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Happy New Year!!

I hope your New Year is off to a totally rocking start!

Jeff and I launched the year in style at an Alter Ego Party (Best darn idea for a New Year’s Party yet!)  Drinking Kale/apple juice and eating vegetables, I went as Arianna, Queen of the forest and, as you can see, if my husband could be anyone he’d be a Northern resident Orca (A61 to be specific.) 

Sure it looks like we are having fun but beneath the flowing red locks and protruding dorsal fin you will see two people declaring their truth and living their passion. I aspire to being a vegan green juicing goddess and Jeff wants to save the whales. It was the best New Year’s Eve ever and I didn’t have a drop of alcohol.

I know you have dreams too. There are pieces of your life that itch for change, ideas that want to take form, and to support you on your journey I have a Life-Making treat to kick-off your 2012.

Last week, the Life Makers Mastermind launched with a guided visualization where our future selves showed us around the exciting new life we are about to create. It totally rocked so I had to share.

To support you in making 2012 a year to remember I have decided to share our call with you. If you are ready to DREAM BIG, set aside 15 minutes, find a quiet spot, grab a pen and paper and enjoy the journey into your inspired future!

http://www.coachjoelle.com/lifemakers_journey_to_the_future.mp3

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Wishing you empowerment, clarity and BIG DREAMS for 2012!

Joelle
 

Hi gang,

We are a little more than a week into Q2 of 2011 and it’s about that time when the really ambitious, super-exciting ideas you had about your life in January may be seeming too fantastical, unrealistic, annoying or just plain depressing.

That’s the thing about goals and dreams. Unless you keep them close, visit them often, execute on a plan, and talk about them regularly, you may just find yourself months or even years into the future stunned by the realization that life didn’t turn out as you planned and that you are right back where you started, or even worse.

If you are feeling anything less than sparkly when it comes to those ambitions, goals and visions of the future, do not fear. I have a little process that can take you from listless to totally ready to rock in about 30 minutes flat.

In our last Life Makers MasterMind we checked in on everyone’s goals and walked through a series of questions to focus, empower and reinvigorate. I have included these questions for you.

So grab your goals, get your pen warmed up and reconnect to building your future, right now.

Joelle

Quarterly Goals Review

Give yourself 30 minutes to re-connect to your commitments, gain valuable insight and take action towards your 2011 goals.

Reality Check:

List your 2011 goals.

Record your current performance to goal.

Record the gap between where you are and where you intended to be by this time.

ie. Goal: $200,000/yr in sales. Actual: $100,000 in 3 months. $50,000 ahead

ie. Goal: weigh 140, feeling hot and healthy. Actual: Weigh 150. Lost 2 lbs in 3 months, have not yet developed the healthy habits to feel good every day and continue and sustain weight loss. 

What’s Working:

What are the successes you have experienced in the past 3 months – about your top goals and anything else you find significant?

What has worked/is working?

What’s not working:

Where did things not work?

Where/what situations or at what time did you find yourself falling down or moving in the wrong direction?

When you were connected to your goals and rocking it:

When did you feel really connected to your goal? What were you doing? What was happening in your life?

When were you feeling really disconnected to your goal? What were you doing? What was happening in your life?

Check in:

Are these still the right goals?

Why? Why not?

What you have learned and how you take that learning forward:

Based on your answers above – what are the things you already know work that you can put in place to support you in your goals?

Identify and manage for obstacles:

What are the potential obstacles or pitfalls that may come up in the future?

How can you manage for these pit falls through systems, process, plan, structure or rituals?

Note on rituals: The ritual of brushing our teeth morning and evening (or after meals) makes tooth hygiene a no-brainer. Do you need a daily green juice ritual or a show love to your spouse daily ritual or a weekly sales blitz ritual?

Note on planning to win: Remember we all like to feel like we are winning and moving forward. Is there a way you can track and celebrate baby steps?  Baby steps are all it takes to get anywhere you want to get and be anything you want to be.

Check your beliefs:

What old beliefs/fears would you like to remove to support future success?

