Info for last Thursday’s teleconference
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Here is the transcribed call:
Teleseminar: Essential Life Coaching: Getting the vision and bringing it into focus…
Hi everybody! I hope your having a great day so far…
- My name is Joanna Manos and I’m an Essential Life Coach. For those of you who are new to the phrase ‘Essential Life Coach’:I believe and hope you’ll have a better understanding by the end of the call.
- Well, I’m gonna start with sharing my story first, and get that out of the way. For over 20 years (and I’m dating myself a bit here!) I’ve been an avid learner, studying all different aspects of
- health
- nutrition
- fitness
- psychology
- dream-building
- goal-setting
- and anything else I could get my hands on!
- To start off, I was very fortunate to be raised knowing how to eat healthfully and to have been taughtjust putting on some fun music and dancing crazily around the house with my Mom. the importance of being active very early on in my life, whether that meant doing ballet, tap, jazz dance, gymnastics, ice skating, aerobics, jazzercise, body weight exercises, yoga or
- At the tender age of 18 I was challenged by a close friend to see how different I would look and feel after 30 days with absolutely no sugar in my diet. That was the beginning of my awareness. Prior to that challenge I subconsciously felt as if my health was just happening to me. I was amazed at how I could make changes and the very obvious improvement that occured in my health and skin! ~Now, most people are aware of the damage sugar has on our body, but if you are not one of the people who have tried eliminating sugar for any length of time, I challenge you to just try it and see for yourself!
- Personally, I’ve run the gamut of health interests starting with herbs, and moving on to teas, broadening into essential oils, whole foods (even did the high protein diet for a year!) non-dairy, hypo-allergenic, gluten-free, vegetarian, vegan and now I have found the wonderful health and vitality that a high raw, living foods lifestyle has to offer.
- I have my beautiful friend Sarah Martel, who’s a very knowledgeable nutritionist in Northern California to thank for patiently introducing me to nutmylks and living foods. She’s such a blessing. (And, off the record, she’s agreed to do a guest appearance on a future teleseminar! You won’t want to miss that!)
- The journey into the world of raw, living foods has been quite eventful! I’ve become friends with some of the cream of the crop in the raw food world: I’m blessed to be able to call Susan Powers, Sunshine Boatwright, Penny Shelton, Blaqberry and many, many others my friends and fellow entrepreneurs. I’ve had the opportunity to travel around the country and connect with my new friends and cohorts and I’ve become a member of several online communities and challenges.
- I am now loving the Health Transitions & Life Coaching that i have the opportunity to do both in private settings and corporately as well. I feel so blessed, working with absolutely brilliant and beautiful people at all different levels of health and many different focuses.
Okay… Enough about me, let’s focus on you…
I will be asking a lot of thought provoking questions. You’ll want to have paper and pencil ready so that you can write them down. Each person that’s signed up for the freshblessings.net newsletter will be sent a link to listen to the recorded version of this call as well, so no worries if you don’t get them all written down.
That all being said, here we go!
As the invitation for this call stated:
This is your life journey.
You live it day by day. It is meant to be lived large! What have you done with it so far? Are you leading or following? Even if you’re leading, it’s likely that there is someone, somewhere that you’re measuring yourself up against… Kinda like 2 kids, back to back when they’re checking to see who’s taller. I’ve heard many people talk about their ‘life purpose’ as the one thing they should do with their life. I believe we have many callings and purposes.
Stick with me here for just a few…
Are you familiar with the Proverbs 31 woman? She was the epitome of the perfect woman back in the day! Listen to this to-do list:
- she gets up way before everyone in the house to make sure they are taken care of and fed
- she imports great foreign foods from interesting places
- She exercises to keep herself in top shape
- her house is clean and beautiful
- her children are productive, not lazy
- she has strength and honor, wisdom and kindness
- She gives to the poor and helps people in need
- she prepares her family for winter by making them warm, lovely clothes before they need them (no last minute Wal-Mart run here!)
- she makes herself beautiful clothes and looks stunning
- Her handywork and sewing are excellent
- She buys land and plants vineyards
- She starts hand made textiles business from the ground up
Wow….
There was a time that I used to try to measure my daily life by that standard. I would lament over how little i was doing compared to this woman. until i came to the understanding that this was a snapshot of a ‘virtuous woman’s’ whole life accomplishments. Here’s a question for you… What accomplishments do you want to look back on in 20 years? 20 years from now, there’s a good chance that you won’t remember most of the things taking up your to-do list today (except for this call, of course). As a matter of fact, unless you purposefully do something meaningful with your day, you probably won’t remember this day by next month.
