Are you ready to thrive in 2009? Are you clear, being powerful and prosperous? Do you have a quarterly practice that allows you to complete and create new games in your business or life?
If you don't, take a look at the BC Workshop for Business Professionals on Saturday January 10, 2009.
Below, I have included 10 tips by James Ray, a powerful coach, that will support you in thriving in 2009. In our BC Workshop in 9 days, you will work on all 10 tips.
1) Clearly define what inspires you.
There's a big difference between taking action out of inspiration versus desperation. Use this season as an opportunity to hibernate into the recesses of your own mind and define what you choose to create in your next spring.
2) Control your focus.
Energy flows where attention goes. Are you focusing on lack or opportunity?
3) Feed your mind.
What's your constant mental diet? Do you spend hours in front of the scare news or are you reading good books, attending more positive seminars, watching uplifting DVDs and listening to powerful CDs?
4) Strengthen your body.
Your physical health and vitality have a tremendous impact on your performance as well as your mental and emotional fitness. Exercise releases stress and strengthens your body and mind.
5) Inventory your friends.
Doom and gloom attracts more doom and gloom. Jettison those "energy vampires" around you and surround yourself with opportunity seekers.
6) Quiet your mind.
Take time to meditate daily and to slow down if only for a few minutes. Ten to fifteen minutes of meditation will relieve hours of stress and increase creativity and resourcefulness.
7) Rid your life of escapist activities.
Overindulgence in TV, sleep and alcohol only accelerates the problems you're attempting to avoid.
8) Make a daily gratitude list.
Focusing on all the good, gifts and God in your life puts you in the right line of thought, feeling and their subsequent actions, which will attract and create more good, gifts and God.
9) Change your attitude.
Realize that everything that's happened in your life thus far is here to serve you, teach you and help you grow. Find the lessons in your past results, forgive yourself for anything you could have done better and apply the lesson to move forward and create a better future.
10) Get resourceful.
For the next three days, go to a place where you can have uninterrupted time... Come up with 20 new ideas to grow your income, create new results and improve your life. You cannot leave your spot until you have twenty.
And no editing! All ideas are good ideas. Do this for three successive days with 20 new ideas each day. Now take your list of 60 unique ideas and pick the three to five most powerful and leveraged ones to put into action. Pick these three to five based on: ease of implementation, rate of return and speed of return.
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
12-23-08 Apache Blessing Power
Our Holiday and New Year Intention!
may the sun...bring you new energy by day,
may the moon...softly restore you by night,
may the rain...wash away your worries,
may the breeze...blow new strength into your being,
may you walk...gently through the world and know its beauty all the days of your life.
-apache blessing
may the sun...bring you new energy by day,
may the moon...softly restore you by night,
may the rain...wash away your worries,
may the breeze...blow new strength into your being,
may you walk...gently through the world and know its beauty all the days of your life.
-apache blessing
Sunday, December 14, 2008
12-14-08 Gift Power
This week notice the early gifts that your might be receiving from your family and friends for the Holiday season. Below, is a short story on my early gift from my father.
My Early Christmas Gift
This past weekend my mother was invited to a Neil Diamond concert by my sister and her friends. Early Friday morning my mother was so excited to be on her own and having fun with her long time friends from North Carolina that she drove herself to the airport and left me in charge of my father who is experiencing midlevel Alzheimer’s.
Initially I was concerned that I would not be able to play my weekend golf game and enjoy what I love to do, yet I ended up creating just that. It all began on Friday evening when I chose to cook dinner together with my father instead of taking him out. That is when I realized that I had not been alone with my dad perhaps since the day that I was born 57 years ago. He was always with my mother or with one or more of my six brothers and five sisters.
I had shopped for cold shrimp, two big steaks, organic salad and avocados. At home we had left over spaghetti, chocolate ice cream and of course we would have a bottle of Spanish red wine and “Cuban” cigars for post-dinner relaxation.
When I told him my plans, he was fired up. My dad always loved to cook, eat, drink wine and smoke cigars with his friends and family. Every 15 minutes, from the time we started barbecuing the steaks, he asked where my mother was. I patiently told him that mom had flown to North Carolina to go to a concert with Ana and Carol.
He kept repeating "all the way to North Carolina" and he looked at me with a little concern in his face. As he did this, I diverted his attention to the task at hand asking him to eat his shrimp or take a sip of the wonderful wine that we were sharing.
After enjoying dinner, discussing what was happening in the world, and my dad inquiring several times where my mother was, we decided to go sit on the porch and end the evening by smoking his cigars on a cool Miami night.
