You often dream of having a fulfilling relationship in love and intimacy. Something is holding you back from achieving your desire. You learn there is a solution or applicable technique to attain this. What do you think would prevent you from using it?
Take the 8-Count Before Getting Up
By Jeff Schoener
Vince Lombardi, the inspirational Green Bay Packers coach has been credited as saying:
“It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.” He also said, “The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.”
There are some motivational coaches who will wind their clients up emotionally and as if an arrow removed from a quiver, shoot them in a direction.
“I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where;For, so swiftly it flew, the sight could not follow it in its flight.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Vince Lombardi also said “The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.”
This may work well for some. Consider the approach we take towards success in any area of our lives. Keep our eye-on-the-prize attitude is a simplistic metaphor. I encourage you to add an additional one from boxing. How many of us will immediately get back up and as soon as our eyes regain focus we seem to be knocked down again?
In incorporating metaphors, Vince Lombardi also said, “We didn’t lose the game; we just ran out of time.” Boxers are taught how to pay attention to the seconds between reengaging their opponent and taking a few extra moments. If we take just a few extra seconds, we can refocus as well as readjust our strategies that will bring us closer to our goal. This will also bring us a level of awareness of where our oppositions lay. Take the time.
Guarantees – How Do You Read the Fine Print?
By Jeff Schoener
News of major upheavals lately occur each week. Earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions all are nature’s way of saying change will happen with or without our permission. Like it or not, people’s lives are constantly in a state of perpetual change.
Every day someone will die or lose their home, their job or their fortune. How easy it is then to lose perspective. It is also difficult to maintain a smile when the sadness seems all about, staring into the face of adversity as the future seems inevitable.
Decisions, illusions, confusions are in no-shot supply and Nay-Sayers are also plentiful. What is one to do? Where can one go? Take a moment, find a quiet place and go inside of yourself. Realize that nothing is permanent and only change is guaranteed. By shifting your focus from the dire and refocusing upon this thought–each day babies are born and flowers bloom. Teaming with new life, consider each new moment, pregnant with possibilities for wonder, smiles and growth. Know now, that with a fresh perspective, anything is possible. It’s in the fine print.
What Are You Really Attracting?
By Natalie Schoener
What is your current focus? Whatever is our focus is what we attract. Whatever is our focus is what we create. Is it positive like infinite possibilities and opportunities for growth? Abundance? Or is it hopelessness and lack? Focus on what you want in your life, not only will you begin to see it around you, you will draw it to you. And–you will get to experience more and more of it. Shift perspectives in all situations and other things in your peripheral will become clear. The important point to remember is to be able to switch back to what is important and maintain that focus. And while every moment brings with it endless possibilities, it is always necessary for every one of us to practice this awareness at first consciously until it becomes a skill, an automatic response and an unconscious effort in attracting life’s bounties.
Caregiver Support: Supporting Positive Interactions and Behaviors
We’re definitely excited that Jeff will be teaching at The Greater Trenton Behavioral Health at the Robert Wood Johnson Hamilton Wellness Center, NJ on Monday April 12, 2010.
As part of the Caregiver Support series organized by The Greater Trenton Behavioral Health, Jeff offers new tools and techniques for healthier caregiver-patient interactions and stress management, positive in the moment state changes and behavior modification using NLP and DHE.
We hope to provide more of these types of workshops in support of caregivers everywhere to promote health and well-being in the communities
Many people want the world to conform around them. This is not what power is, as the more you mold your limited world, the greater the energy you must use to hold it together. 