Jacquie Ellis

Are you in a fog of confusion? Do you wonder why you never seem to have the answers, but others do? How is it easier for some to make decisions and harder for you? Maybe you don’t struggle every time but when it comes to the big ones you do. Why is that? In today’s article, I’m going to tell you why it could be hard for you, and I’ll discuss what to do when you are confused about a decision. So you are confused about something in your life and you are frustrated that you are struggling with decisions. If this is happening to you right now, congratulations! What?!…

Why do we minimize how we are feeling and then convince ourselves that we either shouldn’t feel that way or the way we are feeling isn’t significant? NEWS FLASH! YOU are human and humans feel! However when we ignore our feelings that is when life can get chaotic. Learning how to stop minimizing your feelings may just be the biggest key to changing your mindset and start creating a life you love. The truth is we all minimize our feelings one way or another. Either we compare our personal experiences with what others are going through or we convince ourselves that feeling was “silly” and doesn’t need any attention. Nothing…

Times have changed since my youth. Some for the better and others not so much. I woke up recently stuck with the phrase, “children should be seen and not heard”, running through my head. I heard this a few times growing up. We chose a different route when raising our kids. We are raising kids to have a voice of their own while still being respectful. The parenting style that I grew up with, was not the parenting style that I intentionally chose to follow. While I love my parents deeply, I also know the thoughts I struggled with growing up. Ones that I never expressed openly, but ones that…

Life is a challenge and you feel like you’ve failed yourself. Things need to change but you don’t know how to create healthy habits that will finally stick. Do you find yourself saying, “Why should I keep trying when I’ll just fail again?”. I want you to stop and look at how you are feeling when you say this to yourself. How does this make you feel?  Why are you beating yourself down? Would you do this to those you love? Feel all of these feelings and remember them. As you practice this first method you will start to be more mindful of how you talk to yourself and how…

Have you spent hours searching Pinterest looking for a routine checklist that you can use to improve your work-life balance? Only to figure out that it won’t work for your schedule. Now what?! All that time wasted, just to discover your life wasn’t exactly the same as everyone else. I have a news flash for you. No one has the same lifestyle, daily schedule, or textbook chaos! Everyone’s life is unique just like yours. All is not lost though, because you can learn how to create custom routines so that you create a life you love. Whether you are looking to reduce the stress in your life, improve your work-life…

If you are struggling with finding a work-life balance then you might just be a control freak. Don’t worry though, you aren’t alone and it’s natural for you to want control. The downside is that being a control freak affects your work-life balance. In this article, you’ll discover if you are a control freak, how being one affects your work-life balance, and how to be less of one towards others. I’m going, to be honest with you. I am a control freak and have been for many years. I am also a control freak that is constantly learning to be less controlling of others so I can create a life…

You aren’t happy with your life but don’t know why? Are your days spent with frustration, emotional outbursts, boredom, or overwhelm? Do you want to be happier but just can’t get through a single day without something destroying it. I get it. I’ve been there. I’ve been sucked into that seemingly endless negative cycle. Life isn’t easy but here is the hard truth, you are sabotaging your happiness. Your happiness has a lot to do with not having life goals, not having the right life goals, or maybe how you are managing the progress for your life goals. (that’s a lot to take in, so I’ll explain further down) Life goals…

Many of us have types of freedoms listed on our life goals: financial freedom, time freedom, and lifestyle freedom are just a few common freedoms listed on life goals. I’m guilty of this too. The problem starts with how you are defining freedom for life goals. Is your definition of freedom holding you back? Is your definition of what freedom means to you creating a barrier for you to overcome? In order to achieve your life goals, you will have barriers challenging your success. You may even find yourself in a rut and need to figure out how to overcome those mental barriers. If you find yourself wandering in life…