160 Transformational And Inspirational Quotes To Inspire You And Raise Your Spirit
I have collected quotes, and created my own quotes, for a long time now. The quotes below are a collection of both my personal transformational quotations, and a mix of some of my favourites. I am a big believer, and a strong advocate of using powerful language and phrases as part of the approach to authentically transform our lives in alignment to who we are.
As a Professional coach and lifestyle mentor, I know the power of alignment, and the role that these quotes can have in transforming peoples lives. I hope some of these quotations resonate with you, and help you in your life.
"We often see 'the law of this...'or the law of that...' in life. I have found 'guidelines' to be much more life affirming than laws will ever be."
- Craig W. Hedge
"Belief traps and narrow paradigms don't make you stupid; they simply limit your capacity and ability to understand."
- Thomas Campbell (Author - My Big Toe)
"The most valuable lesson in life, is that life is the lesson."
- Craig W. Hedge
"Happiness is greater than, or equal to, your perception of the events in your life minus your expectation of how life should be."
- Mo Gawdat (Equation for happiness)
"No artist tolerates reality."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
"You are only as strong as your readiness to surrender. In the end perhaps, being human is much more important than being fully in the know."
- Pico Lyer
"No two minds ever come together without, thereby, creating a third, invisible, intangible force which may be likened to a third mind."
- Napoleon Hill
*Craig W. Hedge is a Professional Coach and Lifestyle Mentor based in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, and is Author of the Instinctive Living self help book series available on Amazon.
“People come and people go in your life - don’t let ‘you’ be one of them”
- Craig W. Hedge
"Is it not curious, then, that the most significant intellectual skill available (questioning and inquiry) to human beings is not taught in schools?"
- Neil Postman
"Live life as if everything is rigged in your favour."
- Rumi
"Forming questions helps us to organise our thinking around what we don't know."
- Steve Quatrano
"A donkey carrying a pile of holy books is still a donkey."
- Zen Proverb
"To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fears in our minds."
- Gerald G. Jampolsky
“Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense, rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.”
- Daniel Kahneman
"I know more about my ignorance than you know about yours."
- Richard Saul Wurman
"Museums are the custodians of epiphanies."
- George Lois
Nothing is easier or more natural - or more difficult to see - than self delusion."
-Thomas Campbell
"There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there."
— Albert Einstein
"As you begin to walk out on the way, the way appears."
- Rumi
"Once you step across that self imposed or others imposed line that says "you can't" - you start the journey towards finding you."
- Craig W. Hedge
"The new world demands self learners, who are creative and resourceful, who can adjust and adapt to constant change."
- Tony Wagner/John Seely Brown
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"Seeing something that is familiar and looking at it in new or fresh ways like you are seeing it for the first time."
- Bob Sutton
"If your conscious mind puts a big question out there, chances are good that your unconscious mind will go to work on it."
- Chen-Bo Chong
“The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.”
— Dorothy Parker
"If you are able to find a problem before others do, and then successfully answer the questions surrounding that problem, you can create a new venture, a new career, a new industry."
- Min Badasur
"Is it not curious, then, that the most significant intellectual skill available (questioning/inquiry) to human beings is not taught in schools."
- Neil Postman
"The mind of the beginner is empty, free from the habits of the expert - open to all possibilities and can see things as they are. In the beginners mind there are many possibilities, but in the experts there are a few."
- Shunryu Suzuki
*Craig W. Hedge is a Professional Coach and Lifestyle Mentor based in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, and is Author of the Instinctive Living self help book series available on Amazon.
"Sometimes people feel like they have nowhere to go and they've run out of options, my point is, there is always another possibility, if you keep looking for it."
- Srikanth Srinivas
"When we've lost our keys and are searching for them, why do we keep looking in the same places, over and over."
- George Carlin
"It seems the main rule that traditional schools teach is how to sit in rows quietly, which is perfect training for grown-up work in a dull office or factory, but not so good for education."
- Matt Groening
"The comfortable expert must become the restless learner."
- Warren Berger
"People think of questioning as simple, but when done right, it is a very sophisticated, high level form of thinking."
- Dan Rothstein
"Coaching is a profound personal relationship in pursuit of life changing results."
- David Buck
"Our culture and habits of thinking insist that we always move towards certainty. We need to pay equal attention to possibility.
- Edward De Bono
"White picket fences look great - on a cricket field. Be careful not to trap or lock yourself within one."
- Craig W. Hedge
"The future is NOT something we enter. The future is something we create."
- Leonard I. Sweet
"A beautiful question is an ambitious yet actionable question that can begin to shift the way we perceive or think about something - and that might serve as a catalyst to bring about change."
- Warren Berger
"Ask yourself an interesting enough question and your attempt to find a tailor made solution to that question will push you to a place where, pretty soon, you'll find yourself all by your lonesome - which I think is a more interesting place to be."
- Chuck Close
"People were created to be loved. Things were created to be used. The reason why the world is in chaos is because <em>things are being loved</em> and <em>people are being used</em>."
- Dalai Lama
"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."
- William Bruce Cameron
"If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever.
Is that good news?"
- Dr Robert Anthony
“Some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle or end.
Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.
Delicious ambiguity.”
- Gilda Radner
"Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know."
- Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
"Don't get ahead of yourself...but don't leave yourself behind either."
- Craig W. Hedge
"We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has of course, powerful muscles, but no personality."
- Albert Einstein
"Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret to success."
- Swami Sivananda
"Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it - what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of
our fellowmen. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone."
- Carlos Castaneda
“Money is an excellent motivator for a great piece of art.”
- Michel Houellebecq
"The power of belief (is) to insulate the believer from additional knowledge or finding a larger truth."
- Thomas Campbell (Author - My Big Toe)
"Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don't need to escape from."
- Seth Godin
“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
- Maya Angelou
"Remember that well meaning people are not necessarily well understanding people."
- Craig W. Hedge
"Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand."
- Shel Silverstein
"He had such a perceptive mind - like a clear lake....his questions were like answers too."
- Richard Woodhull (TURN TV series)
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
- Leonardo da Vinci
"We are trapped in quantified, measured, analysed knowledge, unaware of the wisdom within us."
