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Are You Leaving Your Job to Live Your Life?
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I adore working with entrepreneurs and execs who get it. Those who have found their calling and are living their purpose. Those who are enlightened who have a blurred line between work and play and who wake up excited that they get to be paid for doing what they love. It thrills me to work with those who are discovering their right livlihood and I get very excited to help show them the way to themselves and the work they can do as a full expression of who they are.
Stay tuned for an upcoming special promotion to help you find your true purpose, your life school, your life lessons and your life’s calling. It’s all in your hands and with the help of a colleague and myself, we can help you find your right path on your journey from success to signifacance. I’ve experienced it myself and it was a true validation that what I’m doing as an Artist and Messenger in the Community Spotlight is the right path.
Some of us had an inkling since we were very young. Some of us knew in our gut something about what we wanted to do in our lives and some of us are still searching or not sure how to listen to our intuition that guides us in the right direction. What I found was the affirmation that what I loved doing, speaking, writing, communicating, teaching and leading and creating community within a group was right on target. Sometimes just because you’re good at something doesn’t mean you should be doing it.
What I’ve learned while working with those that are not yet enlightened, or those in the world of the employee mentality is that most of the world’s workers need to leave their job to lead their life. So many millions of workers just endure their job instead of enjoy their work. They live for their 10-minute break, they can’t wait for their 30-minute lunch, they RUN to their cars at the end of their shif to get away from their job. Their eyes are dull, they’re just enduring the hours until they can go. It’s very sad. They can’t start living until they leave their post. It’s deadening, it’s draining and it hurts to see it and experience it. I’ve experienced it myself when I’m not working my right livlihood. When I’m not around higher-energy people or higher-vibrating environments. I can feel the energy, or lack thereof. I can sense it immediately when walking into a workplace of a client. Sometimes I wonder how they stay in business with such dead energy. I’m always up for a challenge to help them turn things around.
What I decided in college while comisserating with one of my fellow recreation majors when we realized our chosen major didn’t pay as well we the engineering majors or business school grads; was that I would rather be happy every day of my life than unhappy for 5 days a week so I could be happy for 2 days per week. I knew right then to make my life’s work fun, enjoyable, in alignment with my purpose in order to be fufilled, prosperous and engaged.
When we’re not in alighment, not engaged, not plugged into the purpose of what we’re doing, it’s draining on all parts of our life. Are you in alignment with your calling? Are you working your life’s work so it feels more like play? Is the line blurred between your work and the rest of your life? I knew there was really no line between the two when I was running outdoor recreation trips across Europe, Aftrica and Asia for a decade. I got paid to play and take others on adventures. They paid and took vacation leave to do what I was being paid overtime to do. When I took vacations, I would do the exact same thing as when I was working – take my friends on trips and wild adventures to foreign lands. That’s when you know you’re on the right path – do you still live while you’re on the job? Are you feeling fully expressed when you work or do you wait to clock out to do that?
If you’re not getting paid to express your full, authentic knowledge, skills, abilities and talents, then why not? If you’re still seeking your calling or wondering about your purpose, then send me an email at Gail@GailHahn.com and we’ll schedule a session and tune you into our upcoming program. If you’re just wondering what’s it all about, Alfie, then send me an email and stay tuned for more details on living your life’s purpose and how you can find out precisely what it is. It’s all in your hands and has been your entire life. My colleague and I can help you crack the code on your life’s purpose. Let us show you how.
If you’re dreading mornings, if you physically feel your energy draining away as you drive closer to work, if you hate your commute, feel a surge of energy when you leave your workplace, become more vibrant as you clock out, then you have the warning signs that you’re not leading the right life. If you’re working witout purpose and just for a paycheck, then you’re not working on purpose. If you’re more excited about your time off than your time in, then you may need to re-check your purpose. We can help you find your right path.
