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No Loopholes in Intention

Posted on July 1, 2011 by sheryl

One of the Laws of Attraction that I attend to is the awareness that wherever I put my attention, I’m also placing my energy and thereby, my power. I also know that any words that I speak are filled with my energy and become powerful in my life. Since I know there are are no loopholes, no way around this law, I was shocked to hear what came out of my own mouth this morning as I looked at the scales – which haven’t moved in a month or so – and said “I just can’t lose this weight, what’s wrong with me, anyway”.

Based on this Law of Attraction, I just set in motion a self fulfilling prophecy.

OH RATS!!

I’m also the strengths based coach, so taking energy to discover what is wrong with me, might not be the best use of my focus. Here are my notes-to-self that I thought you might appreciate, too:

  1. What has actually improved over the last month that represents my real priority?
  2. What strengths do I have that will support my intention to be healthy and smaller?
  3. Assuming, I’ve been living On Purpose, what has the purpose of the past month been?
  4. What is the intention for this month?
  5. What is the one thing I desire independence from and what is the one dream I desire to celebrate at the end of July?

OK, world, here are my answers:

  1. What has improved? I’ve added walking regularly to my habits and am beginning to feel more energy.
  2. What are my strengths? My strength this month is my loyalty to the health of my puppy, who needs to walk every day.
  3. My true purpose? My true purpose for this last month has been to adapt to Sammy, and to survive getting up a couple times in the night to let him visit his favorite puppy-pee places.
  4. My intention for this month is to keep my focus on my business, to continue healthy walks, to find a way to be alpha dog while protecting the puppyhood of His Littleness.
  5. I want independence from a preconceived idea of how my body wants to return to health and vitality and I want to celebrate comfortably zipping up my favorite shorts.

As we move into a new month, and the third quarter of the year, remember, there are no loopholes in the link between your intentions and your results. Thoughts and words are things – chose the good ones.

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Start with WHAT, HOW comes later

Posted on April 27, 2011 by sheryl

I ran across a quote of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. this week which really caught my eye -

“Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.”

This is especially appropriate when we look at getting unstuck and moving forward to create your business and your career. So many times, our choice of a goal gets dumbed-down because we can’t figure out how it’s going to happen, or, as Dr. King said, we can’t see all the steps between here and there. Part of the art of setting intention is just setting it and having trust in your own inner courage and power to move in that direction, knowing that there is a way, and your feet will find it – maybe even in spite of your mind which is wildly trying to think up HOW.

Years ago I used to write down everything I wanted in my life as a New Year’s day activity. Since I was flying private airplanes at the time, one of those things was to have a home that backed onto a private airstrip so I could just pull my plane out of the hanger next to my house and take off. Of course I couldn’t see the end of that staircase, but it went on my list anyway. Same with the swimming pool I thought would be lovely in my backyard, and the business I wanted to start. None of those dreams came with a how, they were just MY DREAM. Truth be told, a year or two later, I wasn’t interested in the pool (too much to clean, and too risky for my children’s safety) or in the home on an airstrip (too noisy and isolated from the city) and I’ve run my business successfully now for 18 years even though I put that on my “Dream” list 30 years ago.

WHAT intentions would you set if you didn’t have to come up with the HOW first?

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WHEN IT’S TIME TO FIND A NEW JOB – Here’s five tips to help

Posted on April 20, 2011 by sheryl

My job is killing meLast week, we talked about ways to manage your own attitude when burn-out and frustration threaten your job. Today, we’ll chat about some initial steps for when it’s clearly the job, and no amount of brisk walking or meditation is going to make that different. Many people just try to run away – send out lots of resume’s, quit and leave screaming from the building, close down their business and seek a different profession. The problem with these escape strategies, is that they are running FROM and there isn’t a clear vision of running TOWARD.

  1. Start with your strengths – when you’re at the point of needing to escape, often your self-esteem has eroded, and you need to take some time to get back in touch with your strengths. Try the Strengths assessment you can find on this page. It will take 30-40 minutes and will help you get back on your own game.
  2. Make a list of the things you do well, those tasks you enjoy at work, at home, at church, at your health club – in any part of your life.
  3. Describe for yourself what your ideal day looks like, not in terms of a specific job or company or agency, but in terms of who you see, what you contribute, how the environment feels. (You can ask for a free “Desired Outcome” conversation with Sheryl, a certified coach to help you with this step – having someone ask those leading questions will make the creation of this new vision easier for you.)
  4. Write your own mission statement, WHY do you want to do what you do in that ideal day.

Now, and not until you know your strengths, your skills, your vision, and your mission will you be able to run TOWARD your future, rather than escape your past.

What are you running toward today?

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Action from a Creation Mind-set

Posted on October 17, 2010 by sheryl

We live in a society that believes in competition and rewards “winners” and ignores “losers”.  In this context, it is challenging to create action plans that truly out picture a belief in abundance, in plenty for all, and in manifesting what you want through the Law of Attraction.  It takes a different kind of surrender to your own innate power as a creator to engage the Law of Action with the Law of Attraction.
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Survival of the Fittest

Posted on October 17, 2010 by sheryl

I’ve been interested in a new (to me) author, Wallace Waddles. In his book, “The Science of Getting Rich” he focuses on the inner thought work that must be done to manifest your desire. Believing in the hypothesis that we live in an abundant universe, if I get my heart’s desire, you can, as well get yours. This leads to an entirely different way of being in the world that the Darwinian approach that I grew up with, the survival of the fittest.
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Thoughts are Things, How to pick the good ones

Posted on October 16, 2010 by sheryl

There used to be an advertising jingle for wieners, “Oh I wish I were an Oscar Meyer Weiner, That is what I’d really like to be, ‘cause if I were an Oscar Meyer Weiner, Everybody’d be in love with me”. Well, once that jingle were playing in my head, like right now for instance, It would re-run there forever, seems like, and might even show up in my dreams. I don’t like wieners, never have, but that darn jingle just keeps rattling around. Interesting thing about thoughts, you just can’t make them stop. You really can’t.
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