I chose a 4-inch La Gloria Cubana and he had a 7-inch Romeo y Julieta. As we lit the cigars, I became present to the fact that I seldom made time for my dad or anybody else in the family. So I put my whole attention on my dad for the rest of the night.
I did not have to say anything. I just listened and answered all his questions. The conversation was simple and to the point. He observed and commented on all the Christmas angels, pillows, plates that my mother had placed throughout the room.
As he talked and observed, I would notice his eyes and the way he enjoyed his cigar. I pointed out to him how present he was to the moment and how he was enjoying himself. He told me that was the only thing that mattered because he had a hard time remembering.
He also noticed how my cigar was burning faster than his. I let him know that my cigar was 3 inches smaller but proportionally we had smoked the same. He said it made sense and since he had a bigger cigar he would end up smoking a little longer than me.
Then he heard far away sirens and said "there goes an ambulance." I realized that he was being present to all the sounds and objects around him, but no interior thoughts.
Then as we finished the cigars, I became present to his greatness and felt that I was talking to an enlightened being. I sensed that he was in a state of quietness and fulfillment of everything he had experienced in his life.
Here I was for the first time really experiencing my father, while he was enjoying himself with what he loved to do. So I asked him, is there anything better than this? He simply said "no, it's just life."
Then he looked at me, took his last sip of wine and holding his cigar he continued … "life is very simple it comes to you and you have to be ready to live it and I am living it."
I just closed my eyes and experienced the joy of being aware and present to this moment and the feeling of being ok with 57 years of missed opportunities with my father, because this experience was the best Christmas present ever.
My Early Christmas Gift
This past weekend my mother was invited to a Neil Diamond concert by my sister and her friends. Early Friday morning my mother was so excited to be on her own and having fun with her long time friends from North Carolina that she drove herself to the airport and left me in charge of my father who is experiencing midlevel Alzheimer’s.
Initially I was concerned that I would not be able to play my weekend golf game and enjoy what I love to do, yet I ended up creating just that. It all began on Friday evening when I chose to cook dinner together with my father instead of taking him out. That is when I realized that I had not been alone with my dad perhaps since the day that I was born 57 years ago. He was always with my mother or with one or more of my six brothers and five sisters.
I had shopped for cold shrimp, two big steaks, organic salad and avocados. At home we had left over spaghetti, chocolate ice cream and of course we would have a bottle of Spanish red wine and “Cuban” cigars for post-dinner relaxation.
When I told him my plans, he was fired up. My dad always loved to cook, eat, drink wine and smoke cigars with his friends and family. Every 15 minutes, from the time we started barbecuing the steaks, he asked where my mother was. I patiently told him that mom had flown to North Carolina to go to a concert with Ana and Carol.
He kept repeating "all the way to North Carolina" and he looked at me with a little concern in his face. As he did this, I diverted his attention to the task at hand asking him to eat his shrimp or take a sip of the wonderful wine that we were sharing.
After enjoying dinner, discussing what was happening in the world, and my dad inquiring several times where my mother was, we decided to go sit on the porch and end the evening by smoking his cigars on a cool Miami night.
I chose a 4-inch La Gloria Cubana and he had a 7-inch Romeo y Julieta. As we lit the cigars, I became present to the fact that I seldom made time for my dad or anybody else in the family. So I put my whole attention on my dad for the rest of the night.
I did not have to say anything. I just listened and answered all his questions. The conversation was simple and to the point. He observed and commented on all the Christmas angels, pillows, plates that my mother had placed throughout the room.
As he talked and observed, I would notice his eyes and the way he enjoyed his cigar. I pointed out to him how present he was to the moment and how he was enjoying himself. He told me that was the only thing that mattered because he had a hard time remembering.
He also noticed how my cigar was burning faster than his. I let him know that my cigar was 3 inches smaller but proportionally we had smoked the same. He said it made sense and since he had a bigger cigar he would end up smoking a little longer than me.
Then he heard far away sirens and said "there goes an ambulance." I realized that he was being present to all the sounds and objects around him, but no interior thoughts.
Then as we finished the cigars, I became present to his greatness and felt that I was talking to an enlightened being. I sensed that he was in a state of quietness and fulfillment of everything he had experienced in his life.
Here I was for the first time really experiencing my father, while he was enjoying himself with what he loved to do. So I asked him, is there anything better than this? He simply said "no, it's just life."
Then he looked at me, took his last sip of wine and holding his cigar he continued … "life is very simple it comes to you and you have to be ready to live it and I am living it."
