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Transformation, Is it important to you?

#abundance #joy #success #transformation Oct 06, 2021

How significant is transformation in your life? Or maybe you think that it isn't transformation that you need at all. 

Sometimes we use different words that mean the same thing, such as growth or, as I sometimes refer to changes in my life, as my metamorphosis. Either way, if none of these terms resonate with you, then no need to read any further. 

There is a saying, " if you're not growing, you're dying." I think it's safe to say that it is the last thing any of us want!

You see, growing up in Brooklyn, NY, in the '60s and '70s, I was never given the tools to look at my life as I do now. My parents weren't growth-oriented. Or at least they weren't verbal or consciously aware of it. More than likely, they didn't know how to talk about it either. It wasn't a thing then.

As I grew up and started working, I never thought much about the future or my growth as an individual. I didn't know what I was doing was anything other than what I was doing.

During those earlier years, not having ...

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Live in the Moment

#abundance #joy #laughter #life #love #purpose Oct 05, 2021

 

Live in the moment and do the best you can in each and every one

Love in the moment and love with all your heart for each and every person

Laugh in the moment when the alternative is to cry and be thankful for what you have, not what you've lost. 

and 

Rejoice in each moment as if it’s your last.

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Priorities and more

#abundance #coaching #goals #priorities Sep 27, 2021

Priorities

"Never let things that matter the least get in the way of things that matter the most," Jim Rohn.

Benjamin Hardy refers to this saying, "don't let lesser goals get in the way of the important ones." Brian Tracy speaks about Eating that Frog. They are all talking about the same thing. Do what matters the most first, even though it is the most difficult. The most challenging task is the thing that is going to contribute to 80-90% of your revenue or your production or whatever metric you are measured by. 

I have been working on a concept of E3cubed. We have Essential Functions - The things that only we can do, Essential Goals - The three most important goals you have, and Essential Priorities. What are the three items or Frogs that you need to be eating now that will move your EG3 closer to completion? That's it. It's as simple as that. If you can get clear on those and act on those and only those, you will succeed.   

Do I need to say more on the subject? More than likely....

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I am grateful for...a different perspective

abundance businesscoaching entrepreneurs gratitude transformation Sep 22, 2021

I am grateful for who I am
I am grateful for where I'm going
I am grateful for where I've been. 

When we think of our lives, we usually think about the past, present, and future. 

In this perspective, I was thinking about the present, future, and then the past. 

Where I am today, where I want to go, and where I've been is how I think about my life and how I look at the way I structure my thinking. Whether it's about a course I am developing or a book that I am writing. 

What's the significance of that, and is there any difference in the way we approach things?

If we look at the traditional way of looking at things, we are putting the past first. What effect does this have on how you might frame your thoughts, behaviors, and personality. How are our lives affected by thinking this way? We might give the past more weight than it deserves. We also could keep revisiting the same things over and over again. It might be a less efficient or effective process of dealing with the past. 

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Take Your Life Back

awareness business coaching takeyourlifeback transformation vulnerability Sep 15, 2021

"You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. 

I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be.

 It's their mistake, not my failing." Physicist Richard Feynman, on dealing with expectations. 

 

I know that you have heard this before. It's all about the stories that other people tell us. Other people's expectations of who we ought to be to the point we think we are supposed to be. We want to please those people, so we spend years trying to be that person. Just to wake up one day trying to figure out how I got here, feeling trapped and not knowing what to do next. If you are lucky, you are finding this out early enough in your life that you don't have the responsibilities of other people, like a wife and children, a mortgage, and car payments. College education to look forward to. You get the picture. Don't get me wrong; I am not saying that should deter you from what you want to do or who you want to be. It just has a few more ob...

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The Right Environment

#coaching #contribution #deepwork #transformation Sep 08, 2021

The following is a bit of stream of consciousness. So please bear with me on this one and try to follow where I am going:).

Each week, I want to focus on one thing. I write it down every day to keep it top of mind. This week’s Intention is to Design, Discover, and Develop an Environment conducive for Deep Work.

