Creating My Future in 2020

Posted on November 23, 2020 by tiffany

Tiffany Eckhardt, master of reinvention and certified life coach helping women reinvent midlife

Creating my future in 2020 was made possible by an investment in personal growth in 2019.

2020 was the year I tenaciously launched a coaching business during one of the most difficult years in America’s history. From the beginning I saw the lockdowns and the “Corona Coaster” as a blessing, allowing me time to create my future.

What led up to 2020 was also a blessing in disguise.

When I closed my antique store Flown The Coop in November 2018, I sold everything, including all the fixtures, not knowing what the future held. I watched little pieces of my dream go to help build the big dreams of new shop owners. The whole process was bitter sweet.

It was pure determination to correct my course in 2019 that influenced me to attend two Tony Robbins events and enroll in the Life Coach School to become a certified life coach. Those brave steps forward healed my broken heart and allowed me to build something new.

As I look back, 2020 created a solid foundation for my new career as a life coach. I wrote 44 blog articles, coached several women through the storms of midlife and solidified my commitment to my future self.

Year in review

This week I will share some of my favorite blog articles from 2020. It was hard, but I narrowed it down to a blog article each day, with a bonus blog I think you need for 2021. I don’t normally toot my own horn, but I can’t help but be proud of myself as I look over a year of consistently creating content. I truly hope that I have inspired you this year and helped you believe your best years are ahead.

Monday – A Future Created From The Future

Tiffany Eckhardt, master of midlife reinvention helps women reinvent midlife

It may appear to be pointing out the obvious, but the future is in the future and not the past.

Life is just getting started for me. I’m currently writing the next chapter of my story with a future focus.

This past weekend my Grandma Maggie would have celebrated her 100th birthday. She missed the milestone by only 2 years. I turn 50 years young this March. By her standard, I have another 50 to live! {BTW: I turned 50 in March of 2020… that’s a whole other story}

You are either creating from your past or your future…

Could it be possible that you have accepted common midlife myths as reality?

It occurred to me the other day that there are some common midlife myths accepted as truth. What if they were simply not true?

A few myths worth busting…

Tiffany Eckhardt, master of reinvention and certified life coach helping midlife women reinvent midlife

Do you ever wonder what your future self will look like and feel uncertain what she even wants, but on the other hand… you desperately want to believe the best years are ahead?

In this article I offer four ways to get to know your future self.

What if your dreams are measured in miles? At what mile marker do you let the dream die?

I explain the determination of a weed and the grace you need for your dreams, then offer three ways to navigate the extra miles.

Have you heard the term ageism? You may not have experienced anything akin to discrimination, but you might have used it against yourself by buying into stereotypes. Have you ever limited yourself because of your age? It is a sneaky thing we do to ourselves when celebrating certain birthdays.

I prefer ageless. “To be ageless is to defy the rules of what it supposedly means to be this age or that,” Dr. Christiane Northrup.

I offer three ways to reject ageism.

A midlife pivot is another way of expressing a need to reboot & reclaim your life. Midlife women experience this urge to pivot as they face an empty nest, a COVID downsize, a recent divorce or the anticipation of retirement. Can you relate?

“There is nothing more powerful or radical or stunningly, radiantly beautiful than a woman who chooses to rebuild her life. Day after day, hour after hour, no matter how many mistakes she must now spin into gold.” ~ Cara Alwill Leyba

In this article I offer four things you should ditch for an epic midlife pivot.

Do you love your life? I mean unabashedly love life?

Do you want to?

I am a cockeyed optimist with uncommon energy. This is NOT my natural state, but one I am cultivating. I choose to BE.

In this article I share a project that had an impact on falling in love with my life. I knew this creative project would be easy for me. I journal everyday and am crystal clear on my dreams. What I didn’t realize was how my heart would be affected.

Next to my vision video, journaling has had the most impact on my growth from 2018 – 2020. I think it is so important for your journey too. I could not do a year in review without including my recent article, Four Journal Prompts That Will Propel You Past Your Resistance.

If you want to create lasting change in your life, it is important to understand the three w’s: what, where and why. Next to hiring a life coach, a daily journal habit is the best tool to help you get clear on what you want, where you currently are, and why you want the ideal life you envision. My four favorite journal prompts can help you past any resistance.

Make 2021 Your Year of Epic Growth

In nearly ever blog I wrote in 2020 I offered a FREE mini session for those of you who are curious about life coaching. Through coaching sessions, I will encourage you to invest in your personal growth and awaken your dreams by creating an epic midlife reinvention.

