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August 19, 2025 - Visualize It, Believe It, Guard It: Protecting Your Energy Like a Pro
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Daily Motivation
August 19, 2025
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Visualize It, Believe It, Guard It: Protecting Your Energy Like a Pro
You’ve probably felt it before… that slow, sneaky drain on your energy. Maybe it’s after a tense conversation, a chaotic meeting, or scrolling a little too long through the noise online. One minute you’re fine, the next you feel heavy, foggy, like someone dimmed your inner light.
Here’s the thing: your energy isn’t just “vibes.” It’s your fuel, your focus, your joy. And if you don’t protect it, the world will gladly snatch it up without saying thank you. That’s why learning to shield your energy isn’t some woo-woo side hobby; it’s survival.
Today, we’re diving into one of the most powerful tools you have: the triple-threat approach of Visualize it. Believe it. Guard it. Think of it like building invisible armor that moves with you, strengthens you, and keeps you steady no matter what the day throws at you.
Step 1: Visualize It: Creating Your Inner Shield
Before you can guard your energy, you have to…
5 Gentle Practices to Help You Finally Relax
Do you ever feel like you just can’t relax? You know you should. But there just doesn’t seem to be enough time in the day. Life is hectic, right?
For high-performers and busy-bodies, it can be challenging to find “down time.” Then, there’s all this evidence that you should have downtime, which only adds to your overwhelm. But what if you could fit tiny and gentle practices into your day to help you relax, without really changing too much? Sounds pretty good, doesn’t it?
Well, this article is all about micro and gentle practices to help you relax, without taking time away from your busy and potentially chaotic life. So, how can you find moments to finally relax?
5 Gentle Practices to Help You Finally Relax
1. Take One Deep Breath.
Seriously.
Finding moments to…
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Mindful First Five
How you start your morning sets the tone for your entire day. When you grab your phone first thing, your brain gets flooded with notifications, emails, and endless scrolling before you've even taken a proper breath. No wonder so many of us feel rushed or on edge before we've had our coffee. Shifting just the first five minutes of your morning can change everything.
The Mindful First Five is simple: for the first five minutes after you wake up, don't touch your phone. Use that time to stretch, breathe deeply, sip water, journal a thought, or simply look out the window and notice the world waking up around you. It doesn't need to be perfect or structured; just intentional. You're giving yourself space to arrive in your day before letting the outside world rush in.
Those five minutes create calm, clarity, and grounding that stays with you long after. You're making a conscious choice to start your day with intention. Over time, small morning rituals like these can lower stress, improve focus, and help you feel more present in the rest of your routine. Your nervous system gets to wake up gradually instead of being jolted into high alert, and that sense of control tends to carry forward into whatever comes next.
Tomorrow morning, leave your phone where it is and claim your first five minutes for yourself. Stretch, breathe, journal, or just enjoy the quiet. Notice how different it feels to start with intention rather than interruption. It's a small shift that can completely transform the rhythm of your mornings.
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Today's Affirmation
My fears are becoming easier and easier to deal with.
There is room for me to learn and grow.
I let go of fixed outcomes…
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