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What do you want to create that’s tangible and/or intangible?  Do you feel called to create a business?  Are you called to create harmony in your home? What are the things that prevent you from creating what you are meant to create?! Time, energy, lack of ideas, lack of money, fear of what people might say, not creative enough, feeling like it doesn’t matter! Are you called to create something that is intangible? ⬇️ Let's work together!  I'm here to help you with personal coaching-we'll dive deep into your challenges, struggles, and goals. Email me at aloha@janinjohnston.com and let’s get started. Please Rate, Review & Follow in Apple Podcasts!   Music by: The Late-Dennis Pavao

Take control over the one (and only) thing you can control…YOU! Think about the things in your life that you do that maybe aren’t working out so well and control is one of those things that does not work. Trying to control everything and people in your life doesn’t work! It’s like trying to force something that you can’t force like trying to bend a steel bar with your hands.  You just can’t!  Think about this, doesn’t wanting control only give you stress and make you feel stressed? I know it does.  It creates stress in your heart and mind, and in your physical body, as well as creating stress in your family.   If you’re focused on what you are called to create, then you won’t have time to focus on all the things you don’t have any control over! It’s hard to create when you’re so busy trying to control everything in your life, there’s no way that you can focus on being creative because creating and being creative, you have to be able to open your mind and let the ideas come.  Creating cannot be controlled or f

I hope you had a great New Year celebration and that you enjoyed yourself on New Year's Day.  Here in Hawaii, New Year's Eve is crazy. There's a lot of people burning and popping fireworks and pretty much blowing up their money, but it was loud and it was raining.  I wanted to talk to you about what you discovered in 2021 because in order to move forward to a new year, you have to actually take a look back at the previous year.  Did you even have a chance to think about what you discovered and what happened? The Good The Bad, the Ugly?  Did you or were you able to fulfill your dreams?  What did you discover in 2021? Did you have a chance to even really think about what you discovered about your dreams, your life, things you need to change? And this is another opportunity for you to see what God has in store for you too. Because I hope you turn to God for help and direction and guidance in your life.  I do that all the time because I need help. There's just no way I can live on this earth without God's help. 

What did you discover this year in 2021?  Did you have a chance to even really think about what you discovered about your dreams, your life, things you need to change? Like maybe bad habits?! Or, did you discover wonderful things about yourself because it’s really easy to not allow yourself to discover or think anything good about yourself? Even though this podcast is about what you’re called to create, I like to talk about your heart and your mind and your dreams and your desires because those are the two things(your heart and your mind) that affect your whole life. When you work on your heart and your mind, you are able to move forward towards your dreams and what you’re called to create. I love to talk about creating because I know that God put us here on this earth for many reasons, and one of them is to create. We are given gifts and talents and everyone’s gift is different so creating will be different. Now’s a good time to think about what you want to create in your life?  What did you discover that yo

Did You See Your Glass As Half Empty or Half Full This Year? I hope you had a wonderful holiday season even though we have New Year’s coming up and had a great month of December! I hope you were able to listen to all the holiday wish episodes and if you didn’t have a chance, please go back and listen to them because I wanted to share some holiday wishes for you.  I hope you were able to receive those holiday wishes! And, now with it being the last week in December 2021, I wanted to wrap things up for this year and ask you if you saw your glass half empty or half full. We all know that this pandemic has affected so many people and their families in so many different ways, so what kind of attitude did you have this year?  Were you able to see your glass half empty or half full? We all come from different backgrounds and have different personalities and everyone will choose how they want to see life. Seeing the glass half empty or half full is just a metaphor for how you look at life and the things that go on in

This Holiday Wish episode is on GENEROSITY. AND, that is the holiday wish I want to share with you.  In episode #190, I talked about GIVING and how it’s so much more than giving a gift and that it’s a two-way thing(for lack of better words). It should be reciprocal, that’s what we want anyway! When you talk about generosity, it’s on a whole other level because generosity means to give liberally and not be selfish. So, it’s very different than giving, like giving of your time. How do you get to the point of being generous naturally without having to think about it? I have seen it and have gone through this before where there are a lot of people who are not generous.  They have no desire to give of their time, or their money, or to give a gift, and if they do it’s usually half-heartedly. To be generous, you have to be confident in yourself that you have enough because being generous is about giving as much as you possibly can without reservation.  It’s about giving from your heart and not worrying about if you’

This Holiday Wish episode is on TRUST. AND, that is the holiday wish I want to share with you.  Do you trust yourself?  Do you trust people? Trust is a very interning topic because it can bring up a lot of emotions for people. If you look up the definition of trust in the dictionary, it says that trust is to rely upon or place confidence in someone or something.  And I’ll add that yourself in that definition. Are you one of those that can place confidence in yourself? We can’t control anyone else, we can only control ourselves, what we say, what we think, what we do. Are you reliable with yourself because of the fact that you can only control yourself? Are you good to yourself where you can rely on yourself and trust yourself, and place confidence in yourself where you’re going to do what you say you’re going to do? Sometimes if you’re having a hard time being reliable in your personal life, it will show up in your work or your job. Because if you grew up in a house where there wasn’t any trust, then it becom