I just closed my eyes and experienced the joy of being aware and present to this moment and the feeling of being ok with 57 years of missed opportunities with my father, because this experience was the best Christmas present ever.
Are You Aware of Your Current Reality?
Below you will find a simple evaluation form that will support you in being aware of your Current Reality in different areas of your life.
These areas include career, environment (automobile and home), family, finances, friends, fun and recreation, intimate relationships, spirituality, well-being (physical and mental) and your overall life experience.
Try to avoid conscious thoughts. Instead, take a few minutes and evaluate yourself in each area by noticing your feelings instead of your thoughts about where you are. By thinking, you evaluate yourself from a past reality versus the present moment.
You will notice different feelings that come out of where you choose yourself to be in each area of your life. Before you can shift your current reality, you must clean up any misalignments (or out of integrities) that you are holding. In other words, you must face the brutal facts of your current reality and deal with them.
The intention of this process is for you to be complete and OK with where you are in any area of your life. Once you let go, there is a whole new realm of possibilities available from which to create.
You are now ready to create a new vision for your life that is real for you now. We will cover creating a new personal vision in our next newsletter.
Until next time, please notice the feelings that you are experiencing by being in integrity and in how life is working for you and all those around you.
Current Reality - Personal Evaluation
POOR 0 FAIR 0 GOOD 0 VERY GOOD 0 EXCELLENT 0
Career 0 0 0 0 0
Automobile 0 0 0 0 0
Home 0 0 0 0 0
Family 0 0 0 0 0
Finances 0 0 0 0 0
Friends 0 0 0 0 0
Fun & Recreation 0 0 0 0 0
Intimate Relationships 0 0 0 0 0
Spirituality 0 0 0 0 0
Well-being - Physical 0 0 0 0 0
Mental 0 0 0 0 0
Your Overall Rating 0 0 0 0 0
These areas include career, environment (automobile and home), family, finances, friends, fun and recreation, intimate relationships, spirituality, well-being (physical and mental) and your overall life experience.
Try to avoid conscious thoughts. Instead, take a few minutes and evaluate yourself in each area by noticing your feelings instead of your thoughts about where you are. By thinking, you evaluate yourself from a past reality versus the present moment.
You will notice different feelings that come out of where you choose yourself to be in each area of your life. Before you can shift your current reality, you must clean up any misalignments (or out of integrities) that you are holding. In other words, you must face the brutal facts of your current reality and deal with them.
The intention of this process is for you to be complete and OK with where you are in any area of your life. Once you let go, there is a whole new realm of possibilities available from which to create.
You are now ready to create a new vision for your life that is real for you now. We will cover creating a new personal vision in our next newsletter.
Until next time, please notice the feelings that you are experiencing by being in integrity and in how life is working for you and all those around you.
Current Reality - Personal Evaluation
POOR 0 FAIR 0 GOOD 0 VERY GOOD 0 EXCELLENT 0
Career 0 0 0 0 0
Automobile 0 0 0 0 0
Home 0 0 0 0 0
Family 0 0 0 0 0
Finances 0 0 0 0 0
Friends 0 0 0 0 0
Fun & Recreation 0 0 0 0 0
Intimate Relationships 0 0 0 0 0
Spirituality 0 0 0 0 0
Well-being - Physical 0 0 0 0 0
Mental 0 0 0 0 0
Your Overall Rating 0 0 0 0 0
Are You in Integrity?
Is life working for you? Are there areas in your life that are good and yet you would like to make them better? Are there areas in your life that are not working?
Looking at where you are not in integrity and where you are not being honest with yourself could possibly make a difference in what you are up to in your life.
Bringing up the areas of your life that are out of integrity allows you to address those areas and provides the freedom to have your desires fulfilled. By being clear and in integrity, you will find yourself with fun and ease, creating and fulfilling intentions in areas of your life that you consider important.
Below are two simple techniques to bring you back into integrity and have you feeling complete and powerful:
1) Complete Integrity Diary
Set aside 30 minutes to complete the process. Be honest and real and ask yourself:
a) With whom have I not kept my promises and commitments?
b) Where have I gone against my values and standards?
c) When am I not being who I say I am?
When: Yesterday? Last Week? Last Year? Last X Years?Where: Family, Business, Relationships, Well Being, Spirituality.
Write down whatever feelings or thoughts come into your mind for each of the above questions.
2) Standing Meditation
Get into correct standing meditation posture. If you have not learned standing meditation, you can do the following technique sitting down.
