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Aug
19
White Space in Your Life Margins: Busy-ness a Badge of Honor?
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Have you noticed how some books are easier on the eyes to read, you can get through them more quickly and your eyes get less tired? Or how vastly different The Wall Street Journal design is from USA Today? The reason is white space. The margins where there are no words. The graphics that are bold, separated by space where your eye can rest. If there are too many words, typed too small and too tightly packed, it’s daunting and your eyes don’t get a rest. No wonder USA Today breaks sales records as a most-read newspaper – it’s fun and easy to read and we get our info in quick snippets in an entertaining way.
It’s the same with our lives. We need white space. We need space between our words, between our activities. We need bigger margins in our lives to breath, rest, accommodate unexpected opportunities, spontaneity, unanticipated visits, friends in need, surprise social invites and other things that pop up without plans. If you are so over-scheduled that you can’t embrace an unplanned phone call from a friend, then you may need to eliminate some things to expand the wiggle room in your schedule.
Research has shown that we build more resilience to stress when we have more leisure moments in our lives. This could be a 10-minute tea break, or a trip to Tahiti. It seems that busy-ness has become a badge of honor these days. I hear people part complaining; part bragging about how busy they are. Especially when I’m around my Professional Speaking buddies at conventions. I never fail to hear about how much they’re on the road and how many dates they’ve booked and they don’t have time for family or friends. Well, whose fault is that? We can say no.
I’m in the continuous improvement loop for widening my margins in my life and making room for me, for leisure, for unexpected moments. Some people personally have a hard time saying no, then they blame it on their schedule and say “I’d love to, but my schedule is packed”. Make room to go with the flow and honor what you feel like doing in the moment. If I know a meeting will take 30 minutes, I schedule it for 60 so I have some prep time, follow-up time and some wiggle room before the next appointment. I’m less stressed. I don’t keep my next appointment waiting because the earlier call ran long. I manage myself in my time allotted and I allot more time.
Widening our margins gives us a break. Making room for more white space, then not filling it up again may go against the grain of the success-driven society, but it will help us live longer, be more productive, be less-stressed, less cranky, more healthy and generally more enjoyable to be around. If we don’t protect our own energy, then we won’t have any to give to others. If we give away all our energy, then when something really great comes up, we won’t have the time nor the energy to say ‘yes’.
Take a look at your calendar. Take stock of how you handle unexpected people/things that pop into your life. Are they welcome or are they stressful? We need time to think, to recharge, to reboot ourselves so we’re more productive and more present for the things that matter. So listen to yourself talk to others about how you do your life. Are you complaining/bragging about your busy-ness, or are you happy with the flow? Busy-ness is not necessarily a badge of honor. It may be a sign of mismanagement of your time and your life. Take the wheel and drive your schedule the way you want to go, instead of letting your schedule drive you.
Create some wiggle room, some white space and widen your margins. All the people around you will be glad you did. And you can stop complaining/bragging about how busy you are and enjoy a phone call, a play date, a cup of coffee with a colleague or take advantage of an unexpected opportunity. More ideas to energize at our talk show The Energized Entrepreneur Show.
Aug
8
New Energized Entrepreneur Internet Radio Show with Energy Expert, Gail Hahn
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If you’re feeling overwhelmed, overworked and overdue for a personal energy overhaul or need a little boost to your personal or professional life, get a quick energy injection with my new internet radio show The Energized Entrepreneur.
New shows are uploaded each Monday on The Women’s Information Network. I’m part of a line-up of other Experts on a variety of topic areas that benefit both men and women in all aspects of energizing their work, wealth and well-being. We bring you insights, information and inspiration on how to run your business, run your life, run around with kids and spouse and job in balance and not run out of steam in the process.
America is in an energy crisis, a personal energy crisis. My coaching clients, audiences and readers have confirmed this for years and years. This radio show is my way of giving back to my community and followers the results of my research into personal and organizational energy for a couple decades. You’ll get quick energy inserts 10-15 minutes for each show so you can quickly get it and go. Think of it as your drive-through motivational moment when you need a shot of inspiration to help you revitalize your work, wealth and well-being.