If you hang around me long enough I will convince you that your best years are ahead.

I hope you don’t wait until 2021 is upon you, schedule a free mini session today by clicking the link below. Simply pick a date and time on my calendar that works for you. It really is that simple to get started on your dreams.

Here’s to 2021 and continued growth!

~Tiffany

And the birds fluttered around her writing “YES” in the sky.

A 98.8% happier life

Posted on October 18, 2020 by tiffany

Tiffany Eckhardt, Certified Life Coach helping midlife women lead 98.8% happier lives. Believe your best years are ahead!

Live a 98.8% happier life!

You can live a 98.8% happier life by busting three midlife myths.

Have you accepted that at a certain age you begin to fight a loosing battle with age? What if you were actually entering into the best season of your life?

I am a cockeyed optimist with uncommon energy.

Without subscribing to rainbows or unicorns, but have learned tools that allow me to fully function through life’s good and bad.

You can create a life that includes abundant wellness and realize dreams at any age.

Have you accepted midlife myths?

It occurred to me that there are some common midlife myths accepted as truth. What if they were simply not true?

First, what thoughts do you actually have about midlife and aging? Gathering your thoughts in a journal by jotting down all the thoughts that you have about midlife.

Next, take a look at the thoughts. Do you like the thoughts? Are they true? Where have these thought and ideas come from?

It is widely believed that our bodies are not separated from our thoughts or emotions. This is why I preach Self-Aware is the first step to Self-Care. It is time to let go of toxic beliefs. Then frame, or reframe, what your idea of midlife is and create it!

Three myths to bust in order to believe your best years are ahead

1. Midlife means the beginning of a loosing battle with well being.

In her book Goddesses Never Age, Christiane Northrup, M.D. confirms, “physical deterioration occurs in large part because of the accumulation of toxins, which results in cellular deterioration and damage along with tissue and organ breakdown.”

Yet, she also offers that the body is in a constant state of reinvention. “You do not have to have the same physical body you had just a few years ago. Every cell has been replaced.”

I am living proof of this! In 2017 I decided to question the idea that our bodies have to fall apart in midlife. I spent three years removing toxins from my diet and home. In 2019 I learned to manage my mind. Thanks to this work, I am not the same person I was back then.

You can achieve wellness at any age. Your best years are ahead.

2. An empty nest is boring and lonely

An empty nest isn’t lonely because I am there.

Typically women spend there lives between 20 and 40 tending to their families. Without giving it a second thought, their schedule is dictated by work and family. When their little birdies fly the coop, there is naturally a void to fill.

Although change is rarely popular, a new routine emerges from the quiet house. At this point in life, you are ready to make decisions about what your future will look like?

Unfortunately, “we believe that if something great was going to happen, it would have happened when we were 20 or 30, right? It would have happened when we were in college or when we were going to school or whatever. That’s when all the amazing things happen. But what if we’re totally wrong about that?” ~Brooke Castillo

There are several ways to look at an empty nest. What if you decide to enjoy your own company and believe your best years are ahead?

3. Time is running out with little options

Why focus on what can’t be done?

I intend to bust this myth wide open!!!! There have been too many examples of successful people who achieved greatness after the age of 40. Success leaves clues. Studying their stories encourages me to explore my own.

Time will run out if you indulge in self depravation. Midlife is the time to invest in childhood dreams, ideas that have took a back seat to the demands of family and what your soul longs to teach you.

What if you made each day count and believe the best years are ahead?

The Crossroads

I am sure you’ve created a few midlife myths of your own.

Are you at the crossroads, at a point in life when you are ready to make decisions about what your future will look like?

I want to help you believe your best years are ahead! Not only have I mastered the fine art of reinvention, I am a certified life coach that can help you bust the midlife myths.

Self-aware is the first step to self-care.

Schedule a FREE mini session today! It is my life’s work to inspire midlife women to love their lives 98.8% more!

What midlife myths do you wish to bust? Click the link below to schedule your FREE mini session!

4 Things You Need To Know About Rejection

Posted on August 9, 2020 by tiffany

Tiffany Eckhardt, Certified Life Coach helping midlife women believe their best years are ahead. How do you deal with rejection?

Dealing with rejection can sting! No matter your season in life; you will deal with the preverbal high school lunch room. Let me share 4 things you need to know about rejection to finally kick it to the curb.

