Do you set goals and struggle to achieve them? 
Do you have a daily outcome that you have a desire to fulfill each day?

Most people do. Set an intention for what we want to achieve in a day, a week, a month, a year or 5 years from now. What does achieving that goal look and feel like?
What tasks will you do to make it happen?
What roadblocks are standing in your way?
Are you moving away from something or towards you goal?
Is it seeking pleasure or avoiding pain?

Problems can’t be solved unless you have an outcome you desire.
Once you know the outcome then you can start working on the tasks it takes to get there.
An outcome is different than a task. An outcome is what you want to achieve or accomplish. A task is what you need to do to achieve it.
Be proactive and take ownership of the problem to move forward towards a solution.
When you do not know your outcome there are many people that will put you to work to achieve their outcome.

Remember to set SMART Goals
Specific
Measurable
Attainable
Measurable
Time -frame
This helps you to understand your goals, and implement the tasks accordingly. 

Most importantly you need to believe 3 things.

• It is possible to achieve them.
  
• You are able to achieve them.
  
• You deserve to achieve them.

What’s the outcome  or Goal you want to achieve?

“Unconditional love” is the ability to love someone without limits, it is unchanging and unselfish. You want happiness for the other person regardless of the outcome or effect it has on your life.” - Wikipedia
Do you love with conditions or unconditional? Think about your definition of unconditional love.

Most times we love someone with  conditions. As long as we fit into their box of expectations of what we feel a partner or relationships should be. But what happens when our values no longer align, or that person steps away from what we think is acceptable?
Loving unconditionally is about loving that person despite their imperfections. The problem is we put conditions on ourselves and therefore conditions on others.  We judge them based on the same criteria we judge ourselves. We all know that we are our own worst critics. 
Unfortunately, most people marry for potential rather than reality of the person they see. It's when the person becomes comfortable, their true colors come out. All those little things you loved once now become irritating.  The more self- insecurities we have, the easier it is to project them onto others, especially our partner. When we are unclear within our values, we become enmeshed with our partner and lose our identity. 
Sometimes we have seen the person for who they were all along but when it no longer aligns with our goals or our values, so we expect them to change to keep us happy. That is the conditions of love. We all know it is hard to change ourselves so why do we expect others to change for us. 
Learning to love unconditionally starts with letting go of your own insecurities, accepting yourself as you are in this moment. Plus learning to love yourself unconditionally first. Then you are able to love and accept someone else just as they are. But remember unconditional love doesn't mean unconditional trust or  tolerance. 

We always want to celebrate our wins for the achievements we accomplished. We did awesome and we achieved the goal through a steady pace of ongoing hard work and progression. But we also need to celebrate our losses just as big. When we stay in relationships too long, a marriage that no longer made us happy, a job that had no purpose or passion, or even a friends circle that we had outgrown we need to celebrate the freedom of letting it go. Instead we hold on to What if's, or ruminate the should of, could of, would haves of past situations. The truth is if you were unhappy you need to celebrate the ability to move forward to find the spark, the passion and your new purpose. You will never get to where you are going by staying stuck in a place where you are unhappy in your current situation. 
Be happy that the relationship that no longer serves you has released you back into the universe. Celebrate the fact that the job you hated and never felt appreciated it has now given you an opportunity to find something better that gives you a new spark to life. Friends come and go, they will either hold you back and help take you to your next level of life. Celebrate when you can let the weight of the past go. 
You were made for great accomplishments in life. Move out of your comfort zone and get real about the life you want. I wish I had learned the lesson of not staying where I was not happy years ago, my life would have been better, but I would not have received all the lessons that made me who I am today. 
What great losses can you celebrate now that they are gone?

Candace Grant

Authenticity

How do you show up? Are you different in one group vs another? Who are you on your own vs with others ?
People will judge you no matter what you say or do. Most times they are giving judgement based on the only parts of you that they see, or upon their own values and beliefs. We never show anyone all of who we are, therefore we are different with everyone.
So when you find that you are feeling fear based on others peoples opinions remember two things:

1. Other peoples opinions of you are none of your business (Opinions are like assholes... everyone has one)
2. Why do you care? - when judging others or allowing others opinions to bother you, dig deeper to your own emotions of what is the deeper connection?

To be authentic, Remember the phrase "to thine own self be true" usually who you are alone is your true authentic self. Acceptance of yourself in your space to just be you.
You do not need validation from others, you are enough exactly as you are. Everyone has two needs

1. To be seen exactly as they are - they right people will
2. To be heard - we all want people to listen and understand, not to be fixed.

