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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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Are you living your dream life now or are you waiting for just the right time to start? Here’s the good news–you don’t have to wait and your journey can be as sweet as your destination.

A few months ago one of our clients asked, “Where has the excitement gone?” He felt that he was just going through the motions day after day. He talked about all the struggles and sacrifices he had made to get to where he thought he wanted to go. He felt he was truly in a rut. He said what he really wanted was something he could be passionate about again. We suggested that this may be the perfect time to shift gears and go into a new and exciting direction. He started to think about what he really loved to do. He thought about his fondness for horses, photography, golf, and spending more time with his family. He came to realize that when you love what you do and do what you love, there is no rut. Today he
works less, accomplishes more in less time, and has more fun.

Take a few minutes now, sit quietly, and think about a time in your life when you were really excited about your dream. Is that dream still important to you? What do you really want in your life? It is important to believe that change is possible. Visualize your dreams and make it fun. Start taking action by doing something that puts excitement back into your day. Think of your many options. Perhaps all you need to do is to delegate some of the tasks that you dislike and concentrate on doing the things that you love. New opportunities will appear. You will begin to live with more passion and your life will have new meaning and purpose.

Is it time to reinvent yourself? This is the best time to think about that with the new year approaching. What are you going to do to move yourself to your dream life? Are you going to find a new career that inspires you? Will you take action to improve your fitness and your health? Would you like to have a new or better relationship with someone? How about your finances? What fun activities can you weave into your life? Is there a challenge you have been avoiding that you will now act on? We believe that people are capable, competent, and resourceful and they have within them all the tools they need to live their best life. Remember,
“The minute you begin to do what you want to do,
it’s a different kind of life.” -Buckminister Fuller-

Allan Kenyon is a Personal and Business Coach. He helps his clients live their dream life. Allan was a certified instructor for eighteen years with the Carnegie organization and he received coach training with Coach Training Institute. Allan and his wife Barbara are a coaching team. Barbara holds a Masters Degree in Counseling and is a Graduate of Coach U. The Kenyons work with success-minded men and women who want to achieve their personal or professional goals faster than if they were to go it alone. Their clientele include professionals, executives, entrepreneurs, business owners, sales people, and people in transition. Their coaching focuses on goals in the areas of career, money, retirement, health, relationships, getting organized, and life balance.

The Kenyons offer a 30 minute complimentary telephone coaching session so potential clients can decide if their coaching is for them. They can be reached at 402-423-6777 or by E-mail at KenyonCoaching@aol.com. Their website is http://www.kenyoncoaching.com.

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Every week for years and years you get up in the morning, go to work, come home, pay the bills, get up again, go to work, come home, pay the bills. Sound familiar? You’re on what I call “the treadmill of life.”

Unless you are happy with this existence you had better start doing something to change it. Because, if you don’t, in ten years time, and with a few more wrinkles and some more gray hair, you will still be getting up, going to work, coming home and paying the bills.

You see, most of us get into this routine. Pretty much we fall into it, obliviously. Everybody else is doing it. It’s just the done thing. Or is it?

Well, who wrote the script?

If this is “normal” for you then I can almost guarantee that after years and years of doing it you will one day wake up and wonder why you keep doing it.

Maybe it will be next year, maybe in a few years, maybe it will take another ten or twenty or thirty years. Hey, maybe you are wondering about it right now! Are you?

What are you going to do about it? What is the defining event that will allow you to jump off the treadmill? To answer that, you need to know why you are on the treadmill in the first place. I can categorically state that 100% of people who are on the treadmill do it to pay those darn bills that seem to appear almost magically every day in our letter boxes.

Let me put you to the test. If you had no bills to pay and could exist comfortably without money would you still you get up every morning and tootle off to work? Well, would you? Do you have something else that you would rather do with your time? Do you enjoy battling the highways and the subways with hundreds of thousands of other commuters?

What are you going to do about it? To replace your income will open up your life to a whole new spectrum of options. Think about it.

But how can you achieve such a thing? How can you replace your income? How can you get off the treadmill that will command your life until you retire?

Just think - when you “retire” with that nice little super-annuation and retirement benefit - then you can REALLY enjoy yourself. Heck, maybe you can even take that ski trip that you have spent all your youth waiting for.

Have I got you thinking? I hope so! Don’t wait until all your youth and health has been spent in the system before you realize that there could have been so much more to life.

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