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I love the freshness of the new year, so full of possibilities. If you are longing to turn something you’ve been dreaming of into something real, something concrete, I have a great place to start.
One of the most important things you can do is surprisingly simple: It’s to decide.
Simple, but perhaps not so easy.
If I could change one thing in the world what would it be? That’s a question that I’ve been asked a few different ways this week. Although I’ve considered it before, this time I paused to really sink into the question and feel for my answer. Honestly there so many things in my heart, but what I’d really like right now is for every single soul on this earth…
I often get questions about how to use writing as a tool to help discover your deeper meaning and purpose, or to help uncover what you may be truly longing for. As a starting point, I always recommend Julia Cameron’s practice of writing Morning Pages. Morning Pages are three pages of stream of consciousness writing, written long-hand and first thing in the morning. You write without stopping and without rereading anything you’ve read.
It’s deceptive in its simplicity, yet powerful in what it makes possible to experience.
Since part of my why is to help coaches develop their products and services, I keep tabs on the market and follow a LOT of coaches’ businesses. One coach in particular – an icon of success, published author of several books, 8-figure earner, – sent out a marketing email last week that started out something like this (I’m paraphrasing loosely):
