How to Use This Site

Welcome to JourneyWay.com! We are here to help you regain control in your life through affordable web courses and coaching. After working as professional life coaches for the past 6 years we saw the need for another way to offer assistance to those who were trying to get from where they were to where they most wanted to be. After spending time working with adults one-on-one, in classes at the local university, through workshops and presentations, and over the telephone we came to the conclusion that there must be a better way.

All of those avenues mentioned above have proven to be successful, but something was missing that JourneyWay.com was created to fulfill: Affordable web courses for those who wanted to work more independently. One-on-one life coaching can be an expensive endeavor, so to help those of you who are motivated and want to regain control in their lives we’ve created a method for you to take the next step.

The first step is often the most difficult however remember Lao Tsu’s words:
A Journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

The way to begin is to download and complete our Intro Assessment. You can also download any or all of the material listed on our Free Tools page. These assessments, questionnaires, exercises, and articles will ask you tough questions and require you to take a fair and honest look at your life as it is right now. That is a tough step; we know because we work through this material regularly ourselves.

After you’ve moved through some of the free material you will reach a place where it’s time to make a decision: Whether to try to get where you most want to be by doing things the same way you’ve done them in the past or not? Of course another decision nestled there too: Whether or not to do anything at all? The simple fact that you’re here shows something that will answer that last question. Something in your life is pulling you toward positive change. Maybe you’re not happy with your current job, how you are in your relationships, or just unsure about where to go from here. Regardless, that call for something different is part of you and will continue to knock on your door until you do something about it.

That’s where the Web Courses come in. Every successful person has shared that you simply cannot reach your highest vision of who you are without the successful, step-by-step completion of goals. How are you with goal creation? And what’s all this about vision? Do you know the difference between a vision and a dream? How about the difference between planning and preparation? Do you know what your personal and professional distractions are and how they quietly keep you from moving forward? If not, look through the list of web courses and choose one that fits with your current situation.

We’re going to be covering time management from a very different point of view. You’ll learn why we believe that Attention Management is the key to letting time manage itself. We’ll give you tips and techniques you can put to use immediately.

So what’s keeping you from beginning? It can’t be the cost since the beginning involves using material that is provided without charge. And more importantly, the courses that do carry a cost do so at a level that is VERY affordable. One past client shared with us that she didn’t like web courses because she would buy them and never get around to doing them. We can help with that too through timed emails designed to help you remain accountable. And finally, if you need to talk to a real person you’ll find us available through email and through a new coaching line that will be implemented in the first quarter of 2009.

The Web Courses will be online before the end of January 2009. Until then please take advantage of the Free Tools section and begin working to regain control in your life.

You really can create the life you most want. We’ve found though that it’s impossible to do without a plan, without smart goals, without accountability partners. So join us and let us help you get from where you are to where you most want to be. We will help you create your own plan, we will help you create goals and learn how to stick with them, we will provide exercises, articles, and techniques that can improve how you experience life, and we will be your accountability partners. (We will also show you how to invite other accountability partners into your life for continued success.)

Instead of finding that you’ve fallen down again on your New Year’s Resolutions why not try something different this year? You have nothing to lose and everything to gain.

It’s time to begin the next phase of your own personal Journey!

As always, Life your Best!

Zane Darner,

President, JourneyWay Coaching, LLC

A Different Way Toward Happiness

JourneyWay.Com was created out of the experience gained through coaching adults over the past 6 years. I learned that most of those I worked with simply wanted a quick, achievable method to find a different way to regain control over their lives and to be happy.

I’m not trying to say that no work is needed to affect change, no way! What I am saying is that it is MUCH easier to get to a new place in your life by first understanding where you are.

Think of your life as a Journey!

You may have a vision for where you want your life to lead or you may not. You might be crystal clear on why you’re not happy or you are simply finding yourself in the same place year after year not really knowing where the time is going. Either way, if you want tomorrow to be different from today you must begin to make changes in the choices you’re making.

