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Why Choice Matters

Last week, I was away at an annual conference for Hudson Institute trained coaches. It is a favorite gathering of mine each year because of the high caliber of speakers and presentations, as well as, for the opportunity it affords me to reconnect to my fellow Hudson coaches - a community I really enjoy!  

It is a five-day, non-stop, all-"on" trip for me.  I give myself almost no downtime, except to sleep, because I don't want to miss any of it!  Not the learning, not the socializing, not the happy hours, not the dinners with my friends, not the late-night, in-depth (as in deeeeeep) discussions about life and people that coaches can't help but to engage in.  

It's like drinking from a 16-hour fire hydrant, every day, for 4 days!

So, by the time the conference ends and I'm back in my own quiet, peaceful home with my introvert, artist Marriage Equivalent and our two cats, I'm fully quenched, but totally exhausted.

And then it's Monday.

And Monday is a work day.  Not to mention that I have SO MANY ideas about stuff I want to do, read, try, buy, and implement, from all that learning and input, that I start to feel overwhelmed...and I feel like I'm behind before I've even begun!  I also have no food in the house from being away, laundry to do from the trip, etcetera, etcetera.  Those of you who do all this with kids...well, you are nothing short of amazing!

But here's the thing, I'm exhausted and I know I need a break so that the fire hydrant of learning and ideas can seep in.  

I know this, but I fight it. 

I feel like I "should" be getting going with my week and working down my list.  Instead I'm lingering over my breakfast and getting lost in distractions, all the while feeling the pangs of anxiety and guilt over not already being done with about a thousand things.  

What I end up doing is hanging out in the in-between place - not really doing and not really being, so time just marches by with very little sense of satisfaction either way.  Uck!

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And, here is where I fell out of consciousness and into unconsciousness. 

Have you ever done this?  Not listened to what your heart is really telling you and tried to override it with your mind?  It's a losing battle.  The heart always wins.  

I may do a thousand things, but they aren't any good.  They lack my full attention and intention.

The same goes for resting.  If I don't fully embrace my rest and do it with intention, that window of time closes and I don't feel any more rested.  I feel worse because I have squandered it.

Now, if only I could figure out a way to remember this so I didn't have to keep learning it!

When you have a choice about how to use your time - to rest or to do, to play or to work, to sleep or to get going, to socialize or to be alone - make a conscious choice.  Look inside yourself for the truth about what you really want, or are truly going to support, and honor that in your actions and your intent.

Be Your Best Success!

www.aliciacaswell.com 

 

How To Change Your Life In 21 Days

Have you ever kept a food diary where you had to write down everything you've eaten?  Ever noticed how hard it is not to lie?  But, if you don't lie, you see what you've really been doing? And it's often not what you thought you'd been doing. 

Yeah.  That Oh-my-God-I-had-no-idea-how-much-I've-been-lying-to-myself, aha feeling is what I felt last month, when I realized I had failed my self-induced, 21-day fitness challenge.

I started the 21-day fitness challenge because I'm not one of those people who just loves to exercise, but I want to be.  

I grew up a reader, not a runner.  I much preferred to use my mind, than to move my body.  In high school, I found out that you could get out of P.E. by being an honor student and I think I've been working off that principle, ever since.

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Which is not to say I never exercise.  I do...but it is always a forced duty, rather than an innate pleasure.  I do it because I "have to", not because I want to.

And I don't want to be in resistance to my health!  I want to be a person who loves exercise.  I want to live a good, long, mobile life and, that means, I need to change my resistance to exercise into a passion for exercise.

So, early last month, I decided to challenge myself to exercise for at least 30-minutes a day, for 21 days in a row.  Just to see what happens.  I figured, I can do anything for 21-days, right?

At Day 13, I ran out of day before I got my exercise in.  I was up too late with writer's block, trying to get a blog post written and I was not going to exercise at 2am, so I went to bed and vowed to do the challenge for 22 days, to make up for it.

Two days later, I ran out of day again.  It was late and I still hadn't exercised, so I did some sit-ups and push-ups and called it good.  

The next day, I did the same thing.  

When my friends and family, who knew I was doing the 21-day challenge, asked how I was doing, I went on about how I had missed a few days, but that I had gotten the point of the challenge, how I undestood that it was about building a habit and finding a way to work it in where you could, and how I was planning on just continuing with it as a way of life....

