Category: Business & Life Coach

The Dawning Of A New Year

2024 is delivering a bounty of boxed gift sets.   Yes, that’s 12 months, 52 weeks, 7 days per week, with 24 hours per day.  That’s a total value of 366 gifts.  A treasure of opportunities not to be squandered.

So – what will you do with each hour of each day, within each week, and each month?  You can invest the time, energy & focus so it compounds into a priority focus mindset leading to a successful year.  Or, just haphazardly spend & let it slip away.  

To use those gifts working to impact & influence all that is within your control is a choice.  It’s a decision to calibrate your focus for the shift into working on what matters leading to what you define as success.  To make this a successful year begins when your focus on your priorities and undertake what you can with those gifts of time.  To pursue and progress in achieving meaningful goals creates a cascade of valuable change.  The biggest positive change with the highest ROI is the one that takes place within you, and the evolution of who you become.

That – is a gift beyond measure. 

FALL Into An Empowered Mindset

Let’s launch the arrival of this new season by turning the page to a more empowered mindset!

Decide on all you want to achieve for a stellar year’s end!

“Things that matter most must never be at the mercy of things that matter least.” Johann Goethe

When you identify & determine your priorities you stand on a rock solid foundation.  That foundation gives power to your decisions & better follow through to sustain your attention & focus on those identified priorities to achieve the success goals that matter most to you.  That’s a priority focused mindset!

Is your focus aimed on your priorities or are they taking a back seat to all the miscellaneous competing alternatives?

To find our daily bright spots we need to consciously look for them.  To shine a light on life’s bright spots energizes us & lifts our spirits for a bit of reprieve from some of the rough weeks we’ve all experienced.  Holding on to the wonders of this world not only get us through but helps us cherish the small delights.  Connecting to those simple bright spots eases the way when emotions are raw & life feels harsh beyond measure on so many levels.

Personally, on these summer days – I begin with a soothing cup of coffee as I immerse in a multitude of green shades accompanied by a chirping symphony from a flight of feathered friends.  To greet the sunrise each day affirms & helps us acknowledge that life, along with nature is filled with awesome splendors we can find solace & joy.  To identify & name life’s bright spots – we can then hold & use them to ground us,  even when our personal or collective world axes feel out of whack.

It’s #YourLife #TakeCharge! Powerful & so crucial to remember – yet easy to forget. Especially when initiating work on a major goal or project, while facing the overwhelm of consistent challenges. Keep your focus on the mission – the why of your goal to feel grounded & more in charge.

What is one step you can take NOW to begin building a better mindset?

“A priority focused mindset is the operational software of a powerful engine driving goal achievement with strategic actions, aligned & aimed at desired target results.” Didi L. Barbour

Haven’t planned for this day, this week, or month yet? It’s not too late – take 10 – better yet 20 minutes to think and schedule in a couple of game changing initiatives that will created impact in narrowing the gap between where you are, how you plan your work & where you want to take you life.  Yes, that would be in addition to the long ‘to-do’ list of the routine activities, you know the stuff that has to get done to maintain your work and life.  Beginning each day of each week knowing exactly what needs your attention most will deliver the best results.

Did you know that your mindset behaves like a target seeking operational system in need of objectives and direction? If you don’t give focused it targets to aim at,  with clear priority goals for orientation, it will operate on the default setting of the past & a stagnant status quo.

Planning for the week, the upcoming month or quarter shifts your mindset when provided with direction & focus.  It becomes more receptive as it perceives & seizes opportunities as they show up. Opportunities that may prove pivotal in achieving what matters. Opportunities that will go unrecognized without target goals and a plan for executing on the mind’s radar detection system.  Try this very simple plan to better orient you.

➢First, define what matters most to set your priority goals. Top two or three goals that would make a quality difference when you begin work on them this week, & when sustained, will compound over time.

