Tips for a better life from “Life’s Little Instruction Book”, by Jackson Brown and H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

1. Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully.
2. Memorize your favorite poem.
3. Don’t believe all you hear, spend all you have, or sleep all you want.
4. When you say, I love you, mean it.
5. When you say, I’m sorry, look the person in the eye.
6. Be engaged for at least six months before you get married.
7. Believe in love at first sight.
8. Never laugh at anyone’s dreams.
9. Love deeply and passionately. You might get hurt but it’s the only way to live completely.
10. In disagreements, fight fairly. No name calling.
11. Don’t judge people by their relatives.
12. Talk slow but think quick.
13. When someone asks you a question you don’t want to answer, smile and ask, Why do you want to know?
14. Remember that great love and great acheivements involve great risk.
15. Call your family.
16. Say, Bless you, when someone sneezes.
17. When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.
18. Remember the three R’s: Respect for self, Respect for others, Responsibility for all your actions.
19. Don’t let a little dispute injure a great friendship.
20. When you realize you’ve made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
21. Smile when picking up the phone. The caller will hear it in your voice.
22. Marry a man/woman you love to talk to. As you get older, his/her conversational skills will be as important as any other.
23. Spend some time alone.
24. Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values.
25. Remeber that silence is sometimes the best answer.
26. Read more books and watch less TV.
27. Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you’ll get to enjoy it a second time.
28. A loving atmosphere in your home is important. Do all you can to creat a tranquil harmonious home.
29. In disagreements with loved ones, deal with the current situation. Don’t bring up the past.
30. Read between the lines.

1. Memetic Environment

Experience, culture, beliefs, ideas, knowledge and concepts are examples of your memetic environment. They are intangible and very important. Knowing that you can get what you want in life is the beginning of changing your memetic environment. Change what you do and the result will change too. As soon as you see your new results, you begin to know that you are capable of extraordinary things.

2. Relationships Environment

Family, friends, colleague and support colleagues are in your “relationship environment” . This environment controls your behavior that causes you to think, act and feel in a certain way. Sometimes you have to let go off some relationships in your life because they are not bringing you closer or fostering the goals you have in your life. Build relationships with like minded people … those who will always push you closer to your dreams and goals.

3. Network Environment

This is the community you are a part of. This community has rules, values and beliefs all on it’s own. Be extremely selective in choosing your network. Remember that wealthy people network with wealthy people. To identify if you are in the right network, identify the topics of your conversations when you are in your community. Do you talk about creating wealth, being a better husband or wife or living paycheck to paycheck, watching television and the weather?

4. Financial Environment

When you realize that you have to manage your own money, investments and insurance, especially as your wealth grows. Hire and surround yourself with specialists and mentors in finance. Millionaires have their own team of wealth professionals.

5. Physical Environment

Your physical environment revolves around you … your home, office, transportation, furnishings etc. Get rid of clutter, clean up your environment and free your mind of chaos.

6. Nature Environment

You will gain powerful energy from nature when you’re immersed in it. Take a hike in the woods, walk along the beach, collect stones and shells, pay attention to nature and become infused with positive energy.

7. Body Environment

Most people do not live in their body. This is why so many people are overweight, over medicated and exhausted. Take care of your health NOW, there is no point of creating and having wealth without health. Health will suck the wealth out of your life.

8. Self Environment

Your personality, talents, charisma, and emotions belong to the self environment. Identify and make full use of your ultimate strengths. Use your self environment to complement the world around you.

9. Spiritual Environment

This is your connection to your higher power, the universe, God, grace, love and self. If you are not in the habit of reaching within, put yourself in the spiritual environment again. When you alter all your environments, you start to change your thinking.

Most Interesting …

I suggest writing down all nine areas on sheet of paper. Then take a look at each one and see how you measure up and where you need some help.

Life Coaching is a great way to create a plan, set and goal and follow through.

Shann

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In my opinion, personal coaching / life coaching is all about discovering and living The 8 Irresistible Principles of Fun.

1. Stop hiding who you really are.
2. Start being intensely selfish.
3. Stop following the rules.
4. Start scaring yourself.
5. Stop taking it all so damn seriously.
6. Start getting rid of the crap.
7. Stop being busy.
8. Start something.

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In Balance and Fun!