- Satish Kumar
"Judging is a preemptive attack against that which you most desire - intimacy and acceptance - that is launched before you can be rejected or refused."
- Gary Zukav
"Endless possibilities exist...just beyond your belief system."
- Emilys quotes
"In todays business world, answers are transitory and increasingly short lived."
- Warren Berger
"Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful."
- John Maeda
"Why should I care about future generations? What have they ever done for me?"
- Groucho Marx
*Craig W. Hedge is a Professional Coach and Lifestyle Mentor based in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, and is Author of the Instinctive Living self help book series available on Amazon.
"Remember that any 'expert' or 'guru' is merely a guide for you to access, or to use, to connect you to your own inner guidance."
- Craig W. Hedge
“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
- Carl G. Jung
"Everybody in their lives is really waiting for people to ask them questions so they can be truthful about who they are
and how they became what they are."
- Marc Pachter
"Love in such a way that the person you love feels free."
- Thich Nhat Hanh
"Questioning is now the number one thing I spend time on with my clients."
- Dev Patnaik (Business Consultant Jump Associates)
"The time is now, the place is here. Stay in the present. You can do nothing to change the past, and the future will
never come exactly as you plan or hope for."
- Dan Millman
"What, then, is the right way of living? Life must be lived as play."
- Plato
"Play is the glue that binds us together. Play requires trust and it creates trust. Play is the secret to creativity and greater cooperation."
- Isabel Behncke
"Don't be trapped by dogma which is living with the results of other peoples thinking. Don't let the noise of others opinions drown out your own inner voice. Have the courage to follow your own heart and intuition, they somehow already truly what you want to become."
- Steve Jobs
"The pressure on short term results tends to drive questioning out of the equation."
Tony Wagner
“If you think about it, when you choose to forgive someone, it is
nothing more than an ego trip. When you say "I forgive you",
what you are really saying is you have some sort of hold over them.
By saying "I forgive you", you decree that you are pronouncing
them "free" of your resentment. That isn't forgiveness. That's an
ego trip - realize there is nothing to forgive. You just have to release it and move on.”
-Dr Robert Anthony
"Opportunities for personal growth are all around you. Set the intention to grow and ask for guidance."
- Craig W. Hedge
"Question authority; think for yourself. Talk to people, do things unrelated to school — to come up with your own framework
for living. The world is too complex and people are too different to be overly prescriptive about the details.
- Joi Ito
"Safety is dead. The fact is you can’t play it safe any more."
- Scott Pape (The Barefoot Investor)
"Work with yourself - not against yourself."
- Craig W. Hedge
"The greatest barrier to consciousness is the belief that one is already conscious."
- P.D. Ouspensky
“You will have to leave the city of your comfort to go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you will discover will be wonderful. What you will discover will be yourself.”
- Alan Alda
"Transformation comes when i'm not in charge, when I don't know what is coming next, when I can't assume when I am bigger than everything around me."
- Pico Lyer.
"Every human being needs to listen consciously to live fully. Conscious listening creates understanding"
- Julian Treasure
"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by the age of eighteen."
- Albert Einstein
"The best questions are the ones that create the most uncertainty. What is evolutions answer to the problem of uncertainty? Its play!."
- Beau Lotto
"When we ask for advice, we're really looking for confirmation of what our soul already knows."
- Suzanne Giesemann
"The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The second best time is now."
- Chinese Proverb
"Contrary to popular opinion, ignorance is not bliss, it is just ignorance."
- Thomas Campbell
"One hour of compassionate deep listening can bring about transformation and healing."
- Thich Nhat Hanh
"The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood. The best way to understand people is to listen to them.”
- Ralph Nichols
“It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.”
- Elbert Hubbard
“To make a game changing move you have to start with a blank canvas.”
- Erik Wahl
"Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty, lies opportunity."
- Albert Einstein
"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The beginning is the most important part of the work."
- Plato
"The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge."
- Albert Einstein
*Craig W. Hedge is a Professional Coach and Lifestyle Mentor based in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, and is Author of the Instinctive Living self help book series available on Amazon.
"Focus on the process. Don’t focus on your output. Output will come with consistency."
- Alex P Coleman
"People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others."
- Blaise Pascal
"The answers have to be yours."
- Peter Drucker
"A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility."
- Aristotle
“Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.”
- Stephen R. Covey
"Don't become a seeker of success. Become a person of value."
- Albert Einstein
"Forget the failures. Keep the lessons."
— Dalai Lama
"20 years from now you will be disappointed by the things you didn’t do
than by the one’s you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the
safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.
Discover."
- Mark Twain
“A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us.”
- Friedrich Nietzsche
“The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.”
- Rainer Maria Rilke
"Let me listen to me, and not to them."
- Gertrude Stein
"It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves"
- Sir Edmund Hillary
“The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being
perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.”
– Anna Quindlen
"If one advances confidently in the direction of his own dreams and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."
- Thoreau
"The meaning in life is not out there but inbetween our ears. In many ways this makes us the lords of creation."
- Stephen Hawking
"We cannot transform what we refuse to engage"
- Elizabeth Kucinich
"You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation."
- Plato
“You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.”
- M. Scott Peck
In all affairs, it's a healthy thing now and then, to hang a question mark on the things you take for granted."
- Bertrand Russell
"Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers."
- Voltaire
"Rather than trying to mimic 'doing' someone else - try 'being' who it is you are instead."
- Craig W. Hedge
"Clarity comes from engagement, not thought."
- Marie Forleo
"Make an agreement with yourself today that you will embrace the opportunity and the energy of 'possibility' in your life."
- Craig W. Hedge
"Filter thoughts from your mind through your heart. Your heart doesn't judge."
- Veronica Entwistle
"I will never say anything that couldn't stand as the last thing I ever say."
- Auschwitz Survivor speaking about the last words she said to her brother. She never saw him again after chastising him about losing his shoes. He died in the gas chambers.
“All humans, somewhere within, have the urge to be heroic; to transcend circumstances, to develop one’s powers, to overcome adversity, to stand up and be counted.”
