by Ann Evanston | Jan 14, 2015 | Blog
Family. Six letters, two syllables, one big gigantic word. How is it that so many people can place so much on just one word? Why do we allow people associated with this word to allow us to feel things that we shouldn’t feel?
Things like fear, guilt, sadness, anger even.
Why is it that we feel a higher level of obligation and commitment to family, even if they don’t deserve it?
How come we will allow family to treat us in ways that we would never allow a nonfamily member to treat us? What gives them permission to do that?
Defining family, and redefining what it truly means to be family, not just blood, is important. Without doing that I would have huge amounts of stress my life! Okay, I’ll admit it, even with redefining it, family still causes me stress!
Recently, family has come back into my life requesting to have a relationship. If an old boyfriend that treated me the way this person has, wanted to be back in my life would I let him? Probably not! (At least I believe I wouldn’t let an old boyfriend who neglected me back into my life!)
Why is it that I allow the person that makes me feel most guilty, and more frustrated than anything continue to be in my life? I wouldn’t keep friends like that.
So why is it that my heart pounds, I feel stressed and sad, I want to cry when I hear a certain family member’s voice on my phone? Why is it that I will allow somebody to treat me in a way that is verbally abusive just because they’re family?
Do you struggle with family? How do you protect yourself and redefine the bond that creates this word?
by Ann Evanston | Jan 12, 2015 | Influence Factor
Do you have a Plan B?
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by Ann Evanston | Jan 7, 2015 | Influence Factor
The vision of 2015 was harder this year than it’s been in previous years. In a previous blog I shared with you that my husband and I do our vision board every year on New Year’s Eve. Typically, we bang it out and it’s very on point for both of us.
This year, I was restless, and nothing felt right.
Then, I realized that the vision I was creating is what I’m really living now. It wasn’t big enough, Bad-Assery enough!
I know, some of you are saying “but Ann, when is it enough?” I believe in our unlimited space and potential and that there is always more for us in the world. A greater depth of our purpose, a bigger meaning that we might not be living, and I always strive for that. I want to be better one year over the last.
True warriors get that.
So I stepped away from the vision board on New Year’s Eve. I reflected and journaled. And I thought on a bigger level and went back later on New Year’s Day.
What I realized is, it’s not what I am doing, it’s the expansiveness of how I can be doing it in 2015. It’s that next level of greatness for me my business, and my life. I realized it is time for me, a very visible person, to be more visible. To step into the larger stage, to open up with greater vulnerability and share with others from a loving position what I know. It is time for my husband and I to reach out to people who want amazing relationships and get real and raw with them, about what it takes to do it. It is time to stop letting the immense physical pain that I have every single day stop me from living a powerfully healthy lifestyle.
It is time for me to write and get out to the world what living the journey of a warrior is about, and how you transcend in your life. I am ready for the unlimited space and potential of 2015, are you?
by Ann Evanston | Jan 5, 2015 | Influence Factor
Stay true to yourself, always.
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by Ann Evanston | Dec 31, 2014 | Influence Factor
New Year’s Eve has actually become one of my most favorite holidays in my home! I’m no longer in my 20s so that whole going out and drinking at a party thing just doesn’t do it for me anymore!
Several years ago my husband and I started a tradition that I really look forward to. That night, okay really from afternoon through evening into the night, we truly spoil ourselves and work on our relationship.
Earl goes all around town and picks out amazing bottles of champagne. Yes the real stuff. If you follow us in social media you know we drink a lot of the fake stuff, LOL. This is true French Champagne from the region. That’s all we drink all night long. I’m responsible for the food and it’s decadent and indulgent! Typically, because it’s Dungeness crab season, I can find them fresh but we always have Dungeness crab and hopefully filet mignon as well.
In addition, one of the powerful things we do is build our vision board. Our vision board as a couple is hung on the wall right next to the front door. Anyone who comes into our home will see it.
We first each, individually, go through our own magazines and articles and pick out the words and pictures that represent what our personal goals and values are and our vision for what our relationship will look like for the next year. Then we come together and place them on the board. It is always amazing to me where we are 100% aligned and where each of us is bringing new ideas to the relationship.
Now my hope is to always make it to midnight for romantic kiss, what girl doesn’t want that, but with all the Champagne we’re drinking that doesn’t always happen!
How do you send off the old year and bring in the New Year in a powerful and compelling way for your family and business?
Family. Six letters, two syllables, one big gigantic word. How is it that so many people can place so much on just one word? Why do we allow people associated with this word to allow us to feel things that we shouldn’t feel?