You can also review the standing meditation technique in the following article:
http://www.bizchampions.com/StandingMeditation.html
Relax, quiet down, scan your head, neck, shoulders, spine, hips, down your legs, and then back up. Notice any tightness, pain, thoughts, and judgments that you are feeling from doing the Integrity Diary.
Hold your attention on your body until you release the negative charges that you are experiencing. Do this process for at least 5 minutes.
You will be ready to create new intentions once you feel relaxed, clear, flowing and at ease with your integrity.
Until next time, please notice the feelings that you are experiencing by being in integrity and by how life is working for you and all those around you.
Looking at where you are not in integrity and where you are not being honest with yourself could possibly make a difference in what you are up to in your life.
Bringing up the areas of your life that are out of integrity allows you to address those areas and provides the freedom to have your desires fulfilled. By being clear and in integrity, you will find yourself with fun and ease, creating and fulfilling intentions in areas of your life that you consider important.
Below are two simple techniques to bring you back into integrity and have you feeling complete and powerful:
1) Complete Integrity Diary
Set aside 30 minutes to complete the process. Be honest and real and ask yourself:
a) With whom have I not kept my promises and commitments?
b) Where have I gone against my values and standards?
c) When am I not being who I say I am?
When: Yesterday? Last Week? Last Year? Last X Years?Where: Family, Business, Relationships, Well Being, Spirituality.
Write down whatever feelings or thoughts come into your mind for each of the above questions.
2) Standing Meditation
Get into correct standing meditation posture. If you have not learned standing meditation, you can do the following technique sitting down.
You can also review the standing meditation technique in the following article:
http://www.bizchampions.com/StandingMeditation.html
Relax, quiet down, scan your head, neck, shoulders, spine, hips, down your legs, and then back up. Notice any tightness, pain, thoughts, and judgments that you are feeling from doing the Integrity Diary.
Hold your attention on your body until you release the negative charges that you are experiencing. Do this process for at least 5 minutes.
You will be ready to create new intentions once you feel relaxed, clear, flowing and at ease with your integrity.
Until next time, please notice the feelings that you are experiencing by being in integrity and by how life is working for you and all those around you.
Sunday, December 7, 2008
12-0708 - Stand by Me Power
As you enjoy your Holdidays notice how you stand for your beliefs, family and friends.
The following video was sent to me by a friend and fellow coach Juan Esteban. It's a video created by someone with a huge passion to show another, more positive side of our world and humanity through the power of music.
This guy had nothing more than an idea, frequent flyer miles & battery operated equipment.
Enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A_ma2h0idk
The following video was sent to me by a friend and fellow coach Juan Esteban. It's a video created by someone with a huge passion to show another, more positive side of our world and humanity through the power of music.
This guy had nothing more than an idea, frequent flyer miles & battery operated equipment.
Enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A_ma2h0idk
Monday, November 24, 2008
11-23-08 - Thanksgiving Power
To family, friends, clients and coaches in the world...thank you for being in our lives!!!
This week enjoy your Peace, Joy & Family and give thanks ...
For each new morning with its light,
For rest and shelter of the night,
For health and food,
For love and friends,
For everything Thy goodness sends.
by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
Thanks Again!
Holly, Ale, Vicky and Roberto
This week enjoy your Peace, Joy & Family and give thanks ...
For each new morning with its light,
For rest and shelter of the night,
For health and food,
For love and friends,
For everything Thy goodness sends.
by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
Thanks Again!
Holly, Ale, Vicky and Roberto
Sunday, November 9, 2008
11-09-08 - Light Power
Notice how much light or spiritual illumination is showing up in your world this week. Did it show up last week for you? Look inside and notice how you are feeling. Keep connecting to light and flow!!!
Monday, October 27, 2008
10/26/08 - Poise Power
Be yourself. Don't be thrown off by events whether good or bad. Notice how poised you are this week.
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
10/12/08 - Chi Flow Power
This past week I participated in a Tai Chi seminar with Chen Xiao Wang, one of China's Great Masters and a direct descendant of the legendary creator of Tai Chi, General Chen Wangting.
He supported me in having proper alignment and correct posture in Standing Meditation as a way to experience more chi flow. The increase chi flow throughout my body provided me with more clarity, power and ease in practicing my Tai Chi forms.
Let me know how you are feeling. Notice if your chi is flowing and be aware of the increased clarity and power.
He supported me in having proper alignment and correct posture in Standing Meditation as a way to experience more chi flow. The increase chi flow throughout my body provided me with more clarity, power and ease in practicing my Tai Chi forms.
Let me know how you are feeling. Notice if your chi is flowing and be aware of the increased clarity and power.
