I Have No Time, Honestly!
August 8, 2010
This is something I wrote back in July 2009, but as I read it, the message came back to live and jumps right out at me. I thought I will post this here for you too. Keep an open mind and see how this may lead you …
I check out my to do list from a few month back and noticed an item I keep transferring from month to month.
Yikes!
While I am able to check off other items as done, I just did not bring myself around to starting on this item!
It's choosing the lights for my newly handed-over apartment. How difficult is that? Apparently to me I just don't have the time for this!
Well actually maybe it is not that I do not have the time, it is more like it that I just keep postponing attending to this matter.
And I guess I am not certain of the theme I want to go with, the effect I want and just well, I think I need to look around for more design and ideas before I commit to making the final decision.
Strange huh?
It is really not that I have no time, because I manage to get a whole lot of other things done in the mean time.
I just have an invisible barrier underneath – of wanting to choose the best theme, wanting to have the best effect, of getting it just right and so I delay even starting on the project – for months.
If that is how I approach this project then that gives an indication of how I approach other things in my life, because how I do anything is how I do everything.
Hmmm.
What does that mean for me?
Well for one, I can't say I have no time anymore.
And two, I need to find out why there is a need to have it just perfect.
And really I just need to go start on the project!
Nobody will die if I install lights that does not claim me the latest and sleekest design. So the lesson here is to find out what is the real reason for stalling my projects. What stops me from moving?
And then, work on it and get it moving!
Well I have kind of decided on what I want now and will be making my orders today. In less that a week, the lights would be installed and that will allow me to check off this item as "done".
If you are like me, maybe you can also look into your "to-do" list and see what you have always wanted to do, know is good for you but did not manage to get going.
Then go through the same process I did and share with me the good news in the comments section of the blog.
Alternatively, if you need a little help in discovering what may be stopping you from starting on your project, feel free to give me a shout here and we can do a little exploration together.
I wonder how many times you have heard or used this phrase in the last week. It's the perfect excuse for not attending to important things in our lives, it is legitimate and sort of acceptable in today's culture to be overly busy and consumed and "have no time".
Yet, are we not each given 24 hours in a day. That is perhaps the only thing we all have an equal amount of! You Have No Time For Things You Do Not Really Want To Do.
Be Big, Be Who You Can Be
August 1, 2010
Dedicated to All Who Are Ready To Experience Magic In Their Lives
I was at a high impact, intensive 7-Day workshop with Blair Singer the past week and throughout the workshop we were challenged to be a bigger person, do greater work with bigger impact. Mind you, this was a workshop on Sales and Leadership but the beautiful thing with Blair's work is that he often works on personal development as he teachers business development.
I will not be able to share all the transformations that have taken place in me and those around me here but these are going into my journal for sure. Most were pretty obvious and some were quite dramatic.
Here's a song that came to mind as I think of the past week. Love the lyrics and I too hope that "You can strive to be more than what you think you can be". That "All of your dreams are only a heartbeat away and that the answers are all up to you". The power is in your hands, you are in control, you just need to decide and do it. "Seize that one moment in time and Make It Shine".
3 years ago I participated in the same workshop with Blair and I can see how that has prepared me for my work the last few years. From a content person (aka "expert professional") he showed me the importance of selling – which later led to an unsolicited online sales job with a virtual educational institution (in which I did quite well). This time round I am at a different place and I am so very glad I participated and learned from one of the greatest Teacher and Facilitator live, in person and be coached by him personally from the stage.
Blair and his workshops are not for the fainthearted. He turned up the heat day by day within the context of a safe environment and it forces you to either move forward and be transformed or to want to bail out. For those who believe they have potential that has yet to be unleashed, this is the workshop I recommend you consider doing.
This is where I learned what pertubation process in life means. There is no need to panic or be stressed-out when things are in chaos and when the pressures are great. When that happens just know that pertubation and transformation is about to take place and that you will be a bigger person when you push past the pressures.
If I have to use one sentence to summarize the entire workshop it would be this: "If you want to play the game of life, get into the game and Play Big". The world needs you. There is no value in being small, to you or to those around you. So Be Big, Be Who You Can Be!!
Avoid eMail Spamming – Use Contact Forms
July 22, 2010
Continuing with the topic of protecting our email addresses against email abuse such as spamming, spoofing and phishing
You do not have to give out your primary email addresses to people you do not know or trust. You can make use of contact forms on your blog and sites. You can also make use of secondary "disposable" emails for subscription purposes.
More tips on productivity without the stress at www.WorkWithOneHeart.com/workstress
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