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Working with a coach can be a rewarding, enlightening, eye-opening experience, but many people wonder, “What can a coach do for me that I can’t do for myself?”

As long as you have an open mind, are willing to grow and stretch yourself beyond your comfort zone, and have a “gap” between where you are now and where you want to be, the benefits of working with a coach are enormous.

With a coach, you will:

1. Set goals and take specific actions to get them.
Somewhere inside yourself, you know what you really want to do. If you keep finding the way to your goals blocked, it may because you’re trying to achieve a goal that isn’t coming from your heart. One of the first things we’ll do is find out exactly what you want and need for yourself. Once you visualize your ideal life you’ll be much more likely to take the actions required to get yourself there.

2. Life a balanced, centered life.
If you want to have it all, you have to start with you. That means figuring out what you need and putting yourself first. Selfishness has gotten a bad rap over the centuries. You can’t be there for others unless you have first taken care of yourself. With a coach, you’ll learn how to be selfish and get your own needs met, yet still respond appropriately to the needs of others.

3. Discover energy you didn’t know you had.
When you’re happy, fulfilled, taking care of yourself, in tune with what you want your life to be and able to deal with problems and stressors as they come up, you’re going to feel - and look - better.

4. Live a rich, full, abundant life.
You’ll learn how to bring abundance into your life. You’ll learn that you can always reach for more of what life has to offer because you deserve it. There’s an old saying, “If more is enough, then too much is just right.” Your life will be abundant and you’ll attract more and more good things for yourself.

5. Make smarter decisions for yourself and your business or career.
Sharing ideas with a coach who respects and listens, yet won’t let you wiggle out of the hard work, will help you make clear, focused decisions. A coach has no bias or personal agenda, so you will get an honest, straightforward viewpoint.

6. Get a handle on your money once and for all.
Almost everyone has money issues. No matter what, you have to have it and you probably think you never have enough. Truth: you have more money than you think you do and a coach can help you find it and keep it.

Joan Schramm is a career, executive and personal coach with twenty years experience in management, training and coaching. Joan can work with you to figure out exactly what you want from your life and your career, and how to get there without a lot of detours.

For more information about Joan, or to talk about what’s going on in your career, e-mail coach@achieve-momentum.com, or go to http://www.achieve-momentum.com - Sign up for a free monthly newsletter, “Angular Momentum” and take a free Job Satisfaction Assessment. Check out my bog at http://www.blog.achieve-momentum.com.

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The journey from where we are to where we want to be does not have to be arduous or riddled with stress. In fact it can be a gentle expansion into more of everything we want for ourselves and even more that we haven’t even thought about yet.

Are you ready to move rapidly forward in your life? Are you ready to reach for your dreams with conviction and commitment so that they really happen for you? Are you ready to be, do and have those things you have always hoped for but often wondered if they were really possible for you?

We all talk a good game. Many of us take actions that we believe will indeed move us closer to what we say we want. But I’ve noticed something interesting in my own life and in the lives of my clients. When moving closer to our most heartfelt dreams requires us to stretch beyond our comfort zone or make a significant change in our own attitudes we are not so quick to persist.

If you have read this far and you are still here, you probably recognize yourself and your tendency to gravitate toward what feels comfortable and safe even when you know change is required for reaching your dreams. Here are a few tips I use to strengthen my creative muscles. They help me remember how to steer my course toward the manifestation of my real dreams.

First:

Tell yourself the truth. What do you really, really, REALLY, want?
There is no sense focusing your energy and attention toward those things that don’t really matter. Creating a life that works does require energy and so we might as well use our energy for our real passions and desires.

Next:

Choose one thing to focus upon. Why only one? Choose one topic because it takes singular focus to get the job done. Most of us attempt to take on too many things at once. It doesn’t mean our other dreams get lost. It just means that for a certain period of time - an hour, week or month one primary focus gets our full attention. Manifesting big dreams requires that from us.

Most likely what you want, if you really tell yourself the truth, will fall into one of the following three areas of life:

To improve the quality of your relationships

To establish financial freedom

To attain ongoing vibrant health

Now:

Maintain your focus, manage your own thoughts and feelings so that they are positive and hopeful and enjoy your life. This sounds easy, and yet it can be the most difficult part. They key here is to know that the creative process happens in the invisible world before it becomes visible. Consider a seed planted in the ground. Before it ever breaks the surface of the soil and shows its first leaves much has happened to move it in the direction of its potential. Our dreams are similar. Much happens in our own hearts and minds before the outward manifestation of our dreams is visible. Staying the course requires us to tend to our own inner attitudes and to trust the process of creation is naturally at work within us.

Let it be easy. Know what you want, choose your dreams fully and clearly, maintain your focus with enthusiasm and then relax and enjoy your life.

Peri Coeurtney Enkin is the founder of The Turnaround

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A portion of the following was excerpted from “The Abundance Principle: Five Keys to Extraordinary Living,” (www.TheAbundancePrinciple.com). Please forward or distribute this encouraging message freely to anyone you believe would benefit from it.

