Life Lessons from a Life Coach: Practical Tools for a Happier, Healthier You

Jacqueline Hurst is a trailblazing ‘mind’ expert, knowledgeable public speaker and ground-breaking life coach who has helped thousands of people through their issues. She shares her favourite pieces of advice below and says ‘the journey, of course, never stops and along this journey of life, there are many signs that can help us along the way. All you have to do is be open to them’. 

1.  Don’t sweat the small stuff - Life is just too short In other words, will that matter in 10 years time? We can all get bogged down by the tiny things in life that we think matter dramatically when, in fact, they don’t at all. We can all be accused of taking life seriously and when we do this, we are looking at the minutia and making it much bigger than it needs to be. If your best friend forgot to call you back on Thursday, give yourself a break, she simply may have just forgotten because her own life is a bit hectic right now. 

2.  When you want to fight harder, surrender - Being a strong woman or man, being someone who can literally do anything you set your mind to, is amazing. It means you are a fighter and you will likely get what you want. Except in some cases the fight is what makes it harder and life becomes exhausting. Sometimes the fight is what creates the issue. Sometimes the letting go, the true surrender, the ‘leaning in’ to the chaos is the only answer to your problem. Trust me on this one. It works. Let go. 

3.  Slowly, slowly catchy monkey - A lot of the time, the things we want need patience, TLC and working towards. The perfectionists will find this hard as they beat themselves up that they didn’t ‘get it’ immediately but that never works. Sometimes there should be praise for slow as it means you are dotting your ‘i’s’ and crossing your ‘t’s’. Slow means you are connecting back to yourself, slow means that you are conscious and present and slow can be the way to catch the monkey. 

4.  Out of small acorns huge oak trees grow - Remember that to start, you have to just simply, start. You also have to believe in yourself and your vision and that out of little tiny ideas, with a dash of belief, huge, massive, beautiful things can grow. You’ve got this. 

5.  You were meant to meet that person - If we start to believe that things are happening just as how they are meant to happen, we stop fighting reality and life becomes easier. It’s the same with meeting people. People come in and out your life — they are teachers, as are you to them. Whoever comes in is meant to come in and they may also be meant to leave. Just go with the flow and don’t grab. Allow life to work its way out and believe in the process and how it is happening. It may not be happening the way you wanted or expected, but it is happening how it should be. 

Life remember, is beautiful. 

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