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Four mindset shifts to help you step into meaningful work (VIDEO SERIES)

May 9, 2019
Work is a huge part of our lives, and there’s no doubt you’ve landed here because your mission is to create meaningful work and feel supported in the process.

For some of us, this is making moves towards a career change and no longer be limited by those excuses around time or money.

For others, this is filling your creative cup with a side project that adds a beautiful contribution to the world.

Or, you love the work you do, but you don’t want to spend your nights at stuffy networking events to grow your professional tribe 

Filled with super practical tools and worksheets to create a kind and supportive mindset that will have you bust through fear every day. After these four classes, I promise you’ll feel confident and ready to embrace the next steps.

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Two things that changed my “I don’t have time” excuse

March 21, 2019

The productivity gurus love a “three secrets to…” or “hack your way to…” approach to life. Constant measuring and refining and adjusting. Never let time be an excuse again right? 

Sure.

If your reality is anything like mine, most days you’re trying to keep up with everything life throws your way.  

So in lieu of the hacking approach of squeezing and maximising time, I simply turn to this one question.

Usually it’s pretty obvious where I could do better:

“how am I actually using my time?”

Say you wrote down every little thing you did in a day and how long it took, what would it reveal? We only need to check our Instagram usage (now an inbuilt feature) to have our socks blown off.

This question becomes very necessary when I’m ready to make a big change in my life that’s going to require a little extra work.

If I don’t ask myself, all too quickly “not enough time” is the main reason I never start.

In many a coaching call I often hear things like:

“I need to make time to make a plan” 

“My time is limited and I’m not sure how much I’ll be able to get done” 

“I want to make a change but I don’t have time to get started”

100%! time can be a real constraint for many of us. We’re navigating a change around prior commitments to ourselves and our families. 

As I hear these things come up often, rather than reel off a bunch of “hacks”, I decided to share two really simple things. These two things have helped me enormously when my default is “not enough time” yet I’ve wanted to pursue any change in my career. 

The first thing I ask – “This year, what are my three core priorities and/or values?”

Once we get clear on these, we can use them as way to make decisions on what we say yes or no to in our lives. Some might call this being in alignment.

In practising this style of decision-making, we’ll make a conscious effort to make space for those things that are really important. If the career change is make or break, you will find time. 

Second thing, is breaking the big change into small steps. 

When we first think of making a change, it is daunting. Just as you would break down the training for a marathon into months, weeks and days, you can do the same for a big change. 

Or to get really simple, we set aside time for one small thing every week that will move you closer. 

Again, we’re not looking to break any productivity hacking records here.

Simply get started.   

LIVE MASTERCLASSES IN APRIL 2019

Join us for four distinct masterclasses that will support you to make changes in your career in 2019. Here’s a sneak peak at what we’ll be sharing:

+ How to get started on a change when you have minimal time to spend

+ Become besties with money – make powerful decisions, own your value and move into the career you want

+ How to feel effortless and confident when networking

+ Simple tools to be brave, be visible and share your passion project with the world

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Four Steps To Activate Dreams and Goals – Third We Express

November 29, 2018

Don’t you love the energy of Summer? Our goal or creative project is in full swing. 

We’re humming along like honey bees. 

If you’ve been following this series about The Dream Activator strategy, you’ll know that in Part One we decided.

Part Two we planned the steps.

Part Three – well, we simply need to keep going.

Now is the appropriate time make some noise – if you haven’t already. 

Pull out that party dress and celebrate, raise the roof and let the world know what you’re creating or have created.

You’ll notice the energy of this period has a fun kind of intensity to it. Winter is intense too, but in a different way. They are polar opposites on the energy and creativity spectrum.

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Four steps to activate dreams and goals – second we emerge

November 23, 2018

“Every seed has a gestation or incubation period. Ideas are spiritual seeds and will move into form or physical results. Your goals will manifest then the time is right. Know they will” – The Law of Rhythm, from the 14 Universal Laws of Nature

In part one of this four part series, we explored the energy of winter and how it relates to completing a goal.

Winter is chance to go within, to clarify a goal that feels good because it feels like you. You can revisit that post HERE if you want to go back to the beginning. 

Spring – we emerge from the dark into the light. 

Step two in the dream activation process. 

Action with clarity and fresh energy.

This step looks like momentum, creating small challenges for yourself, small actions to evolve the idea.

It is the point at which the idea starts to become a reality. We move towards it, rather than absorbing ourselves in the research and the planning phase. 

How many times have you heard yourself say “I just need to find out a few more details about that course” or “I’ve got so many ideas I don’t know which way to go” or “I’ll wait till next year…”

Waiting, research and planning are comfortable. 

We can do it from the comfort of the couch. That safe space to dream. But we too often get stuck in this phase.

As Elizabeth Gilbert wrote in her book Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

“So this, I believe, is the central question upon which all creative living hinges: Do you have the courage to bring forth the treasures that are hidden within you?” 

What truly keeps the dream alive, is the ability to know when it’s time to move onto the next phase and carry the momentum through.

Some would call this being in flow. And this is the beauty using the energy of cycles and seasons to follow through with our goals. 

Here’s a few key ways we build momentum and take action in this phase:

+ Connect – who do I need additional support from? where can I get that support? who do I know that could help me with this goal? Outreach, set up meetings, enrol in that course and if you’re game enough get an accountability buddy. We are looking for feedback here on our idea or project, perhaps even someone to collaborate with. 

+ Plan – you know what the goal is, how you want the process to feel and what you want to achieve now you feel ready to put it into a plan. In this step, we’ll get really clear on what time you need in your schedule and how to make that time. We work out all the small steps. We put them in the calendar. 

+ Seek resources – what do I know about this goal, challenge or project? and like-wise what don’t I know? You might find some overlap with this step and the connection piece. Once you’re clear, reach out to those who could know the answer. 

The trick here for us is to not get too stuck on the “behind the scenes” of the goal and planning, which is why we included the connection piece. 

I can’t wait to share with you the next phase of the process – express, a phase that has the energy of my favourite season – Summer.   

As you can see, The Dream Activator truly is THE best launch pad for your goals in 2019.

This four-part, self-guided course will have you start taking action on your dream in just 28 days. To find out more click the button below. 

This is your opportunity to make things you love, do things you love, with ease.