1. They don’t like peaches

“You can be the juiciest peach in the world, but there’s always going to be someone who doesn’t link peaches.” Dita Von Teese

Jeff doesn’t like peaches. He doesn’t like watermelon either. I know, WHAT? No matter how much I try to convince him of their juicy goodness, he insists he hates them.

So, if you can’t control people’s choice of fruit or their opinion of you, why do you keep trying?

2. You believe you can control another person’s opinion

What other people think about you is none of your business.

You could spend your time trying to control what people believe about you, but let me offer you a little secret. They really aren’t thinking about you. Their opinion of you says more about their opinion of themselves.

It’s true. Other people are busy trying to control what other people think of them, so they can feel better about themselves. It never works.

Don’t you wish you could have learned this truth during your high school lunchroom days?

3. You don’t accept yourself

I know what you are thinking. How do I recognize rejection and not take it personally?

A better question to ask yourself is why don’t you feel accepted?

Trust me, I know what it feels like to want the approval of others, only to feel rejected. I am a rebel. I was born to buck the system. I’ve taken several personality tests. I am a RED/BLUE or an A/B depending on the chart. I scored an 8/7 on the Enneagram test, the challenger. Not many people know how to take a strong personality. It took me nearly fifty years to finally love that I am fiery, with deep convictions. That is who I am. I feel accepted now, because I decided to accept myself. Yeah, I may not be a cup of tea because I prefer being a shot of tequila.

When you rely on other people to make you feel accepted, they will always fail. It isn’t possible for someone to create a feeling within you.

Your thoughts about yourself is what create feelings of acceptance within.

4. The things we appreciate will appreciate

What if you developed your own opinion of yourself and recognize your full worth.

Homework: Make a list of twenty five things you appreciate about yourself. Create this list in less than five minutes. Don’t give yourself a chance to analyze the list as you go. Step back and appreciate all that you have going for you!

*Remember: Self-Appreciation is not arrogance. Arrogance is believing you are better than another person. When you show up with self-appreciation you are offering all your gifts and talents.

Take creative control

Most women who reach midlife are sick of the drama of fitting into a mold. The proverbial high school lunchroom has shown up more times than you care to admit. Fitting into perceived molds is frankly exhausting.

Midlife women conversely know that they are capable of hard things. You can recall all the times you survived life’s trails. So, why not ask yourself, “what do I want to create?”

Will you let the fear of rejection get in your way?

If you’re still resistant about the opinions of others, you know you have work to do.

I’d love to help you take creative control of your life. It is my mission to help midlife women believe their best years are ahead of them.

Schedule a FREE mini session with me. It is a 45 minute chat to discover what is holding you back. You may or many not be dealing with rejection, but I guarantee you it is a sneaky little thought or well rehearsed story that objects to your dreams.

Simply click the link below and pick a date on my calendar that works for you.

Let’s take the sting out of rejection!

~Tiffany

And the birds fluttered around her writing “YES” in the sky.

Be unrealistic about age and get what you want

Posted on August 2, 2020 by tiffany

Tiffany Eckhardt, Certified Life Coach helping women believe their best years are ahead. Be unrealistic and get what you want. — “You are never too old to set a new goal or dream a new dream.” C.S. Lewis

Now that you’ve entered the season labeled midlife, do you fear it’s unrealistic to create something new at your age?

Many clients of mine share a fear that age limits their ability to create something new. I believe the opposite. Your best years are ahead. Finding yourself at the end of one season is an exciting opportunity to make decisions about life in the next season.

Of course you are capable of learning new things and creating your life as you would like it to be.

According to Marie Forleo, “Everything is figure-outable.”

What if being unrealistic IS the answer to creating something new?

What is the first thing your mind offers when you decide to create something new? All the reasons it can’t work, all the reasons it isn’t a good idea and all the reasons it isn’t reasonable. Yep, your mind is very clever in keeping you safe and secure.

When you spend your time considering all that your brain offers, you fail ahead of time. You stop yourself before you even get started.

So, trick you brain. Agree with it. Don’t give it anything to argue with.

Agree with your brain that your new idea might not work, there will be obstacles and it could be completely unrealistic. Decide to appreciate all the lessons and proceed anyways.

Remind your brain the only way to create anything new is through trail and error.

The fail factor

Should we fail on purpose? Of course not!

Brooke Castillo teaches in her eight week Business Course there are two different types of failures, escape failures and worthy failures.

