Month: June 2016

Preconceived Notions, Assumptions, Perceptions Oh My!

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Ahh, preconceived notions, assumptions, and perceptions… The human race has so many different variations of these. These seem to pop up on a daily basis. How do you overcome these? How have come to handle these three anomalies? It can be tiring and draining. What I find that amazes me is you do not even realize it is happening and when it happens it throws a curve in that is difficult to bounce back from. But you can bounce back!

Bouncing back is self-care and forward motion. I do not need to sit in these three notions, assumptions, and perceptions in check. It goes both ways, as does anything else. Lately this has been happening to me and I need to look at my part in each situation. It is important to me to be a better person, a trustworthy person, a credible person, an ethical person, and a person who is open to hearing when I am wrong and have the ability to change for the better. I live in the mindset of self-development on a daily consistent basis. It is important me to grow mentally and spiritually. Learning something new everyday inspires me to improve and be a better person.

We need these reminders to help us stay in the moment, for me it is looking at myself but not beating myself up, but to see where I can improve. It is not always enjoyable but it does bring me back to me and to work and learn on how to improve myself. I can embrace my imperfections, acknowledge them, and move on to what I need to do for myself.

My goal is to attract positive people and influences into my life. I cannot do this if I do not move away from my misconceptions. I choose not to do the blame game. I choose to bring awareness, acceptance, and action into my life to help me move in the right direction. Wouldn’t it feel great to surround yourself with goodness? It brings my vibrations into a positive light and propels me to continue to work towards my goals and dreams.

Life takes us I so many directions and I know I can get caught up in “stuff.” What about you, how do you get “unstuck from the stuff?” I would love to hear from you and have you share what tools you use to overcome these.

What Happens When You Bring Something New Into Your Life?

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What happens to you when you add something new to your life? Wow, for me it is a big adjustment. Adding something new has its trials and errors for me staying on queue with my life and my work. My newest addition is my new pup. He is two and a handful. I knew this going in but my determination and my love for this little guy told me to take this leap of faith and bring him into my home.

Bringing in a new pet leads to many challenges. How do I fit him into my schedule? I have such a busy life how am I going to make this work? Prior to this I lost my last fur love two years ago. He was 15 ½ and such a good dog. It was hard to lose him as I had lost his pal two years prior to him. This thing is I love being home. When I lost Buddy I started staying away from home to cope and then I continued to have a crazy schedule. My new pup, Jack, has brought me back to my home where I love to be. Granted I have made a lot of changes to get him adjusted. Some of those have been good-I am organizing and clearing out what I do not need. I am walking three to four miles a day so Jack is now my portable gym. Other changes will switch back once he is trained. Honestly he has gotten me back to where I want to be so making these adjustments is what I am meant to do.

Now to the work part: it has been difficult to get things done. I am acknowledging this and using my creativity to conquer this challenge. My blogs have not been as frequent and so right now I just posted one and am taking advantage and getting some writing done while he naps. I need to do the same thing when making phone calls. Having a barking dog in the background can be distracting for the person I am calling and myself trying to stay focused on topic. It is a work in progress and we are improving and making strides every day.

Add on top of that I am refocusing and expanding my business. In order to keep growing and expanding I need to expand myself and how I approach my business. Do any of you find a need for this? Bringing in new ways and learning new ideas to help grow my business is helping me in every area of my life.

I find it exciting, eye opening, and challenging all at once when I bring new things into my life even if it is revamping what I am already doing. I think looking at my work in a different way with a different perspective brings newness in and with newness brings growth. How are you bringing in growth to your business? I would love to hear how you are growing and expanding.

What is new and exciting that you have brought into your life?

Until next time…

~Lisa

How Do You Keep Moving Forward?

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How do you keep moving forward? It does not matter whether it is for work or home. There are 24 hours in a day, seven days in a week but there never seems to be enough time to keep up with life. It can get overwhelming and sometimes I think the heck with it. That is when I need to take a step back and see what is really happening underneath the chaos of my life. I ask you what do you do when this happens to you?

There was a time when I was not so busy and having that idle time can be dangerous for my mind. Idle time can mean getting into my head and not into my w. My head tells me one thing and my heart another. It is usually my heart that has the right answer. How does this work for you? The big difference for me now is that I need be even more specific with my priorities and sometimes the insanity of life skews my sense of what is important. I can feel a shift in me when this happens. My goals take a back seat and that is not healthy for my business or me. This is a little spin off of my blog juggling acts. Everyone is juggling, the difference is some people are just so organized and others well not so much.

It is when I step into the chaos that what I have for organization crumbles. I was on a business coaching call last week and we talked about how some of us are piling and others of us are filing. Which one are you? This is when I bring my toolbox out and use the tools I have learned to get me back on track. What are some of the tools in your toolbox?

The thing is it is okay to get off track once in awhile as long as it is not on a daily basis. We are all human beings and cannot be on our “game” all of the time. That would be quite tedious and draining don’t you think? Taking down time to regroup, refresh, recharge, or whatever you name it makes us so much stronger to continue our journey of discovery and success. I think for me one of my recharging tools is writing this blog. I am finding it brings out the creative side of me, gets me thinking on the right track, focuses me, and inspires me to keep moving forward. My intention is to reach as many people as possible and help as many people as I possibly can. Walt Disney wrote, “Around here we don’t look backwards for very long… We keep moving forward, opening new doors and doing new things because we’re curious… And curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.” This is what I want for myself. To keep moving forward, opening myself up for new experiences, and keeping myself curious because being curious means to me that I am alive, growing, and learning. So, I ask you how are you staying curious?

 

Until next time…

~Lisa