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Frozen Assets

December 12, 2016 By Arminda

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Earlier today as I was walking Eli we came upon what appeared to be a frozen fountain. Upon closer inspection I realized while the fountain’s main water had, indeed, frozen, there was still quite a bit of water still freely flowing, uninhibited by the sub-zero temperatures to which its fellow drops had succumbed.

Earlier this week I conducted multiple coaching sessions with clients who each arrived to our respective conversation feeling stuck and unable to move past what seemed like insurmountable barriers. Here’s a sampling of four of those barriers:

1. Frustration with a business partner whose actions had offended a key vendor
2. A marketing plan that didn’t seem to be producing the desired results
3. Overwhelm from starting a new business and implementing multiple strategies simultaneously
4. Personal issues that were “leaking” into the professional space

Upon closer inspection, some targeted questioning from me, and a safe space in which to review their assets, my clients were each able to see avenues to continue moving forward, uninhibited by the surrounding events previously blocking their path.

When we had completed our time together every single one of those “stuck” individuals experienced an overflow of joy that accompanied their awareness that sometimes, or perhaps especially, when feeling stuck it might do to remember Winnie the Pooh‘s sage advice:

Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.”

Remember that being stuck is optional and if you need some assistance just let me know what’s in your way; I’m happy to stand on the bottom rail with you.

Loving you,
arminda

Filed Under: Weekly Wisdom Tagged With: achievement, barriers, choices, creation, possibility, slowing down, stuck, success

Power Saving Mode

May 27, 2016 By Arminda

Raise your hand if you’ve ever experienced burnout or complete mental, emotional, physical, professional, or spiritual exhaustion? Me, too. In this video I discuss my solution for recovery and it may or may not involve multiple bowls of “Lucky Charms.”

Filed Under: Ask Arminda Videos, Coaching, Video Shows Tagged With: burn out, choices, down time, exhaustion, happiness, live your life, priorities, resources, slowing down

Snail Mail

September 21, 2015 By Arminda

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Let’s imagine for a moment that you’ve just collected your mail for the day.

As you pull the assorted envelopes and papers out of your box, you pause briefly to flip through the stack. Your eyes light on a colorful envelope with a handwritten address and your heart rate slightly increases with anticipation because you recognize that writing; it’s from someone you love. Memories of shared experiences with that person flood your brain and everything else in your world now ceases to exist until you’ve opened that envelope and read its contents word for word.

We tend to approach our work in the same way we get the mail: haphazardly and rushed. Somedays we barely have time to collect the post at all. When we do, we cram our arms full of the papers, fliers and envelopes spilling out of the box, casually flipping through them to see if anything stands out.

What if every project is a handwritten letter from someone you love and not a stuffed box of junk mail?

Slow down.

When we slow down we see the details that being in a hurry overlooks. Seeing details enables us to create solutions, to simplify processes, and to be an owner of that process, rather than a victim of a system.

There is plenty of time to accomplish all you wish to accomplish.

When was the last time you received a hand-written note or letter from someone? When did you last write and mail one to someone else?

Write a love note and snail mail it.

See the details in your projects and simplify your systems.

Give yourself and someone you love the gift of slowing down.

Filed Under: Blog, Weekly Wisdom, Writing Tagged With: details, haphazard, mail, owner, post, processes, simplify, slowing down, solutions, systems, victim

How to Read

September 4, 2015 By Arminda

I love discussing books and reading and I believe the way we read is way more important than how much or how often we are reading. And I am referring to books I read that support me professionally as a coach — the non-fiction titles I read that serve me in the work I do with clients.

What are your thoughts on the professional resources available to you?

I reference this additional Ask Arminda video about reading time.

Filed Under: Ask Arminda Videos Tagged With: books, consuming books, information, learning, reading, slowing down, transformation

Taking a Break

September 4, 2015 By Arminda

Is it normal to want to slip back into my comfort zone while I’m still excited about my own personal growth?

Is it time for a break or am I just caving to my own weakness?

Filed Under: Ask Arminda Videos Tagged With: break, comfort zone, personal growth, slowing down, taking a break, vacation, weakness

Busy With No Time

August 19, 2015 By Arminda

Who HASN’T felt the overwhelm of busy? (That’s gonna be a small queue.) Let’s look at a simple solution.

Filed Under: Ask Arminda Videos Tagged With: agreements, busy, busyness, just say no, priorities, priority, slowing down, take inventory

Environmental Influences

January 20, 2015 By Arminda

Slowing Down

SLOWING DOWN so that I can RISE UP

Too often I hurry. I’m in a rush. I want to get to the end of the day and cross my own imaginary finish line so I can go to sleep again because it’s so exhausting being me.

Except I make it all up and never really need to hurry (unless the house is on fire: then definitely hurry).

When I consciously and intentionally and deliberately slow down, creating space for simply being, then all the possibilities rise to the surface.

I rise to the surface.

I am a living and breathing and creating and loving spiritual being having an amazing human experience.

And everything and more gets created, achieved, checked off, or imagined. At least the stuff that really matters.

“Everything changed the day I figured out there was exactly enough time for the important things in my life.” — Brian Andreas

Filed Under: Weekly Wisdom Tagged With: creating space, priorities, slowing down, time

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