"3 Questions, 5 Minutes a Day: Make leaps towards greater balance in one single week with the Shicka Boom 5 Minute Morning Balance Ritual"

Written by Laura Lallone, Certified Life Coach


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Now, close your eyes and imagine yourself 10 years from now. What doesrepparttar future you say is most important for you today? It's really easy to come up with what SHOULD BE most important (as defined by society) but resistrepparttar 129212 urge to give into that voice. Take a deep breath and listen deeper. Trust that you have allrepparttar 129213 answers inside.

Some find that it helps to ask this follow-up question: What ONE THING can I do today to significantly improverepparttar 129214 quality of my life? Don't concern yourself withrepparttar 129215 size or magnitude of your answer. It changes. Some days it might be “apply to graduate school” and other days it might be “organize my office”.

Helpful Tips to Make It Stick To make this ritual “stick”, create a fertile “habit-forming” environment:

1. Fly solo. Userepparttar 129216 five minutes as valuable alone time to ground yourself. Once this ritual is second nature, then I invite you to use these three questions in conversation with your family, significant other, and even work teams.

2. Be consistent. Select a specific time and location to perform your morning ritual. For example, lying in bed from 7:30-7:35am or on your morning commute from 8:30-8:35am.

3. Take it lightly. Have fun. Unpleasant tasks don't become habits. The morning ritual isn't a task. It's a way of consciously looking out at your day. Setrepparttar 129217 intention to create a daily ritual; to create a habit. But don't sweat it if you miss a day.

4. Start small. Stick to five minutes inrepparttar 129218 beginning. Perhaps you’ll expand to 10, 15 or 30 minutes. Maybe not. A new program quickly gets abandoned when if feels like a burden, especially inrepparttar 129219 morning!

5. Keep no secrets. Tell someone about your morning ritual and askrepparttar 129220 friend, coach, significant other or whomever to support you in keeping on track. This might sound like, "Terry, I've started a morning practice to keep myself balanced and focused on what's important duringrepparttar 129221 day. It would be really helpful if you asked me how it's going every now and then. It just really helps to have you know what I'm up to." Experiment and have fun. I’d love to hear how you’ve experiencedrepparttar 129222 ritual and any other morning ritual ideas that work for you!

Cheers! Laura

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Laura Lallone (pronounced Luh-lohn) helps people achieve their personal and professional goals more quickly and thoroughly. By asking questions, offering insight and providing action-oriented guidance, she helps you uncover your highest priorities and redirect your talents and energy to move towards your goals.




A Surefire Way To Manage Your Fears While Leading A Happier, Healthier Life

Written by Colin G Smith


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“OK Colin that might be true but so what, what's your point?”

Wellrepparttar point is by changingrepparttar 129210 internal sounds, pictures and voices in your head you can begin to gain control of your emotions.

“Fair enough but how can I do that so when I'm in a similar situation I automatically make useful pictures, sounds and voices in my head so I remain in a resourceful state?”

Good question, here's just one way you can achieverepparttar 129211 results you want using a simple and powerful tool fromrepparttar 129212 field of Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP)

=== Soothing Movie Music ===

1.Think of a situation where you feel fear.

2.Dissociate: See yourself inrepparttar 129213 situation like you would a movie with you in it.

3.Imagine runningrepparttar 129214 memory fromrepparttar 129215 END ofrepparttar 129216 fearful situation, BACKWARDS torepparttar 129217 START. Do this very fast in less then 1 second!

4.Think of some music that makes you feelrepparttar 129218 opposite of fear. For example soothing classical music makes you feel relaxed. Perhaps certain rock or dance music makes you feel energised/courageous etc.

5.Now hearrepparttar 129219 music, nice and loud, inside your mind whilst looking at yourself going throughrepparttar 129220 situation from START to END.

6.Break state. Now think ofrepparttar 129221 situation you choose in Step 1 and notice how your fearful feelings have diminished.

7.What will you see or hear just before you want this new feeling to set in?

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