YOUR LIFE A-Z:iNNIATE

INITIATE A NEW POSITION IN LIFE

INITIATE

It still amazes me how synchronicity seems to be guiding this process of the TWENTY MINUTE COACH.   INITIATE is an action verb.  INITIATE, start, begin, or launch something new in your life.  It is the middle of the summer, it is hot and it is time to do something new.  The TWENTY MINUTE COACH has been talking about giving and helping, so why not INITIATE a new way for you to practice giving and helping others.  It usually feels good and boosts your mood if  you give or help someone else.  What can you do today to INITIATE a personal way of helping and giving? Perhaps you volunteer already, but after awhile the same old schedule often becomes dusty from routine and you find yourself not receiving the joy that you did once upon a time.  There is a time and season for everything is not just a poetic quote from the Bible, but it has proven to be true time and time again.  Nothing lasts forever.  The energy that INITIATES new ideas, goals, plan, and hope does not always hang around at the same level. Energy ebbs and flows.  If the energy in a situation has waned, then re-access the situation and INITIATE some form of change.  Don’t let energy get stale.  INITIATE new ideas to old plans or INITIATE a brand new change.  Do not settle to just get by.  INITIATE a sense of pride and accomplishment in your daily life.  INITIATE an intervention of change early on and tweak it as you proceed.  

YOUR LIFE A-Z YES

YES! Opens Possibilities and Options 

YES

Say yes to life today.  Stop putting off all of those things you have wanted to do but never got the courage to do or thought you did not have the money, or whatever excuse you kept feeding yourself.  Today is the day to say YES.  Decide to really get into the stream of life and stop sitting on the side-lines wishing and wanting with your would have -could have-should haves.  Say yes. 

Name the first three things that come to mind when you think about what you have always or (even recently) wanted to do but just could not make a plan to do it.  Out of those three things on your list, choose one that you are going to set your mind to go and do.  It doesn't have to meet someone else's criteria, it does not have to be practical.  It only has to be something you have wanted to do or to have. 

Now ask yourself the three questions: 

What do I need to do to make this into a YES?

How do I do those things?

What is the first step? 

Start there. Once you start acting on your YES, you will be surprised at how much energy will begin to flow into your being to make it happen.  Yes, there will be obstacles, perhaps lots of obstacles, but obstacles are also overcome one step at a time.  So when you hit your first obstacle, remember your YES and use the three questions to get around, through or over your obstacle and back into your YES.

 Photo: RBDilley