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To grow, we must explore the areas in our lives that we have to balance every day; career, education, ethics, family, personals, health, home, recreation and finally spirit. All of these areas can have a profound affect on our lives; they will deeply enhance it when in balance or deeply damage it when out of balance. The truth is your life right now is perfectly aligned to give you what you are getting and the problem is you are not aligned, ready willing or able to produce at a higher level than you are right now. Einstein said it the best. ‘You cannot solve problems with the same level of thinking that created them.’ You must go to a higher level of thought process or congruency.
Lets confirm the importance of these areas:
Ethics now there is a powerful word. Here’s the deal you cannot be your best self and live a fulfilled life if you are living it out of integrity. Integrity or wholeness of who you are is vitally important for you to feel good on the inside. Ethics make you worth knowing. It is important to examine the ethical values that you base your day-to-day existence on. Creating a value-based life provides an inner sense of integrity/wholeness that nothing else can replace.
Family is possibly the most important and the most common area taken for granted. It is so exciting for me to see Dr Phil remind parents of the importance and power they have in their children’s lives. So many children are being raised by the television, the Internet or their peers being programmed to be people you would not be proud to have risen, and that is the question does your relationship with your children ‘Raise Them Up’ to match with your value-based life? Or does it leave them at the mercy of commercials, entertainers, friends and movie themes that are not congruent with what you say your household stands for. Trust me if you are not a stand for your children someone else is more than willing to be. Children crave guidance and they will seek it out. Make sure it’s your guidance that is on their radar screen and in their hearts. Teach them gentle and powerful lessons based on your values.
Relationships with parents, children and spouses are not only important to society and to you as an individual they are the safe space where we should be able to land for comfort and security at the end of the day. Could you imagine the world if everyone took care of their own providing safety and support for each other? Could you imagine the type of family you could create if you became deeply interested in who your children and spouse are and then shared in that? It’s tons of fun and it will change the world.
personals now here is the American weakness. We have been trained to live above our means. Credit cards, credit lines, expensive toys. It’s all here for the taking. Yet I would venture to say that this area probably creates one of our greatest internal stressors. What if someone helped you to create a budget, set goals and held you to the task of getting out of debt. Here’s the deal, social security will never allow you to live at your current level and being a self responsible person it is up to you to take care of yourself. Just as an athletic coach would never support an athlete in overindulging while in training a personal coach would help you to first get out of debt then budget for what you truly desire and make certain that personal time and family vacations are a part of that budget. (See our financial section)
Health, everyone wants it few are willing to do what it takes to achieve it and then maintain it. Your health is the ticket. Your body is the vehicle through which you will experience your life. If you were going on a cross-country trip you’d never want to risk taking the vehicle nominated to be on Pimp My Ride. Yet you choose to live in broken down bodies that can, do and will collapse at any moment. This is your life and it will be difficult to enjoy it when you are racked with pain, unable to move, taking drugs to get through the day and living in a fog. As a coach I am committed to you living your life FULL OUT you cannot do that with health challenges. I have been an integrated health care practitioner for twenty years so we will get your body in order so that you can get on with this thing called life. (Visit the HEALTHY AGING section of our site)
Home is where the heart is. What shape is your home in? Do you enter it saying ahhh thank God I’m home or do walk into it and say Oh my God what a mess. As is the macro-cosm so is the micro-cosm. Your house is a reflection of you. Is it messy or is it anal retentively tidy. Is it lived in? Is the furniture comfortable or is it there just for show. Your house will tell me who you are in a matter of minutes.
Our Career often times defines who we are. Have you ever asked yourself who would I be if I weren’t a surgeon, a lawyer, a teacher, or a homemaker. Do you know who you really are underneath that image? Also what would you like to do within your field? Do you want to continue to grow and learn? Do you want to branch out into other areas or do you have a deep despair around a career that no longer feels right for you.
Education, have you always wanted to further your degree? Are there certain conferences you should be attending to enhance you career? Would you like to begin to take unrelated classes in subjects you have always had an interest in? Knowledge is power and it can also be loads of fun. What are your educational goals?
Recreation; lets break down that word. RE-CREATE. This is where you get to re-charge your batteries, pursue your passions and belly laugh. Recreation is vital to body, mind and spirit. It can be as simple as fishing or joining a gym or taking a dance class. Explore what brought you great joy as a kid and do it! Chances are it will still be fun and you will feel like a new person when you are done.
Finally Spiritual Connection, do you believe in a power greater than you? If not you probably spend allot of time in fear. I do not care how you connect to spirit in your life but research and experience shows that those who do are happier, healthier and live longer. So we can take it on as an exploration or we can support you in embracing it as you are.
These are the important aspects that make up this journey called your life. A coach’s job is to chunk it down and bring these important areas into your awareness. Awareness is the beginning of all conscious living. Awareness of these areas gives you the chance to explore where you are, who you are and how you want to BE in the world. It’s exciting, its juicy and it would be an honor for our coaching team to support and coach you on your journey called life. To set up your personal coaching sessions e-mail me at info@sistersupport.com in the subject line type personal coaching. Lets get you on your way to living your best most complete life filled with Joy Purpose and Passion.
Safe Journeys
Dr Kathleen A Hartford