Have you ever moved to a new house and had to pack up everything you owned? Did it amaze you how quickly you accumulated all of that “stuff?” Many of us even trade our stuff with other people’s stuff. Jeff once traded a guitar he never learned to play for an automatic bread-making machine. His friend wanted to learn to play the guitar and Jeff wanted fresh, homemade bread. It was a match made in heaven.

Some people make a living traveling around on Saturday mornings from yard sale to yard sale, buying other people’s stuff and selling it in their own flea markets and garage sales! It certainly validates the saying, “One man’s junk is another man’s treasure.”

But seriously, have you ever stopped to think about how much stuff you actually do have? We have more phones than we have televisions. We have more televisions than we have Bibles. We often throw away more food than we eat. We spend money on things we never wear. Face it we have an abundance of stuff. Some might even say we live “abundant” lives that is, on the outside.

Our hearts, however, tell a different story. Emotional disorders and depression are at an all-time high. One out of every two marriages ends in divorce. Seventy percent of marriages report significant financial difficulties. Our friendships are shallow. We break promises to ourselves and to others. Sometimes we feel trapped in the “rat-race” of life, running from place to place, doing the same thing day after day, wondering if life will ever improve, or worse yet, if it will ever end.

Currently, the population of the world stands at almost six and one-half billion people. We are told approximately 32% are categorized as Christians - that’s more than 2 billion people. It is our conviction that if 2 billion of the world’s population were completely committed to Extraordinary Living, the world as we know it would be a radically different place.

We hear about better ways of living in countless numbers of sermons and motivational speeches and we read about it in books day after day; we assent with our minds and declare agreement with our lips. Yet a vast number of us drive away from churches every Sunday in expensive SUVs to elaborate homes, totally devoid of the personal fulfillment that ought to be ours - that can be ours.

According to research firm The Barna Group, when comparing social issues, Christians mirror non-Christians in divorce, addictions, domestic abuse, and financial difficulties, among a host of other things. Christians struggle with addiction. Christian marriages are in trouble. Christians spend themselves deeply into debt. Christians take a host of medication for ailments and illnesses brought about by excessive stress, anxiety and depression, all of which the Bible says we can have victory over through Christ. Somewhere there is a “disconnect” between what God’s Word says is ours, and what we actually experience. The fact is most of us have more than any other generation in terms of material goods. Yet statistics, current events, and daily headlines reveal a less fulfilled people today than ever before.

We have some good news to share with you. We can experience life as abundantly on the inside as we appear to be experiencing it on the outside. We can live extraordinary lives. This is what the Abundant Life ProjectTM (www.AbundantLifeProject.com) is all about. It’s about reclaiming a privilege belonging to every person on the face of the planet: The right and freedom to live an extraordinary life. We want to spread the word: Extraordinary Living can be the experience of everyone.

Our mission is to help people put arms and legs on their faith. We introduce our readers to five simple concepts we call the Five Keys to Extraordinary Living. As you’ll see, Extraordinary Living is the kind of living from which abundance flows - but not just in terms of material things. We’re talking about abundance in every major area of our lives.

We believe we do not decide our future. We decide our habits and our habits determine our future. From this point forward, your future is full of hope, fulfillment, and unlimited possibilities. You only have to develop the right habits.

We’re very careful when we say Five Keys to Extraordinary. We purposely don’t say THE Five Keys to Extraordinary Living. That’s because there are likely many more keys out there. However, we believe that if one could start by mastering these five important areas of ones life, life itself would take on a whole new meaning. Famed speaker Les Brown is fond of saying, “You don’t have to be great to get started, but you’ve got to get started to be great.” If we fail to take action, we’re left with the same debilitating habits that restrict us to lives of weakness, insignificance, and sometimes despair.

Now before proceeding, as the authors and founders of The Abundant Life Project, let us be the first to say we have NOT arrived at our final destinations personally. We too remain completely susceptible to the ups and downs of life. We’re still “works in progress” ourselves. However, we try to wake up every day and pursue extraordinary living with vigilance. And as we consciously and persistently pursue this type of living, we’re finding it a little less elusive along the way. We’re convinced you’ll find the same.

Remember: An Abundant Life has been God’s plan for you from the very beginning. Start focusing on five simple keys to Extraordinary Living and see if your life won’t change for the better.

1. Master your thoughts and change your life.

2. Plan your life and live your passion.

3. Build and maintain strong relationships.

4. No matter how much you earn, spend less.

5. Give more and you’ll live more.

Go ahead, what’s stopping you? You can do it. Go for it!

Have a great week.

Dr. Jeff D. Standridge and Rev.TimKellerman are co-founders of The Abundant Life Project (http://www.AbundantLifeProject.com) and co-authors of “The Abundance Principle: Five Keys to Extraordinary Living” (http://www.TheAbundancePrinciple.com). They can be reached by email at Info@AbundantLifeProject.com.

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http://www.AbundantLifeProject.com

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