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Create 2017

December 26, 2016 By Arminda

While reviewing your year is a great exercise in seeing all you’ve accomplished and recognizing for yourself what an amazing person you are, it’s in the creation of “What’s Next?!” that you really get the chance to shine.

For this exercise to be most effective, I encourage you to schedule some reflective time for yourself without normal distractions. Really get into a different head space before responding. Allow yourself to fully imagine you in the next year; visualize each of these scenarios and from that place, write down your responses.

Don’t self-correct or talk yourself out of what comes forward for you. Write it all down. There is also no rule that you have to limit yourself to just three responses. Go crazy! Keep writing! This is YOUR 2017 and you get to visualize and create it however you like.

If you’d like to share your responses with me (yes, please), then simply send me an email (coach at armindalindsay dot com) with your 2017 projections. I can’t wait to read your future.

1. What are the top 3 things you will achieve?
2. List 3 challenges you anticipate.
3. What are 3 things you need to learn to grow your business?
4. Identify 3 things you want to grow and/or learn about yourself.
5. Which are the 3 relationships you intend to grow and/or develop?
6. Name 3 things you want to create or bring into the world.
7. What are 3 ways you will make a difference in 2017?
8. List 3 ways you will have FUN in your business.

The best way to predict your future is to create it.”
— Abraham Lincoln

Time Management

September 11, 2015 By Arminda

If you’re like most of us, you’ve experienced moments (or vast spans) of your life when you believe you struggled with time management. Maybe it was during your university years or when you wanted to write that novel.

Let’s dispel the myth of time, all of it.

Stuff I Have to Do

August 19, 2015 By Arminda

Once we’ve paired down our “to-do” lists to the essentials and the things we truly WANT to be doing — where do we go from there? Because even that can feel overwhelming.

Brought to You By the Letter “A”

March 18, 2015 By Arminda

Oh, that pesky letter A.

I can relate to Grover.

Do you have a letter A?

What’s standing right in front of you, but you can’t see it because it seems so big and looming?

Sometimes the letter A can be shaped like:

Sharpening communication skills
Strengthening leadership traits
Writing that book
Learning to sail
Pursuing a language
Building a treehouse
Dancing in the kitchen
Walking away from the “known”
Giving more of you to those in need
Creating a dream
Taking the leap of faith
Trying out for the team
Singing out loud
Slowing down
Saying “I love you”
Being on purpose

How often are we so close to our letter A that it lights up, buzzes, or sends us a signal, but we ignore all the signs and think we have more time?

If you knew the clock was running, what would you do differently today?

The clock is running, by the way.

Environmental Influences

January 20, 2015 By Arminda

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

Let’s Do the Time Warp!

November 4, 2014 By Arminda

How often have you heard yourself saying you don’t have enough time in your day? Or a new project comes along and your stress level increases exponentially because of the perceived time commitment? Or your heart rate goes up just looking at your ever-expanding list of things to do?

Have you ever wondered why you feel like nothing is getting accomplished even though you are always busy?

And in those moments you dismiss it all by acknowledging, “I struggle with time management,” as if that wipes your slate and gives you permission to continue being busy with little outcome.

Steve Chandler says, “. . . with a clear mission driving [you], time management is never a problem.”

Would you agree that when you really want something (anything), you figure out how to get it?

What is your mission?

Here’s the promise: Get a mission, identify your wants, focus on your goal(s) and time slows down and moves to the side as you create your how.

Every single time.