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Self Care at Work: When You Feel Pressured and Stressed, Recharge Your Brain

August 9, 2017 by Nicola Walker

Still lake image for self care at workWhen you feel pressured and stressed by work, life and all the nitty gritty details clamoring for attention, your nervous system and brain move into survival, perfect for putting out fires but hopeless for calming you down. Don’t keep pushing through the stress. One of the best things you can do for self care at work is to stop and take a rest to recharge your brain.

A lot of people get used to feeling stressed and easily burdened by everything they think they need to do. Stress becomes the norm, and change is merely variations to the levels of stress they feel moment to moment. The tragic side to this is that their intuitive wisdom and natural brilliance is trapped inside their stress response.

If this is you, here are three steps you can take for self care at work. [Read more…] about Self Care at Work: When You Feel Pressured and Stressed, Recharge Your Brain

Filed Under: Success Tagged With: handling stress, recharge your brain, self care, take a rest, work stress

Not Feeling Joy in Life: Find Your Truth and Live The Full You

April 6, 2017 by Nicola Walker

Sunlit Path in Redwoods - when not feeling joy in life, find your truthHave you noticed that you are not feeling joy in life? If you yearn for a sense of completeness and a richer, fuller life, choose to honor your truth. Discover how to find your real truth, the truth that makes you feel alive, rather than the false truth that flattens you.

Many years ago, unhappy in my marriage and not feeling joy in life, I attended a personal growth workshop where I burst into tears, sobbing that I was “living half a life.” My words seem to land in every woman’s heart that day. One of them approached me later to say that she realized that she too was living half a life. She promptly announced that she was leaving her job and moving. She drove off to live in another city. I faced the truth of how I really felt about my marriage and ended it. This was the right choice for me at the time, and in retrospect.

Since then, I have had billions of opportunities to face my truth. Each day, I have to find what is true for me. Sometimes my truth is obvious; my truth moves me into action that feels good and right. Other times I can wrestle with my truth, trying to convince myself that it’s really something else. I don’t know quite why I’m sometimes unwilling to face my truth, because I suffer the consequences. I feel small, incapable, confused, anxious, tired and don’t enjoy life. However, when I find, face and follow my truth, I feel alive, vibrant and joyful. I am courageous and free inside, which results in me feeling enriched by who I am and by the richness of life.

If you are not feeling joy in life, take some time to reflect on what is going on in your heart.

Most importantly, find and honor your truth. Follow the career that calls you deep in your heart, make your business joyful, or launch yourself into the special project that makes your heart sing. Life is too short to settle for second best.

Here are three steps you can take to find your truth: [Read more…] about Not Feeling Joy in Life: Find Your Truth and Live The Full You

Filed Under: Loving Your Life Tagged With: business, career, courage, find your truth, joy, listening to your heart, work life

Increasing Confidence: Lead From Your True Self, Not Your Small Self

March 9, 2017 by Nicola Walker

frothy ocean shore increasing confidenceYou are strolling along a beach close to where the waves roll into a frothy finish. Your bare feet sink into the wet sand with each footstep that you take. You feel one with the vast expanse of sky, sand and sea. Your heart is vibrant with joy, your mind is at peace. With increasing confidence, you know that there is something bigger for you to do. You see or sense a fuller version of you.

Yet, in the cold light of day, after breakfast when you sit at your computer and attempt to do your work, the clarity fades. Doubts set in. Indecision mounts. Taking action resembles a beginning golfer taking multiple swipes before he or she hits the ball just a few feet with a clod of turf. Your small self has taken over yet again.

The problem is that many of us aren’t adept at catching our small self when it slips into the driver’s seat of our life, especially in our business or career. The more you want something, especially something that demands that you take risks, be vulnerable and put yourself on the line financially, the more likely it is that your small self will sneak in to save you from oblivion.

Would you like to experience more of your clear, confident and courageous true self? Who wouldn’t?!

[Read more…] about Increasing Confidence: Lead From Your True Self, Not Your Small Self

Filed Under: Inner Freedom Tagged With: career, confidence, heart wisdom, limiting beliefs, small self, true self

Stop Negative Thinking: Develop Mind Awareness

February 2, 2017 by Nicola Walker

blue sky with clouds - stop negative thinking, develop mind awarenessDoes your mind sometimes drive you to distraction? How often do you catch yourself worrying, imagining negative outcomes or getting upset when what you want is not happening. Discover how mind awareness can help you to stop negative thinking.

Maybe you are good and catching your negative thoughts. But when you catch yourself, do you stop negative thinking? Or, do you just pick up where you left off on the downward spiral of worry, fear and negative mind talk? I don’t really like the term negative thinking. It sounds heavy and judgmental. But I know I can feel pretty heavy when I start worrying or judging reality.

So what to do? First of all, congratulate yourself, because if you’re reading this article you have probably moved, for the most part, out of the first stage of mind awareness.

Here are the first three stages of mind awareness: [Read more…] about Stop Negative Thinking: Develop Mind Awareness

Filed Under: Inner Freedom Tagged With: awareness, fears, happiness

Are Your Fears Making You Give Up On Your Dreams? Five Reasons Why People Compromise On Their Dreams

January 12, 2017 by Nicola Walker

red orange flower full bloom - are your fears making you give up on your dreams?“I’ve always dreamed of having an exciting life,” a woman in her mid-thirties told me.  Now she was concerned because she had given up on her dreams in order to play safe, while at the same time fearing that her life was running away from her. Are your fears making you give up on your dreams? I often come across people who feel like they have compromised on their dreams. Dreams change. The dreams you have in your early years can be transplanted by new dreams as you grow and evolve. Yet, the more you’ve been knocked around by life, struggled and tasted failure, the harder it can be to rise up and experience the fruits of your yearnings.

Five reasons why people compromise or give up on their dreams that I come across the most.

[Read more…] about Are Your Fears Making You Give Up On Your Dreams? Five Reasons Why People Compromise On Their Dreams

Filed Under: Success Tagged With: create, dream life, fears, letting go of attachment, self-expression

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