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  • Creating “Wake-Up” Calls To Engage Our Evolution

    Consider a different relationship to wake-up calls than alerting you to potential difficulty. It’s possible to manifest wake-up calls that are inspiring and energy-giving.

    Give yourself ten minutes with a kitchen timer. Come up with at least 20 different opportunities that you have in your life to move forward and evolve.

    The use of the timer in conjunction with the target number of opportunities creates the feeling of “wake-up,” and the subject matter is enlivening and useful. “Waking up” to what you can have happen in your life is a kind of “self-induced” alert or focus.

    What opportunities exist in your life to dramatically grow and evolve? What kind of regular practice can you create to connect with these opportunities? How do you like using exercises like this to expand your feeling of “waking up”?

  • “Those Who Learned To Collaborate And Improvise Most Effectively Have Prevailed.” ~ Charles Darwin

    Collaboration is likely a big part of successful evolution. People or animals who were not collaborative or cooperative had less chance of being in the safety of community and, therefore, they were more exposed to risk and possible harm.

    Charles Darwin wrote:

    “In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too), those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.”

    Please think about times in your life where collaboration has been useful – and has moved forward the effort in which you were involved. Can you observe times when collaboration allowed your group, team or family to thrive when, if there were not collaboration, events could have taken a turn for the worse?

    Is there truth to the notion that the “non-collaborative” would have been excluded from successful groups? What are the implications for you in our present day? How can you discern that collaboration advances the evolution of any group to which you belong?

  • “Yes Man” Is A Great Example of Shifting Self-Talk

    In the movie, “Yes Man,” Jim Carrey is challenged to change his self-talk of habitually saying “no” to almost everything to, “Yes, I will do that.” It’s a great premise in a movie that received mixed reviews, and Carrie’s performance illustrates the huge changes that can result from shifting one’s perceptions.

    Because his character, Carl Allen, tells himself that he will say “yes” to everything, there are some admittedly wacky results, but also many poignant moments that reveal themselves.

    When our self-talk permits us to think freely from an open mind to consider possibilities other than what we have been conditioned to hold as “the answer,” surprising growth and evolution can occur.

    How has your self-talk been about an automatic and reflexive “no” – perhaps learned from a parent who modeled that behavior when you were growing up? What would happen if your self-talk allowed you to think more creatively? Have you observed anyone who could serve as a role model for you whose behavior indicates openness in her or his self-talk? How can you shift your self-talk to diminish your limitations?

  • When Is Surrender Sweet?

    Surrender can mean defeat . . . or surrender can mean transcendence.

    If it’s defeat, we are called upon to be strong, learn from what happened, and move beyond what we were fighting against. We can learn to be resilient.

    However, surrender can be useful if thought about in the context of giving in to something ultimately larger than ourselves and yielding to it for our own growth and evolution.

    Writer Sara Paddison, “When we know love matters more than anything, and we know that nothing else REALLY matters, we move into the state of surrender. Surrender does not diminish our power; it enhances it.”

    Can you think of a place where “Sweet Surrender” has significantly enhanced your power? Are there any areas of your life where yielding to love or some other great force would actually make you far more powerful as a human being? Has your not surrendering actually diminished you in the past? What are the ultimate consequences of your not surrendering?

    Copyright 2009. E. B. Hutt Bush and Coaching for Results, Inc.

  • For Whom Are You Grateful?

    This week we will be discussing gratitude.

    Marcel Proust said: “Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”

    All of us have had people in our lives who we are grateful for. It is easy
    to get lost in our daily activities, and feel alone in our endeavors. We
    must take time to remember those that enrich our lives, and those that
    support us in our evolution as human beings.

    Who can you think of in your life that has made a significant impact in
    growth and development? Take time today to remember those
    individuals and be grateful for their influence in your growth.

    Copyright 2008. E. B. Hutt Bush and Coaching for Results, Inc.