LivingReal

Are you beyond thinking about coaching and ready to jump in?  Not everyone is actually ready to be coached or even ‘coachable’.  Not everyone is serious about creating a life of their own design, to make deliberate and conscience decisions that will make major +positive + changes to how they live and enjoy who they are and how they interact with the world around them.

“There’s a difference between interest and commitment.  When you’re interested in doing something, you do it only when circumstances permit. When you’re committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results.”  Art Turock

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Do It Now!

Getting from point A to point B is the overall purpose.

Point A is where things are at today.

(Things = income, emotions & feelings, workload, time constraints, personal and family situations)

Point B is the clear vision of the life you want to create for yourself within the framework of family, career and personal dreams wants and desires.

We must not let the burden of or the reality of Point A to hinder the development of the vision of Point B. In other words, dont let the muck of everyday life clog the gears of your mind in developing a clear vision of where you want to be in the future nor the creative flow required to plan the course to get there.

In addition to muck is fear. Lets recognize it and face it. Fear will often back down when faced head on.

Fear of: Family reactions

Income disruptions

Failure

Disappointment

Client reaction

Employee reaction

Personal discomfort

On one end of the scale is fear. Balanced on the opposite end of the scale is the muck of life today. True along with the muck are all the benefits and accolades that come from providing a good life and living to yourself and your family. But it feels like muck, the continuing demands that grow each day that become toxic. Muck has the tendency to grow and spread and infect and suck you in further.

Clarifying Point B and making it so big & bright & colorful & attractive is step one

Now climb out of the muck by facing the fears

General Mills, Proctor Gamble and all the other food processors (I use the word processors rather than manufacturers purposely) have stealthily succeeded in changing the biological makeup of our taste buds.
If we are completely honest each of us can quickly create a list of  snack foods/fast foods/junk foods that we enjoy eating. Imagine Great Grandma coming by the house and all we had to offer were the foods on our list. After she was convinced that these items were edible there is a good chance that she would find the taste quite repulsive.
We often hear the term “it is an acquired taste” in referring to food and other individual styles and tastes. And no doubt with the growing abundance of snack foods/fast foods/junk foods we are acquiring tastes that serve the profit needs of the food processors but fall far short of meeting our health needs. As a child I recall the candy section at the local drug store. A normal height shelf with probably three feet in width devoted to candy and sugary products.
Compare that to the massive aisles of sugar laden candy we see in stores today. Then turn the corner and if doughy things are more to your liking there is the pastry aisles. Salty chips fill another large section. Now add in the whole row of coolers holding sodas and fountain drinks and its no wonder that the little corner drug store has become a large convenience store.
My #1 Point:  Our taste for these unhealthy items was acquired since an early age and the way in which our bodies naturally crave for the proper nutrients that it needs for health and survival have been altered by overuse of low nutrient  man-made products.
My #2 Point:  We MUST Re-Acquire the taste for healthy / whole / nutrient rich foods that feed our bodies to maintain the excellent state of health for which we were created. In order to do this we need to approach our dining tables with a paradigm of “what do I need to feed myself right now” rather than “what looks good”. Over time the two become the same as our bodies readjust to craving the right foods.
Action Item – experiment for yourself by catching your first thoughts and first choices when you are hungry and choosing what to eat. Is it a pastry or fresh fruit? A diet soda or a yogurt? A handful of M&Ms or a handful of almonds?  Now – take control of your thoughts and purposefully choose the healthier choice (not sure what the healthier choice is? Lets Talk!) While these healthier food items may not at first tingle your taste buds – chew well to obtain the natural sweetness and give it time – “its an acquired taste”.
Do this for a month and see how your taste buds adjust. It may take longer but while your taste buds adjust you will also be noticing some feelings of better health.

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It’s never easy to break free from the course we find ourself on, to change the path we are traveling.

Is it the right path? One of my own choosing? Am I truly challenged? Am I finding myself unable to be the best I can be? Am I using all my gifts and talents?

Traveling alone, it is difficult to see a clear path, to determine a plan and then muster the discipline to make the necessary changes.

Some of us are overwhelmed with the confusion and chaos around us, paralyzed, unable and unaware of where to begin to take control.

What do we do when our home no longer provides a sense of peace, pleasure or ownership.
Where do we turn when our relationships are a constant point of tension and frustration?
How do we react when our office has become a place we can’t seem to tame and it is costing us money.
How does it feel when our life is off balance and fulfilling.
Where is the excitement when we are chasing after dreams that were never our own.

What small thing could we change – Right Now – that will set our course straight?
What difficult thing have we put off time and again?

> Where has our pride kept us from asking for help?
> Where has stubbornness undermined our relationships?
> Where has cloudy vision kept us in the dark – not seeing the possibilities?
> Where has ‘doing it my own way’ held us back from real prosperity?

Maps and Blueprints / Visions and Objectives
A Person Needs To Be Certain the Path They Are Following, The House They Are Building, The Life They Are Living – Is Worthy of Who They Are.