This Holiday Wish episode is on GRATITUDE. AND, that is the holiday wish I want to share with you.  Gratitude is more than being thankful. Being thankful could be defined or described as being happy or relieved for something that has happened or for something someone has done for you. It could possibly leave your mind or fade over time. Have you ever said or heard someone say “I”m so grateful that I have a roof over my head and food to eat” or “I’m grateful that I have a family” or “I’m grateful that I have a job”? Being grateful and having gratitude is just that, it’s that deep down feeling and emotions for the important things in your life that really matters the most.  And, these are the things that won’t or don’t fade over time, unless you start to take things for granted or something happens in your life. Being grateful can bring a feeling of calm and could also help you feel at peace in your life. Take the time to write in your journal all the things that you’re grateful for and you never know what your

This Holiday Wish episode is on GIVING. AND, that is the holiday wish I want to share with you.  I wish for you to receive [giving] and to give [giving] if that makes any sense. And I want to start off and talk about giving in a way where we can kind of understand about giving because, you know when we think of giving, you know, it's like you're giving something or you're giving a gift to someone. But if you really think about it, giving is a two-way thing. It's like the person receiving the giving has to be able to receive it and want it so it has to be reciprocal.  And it's not only about giving gifts or buying someone a present especially now during the holiday season.  Giving is so much more than giving a gift or buying a present because when you think about giving something it usually has to do with either giving of your time, giving your energy, giving your emotions, giving a gift and you have to use money sometimes when you have to buy a gift, or sometimes you give money.  And giving is such a big topi

This Holiday Wish episode is on KINDNESS. AND, that is the holiday wish I want to share with you.  Because I hope that people treat you with kindness and that you treat people with kindness too. Kindness could be described as nice or gentle. We definitely need more nice and gentle people in this world. Do you think about treating people with kindness in your daily life? Do you realize that without kindness, the world will be a very dark place?  Just like if the world didn’t have any love, the world would be very dark. When you were growing up, did your parents teach you to be kind and to say please and thank you? I’m so grateful to my mom for teaching me to be polite and to treat people how I want to be treated when I’m out in the world. One of my top values is kindness!  I don’t believe in being nasty to people no matter how I’m feeling, or if I’m having a bad day. I hope you think about the topic of kindness today. What about acts of kindness?  Do you think about how you can do an act of kindness? When you

This Holiday Wish episode is on FAITH. AND, that is the holiday wish I want to share with you.  I love learning and talking about faith!  I think it’s one of those topics that are important and sometimes hard to hard to understand unless you are actively walking with faith. It’s also not tangible.  You can’t hold it, or touch it. And everyone has their own definition of faith and what it means to them. But, faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Faith isn’t a one-time thing, it’s an ongoing practice and for that reason, you have to have a practice of choosing faith, even when things are hard or you have fear. Faith is something that God wants you to have. You have to move forward in faith and trust in God that all things will work out for your good. Faith is so powerful!  You also have to be obedient to God’s laws and commandments if you want the blessings that come with faith. Happy Holidays! ⬇️ Let's work together!  I'm here to help you with personal coaching-we'll dive

This Holiday Wish episode is on GOODNESS. AND, that is the holiday wish I want to share with you.  The dictionary definition of Goodness is the quality or state of being good. I know you want to have goodness!  We are born with goodness inside of us given to us by God. I know you want to do good in your life, especially during this holiday season. Have you ever said that “I’m a good person" or have your heard other people say ‘I’m a good person’? I’m here to tell you that you are a good person and that you do have goodness inside of you, even if you have struggles or habits that make you think that you don’t have goodness. Happy Holidays! ⬇️ Let's work together!  I'm here to help you with personal coaching-we'll dive deep into your challenges, struggles, and goals. Email me at aloha@janinjohnston.com and let’s get started. Please Rate, Review & Follow in Apple Podcasts!       Music by: The Late-Dennis Pavao

This Holiday Wish episode is on GENTLENESS. AND, that is the holiday wish I want to share with you.  I would describe gentleness as something so moving that it makes you feel so good. Think about if you’ve ever carried someone’s baby or carried your own baby, didn’t you do it with the most extreme gentleness ever? And, you didn’t want to hurt the baby and you were soft and delicate. Gentleness is free from being harsh or rough. Focus and think about how you treat yourself and how you live your life, do you treat yourself with gentleness? Once you understand yourself, it’s so easy to understand your life and the life around you. Life becomes so much better to live. If you just take notice of how you’re treating yourself, how you’re treating people, it allows our hearts and minds to work together. Think about gentleness today, we need a lot more gentleness in our lives and in this world. Happy Holidays! ⬇️   Let's work together!  I'm here to help you with personal coaching-we'll dive deep into your challenges,