Monday, October 6, 2008
10/05/08 - Ever-awake Power
What does Ever-awake power mean to you? Are you aware of each moment of your life? Are you being deliberate in all the actions that you take? This week be aware of the good, the bad, the beautiful and the ugly...
Monday, September 22, 2008
Group Breathwork by Sula de Paula
One of the main challenges to health, well-being and happiness facing most of us today seems to be unmanaged stress caused by unacknowledged and unprocessed feelings.
BC Breathing (also referred as Holistic Breathwork or Rebirthing) is a technique to help us release emotional and physical tension while supporting our intention to heal and allowing us to improve health and vitality.
Through a deep connected breath for about an hour, our body releases stress and tension and facilitates the access and release of old patterns in a gentle and safe way.
Some of the benefits of Breathwork include an increase in the level of physical and spiritual energy in our body and a greater ability to be more conscious, aware and present.
To learn more about Sula and Rebirthing Breathwork go to www.revelationbreathing.com
BC Breathing (also referred as Holistic Breathwork or Rebirthing) is a technique to help us release emotional and physical tension while supporting our intention to heal and allowing us to improve health and vitality.
Through a deep connected breath for about an hour, our body releases stress and tension and facilitates the access and release of old patterns in a gentle and safe way.
Some of the benefits of Breathwork include an increase in the level of physical and spiritual energy in our body and a greater ability to be more conscious, aware and present.
To learn more about Sula and Rebirthing Breathwork go to www.revelationbreathing.com
What's Your Inspiration by Jeff Zbar
My friend and business champion, Jim Blasingame of the Small Business Advocate radio show, sent an ezine this week discussing the link between one's spirit and their success.
By opening our hearts to discovery, Jim wrote, people explore beyond the bounds of their comfort barriers in the pursuit of growth - and all the challenges and opportunities it can bring.
That same morning, BizChampions coach Roberto Suarez wrote seven simple words in his "Weekly Intention" inspirational message to subscribers: "Notice your spiritual, mental and physical charm..."
I spoke last week to a group of home-based travel agents, closing with the concept of how a mantra can help boost one's spirit and enthusiasm when working from the confines of the solo environment. I offered two: The Desiderata (you know: "Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there is in silence..."). The second was from Henry David Thoreau, and it has hung on my office wall for the better part of a decade: "The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure."
Each day - especially those when challenges rise to confront us and make us question why we've chosen our paths, we must find solace in the comfort of something calming, soothing and poignant.
It can be a walk to clear the mind, smooth music on iTunes, or some other respite. To me, these inspirationals - or mantras - help serve as guide posts along the frenetic path of work and life. What are yours?
Posted by: Jeff Zbar @ 12:53:45 pm www.chiefhomeofficer.com
By opening our hearts to discovery, Jim wrote, people explore beyond the bounds of their comfort barriers in the pursuit of growth - and all the challenges and opportunities it can bring.
That same morning, BizChampions coach Roberto Suarez wrote seven simple words in his "Weekly Intention" inspirational message to subscribers: "Notice your spiritual, mental and physical charm..."
I spoke last week to a group of home-based travel agents, closing with the concept of how a mantra can help boost one's spirit and enthusiasm when working from the confines of the solo environment. I offered two: The Desiderata (you know: "Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there is in silence..."). The second was from Henry David Thoreau, and it has hung on my office wall for the better part of a decade: "The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure."
Each day - especially those when challenges rise to confront us and make us question why we've chosen our paths, we must find solace in the comfort of something calming, soothing and poignant.
It can be a walk to clear the mind, smooth music on iTunes, or some other respite. To me, these inspirationals - or mantras - help serve as guide posts along the frenetic path of work and life. What are yours?
Posted by: Jeff Zbar @ 12:53:45 pm www.chiefhomeofficer.com
Standing Meditation
Last year, I participated in a Tai Chi seminar with Chen Xiao Wang, one of China's Great Masters and a direct descendant of the legendary creator of Tai Chi, General Chen Wangting.
In this seminar, I really got that standing meditation with the correct posture is a profound and meaningful exercise that leaves you feeling energized, clear, quiet, focused, peaceful and balanced.
Practicing standing meditation for fifteen minutes or more a day will contribute to your well being and your ability to create and fulfill daily intentions with ease. You will experience deep levels of relaxation, chi (energy, life force) flow, and release of stress.
Standing meditation is simple, inexpensive to learn and very powerful. I learned this technique seven years ago from my friend and Tai Chi Coach Paul Viera. Below is a description on how to do standing meditation.
