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| Thriving:More about the 4 steps to getting off the hamster wheel . . .
I use a 4-step process to help you more consistently Thrive, living and working from your natural radiance: 1. Stop! Get off the hamster wheel. Create spaciousness to release. The hamster wheel usually represents one of two scenarios, sometimes both. Often, it involves spinning through the same self-defeating thoughts, harsh self-criticisms and ingrained bad habits over and over again. Secondly, it may include doing way too many life and work activities at a frantic pace without living consciously or in the present moment from this numbing, overworked state that you have come to believe normal. When you finally stop or a harsh life event forces you out of the hamster wheel, you then have the opportunity to ... 2. Question! Examine assumptions and perceptions. As you begin questioning, you create the opportunity to release old habits and thought patterns as well as other people’s expectations, so you can remember/discover what truly holds value for you. This process resembles taking all your clothes out of the closet to assess what stays and what goes. As you “try them on” and look in the mirror, you will find many habits, assumptions and expectations you don’t want and don’t choose to keep. Until now, you may have assumed that you must continue engaging in hamster-wheel tasks. During the questioning phase, you become willing to examine those assumptions, many of which originated with self-defeating patterns established in childhood, based on the erroneous perceptions of a scared, vulnerable child. Others came from something another person expected of you. Like most people, you probably hadn’t even realized you’d made choices inappropriate for today or not actually your own. As you choose to “give away” what no longer fits, you create a spaciousness so that you can now begin to . . . 3. Focus! Make conscious new choices. What you’ll find in your pristine closet, what has been there all along: your natural radiance, all covered with layers of old habits and other people’s expectations. Unburdening yourself now, you give yourself the delicious freedom to live from what matters most to you. As you consciously make new choices, you realize more present moments through these consciously-chosen activities. You recognize sacred opportunity in more situations and you come to know yourself more consistently as an agent of the divine. You have created the opportunity to choose your pace and your activities to . . . 4. Serve and share! Allow and express your unique natural radiance. Living more true to yourself naturally generates a lifestyle and a workstyle of ease, flow and grace. With little or no strain, you get more done by being you! As you allow yourself and others to experience your natural radiance, you discover more life and work activities based on your core values and your natural gifts and strengths, radiating from your specific divine essence. You come home – full-circle – to the natural radiance of you. If you want to grow your business with ease, the most effective way to do it: begin by creating a sliver of time and space in your life which allows you to make more conscious, life-affirming choices that ultimately reduce your overwhelm. What I do to help you accomplish that: guide you in taking initially small steps that open you to more consistently living from the light and energy which come from consciously plugging into the always-available divine Source of support and guidance. Together we’ll increase your ability to live and work from your divine radiance in sacred spaciousness, regardless of circumstances. And, you’ll naturally begin to move into that charmed life! To get off the hamster wheel and begin the conscious, sacred journey back to your naturally radiant self, call me at (800) 745-2617 or email me to check on availability or to reserve your place on my waiting list.
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