Peer Relationships...

Our peers can be a great source of support, information and camaraderie. Yet many of us get so busy we forget to take the time to nurture these important relationships. We often connect with our peers when we need something instead of creating mutually beneficial relationships throughout the year. This week, consider going to lunch with a peer and asking her/him the following:
•What's your greatest challenge right now?
•How can we interact in a way that would be even more effective?
•What can I do to best support you?

You will be amazed what you discover by taking the time to ask a few key questions and by sending the message that you care about the relationship.

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What Are You Focused On, Your Future or Your Distractions?"

Two Lists You Should Look at Every Morning

List 1: Your Focus List (the road ahead)
What are you trying to achieve? What makes you happy? What's important to you? Design your time around those things. Because time is your one limited resource and no matter how hard you try you can't work 25/8.

List 2: Your Ignore List (the distractions)
To succeed in using your time wisely, you have to ask the equally important but often avoided complementary questions: what are you willing not to achieve? What doesn't make you happy? What's not important to you? What gets in the way?

http://blogs.hbr.org/bregman/2009/05/two-lists-you-should-look-at-e.html?awid=9096134605609987456-3271

What Are You Focused On, Your Future or Your Distractions?

Create A Meaningful Life - Part II

Martin Luther King Jr. wrote, "If you are called to be a street sweeper, sweep streets even as Michaelangelo painted or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. Sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well."

Dr. King's quote is one that is steeped in choice, intention and right action and that power is ever-present with each breath we take. Isn't choice something we would all say yes to each and every moment? Of course, and yet we often unconscioulsy say no to choice because we rely on that automatic pilot-our habits, our ego-self that we have relied on for many years.

We don't even think about it. Many of us manage hourly, daily, weekly and yearly with our habits and ego guiding our thoughts, feelings and actions. To be unconscious to our own light and power could be due to many things: our lack of awareness of who we really are, our lack of discipline, our lack of a plan, our willingness to play small.

We just need to clearly remember and recognize who we are at the core of our being and act from that place of love and strength.

Create A Meaningful Life - Part I

The way we choose to think, feel and act directly comes from one of two places-our egos or our higher self. If ego or personality is at the root of our thinking, feeling and acting, our decisions/choices may be based on lack, survival, or fear. None of these would come from our higher self. Rather, our higher self shows up as possibility thinking, gratitude and inquisitiveness.

When we listen to our higher self, choices, decisions thoughts feelings and actions take on a whole new realm of possibility. Our perceptions are more objective, our thoughts are more compassionate, our feelings are more loving and our actions are in integrity.

New Beginnings

We may tend to think of a new beginning in terms of external change, but it actually begins as internal experience. It may be experienced as a subtle inner shift: a new sense of readiness, an inner awakening. Sometimes our dreams presage the New Beginning. Dreams of birth, of moving into a new house, of discovering something new are often signals that new life is emerging....

One of the best ways to prepare for a New Beginning is to discover your soul's deepest desire. A true New Beginning will be some expression of this desire. And how do we discover our soul's desire? This is an extremely personal endeavor, so it is difficult to give a "formula" answer. Here are some questions to ask yourself in order to facilitate this discovery:

1. What is it that I have always enjoyed doing?
2. What has always come naturally for me?
3. What would I do if I could not fail?
4. If I were to die today, what would feel unfinished in my life?
5. What is it that is so important to me that I would risk everything in order to achieve or experience it?

Why It's Really Okay to Mess Up....

If you've already broken your New Year's resolutions, don't sweat it: Every setback contains its own reward.

 

By Martha Beck
O, The Oprah Magazine | From the April 2012 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine

Read more: http://www.oprah.com/spirit/What-to-Do-When-You-Mess-Up-Break-Your-Resolutions#ixzz1pi9cEcXV