Blah, blah, blah, blah.

After saying the same thing to three different people, I finally heard myself!  I was totally lying to myself!!  I was colluding with my ego to mask the truth from myself, which was, I failed my 21-day fitness challenge.

I managed to eat every day for 21 days.  I showered every day for 21 days.  But somehow I didn't manage to exercise every day for 21 days?

It was like someone threw cold water on my face.  I literally jerked my head back when the realization occurred to me because I was so shocked at the level of my unwillingness to create positive change in my health.

It re-reminded me, as every experience does with my ego and its mischevious ways of keeping me from creating change, that change is not just about taking action, as so many would have us believe.  It is also about being vigilant in doing the inner work that insures that you don't sabotage your progress.

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I took a day to regroup and then, on the first day of Spring - March 20th - I began again.  

At first I was fueled with determination and it was easy, but mid-way, I felt my resistance to exercising coming back.  I would be tired or wanting to do something else.  Whatever excuse came up, I would notice it and then let go of it before it got any strength.  Rather than fight the decision to exercise every day, I would practice surrendering to it every day.   

Yesterday (Tuesday) was day 21 and I'm proud to report that I didn't miss a single day.  And, best of all, I don't want to stop!  I'll let you know how it goes from here.

What positive change are you wanting to make?   Surrender to your ability to create positive change for 21 days and see what happens.  You can do it.  I know you can.  : )

 

www.aliciacaswell.com

 

Power, Ego, and Truth

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"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace."  

 Jimi Hendrix

A friend of mine shared this quote with me today.  Great wisdom from Jimi, right?!

But what does it have to do with us?  Isn't he talking about those power-mongering politicians, bankers, and ruthless dictators that make the nightly national news?  

He's not talking about US, that's for sure!  You and I aren't power-hungry......are we?

You are only hungry if you don't have enough.  And most of us haven't got enough love, especially for ourselves.  And love creates empowerment.

Look at kids.  Loved kids thrive.  Unloved kids survive.  But once we are grown and the responsibility for loving ourselves is ours, we don't do the best job.

Ever define yourself by how much you earn?  Or what car you drive?  Or what neighborhood you live in?  Have you ever gotten a promotion or been nominated for a position and it made you feel important?  Do compliments, social invitations, or a high number of Facebook friends prove that you are loved or "somebody"?

If so, then you have the opportunity to see that you didn't feel that way to begin with.  

Money, leadership, influence - they are all sources of power, but if you are drawn to them because they fulfill some place of lack inside you, then you are seeking false power not authentic power.

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False power is like nectar to the unconscious, unhealed ego.  

All of us have an ego - a misguided protector that steps in when it perceives any threat of real or potential emotional pain.  It tries to keep us "safe" from the wounds inside us by masking our pain and distracting our attention from the cause of the pain.

Reality TV has great examples of ego on display.  When a contestant has a challenge they have to do and they are not doing it well, you will see some of them have full-on ego meltdowns. 

They start blaming the challenge, blaming their partners, blaming the weather...doing anything, basically, to escape the source of their self-inflicted pain, which is their self-judgement that they aren't good enough. 

For the now-wounded-ego contestant, blaming other people or circumstances becomes a way to mask their "I'm-a-failure" belief, so they can continue to bury that pain and feel better about themselves.  

Making someone or something else the problem, is a way of raising themselves above others - in other words, a false sense of power.  

Winning, for this person, is now also a false power because it is not a manifestation of their authentic power, it is a salve for their self-inflicted judgement wound.  

Underneath, they still feel inadequate, so the blaming of someone else or the glory of the win will not last and, pretty soon, the belief resurfaces and an unconscious person with an unhealed ego will find themselves seeking a new false power to push the "I'm-a-failure" pain back down. 

 Awful, isn't it?  The ego is sneaky!  Surreptitiously usurping our authentic power with every unloving thought we hold for ourselves and others.    

And that brings us full circle to Jimi Hendrix and why I loved his quote. He has the formula for healing all that pain:  Practice the power of love and you will get peace in your world, which contributes to peace in the world because, peace starts within each of us and then spreads outward, not the other way around.

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Love and compassion are the only antidotes that last because they move us into our self-acceptance and self-awareness.  From there, you can create anything!   