- Dennis Saleebey
"You have to take risks. We only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen."
- Paul Coelho
“The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.”
- William James
"The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting."
- Fran Lebowitz
"The best investment you will EVER make is in YOU. It really is that simple. Understand that you must move closer to you."
- Craig W. Hedge
"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be."
- John Heider (The Tao Of Leadership)
“Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.”
- Thoreau.
"The really valuable method of thought to arrive at a logically coherent system is intuition."
- Albert Einstein
"When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this: you haven't."
- Robert H. Schuller
"Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them."
- Einstein
"Wearing a mask wears you out. Faking it is fatiguing.The most exhausting activity is pretending to be what you know you aren't."
- Rick Warren
*Craig W. Hedge is a Professional Coach and Lifestyle Mentor based in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, and is Author of the Instinctive Living self help book series available on Amazon.
"Your ethical framework in life can be tested easily: - how do you 'feel' about the decisions you make?"
- Craig W. Hedge
"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."
- Carl Gustav Jung
"A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want."
- Madonna
"The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives."
- Albert Einstein
"A mentor is someone who allows you to see the hope inside yourself."
- Oprah Winfrey
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
- Emerson
“The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind-the-scenes with everyone else's highlight reel.”
- Steven Furtick
“Life is now. There was never a time when your life was not now, nor will there ever be.”
- Eckhart Tolle
“You were born an original. Don’t die a copy.”
- John Mason
“We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”
- George Bernard Shaw
“Beware the barrenness of a busy life. “
– Socrates
“If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.”
– Lao Tzu
"You are your choices."
- Seneca
"Whatever happens, take responsibility."
- Tony Robbins
"Talent works, genius creates."
- Robert Schumann
“Embrace the opportunity and the energy of ‘possibility’ in your life.”
- Craig W. Hedge
"Wisdom begins in wonder."
- Socrates
"Follow your dreams. They know the way."
- Kobi Yamada
"Sometimes, when you don't know the answer to a question, its because you're messing with the wrong question."
- The Universe
“Be like melting snow -- wash yourself of yourself.”
- Rumi
"Your reputation is what you are perceived to be. Your character is what you really are."
- John Wooden (UCLA Basketball Coach)
"I'm not interested in your limiting beliefs, i'm interested in what makes you limitless."
- Brendon Burchard.
"The greatest invention in the world is the mind of a child."
- Thomas Edison
"Fewer people are bent from hard work than are crooked from avoiding it."
- Zig Ziglar
"There is no beginning. There is no end. There is only change."
- Robert A Monroe
"Learn from yesterday. Live for today. Hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning."
- Albert Einstein
"A <em>rational argument</em> rarely has any effect on an <em>irrational belief</em>."
- Thomas Campbell (Author - My Big Toe)
"The intellect is no longer the chairman of the board - it is an employee. It becomes a tool in the service of the heart."
- Gary Zukav
"Education is what people do to you. Learning is what you do to yourself. Focus on being connected, always learning, fully aware and super present."
- Joi Ito
"If you realized that the nurtured spiritual part of yourself would accompany you on your eternal journey and that
everything that you have laboured so hard to accumulate would vanish the instant you depart this world,
would it alter your daily agenda?"
- Walter Cooper
"We see questioning as being critical to growth and expansion. With a culture of questioning, there's always more possibility."
- W L Gore
"Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life."
- Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)
"The opposite of knowledge isn't always ignorance. It can be wonder, or mystery, or possibility."
- Pico Lyer
"Create possibilities and opportunities in your life - then choose to live into them."
- Craig W. Hedge
*Craig W. Hedge is a Professional Coach and Lifestyle Mentor based in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, and is Author of the Instinctive Living self help book series available on Amazon.
What Is Hoarding Or Buying ‘Stuff’ Really Saying About You?
It is not hard to see what people value in their lives. Generally speaking, what you spend your money on determines what you think is important. In simple speak, follow the money trail and all will be revealed.
So how do we determine what is valuable, and how is it valued? What is a problem, and what determines the dollar spend to fix it? And what does it say about us when we continue hoarding and buying stuff, when clearly there are other more pressing issues at hand?
From the questions above we can see that seeking help to fix, manage, or solve a problem is not straight forward. There are many variables, beliefs, opinions and values associated to requiring, and/or seeking, to get help for a real, imagined, or a perceived problem. There are also lots of ways we avoid problems by buying and hoarding our way out of them... or trying to.
Some areas of life that require help or the need for a problem to be fixed are simple, accepted, and straight forward. Often these problems are associated to our needs and what we deem to be not negotiables - these things are considered far too important to ignore as they would tangibly impact our quality of life. In other words we can quantify and measure what would happen if we did not fix them.
For example:[green_tick_1_list width="100%"]
- If the car breaks down you get it fixed - if the price to repair it is too much you replace it.
- If you wear out a pair of shoes you buy another pair.
- If you get a leak in the roof of your house you get it repaired.
- If you need food you buy it.
- And so on.....[/green_tick_1_list]
The above problems are dealt with in real time because they would cause us visible and measurable pain if we chose not to fix them. The outcomes of the above are self explanatory. There is a cost to solve these problems that is accepted - often with little if any questioning. Often they are fixed because to leave them would cause further pain or discomfort on some level.
But what about getting help for the problems that are not that tangible (not a physical object or service for example), or the ones you can put off because they are considered to be not that important?
Are there any bells ringing for you yet in relation to where your values really sit and what you are prepared to invest in getting help in your life?
Lets pose a few more questions:[green_tick_1_list width="100%"]
- Is your car and the money you spend on it more valuable than your health?
- Is buying a new handbag more important than seeking help to manage/minimise the stress or baggage in your life?
- Is the next trip overseas to help ease/manage the conflict in your relationship, more important to you (both) than facing the fact that the real issue (let alone the cost emotionally and financially if the relationship fails..) is that you both need to focus on getting help and clarification on the relationship itself?
- Or is jealousy and conflict destroying your life, but you'd rather avoid it by shopping it away or blaming someone else for it...and not looking at yourself?