What does that look like? Focus so that I can write and do the uncomfortable things that I seem to resist. It doesn’t need to be in one place. What are the characteristics? Not really sure. Maybe I should sit here for a moment and think.

Open space?
Attractive surroundings,
The temperature needs to be comfortable. Not too cold or too hot
People around or no people?

A room with windows or not.
Open space in nature or a public space?

Do I want people to see me or to be invisible

Music or no music?
What kind of music?

My home and if so, how should the room be decorated?
A comfortable room separate from everyone.
Looking out onto nature, the woods with a river or stream or a

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Fear is Selfish

#transformation contribution face your fears realizing your dream Sep 01, 2021

“Fear is selfish; courage is selfless. Face the fear and open up the space in your life for courage.” Joshua G Gold

Interesting concept that fear is selfish. Who are you hurting besides yourself? Hmm. So fear is all about you. Well, that sounds kind of selfish. I am not talking about the fear of being hit by a car while riding your bike (which happened to me the other day. Ouch!). I am referring to the fear of not realizing the person you can be because you are afraid. Afraid of failing, afraid of people laughing at you. Afraid that you aren’t enough. So you stay small where no one can see you. Or you remain hidden behind the mask and sense of security of what you are good at doing. Without going out into the world and doing what you genuinely want to.

Who are you cheating? Yourself? Sure. But how about all those people that would benefit from what you have to offer? How about them? How about the many lives that you can touch and change for the better? What about them? So who are you...

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An Exceptional Life

#coaching abundance love success transformation Aug 26, 2021

“If you want to live an exceptional and extraordinary life, you have to give up many of the things that are part of a normal one” Srinivas Ro

Do you get a little anxious when reading that quote? Why do I have to give up anything to have an extraordinary life? Can’t I have it all?

Why would you? What you have now is not all that you want. What you have is keeping you from achieving your potential. It’s scary to think that you need to give up safe and comfortable things for the uncertainty of what’s next. Who is that person that needs to be discovered, unwrapped, sculpted to achieve greatness? I love the analogy of our lives being a piece of marble, and we are the sculptor, the artist that chips away slowly, uncovering the beauty that is ultimately there. I think of Michaelangelo sculpting David.

It’s exciting to think about living an exceptional life. Though are you willing to make the sacrifices. Are you ready to leave behind the comfort of the life that you know? Even if it is comf...

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Focus

abundance business coaching focus productivity success Aug 24, 2021

When Warren Buffet was asked the most critical thing that a person needs to succeed, his answer was Focus.

If you don’t have focus, and I will add clarity to the mix, you will be hard-pressed to have the success you desire. Of course, you can still have success in life, though not to the level that one wants.

So what does it take to have this type of focus and clarity? How to sustain it consistently throughout your life. Like life itself, there is an ebb and flow. As you are traveling through this journey, your lens will be in and out of focus. Your objective is to keep it focused for as long as you can. As it starts to get cloudy, fuzzy by circumstances arising out of your control that fog up the lens, readjust, pivot, change it so that you can get back to being productive and back to where it is focused again.

The stronger the WHY, the easier the how becomes. The stronger the WHY easier it is to Focus. To be clear as to the direction that you want to go.

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Thoughts to Ponder

#coaching #learning #sharing #thinking #transformation Aug 16, 2021

There is the knowledge that we have that we need to be reminded of.

There are things that we have learned that need to be unlearned.

There are things that we need to discard and others that we need to add.

Spend time each day thinking of what those things are. 

There is the knowledge that we have that we need to be reminded of. 

How often are we sitting listening to someone speaking, and we think we are hearing something for the first time and then realize we have listened to it so many times before? We all do. The thing about that is when we heard it the other times, it didn’t stick. It might not have been that relevant to where you were in your life. Now it is. Now it is something that you might take action on. That is when it will stick. Knowledge is just knowledge. Until you use that knowledge and take action, you are bound to forget it until the time when you are reminded of it. Then just maybe, it will stick. 

There are things that we have learned that need to be unlearne...

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