Ever wish you could create a life worth living? A life that is full of joy?
A life that is best described: Juicy?
Create Your Juicy Life is a practical, hands-on approach to creating just that – a life that is full, ripe and delicious!
For a limited time, I am offering the first section of this new book online to you FREE. Simply complete the contact form with your name and email and I’ll gladly send it your way. I can’t wait for you to start designing YOUR juicy life.
In this book, you will be provided with exercises to create your juicy life. Take stock of your current reality – and then CHOOSE. Notice. and Act.
This book is great if you are feeling stuck, need a nudge, or just want to experience more joy in your life.
If you could get more JOY in your life – what might that be like? Well, now you have some practical tools to use to answer the question – and EXPERIENCE the answer.
Much has been written about goal setting and success. From all that I have read I’ve come up with a simple form to help each of us achieve the success we desire. There are 3 elements critical to goal setting and success:
- Clarity. Being able to set you aim and focus on something specific helps you to achieve your result. The more specific, the more likely you are to be successful with achieving your result. First, What do you want? Get yourself really clear on what this is. A deeper question that might be helpful to explore is Why do I want it?
- Chunk it down. Now, I don’t need any study to show me that being able to take bite sized bites of something is easier to swallow than taking one large bite. When a project is too big, too hairy, to scary – I don’t do anything. Chunk your goal down into bite sized pieces. What are you doing every day that gets you closer to your goal?
- Action. To achieve your results, there needs to be action not just thoughts, not just “try’s” (i.e. I’m going to try to do it) – but deliberate actions. What are you doing?
Use the 2Day 2Achieve Worksheet to move you closer to your goal. Action by action, day by day you will start to see what you are doing to create your own success. You can use this form at the beginning of each day to plan out what actions you will take. Or, you can use the form at the end of the day and reflect on what two actions did you take today? Either way you can’t go wrong when you are using this tool.
Just 2 a day. What do you choose?
More importantly, what are you getting from the actions you’ve taken?
This morning I saw an interview with Scott Hamilton talking about the women’s figure skating event last night. He mentioned the phrase,
“Be Olympic.” And then I quickly sipped my coffee and rushed out the door.
As I proceeded to be in the hum-drum of my drive, I thought, what does it mean to Be Olympic?
These 3 things will allow us to show up in a way where we can Be Olympic in the competition of our daily lives:
- Find your courage - Look to the home town gal, Joannie Rochette, who’s mother past just two days before her time on the ice. She didn’t just “show up” she is sitting in 3rd place after the short program. How do you find your courage? If you were to be able to stand in your Courage what results might you ahceive?
- Prepare for your moment – If you were like Aussie skater, Cheltzie Lee, you might not even have thought the 2010 Olympics would be your moment. She got the call two weeks ago informing her she could compete after the skater from Israel was not going to be at the games. Cheltzie skated the best short program of her life in the brightest spot light for her world. What daily habits do you have that are preparing you for your moment? What do you still need to be doing so that when the spot light hits, it’s shining on you?
- Get out of your own way – The Korean women in first place, Yu-Na Kim, took a nasty spill in practice the day of the short program. A fall on her left side, from which I understand is not common and can be quite jarring – to the body and the ego. Going into her jump during the competition she let it happen – and landed it perfectly. Where do you find yourself getting in your own way? What landings might you stick if you could simply move yourself out of the way?
Everyday we make choices about how we show up – some conscious and some completely on autopilot and so far from our own awareness to detect that it was even a choice. How might you Be Olympic today?
Better yet, what might you get as a result?
Today I was coaching a client and asked the question, “What’s the story you are telling yourself about that relationship?”
The Story. Yep, the story.
I’ve been to a number of different personal development sessions where this concept comes out – Landmark Education, Coaching Certification, and the book Language and the pursuit of happiness. This concept of story is something very powerful when you can just stand with it. Live with it. Own it. And then get to choose – how is it serving me?
Think about that relationship in your life where you might benefit from a deeper connection. Maybe it’s your brother, you boss or barista at your favorite coffee shop. What’s the story you have about that relationship?
Once you’ve become aware of the story that you have – get yourself clear about what it truly is. What if the story was written a different way? (your brain might shift to autopilot and convince yourself it’s can’t possibly be another way than it currently is today, or it’s not possible to change – because they aren’t going to change!) As a coach, I’m not really interesting in spending the time and energy around why it can’t change – I’m interested in “if you want the story to change, what can you do to rewrite it?” Here’s how:
- Create the story you want to live in. What is the story that would make you jump for joy, throw your hands up, pee your pants because – holy crap, I never knew it could be that good. Describe that story. Write it down. What is the story you want to create?
- If you got to live in that story – what would be different for you? What does this story sound like? look like? smell like? What does this story evoke in your heart, head and soul? (write down a few notes about this)
- And if you had that, what would you have? It might be a fuller relationships, a sense of letting go, peace, harmony…what else might it be for you?
- Move to action to live in this story. Identify 25 things YOU will do to show up in a way that lives this new story. (BTW this list is about you, not the other person)
Doing this simple exercise to repair, renew, revive a relationship in your life might have a profound impact. I don’t know if it ends happily ever after. I just know today might be uniquely different from days in the story of the past.
What’s it worth to you to see how you can rewrite the stories of your life - or better yet, what are you risking if you don’t?
