YOUR LIFE A-Z: QUASI

HMMM. HOW MUCH CAN I DO? 

QUASI

QUASI is a word that means partially or to some extent.  QUASI may seem like an unusual word for the TWENTY-MINUTE COACH to endorse.  However, each of us needs a starting point.  Often one does not start a plan because of the fear of failure, fearing that the project is too big or overwhelming.  When fear is in the way often the start button never gets turned on.  Thus a QUASI plan of action is better than no plan of action.  If fear has you immobilized then try writing a QUASI or partial plan on each of the eight threads.  Beginning a QUASI plan will give you permission to get started on a plan that perhaps you have put off for a very long time.  Today is the first day of the rest of your life.  Regardless of whether you have twenty-four hours to live or twenty-four years to begin a QUASI plan is the start button of action.  Action is the key to living a life.  Action does not have to be perfect or a promise of success.  A QUASI plan is an experiment giving permission to explore options.  Perhaps your QUASI plan will show you that this idea you have is not really what you wanted it after all.  Perhaps this QUASI experiment will give you permission to take some things off of your life’s to do list.  Yes, that is right.  Sometimes you have an idea, a bright idea, but you do not spend enough time investigating your true desire.  A QUASI plan can be your freedom card to let go of what is not serving you. 

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.