Escape failures

Are you curios about why you don’t keep your word or follow through with your decisions? Escape failures are a form of avoiding what is needed to realize your new creation and choosing to fail ahead of time.

Examples:

Making excuses for not following through with a commitment
Indulging in confusion about the next step
Changing your mind
Not planning ahead of time, protecting your calendar
Any form of perfection is an escape failure
Waiting until your ready or have learned every aspect

Worthy failures

Worthy failures are not caused by inaction, but by taking a step forward.

“We were never taught to fail. We are taught that F’s are bad growing up. This programming has contributed to steering away from starting things and changing,” Brooke Castillo.

For example, this past week I conducted my first FREE workshop on Self Appreciation. I spent hours deciding what to teach, gathering information, putting it into an understandable form, etc. I enthusiastically marketed the workshop, but only had a couple people show up to the live event. Was that a failure? NO! No, it was not a failure. I learned better ways to approach the next workshop and will continue to market the replay, which will reach untold amount of women.

You can check our my Self Appreciation Workshop by clicking here: SELF APPRECIATION WORKSHOP

Never tried.
Ever failed.
No matter.
Try again.
Fail again.
Fail better.
Samuel Beckett

Get crystal clear

There will never be an age limit to creating something meaningful, but take time to get crystal clear about what you wish to create.

Define: What does it feel like once you create it? Who will benefit from your creation?
Objections: What makes it unrealistic? Go ahead and let your mind offer you the objections.
Solutions: Then answer the objections with, “That objection is true, but…” What skills will you need to create it?

Basically, allow your mind to define what you want to create, the obstacles in your way, and strategies to solve them ahead of time.

BE unrealistic, a challenge

Let’s be honest, being a little unrealistic sounds like a fun challenge.

I’d like to challenge you to a worthy fail. Well, not just one. I’d like to challenge you to write out 25 worthy failures you are willing to take action on. First brainstorm all the ways you could take action that will likely fail. From the brainstorm, pick 25 that you will commit to and then put the 25 worthy fails on your calendar.

Taking this challenge will inspire you to take the first step. By simply taking action, you will learn everything is figure-outable!

Let me help you!

I love working with midlife women who are ready to believe their best years are ahead. It is not a time to avoid the hard things, it is a time to embrace them with the self confidence earned at this age.

This past week I had the privilege to coach a beautiful spunky woman in her sixties who was was considering a new idea. We worked through her thoughts, feelings and actions around the idea. Afterwards I asked her what she thought she would be creating as a result. She lit up and said, “a new career!”

Sometimes you just need to be able to work through all the thoughts, feelings and obstacles to believe in the possibility.

If you are ready to break some of your own limitations, let me help you! Schedule a FREE mini session. It’s a 45 minute chat with someone who truly believes in your possibilities. It is also a great way to see if life coaching is for you.

Simply click the link below and choose a date on my calendar. It really is that simple!

~Tiffany

And the birds fluttered around her writing “YES” in the sky!

I am

Posted on July 26, 2020 by tiffany

Tiffany Eckhardt, Certified Life Coach helping midlife women believe their best years are ahead. — My nickname is Fancy for a reason. 🙂

Fill in the blank to the statement: I am….

Do you believe other humans are better than you, but you want to believe you are 100% worthy? Who decides your worth anyways?

I shared on a recent Facebook Live my epiphany of my own worth after ruminating about a disagreement I had with someone I had respected. My convictions were mocked. I completely understand not everyone needs to agree with me, but the conversation took a mean tone implying that I was less than.

My coach helped me to clearly see the thoughts causing me to feel unworthy. I had wonder if what this person was implying about me was true.

Am I less than?

Am I more than?

No, I am.

I am enough.

Words do not define you

You do you. Here’s the god’s truth, only you define you. Unfortunately, you may have let words spoken by well meaning people define you.

Your value doesn’t decrease based on someone’s inability to see your worth.

My mentor, Brooke Castillo, coached a lawyer who let the words of a well meaning colleague determine the law she chose to practice. Someone told this beautiful, well educated woman who immigrated to the United States as a young adult that she should not choose litigation because of her accent. From that moment this woman believed that her accent was a determent to her success. She resisted hearing that Brooke adored her accent. I loved her accent too! Who will she choose to believe now? Why is it easier to continue the old story in her head than to embrace a new belief about her accent?

No matter what parents told you. No matter what the kids at school told you. Your boss, your spouse, your teacher or anyone you respect does not have the right to define you.

Thoughts you have about yourself define you.