Many times, brilliant men and women miss out on years of purpose filled living by giving the squeaky wheel all of their attention! I mean, don’t get me wrong, I understand that squeaky wheels do have to be taken care of, but when you miss the appointment that you were on your way to- in order to lube the wheel, it’s time to take a good hard look at rearranging your priorities! The most important issue is, what are you going to do with this day, month or year of your life? You don’t get them back, you only get one shot at each day.
(**pause** I am going to give you a moment to visualize and write this down.)
You may want to work back through these exercises to get the full value of the visualization. Work with different ideas, for instance…. Imagine waking up and what your schedule would look like. Or how you’ll be using some latent talent that you’ve been neglecting. Think about what you do or offer that’s your special thing… Imagine your relationships with family and friends, your fitness activities for the day, and what you see yourself eating. Definitely imagine what you’ll be including in this future day for fun and recreation! My life made a complete turn around after working through this exercise!
Life has many seasons beyond Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter… Let’s see… in my own life there has been the Hindsight-is-20/20-season and the classic One-Foot-in-Front-of-the-Other-to-survive season, as well as the best-time-ever season and the I-was-born-for-such-a-time-as-this season. Seasons of your life will just happento you, much like the weather, if you’re not paying attention. When you take the time to get a vision of where it is you can dream of going, you create the seasons of your life. I call this the Breaking Out Of the Habitrail exercise. You don’t have to live your life exactly like your neighbor, co-worker or best friend. You are unique and talented, ( yes, you!). Anything is possible, and this exercise is especially helpful to find your callings and purposes.
It’s very important to write this down in order to begin heading that direction! Write it all down, page after page until you absolutely cannot stand to write anymore for needing to jump up and get started! Mind map it if that works best for you, draw it, build it, sing it, whatever it takes!
Sometimes you may have a hard time imagining a day in your life different from today. You may feel as if you’ve hit a brick wall. May I propose that this only LOOKS like a brick wall. It is actually the side of a cliff, and if you’ll back up a tiny bit and look up out of your situations, you’ll realize thatyou can take it and climb up to the next level in your life.
When you’ve gotten well into that process, and you have an idea of what you’d be doing on that beautiful no fear/ no fail day, ask yourself what would keep you from creating this reality? Write all of the potential obstacles, whether real or imagined. And if all of this was taken care of, is there anything else that could hold you back? And if that was taken care of, is there anything else that would hold you back. ~That’s it. You don’t have to fix the problems, just be aware of them. History is chock full of ordinary people becoming extraordinary because they had difficult situations to overcome.
These exercises are a little bit of what I’ve put together in the book that I have just written that is titled:
Steps Along the Road Called Life:
The Journey to Health and Destiny For the Less Than Perfect Person
Watch for it in the months to come…
And… speaking the of what’s to come, here’s some information about the coaching program coming up… This next 6 week challenge is called:
Back to Basics: Detox and Revitalize Your Life!
Are you ready to Detox internally, externally, mentally, physically, spiritually and emotionally.
Six week challenge.
Weekly private coaching call.
New daily focus assignment.
Private forum for participants.
You will be trying new things, journaling, pampering, cleansing, decluttering, creating, focusing, building, balancing, experimenting and rising above things in your life that have been blocking you from the greatness you are capable of…
You can sign up on facebook events ‘Back to Basics: Autumn Detox’
Questions?
One of my clients from the last 6 weeks coaching group: Life Journeys, wisely wrote: “In order to be consistant with reaching towards any goals, whether it be for my health, relationships, stress management or fun & recreation: I have to PLAN…I have to prepare ahead…I have to anticipate distractions, & no longer allow them to maneuver me into going in directions I had no intention of going in!”
This is purpose filled living.
In order to help you move toward this purpose filled living, I’ve scheduled another quick call next Thursday at the same time called
Back to Basics: Time Management for the less than perfect person
I hope you’ll choose to take back your life! Time management shouldn’t take up all of your time… I will clearly lay out a time management system that is so easy to use that you will be set free to LIVE! On the call with me will be Pamela Cook who just began using my technique in the last 6 week coaching program and has experienced great success in many areas of her life, meeting goals and accomplishing much greater balance. I hope you’ll join us.
I have one more question for you… If you could start your life brand new today, what would you do with it? who would you be building relationships with? how would you treat your body?
I give you this brand new life. Go and create it!
If you’ve found this call inspiring or helpful and would like to take your Life’s vision to the next level with accountability, the next 6 week coaching group begins Monday, September 14th.
Autumn Detox Challenge Sign-ups
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