Living consciously and lovingly is a practice.  Be patient with yourself.  Remember that you are not perfect and don't need to be.  You only need to be willing to keep on trying to heal. 

And you are not alone.  I'm right there with you, looking under my own layers.  I call this Being Your Best Success and I invite you to do it with me.

Questions to get you started:  How can you practice the power of love in your life, starting today?  Where are you masking fear and self-judgement?  How do you define you, outside of your income, status, title, posessions, and associations? 

Peace be with you.

 

Be Your Best Success!

www.aliciacaswell.com

 

Who Has Your Back?

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Studies and research are showing us that having a strong social support network, is not only good for the mind, it's good for the body.  We live longer, we have greater immunity to diseases, and we have more joy.

Thinking about friendship and support makes me think of my junior year of college.  I shared a dorm suite (two single rooms adjoined by a shared bath) with my best friend, Linda.  

We would spend hours talking about life, our dreams and aspirations, and the usual concerns of college-age girls.  Being around Linda was fun and easy and usually involved a lot of laughter.  

She quickly became more like family to me, than a friend.  We understood each other, enjoyed and respected each other, and, after all those long talks, we also knew each other.  

 For example, Linda knew I was a notorious procrastinator!  

I would inevitably wait til the last minute to start my college essays and then I would be up all night trying to get them done in time for classes the following morning.  I always (okay, usually) got them done and often because Linda would stay up with me, to keep me company, and to help me.

In the wee hours, while I tapped away at the keys of my word processor (I can't believe I just said word processor!), Linda would nap until I would get to a word or a concept that I was struggling to convey, and then I would wake her up and ask for her help.  

"Linda!  What's another word for 'continually'?"  

Or, "Linda!  Here's what I'm trying to say....," and she would drowsily raise her head and listen to my delirious explanation and then give me the perfect word or sentence, knowing just what I meant and how I could say it best.  

Linda was my beloved sidekick throughout that year and I used to joke with her that one day, when I was rich and famous, I would hire her as a personal assistant and pay her lavishly for her expertise.  (I haven't forgotten this, Linda.  It could still happen!)

But it wasn't just her word-crafting expertise that made her such an important part of my college experience.  It was her friendship.  Her care.  She stayed up all those nights for me.  Her papers were always done ahead of time, so she had no other reason to be there...and, yet, she always was.  

Her acts of loyalty and love meant, and still mean, so much to me.  I knew by her actions that she had my back. That she would stand by me in the good times and bad, because she did.

And she still does, to this day.  

Even though Linda lives in California and we don't talk every day anymore, I know that she still has my back - and I've got hers - because we've had years of experiences proving it to each other.

I am lucky to have friends in my life, like Linda, who I know are in my corner, but I also invest the energy to have friends.  Because I value them, I prioritize my friends.  I make a point to reach out and reconnect, to show them in words and in my actions that I cherish them and that their love and life matters to me.   

Maybe one day, the doctor will ask us about the health of our bodies and the health of our social connections, but in the meantime, we have to ask ourselves.

Are you prioritizing your friends?  Is it time to reach out and reconnect with the people you value and whose friendship matters to you?  Are you taking care of your back in all the ways that you can? ; )

How To Survive Self-Employment Storms

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Just like there is no such thing as endless good weather, there is no such thing as starting your own business without enduring some storms along the way.

Like tides, your business will ebb and flow, and you have to be able to "weather" the self-employment storms, or self-employment will send you screaming for mercy into your LinkedIn network, looking for anyone who might be hiring!

The ebbs I'm referring to aren't the little hiccups in your bottom-line.  They are major dips in your business caused by everything from national and global economic turmoil, to supply shortages, a drop-off in your customers, or seasonal changes that bring your business to a grinding halt.  Sometimes it's a combination of all these things!  However it transpires, the outcome is that you are usually looking at your bank ledger and thinking, "Uh-oh...."

So, what do you do when this happens?

First, hopefully someone warned you about this natural ebb-flow cycle, which you took very seriously, and, then prepared a financial cushion to minimize the storm's impact.  Baa ha ha ha!!  Okay, now that we've had a good laugh we can move to Plan B.  

More likely, you are freaking out and scrambling to do more, push more, post more, market more, and sell more.  Fast.  Or you are sitting in front of your computer, rocking yourself in a slightly catatonic state, while you stare at the blinking cursor next to your checking account balance and hope it will all magically get better.  

