True Balance Life Coaching

Heads up! I plan to post transformational life coaching VLOGs each week this year.  It was well past the time to face my fears about getting in front of the video camera. So here I am! Enjoy this little life coaching ditty about making regular, small steps toward your goals.  You deserve to live in a Resolution Free Zone! Remember to be gentle with yourself as you move through the new year.

Incremental change is the golden ticket to your success in 2012. If you fall off the proverbial wagon, you can pick yourself up, dust yourself off and move forward.  Every day is a new chance to begin again.

“Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Have you ever found yourself in awe of another human being who seems to have it all? These are the people who show up full of vitality, creative magnetism and are without question, on top of their game.

I experienced this awe-inspired feeling when I discovered Carrie Wilkerson, AKA The Barefoot Executive. I follow Carrie on twitter and Facebook and occasionally watch her videos etc. And you know what? I’ve found that Carrie is a rock star and a self-proclaimed overnight success – 10 years later! She continues to hone her craft daily and work her butt off while raising a young family. She is an incredible role model for women entrepreneurs.

I could share more about this extraordinary woman, but this is not the intent of the post. My intention is to share the value of incremental actions over a period of time that will lead you to what you define as a better place. Carrie is on example of a successful entrepreneur who knows the magic of incremental change.

Once you express an interest in making a significant change and set your intention, it’s time for exploration and support.

When I decided to leave the high-profile corporate advertising sales world, I didn’t simply roll out of bed  one day and land my entrepreneurial footing. I had to explore all of the possibilities. The incremental actions that led to my transformation included:

• Getting clear about my intention
• Exploring and enrolling in a coaching certification program
• Studying great coaches like: Thomas Leonard and Martha Beck
• Choosing the type of clients I wanted to play with
• Choosing the type of groups I wanted to get in front of
• Hiring the right mentor coach for coaching, speaking and writing

More than five years later, I continue to make incremental actions. Like the sands in an hour glass. Every grain of sand adds up. Every step matters.

As a student of the school of experiential learning, I have had my share of failure. I’ve struggled on occasion with fear and uncertainty. The good news is, I  always find someone who can support me with what I want to accomplish when I need it most. And you can too.

When I decided to write Life on Your Terms, I made the choice to become involved with a publishing group who were compiling a guidebook for women titled: Wake up Women BE: Happy, Healthy and Wealthy. For a minimal investment, I became a contributing author in my first book which later became a best seller for women. During this time, I learned how to create a book marketing platform and devoured several classes designed to effectively flaunt my offering.  I later used the knowledge I’d gained from my involvement with Wake up Women and experienced a wildly successful launch for Life on Your Terms…

I share this example with you to illustrate how thoughtful choices and focused training can lead to significant rewards in your new ventures.  You can do anything you set your mind to doing with clear intention, incremental action, education, training and supportive mentors and coaches.

Get to it!

Learn more about Carrie Wilkerson HERE.

As you flip through your personal calendar of 2009, what do you see?

• Who shared your time?

• What did you create?

• What brought you joy?

• What did you learn?

• What did let go of?

2009 marks the year that Life on Your Terms Acceleration was born. 40 entrepreneurs and loads of coaching clients world-wide have been involved since the soft launch in October. The kindness, humor, honesty, and passion for personal freedom shared by each of these unconventional minds left an indelible imprint on me. Many thanks to all of you who played such an important role in this project and extraordinary year. I look forward to sharing my next book, Life on Your Terms – Stories of Entrepreneurial Freedom with you in the summer of 2010.

2009 also brought about the creation of AnxietySlayer.com. This delightful project has been a blast in the making and I’m blessed to share in the slayer fun with Ananga Sivyer. Our mission is to assist you with creating more peace and tranquility in your life through anxiety release exercises and supportive tools created to slay your anxiety.

As you play through the next decade, imagine yourself a year from now, walking to the end of path of 2010, and looking back at your most memorable experiences of the year.

• What would you like to see?

• How do you feel?

• What are you most proud of?

• How have you changed?

• What will you do to ensure your 2010 is what you visualize it will be?

Best wishes for an “intentionally” extraordinary year!