I am enough

“Feelings are a shadow of your thoughts.” jewel

Do you wondered how you would define your worth if you were skinnier, prettier or richer?

The biggest lie you can choose to believe is that you have to change yourself to fit a mold to qualify. What if you already qualified? Your feelings help you reverse engineer your thoughts about yourself.

How do you want to feel? Changing your weight will not achieve that feeling. Changing your thoughts will. If your thoughts are like food, what are you feeding your body? Junk food or whole nourishing food?

Give yourself permission

“Your worthiness is already at capacity, and nothing you have done or will do makes you less worthy as a human,” Brooke Castillo.

You are 100% worthy. You deserve the life you dream of.

When you believe you are already worthy, you give yourself permission to live in abundance, confidence and self-love. Your energy for life increases. What you project to others changes.

What have you waited your whole life to give yourself permission to do?

I am

I know what you are thinking. How do I change my thoughts? How do I believe these radical thoughts about myself?

You can tell me all the things as if you are reading the news. I am unlucky, unpopular, have made mistakes, was not born into the right family. I am too old. You don’t know what I’ve been through.

These are the common thoughts that I help my clients work through. I help you see yourself as who you want to be. Who you are. I help you create the life you want by developing thoughts that will energize you with confidence.

If you are ready to give yourself permission to to do what you’ve waited your whole life to do, let me help you. Simply click the link below and choose a date on my calendar. We can chat about what has always held you back and look at what will help you believe you are worth it.

You are worth it.

~Tiffany

And the birds fluttered around her writing “YES” in the sky!

Questions are the answers

Posted on June 1, 2020 by tiffany

Tiffany Eckhardt, Certified Life Coach with Flown The Coop. Let her help you create a life YOU are excited to get out of bed for.

What if curious people understood questions are the answer?

Do you long to wake up excited to get out of bed and be the person you know you can be, but just not sure how to get connected with that life? What if questions are the answers and curiosity is the key?

Just curious, do you believe it’s possible to create the life of your dreams?

Successful people know questions are the answer

Martha Stewart contributes her success to an avid curiosity.

Jeff Bezos’ mother believed it was her responsibility to allow deep dives into what her son enjoyed. She may have not always liked his questions, but gave him space to explore with curiosity.

“We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.” Walt Disney

Questions are the answers

Curious folks just learned to ask good questions.

Are you known to think outside the box, not afraid to fail, explore new ideas, and have an unquenchable willingness to grow?

“Getting the right question is the key to getting the right answer,” Jeff Bezos.

What if a zesty life is an endless journey of discovery?

How curious are you? Don’t let yourself off the hook. This is YOUR life… you deserve to create it.

Here are a few questions to spark your curiosity….

Are you doing what you truly want to do?

How many promises have you kept to yourself?

If you could clone yourself, which of your characteristics you wouldn’t want to be cloned?

Who do you admire and why?

Is there anyone who inspired your life today?

What are you most proud of?

If happiness was a currency, how rich would you be?

If today was the end of the world, what would you do?

I hope you came up with some of your own questions!

Does creating a life resonate with you?

I’d love to offer a FREE mini coaching session. The mini session is simply a chat with someone who truly believes your best years are ahead.

Click on the link below and pick a date on my calendar. It is really that simple.

~Tiffany

And the birds fluttered around her wiring “YES” in the sky.

Get to know her

Posted on May 24, 2020 by tiffany

I’d like to encourage you to get to know “HER.”

Do you ever wonder what your future self will look like and feel uncertain what she even wants, but on the other hand… you desperately want to believe the best years are ahead?

So, wouldn’t it be great to get to know her (your future self) now?

I’m thankful that I took action to get to know “her” in 2017

I experienced a Wellness Awakening in January 2017 after a horrible hysterectomy that haunts me to this day. It was a wake up call. As I laid in bed in the worst pain of my life, I decided to never have another surgery. Enough was enough!

As I researched wellness practices, I began dreaming of being an energetic woman, with abundantly creativity and having a life full of adventure. I slowly became aware of how I wanted to show up for life and what changes I needed to make. As I look back, I am so grateful that I took the time to create the person I am today.

Questions to discover her.

Stop waiting for magical certainty to show up. Take a step back and seriously look at your life. Self-aware is always the first step. Start by asking yourself a few questions.

Identify what thoughts you regularly have about your life.
What emotion would you say is most common for you?
Would you change anything?

Now, give yourself permission to dream. What does your ideal future self look like? How does she feel about life? Who does she spend her time with? What brings her the most pleasure? Why is that important to her? Get to know her in vivid details.

