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Bears Hibernate… Do You?

Asking for a sign from nature this morning, (No, I didn’t see a bear!) I noticed birds flying north. Smiling here… yes from “birds flying north” my inner voice said: migrate, hibernate, seasons of turning within and rest. Okay, maybe I haven’t quite got this intuition thing down yet! Regardless, the message I heard was pretty clear. So much of non-human life knows about seasons, expansion and contraction, expression and lying low, outward beauty and inward renewal. I live in Wisconsin and every year leaves and grass and flowers and sunshine and warmth are replaced with barren and cold and snow and a shifting out of the wildlife that we see – and do not see.

Today this got me thinking about my own life. Continue reading “Bears Hibernate… Do You?”

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What is your availability for expansion?

Today, I want to ask you this question as it relates to your personal growth. Life can have some very powerful moments filled with “ah ha’s” and clear direction for next steps. These moments have real and lasting impact, however, only when we take action. And we all have experienced the day-to-day getting in the way at times of this powerful, forward movement. So I ask:

What is your availability index?
How do you remain available to action and expansion in everyday life?
In what ways do you shortchange yourself?

What now?

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Selling Out

Today’s tidbit is short and sweet. Bring to mind some recent – or perhaps less recent but still relevant – commitments you’ve made to yourself. Maybe you’ve made them in the context of coaching, maybe not. For each one, consider:

What is its purpose?
What greater vision or goal does it serve?
What level of commitment is there now?
Where are you selling yourself short?
What part of you wants to quit?
What part of you wants more intensity?

Now what?

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The “Goal”

I am yet in my “morning space” which, delightfully today, is outside. I selected a coaching card to guide me. This isn’t something I do often, but today it felt right. Oh boy! Do you have times when your own words come back to haunt you? I do! The card I chose is this one:

The Next Chapter

I was thinking a bit about its question (click on the card for the questions), Continue reading “The “Goal””

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Life is a Full Body Sport

Life is a Full Body Sport. No, I didn’t say full contact sport! I DID say that to live fully is to invite the talking head to rest often and encourage the heart, gut, energy system and emotionally body into the game. The wisdom of the body, the awareness of our energy field, the knowing in our gut – each of these is a source of deep intuitive wisdom that we all too often ignore when we allow our intellect, our talking head, to run our lives.

This week, practice full body living. Pause often between tasks, before decisions, between thoughts to breathe deeply into the entire body and then listen for the wisdom:

What tension exists?
What is my gut instinct?
What do I really feel?
What is my energy level now?
What do I know?