This is the truest gift of simply holding space for yourself and others on their journey.
The less we judge others, the less we judge ourselves and vice versa. Let go of perfection, and appreciate your imperfections, they are beautiful and belong only to you.

Be present, live with purpose and love yourself priceless.

I am sure there are plenty more.... but this is my complied list through my years.

Red Flags
We have all overlooked them at some point of our life and go t to the end and wondered what happened.
-Belittling, gas lighting and manipulative
-Hiding booze, or giving excuse for drinking
-Being behind on their rent or bills
-Hiding messages or dismissing questions
-Not apologizing, or apologizes and doesn’t change
-Blaming or projection of a situation
-Many break ups and back together relationship between you
-Jealousy of kids, (own or partners), or friends
-They are less mature than their age most of the time
-Inability to take care of themselves as an adult
-Makes you feel like an option rather than a priority
-When you doubt your own sanity or worth
-You get emotional or crying more than happy
-Fearful in leaving,
-They make you feel guilty
-Try to make them happy more than you make yourself happy
-You feel as though your world revolves around them
-When someone feels you are too strong, too emotional, too happy, too much of anything
-When we catch ourselves saying “s/he’s not like that” or “but when we are alone”
-Catch yourself making excuses for the other person or their behavior
-Dismissive of their bad qualities because of the good qualities or potential qualities

I am sure there is many more, and sometimes our friends can see the red flags better than we can. Try to ask a friend to tell you more. The truth is we overlook our values to meet our needs of love and connection, variety and certainty. Three of the most important conversations you need to have in a relationship:

1. What are  your values.
2. communicate your deal breakers.
3.  clearly state your boundaries.

These relationships are difficult to get out of once you start without these 3.

Most of these red flags we have been accustomed to by watching others dismiss them as unimportant or the idea that every relationship needs work or is not perfect. Therefore, most of these patterns are a form of learned helplessness. You do not figure the other person will or want to change so you create an intolerable acceptance that goes against your values. You begin to enable their behavior and it allows them to continue while you become increasingly more unhappy or living in a place of discomfort.

Never accept less than you deserve. If you stand for nothing, you will fall for anything.

​What was the most challenging relationship you had?

I fell in love with the most amazing guy I had ever met, we had chemistry and commonality in all the things we loved to do. I thought he was the love of my life, and he was my best friend.
As time went by I noticed both of us changing. Everything had felt like it shifted overnight. It hadn’t, but for me it was a gradual process of unlocking the the truth.
I missed the signs, I missed the red flags. Both in him, and myself.
The ones that told me he was an alcoholic and that began triggering a lot of emotional relapse for me.
I felt like I was living in chaos for years that I tried to control and couldn’t. The more I needed control the more I lost it. I had become so codependent trying to keep the peace and thinking it was my job to fix everything and everyone. I lost myself in the process of trying to do it all, and hide it to everyone on the surface about how dysfunctional my home life was.
He was a god man that suffered from addiction, but I was enabling him and not taking responsibility for my part of our relationship. After all I thought to myself “ he’s the one with the addiction “.

Codependent behaviors are just as much of an addiction. But you lose yourself trying to control others behaviors, reactions and emotions.
This is not a healthy relationship for either person.

So how do you know you are codependent?

If you love someone suffering from the disease of addiction do you:
Track your loved one’s location most of the time?
Look for liquor or beer bottles?
Mark their bottles to see how much they have been drinking?
Text them when you think they are up to no good?
Lecture them when they come home late?
Nag them about chores or responsibilities?
Micromanage their schedule?
Feel anxious if you don’t know where they are or how much they have had to drink?
Get other people to talk them into getting sober?
Research helpful resources about sobriety and send them links or bring up your findings with the intention of convincing them they need help?
Try your best to meet their every need so they won’t drink or use drugs?
Exhaust yourself with the expectation that everything needs to be perfect?
Love them so hard that letting them go seems so unbearable that you hold on even tighter?
End up in a rage because everything you’ve tried isn’t working?
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Being in a relationship with someone that was an alcoholic was the hardest part of my life, but it also brought me to the best part of my life.

I had to learn Boundaries, Responsibility to myself , understanding of my own values, and letting go of the ego that wanted to control and enable just to keep the peace.
My own discovery of healing and recovery was transformational. It healed my relationship with my children, my ex-partner and I are friends, and my life is happier than it has ever been.

Sometimes things fall apart so you can have a better more fulfilling life. Take the lessons and grow from it. Create acceptance for what was, and the other person.
Give yourself grace and compassion and know you are not alone. I am here for you.
Codependency is not just about addiction but the need to make others happy and control their actions or decisions.

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