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For the love of money …

What do you do for the love of money? Do you work long, hard hours because you love money?

I bet you don’t. I’m guessing that what you love – or appreciate – are the things that money can buy (as well as some things it can’t buy!):

  • A comfortable home
  • Family vacations
  • Good food and your health club membership
  • Education for you or your children

And the list could go on. The next time your thoughts and energy go toward:

  • I don’t want to go to work or do this particular task
  • My boss is a real SOB
  • I want to quit

or wherever else you go when you are unhappy with what it takes to bring home a paycheck, consider the deeper “why”. Call to mind, heart and spirit the reason you are there and practice:

I willingly do this for the sake of –>
the children I love
or health
or security
or …

Then, take it one step further. Bring the energy and attitude of love for your children or the value you place on health and security to the task at hand.

What if I worked with the energy of love, of play, of gratitude?

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Toward Positive Transformation…

Bring to mind a situation, relationship, belief that both challenges you and that you are ready to experience shift around.  

Got it?  Now:

  • In 1 or 2 words, describe the current state.
  • In 1 or 2 words, describe a positive transformation.
  • If you could add one thing that would move this toward positive transformation, what would it be?
  • If you could remove one thing that would move this toward positive transformation, what would it be?
  • What will you do?
  • By when?
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Beware the advice you give!

telling-off

Okay … as a life coach I VERY rarely give advice. But in the course of coaching someone, the two of us seek to discover practices, commitments, exercises which will deepen their learning between coaching sessions. And it no longer surprises me how pertinent their practices are for my well-being!

Do you listen to what you tell others, what you advise for them?
Do you pay attention to the advice in your thoughts even when it wisely goes unspoken? 

If not, try listening to yourself. Often we are only subconsciously aware of what we most need to hear. These subconscious thoughts come out more readily when they are for someone else! The next time you give advice, listen up! And the next time you need some and no one is around, try this:

What would I tell someone else?

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Beyond the fresh coat of paint …

There is something about the chaos of painting that invites a deeper cleaning, rearranging, and clearing out! As I put the room back together, careful not to mar the freshly painted walls, I couldn’t help but move some things around and view the space from different perspectives. And before restoring all the knickknacks, I had to open the drawers and the doors and clean and discard and make the hidden areas fresh and lighter as well.

What about our insides, our thoughts, beliefs, ideas and practices?
What needs rearranging?
What needs to be released?

What will lighten our inner load?

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Fresh coat of paint

paintwall

I’m looking at empty walls this morning … empty but freshly painted and alive with possibility! At this stage, I get to reconsider everything about these walls – what to hang, what not to hang, where to hang and in what configuration! What is the purpose for hanging anything? What happens when I decorate with purpose?

Of course I wonder what the parallel is for our personal beings:

  • What needs to come down– permanently?
  • What is a fresh coat of paint when it comes to our selves?
  • What purpose will guide the redecorating?

What I know about both the walls in this room and about my personal being is this: less is more. Simplicity is freedom.

What about you… what is ready for a fresh coat of paint?