- I could go on...[/green_tick_1_list]
The point I am making here is that the things (and people..) we truly value are evident in our lives for all to see. If we value our relationships it is demonstrated in the way we treat people. If we value ourselves it shows in how we treat ourselves. If we value or treasure something, we take the time to focus on it. Imagine if some people spent as much time on understanding their relationship as they did on understanding their next travel itinerary, the assembly instructions for their new toy, or their plans for a bigger garage to hoard their stuff?
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No amount of glossing over a problem will make it disappear unless it is acknowledged, managed and embraced. Many of us are quick to fix a car, but will pay little conscious attention to fixing (read as improving) our relationships....or ourselves. We are quick to get away from the stress in our lives by taking a holiday or doing a big spend up, but fail to make the necessary connection that in a couple of weeks, or a few short moments, we will return to the same situations and feelings about them. Is that a smart way to live life, let alone a good use of time and resources?
How much would you pay to fix or solve some of the problems you have been ignoring, putting into the too hard basket, or the someday I will look at it pile? To reframe that for you, how much have you spent and hoarded already in avoiding your issues, and not seeking help or guidance? In the famous words of Dr Phil; "How is that working for you?"
How many holidays, or cars, or shopping sprees, pairs of shoes, (I recently spoke to a man whose wife had hoarded 141 pairs of shoes....yes he counted them all!) new furniture, or accessories have you purchased already?
"People were created to be loved. Things were created to be used. The reason why the world is in chaos is because things are being loved and people are being used."
- Dalai Lama
How much money do you estimate it may have cost you in avoiding to deal with these issues or problems?
Trying to mask or buy your way out of a problem by spending money around it to avoid dealing directly with it will not make it go away. Any amount of spending sprees, hoarding and holidays, and acquiring new shiny things, will only momentarily or temporarily take the focus off or away from them...or take your mind away from that problem. I love the words of Aristotle; "Wherever I go there I am." Your problems stay with you - until you face them and manage or solve them.
Life transformation coaching with me is a powerful and effective way to develop your awareness in these areas and to find out what really matters in your life. At a fraction of the cost of buying up and hoarding things to mask or avoid your problems, it might be time to invest that money in you!
As always, it is your choice, and it is a decision based around what you truly value in your life. You can always change and improve your life - and coaching with me is an incredibly cost effective, and powerful way to do it. To book a life coaching session with me, or to find out how coaching with me can help you, simply go to the contact me menu at the top of the page.
*Craig Hedge is a Professional Coach and Lifestyle Mentor based in Hobart (nipaluna), Tasmania, Australia.
He is author of the Instinctive Living self help ebook and audiobook series available on Amazon.
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Confidence And Communication – How Technology Helps And Hinders Connection
Todays world, and the people within it, are more connected than ever before. Our technology enables us to confidently contact and communicate with others almost anytime and anywhere. The barriers to entry to use this technology are disappearing fast as most people nowadays can get access to this technology regardless of their financial position.
To demonstrate this perfectly, I travelled for 8 months primarily reliant on FREE WIFI to communicate and plan my trip around the UK and back in 2015 - all on an entry level android device. With email and numerous social networks like LinkedIn, Youtube, Twitter, Google+ and facebook, we can all communicate to others (note not necessarily with others) like no other time in human history. Our devices have us communicating to each other more than ever before. As a Life Transformation Coach and passionate student of, and in life, I am by nature a curious person. I am genuinely interested in making my own connections and furthering my own learnings, un-learnings, and understandings. Like many of us, I see the wonderful opportunities these technologies bring into our lives - I also see some of the limitations that come with them.
Any opinion about the benefits and limitations I have is naturally limited, and in no small part due to my generation and my age. I accept and embrace this. Clearly I do not know what I do not know (there is a hint there for anyone wondering whether life coaching might be able to improve their life...) so with that knowledge, I realise that I, most likely, do not make the connections or understandings to this technology like someone who was born into a world where these technologies already existed and were the norm.
That last sentence is an interesting point and one aimed at older generations that look at younger generations as being disconnected and device dependent. Has any older generation truly connected with, or been able to communicate effectively with a younger generation? Is todays ipad, iPhone or PC any different from any other technology from years/generations passed? These are questions well worth pondering.
Is todays ipad yesterdays Enid Blyton? Were children throughout history any more or less engrossed in the technology of their time, or seemingly anymore disconnected from their older generation/s than our current generation/s are? Can we start to become aware of, or indeed break this generational cycle of disconnection?
But I digress, the intention of this article is to get you thinking about your life and how you communicate to, and with, the people in your world. Our devices and our technology help us stay connected to each other. Let us not mistake that connection, or explain it away, as confidently communicating with each other. These are two completely different things. We need to understand this difference to ensure we are living our lives more fully and with more awareness.
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In future blog articles, I will be focusing more on those relationships in our lives that we can improve as we make that differentiation between communicating to or at, and... communicating with. I will also be looking at the differences between doing with each other and being with each other. Once we start making those necessary connections in our lives, we start improving the quality of our lives. Coaching helps you make connections - connections that can change your life.
Our devices, whatever the technology (newsfeeds or newspapers, books or ebooks) might be, can be obstacles to confidently communicating and connecting with the people in our lives. As always, awareness is the key.
Are you having some challenges with your interpersonal communication skills with someone in your life? Perhaps a loved one or a co-worker? Maybe its a situation that has challenged you for sometime? Is your lack of self confidence holding you back from moving closer to people?
Life Coaching with me (see what some of my clients say about coaching with me right here) can help you move closer towards managing, understanding, and moving on in - and through your life. Coaching can help you to improve your communication and your confidence.
Would you like to learn more about how coaching with me can help you build new levels of confidence in your life? Simply go to the contact me drop down menu and email me via the contact form to book a session. Want to ask a question or provide your thoughts about this article? Feel free to comment below the article, or you can email me directly.
*Craig Hedge is a Professional Coach and Lifestyle Mentor based in Hobart (nipaluna), Tasmania, Australia. He is author of the transformational Instinctive Living self development book series available on Amazon.