Standing Meditation Technique
Stand up in a relaxed manner.
Separate feet shoulder width, a comfortable distance.
Point both feet straight ahead and flat on the floor.
Feel stable, centered, rooted to the earth.
Relax your body (open, relaxed, calm).
Clear your mind. Notice and let thoughts flow like clouds.
Keep a gentle smile. Keep your head up and look forward.
Start with your eyes open, with a soft and wide angle focus.
Then close your eyes.
Breathe in and out in a relaxed, easy, and regular manner.
Breathe in through your nose and out through your mouth.
Keep your lips slightly parted.
Let your arms hang down in a relaxed manner at your sides.
Let the palms of your hands face your thighs, touching lightly.
Relax your shoulders and let them hang down.
Let your tongue lightly touch the roof of your mouth.
After you are relaxed, raise and extend your arms as if you are hugging a tree.
Now, scan your mind and body, notice any resistance that shows up (thoughts, pain, energy, tightness, worries, judgments, anger, etc.).
Just be aware and let go. Your attention should be 50% on your body and 50% in silence.
To learn proper standing meditation, hire a coach or participate in one of the Being Champion Workshop for Individuals.
In this seminar, I really got that standing meditation with the correct posture is a profound and meaningful exercise that leaves you feeling energized, clear, quiet, focused, peaceful and balanced.
Practicing standing meditation for fifteen minutes or more a day will contribute to your well being and your ability to create and fulfill daily intentions with ease. You will experience deep levels of relaxation, chi (energy, life force) flow, and release of stress.
Standing meditation is simple, inexpensive to learn and very powerful. I learned this technique seven years ago from my friend and Tai Chi Coach Paul Viera. Below is a description on how to do standing meditation.
Standing Meditation Technique
Stand up in a relaxed manner.
Separate feet shoulder width, a comfortable distance.
Point both feet straight ahead and flat on the floor.
Feel stable, centered, rooted to the earth.
Relax your body (open, relaxed, calm).
Clear your mind. Notice and let thoughts flow like clouds.
Keep a gentle smile. Keep your head up and look forward.
Start with your eyes open, with a soft and wide angle focus.
Then close your eyes.
Breathe in and out in a relaxed, easy, and regular manner.
Breathe in through your nose and out through your mouth.
Keep your lips slightly parted.
Let your arms hang down in a relaxed manner at your sides.
Let the palms of your hands face your thighs, touching lightly.
Relax your shoulders and let them hang down.
Let your tongue lightly touch the roof of your mouth.
After you are relaxed, raise and extend your arms as if you are hugging a tree.
Now, scan your mind and body, notice any resistance that shows up (thoughts, pain, energy, tightness, worries, judgments, anger, etc.).
Just be aware and let go. Your attention should be 50% on your body and 50% in silence.
To learn proper standing meditation, hire a coach or participate in one of the Being Champion Workshop for Individuals.
The Winning Process
The current market situation in coaching spans the gamut from the independent consultant who specializes in coaching executives to address their own personal needs, to the full service firm that provides an array of business process management and services.
We provide an in-depth approach and a tailored solution for organizations and individuals. The Winning Process reestablishes expectations within an organization to include trust, integrity and fairness as part of the bottom line to building performance and mutual respect.
The Winning Process helps individuals maintain a state of balance so they can achieve their goals and Shared Vision. This process ensures continued growth.
BizChampions uses three distinct methods for actualizing possibilities. After we work with an individual or organization to create a Shared Vision, we take them to the next step by guiding them through Closing the Gap (CTG) Strategies and Coaching, our implementation process.
The Shared Vision is a program for building shared meaning that is centered around an on-going process whereby individuals or people in an organization articulate their common stories around vision, values, mission, and goals, including why their work matters and how it fits into the larger world.
This initial program allows individuals to invent a new future for themselves and their institutions that causes cultural change, resulting in new ideas, increased enthusiasm and innovation.
In our CTG Strategies sessions, games (action plans) are created for individuals and teams that move them forward in being their Visions now. The CTG Strategies format includes the following: Key Result Areas, Name of Game, Vision, Winning Accomplishments, Resources, Monthly Goals, This Week's Goals and Crucial Action Steps.
In the Coaching Process, we bring the individual's internal reality into alignment so they can work or live from abundance rather than just survival. As each individual transforms, the external elements of an individual or company changes, leading to breakthrough results that are achieved within a short time frame.
As we work together to attain desired outcomes, key leaders are trained in all newly-implemented systems and in leadership skills that create powerful results. Our professionals are available to coach or consult individuals or teams on an ongoing basis.