What should you be doing?  Actually, all of it.  Minus the crazy, frenetic, fear stuff. 

Do More:

When your business ebbs, it's an opportunity, because you have the time, to reflect on what you've been doing and see what needs tweaking or implementing.  Step back and take an inventory.  Are you off course in your marketing?  Have you spent too much time working on doing the work, instead of spending some of your time networking and building a pipeline?  Is there something you are not doing?  What more could you do?  

Each time I've been through a self-employment storm, I've found things in my business that needed sprucing up.  I notice that my creativity kicks in because I've had some pretty great lightbulb moments in the storms.  I've also gotten fantastic input and wisdom by reaching out to my peers and mentors and asking for help.  Each time a storm happens, my processes and strategies have gotten a little better and a little stronger from the necessity and motivation that the storm creates.

Stay Engaged:

When you are self-employed, your business usually feels like a part of you.  You have usually invested and risked a lot to create it and your heart is definitely in it.  As a result, when you are in a self-employment storm and there isn't much happening in your business, it can feel pretty awful.  

My first storm was really scary.  I was down to $25 in my bank account with no relief in sight and they don't make a type font big enough, or bold enough, to express how stressed I was. One of the things that got me through it was all the support I had around me in the form of friends, family, and peers.  Everyone handles "storm stress" differently - some knuckle down and work even harder, while some head straight under the covers.  Whatever your stress response is, no tough time is better alone.  

You will want to pull in, but I encourage you...actually, I implore you, to stay engaged and reach out, as well as, in.  

Outlast It:

Just like when the tide goes out at the beach, there is a stillness about the business ebbs.  It is quieter.  There is less to do.  The foot traffic slows, the phone rings less, and the printer doesn't run out of paper as fast.  

It is exactly what makes the average go-getter-entrepreneur turn themselves inside-out with impatience and fear, writhing from unspent energy and lack of control.  Stillness is a slow form of death for some of us.  I have to practice un-knotting myself almost every time the pendulum swings and my life gets too quiet.  And that is when I (or one of my good friends) will remind me that I'm in a storm and I just need to breathe and let it pass, because it always does, whether I rail against it or try to embrace it.  (Note: Embracing it usually works out better.)

No storm lasts forever and, if you know that what you are doing is right for you, and that you are on the right path, then look at what can be improved; grab ahold of your friends and your faith like a life raft; and stay your course until the storm passes.

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Alicia Caswell, Coaching You To Success

www.impactlifenow.com

 

Fear, Change, and Joe Carbone's Workplace

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One of the television shows I record on my Tivo is 60-Minutes on CBS.  Last Sunday's program featured a story about a man named Joe Carbone, the President and CEO of The Workplace, and a nationally recognized leader in creating workforce programs in his role with the state unemployment agency in Connecticut.  Joe's latest program was developed for the large numbers of people who have been unemployed way beyond their state and federal unemployment resources and often way beyond their own resources.  The "99-ers", as some expressed it.

Each of them had their own story about what had happened to them, but all of them had, understandably, experienced a slow degradation of their dignity, confidence, and sense of belonging to the professional community.  

In addition to Joe and his moving and heartfelt passion for reconnecting people with the American Dream (I kind of fell in love with Joe every time his eyes welled up as he was speaking), Joe's program had a very important element, worth drawing your attention to.  It dealt as much with addressing the participants' fears as it did with offering them new tools and professional development. 

Whether we have been laid off, or are becoming more and more disillusioned with our employer and/or industry, considering a new job, or making the leap to self-employment, the questions we immediately begin asking when such a change is happening, are all around tactics and tools.  

How do I use LinkedIn?  How do I find a good recruiter?  Should I go to this networking event or that job fair?  How do I write a really good resume?   Do I need an LLC?  How do I find customers?

They are all important questions with answers that are needed to move forward, but none of them addresses how to handle the emotional impact that dramatic professional changes have on us.  While it's good to think about recruiters, resumes, and markets, you also need to be thinking about your emotional and mental well-being.  

Too often we don't expect or anticipate fear, so we have no defense when it strikes.  We tend to overestimate our psychological preparedness and underestimate the devastating effect fear has on our motivation, our confidence, our optimism and, therefore, ultimately, on our success. And fear is like quicksand - the longer you stay in it, the worse it gets.  Without an exit strategy, even the best of us can begin to be described as miserable.  

