Craffies Coaching

“Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase. Just take the first step.
“Martin Luther King, Jr.

there is an infinite well of love. I now allow this love to flow to the surface.

It fills my heart, my body, my mind, my consciousness, my very being, and radiates out from me in all directions and returns to me multiplied.

The more love I use and give, the more I have to give, the supply is endless.

The use of love makes ME FEEL GOOD, it is an expression of my inner joy.

I love myself; therefore, I take loving care of my body.

I lovingly feed it nourishing foods and beverages, I lovingly groom it and dress it and my body lovingly responds to me with vibrant health and energy.

I love myself; therefore, I provide for myself a comfortable home, one that fills all my needs and is a pleasure to be in.

I fill the rooms with the vibration of love so that all who enter, myself included, will feel this love and be nourished by it.

I love myself; therefore, I work at a job that I truly enjoy doing one that uses my creative talents and abilities, working with and for people that I love and that love me, and earning a good income.

I love myself; therefore, I behave and think in a loving way to all people, for I know that that which I give out returns to me multiplied;

I only attract loving loving people in my world, for they are a mirror of what I am.

I love myself; therefore, I forgive and totally release the past and all past experiences and I am free.

I love myself; therefore, I live totally in the now. experiencing each moment as good and knowing that my future is bright and joyous and secure, for I am a beloved child of the universe and the universe lovingly takes care of me now and forever more. And, so it is.

Source: You can heal your body, Louise L Hay.

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires a great deal of strength to decide what to do.

Elbert Hubbard

As part of a panel interview, I was looking for a candidate that would motivate us as a panel, knowing that this would also motivate his or her team. Sitting, I started thinking what would the drivers be that is needed to motivate other, and the following thoughts crossed my mind:

• To lead by example : To personally know where you are going people will be interested to listen.
• People are more interested in how much you care than how much you know. Having compation with other.
• Support and encourage other, be the cheerleader. It’s about them.
• To be able to be inspired by other, your own source of energy. Read, one of my mentors once said all people that do not read are also illiterate.
• Share your experience, by being a mentor, not through arrogance.
• One can never build trust without being vulnerable.
• Proud fullness is build through war stories, so tell those stories.
• Communicate informal, formal, in the hallways, as much as you can, and remember listening is the most important part of communication.
• People love to be challenged, as they the know you believe in them.

Enjoy your week.

Jim Stovall writes in his book Today’s the day, that to be the BEST at whatever you do you need to adhere to the following principals:

Balance – To be able to live a life that it is balanced in all domains of live, work, family, finance, wellness etc.

Enthusiasm – To live life with passion, if you do not have it change your thinking (attitude) or your career.

Single-mindedness – The ability to focus one thing at a time. When you work you work, when you play you play.

Tenacity – The ability to bite the bullet and to keep on going. Churchill said: “Never give in, never give in, never give in…”

For left brainers, like me, always busy analyzing the world and making decisions, lets take the brain to wild right side and think a little creative as the new world of work need whole brain thinkers for sure.

The ability to Developing and innovate new things that will make the world more effective but not hurting the environment and to do it cheaper with less resources. Exercise: Keep a journal and mind map some ideas on a daily basis, begin with the obvious and explore the territory of the unobvious. Look around you at new designs, even next generation designs.

The ability to engage in storytelling, our life’s is stories, as business unfolds it is a story; why not deal with stories instead of facts. Start blogging and share your stories, next time you want to give the facts share it in a story.

Ben Zander refer to life as a Symphony, “put together”, why not stop for a moment next time one want to analyze and rather look at it, to say how can I create a symphony out of what I see and feel. Exercise: Listen to great symphonies, create your own symphonies by putting pieces together, and remember there is no right or wrong. Brainstorm.

Shoes, develop the competency to really put yourself in somebody else’s shoes. To be able to show empathy, and I do believe it also relate to our ability to show compation.

Playfulness. Enough was said about this over the last few days.

Creating meaning out of live, connect with your spiritual and religious base. Exercise: Learn to be grateful, to something to somebody that cannot return the favor, get still for at least 10 min. a day. Think about what really give you joy in life.

Enjoy your evening.

This is the true joy of life.
The being used for a purpose
Recognized by yourself as a mighty one.
The being a force of nature Instead of a feverish, selfish
Little clod of ailments and grievances
Complaining that the world will not
Devote itself to making you happy.
I am of the opinion that my life
Belongs to the whole community
And as long as I live,
It is my privilege to do for it
Whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly
Used up when I die,
For the harder I work the more I live.
I rejoice in life for its own sake.
Life is no brief candle to me.
It is a sort of splendid torch
Which I’ve got hold of
For the moment And I want to make it burn
As brightly as possible before
Handling it on to future generations

George Bernard Shaw

Life is not a problem to solve but a gift to cherish. Author Unknown.
This words let me think….then it takes my thoughts to the first verse of a poem of Russel Kelfer…
You are who you are for a reason.
You’re part of an intricate plan.
You’re a precious and perfect unique design,
Called God’s special woman or man.

As we know life on earth is only temporary, why would we not live, life to the fullest to glorify God in everything we do?

The following is a great recipe to have a nice relaxing bath.

Take:
1 Cup Sea salt
1 Cup Baking soda

Put the above ingredients into the tub, now fill it up with nice warm water.

Lastly add your two or three drop of your favorite aromatic oil, lavender or peppermint what ever you are in the mode for.

Now jump in and relax for twenty minutes, preferable not longer as it can exhaust you if you spent too much time laying in the bath.

Merry-go-round or Worry-go-round…..

How are you living your life, how am I living my life, as a happy chap or long faced and sorry for my self. The questions that we need most probably have to answer firstly to ourselves are the following:
· Am I happy?
· What am I living for?
· Are my thoughts in the past? Worry about things that I can not change.
· Are my thoughts in the future? Thoughts about things what might happen.

We must remember that I thought shape our lives.

Dr Andrew Weil once said the following:” Wherever nerves are, activities of the mind can travel.”So thoughts don’t only influence our moments of tomorrow in terms of our actions but also in terms of our health and our mood.

So lets remember the merry-go-round and keep our thoughts in the moment and enjoy each moment of the ride on the carousel….like kids.

Enjoy your week.