8 Ways To Self-Actualize!

EIGHT WAYS TO SELF ACTUALIZE

1. Experience things fully, vividly, selflessly. Throw yourself into the experiencing of something: concentrate on it fully, let it totally absorb you.
2. Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth): Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.
3. Let the self emerge. Try to shut out the external clues as to what you should think, feel, say, and so on, and let your experience enable you to say what you truly feel.
4. When in doubt, be honest. If you look into yourself and are honest, you will also take responsibility. Taking responsibility is self-actualizing.
5. Listen to your own tastes. Be prepared to be unpopular.
6. Use your intelligence, work to do well the things you want to do, no matter how insignificant they seem to be.
7. Make peak experiencing more likely: get rid of illusions and false notions. Learn what you are good at and what your potentialities are not.
8. Find out who you are, what you are, what you like and don't like, what is good and what is bad for you, where you are going, what your mission is. Opening yourself up to yourself in this way means identifying defenses--and then finding the courage to give them up.

More Info About Maslow Here - http://psikoloji.fisek.com.tr/maslow/self.htm

Cool quotes from a Life Coaching Client...

One of my clients shared these quotes with me tonight. I thought I would share them:

If it shall please God to add another day to our lives, let us thankfully receive it; but, however, it is our happiest, and securest course so to compose ourselves tonight, that we may have no anxious dependence upon tomorrow.
- Seneca

One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.
- Abraham H. Maslow

Getting 'unstuck': Does your life need a coach?

Small excerpt of an article - click link below to see whole article!

By A. Pawlowski

(CNN) -- "Where do you see yourself in five or 10 years?"

Seeking serenity or direction in your life? The growing number of life coaches want to help.

It's one of those questions many job-seekers dread during an interview, but it can be daunting to answer on a personal level as well. Amid all your responsibilities, activities and projects, it's sometimes hard to see the big picture and easy to become overwhelmed or feel like you're lacking direction.

That's where a life coach can come in.

"If you are frustrated with an aspect of your life, not sure how to stop making the same choices you keep making or just want to have more happiness, peace of mind and passion -- life coaching can do that for you," says Rhonda Britten, founder of the Fearless Living Institute.

Life coaches can specialize in areas like relationships, careers or personal growth. They promise to motivate, offer support when clients need a boost in confidence and help them decide which direction to take. Quiz: Are you off balance? »

FULL ARTICLE HERE

Being a Life Coach Rocks!

One of my clients has been experiencing some amazing breakthroughs in the last few weeks. She started in a deep depression, but faced that wall of emotion, and her own self-sabotage, and she has now created a vision for her future that honors her life calling.

She is scared but committed. Nervous but still incredibly excited. She knows, and I know, something wonderful is brewing. We are having a lot of fun, planning out the pragmatic end of things - and she is now taking some real-world action steps to make her vision a reality.

In researching her dreams she came across this powerful and moving documentary called Chances: The Women Of Magdalene. This non-profit is my client's prototype for her next big project. I'm incredibly proud of her, and very revved up to see what unfolds. Here is some information from the Thistle Farms, a division of The Magdalene House, that explains what this program is all about:

Magdalene is a two-year residential community founded in Nashville Tennessee in 1997 for women with a history of prostitution and drug addiction. Magdalene was founded not just to help a sub-culture of women, but to help change the culture itself. We stand in solidarity with women who are recovering from sexual abuse, violence, and life on the streets, and who have paid dearly for a culture that buys and sells women like commodities.

At no cost, we offer women a safe, disciplined, and compassionate community for two years, paid for by the gifts we receive from individuals and private grants. Magdalene stands as a witness to the truth that in the end, love is more powerful than all the forces that drive women to the streets.

I'm posting the video that inspired her. If you have any interest in helping people or feel called to create your own ministry or non-profit - I know you will love this movie. You can't watch this without being moved.

Here it is:

Bella & The Elephant: The Animal Odd Couple

This story re-aired today on CBS Sunday Morning. My family can't get enough of it! I had to share it. From a life coaching perspective - I love Steve Hartman's challenge at the end. Check it out.

In this latest installment of CBS News Assignment America, Steve Hartman visits an animal sanctuary where a dog and an elephant have formed a very lasting, and unusual, friendship.