You must be future focused.

Can we all agree that life after lockdown will never be back to “normal?” Now, more than ever, you can not rely on the past to dictate the future. This is good news!

Become future focused by deciding what is possible for your future self. Ignore the old playbook. It doesn’t exist anyways.

Set her up for success

What are the biggest obstacles between who you are today and the life you want to create? When you identify roadblocks you are able to set yourself up with solutions ahead of time.

It will be fun to get to know her! Your future self is waiting for you to create the life you both want. I can help you identify where you are at, where you want to be and develop a plan for success.

Unsure you need coaching?

Look, I understand that hiring a life coach feels indulgent. You may be asking yourself, “will coaching really make a difference?”

Well, I don’t want you to waste another day wondering!

I have the perfect remedy… try a FREE mini session. It is a 45 minute call with someone who truly believes that you can create something great for yourself and your best years are ahead.

Click the link below and then choose a date on my calendar. It really is that simple.

~Tiffany

And the birds fluttered around her writing “YES” in the sky!

You are not broken

Posted on May 17, 2020 by tiffany

Tiffany Eckhardt, Certified Life Coach for midlife wellness... permission to soar! — Permission to soar

Have you ever wondered if something in your life is not right or perhaps you’re broken… yet you are not willing to give up on your dreams?

You are not broken, you just need permission to break free from your cage and soar.

Milestone birthdays

Milestone birthdays are generally catalyst for serious life evaluation. Leading up to my milestone birthday, I decided that this next phase of life would be epic. I’ve reached the age that I officially don’t care what others think of my choices.

I don’t know about you… but I’d like to see more midlife women defy the rules of what this season is supposed to look like.

Do you believe your soul is ageless?

Think about it.

According to Dr. Northrup, “You can change your future starting today by adopting a new, ageless attitude that will help you flourish physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually.”

Agelessness is about chunking society’s ideals of what women of a certain age should focus on, look like, dress, be, do, have, etc. Lord knows you’ve tried to fit in society’s boxes your whole life. Their boxes have left you feeling broken or not able to measure up.

Forget that! Give yourself permission to break free from that cage and soar.

I say it’s time to unstuck your brain

After you’ve given yourself permission to soar into a vision you create for midlife, you’ll need to unstuck your brain from the old, worn-out story you once believed. You need to replace it with a well-crafted story that serves you and your dreams.

Address negative emotions

The worst thing you can do for yourself is hold onto destructive emotions.

“Negative” emotions are indicators of unmet needs that need to be processed for healing. Think of emotions as your guidance system, pointing to the areas in your life that need to be addressed.

Emotions like sadness, despair, and unworthiness have an adverse effect on your wellness and keep you stuck in a life that you don’t want.

It is helpful to process these emotions and not ignore them. That is where I can help… as a certified life coach I can help you identify what is causing the “negative” emotions so you can release them.

Curious about coaching? Check out my article: 3 Reasons You Need To Hire A Life Coach.

Focus on “causes of health”

Wellness is my jam. {Yep, I just said jam.} I love studying “causes of health.” It makes more sense to me than always reacting to disease.

It is society, the medical establishment, big Pharma, etc who support a belief that disease and infirmity are inevitable.

My personal plan is to be “ninety three and prescription free” as Gladys McGarey, M.D. proclaims.

You have a choice to focus on wellness. There are plenty of actions you can take to promote wellness; like eat whole fresh foods, get outside, move your body, feed your mind, get good sleep, remove the toxins from your home, etc.

I’d like to offer that Self-Aware is the first step in Self-Care. The best place to start a wellness journey is your thoughts about it. What do you actually believe is possible? Why is it important to you?

For me, I want to soar into midlife and eventually retirement with the energy of a twenty-something. I want my obituary to read, “Tiffany Eckhardt was a cockeyed optimist with uncommon energy.”

Do you need to unstuck your brain concerning midlife wellness?

Surround yourself with positive influences

“The tribe I hang with vibrates in another reality entirely.” Gladys McGarey, M.D.

It helps to surround yourself with people that are crazy enough to believe that YOU can create a life. In fact, your friends can be your biggest cheerleaders for midlife wellness.

Positive influences can also be found outside your circle of friends by following podcasts, reading books, subscribing to YouTube channels, etc. Who are your go-to influencers who encourage you to live fully?

Unstuck your brain and give yourself permission to soar.

