Jill Ethier

What’s happening around you?

This week so far has had a weird vibe to it.

There’s lots to do which is normal but things seem to be falling apart around me or becoming more challenging with each passing day.

Today, I took stock of what was happening energetically not only around me but more importantly with me.

This week…

The vacuum has decided to only work for 60 seconds at a time.

The dandelions I’ve been working so hard at getting rid of have reared an attack of greater proportion.

The tree that I planted last week is trying to die.

And this morning on my way into the city, one of my tires was pretty much flat.

None of these things are huge but on top of an already full week, it can create more stress and intensity and some feelings of frenzy and not being able to get it all done.

I was beginning to feel the pressure today, so I stopped for a moment and I asked myself this:

What does it all mean energetically when I look at how I am feeling…

No matter how much I am trying to keep up, it’s not working (like the vacuum).

The busywork and the menial tasks have overtaken my personal work time on my purpose and passions (like the dandelions are taking at the acreage).

I am starting to feel weaker, get tired and my energy is leaking faster than I can fill it up (like the tree and the tire).

So, late this morning, I stopped and I took a few deep breaths. I performed a fire and earth space clearing in my home and I committed to slowing down the energy.

Just like the external events have been spiraling this week, so has my personal energy.

But, I’m in charge of the energy and how it appears and how I’m impacted by it. So, I consciously chose to slow it all down.

By doing this, the pressure released, my energy felt lighter and I created space for the things that I feel called to do to fulfill my purpose. The rest of it will still get done but it doesn’t hold as much energetic pull as it did.

So, take a look at your life. How is your external environment mirroring your internal energy experience right now?

What needs to shift and change?

Remember, you create each day and your experience of it. You are in charge of the energy.

You just have to choose to be.

You are ENOUGH

You have everything you need inside of you already to go after what you want. You are capable and always have been.

What you don’t know, you can figure out along the way and learn as you go.

All you need to do is start. And that’s one of the hardest parts.

Know that if you don’t believe in you, I believe in you.

I want everyone to win. And that includes you, whether I know you really well or not.

In my work, I get the opportunity to help people remember who they are, decide what they want and then go after it strategically.

Because life, like business, prospers more when there is a plan.

So, start.

Your time is NOW.

Because you actually do have everything you need inside of you already and that is…a desire of something more.

Let that desire propel you forward.

Live your life with Purpose, be YOU.

Jill

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Here’s why commitment matters to me…

One of the most valuable things that I feel that I can show and teach my girls is the importance of COMMITMENT and DAILY DEDICATED EFFORT.

I spend my days showing and teaching them this because I feel that is the best way to create success and the life that you truly want.

I know that…

It is because I was committed to my health that I have recovered to this point (nothing about the protocol was easy to begin with).

It was because I was committed to put the book out that I made it happen (my brain wanted to fight what I felt called to do on a daily basis but I committed and now it is making an impact in the world).

It was because I was committed to create the life that I truly want that we found this home on the acreage (it took me almost a year of looking and traveling to make this happen for us).

A high level of COMMITMENT CREATES the best chance possible for SUCCESS.

My oldest understood commitment when she danced at a high level and she is now understanding commitment and dedicated effort in an even bigger way in her first year of Engineering.

My youngest is realizing that committed effort is enabling her to move up in rank in her gymnastics program quicker that had been expected.

My red-headed girly has already shown that commitment can conquer anything. She, at age 10, has already committed hours of clay work through the Ron Davis Method to create an easier solution to reading and math because her dyslexia and dyscalculia. In fact, the teachers didn’t even know this year.

There is something that you want.

How COMMITTED are you on a daily basis to taking the action required to make it happen?

Are you willing to do whatever it takes?

Are you willing to say NO so that you can say YES to what you truly want?

Are you modelling commitment to your children, your team and those closest to you?

Commitment creates success.

If things aren’t happen as fast as you want or not happening at all, you have a commitment issue.

Get committed to doing whatever it takes on a daily basis. Your health, your relationships, your work and your life will radically change when you do.

It likely won’t feel easy but it will be worth it.

Live your life with purpose, be YOU.

Jill

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It’s easy to be hard on yourself

Being kind to you is hard.

It’s easy to see the negative in the situation. Focusing on and learning the lesson can be hard.

It’s easy to blame everyone else for the issues in your life. It’s hard to take full responsibility for the state of your life.

It’s easy to quit. It’s hard to stop stopping.

It’s easy to put it off, make a bunch of excuses and stay in your comfort zone. It’s hard to take the leap, keep doing the work even when you don’t want to and get comfortable being uncomfortable.

You can choose easy but it will be hard to actually achieve your dreams, desires and goals.

OR

You can choose hard and with it, strengthen your mindset and realize that the capacity and personal growth that happens when it’s hard actually helps you achieve your dreams, desires and goals.

Are you choosing easy or are you willing to expand and grow and live the life you truly want?

And remember, it’s only “hard” if you believe it be.

XO
JE

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“Stop talking”

This was one of the best pieces of advice that I got from my Functional Medicine doctor when I was at my sickest with adrenal fatigue.

“Only speak when absolutely necessary. And say so little that people notice that you aren’t talking.”

I’m not a big ‘talker’ anyways. I don’t do idle chitchat, I don’t give lengthy speeches to my kids when they are in trouble and I don’t love talking on the phone or to people I don’t know well.

I do like conversations full of value, inspired thoughts and ones that are funny though.

I stopped talking. So much that people asked me why I wasn’t saying anything.

Here’s what I learned:

1. We talk way to much. We fill silences with words that don’t need to said and spaces that don’t need to be filled.

2. We justify our decisions with too many words.

3. Talking expends a lot of energy. Be careful how much of it you are wasting with too many words.

4. Silence is golden and very powerful. I found that I was heard MORE by my kids, my husband, and my clients when I said less.

Try it.
Go a little silent.
See how much more importance you put on the words you select when you speak less.

When you speak less, you hear more.

You hear all of the words but more importantly, you hear what isn’t said, you feel the emotions and you understand on a deeper level.

Get quiet. Your conversations will get deeper when you do.

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