Shann
True Balance Life Coaching

Stress is defined as a state of mental or emotional strain or tension resulting from adverse or very demanding circumstances. Science has proved that stress damage to our DNA is the culprit behind wrinkles, gray hair, and diseases that can shorten our lifespan.

Think about it like this; have you ever noticed how quickly America’s Presidents age after a short period of time in office? Have you ever been so stressed out that you notice a change in your complexion, weight, or sleep patterns? Getting control of stress is paramount to living a healthy lifestyle.

If you have a highly stressed lifestyle, you must act now to eliminate as much stress as you can to stay healthy and stop the signs of premature aging.

The best way to handle stress is to learn to relax your body with various stress management techniques. Regular exercise, yoga, soothing music, meditation and breathing exercises have been found to be very helpful in relaxing the body and mind, aiding the body in maintaining healthy cortisol levels.

Lower stress levels by implementing some of these stress busting ideas today.

Stress Reduction Action Plan:

1. Create a Joy Journal

Observe and record ten things that bring you joy every day.

2. Be Quiet

Schedule 15 minutes every day to be peaceful.

3. Move your Body

Schedule time for some sort of exercise every day.

4. Listen to Music

When you are feeling overwhelmed, choose a piece of music to life your spirits.

5. Make Time For Self Care

Plan a minimum of 30 minutes each day to do something just for YOU.

6. Add More Healthy Foods to Your Diet

Make sure you are drinking plenty of water, eating leafy green vegetables and
snacking on lots of of fruit. Make it happen.

When you start to live a lower stress lifestyle, you will be amazed by how much better you feel. Your friends and colleagues will notice your transformation and you will be walking the path of true balance.

Shann

True Balance Life Coaching

The evolution of a dream …

Dream is implanted into brain.

Dreamer becomes thrilled.

Dreamer becomes terrified.

If no action is taken, terrifying thoughts grow into flesh-eating monsters. Dream is considered unrealistic.

If action is taken, terrifying thoughts are revealed to be paper tigers. Confidence soars, miracles unfold, and dreamer begins to saunter.

Either way, nothing remains the same.

Yow,
The Universe

Act Now! The difference it will make in your life is more than can be comprehended. But, of course, this is also true of inaction.

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In Balance,

Shann
True Balance Life Coaching

A meaningful life is created in complete awareness. Choose to become aware of, in awe of, your physical and natural environment. A life of abundance starts with awareness.

2) Attitude of Gratitude

The road to success is paved with gratitude! I just cracked myself up … But it’s true.
Start each and every day by giving thanks for your life and you will begin to notice an immediate attitude adjustment.

3) Abundance:

Life is meant to be insanely abundant – mind, body and spirit. The trick is allowing for abundance. You are worthy of so much more then you know.

4)Attraction:

Learn to attract more of what you want and less of what you don’t. Michael Losier is an inspirational Law of attraction teacher. Check out his site and read his book if you want to learn more about setting and minding your own vibration.

5) Action:

Your actions affect who and what you attract in your life. As Goethe said, “Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.” Take the first step.

In Balance,

Shann
True Balance Life Coaching

1. You want to get to “the next level” in your business or personal life.

2. You see the value of having a trusted “sounding board.”

3. You want to prioritize and achieve the most important goals for your life or career.

4. You want greater fulfillment and enjoyment out of life.

5. You want to communicate more effectively.

6. You want to set and achieve goals in a timely fashion.

7. You want feedback about your performance that is totally honest and insightful.

If you would like your own copy of 101 Things to Work on With a Coach please
email me at shann@truebalancelifecoaching.com.

If you are curious about life coaching, visit the True Balance website and set up a complimentary 30 minute consultation.

I would love to spend some time with you.

Have a terrific day!

Shann

Shann Vander Leek
Life Balance Expert
True Balance Life Coaching

One of the goals of this research was to understand where organizations could best focus their leadership development and management efforts to drive greatest business results.

What they found was very enlightening: The talent process which delivers the single greatest overall business impact is coaching – implementing a process for executive and management coaching throughout the organization. This process scored higher than many of the things we consider sacrosanct: setting goals, aligning goals in the organization, understanding critical competencies, and high performing recruiting.

What does this result really mean? Go to the Bersin website to read the rest of the story.

http://www.bersin.com/tips_techniques/07_may_coaching.asp#top

Professional Coaching RULES!

Shann
True Balance Life Coaching