What is the lifetime value of improving your relationships?
What is the lifetime value of improving your relationships?
At the end of their lives, most people say that the most important thing is their personal relationships.
And yet, for most of us our actions each day -and our monetary investments don't align with this.
What is the value of having easeful and connected relationships with those you love?
What is the value of finding calm, peace, harmony and contentment?
There is also a tremendous cost to anger, resentment, guilt, and constantly wishing someone else would change.
When we try to control things and people, and wish their behavior would change, we expend valuable energy and time in inefficient and often counterproductive ways.
The one thing we can each can control in our relationships is ourselves.
“We are not held back by the love we didn’t receive in the past but by the love we are not extending in the present”
I hear from many of you that you read my blog and are “inspired.”
That you have made changes as a result and feel better.
Many of you join me for yoga, start taking deeper breaths, longer walks, and start to practice a little mindfulness.
After yoga most people feel “amazing”— relief, spacious, calm, so much better!
In the spirit of spreading love and abundance in February and all of 2021–
It’s possible to carry that “Savasana” feeling into the rest of your life.
Into your marriage, your parenting, your work, and even with yourself- wherever you are.
But it takes PRACTICE.
Just like yoga and just like mindfulness.
It takes engaging in and doing the work- not just reading and listening.
What if you went all in?
Did the work on your own thoughts to actually make changes, change your thinking, and chose to move forward in a new way?
What could happen for you?
As many of you know my favorite question is: What would love do?
Love would do this work.
Invest the time energy and $.
Not wait for a better time.
Your partner will thank you.
Your children will thank you.
You will thank you.
In my experience -- the thank you’s will be long before the end.
They will be in just a few weeks —when everything is already much better.
If you are ready to do the work
Start to practice,
and be the change you want to see.
If you are done “waiting” for things to get better,
done just reading and listening about how things can get better,
And actually are ready to make them better.
Reach out.
Big changes are possible-
I see them everyday.
Calm
Relief,
Space to breathe
Buoyancy
Better connections,
More love,
Less resentment,
Less anger,
Less frustration
And less guilt
I say all this from a place of love.
In the spirit of February
and my 2021 year of abundance and love.
I didn’t “do” this work myself for a long time-
I thought I could do it on my own.
And I made some progress.
But with a guide- a coach- the changes actually happen.
Fast
You find relief.
And
Life is better.
Love is better.
You feel better.
Love would spread more love far and wide.
And share possibilities to lessen struggle everywhere,
So I echo what my Stanford coachees say in their evals to colleagues considering working with me -
“Just do it.”
Start living in alignment with your values and give yourself and your loved ones the best gift ever— more love, more peace and ease and better relationships.