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Seize the challenge and find happiness!<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Reaching the point in your life where your career no longer satisfies you? Lacking motivation, feeling exhausted all the time. Fearful about moving from your comfort zone into the unknown. Time to seize the challenge and find happiness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Disruption in our world continues and we find that fear runs in parallel with this energy. Chaos ensues as we become distracted and filled with self-doubt. However, when we flip our emotions and begin to feel positive about the chaos and \u201clean in\u201d our perspective changes. Instantly our thoughts shift from negative to positive. This pushes us to look through a different lens, and in turn increases our body vibration, momentum and vitality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, what are the benefits of this I hear you ask? It is a bit like when you leave the safety of the beach and jump into the ocean. You either sink or swim, the choice is yours. Before deciding to jump into the ocean you have learned to swim. If you can swim the choice is easy you just start swimming to your point of reference, alternatively if you can\u2019t swim then it is unlikely you will get to where you had planned to go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To change direction in your life is exciting but can be challenging and scary. However, having a plan to support your existing tools, knowledge, and skills helps you chart your new course, heading in your new direction. A plan helps to reduce your fear whist your motivation and energy are amplified. Self-doubt dissipates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was working with Mary; a client of mine and she was telling me that she just felt \u201cstagnant\u201d. She had been working in a senior leadership position for several years and could perform her role without even thinking about it. It was like she was in \u201cautomatic\u201d. She had lost the joy, excitement, and sense of accomplishment that her role used to bring her. Adding to those feelings, she was beginning to go through menopause which as we all know, brings its own unique challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mary wasn\u2019t sure what was going on but as her uneasiness increased, she felt empty, lacked joy, fun and happiness in her life. She was moody, anxious, and struggling to sleep well. In addition to these changes that were happening in her body she knew something had to change. But she had no plan. She did not know where to start!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou can\u2019t go back and change the beginning,<\/p>

but<\/p>

you can start where you are<\/p>

and<\/p>

change the ending”.<\/p>C.S Lewis<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

This was exactly what Mary did. As we worked together, we started on looking at her identity. Where she was currently at and where she wanted to go. We drilled down deep, peeling away layer after layer, getting to her essence, her \u201cwhy\u201d. Exploring her point of difference, her uniqueness. This was the start of her plan, understanding who she was, her beliefs, values and what her purpose was. She acknowledged that she needed to address her body, mind and soul and integrate and bring them into balance to achieve her goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Author Dr Joe Dispenza<\/a> teaches and demonstrates that the way you think has some effect on your life. He goes on to say that most people do not believe that this is true. Neuroscience now shows that when we change our story it can change our life. By changing our routine and gaining new information helps to change the circuits in the brain. In effect when Mary unpacked her \u201cwhy\u201d and developed her plan she re-wrote her story for the next chapter of her life, changing her neural pathways to allow change to come into her life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Did you know that:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n