriously, the things we spend time on these days…you don’t wanna get me started…) I can’t think of a better gift we could give ourselves.

I challenge you (if you are not already) to see what happens when you give yourself two minutes a day of quiet with only you and your breath. You just might want to up it to 5 in a week. Then 10. And, who knows, maybe 20. The cool thing is, you just might start to crave it like it’s your little YOU time every single day where you get to take a mini vacation. Coolest thing EVER is you are also giving your heart, lungs, blood pressure, internal organs and STRESS a vacation as well. And, guess what happens then? You can actually concentrate, be present with others and what you are doing and slow down that exhausting chatter going on in your mind.

End ramble… Cheers to a happy and healthy weekend!

Tessa Morgan

P.S. Want to meditate, but always wondered how and have questions or concerns/fears around it? I’ve been there! Email me, I’d be happy to give you some quick tips! tessa@findyourtriessence.com  I’m also happy to announce that my website has a new facelift with new programs and video if you’d like to check it out, just hit the “HOME” button above.