The Gutsy Life – Amanda Richey Life Coach

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Willpower and Motivation

Motivation and Willpower

Understanding your brain so you can push through to the Gutsy Life Have you ever wondered if there is a way to improve or increase willpower, self control and motivation? In this post I cover the science behind your brain so you can understand willpower and motivation and maximize both. The key to understanding willpower […]

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Impossible Goals

goal setting

I have been writing a series all about goal setting now that we are into the new year and resolution go time. I have been looking into mindset and the brain and how that inhibits or allows us to achieve our goals. The key I have discovered is that no matter the goal, the place […]

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The Importance of Mindset in Goal Achievement

Goal setting

It is the third week in January…and you know what that means? Most people have already given up on their New Year’s Resolutions! It sounds crazy that after such a short time people would have already given up, but I understand…I am all ready feeling the enormity of my goals and the excitement has worn […]

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Overcoming Self-Doubt

overcoming self doubt

Self-doubt is a common topic among my group of friends, am I right? Especially with women, self-doubt tends to be the main reason women hold themselves back form really going for it in life. The truth is: self-doubt is a limiting belief; it is based on many limiting beliefs you have been telling yourself or […]

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Expectations and Goal Setting

It is week three of 2020 and I am feeling overwhelmed by my goals and my plans for myself this year and the next ten years. Am I alone? I spent the whole month of December focused on all things goal setting and it brought up a lot of ‘feelings’ for me about my own […]

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This is Your Brain on Fear

Overcome fear

Overcoming fear starts with understanding that fear is a primitive emotion that creates a mostly automatic alarm system in our body to warn against threats to survival. Fear is a feeling. Feelings are physical responses in the body. This feeling comes from our thoughts. Millenia ago, when our brains were first evolving fear existed as […]

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Reflections on My Decade in Review Exercise

I just completed my Decade in Review Workbook and I wanted to post some reflections I had on the whole process and why I created the Workbook the way I did. To get an in depth breakdown on how to do a Decade in review Check out this post. And to Get the Gutsy Life […]

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