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Why Would Losing Make You Shout: I Am Free!?

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How’d You Do?

If you’re just joining us, in our last blog post I proposed 7 Things to Lose If You Want to Win. Win what? YOU! The REAL you that will emerge in a way you’ll feel compelled to shout out loud: I Am Free!

Here is a summary of the seven things to lose in order to win yourself:

  1. Lose the disciplined approach – live as you feel
  2. Lose the role you normally play – try something outside of your norm
  3. Lose the mask you don each morning – express your innermost feelings
  4. Lose the notion that you’re in control – offer your will to flow with a current larger than you
  5. Lose your adult-like tendencies – see the world and others with child-like eyes
  6. Lose caring what others think of you – don’t take anything personally
  7. Lose the constant questions – feel what you feel and act upon that

[Click here to see a full description of each.]

Once losing these seven, I suggested we would regain our power. Soooo, how’d you do?? Did you regain your power? Did you gain anything at all? Despite feeling naked in the most vulnerable sense of adult-nakedness (not cute, chubby toddler-nakedness)—I ended up feeling surprised by the Dynamic Duo that showed up: Confidence and Strength.  Continue Reading

7 Things to Lose If You Want to Win

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Win What?…  The Grand Prize: YOU

Last month I wrote that Tigger is my least favorite Pooh-character, true. Tigger with his big plans and grand gestures, none of which he follows through on. Of course that would get under the skin of a self-declared “do-er.”  Least favorite character or not, Dude does a lot of things RIGHT!  Things I could learn to embrace. So this week, I shall ditch my Rabbit-nature and take my inner-Tigger for a spin (if I can manage to get out of the parking lot!).

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Lose What Exactly?  Lose Yourself

Let’s Get Lost Together:

  1. Lose the disciplined approach. This means lose the plan. Screech!! Do I hear the distinct sound of brakes being slammed on already? Take heart, this is just trying something on to see how it feels. You don’t have to stay with it long-term. Think of this one as permission to live as you feel. Yes—Live. As. You. Feel! (I think we’re not only off the brakes now, but up-shifting pretty fast….)
  2. Lose the role you normally play. This is nothing more than a role you’ve assigned yourself and grown comfortable with. This role says, “I like this, and I don’t like that.” It says, “I spend my leisure time doing this, but never doing that.” If you’re anything like I am, you like what you like, and you know what you like. BUT, if you’re honest with yourself, there are many things you’ve never tried, all because your broken record bellows: I like what I like! This is who I am!! But who’s to say there’s something out there that you or I won’t like even more? Something that might help us grow in amazing and beautiful ways? Maybe grow more into the REAL YOU and the REAL ME than we ever knew possible. Continue Reading

What Do Tigger and Rabbit Have To Do With Addiction?

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I’m Rabbit. Who Are You?

Are you a huge Winnie-the-Pooh fan? Maybe not now as an adult, but were you once as a child? It’s no secret, I still am! Yep, at 46, I still love me some Pooh-Bear.

I recall not so many years ago, sitting in business meetings, glancing around the conference table, and before too long, Tigger would show up, and Eeyore, and aye-yai-yai, Owl too. Tiggers would always catch my attention. How could they not, as they bounced in, usually declaring, “Wouldn’t it be great if….”  Tigger, with his ‘pie-in-the-sky, no-action-behind-his-words’ ideas. Continue Reading

Can You Cure Your Addiction?

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For longer than I’d like to admit, I allowed my addiction to hold me in some odd state of self-imprisonment.  My seemingly uncontrollable drive to “be productive,” or DO has been my jagged little pill, with edges ranging from ice pick sharp to moderately smooth, but the pill remains.

Here are some observations:

  • it does, on occasion still get the best of me
  • the more I’ve attempted to manage, control, coerce, or tease-out through logic, the more I’ve failed
  • the more I’ve failed, the more I’ve felt like a failure

So, where is the hope?

Look To The Granite And The Onion

The hope begins in the granite: your foundation, your belief system.  (Refer to the previous post for more on foundation—do not skip this part. I spelled out my foundation, as did readers within the comments. You must have a foundation first.)

Next, have you identified an addiction you’re struggling with? It can be anything you feel powerless over, anything you know has control over you.

With your foundation and addiction written down, close your eyes and visualize a granite countertop with an onion sitting on top.

In your mind, take your addiction and wrap it around the outermost layer of the onion. Wrap it so tightly and completely that you can see an opaque layer of your addiction coating the onion. Use your imagination to see the alcohol, the gambling, the sugar, the whatever wrapping around the onion until the ends meet. Picture your addiction permeating each layer of the onion, stopping just before you reach the center.  Continue Reading

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