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Are You Creating Your Dreams or Feeding Your Nightmares?

Lola — Thu, 05 May 2011 10:11:10 +0000

“We find what we expect to find, and we receive what we ask for.” Elbert Hubbard

When I realised I wanted to become a Life Coach, I was over the moon to have finally figured out what I wanted to do with my life, but didn’t know how I was going to make doing the training a reality. I was getting nowhere saving up for the course, and one day while complaining about this to a friend a light bulb went off in my head. All my focus was on the obstacles I saw between me and the course, I’d forgotten how excited and enthused I was about becoming a Coach and had completely let my fears overwhelm my dreams. I made a decision there and then, to stop with the excuses and complaining and to just make it happen somehow. And within 3 months I did!

How to Finish Your First Product

Lola — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 13:30:57 +0000

I’ve wanted to create products for some time now but had not been very good at finishing things. I’m a great starter but after the initial excitement wears off, I lose interest and start something else. It’s an old pattern that has stopped me from successfully creating products until now. As I put the finishing touches to my first audio program ‘Beyond Self Talk: How to Free Yourself From the Grip of Your Chattering Mind’, I feel happy to have changed that habit and actually finish something. I’ve held teleclasses and teleseminars before and love doing them but as a Mum of one with plans for more, I felt it was time to slay this demon and add products to the mix. I know I’m not alone on this so to help you out here are my 8 tips to help you finish your first product: 1. Stop trying to make it perfect – Perfection sounds like such a positive trait but it can actually be very destructive. Most perfectionists never finish because deep down they don’t think they can live up to their own standards. News flash: No-one can! Stop answering to your inner perfectionist, s/he’ll never be satisfied anyway. 2. Your insecurities vs their needs – I’m guessing your product will help people with a problem they have. A problem you’ve probably had so you know their pain but you also know the solution. Every time you allow your

Are your fears choking your dreams?

Lola — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 14:38:30 +0000

If growing up is the process of creating ideas and dreams about what life should be, then maturity is letting go again. Mary Beth Danielson

When I was training to be a coach, I remember being told that your resistance grows with you, and ain’t that the truth? No sooner do you recognise it in one form than it changes into another (temporarily) unrecognisable form. My resistance is

Who’s Choosing Your Resolutions? Heart or Head

Lola — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 14:03:19 +0000

“Until we’re willing to take the path through life whose signpost is marked “unknown,” we are destined to travel along the old ways, regardless of how many new names we give to them.” Guy Finley

As we stand at the start of a New Year, the world goes intention crazy thinking about what resolutions to make. The New Year is a great time to enter into a new phase of your life and I wholeheartedly recommend harnessing the New Year energy

Be Careful What You Wish For

Lola — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 12:58:13 +0000

I used to love reading Cosmopolitan magazine and really bought in to the lifestyle sold in those wonderfully glossy pages. I couldn’t wait to graduate, get a job, earn loads of my own money, buy lots of shoes, clothes and take lots of holidays. And well done me, I did it. I got what I wanted BUT what an anti-climax! I always believed it would make me happy but I was far from happy, the question constantly running through my head was “Is this it?”. I was stressed out, miserable, in debt and trapped by this so-called fabulous lifestyle I had created for myself.