New year has begun - We get to start new. Start fresh with a new leaf 📝✨ One of the most defining matter to your happiness and success is people. It truly matters who we walk with. The common phrase states that: ”You are the average of the five (5) people you spend the most time with.” So it matters what kind of people you spend your time with. Now, how would you describe the people in your life? Where do they focus? 🚫 Do they focus on negative matters? 🚫 Do they focus on other people? 🚫 Do they whine? 🚫 Do they have victim mentality? 🚫 Do they see fault in others? 🚫 Are they fearful? 🚫 Do they have bad habits? Or ✅ Do they focus on opportunities? ✅ Do they focus on self improvement? ✅ Do they complement others and celebrate others’ successes? ✅ Do they focus on winning and focus to progress? ✅ Do they see and acknowledge what other people are good at? ✅ Are they courageous? ✅ Do they support healthy lifestyle? Just to mention few. When you evaluate your own life by how you are, remember to evaluate also the people in your life - As they truly lead you to either good or bad paths. And also understand that not only you can change - But you can change who you spend your time with! So use your time and life wisely! Choose yourself the Best Ever Crew for 2026!✨ ♥️ Juudit #heartwoman #heartteam #leadthroughlove #personaldevelopment #success #valutok

Let’s end this year 2025 on the top ✨ And with couple traditions: ⭐️ On top of Observation Tower in Pyynikki, Tampere Finland 🇫🇮 ⭐️ With my adidas tracksuit - Showing things that remain, despite the years change ⭐️ With same outfit and place - In order to make it easier to compare the version of me between the years ⭐️ Last year (2024) and this year pics taken on New Year’s Eve 🎇 - Having sunshine on the day which is extremely rare! These pics show quite clearly how years do change us. And in year like this one - 2025 - The change has been mostly positive. It was very demanding year but it also pushed to change even more. Whereas 2024 was extremely tough year. Year where I do not have much memories from. The pressures set by that year were so visible even on my face. And now looking back my version of 2023 was still a rookie. 😅 Why I share about this is that when others look at our lives they cannot see what is under the surface. They often see the smiley version of you. The version who gives his or hers best to the world. But they cannot see what kind of demands and burdens we carry underneath. What are the things we struggle with. Our years and our seasons differ. But what I can share from my experience especially from this year is to keep moving in faith! More something scares you - More needed action it often is. If you do not move - You shrink. And you cannot reach anything significant from place of fear! You can only reach greatness through giving your best, consistantly. And this, does not make sense to you until it becomes your reality. Only after you learn to move in boldness, through your fears, only then will you reach your potential and purpose! So jump on the ring 💥🥊 and let’s go bold to 2026 together! ♥️ Juudit PS: I have pics from the same place with same Adidas tracksuit since 2020! So it is now 6th time, though I only share now 3 latest ones. I recommend you to start some similar tradition. It is fun too❣️ #heartwoman #heartteam #leadthroughlove #leadership #personaldevelopment #valutok

Let’s have a look back! What did year 2025 bring us? ⭐️ Was it as you expected? ⭐️ Was it a year of joy or sorrow? ⭐️ Was it a year of wins or losses? As I reflected my life during more quiet Christmas days - I made some conclusions of my year overall. I see my wins. And I see my losses. I remember what I wished for. And what did or did not arrive. I remember what I thought this year would be like. And what it turned out to be. The biggest win has been personal professional growth and courage. I found my wings. 🪽 Or better - Learned to swim. 🦈 My heart got broken for losses. 💔 One due to my long term ex-colleague Kalle’s sudden death. But the joy appeared too, in a form of arrival of 2 beautiful baby boys ⭐️⭐️ (O and W) for my close friends. I got to know new people and got to stretch my faith. I hope next year some of you will be jumping on the adventure with me and will stretch your faith too! As what I have learned this year is that when you do not give up and you keep going, grinding and believing - You will get results! And the best is that, it’s all done with people! My warmest thanks to all of you who have been part of this year’s journey! Especially the ones who have either encouraged, pushed or even kicked me ahead! Who have comforted me when I needed it. And the ones of you who have stood by my side. I cannot thank you enough! Because of all of that - Your love & your hugs - I made it this far! 🙏🏻✨ ♥️ Juudit PS: And for the record - 2026 will be much better! 🌈✨ #heartwoman #heartteam #leadthroughlove #leadership #personaldevelopment #valutok