Jan
2
Start The Year Right: Holi-moments vs. Holidays
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With only a hanful of holidays a year, many who work in W-2 land only get a handful of days to recharge and spend quality time with whomever they please. Those of us in entrepreneur land get to choose whichever day we darn well please to spend quality time to do whatever we want. I like to create holi-moments on a daily or weekly basis. Some of the moments are fleeting like watching the sunset or breathing in the crisp air after it’s just snowed in the mountains on my morning jaunt or meeting with the pups along my route for a quick scritch and tail wag. Some holi-moments take more time such as a spa day, a pedicure or a great meal and live entertainment.
In order to become and remain energized and live a vital life, we need to pay attention to our moments and not just our holidays to lift our spirits and create joy in our lives. I vowed decades ago to not participate in the usually seasonal holiday mall madness, the stressful dashing about, the traffic around shopping areas and the obligations if it wasn’t enjoyable to me, which it isn’t. My declaration is to stay away from the mania in order to keep my sanity and polite, positive disposition. If it feels like an obligation and isn’t enjoyable or genuine from the heart with a sincere desire, then don’t do it. Don’t fall prey to unfettered consumerism or the unjoyful acts of the season if it’s not energizing to you. I’ve streamlined holiday decorating to take 30 minutes and thoroughly enjoy it and the after effect. I don’t feel any stress whatsoever during this time of year and I’ve got a great system to sending out holiday cards and gifts from my home office while the fireplace crackles and holiday music plays on my stereo. I get to enjoy the good things and dispose of all the negative side effects by ascertaining what stresses me and make plans to avoid that list.
So whats on your list of stressors? What feels like an obligation to you? What can you cross off your holiday list of things to not do next year? How will you create holi-moments in your daily or weekly life so you don’t have to wait until the holidays to take time to revitalize your life and your work? When we’re personally revitalized, our work is revitalized. Everybody who comes into our life also feels the benefits of an un-stressed you. Make time for holi-moments and make a stand for making time for yourself and making your own rules on how to handle holidays and every day with grace and joy. And if you want my top secret technique for card sending and gift giving, send me an email and I’ll reveal my trade secret: Gail@GailHahn.com or visit BizBuilderCards.com.
Jan
1
Year in Review, Time to Renew Your Hot 100 List
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It’s that time of year when I look back and look forward and do a gap analysis. I look at my past rear in review and match it to my former Hot 100 List, my list of at least 100 things that I wanted to accomplish in my life. Being a card-carrying member of the over-achiever’s club, I always have more than 100 just to stretch my thinking and look forward to past the current year. Resolutions, schmesolutions. These aren’t your grandma’s New Year’s list. This is a lifeforce all it’s own. Your compass for living and leading the life you love.
I’ve been doing this list and this exercise officially since 1984 with a written list and a purposeful time set aside to create it, dream and renew my goals and desires for the big plans I have for me. I take thoughtful time to reflect on the past year, lessons learned, what don’t I want any more, what do I want to start doing and stop doing and keep the same or pump up the volume.
It’s not necessarily a bucket list, although you can incorporate items that may be on your bucket list. It can be simpler lifestyle goals, health benchmarks, financial goals or personal achievements. I had one item that was on my list before I even had a written list. It was on my list for 27 years. And you can imagine the celebration I had when it finally came true. Some of my items are only on for a year or a few weeks before I get to cross them off. Some items I find I don’t want any more – life changes. It’s not about necessarily reaching those specific goals, it’s about creating them and allowing yourself to dream big dreams for your life.
To make sure I cover my bases on the left brain and right brain and all senses side; I not only write down in numbered style in long hand, pen to paper, but I also create a vison board with photos and phrases. I used to cut and paste magazine photos onto posterboard. Now I do my collage digitally so I can make a custom greeting card using a simple software and send myself the card with my vision board as well as my affirmations and life purpose on it. I have one at my desk and one in my purse at all times to keep me reminded of why I do what I do and what I want for my life. It comes in very handy during wait times in airports and waiting rooms.