We provide an in-depth approach and a tailored solution for organizations and individuals. The Winning Process reestablishes expectations within an organization to include trust, integrity and fairness as part of the bottom line to building performance and mutual respect.
The Winning Process helps individuals maintain a state of balance so they can achieve their goals and Shared Vision. This process ensures continued growth.
BizChampions uses three distinct methods for actualizing possibilities. After we work with an individual or organization to create a Shared Vision, we take them to the next step by guiding them through Closing the Gap (CTG) Strategies and Coaching, our implementation process.
The Shared Vision is a program for building shared meaning that is centered around an on-going process whereby individuals or people in an organization articulate their common stories around vision, values, mission, and goals, including why their work matters and how it fits into the larger world.
This initial program allows individuals to invent a new future for themselves and their institutions that causes cultural change, resulting in new ideas, increased enthusiasm and innovation.
In our CTG Strategies sessions, games (action plans) are created for individuals and teams that move them forward in being their Visions now. The CTG Strategies format includes the following: Key Result Areas, Name of Game, Vision, Winning Accomplishments, Resources, Monthly Goals, This Week's Goals and Crucial Action Steps.
In the Coaching Process, we bring the individual's internal reality into alignment so they can work or live from abundance rather than just survival. As each individual transforms, the external elements of an individual or company changes, leading to breakthrough results that are achieved within a short time frame.
As we work together to attain desired outcomes, key leaders are trained in all newly-implemented systems and in leadership skills that create powerful results. Our professionals are available to coach or consult individuals or teams on an ongoing basis.
Are You Winning?
This past month, the world was tuned into the 2006 Winter Olympics where we saw and some of us felt the ecstasy of winning and the agony of defeat.
As I watched the extraordinary performances of the Olympics, I asked myself: “What is the difference between being the Champion (Gold Medal), the Winners (Silver & Bronze Medals), and the Losers (No Medals)?”
One event that showcased the greatness of Olympic Champions was the final ice skating performance for the Women's Gold. Going into the women's finals, Irina Slutskaya (Russia), Sasha Cohen (US), and Shizuka Arakawa (Japan) were in first, second and third place, respectively. It was clear that they all had to overcome difficulties, injuries and the pressure of being in the finals for their countries.
The three had experienced the agony of defeat and the ecstasy of winning in the past. However, this was the 2006 Olympics. And for all of them, this could have been their last Gold medal opportunity.
Shizuka won the Gold with a flawless and graceful performance. Sasha took the Silver and Irina, the Bronze. What made the difference for Shizuka (my belief) was her mind set and focus before the final dance. You could feel and see the pressure on Sasha and Irina as they prepared for the final performance.
Their slight resistance (doubt, lack of certainty) contributed to costly mistakes and opened the door for Shizuka, who instead prepared by meditating on a chair looking calm and graceful. She had nothing to lose because she was not expected to win. It was a breakthrough result for her and Japan - their first and only Gold Medal in ice skating. You felt her ecstasy when she realized she had won.
I felt the same energy from all the Gold Medal Champions before and after they won. They were focused, quiet, prepared and fulfilled before winning the Gold Medal. When they won, they were all grateful, happy and very generous with their competitors.
They were Champions. Most of them fulfilled intentions that were created before they became teenagers. Their journey was all worth it and you could see it in their faces when they stood together with the other winners listening to the Champions' national anthems.
As you create and play your games in life and in the business world, notice if you are clear, focused, prepared, committed and playing all out feeling like a Champion.
In April's newsletter, you will learn about the Winning Process, BizChampions module to achieve individual/corporate goals and Shared Vision.
As I watched the extraordinary performances of the Olympics, I asked myself: “What is the difference between being the Champion (Gold Medal), the Winners (Silver & Bronze Medals), and the Losers (No Medals)?”
One event that showcased the greatness of Olympic Champions was the final ice skating performance for the Women's Gold. Going into the women's finals, Irina Slutskaya (Russia), Sasha Cohen (US), and Shizuka Arakawa (Japan) were in first, second and third place, respectively. It was clear that they all had to overcome difficulties, injuries and the pressure of being in the finals for their countries.
The three had experienced the agony of defeat and the ecstasy of winning in the past. However, this was the 2006 Olympics. And for all of them, this could have been their last Gold medal opportunity.
Shizuka won the Gold with a flawless and graceful performance. Sasha took the Silver and Irina, the Bronze. What made the difference for Shizuka (my belief) was her mind set and focus before the final dance. You could feel and see the pressure on Sasha and Irina as they prepared for the final performance.
