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.
It’s one word that can doom any successful training effort. I was reading through some blogs today and came across an entry on Icebreakers. It sent chills down my spine and I just froze. 
Not really the the feel I go for when starting a workshop or retreat. It reminded me of a Train-the-Trainers workshop I facilitated last week. The trainers were talking about Icebreakers. I asked them “How does your staff respond to when you engage them in an icebreaker?”
They admitted, that more times than not it was a struggle and often heard a gasp as the eyes rolled around in their group members. I through out this ideas – “what might be different if you called this an exercise?” Hmmmm…What’s the diff?
To start:
- Your group is going to go into autopilot and check out when they hear the dreaded “icebreaker”
- The EXERCISE is going to be related to the content of the training. This is where I think icebreaking goes awry.
- I’m not going to ask you, as a participant, to do anything I hate doing as a workshop participant. That’s a pretty good gut check for me to gauge the feasibility of any opening exercise.
One of my favorite exercises to do in the beginning of the workshop is around the learning objectives themselves. Download the PDF Exercise for a simple step-by-step approach to starting your next training off with a SPARK, not a deep freeze.
Spend a winter in Minnesota.
It was in the elevator at work today that I heard a colleague say “Isn’t it a great day out today?” I’ve spent the last number of years in MN so I eagerly nodded and said, “Yes, it’s amazing what the bright sun and crisp glare of fresh snow can have on a day.” That, and we both loved that it was 35 degrees today. Yes, 35 degrees (F)!
Why is it, if you are reading this in sunny SoCal, you must think we have lost our minds.
Or, if this was June, and all things being the same: 35 degrees, sunny with fresh dusting of snow – I’d sound like a loon.
It’s all a matter of perspective – we simply got too comfortable in the deep freeze. And it wasn’t until we could thaw out that we could shift our perspective and see something from a different point of view.
Want to add some new ideas, new way of looking at things – shift your perspective.
Ask yourself these questions to glimpse into a new perspective:
- What would someone from Minnesota say about that?
- How might Olympic Gold Medalist Lindsey Vohn approach it? (also from MN)
- What might the courageous you say to this?
- How might (insert anyone other than yourself) do in this situation?
and let their perspective shape yours. Who’s perspective would you like to learn from?
