Life review: Reclaim Your Life Exuberance

Life Review
We all, at different times, complain about our lives, our relationships our stressful job, our low finances.
From a Life Coaching perspective, it is more empowering to look instead at what we are complaining about and consider what we can actually do about it.

You will find below a set of questions that when you answer, will empower you with an overview of your needs, wants, desires and areas of your life that you wish to change, improve or maintain.


I am looking at 2008 as the Year of Infinite Possibilities.

In fact I have been saying this to all of my friends and colleagues. When I say it, their faces actually light up as they consider the possibilities of what that means for them.
Then reality bites back, doubt sets in, past experience clouds over their face and the spark goes.
Does that spark have to go? What is stopping us from believing that this is a year of infinite possibilities? How much more empowered will you be if you tell yourself each morning that today you can do one small thing, take one small step to achieving your dream, your goal, your ambition, and happiness?

Would you agree that it is better to take one small step towards your heart’s desire, than stand still and see the same scenery?

So I invite you now to take one small step with me.

Go grab a pen and paper and answer the questions below.

As a Life Coach I ask my clients questions that get them to take a new perspective on their life. You may read the questions and think that the answers are obvious.

But it is important that you write down the answers.
Don’t just think about the answer.
You will be surprised, I guarantee it, about the answers you will discover for yourself when you begin to write down your answers.

You don’t have to answer them all in the one go. Take a few at a time and answer them. You have a whole month until my next newsletter, so no panic!

The questions will help you identify what you want. And what you don’t want. They will identify where and with whom you are using your energy, and from this you can see if you want to redirect your focus and energy.
The questions will set you on the track to taking control of your own happiness because the questions will help you identify your options and therefore your choices.


Remember, if you don’t consider what it is you are unhappy or happy about, how can you set about improving your situation.

So let’s start:

1. List 10 things you enjoy doing (beside each one write down the last time you did it)
For example - Do you enjoy dancing /swimming/ice-skating /mountain climbing /hill walking /partying /walking by the sea/writing /singing /surfing /redecorating / moving house /travelling /getting a promotion /art /photography /pottery /volunteer work/horse riding?

2. How/when can you do more of these activities?


3. When was the last time you laughed? What makes you laugh and how can you laugh more?

4. What can you be thankful for in your life? How can you experience that on a continued basis? How can you get more of it? – Include even the smallest things, for e.g., for me it’s a good cup of coffee in the morning!

5. What emotions do you feel on a regular basis? Which do you want to increase and how?

6. Which emotions do you want to feel less of and how can you do that?


7. Who or what do you love most? Are you spending enough time with them, if not, how can you increase your time together, even by as little as half an hour?

8. Who has / where is the information that will help you get what you want? When are you going to ask them / contact them?


9. What one thing can you do for yourself each day to help or maintain your health?

If you are not coming up with answers to these questions (or you are and they are negative) you may be in the habit of limiting yourself and putting blocks and boundaries in front of yourself.
Let’s be honest – if you believe something is impossible – well then it is – because you will not take even one single step towards getting it.
Therefore you never will get it.

Once you have answered these questions I want you to review them.
What have you noticed about your answers? Are you now able to identify what makes you happy and what makes you unhappy? Are you able to identify your choices and the areas where you feel you have no choice? What can you do about these situations?
What small changes you can make in your life?

Leave it a few days and come back to review your answers again. This gives your subconscious a chance to process the information. When you review your answers a new idea may come to you. Your perspective may have shifted slightly and you realise something you didn’t realise before.

From your answers you will now be empowered with valuable information about how you want to live your life, what is important to you, and what it is not so important for you.
Awareness is one of the most powerful tools we can equip ourselves with. Awareness brings Empowerment. That sometimes may be frightening, other times liberating.

You can sign up for my free newsletter by going to http://www.nlplifecoachireland.com/.

Keep taking those tiny steps!! Allow your scenery to change!

Life Vitality

Emotions/feelings - create Thoughts - create behaviour - create emotions...............

Have you ever wondered ,why, when you are stressed, busy, or overloaded you do some things that you are unsure of why you did them, and you don’t do things that you think you should?

If our emotions are the basis of our thoughts and emotions, then in order to empower and nurture ourselves it is important to explore that base.

If we don’t tune into our body, our feelings, then we are missing part of the sequence.
We are functioning at the level of thought, while not giving attention to the basis of that thought.
Our behaviour then reflects this (anger over small things, feeling frustration and not knowing the cause, jumpy or erratic movements, for example) and our body starts giving us signs in the form of ill health or minor ailments in order to try and grab our attention to bring our attention back into our body.

