Living a Multi-Dimensional Life

Every now and then I find myself feeling overwhelmed by a ‘to – do’ list, and I step back and say, “I’m one person.  I have many loves and many outlets, and it’s ok for me to take things one at a time.”

Have you ever felt like you’re always on the go, doing the next thing on the list, then the next thing, and so on?

Living a multi-dimensional life means living all your passions, using all your talents and desires to live a fulfilling life.

I have wonderful clients and I love my coaching work.  I also have a wonderful jewelry business and I love creating.  It’s important to me to fulfill both those loves. This is usually why my to – do list can get rather long.

I also have a wonderful relationship, I have a great family and fabulous friends, all of which are also fulfilling to me and are on my ‘to – do’ list.

However, the most important thing on my ‘to-do’ list is BEING MYSELF.

I cannot stress this enough.

In order to be truly fulfilled by everything on my list, I must start with being my full self.  I claim the totality of my self.  Can you say that you have done the same?

If you are living your life according to other people’s wishes, rules, desires, wants, etc…, then you are not claiming your full self.  Claiming self means being the totality of who you came here to be.

I can say, “I’m a life coach, guide others through their ups and downs in life by helping them see their true self and their own life path.  I can also say, “I create and sell jewelry and I really love it.” Both statements are true, and yet they are not connected in any way.  However, they are both aspects of my totality.

When you are living a life to please others, cater to other’s drama and fulfill their rules, are you really living your life path?

Something to think about…

If you want assistance discovering your path, contact me for a session.  We start their and we make a plan.  We look at what steps you can take to fulfill your true self and we move forward together.

Honoring Your Gifts

Do you honor and accept the gifts that have been given to you at birth?  I’m not talking about physical, material gifts, but rather of the inherent gifts you were born with.

Many times those gifts are something that you take for granted in yourself, like natural talents, your intuitive abilities, etc.   Have you ever looked at them like they are a gift you were given?  Or do you take them so much for granted that you dismiss them and find no value for them?

Something to think about…

What if your natural talents are your reward for lifetimes of hard work?  What if they are a bountiful harvest waiting to be reaped, yet you overlook them and devalue them?

Are you rejecting your rewards?  Is there a bounty of untapped abundance waiting to be delivered to you?  There might be.  How will you know if you never validate the gift?

New Year, New Opportunities

Happy 2010! 2010 is a # 3 year numerologically and that means a year of change and optimism.  Optimism is a feeling that the change we really want or desire has a good chance of success.  Three is also the number of creativity… so an awesome time to get some creative thinking involved in your changes for the year ahead.

How can you do that?  You can make a list of resolutions, but we all know that those don’t always last.  I like to make an actual plan instead, something workable and changeable that you can stick with in your overall intentions.

Plan sections for your health, career, love life, social life and family.  What would you like to create in each of these areas for the upcoming year?  Focus on your end result.  How is it you would like to feel at the end of 2010?  What steps will be required to get you to that feeling?

My 3 words for 2010

Thanks to a Twitter post, I came across this great article to assist me with my intentions for ‘framing’ my year ahead.  According to the author Chris Brogan, “… the object is to come up with three words that you use as compass points for your efforts over the year to come. They’re not resolutions.”

The difference between these three words and resolutions?  These words are more like guide post, lighting your general direction.  They are active and fluid intentions versus static resolutions that may die out in a matter of a few weeks.

I’m thinking about my three words.  I think they will be written at the top of my white board.  They will be visible and something I can see everyday.  That should help me follow my intentional words with the energy and actions.

What are my three words?  Act, Organize, Move

What are your three words?

Want to know more?  Read the full article: Wiring Yourself for Success

A Miserly Christmas?? Where’s your Scrooge?

One of my favorite holiday characters is the Snow Miser.  He’s been part of the Christmas TV special “The Year without a Santa Claus” since 1974 and I’ve loved him since then.  I know it seems like an odd character for me to love since childhood, but he’s always stuck with me.  Several years ago on a trip to the Christmas Tree Shop, I found an animated snowman that plays the Snow Miser song and dances.. needless to say I had to purchase it!  Now it’s a regular part of my holiday decorating.  The children all love him!

This year, I realized that I didn’t bring him out of the closet where he is stored during the year waiting to emerge for the holiday season.  Why was he forgotten?

As I thought about it, I realized that the concept of the miser was strong in my thoughts in other ways, so maybe I wasn’t looking for another reminder.  Why is the miser a subject?  Because Christmas is a time for love and family and giving, all the things that the miser is not.  My father passed away just two weeks before Christmas when I was seven years old, and ever since then the holidays are a time of mixed emotions.  I think that’s why the miser always stuck with me, because there was such loss associated to the holiday.  The miser, as portrayed well in Dicken’s A Christmas Carol, is driven by the pain of loss, so therefore closes off his heart and withholds love, determine not to share with others.  I’ve always been the opposite, always giving freely and loving to give gifts at Christmas.  While there is a lot of joy that I have during this time it is always intermingled with the sadness.

Sharing is the key to the holidays, and those who have worked with me for some time will be reminded of the recycle symbol that I refer to when I discuss the concept of the Give – Receive – Return which is the Law of Exchange. The miser is the king of withholding.  When any withholding is happening, the cycle is blocked and energy does not flow.  Therefore, there is no giving, but also no receiving or returning of energy.

Look to yourself to see if there is any aspect of the miser at work within.  Are you feeling some Scrooge happening in any area of your life this season?  If so, it’s a result of withholding.  Keep in mind that withholding of energy is all about protecting yourself from experiencing more loss or sadness.

While I work to really give my joy lots of permission to express, think about that for yourself as well.  Joy is the flip side of the grief coin.  They exist hand in hand in the heart chakra.  Finding balance is the key.  Holding onto the sadness doesn’t serve anyone, but expressing joy serves everyone.!

Where is your joy this season?

Merry Christmas!

Jaelin