Here we are at the last topic for the theme of overall well-being - Balance.
Balance does not mean everything is even keel all the time. It means that you never let the glass ball drop - whatever that glass ball is to you. Usually the glass ball is family, sometimes the glass ball is health. What it usually is not is your career.
We have to be able to recognize what our glass balls are - what is the most important area to us at any given time, and which one needs the most attention in order not to truly fail. And by fail, I mean get to a point from which there is no return or repair.
We know when we are in balance overall when we feel at peace, calm, centered.
If we have been living an unbalanced life for a number of years, the feeling of peace and calmness can be very alien to us, even scary, because our comfort zone is now one of chaos instead of centeredness.
So, determine what your glass balls are, and embrace the calm when it comes.
Next month, we will discuss Bringing in the Harvest.
Until then, Namaste!
Sunday, September 28, 2014
Monday, September 22, 2014
MaXIMIze - Overall Well-Being - Harmony and Sync
You know that feeling when all the stars in heaven align and life is grand? It's a great feeling!
That's what harmony and sync is - being in harmony, being in sync, moving smoothly and living your best live now.
All the tools I've shared with you over the past nine months, when used properly, will help you sing in harmony and move in sync with living your best life now.
Proper use is the key - to ensure your entire well-being is at its highest level, all other areas of your life need to be at their highest level too. Otherwise you get out of sync, lose the harmony, and life gets choppy.
When you are truly pursuing your passion, your highest purpose, you will receive what you ask for and doors will open upon your knock. That is harmony and sync.
If this is not happening in your life, perhaps you need to review all areas of your live to see what is missing where so you can get back on track.
Just like musical instruments and cars need to be tuned in order to play right and run smoothly, so too does your life. Check in and make sure your goals are in alignment with your passion, your true mission in life.
When you are in harmony and sync with living your best life now, work isn't drudgery - it's fulfilling and energizing; relationships are lively and loving; you glow with inner health and beauty; your money flows as it should; and you are at peace with your spiritual self.
Life is Grand!
Next time we'll discuss Balance - until then, Namaste!
That's what harmony and sync is - being in harmony, being in sync, moving smoothly and living your best live now.
All the tools I've shared with you over the past nine months, when used properly, will help you sing in harmony and move in sync with living your best life now.
Proper use is the key - to ensure your entire well-being is at its highest level, all other areas of your life need to be at their highest level too. Otherwise you get out of sync, lose the harmony, and life gets choppy.
When you are truly pursuing your passion, your highest purpose, you will receive what you ask for and doors will open upon your knock. That is harmony and sync.
If this is not happening in your life, perhaps you need to review all areas of your live to see what is missing where so you can get back on track.
Just like musical instruments and cars need to be tuned in order to play right and run smoothly, so too does your life. Check in and make sure your goals are in alignment with your passion, your true mission in life.
When you are in harmony and sync with living your best life now, work isn't drudgery - it's fulfilling and energizing; relationships are lively and loving; you glow with inner health and beauty; your money flows as it should; and you are at peace with your spiritual self.
Life is Grand!
Next time we'll discuss Balance - until then, Namaste!
Sunday, September 14, 2014
MaXIMIze - Overall Well-Being - Journaling
One of the ways we can enhance our overall well-being is to ensure things flow through and around us, that there is nothing blocking the flow that is helping us live our best lives now.
Journaling first thing in the morning, whenever your morning may be, is one way to clear the flotsam and jetsam that can interfere with your flow of abundance, of creativity, of drive.
Whether you just free write three pages, as recommended by Julia Cameron in her book The Artist's Way, or focus on one issue and write through it, or do a combination of both or choose your own method of journaling, writing things down helps us to center and focus on what is truly important at that moment in time in our lives.
It can also help us look at things from various angles, work through anger and pain, focus on the positive things in life (like the challenge I gave you in last week's post), or just focus our daily lens to see the things that are really important to get done or work on that particular day.
I journal nearly ever day, long hand, in pen, in a, well, journal - a bound book with lined pages that I usually get at Ross for about $4. On weekdays, it is more of clearing the flotsam and jetsam, acknowledging issues, worries and distractions, and focusing on the day ahead. When I make the time to journal on the weekends, I tend to focus on the bigger, more long-range picture of my life, where I want to go, what I want to do, what is helping me get there, what is hindering me, and how I can deal with the roadblocks to living my best life now.