➢Next, arm yourself with a plan to align your focus, time and energy,  placing priorities central in  your schedule.  Designate time blocks to work on specific action steps each day for progress towards those goals.  Making priorities central in our schedules, transforms our routines into more meaningful pursuits.

➢Finally, if you’re aware of your priorities, yet you keep placing them on the back-burner,  it may be a sign that you need to enlist for support to more effectively structure & incorporate the element to achieve them.

Planning is crucial for creating a mindset shift,  A foundational shift with set-points for consistent attention for focus on execution progressing toward desired results.

A success calibrated compass for taking charge of what matters.

Your Life Compass ~ Success Calibration System™ – Coaching | Training | Consulting

February feels like a less of a pressure month than January to review & renew our aspirations and goals for the year. Endings and beginnings require pause to reflect on the past and to project forward to a desired future.

Regardless of what this past year has been like or what it failed to deliver, it’s helpful to keep in mind that we all have our share of self-doubt, & temporary setbacks.   There are times when the obligations of everyday life can feel like a succession of detours and roadblocks to our desired success. Yet, we persist and persevere, slowing down perhaps, but continue striving toward our vision of achieving our priority goals!

Anytime is the perfect time to look back to assess & calibrate personal and professional elements that need changing. With increased awareness, we can identify habits, activities, circumstances, distractions, as well as the people who hijack our attention, and drain our energy. Awareness helps us to better plan and chart our course moving forward.  A plan to better manage, change, totally eliminate, or at least minimize those aspects that may subvert our potential to succeed.  Decluttering our emotional & mental fields, frees up our finite energy, focus and commitment for aiming it on what matters most.

As we project forward into 2022 – it’s also crucial to identify what has worked well & determine how can we replicate, and do more of that to expand on the successes we experienced thus far.   Having taken inventory we can more readily plan, prepare & implement strategies for finalizing or launching initiatives, projects and undertakings for progress towards priority goals.

Endings offer opportunities for glancing back to review & assess so we can better position for new beginnings with forward focus towards progress & growth on our priority goals!

Your Life Compass | Success Calibration System™

“Everyone needs an oasis of solitude & silence…a daily period of being present to our deepest self…” Thomas Keating

No matter the roles you play on the world stage, you need regular connection to an internal sanctuary of well being with touchstones to carry that peace found within throughout the day.

Taking time to deepen your experience with your higher self generates signpost reminders that you are a multidimensional person, with many levels of hopes, aspirations, & needs. This oasis is a much needed plug-in destination for grounding to our world within, so we can better function in the outer world. This time is much like tending to our beloved wireless devices that require connection to recharge & function as intended.

For me, early morning is my sanctuary & oasis. Coffee cup in hand, I step outside to greet the day, immersing in the awe of a sunrise, and to appreciate whatever is out there. The peace & insights arising during this special time generates abundant positive energy helping me be more at my best, especially as stress & challenges inevitably surface in the course of the day.

Indeed! The more hectic & stressful your life becomes, the more important it is to create a daily routine to immerse yourself in an oasis of solace and solitude. Think of it as an insurance policy – more a necessity than a luxury, protecting your well being from the day-to-day barrage of challenges & stress.

I continue doing research on how we can better focus on what matters most to us in life. What surfaced is a parallel analogy to better aim our attention like the functions of a camera lens zooming in on the specifics we want to capture. Similarly, a priority focused mindset homes in from an angle to more selectively perceive, view & sustain attention on the important & what we really care about while cropping out the superfluous clutter.

If pays to heighten our awareness as to where we regularly aim our focus and energies.  Knowing what is important sharpens our focus on what matters most: the people who count, the goals that make a difference & the crucial things first!

Determining our priorities allows for better self-knowledge – which provides a clearer lens for putting first things first.   That Wisdom is succinctly stated by Von Goethe – that

“Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.”

With small pivots, we can redirect what we pay attention to & aim our valuable resource of focus to shoot for the best & all that really matters.