Posts Tagged ‘Challenge’

How does Intention Work?

Thursday, October 21st, 2010

Jacque speaks from Edmonton

Jacque speaks from Edmonton

Video Link: Divine Divorce Journey 1

Setting an intention and having it come to fruition can be easy or hard depending upon how you approach it.

For years I did it the hard way.   I would sit down once a year with myself for a planning session, set goals and then start diligently working towards the goals, being disappointed when I fell short of the goals.  What I missed seeing was all the work and progress that I had made along the way.  I was judgmental of myself for not producing the results that my mind planned twelve months prior.   I usually did a great job of keeping the target in focus and worked hard to take the appropriate actions to get there, the results just weren’t the planned ones.  Life often has a different plan for us than the one our mind makes up.  If we use our intuition to pay attention to what life is showing us we can produce amazing results in a relatively short time with ease and have more fun.

Over the past two years after going through divorce I changed the way I approach life.  I made the change because I did not have the energy to keep pushing myself while I was going through the divorce.  Life showed me that to survive, let alone thrive, I needed to cut back, stop pushing and take things one step at a time.  Using the Emotional Hot Button Removal Techniques I released the emotional energy that got in the way of me using my intuition.  I started to let my intuition guide me on where to focus my energy and how much energy to expend in any particular area.  I started to say No to activities where before I felt like I had to say Yes.

In conjunction with using my intuition, I set my intention for how I would like to” feel and experience life.”  My intention is to have fun, be vibrant and have a thrilling business.  I used this intention to help guide my direction and actions.  My intuition has made it clear that I am to write a book about my experience going through divorce and I am to share the Emotional Hot Button Removal techniques.  As a result of this knowing I started to write my book in January of 2010.

I also know that life for me is about adventure.  I went to Belize in December of 2009 and had the best vacation ever.  On the vacation I was being vibrant and had a ton of fun learning how to scuba dive and meeting the local people.  Because of this experience everyone asked when I was going back.  I just shrugged my shoulders, I had not thought about it.   Within three weeks all barriers that might prevent me from going to Belize to write my book disappeared.   I would now have to manufacturer a reason why I couldn’t go.  Which after being a coach for ten years I know this is a common occurrence for people, called sabotage.   So instead of manufacturing an excuse I used my wonderful mind  to figure out how I could have a virtual business and set this as another intention.   I figured out the technology required to continue coaching my clients and then I just let the rest unfold.

Over the next several months all the pieces for the adventure fell into place with ease.  Here is a video clip from the first leg of my journey.  Video Link: Divine Divorce Journey 1

Going from Working Hard to Working Easy

Thursday, January 14th, 2010

I spent the first 25 years of my career working hard and continuing with my education. My parents instilled in me the notion that if I got a good education and worked hard I would be successful in life.

They forgot to define a few things for me. Just exactly what is a good education? I spent a longtime in University and eventually obtained a Master Degree. I figured I was set for life on the learning front. As I progressed in my career and wasn’t feeling the sense of satisfaction that I thought I should have I once again signed up for another course.

The Chartered Financial Analyst designation (CFA) was the most difficult program that I had ever signed up for. I spent 6 months of the next 3 years reading text books and study guides on the bus. I studyed almost every weekend to the pass the 6 hour exam. I did all of this to get ahead in my finance career. Only to find out that the people I worked for really didn’t care that I had done all that work to be qualified to take on more challenge.

This was working hard. I had lost all sense of happiness and knew that I needed to make a change or I was going to die. There had to be more to life than this. The universe provided and I was offered an opportunity to leave with pay. Yahoo, this was working easy!

I said Yes, and I have never looked backed. I started the journey to find happiness in my life. I have been on this journey for the past 7 years. I have attended many seminars, none of them were as tough as the CFA degree and all of them were more useful. I am pleased to say that it has been a wonderful journey and not only have I achieved happiness, I have also achieved a strong sense of love for myself and others.

I look forward to sharing my journey, what I have learned and experienced along the way. I would like to inspire you to share your journey, to find work that is inspiring and to have a life filled with passion and joy. That’s what I call working easy and having life balance.

Welcome to the journey of an amazing life.

Love and Hugs,

Jacque