Find Space for What You Need
March 19th, 2010
I love yoga. I know, it’s a California cliche and I actually resisted it for as long as I could. But eventually, I succumbed to the pull of the mat and the power of the downward facing dog.
Last night, my lovely and incredibly nimble young yoga instructor said something that really struck me. She told the class that her mentor described yoga as the practice of finding space where none existed before. She meant in your lungs and between your vertebrae, of course, but to me, this wasn’t just a great yoga metaphor, it was a great life metaphor.
Take a few minutes to consider the physical or mental overcrowding that you’re probably putting up with right now. Where do you need to bring some space into your personal or professional life? Do you need space on your calendar to spend more time with your kids? Space in your home to bring a pet into your life? Space on your to-do list to allow for new business?
Decide where you want the space and start making room. Even though it may be hard to get started, once you’re done it’s like that final child pose that you ease into at the end of a tough yoga session. Ahhh, breathe deep and relax into all that space.
Many thanks to MyAccountabilityClub member Angie Horejsi for her beautiful photo!
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Mindshare Minute #3 – Is Your Web Guy Holding You Hostage?
March 8th, 2010
Did you know you’ve only got 4-6 seconds to grab the attention of visitors coming to your website? That doesn’t give you much time to create a connection.
I want to share the 3 Critical Keys to Online Connection that are absolutely essential to establishing rapport with your potential customers. Just check out this Mindshare Minute video:
If you’re ready to make your website more professional and profitable – in just six hours – you’ll love the One Day Web Makeover. Don’t ever be held hostage by your ‘web guy’ again!
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Are You Living Without Borders?
March 4th, 2010
Catherine Carr compares being stuck in her work and life like constantly washing dishes. Dull, unchallenging and stagnant. That is, until she decided she was through being stuck and ready to dream big. Catherine’s metaphoric dishwashing days were over.
She went on the Doctors Without Borders website http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/ (known as Médecins Sans Frontières or MSF in most of the world) and, to her great surprise, found a job that fit her skills. It hadn’t even occurred to Catherine that there would be “normal jobs” like finance, operations and human resources within Doctors Without Borders. But just a few weeks later, she was hired as an HR finance coordinator and was off to Kenya to support the organization’s mission of international medical and humanitarian aid.
Catherine believes that finally letting go and trusting that it would all work out gave her the courage to open the door to a much larger life. How about you? Are you living a life of mediocrity or are you ready to live without borders?
CLICK HERE to listen to my interview with Catherine to hear the inspiring story of how she began living a life of radical purpose.
If you’d like to contribute time, money or resources to Doctors Without Borders, link to homepage please visit their website and donate generously to this amazing organization.
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Tags: Catherine Carr, Doctors Without Borders
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March 2010 Monthly Milestones
February 24th, 2010
Okay , it’s time to set your monthly milestone for March 2010.
Use the comment form below to publicly commit to your goal and we’ll be here to support you along the way!
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GUEST BLOG
February 10th, 2010
Game Changer Goals – by Alexandra Coulter
In setting Milestones, we are reaching beyond our grasp, to keep growing. Say your Milestone is to increase your income by a specific amount. You never know when a freak cold spell might reduce the number of surfboards you were counting on selling. Losing 25 pounds is a fine Milestone. But you can’t be certain that you won’t be asked to participate in a prestigious food tasting event that could shatter your Milestone at the last minute. Milestones are not meant to be a sure thing. But you can sure up your bets by using Game Changer Goals.
The One Year Vision exercise we do before beginning with the Accountability Club, showed me there are certain plays I need to make to reach my Milestone of growing my business. Reading is one of them. It fuels my creative juices and inspires me. Reading is essential to my career and professional development. But I have a lot of it to do: between books, newsletters, blogs, and listening to internet broadcasts, I was feeling overwhelmed.
I needed to come up with realistic, specific, measurable steps that will mark my way to my goal. Like sketching out a basketball play. This is the flow of movements I can take which will effect the play of the game. Where I can put my energy to impact the game in my favor.
Each month, before the Accountability Club call, we choose 3 to 5 Game Changer Goals to accomplish in the next month. Libby says we should answer these questions about them:
- Can I realistically expect to do them all in a month’s time?
- Are they specific enough so that I will know exactly what I need to do?
- Will I be able to say for sure, at the next call, that I have accomplished these Game Changer Goals?
These questions assure our actions will be within our control and not subject to the whims of life which can toss our bigger, bolder, Milestones asunder.
So I set a Game Changer Goal around reading because I know that will directly effect the growth of my business. Just saying I need to read isn’t very clear. I needed to think about how much I can expect to actually do in a month, a week, in a day. Can I be more specific about what I want to read? Libby Gill’s “You UnStuck” is a good place to start. Which blogs? Which Newsletters? How will I know when I’ve reached my Game Changer Goal? The answers to these questions will allow me to take concrete steps that will move me in the direction I want to go. I want to read these 2 books, keep up with these 4 blogs and read these 6 newsletters.
On the monthly Accountability Club call, if you’ve been there before, you tell us how you did last month in meeting your goals. (The place of accountability.) You’ll hear praise and congratulations if you’ve met them. If not, there is encouragement and one-on-one help with Libby (one of the best in the business) who will guide you in finding ways to meet your Game Changer Goals next month.
In between calls, we can assign the same kind of choice-making to what we do each week, each day. So that we know, in the moment, which actions will change the game.
Meeting these Game Changer Goals (coupled with accountability) has a direct impact, a game-changing effect on our success at reaching Milestones. It puts control back into our hands. So the capricious winds of change can’t throw us completely off course and we can keep moving forward.
Reading is now an integrated part of my daily routine. Easy and enjoyable. Keeping me moving forward. With a couple of Game Changer Goals in my pocket, I can see the guide posts clearly. I know exactly what I need to do to score and win the game!
P.S. When you’re attention is on the tasks at hand, it’s easier to let go of the outcome, circumventing some of the fear that comes up as you approach new territory.
Alexandra Coulter is the owner and chief writing officer for the growing business UpWrite Words, offering online and print writing services to the Personal Growth Community. Check out her web site at http://www.upwritewords.com/ and read her Positive Slant blog at or through the web site.
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If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking. Buddhist Proverb
February 8th, 2010
If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking. Buddhist Proverb
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Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday. John Wayne
February 8th, 2010
Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday. John Wayne
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The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart. Helen Keller
February 8th, 2010
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart. Helen Keller
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February 2010 Monthly Milestones
January 26th, 2010
Okay , it’s time to set your monthly milestone for February 2010.
Use the comment form below to publicly commit to your goal and we’ll be here to support you along the way!
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