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Reduce Stress and Enhance your Life's Purpose

 

The importance of reducing stress is to enhance your life’s Purpose.

Reducing your stress levels allows you to live a fuller life and celebrate that life completely. Is this one of your purposes?

 

Your love life and your ability to love others unconditionally are enhanced when stress is no longer a felt emotion.

This purposeful living and loving will give you the means to comfortably leave a wonderful legacy. Is this one of your purposes?

 

Let me share an exercise that I have found very helpful in reflecting on how I am living on purpose!!

Write your own obituary while you are alive and well.

Now be honest with yourself as you write it.

Ask yourself, have I been the type of person that will truly be missed one day?

If I come up short and feel I have not- then I know it is time to make some changes in my life.

To reflect how I really want people to feel and remember me once I am gone allows me to build my legacy.

Please take the time to write your thoughts on how you want to be remembered. Relax and sit quietly first. It is time well invested and you will enhance your life’s purpose in the process.

 While you are here, leave a comment. Let me know how your feel about the things I teach and how I can further serve you.

 

 

How to Reduce Overwhelm- Key Steps to Reducing the Stress of Overwhelm

The key steps to reducing the stress of overwhelm are simple yet profound.

We all are given projects that are daunting and overwhelming at the beginning. Some of us, create the projects our selves and we have more control over the amount of overwhelm we feel.

 The overwhelm we feel is real and sometimes cause anxiety or even fear related procrastination. We even dislike the person who assigned the project to us for their disregard of our feelings. Does this sound familiar?

Here is some encouragement:

 

Take “baby steps” or break down the parts of the project into smaller tasks, this may seem very simple but it is most effective. You cannot just think about the project, you have to act on it and do the work. Little by little and do not put off any of the steps. You must stay commented to finish the project.  

You do not need to panic yourself by looking at what it takes to get from point A all the way to point Z!! This is just too much to take in!

Allow yourself to do what you must do to get from point A to B and then from B to C, C to D, and so on- Pace yourself. Use the “ baby steps” in the things you feel may overwhelm you. You will reduce your over all stress levels greatly.

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Stress Reducer- Savoring an Old -Fashioned Pleasure

 

Savoring an Old-Fashioned Pleasure can reduce stress and increase your creativity.

Citrus fruits are a pleasure that is good for your mind as well as your body. 

Squeeze some oranges or grapefruits, now that they are plentiful, using an old-fashioned juicer and drink in one of life’s stress free and simple pleasures of days gone by.

Your body will love you for it and your mind will take in the pleasant memories of the past. Sit and savor the flavors and the sunshine in the juice. This is both emotional and sensual. 

Be sure to save the rinds, they make great aromatherapy applications. Freeze the rinds to preserve the aroma, more on this later.

Simple pleasures always reduces your stress!!

 

 

Coaching Tips- What to Do or Say When Someone you Know Dies- Sharing is Really Caring

What to do or say when someone you know dies sharing is caring. This is a very real problem for most of us. We feel just as lost as the survivor of the dead loved one. We are lost for words. We are also vulnerable to our fears. 

Death ranks high on our list of fears almost as high as public speaking.

As someone, who has worked in hospice and who is a public speaker, I am somewhat of an expert on these fears.

Public speaking gets easier with practice and with the passion, you express for your topic.

 

With dying, we can practice our expressing our emotions and understanding our fears by writing a brief letter.

When someone you know dies, write a brief letter, not an e-mail, but a real letter to one of his or her survivors describing the impact – great or small- the person had on your life.

They will feel good reading your letter and you will feel good writing it.

 

Your fear of death slowly decreases as you practice sharing your feelings with others. By sharing you will learn to celebrate your life!!

 

Coaching Tips- Positive Choices - You can Choose not to be Sad

Positive choices- You can choose not to be sad. It may take a little self understanding and feeling your inner feelings, but it is doable.

Our feelings are our compass and our barometer.

They guide our directions in life and how we enjoy that direction.

 

Occasionally we find ourselves in a situation where we feel sad. Things are not going as we had planned. We even start to feel a little doubtful of our abilities.

 

You have the right not to be sad. You can change how you feel. You do this by Gratitude.

Remember the song that starts “Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens…..”

Now make a list of your ten favorite things, keep it in a convenient spot, perhaps the bathroom mirror or refrigerator door.

Refer to your “Gratitude List” the very next time you feel sad.

 

You do have a choice not to be sad. There is power in graditude!!

 

 

Coaching Tips- Give Away your Frustration and Receive a Healthier Body and a Calmer Mind

 Give away your frustration and receive a healthier body and calmer mind. Is much easier then you may think.

 You are always putting yourself into situations that could make you angry and frustrated.

 

The very next time you are angry about something, release your frustration by engaging in a non-destructive and non-hostile activity.

Let me suggest a few: hit some tennis balls, go to the driving range and drive golf balls, lift weights, go running or punch a pillow.

 

Doing something physical to release the negative energy of an emotional problem is most effective.

You are putting that negative energy to a positive use that will benefit your body and your mind.

 

In this process, you might even find a solution or an answer to your problem or frustration.

 

 

 

 

 

Coaching Tips- Change Means Growth- Growth Takes Courage

 

We tend to be capable of big, noticeable changes. These changes although sometimes difficult are well planned and thought out. Some examples are marriage or divorce, buying a home, changing jobs or careers to name s few. However, the extremely small seemingly unimportant changes in our lives go unnoticed and sometimes not even followed through.

 

We tend to be very attached to small things and these small things can hold us back from fully enjoying our biggest changes.

I suggest throwing away all your old socks and replacing them with brand new ones. This exercise has huge emotional implications. Socks for the most part are very personal items, a part of us most people seldom see. This is a very personal, almost intimate change.

 

You might laugh at this small change, but many of us refuse to let go of the old worn out ideas or things. You see, we spend over $30,000 to replace a car every four years or so but we hold onto a pair of $6.00 socks for seemingly twice as long! We even reuse them as golf club covers or car polishing cloths etc. Enough already!! Let go!!

Time to change and grow. Have courage  and grow!