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How is Your Spirituality Helping you Find Greater Enjoyment & Motivation in Life?

How is your spirituality — assess how harmonizing your mind, body and spirit leads you to breakthroughs that take you beyond what you imagined possibleWhat makes you feel whole? Do you love your life, your career, and yourself? Do you feel satisfied and fully alive, with a sense of meaning and purpose? Do you feel connected and engaged with the world around you and with something greater than yourself? If you’ve got a nagging feeling like something’s missing, you’re not alone. It’s not always easy to figure out what’s missing from our lives. That’s the time to consider this question: How is your spirituality?

Why is your spirituality an important point to ponder? We know that when we’re hungry we need food. If we’re thirsty we need water. But sometimes we even get those things confused… we think we’re hungry when we actually need to drink more water. It’s no wonder, then, that we confuse signals from our emotions, minds, and bodies. 

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Clarify Your WHY: 7 Go-To Questions That Keep You Focused On Your Dreams

Here are 7 go-to questions that help you clarify your WHY, because once you know why you’re doing something, it’s easier to see if it’s helpful or not.We are all coaches. We coach ourselves by correcting or cheering ourselves on toward our dreams. We coach others as we give them advice, support, and encouragement. But most people come to a coaching role without training. That’s why it’s so important to have some go-to resources that help you clarify your WHY, because once you know why you’re doing something it’s easier to see if it’s helpful or not.

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How to Choose a Mentor Coach Who Helps You Achieve Extraordinary Results

Wondering how to choose a Mentor Coach or Life Coach? Here’s the key thing to look for in a coach and questions to ask during the initial consultation…You’re either born with it or you’re not. Is that how you feel? Born with what? We used to think that people were born to be leaders or speakers, to be influential, to be people persons, and to be skilled at getting things done. But even worse, we also thought that characteristics like artistic talent, creativity, honesty, or emotional openness came easily to special people born with those characteristics, and the rest of us were destined for dull, ordinary lives. 

Has this thinking tainted your life and happiness?

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Holistic Coaching — The Skillful Way to Reach Full Potential

Holistic Coaching — The Skillful Way to Reach Full Potential. The human experience is a connection between mind, body, and spirit. When we engage the full dimension of these, success and fulfillment occur. Do you remember hearing the childhood song, “Dem Bones”… “the foot bone connected to the ankle bone, ankle bone connected to the shin bone, shin bone connected to the knee bone,” and so on. It taught us that we are connected beings. Yet, somewhere along the way, many people lose sight of the fact that we’re connected in so many more ways than just bone and flesh. Holistic coaching helps us bring our entire self into harmony.

Unquestionably, the human experience is made up of a connection between the mind, body, and spirit. It’s only when we engage the full dimension of these that success and fulfillment occur. The holistic (wholly connected) approach helps us be fully present and aligned in all aspects of life. It’s based on developing life skills rather than fads and quick fixes.

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These Essential Life Skills Aren’t Taught In K–12 School. Are You Using Them?

We must use our influence to spotlight some vital, yet under-utilized, essential life skills that truly make a difference in our quality of life. You are you, in part, because of what you were taught. While genetics play a huge role, our growth environment cannot be discounted. We learned basic reading, writing, and arithmetic skills in K-12 school. Beyond learning essential life skills, such as hygiene and lawfulness, we were educated by how people (family, friends, authority figures, local community, and even the ruling government)  treated us — their words, actions, and attitudes created our map of the world and taught us how to be. 

If the sources for our education are sound, we flourish, even under adversity. However, if we’re not exposed to the following essential life skills, we’ll be overly anxious and won’t cope well. However, let’s acknowledge this…

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