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The quality of your life is determined by the focus of your attention.
- Cheri Huber
To regain control in our lives we must begin somewhere! Often, we feel out of control, unhappy, unfulfilled without really knowing why. If asked we could point to a few areas in our lives, details mainly, that illustrate that things aren’t going the way we want them to. But we’re still stuck.
To regain control in our lives we must first find our pain. Many of the affordable courses offered online at JourneyWay.Com can help us discover a starting place. There are even a few free tools that can be downloaded and worked on that will help act as a great starting place.
The most important thing to remember though… Is that we must be willing to really look at our pain. Often we are scared to look beneath the protective layer we all have to discover the true source of our discomfort. To regain control in your life you must begin somewhere.
Even if you have to begin, and begin, and begin it’s okay. Today, right now, is the time to stop procrastinating and feel safe enough to look under the covers to find just one thing that is keeping you from living the life you most want to live.
An easy way to begin is to think about the Four Rooms of Your Life: Mind, Body, Heart, and Spirit. What is the state or condition of those highly important facets of you?
Is your mind free and clear, easily churning away on the thinking and learning tasks of your life? Or, do you find it hard to concentrate, difficult to remember things, or just tiring doing mental work? Do you give your mind things to do? (i.e. card games, word puzzles, sudoku, etc.) What hobbies do you have that rely on the mind? Music, sewing or crafts, or even spending time working out the course of your life’s journey?
How about your body, heart, spirit? Many of the same questions apply. Are these areas of your life open and moving or closed and sluggish? How do you feel about your body? How are your relationships with others? How about your relationship with God?
By walking through the process of first finding our pain we can quickly begin to map out where to go next. There is an idea that if we take care of even a small road block in our life that very action allows us the space and energy to then begin work on another area. It is freeing move through this process.
For your to-do list, try this. Take four sheets of paper and label them Mind, Body, Heart, and Spirit respectively. Now fold those sheets in half lengthwise. In the left hand column of each page begin writing down what’s not working in that room of your life. In the right hand column of each page begin listing what is working okay in that room of your life. Be honest but be fair. You can work on all four at once or on one at a time. It’s simply important to begin!
Now, you have two really important chunks of information. 1) You have some pretty accurate lists of what’s holding you from the life your really desire. And, 2) you have a great collection of items you can begin to actively be grateful for. With the first list, pick one at a time and slowly start to create the change needed to either erase it from the left column or to be able to move it over to the right. With the second list, begin a gratitude journal or notebook. Each day, before you go to sleep, jot down a few things you’re grateful for that day. It can be one thing, or it can be five. Keep the number low–it’s not a contest. It is however an act of thankfulness that creates a different way of seeing yourself.
The Roadblocks Course will be available within the next month. It will take this concept and expand on it allowing you to truly look at every area of your life and begin to make postive, lasting change. To regain control in our lives we must begin with ourselves.
Let me know how this exercise works for you and feel free to post a comment here. Also, remember to sign up on the home page in the top right corner with your email address in the ENews and Updates box. I’ll keep you posted on changes here and on what’s coming around the corner.
All the best!
Zane Darner
www.journeyway.com
zane@journeyway.com
Helping adults regain control of their lives through affordable online courses, education, and coaching.
Your life reflects your attitude of mind; your attitude of mind does not reflect your life.
- Cheri Huber
What is the JourneyWay?
The JourneyWay is your personal experience of traveling through this life.
It encompasses your past, present and future.
For example:
- Everything that you are experiencing today comes from choices you made yesterday.
- Everything you have the capacity to bring into your life will arise out of choices you make today and tomorrow.
- If the path you are on now is not getting you closer to the life you want, then it is up to you to change direction.
Your life reflects your attitude of mind; your attitude of mind does not reflect your life. - Cheri Huber
JourneyWay.com is about supporting your journey. Adults take these courses because they are usually experiencing some pain or major discomfort. We offer online courses that are affordable, self-paced and give you clear insight on how to get from where you are to where you want to be. As coaches, we know how to work with our clients and have learned that breaking down each step makes changing your journey much more manageable.
One way to begin is to take a self inventory; this helps you find out what you may need along the way. Part of that step involves some self-check work to determine if some of what your carrying can be left behind. Our free assessment tool can help get you started. From here, you get to choose which courses you want to focus on first. Each class can be completed individually–but as a whole they will all lead you to the same place–regaining control of your journey and once again discovering the joy that comes from security, confidence and self mastery.
The only requirement of you is that you take responsibility for where you are now, realizing that even if you aren’t where you want to be you can still be fully present and work to make changes. We can help you regain control of your life, however, it is still up to you to begin.
The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and
you are out there.
- Yasutani Roshi, Zen master
The idea that peace is conditional, depending on certain needs being met - being loved and appreciated, financially secure, well rested, having good work - is eventually replaced by the realization that the moment you’re experiencing right now is the only one, and it can’t be changed.
- Joan Borysenko
An open mind is a prerequisite to an open heart.
- Robert M. Sapolsky
JourneyWay Coaching exists to support adults who are ready to discover & live their highest vision of who they are.
Our customized life & work packages help you reduce stress, simplify your life, find greater motivation at work, build self confidence and create better personal boundaries!
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Reduce stress, simplify your life, find greater motivation at work, build self confidence and create better personal boundaries through JourneyWay’s affordable, step-by-step courses…
JourneyWay Coaching began offering affordable self-paced courses earlier this year. The idea was to take 5 years of one-on-one, group, personal and business coaching experience and distill it down into truly manageable material.
The goal is for you to be able to walk through these at your own pace. You can purchase the entire set of 12 or one at a time in any order you prefer for what you’re uniquely working on! You reach your goals by taking well place steps, one at a time. These courses build upon each other in order to help you get from where you are to where you want to be.
The best part is the interactive …
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