OOPS, I did It again!

The Design Your Year Event is this Saturday, December 13th and it's a special event where you tap into your inner power to create, navigate, shift and design the life you desire. Even I learn from this event and want to share a great story on how my coaching process works for me in my life. My work is based on trusting the human experience is to learn from your life lessons and know that if you don't evolve from them they will continue to harass you. 
I know that just as you master each lesson and advance to the next level of your life you will find the next lesson patiently waiting your arrival. Well, even with all my "knowing" one of my lessons kicked me in this shin last week! My Superwoman trait had been soaring across the globe of my life. I finally handcuffed her with love, grace and a calendar of blocked R&R dates! I'm shifting my yes I'll do it, to no thank yous and not right nows. In this week's Sun-day design, I want you to join me to reign in the personality trait that betrays you every time, keeping you in a loop of  dismay and dissatisfaction. 

Your personality traits are your strengths, and when we over use them they become weaknesses. My Superwoman trait leads the chatter in my head that says "You can do all, be all, nothing can stop you!" This personality trait of mine seems charming if not admirable, and after some initial success, it quickly wreak havoc in my life. Oh, I'll get one or two wins in, but that's the hook. This week I want you to unhinge yourself too. Here are three steps you can take to finally figure out the lesson and move on:

1. Identify the affirmative suggestion you've heard and yet ignored. This is a message that lingers in your head and your heart despite your efforts to silence it. For me it was Paster Rob Bell's talk at Oprah's Live Your Life Weekend. His message was sometimes you have to say no to the good stuff so you can say yes to the great. I had been saying yes to some good stuff, really interesting projects which was my Superwoman's hook, pilfering time away from my great stuff. 
   
2. Find the thing on your to-do list that's been carried over week after week. My guess is that action item is directly related to one of your life dreams. Face it, if it were easy and comfortable we would have checked it off weeks ago. Let the magnet of discomfort be the GPS to your dreams. For me I kept saying yes the good stuff knowing it was taking me away from this one BIG thing. 
   
3. Challenge your reason why. Figure out why don't you have enough time, money, intellect, resources, etc., to do the very thing you say you want to do in step 2. For me I decided I had to stay in a work environment that was no longer supporting my dreams. Let go of the theory that the good is good enough and demand more for yourself. Watch awesome new opprotunities appear. 

Those lessons serve your life and help you maintain your integrity and stay on track toward your dreams. The move you move away from your path the louder the lesson calls out to you. Guilty, now guilt free! 

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