Who I Am…revisited.

I have been reflecting lately. I have been living my life this past year or so on the coattails of a new relationship and all that that entails, and in the process of learning so much about someone else and sharing me with him, I seemed to have gone a bit astray from my center. How did I know that I was out of balance? Well, I started feeling really overwhelmed, without cause to be overwhelmed. I fully realized the scope of my out-of- whackness, when I reached out to a fellow coach and asked her to help me. I wasn’t sure what type of help I was wanting, but I knew that together we would make that discovery.

This past Monday was our second session, and it was really powerful. I have to admit, that I have been removed from life coaching on a daily basis with clients, and having a coach myself, and I was pleasantly reminded of the simple power that a skilled coach has. Within a few minutes of our session, as if I hit a brick wall, I was faced with not knowing my very own vision and purpose statements.

While I was in coaching school, I spent months crafting a vision statement and a purpose statement, that were meant to be used as touchstones for me to reconnect with my True self and remember to always honor my True self, and there I was this past Monday not remembering. After some long pauses and some thoughtful questions, I was able to remember a little…not all, but a little. What was most important about this experience, was that I began to feel an enormous amount of energy surging through my body, as if my core being had been starved of this information, and getting a little bit of it was making me come alive again. When I was in coaching school, I was invigorated, curios, productive, authentic, and my whole self. I have only been a part of that lately, and tasting a bit of what I know is possible, has awakened my hunger to taste, feel, live and have all of what I am capable of.

Here is what I know, when I live, love, and come from a place of truth; I am unstoppable. I also know that when I live from a place of complacency, and expectation, from myself and from others, I am tired, not motivated, and anxious. I choose to live radiantly, thus from a place of my own personal truth.

Here is my Vision Statement:

I am explosive gorgeous energy, Delicious paradox, consciously grounded, Truthteller, optimistic, infectiously passionate, uncontained, spontaneous lover of life.

My Purpose is motivated by deep love and sincerity. I challenge peoples’ boundaries with infinite compassion. I transcend limits and exude possibility. I acknowledge inner beauty. I am Present and balanced. I organically cultivate health and healing. I radiate love, and live honestly. I encourage people to reach their highest potential.

It feels so good to say that out loud. I have not shared this part of me, openly, for a long time, and it is clearly overdue. I am making a commitment to reconnect with my true self, so that I can live a more meaningfully, be more authentic, and help people achieve their goals.

Here are some thoughts for you:

Have you ever crafted a vision or purpose statement? If so, what are they?

Are you living in align with your true-self?

What would it feel like to always live authentically?

Where in your life could you connect more with your vision and or purpose?

I would love to hear from some of you on this topic.

Be brave and share.

Thanks for taking the time to read this,

Talia

I get lost sometimes

As I am trying to get a new business off the ground I am reminded of some of my flaws in time management. I will be the first to admit, that creating a schedule is not the easiest for me to do, nor is it one of my strongest skills. Despite the fact that I know this about myself, I am still here dealing with it, yet again.

I am pretty aware of how I loose time. I loose time to Facebook, to my dog, to my relationships, to house work, to cooking, to cleaning, and pretty much to anything that keeps me from the real issue at hand. What am I avoiding? I’ll tell you what I’m avoiding, I have a belief that I am not good at organization and details, plain and simple. I have held this belief for so long, that I have given it a lot of power, power to manifest itself into truth. So here I am at a crossroads, I can either continue to hold this belief that I have and allow it to block me from moving forward, or I can choose to create a new belief.

I am going for the later, however, I will tell you this my old belief is strong and is not wanting to disappear quickly. I am struggling. In order for me to move through this, it is necessary for me to literally create a new belief system around how I want to create a positive and successful plan for running my business and managing my time. My new belief is this: Organization and paying attention to details is not scary, in fact when done properly these two skills can be extremely gratifying.

So that is my new belief, now how am I going to implement it? Here comes the work. I am working with my own Coach to help me set specific manageable goals weekly to get me organized and ready for action. Every week I am writing my goals down and sending them to her, so that she can assist me in staying accountable to myself. I am also scheduling out my days differently than I have in the past. Since I have a fair amount of flexibility in my work schedule, I find that I get occupied with other things before attending to work, thus mis-managing my time. This week I am going to start scheduling my days and weeks differently. Right now, I have numerous calendars; one on my phone, one on my computer, and a paper one that I tote around in my bag…. and I don’t think that is helping my cause at all. I am feeling that it is important to have one central calendar. So this week, I am consolidating all my calendars and next week, I will start the week off with one….I’ll let you know how it goes.

Even writing this feels a little overwhelming. All that said, I want to be successful, thus it is imperative for me to make some changes.

Here are a few questions for you to ponder:

What do you get lost in?

How do you manage your time?

Do you have a belief that is holding you back from becoming something greater than you are? If so, what is it? What are you willing to do about it?

Have you ever intentionally changed a belief?

Part of my process of moving forward and keeping myself accountable is attending to this blog more often. Getting my thoughts out and sharing them with you all, gets me pretty fired up. I am hoping that this blog will become a bit more cohesive and will grow, as I do.

Thanks for all your support, and as always I’d love to hear from you.

Talia