Be Inspired and Change Something

Be Inspired & Change Something

Have you ever thought about using a coach? Have you ever used one in the past?

Those who have, have found it to be an immensely motivating and validating experience. For 30-90 minutes you are gifted with the focused attention on YOU and on what you want and need! You create the agenda and a coach will help you set the tone.

A coach authentically, and attentively nudges you and helps you shift towards greater congruence between you and your dreams.

• A coach can help you connect to your mission and vision – showing you that you are never starting from scratch.
• A coach helps you cultivate your great ideas, which may be hidden in distraction, just a seed waiting for loving attention to flourish! 
• A coach is a supportive set of "believing" eyes – you know you have a good idea, a coach is a perfect person to bounce things off. Expect genuine feedback and even additional tools to stimilate even more creative ideas and connections.
• A coach can help you process change and challenges in your life – whether you are facing specific challenges or you are ready to find clarity around things in general.
• A coach can help you set goals, carry them to completion and embrace greater freedom.

Resources

1. Change is a Miracle, read more...

2. There are many ways to change a habit. This is an excerpt from a blog I wrote 2 months ago on the many ways of changing something...

Excerpt:

"The Power of Habit

I have promoted the power of practice. While I use the terms habit and practice interchangeably, there are slight differences in nuances, which is simply a matter of personal connection/preference.

What do the words habit and practice mean to you?

What is the strange looking puzzle on this page doing there? I enjoy playing with my ideas, playfulness is an attitude that I find powerful and empowering to bring into my practices, no matter what they are.

When you have an idea, you make it happen by turning it into a practice. What does play have to do with it? Practice is a serious business, yet practice to be sustainable, needs to embody "play". I have taken the 7 pivotal points of the Hero's Journey and represented them here as a puzzle.

Imagine playing with this puzzle. When something works for you, my philosophy is "play it forward"... this is the sustainability and appreciation I love to emphasize."

Excerpted from my blog, to read more and experiment with "new" practices and for more links and resources, click here...

Hero's Journey & TAO of Experience

Updating my other blogs, the Hero's Journey and TAO of Experience.

Interesting read on how to use creative perspective, strategies and practices to create your experiences. Isn't this why we are all here, in a search for meaning and the eternal validation of our "creative essence".

Do not assume that all you have experienced is all there is to experience. We usually remember this therefore we have the courage to continue on our journeys. There are times we need to remind ourselves though.

7 Idea Generators

The 7 Idea Generators are competencies and practices to generate ideas, improve memory, increase knowledge, solve problems (find solutions), invent things, improve relationships, find partners, shift to a new perspective, and best of all, to cultivate a sense of humour. Did I mention, it creates HAPPINESS?

Like INNOVERY  or not, on facebook. 7 Great tips to get you what you want!

Connect To Resourcefulness

DON'T WORRY, BE HAPPY 

 I remember the reggae music, musicians on a tropical island sharing their perspective. It's easy not to worry and to be happy when you are on a beautiful island, with friends, singing and dancing, in the sun, the poster child of health and freedom, making money doing all this, and the list is endless. What are the reasons we give ourselves as to why we have to worry and why now is not the time to be happy even though it is the one thing I want more than anything else?

Tell Me It's Normal

It is normal to feel fear, doubt, worry and even panic. We are learning to focus our attention in more creative and constructive ways. When we are doing this conscciously, we are getting increasingly better at it.

But change happens, externals can be unpredictable and we have our moments where we are just not in the zone. If you consider that we are expanding our potential, and our potential is also expanding, we are regularly faced with challenges. We can learn new ways of perceiving these challenges, so we feel less overwhelm.

 Worry, panic, fear and doubt usually stems from us feeling overwhelmed. We feel overwhelmed when we tell ourselves that the situation is asking more than I am able to give. When we tell ourselves that this is too big, hard, emotional to handle right now. I can't do this. This shouldn't be happening... the list goes on. 


Reactive vs. Responsive

 The reaction is usually to go at it harder and more aggressively or to run away. The flight, fright, freeze reaction again. But what if we can put ourselves in a position to be RESPONSIVE instead. To be creative is to be responsive. How does on choose to be responsive instead of reactive? To use negative emotions as fuel as so many creatives say they do. How does one turn a negative into a positive?

 Resourcefulness & Resiliency 

 The answer lies in RESILIENCY. What if I can keep my head while the world is losing theirs? Resiliency comes from an awareness that "If there is an answer I will find it" thinking. The turning point is cultivating resilient thoughts and choosing to believe in one's ability and capacity to rise to any challenge. I call this a faith in one's inner creativity, in one's Resourcefulness.

We are by nature resourceful. When the going is good, it is important to cultivate a resourceful state, to enhance one's experience and connection to those inner resources of creativity, creative growth and creative resolution.

Even greater benefits come from connecting to this Resourceful State when faced with any challenge. Resiliency & Resourcefulness comes from a belief in one's own capacity to connect to one's creative centre. The belief that it is there and I can mobilise it.

 Creative Practice 

1. Take a sheet of paper and write down the words "worry, fear, panic and doubt". 
2.  Circle these words. 
3. Now draw arrows leading away from these words into open space on the page.
4. Now write down the words, resilience and resourcefulness. 
5. Meditate on how you connect to your resilience & resourcefulness. 
6. Be aware of where you have this as you move more creatively through your day. 
7. Write down three affirmations that describe what you are feeling. e.g.

• I feel more and more connected to my creative capacity. 
• I feel stronger when I am aware of my strengths 
• I feel like I am looking beyond overwhelm, connected to my calm in better ways.