Along with your Hot 100 List, I suggest you write out your ideal day putting pen to paper – no typing any of this out. Your heart and your body hear it better and internalize hand-written things over the typed word. Make the head and heart connection by writing out in long hand how you want your ideal day to go in excruciating detail. Give yourself time and permission to take this very seriously. Most people spend more time writing up their holiday gift list than doing this special gift list for themselves.
Stay tuned for our upcoming free teleclass on cracking the code to your life purpose. Doing your Hot 100 List and your Ideal Day exercise will help you clarify your path and prepare for our call. Be looking for our special offer to those who want to work with us and discover your own life purpose which is in your DNA. You have it at your fingertips. Let us help you understand how you’re supposed to move through this world. Looking forward to seeing you on the call on 2 February.
Jan
1
Refresh & Renew: Enjoy Your Journey & Celebrate Your Accomplishments
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Happy New Year’s Eve. I’ve been taking a self-batical from blogging and being plugged in this month. It was a perfec time for a girlfriend getaway and a time for reflection, re-energizing and renewal. A time to re-focus on the future and remind myself of the present journey and the journey beyond.
How I love to renew is outdoors. Sometimes solo and sometimes with great company of people who get it and who get me. It gives me breathing space and a place to connect wit the divine in an organiz way. A place to reconnect with myself and my body and breathing. Although I do my daily morning mileage in my ‘hood, nothing compares to the magnificent, majectic National Parks and outer limits of undisturbed outback to reawaken the senses and lighten the load.
We selected Zion and Bryxe National Parks and Angel’s Landing to be specific.
Although we’re not blood and guts hikers any more, we’re not candy-asses either. What we like is a good challenge for women who are fifty, fit and fabulous! We encountered at least 31 switchbacks and a smidgen of knife-edge trail 1450 feet above the valley floor. We’re wise enough to know when we’ve reacked our peak experience. Which is to say that it doesn’t necessarily need to be the peak of the mountain to be a peak experience. We’ve earned our wisdom and know when renewal and recharging our batteries turns to regret. We came for enjoyment and enlightenment and not endangerment or encroachment on our comfort. Just enough push to get us out of our usual comfort zone.
No more camping on the ground – we opted for a yummy cabin with a roaring fire and down comforters with a rain water show head with mule deer and wild turkeys frolicking outside our window. We opted for delicious gourmet breakfasts and sumptuous dinners with keoki coffee and ended our tour du outdoors with a decadent spa day and evenings at the theatre on the Vegas strip to see Lion King and a Diva Drag Show. It was a fabulous feast for the senses at all levels.
What I’ve learned is to enjoy this moment, this journey, this adventure right now. We can turn around any time we want, but the great views are reserved for those who climb a little higher than most. What are you doing to enjoy your journey all along the journey? Are you living to enjoy each step and each swtichback? Are you taking time to look back at where you’ve come or are your blinders on to only look forward full speed ahead. We often had to take a break to breathe on our trek to Angels Landing. We also realized we were looking down so much at our footing that we needed to look up and look around and enjoy the view all around us, which included where we’d come from. We celebrated at different points in our journey and enjoyed ourselves immensely.
What are you doing to enjoy yourself along your path before you reach your peak? What if you don’t reach all the way to the top? What if you get very close but not all the way? Will it be OK? Will you re-calibrate once you see what’s up there and make different choices? How will you celebrate? How will you know you’ve arrived?
Let’s take time to celebrate where we’ve been, how far we’ve come and where we are right now. Let’s not wait until the absolute pinnacle and just toil away while we’re getting there. Take a breath, breath in the fresh air, look around, look up, look back and look ahead too. As I learned while backpacking for 30 days in the Colorado wilderness with Outward Bound, it’s not where you go on the map that matters, it’s where you go in your head as you travel that matters. How are you clearing your head and making room for better things, clearing your schedule to make room for you and clearing your path to make room for your journey? Happy New Year!!