Don't think it's as bad as all that?  Think I'm making a mountain out of a mole hill?  Consider this:  After having emotional support, confidence-building interactions, and each other's camaraderie for five months in Joe's program, 53 of the 100 participants have gotten jobs. Just five months, after years of suffering!!  Is he teaching them skills and giving them tools?  Yes. But what each of them talked about wasn't a handbook or an interview trick.  They spoke of the return of their confidence and their happiness.  

What I give to my clients and what Joe is giving back to his people, beyond the tools and materials we provide, is our compassion, our support, and a community.  You just cannot afford to underestimate the extraordinary impact of emotional support in times when we are susceptible to fear.    

If you ask me who I work with, I will tell you that I work with successful people, not because of some social, professional, or financial status they may hold, but because they recognize that they need support through the big changes and they act on that knowledge earlier, rather than later.  

Am I saying you have to hire a coach like me, or get into Joe's program, to get through your personal and professional transitions?  No.  What I am saying is, your emotional well-being is possibly the most important ingredient in any life or career change that you will go through and that makes it worth your full consideration.

Questions to get you started:

What practices can I learn to use to get myself out of fearful thinking, when it's got me in it's grip?  

Who will be the person who reminds me, as often as needed, that I am so much more than whatever has got me down?  

Who will steadfastly support me through this transition until I've seen it through?  

What mentors do I have that have been through this and will offer me their guidance?

What communities do I belong to, or do I need to invest in, where there are people with similar situations who understand what I'm going through?

 

 

Alicia Caswell, Coaching You To Success

www.impactlifenow.com

 

 

Feeling Your Way To Success

When a client comes to me wanting to make a change in their professional life, they are often deep into feelings of unhappiness, frustration, fear, and sometimes loneliness because they are carrying the weight and responsibility of their unhappiness mostly on their own shoulders.

They don't want to worry or scare their loved ones with their growing level of misery, so they keep more and more of it to themselves.  Everyone around them starts to seem happier than they are, so they put up a "front" to mask how they really feel inside.  And all the while, they are racking their brain for a solution to their professional unhappiness.

The problem with feeling so bad and carrying that around with you, day after day, is that you are unwittingly broadcasting your misery on a very powerful network - a network that radiates out from your heart.

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Consider this: 

Did you know that the heart generates the largest electromagnetic field in the body?

The electrical field as measured in an electrocardiogram (ECG) is about 60 times greater in amplitude than the brain waves recorded in an electroencephalogram (EEG). Also, the magnetic component of the heart’s field, which is around 5000 times stronger than that produced by the brain, is not impeded by tissues and can be measured several feet away from the body. ~ Rollin McCraty, PhD

Translation: We are all so powerful!  And that power lies in our hearts, more than in our minds.

Our heart - and the feelings it produces - is the "Sun" in our own personal solar system.  What we feel is what we are broadcasting and what we broadcast is what we attract, so feeling bad all the time just drags in more yuck. 

That is why, one of the first things I help my clients to do, is get out of the yuck and back into their hope and their optimism.

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I help them reconnect to what brings them joy and get some distance from their unhappiness. As they shift their energy away from what they don't want, and towards what they do want, they begin to change the feelings they broadcast and positive shifts start to happen.

Whether you are feeling joy or misery, you are activating your heart-centered power to magnify it out and magnetize it in.  Choosing to magnify/magnetize joy is about using this power to your advantage 

Want a better job?  Want to love what you do?  Imagine that you are doing something you love for a profession.  It doesn't matter if you clearly know what you would be doing or not, just connect to the part you can imagine.  See yourself working happily.  See your co-workers, or employees, or customers smiling with you.  Now, as you are seeing this happy-worker-you in your mind's eye, feel what that happiness feels like. Feel how good it is to be doing something you are passionate about and that has purpose in your life.  Concentrate on all of that joy and connect to the feeling of it.  Practice this as often as you can think of it.    

 

Alicia Caswell, Coaching You To Success

www.impactlifenow.com

 

 

 

Here's Looking At You: Reflections On Mirroring

"What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me."

