Monday, Monday. How’s your brick foundation?

How is your foundation coming? Are your bricks well placed and fitting together nicely? Are you adding the mortar to hold them and keep them together?

So today I’d like to talk about the mortar that is holding your brick foundation together. What is the purpose of the mortar between the brick? It creates a more solid and firm wall. It helps hold the bricks in place. A wall made with bricks and mortar will last longer than a wall made of just bricks.

So in the terms of your life, what it the mortar? It is the habits, structures, and support mechanisms that keep your foundations in place. The point of us laying out bricks is to change our lives. If you just do the bricks (the actions) without placing the mortar (the habits) our foundation will crumble sooner. So this week, as you are working at your brick, look and see what habits and structure you want to develop for those actions that will continue to support your forward life movement. Progress in made one focused brick at a time. This week be aware of the intent behind those focused actions. Put some mortar between your bricks!

I have been working on my homework fairly regularly this last week. I did not do so as often as I could have and I did get  a lot done and still met the other commitments I had. I am happy with how it is going.

July 20, 2009

This week I have several classes I would like to take to get those finished up. I am on track to finish by the end of the month for my homework. OK maybe a little lagging behind in the race and I am still capable of crossing that finish line. I still have a large amount of time that I need to commit to to get this done. Also, I would like to have decided and got approval for my research topic for next week.

Way cool! ICA graduation here I come!

Just another manic brick day!

It’s Monday again! How’s y’all doing?

You know what day it is, right? Monday, the day we check in and see how our foundation is coming. This foundation we are building by laying down our bricks down one at a time. A couple of things to ask yourself before we move onto the check in. Look and see if the bricks you are choosing are moving toward your bigger goals and dreams. Check and see if what you are choosing to do is turning into busy work. Make sure your bricks reflect focused action toward a certain outcome or commitment. Check in time!

It’s all about ICA homework for me. It will be for a while. These last few weeks I’ve really got a handle on what I still need to do and how long it is taking. 21 modules left at about 2 to 3 hours a piece. I started this system that is working well. In this system I am transcribing my hand written notes to a word document. This is taking a long time for me to do. I don’t type very fast and I’m not a touch typist – hunt and peck for me. When I realized this I asked if I really needed to transcribe the notes and was I making more work for myself for nothing. I checked in to see if I was continuing this way just because I started this way and wanted everything to be consistent. What I realized was that by transcribing the notes I was revisiting and reinforcing what I had learned, sometimes over a year ago. So even though it is taking longer than I would like, I’m going to continue this way.

July 13, 2009

This week’s brick is again homework. I intend to graduate in December. This is one step on that path. My goal is all homework done by the end of July, except for the notes for classes I have yet to take. All classes done by August.

So where are you at? Where are you going? I would love to hear.

Same old brick.

Building your new life one brick at a time

I really dislike having to do the same brick over and over again. So what am I learning in that process. The main thing I’m learning is that I really procrastinate a lot. So what is it about procrastination that attracts me so much? Why do I love to put off until tomorrow what I can do today? How can I shift my perspective around this?

I love deadlines and they support me in getting my work done. I have always worked well under pressure. However the deadlines work best when imposed by others. As I’m writing this I’m realizing that by procrastinating I gain super clarity on what needs to be done for the next day or two. It helps me focus my energy and thoughts on one thing. Much of my day is spent multitasking – going from one thing to another as challenges arise to be solved in that moment. I spent much of my working career putting out one fire after another, so that when I finally sit down at my desk with nothing urgent on my plate, I literally don’t know what to do next. I know I can multitask well and I also know it robs my of focus and energy. These are great insights and how can I use this knowledge moving forward.

What actions and structures will support me in gaining that clarity and focus I achieve when under pressure without applying that pressure? I’m thinking that a daily list about what is important for each day, both for my day job and my business, will support that structure. Doing and completing one task at a time will also support me. Allowing the  structure of my day to support breathing space, so that I’m not constantly running around doing things in every moment of the day. Remembering to schedule the household tasks will also support me. That way I am not robbing myself of my breathing space to complete the household tasks. Hmmmmm. I’m like the sound of this. I’ll let you know how it worked for me next week.

July 6th

So onto this week’s brick. I’ve been working on my home work for ICA. This week I did not achieve what I set out and I should have looked more closely at what was available for me for time. I also had more home work than I had orginially realized. It is this same brick again for next Monday, more homework to get caught up before classes begin again.

How is everyone doing on their bricks?

In love and light

Celina

Building life one brick at a time.

So here we are at Monday again. Time to check in with where we are at and where we want to go. It was an interesting week, lots of unforeseen changes and lots of developments. I’m still processing a lot of them and deciding on how to move them into my life. And it’s all good!

