STOP!!!! Stop what you are doing right now! Take a deep breath. How did that feel? Pretty great, right? Take another one. A slow, deep breath. Remind yourself to simply breathe and take a second to step away from everything. Close your eyes and take another deep breath. You’ve got this. When I feel myself starting to tense up and my shoulders slowly creeping toward my ears, I remind myself to stop, take a moment. Breathe. Remember, to breathe. Previously, I’ve talked A LOT about self care in a series called “Love Yourself”. However, it’s soooo important that I’m going to rehash it now. Take at least a little time out of every single day to…you guessed it… Do something (literally ANYTHING) for yourself. We get so consumed in the tasks we “have” to do every day that we simply forget to take care of ourselves. We forget that in order to care for our families, help other people, or be successful at work, that we first have to take care of our selves. We have to make sure our proverbially batteries Read More
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2016: Simplify, Streamline, Self-care (part 2)
Welcome back!! In my previous post, I divulged the 3 major words Rachel and I elected to describe our goals for the new year that I have also adopted personally. I took on simplify in my last post. Streamline is a little trickier. It’s not a terribly fun or pretty word, but it is definitely essential in both the future of our company and my future personally. streamline (verb): to make (an organization or system) more efficient and effective by employing faster or simpler working methods. There aren’t many extra hours (or even extra minutes) in any given day. A lot of things get done at the last minute (or never) because there feel like there is no time. There are a lot of ideas that never even get started because I’m always playing catch-up. By taking a little time to find the methods/systems that work best for me and my company, I can become more efficient and effective thus creating more time and space in my life to do more of what I love and start on some Read More
LOVE Yourself: A New Blog Series
I have had some seriously concerning conversations recently with music instructors, therapists, business owners, friends, family, students, and parents alike and have a few things we need to chat about. Originally, everything was going to fit into one quick post about about loving yourself, your body, your business, and self care, but the more I talked with people these past couple weeks the more I realized I need to write a series. I’m going to tackle this topic from a variety of angles over the next few weeks and hope that you will follow along on the journey. Some of the topics I want to touch on include: Self Care Financial Stability Better Business Practices Loving the Skin You Are In and Burn Out Do you have an ideas for this upcoming series? Anything you want to hear more about? Is there something YOU need to say?? Comment below or on my social media sites! I’d love to include you in this new adventure! Stay Tuned for the first post SOON!!! Read More