“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again while expecting different results.” –Albert Einstein

I’ve always loved that quote because it accurately reflects how most of us are living our lives. It’s been said that success is achieving one’s goals. At the same time, most know that we have to have smart goals in order to keep us true to our values, dreams, visions, and hopes for tomorrow but few of us actually create personal or professional goals and stick to them.

Journeyway.com offers proven, affordable resources to help adults regain control in their lives. We offer our services out of knowing that it is possible to reach incredible dreams. This post is named, “A Different Way Toward Happiness” for a reason. There are many resources, self-help experts, and methods we can use to help us along our own personal journey. At the same time though, many contradict each other leaving us unsure of how to begin, much less continue onto our goals.

We will help you walk through a process of discovery that can lead to lasting change. Part of the work involves building an accountability system to help keep you true to yourself along the way. As in doing anything new, the assessments, free tools, and available courses may seem clunky or confusing at first. That’s okay!

Most of us don’t ever go to the airport and hand over our credit card to the ticket agent and say, “book me a flight going anywhere!” While this can provide adventure in your life, most of us naturally plan and prepare a bit more before booking our flight. We should be doing the same thing when it comes to planning our life journey!

The choices you made in the past and those you continue to make either move you closer to the life you most want to live, keep you rooted in one place, or continue to keep you off-track or even moving further away from your dreams. Sometimes, this has been going on for so long that we’ve begun to believe in our own failure.

We’re here to walk through this part of your journey with you. To do that we’re going to re-introduce you to the Four Rooms of your Life: Mind, Body, Heart, and Spirit. We’re going to ask you to take an honest inventory of all the areas of your life through our Free Intro Assessment, and we’re going to walk through reigniting dreams or goals you’ve put on the back burner, creating a vision for the life you most want to live.

In doing this, we’re going to remember to remain true to our own strengths and weaknesses and we’re going to focus on a vision that we CAN achieve. I will be providing an example of a part of my own life vision and will share through example on what I’m doing to achieve the life I most want to live.

I believe this life is precious and that we’re here for several important reasons. Some of those reasons are for ourselves and the work we’re here to do and some of those reasons are for how we can help and be there for those around us.

Whether you simply want to pick an exercise and eating plan that you can remain true to, want to create a better relationship with yourself and others, or you want to finally reach for that Big Dream, there is possibility for you!

But because this takes commitment we will be talking about how to finally find a way to stay motivated to how you most want to live. Because this will take effort in your life we will support you along the way and show you that positive change is not only possible, it can really happen. But through it all we will remind you of your responsibility and accountability in the process.

This is your life–your journey. Isn’t it worth giving it your all? A great place to start is to peruse the Free Tools section located in the drop down menu at the top of the web site. They will definitely begin to move you toward the all important steps of discovery and self-inventory necessary to begin to change your path. From there we can move to the in-depth web courses available online.

The official launch date for this site will be January 18, 2009. However much will be available before that date and the Free Tools are already up and available for download. Take some time and work your way through the pages and posts, comment if you’re moved to do so, and feel welcome to send me an email if you have any questions, concerns, or suggestions.

This site is for you to help you begin to regain control in your life enabling you to create the life you most want to live.

To your best!

Zane Darner
zane@journeyway.com

Each Moment is Special

As I write this I’m sitting outside in my back yard. My trusty MacBook is sheltered from the rain by an umbrella precariously placed over my lap. If the rain clouds allowed, I’d be able to see a nearly full moon rising across my rooftop. As it is, I can only see its light reflected off cloud cover and hear the drops fall off late autumn leaves around me…

I recorded this from my journal on October 31, 2008. I felt that it held enough meaning to share with you here.