More in-depth ideas and inspiration can be found in my ebook Keys to Energize Your Life for $20, send me an email Gail@GailHahn.com to claim your copy. Or grab your free copy of the 50-page ebook Energizing Your Work Wealth, Workplace & Well-being at Funcilitators.com or arrange for your personal coaching session with a $250 scholarship for 90 minutes for just $125. Get energized, get revitalized and get going to create the life you love at whatever level you choose. I’d be delighted to help you get there. Cheers to your FUNomenal success!
Jul
28
Your Life Purpose is in Your Hands – Decode it Now
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I’m excited to tell you about an incredible experience available to you! Baeth Davis, aka “The Palm Pilot for the Soul of Your Business,”(tm) is a hand analyst who provides NON-predictive, scientific hand-analysis for spirit-rich entrepreneurs to help them identify their spiritual business blueprint from their hands!
This experience is NOT to be missed!
You will discover your Life Purpose -the reason you are here on the planet AND your Life Lesson – which triggers the core fears that can get in the way of your progress. Baeth will show you how to break through your blocks so you can get paid for your passions, claim your fame and BE the change you want to see in the world.
You can sign up for a session here: http://www.1shoppingcart.com/app/?Clk=3677614
Let me know if you have any questions about this life-changing experience! I was skeptical at first, but after interviewing several friends who had gained Baeth’s insightful guidance and after hearing one of my mentors who charges $25K – $1M per person for his coaching sessions requires his mentees to have a session with Baeth before he will event accept them into his coaching programs. That’s when I knew I had to do it to validate what I’d believed most of my life to be my purpose.
Knowing your true life’s purpose is the key to the kingdom, the combination to the vault, your compass for pointing you in the direction to do what you were put here to do. When we are acting in alignment with our purpose and doing what we are supposed to be doing, the Universe conspires in our favor and life becomes easier. It’s when we get the bright, shiny object syndrome, running around chasing the wrong things that life gets out of hand and doesn’t work for us. We know when we’re off track.
Only after having a session with Baeth, then attending her Life Purpose Summit, did it all really click that I was, in fact, on the right path as an Artist and Messenger in the Community Spotlight. Creativity is like oxygen to me, I need it to live as a fully expressed individual and I need audiences for my written and spoken word, need to be in the spotlight to share insights and inspiration with the world. I create community to bring like-minded people together and help them fully express themselves and enable their potential. It’s all in my hands – something I intuitively knew to be true. It just felt right and when I went off path to chase other opportunities, things didn’t work out so much. I know what Baeth gives us is a true gift.
Do you consider yourself a “conscious” or perhaps a “spiritually-minded” entrepreneur? If yes, I am super jazzed to pass on a call series from none other than Baeth Davis. You might know Baeth – she’s the “Palm Pilot for the Soul of your Business(TM), and one amazing entrepreneur! Baeth has created a 5-call series specifically to show you how to discover your unique Passions, People and Platform so you can Summit your business and your life.
The call series is totally free and runs now through August. Calls that are complete are available for instant download – no waiting – including the call everyone is talking about: “Discover Your Unique Media Path”.
Register now to reserve your spot on Baeth’s calls or schedule a session: http://www.1shoppingcart.com/app/?Clk=3840091
You will also hear a bit more about the entrepreneurial event of the season, Baeth’s Life Purpose Summit happening in just a few weeks.
I’ve experienced so much growth personally from Baeth’s insightful guidance and I hope you can too. She can steer you in your right direction if you don’t have a clue as to why you’re here, or validate your true calling if you already have an inkling. You’ll learn about your life school, your life purpose and your life lessons (Those bugaboos that bite you in the back and are always the core of what’s holding you back.)
Once you learn your life lesson, you can recognize it when it keeps showing up, acknowledge it and strategize ways to work through it or around it. I can’t say enough about what you’ll learn from Baeth’s session and her summit. It truly is a life-changing experience that can knock years off your learning curve and keep you from ambling through life without feeling ‘this is it, this is what I’m supposed to be doing’. Knowing your lessons, your school and your purpose make all the difference in the world to put more meaning into your work and your life, because our work is supposed to be all about expressing our true purpose. That’s what it’s all about.
Register now to reserve your spot on Baeth’s five freecalls or to schedule a hand reading with her: http://www.1shoppingcart.com/app/?Clk=3840091
To Your FUNomenal Success!
