**The Difference Between Being Afraid and Being Nervous

A young skater was having a bad case of butterflies before an event.  She told her coach she was just too afraid to go out on the ice,

"You're not afraid,  You're just nervous," said the coach. "There's a difference."

He told her a story to explain the difference:

"A man goes into a restaurant and orders a $100 meal. He's nervous because he ordered such a high-priced meal, but knows he has the $100 in his pocket."

"Now fear," said the coach, "is going into the restaurant and ordering a $100 meal, knowing you have no money in your pocket."

The skater went out and finished in first place.   ~Tom Condon


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**Healthy Relationships- 10 Keys to Happy & Loving Relationships

The first and most important investment we can ever make in to invest in our own personal growth and self-development.  When we work on becoming the best that we can be,  we have so much more to give to others.  We cannot give what we do not have.

If we have strength, we can strengthen others.
If we have a positive outlook, we can encourage others.
If we have insight, we can enlighten others.
If we have wisdom, we can advise others.
If we have love, we can love others.

~Krystal Kuehn






Would you like some tools to help you better understand yourself and others, get along better, enjoy your relationships, resolve problems peacefully, grow stronger and closer, build trust, develop greater appreciation and patience with yourself and others, experience more love and happiness?

There are 10 keys to healthy, loving, happy relationships.  These 10 keys or elements do not define love because Love it can never be defined.  Love is a living thing.  The 10 keys, however, will help you to learn Love.  And when you learn Love, you will have healthy relationships.

Henry Drummond said, " The supreme work to which we need to address ourselves in this world is to Love.  Is life not full of opportunities for learning Love?  Every man and woman has a thousand of them.....our eternal lesson,.,.How better can we Love?"

RELATIONSHIPS provide us with the best and most challenging opportunities to learn how to better Love.  "The source of true happiness and fulfillment can always be traced back to love in one way or another."  ~Krystal Kuehn

Learning and practicing Love makes life worthwhile, fulfilling, joyful.  You can be empowered to Love like never before by discovering Love's 10 keys.  We can have healthy relationships as we apply relationship building tools and put them to practice!!  Click here for more info

The 10 Keys to Healthy & Loving Relationships provides essential tools to help you understand relationships and how to make them more fulfilling, harmonious and successful. You will be taken on a personal journey to discover how you communicate the 10 key attributes of love as you relate to others. You will be empowered with tools to replace unhealthy patterns with new, healthy and effective ways to communicate, connect and love others. And you will discover how to communicate and experience genuine love and true happiness in ways that will change you, your relationships and your life forever!

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Krystal Kuehn, MA, LPC, LLP, NCC is a licensed professional counselor, international best-selling author, teacher, and musician. She specializes in helping people live their best life now, reach their full potential, overcome barriers, heal from their past, and develop a lifestyle of health, happiness, and love. Krystal is the cofounder of NewDayCounseling.org and Christian-Kindle-Books.com

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3 Daily Power Habits - To Practice Before the End of Each New Day

I write quite a bit about how our lives are determined by the choices we make each New Day!

Our consistent choices and routines become habits - good or bad. Developing and maintaining good habits is a constant goal of mine. The way we start our day and the way we end it matters!

Following I will share 3 daily habits that I believe give us the power to be our best.  These habits are best practiced before going to bed each night.  

(1)  I have shared the gratitude habit with you before - before bed, simply write or reflect on 3 things that went well for you that day, things you are thankful for.  Before you know it, this habit helps you to really appreciate people and life.  One thing I have discovered, you cannot be happy and unthankful at the same time.  Happy, joyous people practice gratitude!

(2) Do not go to sleep angry. Nothing robs your peace of mind like unresolved anger. Sometimes it's not possible to resolve a problem that is causing the anger, but this may help:

Journal your feelings and the desire to release yourself from the pain,
Remind yourself to accept what you cannot control and change only what you can,
Tell yourself that you will not give away your power and strength to whatever or whomever has triggered the anger within you
Release the situation/person to a power greater than yourself (if you're a person of faith, pray and give it to God).

(3) This one is my personal favorite that I learned from John Maxwell.  I have practiced power habit #1 for so long that my gratitude list becomes endless.  Habit #3 has really challenged me and helped me to continue to grow and change,  So here it is:

At the end of each day, ask yourself:  What did I learn today?

It can be anything at all.  Nothing is too simple.  The point is to reflect and gain insight.  This is how we learn and change so we can be our best.

Following are a few things I recorded that I have learned:

= > Reaping negative consequences can do one of two things in a person:  it can break them and they will take responsibility for their actions and make changes OR they will become hardened, prideful and bitter

= > Work in your strength zones if you ever want to be happy and  fulfilled and feel successful.

= > Show people appreciation for their best efforts.  Criticism and complaints make you want to do less and give less to them.  It shuts down your joy in giving.

= > When you smile at a complete stranger, it stretches you out of your comfort zone and communicates love and kindness. The feelings somehow stay with you for awhile. You may even be pleasantly surprised by their response.

I hope these power habits have inspired you to end each new day well and be ready for another new day expecting good things for your life!

I encourage you to stay in the power habit of daily self-improvement and live your life to your maximum potential,  Krystal

Copyright 2015 Maximum Potential, LLC.  All Rights Reserved.  Written by Krystal Kuehn

Krystal Kuehn, MA, LPC, LLP, NCC is a licensed professional counselor, international best-selling author, teacher, and musician. She specializes in helping people live their best life now, reach their full potential, overcome barriers, heal from their past, and develop a lifestyle of health, happiness, and love. Krystal is the cofounder of NewDayCounseling.org and NewDayHealthyLiving.com

For inspirational and educational books by Krystal, go to:  http://www.christian-kindle-books.com/

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