Your personal snapshot for change in 2009

Your Personal Snapshot for Change

Happy almost New Year!

Not having taken much vacation the last two years, I am delighted that Andy and I decided to spend the night in a hotel on the Boston waterfront. A mini-getaway is just right in every way. I will have one morning when my 5 yorkies will not awaken me at 5:15 am- ahhh, the luxury of sleeping a bit later!

Personally I’m really excited for 2009. In spite of the doom and gloom around the economy and state of affairs around the world, the coming year feels powerfully optimistic to me. I am not a Pollyanna, or Miss Mary Sunshine, it’s just something that I am feeling deeply, that good things are coming. Because I know that my beliefs are essential to what manifests, I am doing some tweaking of how I view things and the conclusions I draw.

Today’s Intuitive Musing:
Your Personal Snapshot For Change

I have many writing exercises that I use for transitions- for the New Year, or any other time where something is ending or beginning. It’s important to be clear about where you are, before you can decide where you are going, right?

Here’s my Coaching Challenge for you:

• First, to start your year with focus and clarity create a “personal snapshot”. Get 2 sheets of paper and on the first, write in detail about everything that is currently working well in your life. Everything you feel good about, specifics around work, relationships, health or recreation for example.
• On the second, write in detail everything that is not going well, or that you would like to make some changes to. Write as freely as you can without thinking too hard. Let the answers come intuitively.
• Sit with your list and allow yourself to take in what you’ve written. Simply notice what is there and get a sense of what’s what. Your list is simply a snapshot of this moment in time.
• Don’t judge. If you judge, you will immediately shut yourself down and be unable to use this valuable information for anything worthwhile. All of your personal walls will go up, the blinders will go on, all to protect you from the pain of negative self-judgment. Please, don’t go there. Just take a breath if you feel anxious or overwhelmed. Give yourself credit for doing the exercise and honestly naming what is. Remember, this is just a “snapshot” of the present, a way of letting you know where you are beginning from, ok? It’s like “Point A” on a map. It’s there to help you begin the journey.

Read this part carefully. I want to make sure you understand what I’m saying. The only way that you can begin the journey to wherever you want to go is to admit one thing, but it’s really big, and we tend to resist doing it when we’re facing a challenge.

The piece that you absolutely must admit is that the only way anything can change, ever, is for you to own your personal power for having created your life right now- the good, the bad, and the ugly!

If you truly seek to change and improve any part of your life, you must own it and see it as a choice that you made either directly or by default. We tend to abdicate, and go into our “victim consciousness” when we don’t like how things are going.

If you do this, nothing can change, because what victim consciousness tells you is that it’s out of your control and you are helpless and powerless.

Trust me, it’s so much better to see yourself as powerful and capable than to wait for anyone else to deliver the goods. When you see your life as your making, you can also see that what you most desire can also be of your making.

You are a powerful creator, born with all of the gifts you need. And don’t forget, you can ask for help anywhere that you need support or direction or skills that you don’t feel confident about.

When you are willing to look honestly at what is, without judgment, and claim your personal responsibility both for creating it and changing it, you are uniquely and powerfully poised for any journey you choose to take.

I want that for you.

Wishing you love and every blessing for the year,

xox

Lisa Claudia Briggs

P.S. I have an exciting 6-week brand new teleclass beginning in February, watch for details.