Gratitude Amplified – Healthy Appreciation For Giving Thanks
When we think of living healthy balanced lives we often focus on the key areas of physical exercise, healthy eating, and getting a good nights sleep. Thankfully, in recent times more emphasis has been placed upon the other important aspects of mental health, wellbeing, managing stress (resilience is a word often used here to put a positive spin on it..another story for another day) and finding that elusive work life balance. Is the practice of gratitude the missing ingredient and the glue perhaps that can bring this altogether?
We place a lot of emphasis on what goes in to our bodies - whether that is food, vitamins, or information. But what about what we project outwards from our bodies and beings? There are plenty of examples of people in our lives who on the surface do all the right things to maintain health - yet somehow they continue to experience health and lifestyle issues.
The intention of this article is not to discuss the merits of a great diet or to promote physical exercise (although they are obviously important) - I will leave that to others far more qualified than myself to talk about those things.
What I am suggesting though, is that health and wellbeing is much bigger and wider and multi dimensional than diet and exercise. I often speak about making what I call those necessary connections in our own lives. That is, becoming cognisant of those connections that help us become more aware of who we are, and how what we do and think, impacts us, and those around us.
So how does gratitude fit in to ensure, and perhaps fortify, a healthy approach and outlook to life? As a contrast lets look at the opposite of gratitude here (for example words and feelings like: pessimism, negativity, selfishness, anxiety, worry, scarcity, poverty consciousness, doom, gloom, etc) and see if this can shed some light on the importance, and indeed the necessity, of acknowledging and practicing gratitude in our lives.
It is those feelings and experiences mentioned above that can create a downward spiral that erodes or dents a persons confidence, self worth, and their health and wellbeing. Is there a common denominator here? Generally speaking there is. In simple terms it is an experience that focuses on what is not happening, what is not there, and what is not mine. In other words the focus is on what is not working or evident perhaps.
Hardly healthy thoughts or practices wouldn't you agree? Where is the evidence or demonstration of gratitude above for example? It is hard to see or experience life as this wonderful, and at times challenging journey, if we continue to focus on what is not happening to or for us. Gratitude is a way of staying on course and a reminder that our lives, despite our ups and downs, are actually pretty good for the most part....if we choose to focus our attention and awareness onto what is working for us.
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Before I continue any further let me make it perfectly clear that I do not see gratitude in the same light as I see positive thinking. They are two completely different approaches. I state this because it is all too easy to pretend things are not happening and to put a big layer of positive thoughts over everything in an attempt to improve or change situations. I am not a big fan of that kind of positive thinking...
The gratitude I speak about is not about creating positive thoughts where there are none, nor is it about developing mantras or affirmations (although they can be effective) to overcome or transcend certain situations.
Gratitude is about acknowledging what is already evident in your life. It is about being thankful and aware of all of those things that make your life good. These things are real. They exist. This practice of gratitude confirms your awareness of those conditions.
So how might you begin to show gratitude, and be grateful in your life, and where might you start? You start at the beginning. Sometimes (and this is particularly valuable if your life is focused on what is not happening or not evident) you start with things that might seem small or insignificant. You need building blocks and foundations to build upon - small instances and experiences of gratitude are powerful.
One way you can prepare yourself is to take a look at some of the video/audio programs around that can help you develop your appreciation and gratitude further. That aside, all it takes is an open mind and an intent to see good things and valuable experiences in your life.
Here are some examples to get you into the habit of practicing and acknowledging gratitude:[green_tick_1_list width="100%"]
- I give gratitude and thanks for my health.
- I give thanks for my family.
- I am thankful for a great job.
- I am thankful for a good partner.
- I am grateful for living in a beautiful place.
- I am grateful that I have great eyesight/hearing/movement.
- I give thanks and gratitude for my creativity.
- I give thanks for my ability to adapt to life changes.
- I am thankful for the food I eat.
- I give gratitude and thanks for the experiences I have had that have made me the person I am.
- I am thankful for having the ability and freedom to choose.
- I am grateful for those things I may not be aware of that are working for me right now in my life.....now we are getting somewhere with practicing gratitude!
The above is a small list of things that barely even touch the surface of what you might be grateful for in your life. The key is to start focusing and looking at what is happening in your life, what you do have, what you are managing to achieve - and what you have achieved. It is an appreciation that life and its challenges brings possibilities and opportunities into your life. It is about the wonderful things and people that are in your life. More than that though, it is whatever you choose it to be based on your imagination and experience of yourself and your world.
Gratitude is about making those necessary connections in your life where your awareness starts growing and you start appreciating your life and the experiences and conditions you are creating in it. It is real. It is experienced. It is powerful. It is life transforming. And all importantly, it is something you can do in your own life right now. Coaching is a great way to become aware of, and to further develop your appreciation for life and your gratitude.
To book a coaching session with me, or to find out more about how coaching with me can help you, simply go to the contact me page on the home page menu.
*Craig Hedge is a Professional Coach and Lifestyle Mentor based in Hobart (nipaluna), Tasmania, Australia. He is also the author of the Instinctive Living transformational self development book series available on Amazon.
The Affirmation Matrix – How To Create Powerful Affirmations
We are often reminded by our well meaning friends and families about the power of positive thinking in our lives. Unfortunately these words, and the sentiment attached to them, have little comprehension of how to actually make these things work for us. Understanding the concept, and being able to apply real and effective strategies to move closer towards achieving real and aligned results in your life, is a completely different thing altogether. To create powerful affirmations you need to understand the key components in aligning your vision to the desired conditions or outcome you are hoping for.

A common theme that you may have picked up with my blogs and my programs is my focus on the importance of alignment in your life in all you do. That is, ensuring you are clear on what you really want - and being clear on the best actions, feelings and thinkings in being able to move closer towards that. Put simply you can't say one thing and do another and expect a congruent or desired result. Why? Because you are sending out and projecting mixed messages both to and from yourself - and importantly the world/universe out there. The right affirmations move you closer towards alignment.
