Grab your coffee and watch the replay of this week's coffee chat.

Do you journal when using affirmations or affirmation cards?

This week I shared my thoughts on resilience in this short episode of Midlife with Courage podcast. What resonated with you? https://www.midlifewithcourage.com/podcast/episode/7a4be26f/february-reflections-midlife-resilience-and-confidence

What do you have planned for this week? Anything fun? I have a full week of activities that will end with me driving 4 hours away to my college friend's house for a girls' weekend. Four of us get together every few months to hang out, do crafts and eat. Seriously, I am sure I gain weight every time we do this. We also get outside when weather permits (the photo is from one of our walks) and we will see what this weekend brings. It's northern Wisconsin and COLD! What are you up to this week?

Did any of you watch the Ladies Figure Skating at the Olympics last night? If you did, you saw Alysa Liu win the gold medal. This was an amazing accomplishment of course but I want to point out something I saw earlier in the coverage. They showed Alysa's story, how she retired at 16 and then came back last year to do it again. This time was different though. She retired from skating so young because of all the pressure she endured and how skating took over her life. She knew she needed to step away, so she did. She decided to come back during a trip where she took out the skates again and she traveled that path with a totally different mindset. She said that now, skating is not her whole life, it's something she does. She enjoys it and if she does well, that's great, if not, that's ok too. She doesn't skate for the medals, she does it for herself. I could see the joy she finds in skating as she jumped and twirled last night and it was fun to watch. Even if I didn't know the backstory, I would have seen that she was skating for the love of it and nothing else. isn't it interesting that when she took the pressure off and let herself feel the joy in the doing, she created a beautiful program? She was rewarded for it yes, but her true reward was how she felt about it and how she freed herself from how she was "supposed to" do things. If we all started focusing on what fills us with joy and dropped what we are told is the "right way" to reach our goals, what a world this could be.