#178: BEING PRESENT IN THE PRESENT

BEING PRESENT IN THE PRESENT EPISODE #178: In this week’s episode of Confidence on the Go, we’re chatting about: * 9 Ways to Practice Being Present * How Being Present Can Elevate Your Confidence * A Limited Time E-Book Giveaway for You Just a quick hello to all of my Keep the Faith listeners out there – thanks for being part of the community of contagious encouragement. SPONSORSHIP NOTE: I am proud to be an educator and consultant for Beautycounter, a B-Corp company on a mission to get safer products into the hands of everyone.   The lack of regulation in the personal care and cosmetic industry is astounding and it is harming our health in very serious ways. We need more voices to join up on our mission. If you want to put your passion to purpose while being generously compensated, then I would love to start a conversation with you about what it means to be involved in the #saferbeauty tribe that is Beautycounter. Join the movement of #betterbeauty and message me via email to make your voice really resonate for a cause. QUOTES ON BEING PRESENT: You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.”― Jan Glidewell The beauty of this day doesn't depend on its lasting forever.”― Marty Rubin No amount of regretting can change the past, and no amount of worrying can change the future.”― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present.”― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart 9 WAYS TO PRACTICE BEING PRESENT Practice #1: Stop, close your eyes and be grateful. (Smell the grass, feel the breeze, watch the leaves on the trees, study your children’s eyes, etc.) Practice #2: Have more fun. (It’s impossible not to be present when you are having fun) Practice #3: Train your confidence. (When you are in a state of confidence you are not anywhere else – you are not in the past, beating yourself up for mistakes or follies, and you are not in the future, anxious or worried about what might happen that is or isn’t in your own control). Practice #4: Do less. (Put space between things, change your expectations on what needs to get done, and focus less on achieving and more on enjoying the process.) Practice #5: Move your body. (To become aware of your breathing and your heart beating) Practice #6: Give Generously (Shift your focus from you to others and find a way to give in any way that you can.) Practice #7: Reframe Happiness (Reframing happiness – let go of the “when” attached to it) Practice #8: Savor Intentionally (Food and life and people) Practice #9: Chase beauty. (Marvel at the world, at character, at goodness, at the things that slow you down and fill up your heart – for they are the richness of the world, greater than any tangible currency of wealth.) HOW BEING PRESENT CAN ELEVATE YOUR CONFIDENCE Confidence, is, in its very essence,