Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Thoughts on Time
What exactly is time? How does it work? What's the best way to relate to it? I hear so much about time management and just about everyone I know, including myself, have wrestled with this issue. Is there really such a thing as time management? Or is it self-management? Time just is. It doesn't do anything. It's just there. We know it's coming, it passes and then it's history. No way to get it back. We have a real knack of getting ourselves into situations where we feel trapped by time.
These are some distinctions that I feel helpful to reflect on.

Time is a tool that is exclusively mine to play with.
How I spend my time will give me 80% of the fulfillment I desire.
Time is not manageable, but my choices and actions are.

Saturday, February 24, 2007

What should I do with my life?
By Po Bronson
Need to return this book to the library. It's a week overdue. It was a good read. Many different stories of people and how they found fulfillment through the journey of their lives. We each have a wonderful story to tell. We just need to sit down, reflect on how we've become who we are and what it is we want to do with what's left of our time here. What do you really want? Do you know what you're passionate about? Do you absolutely love what you do? If not, what are you going to do about it? Good thought-provoking stuff.

Wednesday, February 14, 2007

My mind is a bit of a blank lately. But I shall post a question I find humourous & challenging:

Are you sucking the marrow out of life every moment of the day?

Saturday, February 10, 2007

Outrageous Desires
There's a question I really, really like that I'm planning to put on the back of my future business card. It goes like this:

What would you do if you knew you couldn't fail?

I know most of the time I'm so busy doing whatever it is I'm doing that I don't day-dream or even night-dream (too shack!) anymore. That's no good. I believe we should all reconnect with our dreams.....and make them BIG dreams. I now firmly believe in an "abundance" mentality. Whatever I want to do, it can be done. Just have to figure out, in detail, what it is I want to do.

That's where dreaming comes in. Problem is. Most of our dreams are scaled down because they may not seem very realistic. As we get "supposedly" older and wiser, we also get more realistic, and so our dreams get smaller and smaller. But it's a dog-eat-dog world. That reality may then lead us to conclude.....why bother to dream at all?

So, my challenge to myself and you as well, is to set aside the rational side of your brain and think BIG. Start thinking and making (yes, writing it down!) a list of the most outrageous things you would do or create if nothing held you back. Set the wheels in motion for acheiving everything you desire.

I can if I believe I can.

And so can you.

Wednesday, February 07, 2007

Do you love your work?
I like these two quotes about work.

I never did a day's work in my life: it was all fun. Thomas Edison

The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labour and his leisure, his information and his recreation, his life and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him, he is always doing both. James Michener

That sort of sums up how I feel about being a life coach. It feels great!

Tuesday, February 06, 2007

Hynotherapy
Bad attitudes are a real pain to deal with. The ones I'm dealing with are long standing and deeply ingrained. I give it a lot of credit for turning my brown-black hair to white. So I have a brainwave. I need to enlist the help of a hynotherapist to cast out those bad attitudes and replace it with attitudes of gratitude.

Saturday, February 03, 2007

How early does your memory start?
This is an interesting conversation piece with children. Ask them what their earliest memory is. For my son, two things came to mind. The first was that he was on holiday in America. He remembers waking up, being in K1 (the year he turned 5 yrs) and thinking that's the beginning of his life. The second was going into his brother's room and that his brother had no hair. Oddly, that memory would have been when he was younger (3-4 yrs old).

There were so many things of him as a toddler which I thought he would have remembered but he doesn't.

He doesn't remember biting his brother (a major issue for us parents which stretched for a seemingly long time). He doesn't remember moving into our present home (a traumatic event for him and us because of a strong attachment that required some severing). He doesn't remember how much he disliked attending nursery and how the teacher had to forcibly pry him from me. I felt such guilt as I walked away. Then on picking him up afterwards, I would have to gently persuade or extricate him from under the table (positively heart wrenching to see him there).

Good thing is he doesn't remember me caning him either. What a relief! And to think that I may have felt partially guilty or responsible for all the 'abuse' my children had to bear because of my experimental parenting. There's no memory of it. All those tears they shed are probably harmless. Now that's something to think about.

Thursday, February 01, 2007

SO NICE AND BREEZY......
I just love this windy weather. I went running on Tuesday morning and it was actually cool....for a second there I thought I was in Cameron Highlands. I went running earlier this evening and it was super breezy. I just love it when the leaves of big trees are just swaying to and fro. It was so, so pleasant. I felt so happy just to be out and about. Wish every single day could be clear, windy and cool like today. Never realized before just how much influence the weather has on my mood. So used to being hot, sticky and semi-grouchy most of the time. This weather is really refreshing! I love it!