However you wish to pursue journaling, I strongly encourage you to do it for at least 30 days. The insights you gain will be worth the time spent, and will help you to better live your best life right here, right now.
Other topics still to come this month are Harmony & Sync, and Balance.
Until next week, Namaste!
Journaling first thing in the morning, whenever your morning may be, is one way to clear the flotsam and jetsam that can interfere with your flow of abundance, of creativity, of drive.
Whether you just free write three pages, as recommended by Julia Cameron in her book The Artist's Way, or focus on one issue and write through it, or do a combination of both or choose your own method of journaling, writing things down helps us to center and focus on what is truly important at that moment in time in our lives.
It can also help us look at things from various angles, work through anger and pain, focus on the positive things in life (like the challenge I gave you in last week's post), or just focus our daily lens to see the things that are really important to get done or work on that particular day.
I journal nearly ever day, long hand, in pen, in a, well, journal - a bound book with lined pages that I usually get at Ross for about $4. On weekdays, it is more of clearing the flotsam and jetsam, acknowledging issues, worries and distractions, and focusing on the day ahead. When I make the time to journal on the weekends, I tend to focus on the bigger, more long-range picture of my life, where I want to go, what I want to do, what is helping me get there, what is hindering me, and how I can deal with the roadblocks to living my best life now.
However you wish to pursue journaling, I strongly encourage you to do it for at least 30 days. The insights you gain will be worth the time spent, and will help you to better live your best life right here, right now.
Other topics still to come this month are Harmony & Sync, and Balance.
Until next week, Namaste!
Sunday, September 7, 2014
MaXIMIze - Overall Well-Being - Coming From a Place of Abundance
We started the year by looking at our Circle of Perception and the six segments that make up the circle.
Over the last few months, we've focused on our financial segment (April), our physical health segment (May), our spiritual health segment (June), our career segment (July), and our relationships segment (August).
Now we've come to the last segment of the circle - our overall well-being.
Over the course of the year so far, we've gone deep into ourselves to understand where our actions and reactions - or responses - come from in each of those areas. Now we bring that all together in order to look at and address our overall well-being.
Back in January, we talked about our core values and principles, and vetting our goals against them to make sure our actions were in alignment with those values and principles.
In February, we discussed identifying and assessing the roadblocks to our success, and increasing our awareness by moving from unconscious incompetence to conscious competence.
In March, we talked about getting back up when we fall off the wagon, developing our follow-through, working through fear, and doing the spring cleaning necessary so that we can grow our best lives now.
One of the ways we can aid the growth of our best life now is by coming from a place of abundance. I touched on that theme in all of our discussions, and the post that most sticks in my mind and reinforces this is the one from May on Self-Image!
Positivity is a conscious act, and one that must be practiced on a daily basis.
I'm sure many of you have seen, and may even have been tagged for, the exercise of coming up with three positive things in your life right now every day for the next seven days. If you are not already doing this, I challenge you to do so for the next week. You don't have to share and tag others to keep the exercise going, though...
What we focus on is what we bring into our lives.
What are you focusing on - the actual abundance already present in your life right here, right now, or the perceived lack in it?
Over the next few weeks, we will discuss Journaling, Balance, and Harmony & Sync.
Until next time - Namaste!
Over the last few months, we've focused on our financial segment (April), our physical health segment (May), our spiritual health segment (June), our career segment (July), and our relationships segment (August).
Now we've come to the last segment of the circle - our overall well-being.
Over the course of the year so far, we've gone deep into ourselves to understand where our actions and reactions - or responses - come from in each of those areas. Now we bring that all together in order to look at and address our overall well-being.
Back in January, we talked about our core values and principles, and vetting our goals against them to make sure our actions were in alignment with those values and principles.
In February, we discussed identifying and assessing the roadblocks to our success, and increasing our awareness by moving from unconscious incompetence to conscious competence.
In March, we talked about getting back up when we fall off the wagon, developing our follow-through, working through fear, and doing the spring cleaning necessary so that we can grow our best lives now.
