Usually this is the first thing we do. In fact, in the book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, the only one I remember is Sharpen the Saw. And that’s the one I tried for many years without realizing that it’s a combination of all these habits that make up your whole life. So filing […]
Habit #6: Live wholeheartedly.
To be divine is to be whole and to be whole is to be everything: the positive and the negative, the good and the bad, the holy man and the devil. When we take the time to discover our shadow and its gifts we will be understand what Jung meant by, “The gold is in […]
Habit #5: Think progress over perfection.
Living an emotionally well-thy life isn’t a destination. It’s not a marathon where you arrive at an end point where you can stop training, where you don’t need to run another kilometer or watch what you eat. It’s more like being committed to being healthy. You go to the gym, get on your bike, run or do yoga. […]
Habit #4: Have a life vision
Why do you need to have a vision for your life? It leads you to examine it—to see patterns, the stories you tell about yourself, your values. It helps guide your decisions and defines what you want to do and the people you want to help. A life vision provides a path, a direction for where […]
Habit #3: Make mindful choices.
Mindful choices are made from a place of power and meaning. It is not dictated by external circumstances or by long-held convictions that aren’t true anymore. One of our exercises when I trained to be a life coach was to articulate the worst things we say to ourselves. I said “I’m lazy.” One of […]
Habit #2: Know and love yourself.
If there is one habit to remember out of all the seven, it’s this: Knowing and loving yourself will be the force that will change your life because it will allow you to make choices to live the life YOU WANT, not the life everyone else wants you to live. Here are some questions you can […]