Their slight resistance (doubt, lack of certainty) contributed to costly mistakes and opened the door for Shizuka, who instead prepared by meditating on a chair looking calm and graceful. She had nothing to lose because she was not expected to win. It was a breakthrough result for her and Japan - their first and only Gold Medal in ice skating. You felt her ecstasy when she realized she had won.
I felt the same energy from all the Gold Medal Champions before and after they won. They were focused, quiet, prepared and fulfilled before winning the Gold Medal. When they won, they were all grateful, happy and very generous with their competitors.
They were Champions. Most of them fulfilled intentions that were created before they became teenagers. Their journey was all worth it and you could see it in their faces when they stood together with the other winners listening to the Champions' national anthems.
As you create and play your games in life and in the business world, notice if you are clear, focused, prepared, committed and playing all out feeling like a Champion.
In April's newsletter, you will learn about the Winning Process, BizChampions module to achieve individual/corporate goals and Shared Vision.
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
I Make People Crazy
Last year, after having committed to living a created life, I realized that the person I currently am is only a way of being. And that at any moment, I have a choice about who I am being.
At any time, I can create a way of being that gives me power, freedom and full self-expression. It is only when I am able to distinguish between my Self and my Ego and experience either one fully that I can master the ability to create a way of being that is real and authentic for me.
A way that I have chosen to be known is that I Make People Crazy. I was supported in experiencing this way of being in my trip to China this past July. After practicing Tai Chi with one of the top masters of the world, I decided to have a full body massage with my new friend YuanYuan.
Half way through the massage, she stared at me in a very peaceful and balanced way. So I asked her "What are you thinking right now?" She just looked at me and said "Nothing in my mind." I replied " My work is to coach people to attain a quiet mind like you just experienced." She just smiled and kept her focus on releasing the negative energy that I was feeling in my knees.
A few minutes later, she said "Robert, I know what you do." And I said "What do I do?" She smiled and said "You make people crazy. You should have a business card that says I Make People Crazy."
In that moment I realized how we are all "crazy". She is in China thinking that having a quiet mind makes her crazy and here I am in the United States thinking that having a busy mind makes me crazy.
It comes down to what we believe and I believe that when we experience a quiet mind we have access to experience our true "Self", whatever that is for us.
Live and experience a created life. It's powerful. Until February's newsletter, see if you can notice when you are lacking freedom, power and full self expression. If you do, just be aware of what you are feeling and quiet down and/or call me at 786-556-2494.
At any time, I can create a way of being that gives me power, freedom and full self-expression. It is only when I am able to distinguish between my Self and my Ego and experience either one fully that I can master the ability to create a way of being that is real and authentic for me.
A way that I have chosen to be known is that I Make People Crazy. I was supported in experiencing this way of being in my trip to China this past July. After practicing Tai Chi with one of the top masters of the world, I decided to have a full body massage with my new friend YuanYuan.
Half way through the massage, she stared at me in a very peaceful and balanced way. So I asked her "What are you thinking right now?" She just looked at me and said "Nothing in my mind." I replied " My work is to coach people to attain a quiet mind like you just experienced." She just smiled and kept her focus on releasing the negative energy that I was feeling in my knees.
A few minutes later, she said "Robert, I know what you do." And I said "What do I do?" She smiled and said "You make people crazy. You should have a business card that says I Make People Crazy."
In that moment I realized how we are all "crazy". She is in China thinking that having a quiet mind makes her crazy and here I am in the United States thinking that having a busy mind makes me crazy.
It comes down to what we believe and I believe that when we experience a quiet mind we have access to experience our true "Self", whatever that is for us.
Live and experience a created life. It's powerful. Until February's newsletter, see if you can notice when you are lacking freedom, power and full self expression. If you do, just be aware of what you are feeling and quiet down and/or call me at 786-556-2494.
09/15/08 - BlackBerry Power
Notice this week the power that your phone or PDA has. Do you control the phone or does it control you? Then ask the same question with your thoughts. Do you control your thoughts or do they control you?
Being Champion Blog
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Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Took Mercantile Bank sales to the next level
On behalf of the Personal and Commercial bankers who participated in our sales blitz last week, I truly want to thank you for the outstanding workshop. In your presentation, you transmitted the inspiration that we all needed to achieve our goals in life. We often find ways to motivate ourselves. However, it is very seldom that we seek a more effective manner to fulfill on what being inspired can provide.
--- Mario Angulo, Senior VP & Manager, Mercantile Bank
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