This Holiday Wish episode is on PATIENCE.   And patience is the holiday wish I want for you.  When I think of the word patience, doesn’t it makes my eyes bigger? If you know what I mean. Isn’t it funny that we are patient with things that are super important to us, but, not so patient if it’s not that important! Happy Holidays! ⬇️   Let's work together!  I'm here to help you with personal coaching-we'll dive deep into your challenges, struggles, and goals. Email me at aloha@janinjohnston.com and let’s get started. Please Rate, Review & Follow in Apple Podcasts!       Music by: The Late-Dennis Pavao

This Holiday Wish episode is on PEACE. And peace is the holiday wish I want for you.  What do you think of when you hear the word PEACE? Do you think of peace of mind, peace, and quiet, or peace in your heart, contentment? Peace is something that so many people want, and some may not know how to get or find peace. And, it’s also one of those things that you wouldn’t seek out or try to find like how you would with love or joy. It’s usually not top of mind until your life gets noisy or crazy and stressful. I like to describe peace as stillness, feeling a ‘calm’ in your heart and your mind and there’s no chaos. You cannot have peace if you have anger, contention, or hate in your heart and your mind. Peace will come when you have forgiven everyone that you think or feel has done something wrong to you. Strive to have peace in your heart and in your life. Happy Holidays! ⬇️   Let's work together!  I'm here to help you with personal coaching-we'll dive deep into your challenges, struggles, and goals. Email me at al

Holiday Wish episode on Joy JOY is the holiday wish I want to share with you.  We need more Joy!  JOY is more than happiness, it goes beyond just being happy, it’s an inner feeling. Joy can feel like it’s deep and you feel it in your whole body or in the depths of your soul, and it feels like it’s never going to end, and the best part of that is that you could even have a joyful expression on your face. Wouldn’t that be so cool if you could always have a joyful expression! Joy can fill your whole being when you’re in a state of gratitude and being thankful for ALL that you are, all that you have, all that you are able to do, and more. Joy comes to you so powerfully when you serve! The kind of service I’m talking about is like how Jesus Christ service people when He lived on earth. True Joy comes when you serve people and forget about yourself.  It does NOT include serving someone where money is involved like a business. Examples of serving and service are when you check on your neighbor or a family member-do

I wanted to make Holiday Wish episodes for you. LOVE is the holiday wish I want to share with you and I know that for some people and families, the holidays are not always filled with love.  Many families argue or fight and there can be a lot of tension for many reasons. And it may not be anything that you have said or done to cause any stress or contention, sometimes it is the other people in your home. So, what is it that you can do? Remember, that we all love differently and we all understand love differently. You have to understand how you love, and what love means to you. I’m not a love expert, but I do know that we are all unique and different and come from a wide variety of upbringings where some people weren’t shown any love growing up, or the love they received was conditional. Do you have love in your heart? Remember to come from a place of love this Holiday Season. ⬇️   Let's work together!  I'm here to help you with personal coaching-we'll dive deep into your challenges, struggles, and goals. Emai

Uh…it’s so hard to become a better version of yourself, don’t you think?! I mean, don’t you have to let go of things that aren’t working for you, but you still hold onto it like it’s your life vest? The word change is one of those words that put people in a state of resistance.  Let’s get real! Change is hard, so why not look at it from a different perspective! How about looking at it as becoming a better version of yourself instead.   Think about what you need to do to become a better version of yourself.  Think about it.  We are thinkers, we think about a lot of things, so think about what you can become. Because you have worth and value!  ⬇️   Let's work together!  I'm here to help you with personal coaching-we'll dive deep into your challenges, struggles, and goals. Email me at aloha@janinjohnston.com and let’s get started. Please Rate, Review & Follow in Apple Podcasts!       Music by: The Late-Dennis Pavao

Do you feel the pressure of time? Towards the end of the year, I feel the pressure of time, and time is one of those things that you have no control over, but the feeling is still there and you want to control the time.   I find myself saying a lot is that I want time to slow down or stop for a few hours. There are many people who teach time management and one of them when he was still living was Hyrum Smith and Steven Covey of Franklin Covey.  Unfortunately, those 2 wonderful men have passed on and are no longer here, but what they taught was so good. And if you didn’t realize that time management is all about managing yourself in the amount of time you have when you’re doing something or managing yourself within every 24 hours you have in a day. Now with the holidays upon us, many people have already started the shopping and the decorating and all of the things that go along with the Holidays which adds more pressure. Why do we do that to ourselves?  Why do we add on more than we already have? Enjoy the hol

Buying More, More, More? In episode #178, I talked about wanting more, more, more because you think that’s going to get you what you want, and if that’s really what you want? I want to continue talking about this more, more, more thing that can and maybe is happening, because it’s not bad to want and buy more for yourself, but what happens when it gets out of control. You might not even realize that it’s happening until someone points it out, and it can be hard to look at it because no one wants to see the things that aren’t working or aren’t healthy. Take a good look at what you’ve been buying and see what’s behind all the buying, shopping, spending.  It’s also known as emotional shopping! There’s that high that you get when you shop and it feels so good and it numbs the pain or frustration or any other emotion that you’re struggling with. Are you buying more than you need or have money for?  Are you buying more things that only make you happy for a day or a week?  I have my own story of constantly BUYING fa