Jill Ethier

Sometimes you have to wait…

As you get deeper into this personal growth world and journey, there is an understanding that everything happens for a reason.

And when you know this and have recognized it in your life, sometimes you search for the reason before it is ready to be revealed.

I was doing this a couple of weeks ago. I was trying to figure out “why” something had happened and what I was to do with this experience. I wanted to know how I was to share what I have learned about myself and the world.

But, I realized that it isn’t time to know. Sometimes you have to wait to find out why it happened.

Listen in to Episode 291: Sometimes you have to wait to find out why it happened of the Ninja Jill KNOWS podcast to hear the whole story and find out how this applies in your life too.

~ Jill

What can one more minute do?

60 seconds can change everything…

It creates momentum.

It strengthens your mindset.

It means that goals get achieved faster.

Listen in to hear one of my stories about one minute more and how it changed how I looked at myself, what I was capable of and what I would do next.

Episode 286: One minute more

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 ~ Jill

With the holiday season in full swing, don’t miss out on the Feng Shui for the Holidays video. When you shift the energy in your home, you create an environment for more peace, joy and happiness (and we can all use some more of that)!

Where is your focus?

When we get sick, it’s easy to focus on the ‘effect’ that is happening to us right now. In fact, western medicine tends to treat the ‘effect’ in most cases. You have a pain, they treat location of the pain. You have an infection, they treat the infection only. But, what caused the illness to happen? What was happening in the body, with the immune system, with the gut, with the patient’s stress level and emotions before the ‘effect’ happened?

This is the CAUSE.
This is what also needs to be treated.

And while it seems like you should be putting out the fire right in front of you, the ‘effect’ that is happening currently, that is not all that needs to get looked at and treated.

The cause, the SOURCE, needs to be identified and addressed as well. This is what Functional Medicine does. You treat the symptoms while determining and treating the root cause of the issue. This is how true healing happens.

This concept can be applied to so many things in our lives…

When the child is having a meltdown, you deal with the behavior (the effect) but are you looking at what caused it. It could be a food intolerance, an emotional upset that occurred at school, a lack of sleep, not enough water, etc.

Our partner continues to do things that frustrate us but what is the cause of that. Do they not feel heard, are we just overly stressed and tired or did we not communicate our needs well.

Our business isn’t thriving. Is it really the algorithms or is it because we aren’t really solving the right problem for people or articulating it properly or maybe it’s priced wrong or we aren’t talking about it enough or reaching the right people.

We tend to focus TOO MUCH on the effect and try to heal things from there when we actually need to heal the ROOT CAUSE of the issue.

And when we do that in our health, our relationships and our work, we actually heal the problem.

So, where in your life right now are you treating the effect and not the cause? It’s time to shift your focus.

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xoxo,

Jill

Maintaining your Energy during the Holiday Season

How’s you energy?

I’m serious…how are you feeling?

We are in it…you know what it is…holiday season.

And while it is a time of joy and laughter and parties and festivities, it is also a time when there is added stressors that begin to affect our personal energy, how we are feeling and how much we accomplish in our day.

The key to an enjoyable holiday season is to maintain your energy mentally, physically and spiritually.

I share how to do just this in one of my latest episodes of my podcast Ninja Jill KNOWS. I encourage you to take a listen.

Episode 220: Maintaining your energy during the holidays

One of the other ways that I maintain my energy level daily is with my morning routine. It consists of moving my body with some yoga, connecting within through meditation and reading to strengthen my mindset. This simple routine gets me centered and ready for my day. It fuels me mentally, physically and spiritually and it is vital during a time, like the holidays, when there is more to do and more things that can drain my energy.

I share more of my morning routine in a Facebook live that I did with Karen Osburn who also shares her routine and its importance in her day. Click here to watch what we have to say about how our routines increase our energy, improve our productivity and impact our relationships.

During this holiday season be sure to create space daily to refuel mentally, physically and spiritually. This will allow you to have more fun, enjoy these precious moments and make more memories during this special time.

Live your life with purpose,

Jill

What are you choosing to focus on?

When something happens (because stuff always happens), what are you looking at?

Do you focus on all the negative stuff?
Do you go straight to problem solving?
Do you look for the lesson?

How do you react?

Are you dramatic?
Are you complacent?
Are you accepting of what is?

All of this matters.

Why?

Well, stuff is always going to happen in our lives. Things that we don’t want to happen will still happen and how you CHOOSE TO LOOK AT IT defines how you will REACT TO IT and take the action needed to CHANGE IT.

So, how do you choose to look at things? The sooner that you can accept what is, make a plan and see the lesson, the faster you will move through the situation and continue to create what you most in your life.

I dive into this even more in one my latest podcast episodes. Take a listen to Episode 117: Choose to look at it that way to learn more about the importance of how you look at things at what you can do to shift how you see things. If this message resonates with you, please share it, rate and review it on iTunes for me or sign up to never miss an episode on iTunes here and PASS IT ON. I’d really appreciate it.

You are in charge of how you choose to look at things and ultimately your reaction and the action you take to try to change it. It’s always your choice.

Live your life with purpose, do YOU.

Jill

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