So how can we fully explore this sequence in order to allow ourselves have optimum health and life vitality.

When you are going to sleep, place your hands one beside the other over your stomach area (this will cover your solar plexus and sacral chakras)
Think over your day and allow yourself to release any negative thoughts, feelings, experience or people from your body, feel, see or hear the negativity leave your body and aura.
When you have done that, scan your body with your minds eye and feel how your body is feeling.
What emotions are you feeling?
Where are you holding these emotions in your body?
Focus in on that body part where you are feeling/holding the emotion.
Imagine a beautiful white light coming into that area, and slowly dissolving that feeling, that emotion that you are holding in your body.
Feel it leaving your body as the white healing light floods the area, bringing with it feelings of peace, calm and relaxation.

Unique GOAL SETTING Workshop

Sat 9th & 16th Feb
10am - 1pm

Cost E90

Airfield, Dundrum

Combining Life Coaching and Yoga in a unique formula to help you
SET and ACHIEVE your Goals


Sharon Swords is an accredited Life Coach and NLP Practitioner who facilitates her clients in making positive life changes.

Sibylle Dallmann YTTC,ITEC is a qualified Yoga Master who has taught Yoga internationally.

Together they have devised a unique Goal Setting course that combines the empowering techniques of Life Coaching with the ancient wisdom of Yoga

SHARON SWORDS 087 6380591
sharon@nlplifecoachireland.com

Do not judge a book by it’s cover, the old saying goes. This means never to judge someone on first impressions. Hard not to do , I know. But I would like to add to that saying–
Do not judge a book by it’s cover - nor - even after having read the page of contents should you decide whether or not to proceed further.

Often the most pleasurable of souls takes time to discover, to fully flourish in the eyes of another.

So by this I mean always give some-one a chance, they are just as good as you. And even if your soul and theirs can never be friends, you will have learned from the experience, and you will be a better read yourself!


888888888888888888888888888888888
I have it back
That which I thought I had lost
I hold it in my hands
Cupped in my warm security
I hold it to my lips
It gives me breath
That which I hold
Is a sense of myself.

2008
The Year of Infinite Possibilities

Welcome to my first entry for 2008. The number 8 is the infinity sign, and this year promises to be a year when your dreams can move into reality and your aspirations become the breath in your lungs that gives you strength each day.

Unbind yourself from the negative speakers who say that you cannot achieve that which you want to. Yes you may have to work hard, try many different ways and continue to believe undoubtedly in yourself even though you may feel you have failed.

But it is better to do one small thing every day to get you nearer to joy, nearer to your dreams than to spend time convincing yourself that your dream is impossible.

Remember:

As you walk your own unique path, you experience Truth, Love and Freedom.

May 2008 be the year when you discover how truly powerful you really are.
May joy underpin your decisions, and love light your path.

I am one with the Rhythm of Life

Have you ever felt yourself beset with difficulties? Have you spent the day struggling to get your thoughts in order, to focus, to get tasks done?

Often, due to; technologies (computers, cars, mobile phones….)
highly processed foods and food additives (that are far from their natural state)
and other people (who are angry, in bad form, sulking, agitated…..)
we find ourselves out of balance with the rhythm of life.

We are not in the flow of rest, relaxation, nourishment, stimulation, activity, fun and play, love and laughter.

Instead……..
We are constantly bombarded with sights, sounds and smells not always of our choosing, not to mention emotions, as we watch television, or have interactions with others people and their emotions.

We loose touch with our base, our sense of groundedness, sometimes of who we are.

Take 3 minutes to focus yourself, nourish yourself.
Breathing deeply, imagine you are on an island. By yourself.

You are lying in the shade, comfortable, a slight breeze washing over you. You can hear the ocean, and your breathing is in tune with the ebb and flow of the waves.

You can see the ocean, and the colour pours into your soul, communicating peace and freedom, life and possibilities.

Spend a few moments like this, breathing and relaxing, relaxing and breathing.

You are one with the rhythm of the sea, one with the Rhythm of Life.

Affirm to yourself:

I am one with the rhythm of life.

I launched my first article on http://www.evancarmichael.com/. This is a website for entrepreneurs, giving lots of advice, hints and ideas for starting and running your own business. Check out the site today and under the Work Life balance you can read my article ' Time Off - a Sound Business Investment'