If you find yourself stuck and you want to start living the life you know is possible, I’d love to help. I offer a free mini session for those who are curious about what a life coach can offer.

I am a master at reinvention and have an abundant belief in possibilities. But what totally makes a difference is the tools I’ve learned to utilize.

If you are curious, schedule your free mini session today by clicking the link below and choosing a date on the calendar. It really is that simple.

~Tiffany

And the birds fluttered around her writing “YES” in the sky.

Do you have swagger?

Posted on May 11, 2020 by tiffany

Tiffany Eckhardt, Certified Life Coach helping midlife women create swagger

You may be good at beating yourself up for eating the third piece of pizza or forgetting an important zoom call, but hardly ever give yourself credit for the twenty years you spent raising competent children who are now making their way in the world. So, learning to possess swagger will take some practice.

Fail Friday

I brought up bragging during my Fail Friday on May 7th. I shared a three-step daily practice that includes bragging, gratitude and desire. Focusing on the “trinity” thoughts daily will drastically improve your midlife wellness awakening.

First of all, I believe failure has an important place in your growth. My weekly Facebook Live called Fail Friday is designed to highlight failure and give examples of people who use their failure as stepping stones to success.

Sara Blakely is a great example of the importance of acknowledging failure. Her Dad set her up to embrace failure by insisting on a nightly tradition of sharing failures at the dinner table.

When it comes to failure, I definitely have swagger. Unfortunately, it is rare that I’ll boast about a success. Why is that?

Focus

What ever your mind focuses on you will attract in your life. It is easier to focus on problems to be solved than to celebrate a success. So how do we switch our focus to swagger?

To redirect focus, stop yourself with the statement, “NOW I know what I don’t want.” Then ask yourself, “What do I REALLY want?”

For example, you notice that you really don’t like feeling out of control when you’ve had the third glass of wine. The next morning you get up not feeling yourself and start beating yourself up for that third glass. Stop beating yourself up and proclaim, “NOW I know what I don’t want.” Then ask yourself, “What do I REALLY want?”

The Swagger Practice

You may have more of what you don’t want stored in your subconscious. You simply need to deposit more swagger into the story you rehearse in your mind.

Dr. Northrup shares in her book Goddesses Never Age a daily practice of bragging, gratitude and desire “I think it is fantastic for bringing perspective to your daily experiences and remembering how challenges set you up to more deeply appreciate blessings. Doing this exercise will help you remember how important it is to enjoy life instead of getting through a To Do list.’

So SWAGGER!

Think of something to brag about. It doesn’t have to be earth shattering, just a thought you can be proud of. You don’t have to share it publicly, but definitely record it in a journal to look back on.
Identify something you can be grateful for. This is different from a brag. What blessing in your life fills your heart with joy?
What do you desire? This should be out of reach. If money or time were not an object, what would you want?

I LOVE the idea off doing this daily activity with your wingwomen. It will uplift your tribe and encourage swagger.

Swagger takes practice

You can attain a life your proud of and enjoy getting out of bed for. If the idea of creating daily swagger is resonating with you, I’d love to help. I can help you sort through the thoughts that are keeping you stuck.

I help midlife women figure out where they are and where they want to be.

I am offering a FREE mini session for you to test drive a coaching session. It’s a pain free way to see if coaching is for you!

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~Tiffany

And the bird fluttered around her writing “YES” in the sky.

Funky Lockdown

Posted on May 4, 2020 by tiffany

Tiffany Eckhardt, Life Coach Creating YOUR vision for midlife wellness. Helping you get out of a lockdown funk.

Funky Lockdown ~ Getting out of a funk!

Have you found yourself in a lockdown funk? In your attempt to NOT shut down during lockdown you managed media input and discovered new things about yourself, but your limits have been severely tested. So, you spend a day in a funk allowing the feelings to well up.

Is this your story? It was mine last Friday.

I had a low energy day after receiving news that our trip to Ohio would be postponed again because the stay at home order for Ohio was extended through the end of May. I won’t tell you what I thought about that. Feelings of deep sadness turned to anger as the day progressed. I was in a funk.

It is healthy to fully experience all the feels and then release them. It is detrimental to stuff emotions. I love Dr. Christiane Norhrup’s take on feelings…

“The crying will stop when it needs to stop. I have the strength to tolerate my strong emotions.” Dr. Northrup

Do you believe in coincidences?