For example, you might say one thing, think something else and feel completely differently again. That is hardly a recipe for congruence or alignment - in simple terms it is a recipe for confusion. If you are not sending out a clear message how do you expect to receive one? Before you decide to create any personal affirmations you need to make sure you are as equipped and aware as you can be (and this is always a work/play in progress towards refinement) to give yourself the best chance of success.
Here is my guide/checklist (in no particular order) to help you move closer towards creating more powerful personal affirmations and living a life more in harmony and alignment:[green_tick_1_list width="100%"]
- Get clear on your what and the why of the things and conditions you are affirming and hoping to experience - you are an affirmator!
- Are these things in alignment with your beliefs and values and opinions about what is possible for you?
- Are these things being generated from (in simple terms) fear/insecurity, or love and abundance?
- Start feeling what you would like to experience and affirm.
- Start thinking about what you are affirming and what you want to experience.
- Start using the language that supports your vision or goals...this is affirmation in action.
- Start acting and operating in your world like what you want is already moving towards you.
- Use gratitude in your life whenever and wherever you can - for ALL things and experiences.
- Trust more in the process of your life and where and what you are moving towards.
- Ask for guidance in your life - wherever you find that in whatever form or structure that makes sense for you.
- Visualise the conditions and the things you want to experience and affirm.
- Focus on what you do want to experience...NOT the ones you do not want to experience.
- Another option that many people use is the use of visualisation audios and abundance programs to program their minds. If this interests you, you can click the following link to find out more about such programs - Mind Movies are a powerful way of helping you to create your own visualization sequences. You can take a closer look at the program, or you can create your movies with free software available on the internet. Affirmations are magnified with this approach. I have used Mind Movies, and I found it useful.
- Importantly, if you are struggling with this, enlisting the services and the support of a competent and qualified life coach is a great way to help you further understand and integrate the above. A good coach can help you build your affirmations by helping you find what is important to you.
The list above are the basic foundations to living a life more in alignment. Are you starting to see how limiting beliefs, false beliefs, and sending out mixed messages does not help you achieve or attain those things in life you aspire towards?
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This is where life transformation coaching with me can really help you. There is an old adage that states that you don't know what you don't know. It is so easy to get stuck in old ways of thinking and doing. With that approach and mindset, is it any wonder that trying to think through these things and improve your life with that limiting and incongruous way of seeing your world is often plain difficult and indeed futile?
I have lost count of the people I have spoken to or overheard over the years saying things like positive thinking doesn't work, or affirmations are a waste of time. They are correct. For them this is their experience. It is an experience based on a limited perspective and a way of seeing the world that does not, cannot, and will not see beyond that.
Personal growth and awareness is a process. It is often about learning - and importantly unlearning. Enlisting the help of a competent, qualified, and proven life coach, can help you become much clearer about what it is you want, why you want it, and importantly, how you can move closer towards getting it. Affirmations, used correctly, are a powerful way to move towards the life you want to experience.
If life coaching with me sounds like something that may work for you, please go to the contact me page to arrange a session. Please note, I am currently based in Hobart Tasmania, Australia. If you live outside of that region, I offer coaching via telephone and Skype sessions. To find out more about what I do, I strongly recommend you make the time to read my blog to get a feel for not only what I do, but, importantly who I am, and how I can help you move forward.
Life coaching can be the ultimate affirmation - it sends a very strong message inwards, and outwards, about your intention to grow and improve.
*Craig W.Hedge is an accredited and credentialed life coach based in Hobart Tasmania Australia. He is author of the Instinctive Living self development book series available on Amazon. Author.to/craigwhedge
Online Life Coaching In Hobart
Coaching in and around the Hobart community as I do, it is often assumed that I always do this in person. Since my service delivery is flexible, it involves any number of options to find either a suitable public place, the clients home, or an arranged appointment in a rented office. The options I provide certainly enable people to have choice in relation to how they want to be coached. Another option, and one that is all too often overlooked locally here in Hobart, are my online (telephone) life coaching sessions.

Working face to face with someone is something I really enjoy, and in Hobart, there are plenty of places to do this. Nothing matches, yet alone beats, this personal kind of approach ... or does it?
I remember during my training, that I was circumspect about the online life coaching method. I was comfortable with this kind of communication in other areas - but coaching? Would it be effective I thought? I had my doubts, particularly since I knew the benefits of working with people in person. I mean with no physical cues, eye contact, and everything that goes with it, how could that not be the best way to do it?
Fast forward a few years, and hundreds of hours of telephone and online life coaching sessions later, my attitude has changed considerably. The fact is that both ways (physical and online) present powerful opportunities for personal and professional growth.
Coaches require excellent, well developed listening skills. The better the skills ... the better the experience so to speak. When you take away physical presence, and peripheral noise and visual distractions, the level of focus and quality for better listening increases considerably.
When I conduct my life coaching online, my ability to listen, and to hear what is being said, and not said, is often enhanced ... considerably. My focus is on what is spoken. I do not have physical cues to rely on. There are no distractions - my focus is entirely on my client. In fact, my listening is so enhanced, that it helps me discern mood, body movements (hands rubbing together, writing, tapping, and fidgeting for example), silence, pauses, background distractions, and breathing.
Online life coaching also enables me to take notes during the session - something I do not usually do during a session when I coach face to face in and around Hobart.
Note taking during sessions is a powerful way to hone in on what is being said. It can be a great reference to reflect back on, both during and post session. Feedback as a result can be more exacting, as things are picked up and documented that sometimes are not acknowledged during a session.
Sometimes online life coaching provides more content for the client - sometimes much more. A lot can be said in a session, and the more notes taken can help to piece things together, and be a handy reference throughout the relationship.
Conclusion:
Whatever approach you choose, keep an open mind to the ways your coach can work and play with you. By choosing an online life coaching option, you open up to another medium. A mixture of both ways can help you discern what combination or approach works best for you, it can also ensure you get to experience both methods.
To find out more, or to book online life coaching, or in person meet ups, simply go to the contact me tab at the top of the page, or contact me via my facebook page.
