We all like to tell stories; the stories of our lives... It's how we relate to one another, bond and make forever friends, isn't it?

We embellish them here, flower them up there, tell the truth-as-it-is for the sake of accurate and actual accounts. We provide the sequence of unfolding events along the way, dragging up all the good, the bad and the ugly parts that got us to where we are and made us the person that we are now.

While it may make for a good story, what you think and talk about and how you feel about it - becomes.

You're always creating your now (because it's now and you're having the experience of it now as you're telling it) and you're also pre-paving a future reality.

So if you're going to recount events (tell stories) about your past, present or future, make light of the bad and the ugly - or leave it out altogether.

You don't have to emphasize the struggle to affirm your worthiness.

Outlook on Life, Ingredients for life, Following Your PathChristine MeyerJune 10, 2016Comment

Be Here, NOW

Can you be right where you are?

Not trying to grow your list or get more likes and followers.

Not trying to make anything happen, or make someone hear, understand, respect or regard you.

Not trying to make your kids do something other than what they're doing or listen to you when they're not.

Not trying to be thinner than you are now and not trying to figure out what's coming next.

Ingredients for life, Freedom, Following Your PathChristine MeyerMay 27, 2016Comment

7 Ways to Get Your Happy On

Sometimes, it feels like you've got no control over how you feel. It's like something outside of you has gotten a hold of your brain, your thoughts and your attention, thereby giving you the impression that how you feel has nothing to do with you and everything to do with whatever's gotten a grip on your brain. You wish you could be happy, but you've got all kinds of things to be unhappy about that you can't (but wish you could) control.

If you want to move yourself closer to happy and feel more in control of your emotions, here are a few things you can do:

1) Let How You Feel Be

Don't try to fix it or change it. Don't try to analyze it or solve it. Don't try to make it different. Don't try to justify, defend or explain it. Doing so will only intensify how you're feeling and have you feeling like your thoughts are more out of your control. Let it be for awhile and acknowledge that you don't have to feel like this forever; that this feeling doesn't have to last endlessly. You're feeling the way you are because of your perspective about the thing that has you upset. While the condition may be unchangeable at the moment, your perspective is. But still...let it be for now. Ignoring how you feel in the sense of covering-up how you feel is not helpful, but distracting yourself from what seems to have you by the tail and making you feel unhappy, is. If you weren't focused on the thing that's got you feeling something other-than happy, you'd be happy. Think about that.

Ingredients for life, Following Your Path, Outlook on LifeChristine MeyerMarch 25, 2016Comment

In Pursuit of Perfection?

There's this thing that we do...its called the need for perfection.

We refrain from putting up a website until we have all the copy, the photos and the impeccable message we want to convey, just so.

We refrain from trying something new or different because we might stink at it.

We don't write because our writing may not be as good as it can be. Or, it may actually suck.

We reach for the outcomes we want and want them now; if they don't come really-fast-soon, we assume we're doing something wrong.

We look at our bank account, our status, our likes, our accomplishments, our accolades, and our placement demeaning our sense of worth and value as we draw conclusions about our current position.

We look at our partner or the wanta-be-potential partner and search for faults and evidence of imperfection - needing him or her to be only-a-little, or quite-a-lot different - right now.

We judge, categorize, pigeon-hole, criticize, and evaluate based on some illusion of perfection.

Following Your Path, Ingredients for life, FreedomChristine MeyerMarch 4, 2016Comment

Who Moved Your Potatoes and Where Did They Go?

There's something you want.

You don't have it yet. That's probably why you still want it.

It's taking soooo long.

"Where is it, where is it, where is it?", you ask.

"It's missing", you say. "I don't know where it is. I don't know how to find it. I don' t know how to get it. I don't know how to make it happen."

Have you ever gone looking for something that was missing (let's say in this case, potatoes) that you couldn't find and soon after you gave up looking for the missing potatoes, there they were?

Have you ever wanted something that you didn't have and once you decided to think of something else instead of the thing you didn't have - the thing you wanted that you formerly didn't have - is now yours?

Ingredients for life, Following Your Path, Outlook on LifeChristine MeyerFebruary 19, 2016Comment

Are You Caring What Other People Think of You?

Self-Awareness, Freedom, Following Your PathChristine MeyerOctober 23, 2015Comment

Playing Your Position in the Game of Life - Part Deux

I started this post last week and it got so long, that I divided it into two parts.

If you missed the first segment, here's the link:

http://www.christinemeyercoaching.com/blog/2015/9/30/playing-your-position-in-the-game-of-life

As discussed in the first post, sometimes you can feel like you're in the zone of the game and other times, you can feel like you're tangled in something that seems more like a full-on wrestling ready-to-take-you-down match.

Whichever game you're playing, you have much more control over your position than you may think.

Here are more approaches for you to consider:

Self-Awareness, Outlook on Life, Following Your PathChristine MeyerOctober 16, 2015Comment

Playing Your Position in The Game of Life - Part 1

We're all in this game that we call life.

Sometimes it feels like a game gone-right, and sometimes it might feel like a joke-gone-horribly-wrong.

Either way, you're playing your position.

You're the player - which means you're the perceiver, you're the thinker, you're the feeler, you're the receiver and you're the reactor.

All of that affects how you play the game, how you approach the game, what you get out of the game, and how the game plays out for you.

No matter what game you're involved in, there are some game plays that'll help you play your position with a winning attitude.

I started this list and it got so long that I decided to present it in two parts. Part 2 will be featured next week.

Outlook on Life, Following Your Path, FreedomChristine MeyerOctober 9, 2015Comment

I Hate Turnips and Why It's Ok Not to Like Something

I hate turnips. I've never liked them. I don't want to like them. I don't plan on ever liking them. They're like eating ear wax to me. Don't ask...I must have stuck my finger in my ear at one time and made that conclusion.

While I'm all about changing perspectives, taking different approaches to life, reconsidering things from a different vantage point and changing my mind, I don't foresee any change in my attitude about turnips.

There are plenty of other choices that offer an array of rainbow-colored vegetables that I enjoy the tasty-taste-of.

So why make myself like turnips when I don't like them?

Outlook on Life, Following Your PathChristine MeyerOctober 2, 2015 Comments