In the book, Goddesses Never Age, Dr. Christiane Northrup, M.D. speaks to my soul! It is no coincidence that this week my friend Dawn and I happen to be reading Chapter 2: Goddesses Know The Power Of Pleasure.

By Friday evening I knew that I needed to get out of the funk! It simply is not good for my sense of well being. Luckily, I had tools! I self coached myself and then worked on finding some much needed pleasure.

Here are three simple steps you can take to get out of a lockdown funk.

Make a list

I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, “If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.” ~Kurt Vonnegut

Are you aware of what brings you pleasure?

Dr. Northrup’s prescription for general health is to experience more pleasure every day. She suggests an activity that I practice daily. Take a minute every day to list as many joyful activities and experiences that you can. Think big and small experiences.

This list can be helpful in getting out of a funk, and could guide you in finding what your soul longs for. As I became more aware of what gives me pleasure (and what does not), I was surprised by what I discovered.

Phone a friend

Dr. Northrup calls these friends Wingwomen. I love that!

Good friends will point you to a healthy mindset, while allowing you to feel your emotions.

On Friday I enlisted the help from a life coach from my certification class and my book club friend. I also had several dear friends reach out to me for encouragement. It felt like a lifeline.

Who are your Wingwomen?

Take action

Saturday morning I woke up with the thought, “this is a new day.” I knew I had a choice to make it a good day or wallow in my grief. Fortunately, Jeff was on board with a day of fun!

Saturday was a beautiful sunny day, nearly perfect with a cool breeze. Jeff and I rode our bikes to Round Top (thirty miles round trip). While in Round Top, we had coffee at Royers Pie Haven and ate hamburgers at Popi Burgers. During lunch we FaceTimed with our daughter and grandson (fill my cup). We then went to Brenham to see what shops had opened. I bought a new dress at The Canyon Chic and then visited a newly opened Brazos Valley Brewing Co that happened to have live music (heaven). We took crawfish home for a backyard picnic. I washed our 48 Ford Maggie and took her for a drive in the country. After dinner I could barely keep my eyes open. I fell into bed extremely happy.

“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.” ~Martin Luther

Discover what fills your pleasure journal

I’m not thankful for the funk, but it did teach me the importance of the pleasure journal. Taking a day to experience as much pleasure as possible got me out of a funk.

When you discover what fills your pleasure journal, taking action is very simple.

If you feel stuck in a funk, I can help! I’ve been trained to identify thoughts that are creating unwanted feelings. Curious? I offer a free mini session. I’d love to chat with you!

Click the link below to schedule your FREE MINI SESSION!

~Tiffany

And the birds fluttered around her writing “Yes” in the sky!

What led up to 2020 was also a blessing in disguise.

Year in review

Monday – A Future Created From The Future

Tuesday – Busting Midlife Myths

Wednesday – Get To Know Her

Thursday – What If Your Dream Was Measured In Miles?

Friday – Reject Ageism

Saturday – Four Things I Ditched For An Epic Midlife Pivot

Sunday – Unabashedly Love Your Life

The Bonus

Live a 98.8% happier life!

Have you accepted midlife myths?

Three myths to bust in order to believe your best years are ahead

1. Midlife means the beginning of a loosing battle with well being.

2. An empty nest is boring and lonely

3. Time is running out with little options

The Crossroads

1. They don’t like peaches

2. You believe you can control another person’s opinion

3. You don’t accept yourself

4. The things we appreciate will appreciate

Take creative control

Will you let the fear of rejection get in your way?

What if being unrealistic IS the answer to creating something new?

The fail factor

Escape failures

Worthy failures

Get crystal clear

BE unrealistic, a challenge

Let me help you!

Words do not define you

I am enough

Give yourself permission

I am

What if curious people understood questions are the answer?

Successful people know questions are the answer

Questions are the answers

What if a zesty life is an endless journey of discovery?

I hope you came up with some of your own questions!

I’d like to encourage you to get to know “HER.”

I’m thankful that I took action to get to know “her” in 2017

Questions to discover her.

You must be future focused.

Set her up for success

Unsure you need coaching?

Milestone birthdays

Do you believe your soul is ageless?

I say it’s time to unstuck your brain

Address negative emotions

Focus on “causes of health”

Surround yourself with positive influences

Unstuck your brain and give yourself permission to soar.

Fail Friday

Focus

The Swagger Practice

Swagger takes practice

Funky Lockdown ~ Getting out of a funk!

Do you believe in coincidences?

Make a list

Phone a friend

Take action

Discover what fills your pleasure journal