Our next “Step It Up Coaching” call Rising Above Overwhelm is scheduled for May 6, 2009 @ 11 AM Mountain Daylight Time.In this session of Step It Up Living™ Coaching we will be exploring: * Options to Overwhelm * How to Step through Overwhelm * Avoid Overwhelm in Your Personal Relationships * Principles to Learn from Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine * Transform Difficulties into StrengthsThis call is for all Step It Up Clients and Bronze Coaching members. Not a member? Join now to access this call.
One of the ways you know that you are going the way that you are meant to be going is if what you are doing is blessing and helping those around you.Part of the reason we are here is to bless others.If you enjoy what you are doing and what you are doing comes naturally, and it enriches others’ lives, you can rest assured that you are headed in the right direction.
If I only had one weapon and I was being thrust into the middle of a brutal war, I would ask for a heightened instinct. It is the one weapon that has never failed me no matter who my opponent was.It is the one tool that has shown the way to beauty, peace, and happiness.When I honor my gut feeling and its guidance, I have never regretted it.It is one of those weapons that you can always have with you and it will adapt to any situation that you find yourself in.
Sometimes we try to make things hard.We tell each other that hours on our knees in prayer is the way God will see our thankfulness. In fact, He has made us, given us talents and would be happy to see that we use what He has given us instead of toss His work to the side thinking that our own interpretations are better.The best way to show others your thankfulness is to use and enjoy what you have been given.The same works with our talents and the Source.
Overwhelmed?Stressed?I have been and I have made the discovery that just about every time I hit these roadblocks it is because of one thing—I don’t have the right systems in place.
A person can quickly shoot from zero to off-the-scale in stress if they are working on a time-sensitive project that simply must be done, and then suddenly they can’t find a piece of critical information that they must have in order to proceed.When you don’t have the time and you must have something, that is a recipe for stress.
Surrounding yourself with piles of to-do’s can always add stress in unconscious ways which you will be carrying around until you come up with a system of dealing with it.
If you are saying yes to too many things and can’t possibly get to all you have committed to, then again you haven’t got a proper system in place to handle the inflow-outflow balance.
Stressed because your in-laws—or, for most of us, our outlaws—are coming to visit?Chances are you don’t have a good enough system in place to handle the distressing matter of that interaction.
Look at the areas of your life that are causing the balance to shift to feeling overwhelmed or stressed and start hunting around for improved systems that can be implemented immediately.
One of the things that improved my second marriage was when I stopped treating my husband as if he was always wrong.He did things so completely different than I did.I mean, spending hours to make a buying decision.What a waste of time!Our marriage improved when I stopped looking at him as a time waster, but rather as someone who was being very thorough in his decisions—someone that I could learn and benefit from by not having to learn the hard way due to hasty decisions.
The same goes with applying these principles to a broader spectrum, looking at all others who do things differently than me—what can I learn from them?How can their way benefit me?These simple questions have helped me to rise above my own stuff and truly see these people in a different light—a more correct light.When I do this I see the snobbishness of my faulty assumptions.
Maybe you have learned how to have that kind of respect for others a long time ago.Maybe you are way beyond that skill.If you are, what other area can you improve in?How can you deepen your respect for others?
One of the best ways is to stand by a person through difficult times and see the greatness that shines forth as they cope with the situation.Or to look at the beauty that is displayed in something they do.If you look hard enough there is always something that you can respect.
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