In my Member’s Only Success Coaching group this month, we are discussing “Empowering Relationships”. Relationships with yourself, with others, and with change. All of these relationships in your life have their place and will either empower or disempower you, depending on whether you’re intentionally controlling them or letting them control you.
Intentionally nurturing and developing your relationships involves taking an honest look at where you are and making a plan to close the gap between your current reality and where you want to be.
Your ability to create, maintain and nurture meaningful and empowering relationships is a measure of your capacity to establish connection, rapport, and intimacy with another human being.
There are 7 principles of relating that you can use to increase this capacity and thereby develop a greater closeness and connection with those around you:
- Be willing to Risk
- Be Available
- Be more Interested than Interesting
- Be who you are
- Don’t make assumptions
- Accept without condition
Think about each of these 7 principles and ask yourself, “How well do I currently apply this principle to my relationship with myself AND with other people?” Think about what may need to change or happen for you to be able to apply this principle without reservation. What could be possible in your life if each of these habits were as natural as breathing?
To make any lasting change, it takes simply getting started, taking baby steps, and pushing through the excuses. Just being consciously aware of these principles in all of your realtionships with create shift. The more you practice, the more habitual it becomes.
I love this picture of my sister-in-law, one of best girlfriends and me on a wine tour in Napa Valley. Love these girls!
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Love and Success!
Lori
I want you to have a Morning Dump, every day. Yep, that’s right, a morning dump.
Now, maybe I should clarify a bit, before we start an epidemic. This is the empty your mind to open it up kind of dump. You’ve heard the phrase “The way you start your day shapes your day”, right? Well, I want you to start your day relaxed, feeling good, and clear-headed. Imagine your entire day, and the actions and choices you make, in a positive relaxed mode!
So, to complete a proper morning dump, all you need is a pen and notebook or journal by your bedside (have it there before you go to bed, and dedicate to the Morning Dump)
Now, this next step is the MAGIC part. BEFORE you get out of bed, you need to grab your notebook and simply start writing. If you get up and start your day and think you can come back to this, it just simply won’t work.
Your goal is to keep the pen moving and write 2-3 pages (or more) of whatever is in your head. The first few days, it may be more of a struggle (i.e. I need to vacuum, I need to make this appointment, I should volunteer more, yadda yadda yadda). The point of this is not a “gratitude journal” (this is covered in another blog post, and is just as important but for different reasons), the point of your Morning Dump is to clear your head of all the clutter so that you are open to inspiration, freedom, clarity, and stress. No one will see this, don’t worry about handwriting, you can even draw a picture if that helps you.
When the notebook is full, keep it, throw it away, do whatever you want with it. It’s simply a very powerful tool to start your day with a clear, stress-free head!
Go ahead give it try, enjoy your Morning Dump tomorrow!
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