Joanne Victoria Blog
Be Responsible For Your Life
How does one find Inner Peace in a stressful, busy, fast-moving world? 🙌 Be calm and peaceful for a bit and see how that works for you. Inner Peace is something we all, even if we don’t want to admit it, want and need. The rewards for Inner Peace are many - improved...
Do You Know Why You Exist?
Your True Calling isn’t just your next career move or trying to figure out what you want to do as a hungry entrepreneur. Sure, these all may be pieces of the overall puzzle, but your True Calling goes much deeper… 🙌 It’s all about discovering why you exist. Your main...
You Did Your Best and That is Enough
Are you willing to say you did the best you could in this past year? Even if you are not, do it anyway. To go into another day, month, or year without acknowledging and accepting that you did your best will leave you with untold pain. Determine what you learned in...
What Did You Accomplish in 2021?
Reflect on where you’ve been and what you have accomplished this past year. - Harvest the lessons from the past - Complete any loose ends - Celebrate your successes It is time to take inventory of this past year of your life. To take inventory is to confirm what you...
Count Your Blessings
You know you have much to be thankful for today. If you are reading this, you have some sort of electronic device that allows you to do so. Be thankful for that device. Be thankful for the eyes and ears to read this Christmas message. Whether you are walking or...
Winter Solstice 2021
The Pacific Northwest greets the Winter Solstice!! This is the time when I start adding one minute per day to the clock of daylight! More light, less aggravation - even if it is gray! Welcome Winter solstice! Click on the link below to learn its story. Thanks, Joanne...
Are You Surrounded by Quiet Desperation?
Do you sometimes, when all your doubts, fears, and insecurities wrap you up, always come up with the idea of “I wish I was somebody else.”? More often than not, you think and believe that someone, or rather, most people are better than you - when in reality most...
Be in the Moment to Find Inner Peace
Be calm and peaceful for a bit and see how that works for you. Inner Peace is something we all, even if we don’t want to admit it, want and need. The rewards for Inner Peace are many - improved relationships in all areas of your life; better health and wellness;...
One Minute at a Time
What we all need now during these interesting times as well as the Holidays is patience. Your family wants to go look at all the Holiday lights on houses, you want to sleep. Your Mom and Dad wonder when they are going to see you again, maybe at Christmas? Your friends...
Freedom is Yours If You Truly Want It
To reinvent any part of your life means you need freedom. This freedom only works if you have the time and space to stop. In order to reinvent yourself, you need to know who you are now. You also need space to create your future self. A while back, after I fired a...
You Need Great People On Your Team
Running a profitable business is like having major surgery, you can’t do it alone. You cannot do whatever you do in a vacuum. It is easier to define, create, and implement if you have someone else on your team. If you were having major surgery, you would have the...
If You Have a Plan You Will Have Results
As a business owner, any day can bring surprises, not all of them are good or even great. There may be days that you just want to pull the blanket over your head or fly to a sunny location. You may feel trapped by your busy schedule, your beliefs, and your own...
First, Take a Long Shower To Be Creative
Many people think you have to have to be stressed out to be creative. That is not the truth. The more relaxed you are the greater possibility that you will have creative and other breakthroughs even though Artificial Intelligence is looking to be the next thing (or...
Discover the Four Cornerstones to Build a Strong Life Foundation
Having a strong foundation enables you to build a thriving, profitable life and business. A simple method to create this foundation is with Discovery, Vision, Planning, and Benchmarking, the four cornerstones of your life as well as your business. Discovery is defined...
Confidence is More Important Than You May Believe
Confidence is about how you think and is more important than you may believe. Confidence is not based on the ability to succeed at something; confidence is based on your thoughts and beliefs. Confidence is based on the beliefs that you now have. If you believe in your...
How to Maintain Your Sanity
It is obvious that your sanity is at risk; you are not alone. Sanity in this context refers to sound mental health; to behave in a normal and reasonable manner. You know who you are. Sit down for a minute or two or ten, take a breath, be calm and peaceful, and see how...
Compassion For Yourself Creates Inner Peace
Ignore when you hear this phrase: ‘Forgive and Forget’. I do not think that forgetting is about forgiveness; remembering, from time to time, what you experienced, can be turned into a lesson. The lesson is a way of learning if you are in school; life is your current...
Stop Holding On to the Past
It is difficult to be at peace if you are suffering which means you are in a negative space. Negative emotions are the result of labeling. It goes directly to your fears. Your fears are both real and not real. Real because you are attached to them, are holding on...