Flying from Lewiston, ID home to Boise, ID

I just lifted off from Lewiston en route Boise. It’s about 55-60 degrees and was raining hard as I boarded the flight. Prior to take off the rain lessened and a full, brilliant, double rainbow appeared off the port (left) side of the airplane

As we sped down the runway for takeoff I saw a miracle appear in my little seat-side window; a miracle at least to me. As we gained altitude the rainbow became a full circle! I could still see the full upper half—that we are all used to seeing—doubled, both in constant, clear, clarity. As we gained altitude though I could also see the bottom half of both rainbows… a full circle. And frankly, I was moved!

As we continued into the misty, rain-filled air I watched both rain circles fade away. The amazing feeling for me was that I knew that they were still there; it was only my perspective that had changed.

Now, if I reside primarily in the control room of my Mind I can recall with some accuracy the scientific explanation describing the formation of rainbows. I know about light bending, reflecting, and refracting off of water molecules in the damp air. I know these things.

However, another function of the Mind is Imagination. This side of our perception resides closer to our child-like nature, our Basic Self, as well as closer to the room of our Heart; our emotions.

From this place I can see through eyes of wonder and awe. I can feel the beauty of nature from something as simple, yet profound, a a double rain-circle. From here I can see the interplay of light and shadow on the cloud tops outside my airplane window to noticing the late Autumn’s first touch of snow on the mountain peaks beneath me.

For yet another, more inner, view I can move into the room of Spirit. From here, regardless of belief system, I can see how minuscule my place in life is as I watch the terrain change as we fly our way southward. I see lights in little towns as well as lights from very remote homes hidden in the hills.

Our human condition reminds us that we are more often than not just as deeply separated from those that live just down the street from us as we are from that lone person or family living away up in the mountains. Physical proximity never guarantees mental, emotional, or spiritual closeness to our neighbors.

In fact, the opposite is more often true… In rural populations where physical distance separates neighbors we often see closer community, respect, and support than we do in our urban subdivisions.

I am not hinting that one situation is better than another and I’m not romanticizing country living over the city experience. I am saying though that our place in this life begins with us.

“God gave us faces, we make
our own expressions.” –Anonymous

It begins with our own attitude about ourselves and it begins with the respect we either choose to allow or disallow each step we make in our own journey.

Side note: From the vantage point of my window seat I can also see the intelligence, ingenuity, and remarkable achievement we can make as humans. Rather than a 6+ hour drive home this airplane is going to get me there in about 45 minutes!

We are all at once small and large. Enjoy your own journey. Embrace it with the importance it deserves; grasp it with all your humor, strength, talent, and grace.

For more information in using the Four Room concept in your life please read the upcoming article, The Four Rooms; Being Fully Who You Are.

Additionally, the newly arriving courses will offer you a deeper, more self-paced method of moving from where you are to where you truly most want to be!

Keep checking in, and if you haven’t signed up for this site, please add your email address to the eNews and Updates box located in the upper right side of this site.

All the best,

Zane

Oh… as an interesting note. After writing this I picked up a Boise Weekly and read Rob Brezny’s Free Will Astrology article. It read:

Capricorn: This is the week of the Upside-Down rainbow. It’s a time when signs of good fortune are everywhere, but always with some odd twist or anomalous feature…

His article goes on  to remind me to pay attention to each moment. Did I get goose bumps when I saw the upside down rainbow reference. Yep. I did. And more so, I cried.

I felt reminded of all the things I’m working on and that they, and we, are truly all connected.

Thank you for reading this. I believe deeply in the idea that our journey is all-important, That we most often get lost in our day-to-day tasks.

Let’s use this site for all our good?

The Usefulness of What Is Not

We put thirty spokes together and call it a wheel;
But it is on the space where there is nothing that the usefulness of the wheel depends.
We turn clay to make a vessel;
But it is on the space where there is nothing that the usefulness of the vessel depends.
We pierce doors and windows to make a house;
And it is on these spaces where there is nothing that the usefulness of the house depends.
Therefore, just as we take advantage of what is,
we should recognize the usefulness of what is not.
- Lao Tzu