*Craig Hedge is an accredited and credentialed life coach based in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. He is also the author of the Instinctive Living self development book series available on Amazon. Author.to/craigwhedge
How Do You Find Your Best Fit Life Coach In Hobart?
How Do You Find Your Best Fit Life Coach In Hobart?
Life coaches, and indeed life coaching, covers a lot of very different areas and understandings. These days, many professionals, and those aspiring to become, or appear to be professional, like to use or attach the label of 'coach' to their services and what they do, to promote themselves and their businesses.
It is this generic and universal approach, that can distort (let alone dilute and undermine) what coaching really is. And to be direct, many with these self appointed labels, do not understand, or practice, what coaching actually is.
Inadvertently and indirectly, some of these people can damage the reputation and the perception of coaching, as their lack of knowledge, let alone the true application of it, may have provided negative experiences for clients who then assume coaching does not work.
So how would a person, like yourself perhaps, know the difference? Often people do not know. My blog article here discusses it further.
This is why it is so important to know why you are seeking any kind of professional help. Helping professions of all descriptions abound in Hobart. If you ask for, or seek help, you will be inundated with any number of approaches. This can be daunting and confusing.
To simply seek assistance from just anyone is not a good move - to get the best out of any service you are seeking, you need to ask yourself (and the associated professional/services) what they do, and how they go about doing it. I have written a Facebook post explaining this even further so click here to learn more.
Are you looking for advice? Looking for personal growth perhaps? Change of lifestyle? Career challenges? Maybe you are tired of the usual expert/client approach and how you always seem to be on the receiving end of someone else telling you how to live?
Maybe you have used certain types of services and approaches that haven't worked for you?
Barking out instructions and setting goals for people rarely stick or last long? Why? They are given from someone else; their values, their motivations, their beliefs - not yours!
And often that someone else is thinking and operating from a position of wanting to help someone. They are operating on a completely different wave length, and often, the advice is mostly about them, and their level of expertise or knowledge... in other words, what they think is best for you.
The approach above, by a well meaning person, can be downright damaging and dangerous and impede a persons growth.
Many experts are a little too attached to their own knowledge and expertise, and how clients should listen to them....because they are the expert, and you are the client. There are degrees of this of course, and expressions and evidence of how a professional might like to superimpose themselves in a client relationship.
Chances are if you feel a power imbalance as a client, or somehow feel like you are in the presence of greatness, or that you are being dictated to, it may be a good indicator that you are working with an expert.
I might add that I am a big fan of skills, expertise and knowledge across any number of professions. All professions offer value in the context of what they do - to state the obvious. Unnecessary barriers and elitist approaches are another thing entirely however... my coaching approach is centered around clients empowering and enabling themselves.
There is no room for ego here - this is all about the client. The best trained life coaches know this.
To be clear, empowerment is not something I give - it is something the client steps up to, in an environment where they are encouraged to do just that.
Competent coaches understand that telling people what to do, and giving advice to them, is often counterproductive. It has a place when the time is right perhaps, but coaching is not that.
The good news is that life coaching (with me at least) is not about an expert giving you advice. I see you as the expert in your own life. We meet, and coach, as equals in a process of co-creation. I am focused on helping you move forward in your life in alignment to who you are, and where you want to go.
In short speak, that means that I guide you to get clear on where you stand, and how you can create a life, and behaviors, that are personally transformational in nature - you create change that is meaningful and congruent for you. Makes sense doesn't it?
Life coaching is a powerful way of initiating change, and enabling people to become more aware of themselves, and the lives they want to live. It's about being the best you that you can be.
Are you in Southern Tasmania and would like to find an experienced and competent life coach based in Hobart?
Would you like to learn more about what I do, and how together, we can help you move forward in your life?
As a starting point, simply take the time to read my blogs, listen to my podcasts, and get a feel for what it is I do, and how I choose to do it. This will help you determine what coaching is, what it isn't, and how I coach and can help you move forward in your life.
If you would like to arrange a life coaching session, simply contact me via the website, or connect with me via my facebook page.
*Craig W.Hedge is a professional life coach based in Hobart (nipaluna), Tasmania, Australia. He is author and narrator of the Instinctive Living self development ebook and audiobook series available on Amazon and Audible.
"I help people identify their strengths, build confidence, & find new ways to live & love their lives."
How To Create Powerful Affirmations For Transformational Change
We are often reminded by our well meaning friends and families about the power of positive thinking in our lives. Unfortunately these words, and the sentiment attached to them, have little comprehension of how to actually make these things work for us. Understanding the concept, and being able to apply real and effective strategies to move closer towards achieving real and aligned results in your life, is a completely different thing altogether. To create powerful affirmations you need to understand the key components in aligning your vision to the desired conditions or outcome you are hoping for.

A common theme that you may have picked up with my blogs and my programs is my focus on the importance of alignment in your life in all you do. That is, ensuring you are clear on what you really want - and being clear on the best actions, feelings and thinkings in being able to move closer towards that. Put simply you can't say one thing and do another and expect a congruent or desired result. Why? Because you are sending out and projecting mixed messages both to and from yourself - and importantly the world/universe out there. The right affirmations move you closer towards alignment.
For example, you might say one thing, think something else and feel completely differently again. That is hardly a recipe for congruence or alignment - in simple terms it is a recipe for confusion. If you are not sending out a clear message how do you expect to receive one? Before you decide to create any personal affirmations you need to make sure you are as equipped and aware as you can be (and this is always a work/play in progress towards refinement) to give yourself the best chance of success.
Here is my guide/checklist (in no particular order) to help you move closer towards creating more powerful personal affirmations and living a life more in harmony and alignment:[green_tick_1_list width="100%"]
- Get clear on your what and the why of the things and conditions you are affirming and hoping to experience - you are an affirmator!
- Are these things in alignment with your beliefs and values and opinions about what is possible for you?
- Are these things being generated from (in simple terms) fear/insecurity, or love and abundance?
- Start feeling what you would like to experience and affirm.
- Start thinking about what you are affirming and what you want to experience.
- Start using the language that supports your vision or goals...this is affirmation in action.
- Start acting and operating in your world like what you want is already moving towards you.
