Espresso Shot 29: CREATING THE MOMENT, LBD JOURNALING PROMPT

Do YOU embrace the moment and find the AWE in your LIFE BY DESIGN? This episode puts the pen in YOUR hand!  Let's talk about YOUR VALUES and choosing responses that align with them in the face of chaos. NICOA encourages you to take responsibility for your life, release negative thoughts, and create purpose and meaning, and ultimately a LEGACY you will be proud of! Get your journals out or order yours below!

YOUR LBD JOURNALING PROMPT: Reflect on and apply the prompt "Don't wait for the perfect moment. Take the moment and make it perfect" to your daily life.

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Sometimes don't you just need a quick moment of inspiration, or maybe you just need a moment of caffeinated contemplation to reflect on life. That's the idea behind my weekly Coffee with nicoa espresso shots. I'll be sharing short jolts of inspiration in each clip, in addition to my longer Coffee with nicoa interview episodes. Make sure to subscribe so you never miss an espresso shot or a full length Coffee with nicoa interview created just for you. Good morning everybody. Welcome to your weekly espresso shot. This is nicoa. I want to talk about the your life by design Journal, the one that I created back in December of 2023, that's now available on Amazon. And I want to pull a particular prompt. So we call these the LBD prompts, right? Journaling prompts, life by design journaling prompts. You can even look up the hashtag, hashtag, LBD journaling prompts, and you can find a ton of prompts that are all out there on social media that we've created that my my readers, My followers, my book club attendees, we've all put out there and tagged when we are thinking about and reflecting upon our lives. By Design. I wanted to pull out a particular journaling prompt because I thought, You know what? This is an espresso shot in and of itself. I want everybody thinking and reflecting and observing and really moving themselves closer and closer to a day to day existence that is of ease, contentment, fun, fulfilling and not restricted to the behaviors and expectations of others around us or our environment. Yes, you are the one responsible here. I will drill this into you as a listener over and over and over again. Everybody remember hearing that quote, don't wait for the perfect moment. Take the moment and make it perfect. I don't know who said that, but I typed that into my journal. I don't know where I learned it, but don't wait for the perfect moment. Take the moment and make it perfect. And this isn't about perfectionism. This is about deciding, choosing, embodying the moment, being so completely present with where you are that you can't help but be in awe of it. I don't care if you're standing in the rain after you just had a fender bender, it is simply an experience. So okay, maybe that was a bad example, but can you be in awe of a fender bender? Wow. I wonder why this just happened to me, huh? Look, it's raining. I'm actually getting soaked, and I'm late to my appointment, huh? So curious. Can you put the hat of curiosity on no matter what you're experiencing? How might you make a fender bender the perfect moment? Maybe the person that you meet is going to introduce you to somebody down the road that you need to know for the success of your career. Make friends with them. Maybe you're there for them. Maybe they're having a terrible experience, and you can help make it perfect by being a provider of care in that moment. Maybe it's an opportunity for you to serve huh, or maybe it's an opportunity for you to serve yourself. Maybe you need to be gentle and kinder with yourself. We talked about a fender bender in one of my other espresso shots this month, and I remember not being kind to myself.

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Where can you practice acceptance of what is without the need to judge it critically, but just observe it curiously, just being that curious cat right, wearing that hat of curiosity, where can you question another's behavior without reacting or resisting it. Where can you just say, Huh? I wonder why that person is behaving that way out of curiosity instead of judgment. Where can you allow the chaos in your life or the chaos around you in a particular moment to just be a set of facts and then consciously choose to respond based on what matters most to you in that moment. Now, this is a really important question to ponder. Now I'm reading you questions from the actual journal. So if you haven't gotten your life by design journal yet, now is the time go order it on Amazon. There's also a link in my bio. But this question where you must choose a response can only actually happen if you spent the time reflecting on what matters most to you in your life. What does matter most to you? What are your values and what kind of a behavior do you want to do? Demonstrate in that moment that aligns to those values and also creates a legacy that you want to leave behind. Is this how you want to show up in this moment? Is this the way of being that best serves you? What would you really like to do next in a moment that is causing you to react, or what would you like to do next in a moment that might not be as perfect as you would like it to be, how can you create the perfect moment you own this thing called life, my friends, a life by design, the kind you don't need a vacation from because you're taking responsibility moment to moment, to find the awe, to find the purpose, to find a meaning that serves you and your values. Pay attention your negative thoughts only beget more of the same. Like energy attracts like energy, releasing and allowing what is to just be and then choosing what you wish to do next. That's a practice worth trying, a practice worth doing, a practice worth living life by design. I love mine. You should love yours too. Thanks for listening. Coffee with nicoa. We'll see you next time. Make sure to subscribe so you never miss an espresso shot or a full length Coffee with nicoa interview created just for you. You