So check in for last week. OK. Let me just say I bit off more than I could chew and that’s good to know. I mostly spent the time learning about what to do with the social network marketing stuff and how to use it effectively in my business. I have the beginnings of a plan for that and will flesh it out more as I gain more understanding of where to go and how. I did not check into in person groups and I have and idea of what’s going on with the resistance there.  I am mostly looking for a more spiritual based networking groups and I’m not sure where to look. That being said I will continue to look for these types of marketing groups and use the ones I am a part of more effectively. So on to this week….

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These next 3 weeks are all about International Coaching Academy and homework. We go on a 2 week break starting next week and I would like to be, if not all caught up, at least 75% caught up on the homework for my tele-classes. That’s in the neighborhood of 20 modules to do. I did not have a system up until now so things are all over the place. By the time classes I want to be at least completed with 15 of the modules. So that is my brick for the next 3 weeks – 5 modules a week on average.

Thanks all for your support! I look forward to hearing where you are and where you’re going!

It’s About Forgiveness

There are two phrases I heard lately that are worth repeating and remembering: “Forgiveness is the elixir of life,” and “Forgiveness breaks the wheel of karma.”  To understand why I believe these are so important, we must first understand what forgiveness is and why it matters so much. Webster’s defines “forgive” as: to give up resentment of or claim to requital for; to cease to feel resentment against; pardon. So forgiveness is the act of pardoning or the act of giving up resentment of.  The bible tells us that to forgive is divine. But why? Why does it matter if you forgive someone or not?

One thing to understand is that forgiveness is not about the other person. It is never about them. Forgiveness is about that person’s hold on you and your life. We do not forgive someone so they can feel better, although that may be a side result. We forgive someone to let go of that person’s hold on our past and our life’s energy. That is why the two sayings above matter so much. The life energy that you allow this person to claim….

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Brick by Brick – where are you?

It’s Monday again and it’s time to look at building our life one brick at a time. Take one small thing every week that will build the foundation for the new life you want. Commit to doing in on this blog and them do it during the week. Check back for support during the week. Then on Monday commit to a new brick for the next week.

So lets check in a see how we all did on our bricks this week.
For me I did get my 3 out of the 4 events listed on various free events listings. I have had more interest in my group sessions recently and I believe that’s because it has now been on Craig’s list for a couple of months. The listings expire after 30 days so I have put that in a calender to renew them. The other sites are still a little new for me to tell and I will keep at them knowing that the longer they are up the more likely they are to get interest. I did not list my coaching intensive yet and intend to do that this week. Mainly because I’m not sure how to list it yet and this week I won’t use that a an excuse.

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So what to commit to this week. Hmmm. Develop a daily marketing pattern and business structure. Things that I do everyday to forward my business. Twitter, facebook, my blog and other social medium will be a part of that plan. My newsletter is also part of that plan. I also want to look into in person marketing groups such as chambers and BNI type groups.

The #1 reason I am a life coach

Why do I coach? I can say that I love it and I have a lot of fun doing it, but that really doesn’t answer the question about “why” I coach. So why do I coach?

I don’t believe in miracles. Maybe I should say that I didn’t believe in miracles until I had a perspective change. Even when I didn’t believe in miracles, it wasn’t that I didn’t believe that they happened, it was that I didn’t believe that they could happen to me. For whatever reason I never believed that I would experience a miracle. I never believed I would have great luck. I was always waiting for the other show to drop. After all, nothing good ever happened unless something bad also happens. So if that’s what I believed, then guess what? That’s always what showed up in my life. Whenever something good did happen I was always looking for the bad – so I always found it. I would say that I wasn’t a pessimist, I would say that I was a realist. That’s just how life was, so deal with it!

When I learned that my thoughts affect my life, when I learned that it was all about how I looked at the events and situations in my life, I immediately got it. I knew that I was 100% responsible for everything that showed up in my life, “good” or “bad,” because, at the very least, I was always, always, always responsible for how I viewed that situation. I accepted this completely and totally into my awareness. I understood intuitively that it was Truth and began to work with changing my thoughts around the events and situations in my life. I’m still occasionally challenged by this idea, and I always know that if I want a challenge in my life to change I must change how I look at that challenge. I get it.