One of the ways we can aid the growth of our best life now is by coming from a place of abundance. I touched on that theme in all of our discussions, and the post that most sticks in my mind and reinforces this is the one from May on Self-Image!
Positivity is a conscious act, and one that must be practiced on a daily basis.
I'm sure many of you have seen, and may even have been tagged for, the exercise of coming up with three positive things in your life right now every day for the next seven days. If you are not already doing this, I challenge you to do so for the next week. You don't have to share and tag others to keep the exercise going, though...
What we focus on is what we bring into our lives.
What are you focusing on - the actual abundance already present in your life right here, right now, or the perceived lack in it?
Over the next few weeks, we will discuss Journaling, Balance, and Harmony & Sync.
Until next time - Namaste!
Monday, September 1, 2014
MaXIMIze - Relationships - Guilt
Guilt: an emotion one feels when one thinks he/she has violated a moral standard or his/her own standards of conduct.
Of all the types and degrees of guilt, sometimes familial guilt is the strongest and deepest of all. The closer bond we have with other human beings, the deeper the guilt we feel when we think we have violated a particular code of conduct is.
Of course, one can have this feeling related to work, particularly if one is very bound to his/her career.
When we feel guilty about something, particularly if that guilt is triggered by the words or actions of another, we need to look inside ourselves and determine if that guilt is truly justified or if it is a conditioned knee-jerk reaction. In a previous discussion on reaction versus response on my old blog, we learned that we need to stop, breathe, step outside the circle and look at the whole picture in order to respond to stimuli in our environment rather than just reacting to it. We need to determine if the guilt we feel is a reaction to someone else's action or a true response to a particular situation.
Not a one of us is perfect, and because we are not perfect we will each make mistakes along the way to living our best life now.
How we deal with those mistakes is what determines how far along our path we get. If we are continually dragged down by feelings of guilt - the would have, could have, should have, but didn't thoughts and feelings - we will never see and acknowledge all that we have accomplished thus far. If we focus on one tree, we cannot see the wondrous forest in our lives.
So, as with any other feeling we feel, we need to take guilt out of its shrouded box and really examine it in the clear light of day.
Is what we feel guilty about truly something we must continue to pay penance for? Is it something that remains within our sphere of control or our sphere of influence? Why do we feel guilty?
Once we do the introspection necessary, the guilt we feel will be put in its proper perspective, and it won't stop us from living our best life now.
Next week starts a new month, and we will be discussing our overall well-being with topics such as Balance, Harmony and Sync, Coming from a Place of Enough, and Journaling.
Until then, Namaste!
Of all the types and degrees of guilt, sometimes familial guilt is the strongest and deepest of all. The closer bond we have with other human beings, the deeper the guilt we feel when we think we have violated a particular code of conduct is.
Of course, one can have this feeling related to work, particularly if one is very bound to his/her career.
When we feel guilty about something, particularly if that guilt is triggered by the words or actions of another, we need to look inside ourselves and determine if that guilt is truly justified or if it is a conditioned knee-jerk reaction. In a previous discussion on reaction versus response on my old blog, we learned that we need to stop, breathe, step outside the circle and look at the whole picture in order to respond to stimuli in our environment rather than just reacting to it. We need to determine if the guilt we feel is a reaction to someone else's action or a true response to a particular situation.
Not a one of us is perfect, and because we are not perfect we will each make mistakes along the way to living our best life now.
How we deal with those mistakes is what determines how far along our path we get. If we are continually dragged down by feelings of guilt - the would have, could have, should have, but didn't thoughts and feelings - we will never see and acknowledge all that we have accomplished thus far. If we focus on one tree, we cannot see the wondrous forest in our lives.
So, as with any other feeling we feel, we need to take guilt out of its shrouded box and really examine it in the clear light of day.
Is what we feel guilty about truly something we must continue to pay penance for? Is it something that remains within our sphere of control or our sphere of influence? Why do we feel guilty?
Once we do the introspection necessary, the guilt we feel will be put in its proper perspective, and it won't stop us from living our best life now.
Next week starts a new month, and we will be discussing our overall well-being with topics such as Balance, Harmony and Sync, Coming from a Place of Enough, and Journaling.
Until then, Namaste!
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