Refresher
December 30th, 2011

I have been doing one year follow-up with clients and am appreciating people's willingness to keep up-leveling their systems. What I see over and over is the importance of the physical part of a next action. (A next action is doable, physical, and one step.)  The tendency to write down verbs that are mental constructs vs. physical movement stops the flow of action. An example would be analyze budget numbers vs add up budget columns in Excel spreadsheet and compare to last year's budget. The second is a physical action that is doable in one step. The first example is a mental description which doesn't give you the first step.  The difference may seem simplistic, but that tiny language difference will move your actions to completion.

Looking vs Thinking
November 22nd, 2011

Watch what you tend to do when someone asks you about your availability or what you are working on. If you go to your mind vs. your calendar then you have an opportunity of letting more go into your systems and allow your mind to rest.  There is true freedom when you don't know your schedule and have to look at the calendar.  Looking allows the mind to relax and trust on a new level.

Staying out of In
November 25th, 2011

My office internet service has been down for four days. What that meant was a once-a-day trip to the local coffee shop with wi-fi to send and receive email.  During the day I could monitor emails on my iPhone but could not respond because replies needed attachments, etc.  What is very clear to me after these four days is that the less time we spend checking email, the more we can complete.

Showing up
November 22nd, 2011

I am aware more than ever before of the importance of consciously using my time and making only the agreements I intend to keep.

I see many verbal agreements and promises that never make it to completion.  Be careful of the things you agree to that you don't write down.  Agreements in writing are far more likely to occur.

Showing up for ourselves
August 15th, 2011
Lately I have had a number of clients not show up for phone sessions.  I know they would not miss a meeting with their boss.  I am guessing a meeting to do a Weekly Review seems like something not so important.  What  may not be obvious is that every meeting with someone else is first of all a commitment with myself to show up.  I experience and know for myself that when I do not show up for myself (or someone else) I pay a big price in the area of self trust.  And while not an immediately apparent correlation, it does affect my level of energy, my respect for myself and ultimately my ability to complete.  I recently went a few weeks without doing a Weekly Review.  While I consciously kept renegotiating the scheduled review with myself on my calendar, I could feel the pull on my attention that I was not doing what I have as an agreement with me, i.e. regular Weekly Reviews.  What we tell ourselves we will do matters.

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