So what does this have to do with miracles and coaching? It was a very good friend who helped me see the miracles in my life. Thank you Allison. She shared with me that a miracle is a change in perspective. She had learned this from a Marianne Williamson book, I believe. A couple of days after she told me this, she left a voice mail on my cell phone telling me that I helped change her perspective and that, in turn, she was able to help change her brother’s perspective around something with which he had been challenged. And that had changed his life. I had done that, she said. I had created a miracle for her and for her brother. Allison told me through the voice mail that I was a miracle. Allison I hope you are reading this because I never told you how much that meant, how much that stills means to me. I don’t think I ever told you that when I got that message, I was standing in the middle of downtown Tempe, AZ, with tears coming down my face, because someone told me, ME, that I had created a miracle in their life. Now I believe in the reality of all miracles and I believe they happen for me.

So why do I coach? That is why I coach – to experience miracles.

In love and light

Celina

Brick by Brick – commitment, accountability, support.

I was listening to Cheryl Richardson from Coach on Call (Hay House Radio) the other day. She was talking about how she was watching a master craftsman lay the bricks in her fireplace. Cheryl just wanted it DONE NOW and the craftsman said these projects take time. You must lay the bricks one by one. When he was done, Cheryl said her fireplace was a masterpiece. She then related this to building a new life and how you do it one brick at a time.

I thought what a great idea! How about every Monday I blog about what my brick is that I will lay for this week. This way I will build my new life one brick at a time. I would love to have others join me every Monday and write what their brick is for the week and how that will build their new life. This way we can support one another on with accountability and commitment for creating a masterwork of our lives.

What say you? Are you up for it? What is your brick this week?

June 8, 2009

This week I want to promote the events that I am hosting or co-hosting – my group coaching sessions, the meditation circle I am co-leading, Teen Leadership Development camp and the coaching intensive I want to begin in July. I want these event to have a steady stream of people who are interested in creating the next level in their lives. How will I do this? Craig’s list. MassLive (I think). Eventful. Facebook. Flyers or brochures. My e-mail list. I am open to more ideas if anyone has them pass them along.

How to live with anyone.

Ten rules of the house that when applied and implemented will help anyone live together

OK, maybe that’s overstating it a bit little. However this post was developed out a frustration of living with someone who had a completely different idea of what it meant to keep a clean and tidy house. We have different tolerances about what acceptable household practices are. After a day (or two) dishes in the sink gross me out, especially if I’m going to use the sink. My husband doesn’t think anything of leaving dirty dishes in the sink until we run out of clean forks, always the first causality in our house. Then it’s a toss up on whether all the dishes will get done or just the forks. You would think having an automatic dishwasher would help. It actually has and yet, there are still dishes in the sink.

I’m convinced that there is a gene inherent in the male of the human species and it has a primal need to cover every free surface in it’s dominion with stuff. This has been reinforced over the years by working with mostly male coworkers. I will freely admit that I place things on free surfaces also, however it rarely becomes that object’s permanent home, as is the case with many of the male species’ objects. After a month that piece of paper sitting on the table, with some random number on it, really would be better somewhere else. Mail is not a priceless treasure to be saved for weeks. It would be much better to go through it, well, daily.

Anyways, what I’m discussing here are 10 rules that if everyone will agree to abide by and implement, will create harmony with the household. If you want to be really creative you can enact a rewards and consequences system. Maybe something like a dime in a jar for every violation, have different jars for different people and the one with the lowest amount at the end of the month gets to buy something that they would like for the household. Be creative and have fun!

THE 10 GOLDEN RULES OF HOUSEHOLD HARMONY

1. If you take it out – PUT IT AWAY
2. If you drop it – PICK IT UP
3. If you dirty  it – CLEAN IT
4. If you empty it – FILL IT BACK UP
5. If you fill it up – EMPTY IT OUT
6. If you bring it in – FIND IT A HOME
7. If you borrow it – ASK PERMISSION
8. If you lose/break it – REPLACE IT
9. If you turn it on – TURN IT OFF
10. If you’re going out – LEAVE A NOTE (and make sure the doors are locked!)

So there it is! Let me know what you think or if there are other rules that might make more sense or that you like better. I love feedback! If anyone implements these rules I would love to hear how it all worked out for you!

In love and light

Celina

Welcome to my blog!

Although I have been very happy with most of my experiences with GoDaddy, I was not at all happy to find out that I would have to pay an additional fee to remove the ads from my blog page after having just paid money to remove them from my website. So this is why everything looks different. If any of you know someone who can make this blog look more like my website, for not a lot of money or for bartering, send them my way.

I will be moving over all of my entries from all of my various writing to this one location. Even the stuff from my ning site. All my old writing and stuff will come here. I am hoping that I will be able to post my art work also. All things from Contained Within and Celina will hopefully land here first then move outwards. OK. Really everything will probably land in my newsletter first and then move out. We see how it goes. So thank for joining me and making the move if you were on my other blog.

In love and light

Celina