- Use gratitude in your life whenever and wherever you can - for ALL things and experiences.
- Trust more in the process of your life and where and what you are moving towards.
- Ask for guidance in your life - wherever you find that in whatever form or structure that makes sense for you.
- Visualise the conditions and the things you want to experience and affirm.
- Focus on what you do want to experience...NOT the ones you do not want to experience.
- Another option that many people use is the use of visualisation audios and abundance programs to program their minds. If this interests you, you can click the following link to find out more about such programs - Mind Movies are a powerful way of helping you to create your own visualization sequences. You can take a closer look at the program, or you can create your movies with free software available on the internet. Affirmations are magnified with this approach.
- Importantly, if you are struggling with this, enlisting the services and the support of a competent and qualified life coach is a great way to help you further understand and integrate the above. A good coach can help you build your affirmations by helping you find what is important to you.
The list above are the basic foundations to living a life more in alignment. Are you starting to see how limiting beliefs, false beliefs, and sending out mixed messages does not help you achieve or attain those things in life you aspire towards?
You Can Magnify The Power Of Affirmations With A Copy Of My Book 'The Affirmation Matrix' Right Here!
This is where life transformation coaching with me can really help you. There is an old adage that states that you don't know what you don't know. It is so easy to get stuck in old ways of thinking and doing. With that approach and mindset, is it any wonder that trying to think through these things and improve your life with that limiting and incongruous way of seeing your world is often plain difficult and indeed futile?
I have lost count of the people I have spoken to or overheard over the years saying things like positive thinking doesn't work, or affirmations are a waste of time. They are correct. For them this is their experience. It is an experience based on a limited perspective and a way of seeing the world that does not, cannot, and will not see beyond that.
Personal growth and awareness is a process. It is often about learning - and importantly unlearning. Enlisting the help of a competent, qualified, and proven life coach, can help you become much clearer about what it is you want, why you want it, and importantly, how you can move closer towards getting it. Affirmations, used correctly, are a powerful way to move towards the life you want to experience.
If life coaching with me sounds like something that may work for you, please go to the contact me page to arrange a session. Please note, I am currently based in Hobart Tasmania. If you live outside of that region, I offer coaching via Skype sessions. To find out more about what I do, I strongly recommend you make the time to read my blog to get a feel for not only what I do, but, importantly who I am, and how I can help you move forward.
Life coaching can be the ultimate affirmation - it sends a very strong message inwards, and outwards, about your intention to grow and improve.
*Craig W.Hedge is a Professional coach based in Hobart (nipaluna), Tasmania Australia. He is author of the Instinctive Living transformational self development book series available on Amazon. Author.to/craigwhedge
Fear The Walking Dead And Embrace Your Life Instead – A Life Coaching Perspective
I am a big The Walking Dead (TWD) fan. In short, it is my favourite TV show. The series ticks all the boxes for me (and one of them is not just necessarily zombie culling..) as I see parallels between the show, and life as we know and live it now.
Hardly a revelation but read on...
Survival is obviously one of the key themes of the series. So many of the characters in this TV show fall back into old patterns of living and thinking...or more to the point, existing and living in fear (fair enough I guess when you are surrounded by zombies and lunatics with guns who are all hungry and want to kill you..).
The latest TWD season (2016) sees the arrival of Negan and the Saviours, and how they have created a culture and a network of fear, greed and oppression.
The result has been, at least to this point, that the people who have been oppressed and pulled into this regime, have given up on their lives as they were. Their hopes and aspirations have all but been forgotten, as they fit into this reality of fear, under the illusion that they are somehow safe or secure - that this is now their best or only option of how to live their lives.
Sometimes this approach is necessary in life. There are times when we simply have to do what needs to be done, to conform, or to just get on with things as they are, or as they appear to be, as we move towards creating opportunities and a life that is more in alignment to who it is we are, and what we want or need.
These times can be character building and are important.
From a coaching perspective, it is a great example of how many of us live our lives - at least to varying degrees.
We fail to see options. We stay in a relationship or a situation because it appears to be the best...or only option for us. We stay in a job because we see it as the best or only option for now.
But back to the TWD series. At the halfway point of this new series there has been a shift - a consciousness shift. A living situation that was deemed to be impossible or hopeless or unworkable, has now opened up to a possibility that things could change. At the end of the last episode, we see a group of people who embraced each other and realised that they are/were indeed not living with hope - they were simply existing and spiralling into fear based living.
This fear closed them off to possibilities. It made them weak. Their self esteem and confidence diminished. They kept working harder and longer for less reward....until finally something happened...something clicked.
Life is like that. We can hold back in our lives. We can be too cautious or too security centric. We live in fear without understanding that while we do that..we will still be living in fear. Something, or more to the point, someone, has to change to flip the switch and see life in a different light or a different way.
Coaching helps people see beyond their current world/reality view. It helps people see the existing possibilities and probabilities in their lives, and it unearths new ones. There comes a time in all of our lives, when we understand that we have self imposed limitations, that we have blind spots, that we have beliefs and opinions that no longer serve us - they hold us back from experiencing a better life.
It often takes a catalyst, an awareness, or one of those aha! or eureka moments that awakens us to a wider view. Richard Bach once said that; "What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly."
On a parting note, in the world of The Walking Dead, I see the zombies as being those among us who have not awakened to, or acknowledged, our true selves or calling.
We wander aimlessly through life, slowly decaying, always searching, following each other endlessly - without the knowledge or awareness that we are much, much more than that.
Are you flying yet as Bach intimated..or are you still wrapped up safely in your cocoon somewhere...?
As this attached Walking Dead video excerpt and Negan annotation clearly illustrates and echoes;
"Not making a decision is a BIIIIIIIIIIIG decision."
Are you curious about how life coaching can help you move forward and create more opportunities in your life? For information, or to make an appointment, simply go to the contact me tab on the home page.
Craig Hedge is a Professional Coach and Lifestyle Mentor based in Hobart (nipaluna), Tasmania, Australia. He is author of the Instinctive Living self-help book series available on Amazon.