Darkest season of our year has begun here in Finland 🇫🇮 leading us to Christmas and New Year 2026 at the same time Sunrise is after 9am and sunset around 3pm. Giving us about 6 hours of daylight, which does not include actually seeing the sun even. You see gray. Just as in my picture from today just around the sunset. It’s gray. It’s rainy. It’s dull. Even snow that was giving light to our environment - melted. But anyhow tomorrow is 1st Advent 🕯️ meaning that Christmas season begins. We will start to see more and more lights around, candles burning, decorations and scents of the season around us. That will take away some of that heaviness we may feel due to this period of darkness. Also, when the days are short without much sunshine our energies drop too. And often leading us to spend most of the time indoors. This time can be challenging for many. Anyhow, now I am asking from Finns or others of you with creative minds: What would you do in order to make this dark and dull season more bearable? And no, escape to Caribbean is not an option, even though it would solve this problem for some of us easily. 😂 We cannot ALL relocate. So now, what would you do to make it more bearable and fun? With Love with Today’s Quizz, Juudit ♥️ #heartwoman #heartteam #leadthroughlove #leadership #personaldevelopment #motivation #finland #slush #christmasseason #valutok

So much to be thankful for - Each and every day. No matter the times! Easy times give us joy and light weight happiness - Which we can easily take for granted. But the lessons and growth that hard times teach us - Those truly are something else! Have you learned that some of our most painful experiences can become most meaningful ones. Kind of that bring along vast amount of blessings? Have you ever realized that some of the most difficult and challenging times in your life were to steer us to new levels, new you and they were truly gifts in disguise? I can now! The lessons though are so deep and personal that I will not open about them here! But just know when you next time stand IM the midsts of most trying storms that maybe after enduring them through - Something else beautiful will show up! With this little lesson from me I wish my dear Americans Happy Thanksgiving Day 🦃 and once again wish I could be there celebrating it with you! And to all of us - Happy today! The best day we have! ❤️ Juudit PS: Special thank yous to Andrew Odoe for this beautiful dress I got from all the way #Africa ✨🌍✨ I absolutely love it!! 😍🥰 #heartwoman #heartteam #leadthroughlove #leadership #putpeoplefirst #personaldevelopment #thanksgivingday

Let’s tackle one serious issue where we fail and fall with others - We believe them being as we are 🎭 One of the hard lessons is to learn to see others as they are - Not as reflection of us. Often when we have a good kind heart and are not wanting to hurt others intentionally - We fail to miss the fact that there are many people who are willing to hurt us. Not only is this a problem in our personal lives but this can be even problem in worklife. You keep doing your best and more, giving your all, over performing - Thinking it would lead into rewards and recognition. Now, in case your supervisor or the one who has power to reward you and is like you, this will happen - And it would happen in relatively short time. In healthy organizations where overall people are valued. However, if you are led (or rather managed) by leader or even leaders who: 🆘 See you as competition 🆘 Who have no healthy selfesteem 🆘 Who do not love or care about others 🆘 Who are greedy 🆘 Who are willing to harm others Just to mention few… You will never rise in your position! Since it will never be about you! So as we are here to impact lives positively, to lead through love (no matter your position) and influence people by the reflection from the light we are to the World 🌎✨ Understand, that if your counterpart is as mentioned in the list above, your chances to see any positive turns in your situation can be next to impossible. For the ones of you hearing this first time ever it sounds brutal and unreal. But believe me, learn to differentiate the truth in situations from the vision you would like yourself being in. That’s something that can even save you from worst! With Love today from Finland 🇫🇮 Juudit ♥️ #heartwoman #heartteam #leadthroughlove #leadership #personaldevelopment #valutok

Happy Friday beautiful people!✨ Let us close this workweek with grateful heart! I hope you did your best this week! And I hope you know - That whatever your circumstances are, your own dignity is what matters. Never allow someone else’s poor choices to give up your values, your professionalism, your character. If you are treated poorly in worklife with no rewards, no raise you deserved, no recognition you deserve, no support you deserve: Let those NEVER change who you are! Keep doing your best and find your ways ahead. Never become resentful. As only when you change yourself to go as low as people who treat you poorly, only then will you lose yourself too. When you stick to your values, serve with dignity and do not give up on your good morals, one day it will be rewarded too. That one day may be years, but when it comes, you’ll forget the tough journey to that point. Let this tower in pic, my Lighthouse, remind you of the better days!✨ With Love, Juudit 💜 #heartwoman #heartteam #leadthroughlove #leadership #personaldevelopment #motivation #hope #tampere #finland #näsinneula #valutok

