Preparing For 2015: Use Your Secret Weapon

Tuesday, December 30, 2014. Are you tired yet of living a life that you are unhappy with?

Well today is the best day to start creating the life you truly desire!

Stay connected with me on our Facebook page, as well as on my personal coaching page at and let us together chart a new course!

Feel free to *like* and share my posts.  Tag your best friend as you would love him/her to enjoy this 'ride' with you!

Be blessed and be a blessing!

Claudette

Preparing For 2015: A Guide

Over the next few days, I will be posting articles, pictures, tips and in general a guide as we continue to Prepare For 2015.

You are invited to check in to our Facebook page as well as my professional page to join this walk.

Looking forward to drawing up plans and constructing new lives for ourselves with you!

Namaste,

Claudette

Last Chance To Get On Those Resolutions!

Claudette Esterine

In exactly three months from today, most of us will be making final plans for our Christmas holidays. Some would have already started shopping for their New Year's Eve ball outfit.

It has been several years now that I have attended any sort of celebratory event on December 31. The last many years have found me at home, alone, having a quiet night, probably sipping a glass of wine or hugging a mug of coffee as I contemplate my life and the dreams for the new year.

New Year's Eve 2013 found me in my home country of Jamaica and as much I wanted to be there, the night was spent in much the same fashion - alone and in contemplation.

Resolutions I do not make but intentions I do set. Earlier this year, I shared with you what my intentions were for 2014. In June, I posted a mid-year review. Now, three months and two weeks away from doing this exercise for 2015, my questions are:

1. Did you set intentions for 2014?
2. Where are you with them?
3. If you had not, would you care to set some now?

My intentions for 2014 were specific in some areas yet broad in most. The overriding theme for me was experiencing a sense of wellbeing in all aspects of my life. I shared in a March post my exact Vision for the year. Since then, there have been expansion, evolution and enhancements in most areas. And there have been changes, particularly in those areas where my intention was seemingly less than my potential.

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Standing at the last quarter of 2014, my thoughts are on the incompleted, those experiences that have not fully revealed themselves or fizzled. My questions do not include why because I understand why something might have come but did not remain. It was not for me or fully formed.

My 'task' now is to clarify those intentions - and I have - and allow them to come alive over the next few months or at least spring a bud.

What about you? What needs clarifying on your list of intentions? Are you willing to empty yourself of all the excuses, rationalizations and/or confusion to see them into being?

Share your 2014 intentional journey with us here or on our Facebook page and let us together end the year exactly how we want!

2014 Intentions: Mid-Year Review

Claudette Esterine

Hump day and so it is time for our audio blog! Listen here.

TRANSCRIPT

It is also Hump month, therefore we will check in on those vision boards, list of intentions or resolutions and/or your objectives for 2014.

This is our third, I believe check in since we suggested creating a vision board. I have shared my update as of April and as Life is always evolving and I am always up for the ride, there has been quite a few changes along my journey.

What is so funny is that as I reviewed my April update and matched it to my original visioning/goal setting, I realized a few things.

1. The Universe is really smarter and wiser than I am (lol).
2. All things do and have once again worked for good.
3. I nor you can control life. We can only control our thoughts and attitudes.

Once I "let go," completely surrender everything and everyone, magic happens.

'Magic' is precisely what has happened in my life since the start of this year. Money, great relationships, people who love and support me, a growing small business and increasing engagement on social media and the most terrific job that challenges all my expertise/knowledge/competencies!

Where are you with your set intentions? What have materialized so far? Are you happy? Do you feel good about yourself and where life has taken you so far this year?

It is totally okay if you said no to any or all of my questions. What it means is that you are still very much sorting and that is a great place to be!

Write to me through our Facebook page should you need support. You can also share your thoughts here.

Do enjoy this review day and I look forward to hearing from you.

Livestream Your Vision

We are now 41 days into the 'New Year'. Do you know where your Intentions are? 

Those pesky little things that you wrote down and downloaded or cut out pictures symbolizing the desires for 2014. Intentions is my preferred word for them rather than New Year's Resolution. We have discussed the difference before but in case you have forgotten or it missed you, check here for a reminder.

Shared on Facebook yesterday how much I enjoyed attending church. It was a last minute decision, one that I am thankful that I made. The topic of the sermon was: "Success: Love It!" It was part of a wider theme that is aimed at assisting congregants develop a "Game Plan for Success."

Each of us determine our measure of success. The Minister reiterated that and gave examples that success in this moment might look different in the next. On a larger scale, success for me will be different from your idea of success.

Unfortunately, however, many of us do not embrace our internal ideals - so to speak. Instead, we use society's standards of success. The prescription of success, according to those standards, include hard work, certain careers/jobs, buying everything big and seemingly better than what the neighbors or your cousins have and having 'lots' of money - hard cash and/or access to credit. Anything less than or besides these are deemed "doing okay" to being a failure.

What if you were to disagree with that premise and try your own formula?

That was the cornerstone of the visioning process suggested in this blog at the start of the year. I posited that You are well able to identify and 'dream toward' your success-filled life as you see it.

"To think about your life is to create it. You have to take ownership of where you are right now and know where you want to go before you can get there. Keep collecting evidence for your success. You can believe it, and you can be it." Ali Vincent

Notice my choice of words: "vision," "dream," and "see." An intention is having a purpose, something or a state of being that you are aiming towards. Fundamental to setting "your eyes" on that intention is envisioning, constantly dreaming and seeing yourself living as desired.

It is very much like "live streaming." You are not at the event but you are watching it, seeing it from thousands of miles away as it occurs. You are caught up in the excitement of the event just as if you were there! That is the formula for success.

Aligning yourself with your desires, your best life, long (or shortly) before it actualizes is key, the core even of this process. Other practical steps worth incorporating in your daily routine include:

• Eliminating inauthenticity from your life. Know who you are, embrace that person and do not allow anything or anyone to diminish your sense of self. 
• Clarifying your desires and when necessary be specific. However, some desires are best left general when stating the specifics might provoke negativity within you. For example, adding a picture of a 20-bedroom mansion to your vision board to illustrate your desire to own a home might be a challenge while living in your Mom's basement. A general statement such as "my desire is to own property with a very well furnished house," might be easier for you in this moment.
• Watching your language! There is a biblical passage that says "Death and life are in the power of the tongue... ." Remove, reduce and rethink some of the words you are using to tell the story of your journey. Rephrase statements that begin with "I want," for example. Say instead, "I will..." There is another sage piece of advice relevant here. "If you can't say anything good," shut up! 
• Focussing on where you are going, repeating every chance you get your intentions and feeling in the moment as if you are already there. 
• Gratitude. Need I say more? Be grateful for where you are, those walking with you, even the challenging ones, for the sun, the moon and the stars. Practice "radical gratitude." 

If you need further support with any of this or on any other topic, feel free to contact me here, through our Facebook page or on Twitter.

Looking foward to seeing some of you in Jamaica later this year.

Blessings!

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