A Year in Review: Part One

Power from Within, Open to Possibilities

To my dear readers, I want to thank you for being part of the Strength & Grace Life Coaching community especially during these last 10 months.  For many this year was full of: uncertainty, surprise, adjustment, fear, fortitude and growth.  Mostly for me, this was a year of learning…just lesson after lesson after lesson.  Here are some of the biggest ones from 2020:

1.)     Good Habits Can Save You

I will form good habits and become their slave.” – Og Mandino

Being laid off in March was a reminder of just how little I truly have control over.  There was nothing that I had done personally to warrant it, there was no warning, no second chances, it was not about me, and yet it affected me greatly.  I could have let my emotions of: frustration, confusion, anger and fear leak into other areas.  If I had decided to drink a little more, forego exercising, eat bon-bons and watch bad TV no one would have questioned my actions.  We were in a global pandemic, I had lost my job, and doing all of those things as a way to ‘cope’ would have seemed perfectly acceptable.

Yet, I held onto the good habits I had created, I held on to my 30day alcohol punch card for 2020, I kept up my workouts, still logged my food, meditated, practiced daily gratitude and made a schedule, even if it had me watching The Great Courses and learning about marketing.  Not letting external circumstances affect my habits reinforced what was in my sphere of influence.  I concentrated on what was in my control, what was within my power and that led me to ask “what else do I have power over?”.

2.)    Be Open

“You don't know what you're going to do in a situation until faced with it. Life lessons learned. I was going to have to banish 'never' from my repertoire.” – Abigail Barnette

When you lose something you’ve depended on, a way of life that is no more - you need to allow yourself to be open.  Things you used to turn your nose up at may be the best options for the situation you’re in now.  You need to at least consider every option, tactic, piece of equipment and approach because you’re playing a new game and all the limitations you had set before, no longer apply.  There is no harm in at least considering them, looking at those options under a new light with a completely different perspective. After all, the more open you are the more options you have.

3.)    Have Goals

"If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time." –Zig Ziglar

In a state of complete upheaval, your goals may have been blown apart flying around you like the shrapnel of dreams you once had, but that doesn’t mean you need to be goalless.  Where your eyes focus matters, looking to the past will do you no good, and focusing on the present without a clear vision of the future means you’ll not be able to see what’s truly available to you.  Either adjust your old goals or set new ones, regardless having something that you’re working towards adds value to the actions you’re taking and highlights opportunities that may arise in the here and now.

If you’re having difficulty setting goals, keeping goals and maybe achieving goals, maybe all you need is to learn the Art of Manifesting. CLICK HERE to learn about the group coaching option available to you starting February 2021!