I hope you are successful❣️ I hope you are beautiful❣️ I hope you impact lives❣️ I hope you see you matter❣️ I’m in no competition with anyone of you I only care about fulfilling my life mission(s) With Love from Finland, 🇫🇮 Juudit ♥️ #heartwoman #heartteam #leadthroughlove #leadership #motivation #personaldevelopment

"To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world" - Dr. Seuss Despite there is so much beauty in that statement above - this often is reflection for the sake of having to have a significant other, a spouse, in order to be valuable. How about taking still one step ahead? How about realizing that to yourself you are the whole World. You are valuable to yourself! We often put ourselves second and aside - leaving our own wishes, needs and dreams unmet. As much as I preach about putting people first - It never should mean neglecting your own health, wellbeing and happiness. You need to love yourself so much and value your own life that you will not let anyone to decrease its quality. We need to assure that what we bring into lives of others - And what they bring on ours stay positive. See yourself valuable! Love yourself! Treat yourself as you would treat the most precious flower - The one seeing in the picture here below. The picture I also took few years ago. When you treat yourself well - Others will learn to treat you better, too! 💖 Juudit #heartwoman #heartteam #leadthroughlove #leadership #personaldevelopment #valutok

There are times when we feel either far from home - Or very far from our targets and goals As if nothing we do leads to them. Causing disappointment, frustration, feelings of wanting to give up. As I was driving in the countryside this long road today it gave me multiple thoughts. One thought is to encourage us all to enjoy the journey. If and when the journey is tough and feels fruitless - How about if you are focusing on a wrong thing? How about if you take new look and see how the journey has impacted you. At times the fruit is actually in pruning. We feel pains and it feels like it is totally useless. But through that pain we gain much more clarity for ways ahead and we can see much more clearer what to keep and what to put aside. Now, I want you to look at this picture and let it speak to you and to your life. Where are you at right now? Where have you come from? Where are you going? The road can feel endless at times - But very often, nothing we experience goes waste but they all become the building materials and blocks for even more solid path. ♥️ Juudit The link to song 🎶🎵🎶 mentioned in the pic ”500 Miles” by #justintimberlake & all will be added in the comments below 👇🏻 #heartwoman #heartteam #leadthroughlove #leadership #personaldevelopment #hope #valutok

The road ahead may seem endless at times but never forget what comes when you reach your destination Never forget why you are taking those steps ahead. During the days when you feel lost, you feel like there is no direction, no ways ahead - Take a good pause. Remind yourself where you are going and why. Remind yourself about your role and value you specifically bring into the equation! We tend to forget. You are there for a reason! Remember what makes you unique and what kind of space you fill in your organization. In your team. Or with your business. Why are you needed? Why is your solution needed? When you have clear view on your purpose and where you are going it is easier to set the steps ahead. So pause when you need to! It could be the best thing to do to get you out of the unclear situation where you really cannot see the way ahead. See those amazing clouds in the picture - Your destination should look as beautiful and as amazing as that. Stop settling and living dull life and own your story. You got all it takes! 💙 Juudit #heartwoman #heartteam #leadthroughlove #leadership #personaldevelopment #purpose #valutok

It’s time to vote! ✅ Which flower wreath you choose as a winner and why? Also, can you recognize the flowers? I do not even know them all well. 😅 Anyhow, must not be very poisonous since I am still here. LOL For some reason I did not make one in Midsummer 2023 but otherwise it has been a nice Midsummer (Juhannus in Finnish 🇫🇮) tradition for me since 2021. Have you made a flower wreath yourself? And also, do you have traditions you love? For me this has become one of the nicest traditions ever along with being with loved ones (family / close friends) during Midsummer, seeing bonfire, grilling sausages etc, chilling and having fun in our nightless night with almost 24 hours daylight. ☀️🇫🇮 If you or your family do not have traditions you can also start some. As you can see I have started in 2021. We are the ones who can decide the shapes and colors of our lives. Do not waste the power you have! With Love from Finland, 💝 Juudit #HeartWoman #HeartTeam #LeadthroughLove #Leadership #PersonalDevelopment #Traditions #Finland #Midsummer #Juhannus #ValuTok