Helen Keller

 

Last week, I ended up completely immobilized by lower back pain.  I have never had back pain before, so I didn't really know what was happening or how to treat it and, therefore, I didn't do much to help it and many things that made it worse (I even went to my spin cycling class!)  

 

The body, as many of you know, has a very effective way of getting our attention by turning up the volume on our discomfort until we listen.  My denial about having to slow down was so powerful that I didn't listen until I literally couldn't sit or stand, couldn't lean more than a couple of inches forward or backward, or lay comfortably on my back or my stomach.

I've been doing self-work long enough to know that my body and my psyche will collaborate when there is something I am needing to see that I'm not seeing.  And, sure enough, when I had nothing to do but lay there and think and journal, I found some mental and spiritual housekeeping that had been neglected.  Resistance and tension had crept into my emotional life and I hadn't noticed until my physical resistance and tension encouraged me to pay attention.

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Many people do not know to look at the deeper implications of a situation.  They see the person or situation that is creating the problem and look no further than that.  Another way to describe this approach is living unconsciously.  I used to practice this way of living many years ago. When crud happened to me, I responded emotionally (anger, frustration, stress, fear, etc.) and felt powerless to do anything about it because I wasn't aware (conscious) that there was a deeper level to work on.

What I've learned since then is just what Helen Keller must've learned, based on her quote. Spending your energy trying to change the external factors (other people and situations) that you have no power over, only keeps you feeling powerless.  

 

Instead, you can live a lot more joyfully, peacefully, and harmoniously, if you are willing to look at "negative" situations as mirrors - reflections of something inside you that is needing healing (often times, the mirrors are different, but the lessons are the same).  This is called Conscious Living.  You seek consciousness about your role in any given situation and are aware of the power you have to create positive change at any time, by healing and reintegrating what is out of alignment within yourself.

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Is there someone or something creating problems for you?  Try to move your attention away from it or from them and see what they are showing you about yourself.  Go deeper.  Look for the root, so you don't have to keep seeing the weed over and over.  

 

Like any skill, you get better with practice and I'm always here if you get stuck and want some help from a fellow practitioner.

Alicia Caswell, Coaching You To Success

www.impactlifenow.com

 

 

Inner Wisdom: Can You Hear Me Now?

One of the books I read over the holidays was Douglas Bloch's Listening To Your Inner Voice. I liked it because, in a short, easy-to-read book, Mr. Bloch highlights several concepts and their value - from identifying and trusting your inner voice, to the power of intention, to uncovering hidden intentions, and, finally, creating and sustaining an affirmation practice.  He does all of this in the first 24 pages of the book!

I wholeheartedly believe in the inner wisdom that each of us has and a big part of what I do as a coach, is helping others deepen their connection to their inner wisdom.  In times of stress - like when we are in a transition, we have a tendency to stop listening and trusting our inner voice and, instead, we turn up the volume on our "false" voice, which just leads to more stress. 

As Mr. Bloch puts it:  

"Just as the Universe provides clues when we follow the inner voice, it also lets us know when we follow the false voice.  Following the false voice brings anxiety instead of peace, burden instead of joy, judgement instead of love, confusion instead of clarity, blocks instead of flow."

The next time you have a decision to make, ask your inner voice to guide you.  If you get a fear-based answer, hang up and dial again.

Alicia Caswell, Coaching You To Success

www.impactlifenow.com

 

 

Career Advice from Louis L'Amour

Thank you to all of you who sent me heartfelt and lovely messages of support about my grandmother's passing.  I'm doing a lot better.  I think my grandmother is equally honored by my smile, as by my tears, so I'm doing my best to practice more joy and less sorrow.  

This post is a nod to my grandfather, since it's an excerpt I found from a book by his favorite author - Louis L'Amour.  I'm sharing it because it made me laugh when I read it - it is one of my Big Beliefs and a message you probably recognize as one I regularly convey, only it's in cowboy (or cowgirl) speak!  I hope you enjoy it as much as I did...and I hope you take it to heart.

"The way I see it, every time a man gets up in the morning he starts his life over. Sure, the bills are there to pay, and the job is there to do, but you don't have to stay in a pattern. You can always start over, saddle a fresh horse and take another trail."  

 ~ Louis L'Amour, The Proving Trail

Louis L'Amour was a best-selling American Western author (1908-1988).

Alicia Caswell, Coaching You To Success

www.impactlifenow.com