What new belief would best support success?

Use Your Resources:

What (support/accountability/resources) could you ask for/seek out to ensure your success?

Get in action:

What action are you willing to commit to in support of your goals?

Nice Work! Now, using the insights gained through this exercise create your new execution plan, create the rituals, establish the new beliefs and reach out to get the needed support and accountability to have a breakthrough in achieving your goals!

Copyright ©2011 Coach Joelle, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

 How are you feeling? I am betting that right now you are reconnected to your goals, feeling empowered and seeing the action you can take to move your life forward (just a guess )

We would love to hear about any new clarity you have gained or the new action you are ready to take so do not hesitate to comment below.

Here’s to a powerful Q2, and remember, that life is for living, not for later and every moment is an opportunity for you to Make Your Life.

Joelle

This exercise was created to support the members of the Life Makers MasterMind in blowing through their goals and living a great life in 2011.  The Life Makers Mastermind is a community of support, inspiration, education and accountability for those who choose to be the conscious creators of their lives, who want to passionately pursue their inspired goals and dreams and who wish to experience the magic of a life lived on purpose.

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Twenty year from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. 
So throw off the bowlines. 
Sail away from the safe harbor. 
Catch the trade winds in your sails. 
Explore. Dream. Discover.                         ~ Mark Twain

Hi guys!

A month ago my good friend Leslie called in an impassioned state.

She had just come from a business meeting where they’d created “bucket lists” and having left with only “3 measly things” on her list she was looking for a way to bulk it up a bit.

She asked me to facilitate a Bucket List Party at her place and I was a HUGE “YES!” A bucket list designed around your passions can powerfully support you living an extraordinary life and, of course, I’m all about that! (It also didn’t hurt that Leslie promised to make her signature Cosmos.)

The 20 women who joined us enthusiastically embraced the challenge and in two hours of creativity, play and cosmo-infused bravado they produced some amazing life adventures!

The best part of all was to see Leslie, beaming, proudly waving her robust list in the air. Mission accomplished.

I wrote my own list that night and no sooner had those dreams hit the paper, the opportunities began showing up all around me. (Life rocks that way.)

Are you ready to build your bucket list?

I’ve got 2 ways for you to do it.

1) Read this week’s article (below), grab an hour for yourself and build that list!

OR

2) Join me and the Life Makers Mastermind For The Bucket List Party on Wednesday August 11 at 12:00-1:00 EST and we will build your list together. SIGN ME UP

Making it happen,

Joelle

Building the Bucket List

1) You Name It

Let’s face it. The term “Bucket List” is, at best, a little uninspired and, at worst, downright morbid. When I hear “Bucket List” I immediately generate images of crotchety old men and even the phrase “kick the bucket” seems a crass and insensitive term for the end of a life.  Step 1 is to name your list something that excites and moves you.

Perhaps it will be your “Extraordinary life list” or “My Top 100 “or “Living life to the fullest”. Your list, you name it.

2) Dare To Be Bold

To make a juicy list worthy of your life, you will want to come at this with an open mind, flexibility and a willingness to be bold.

As ideas come to you, don’t label, judge or doubt them. If you want to do it, write it down.

Dare to be risky and think big. Write down stuff that excites you and simultaneously scares the heck out of you, and you have the beginnings of a list that will change your life!

2) Don’t Worry About The “How”

Now is not the time to worry about how you are going to make your list happen.  Trying to figure it out is only going to block your creative flow, so skip it.

It is not your job to know, you have a whole lifetime to figure that out and you cannot imagine what will transpire between now and then to bring the items on your list into being.

I would go so far as to say that if you only put down things that you already know how to do, the things you are certain you can make happen, then you are missing the point and robbing yourself of a real opportunity to add juice to your life.

 
3) Embrace Your Awesomeness

Enough prep, it’s time to get those juices flowing.

On a blank piece of paper write down 3-5 amazing things that you have already accomplished, seen or experienced in your life.  These are things that, had you made a bucket list in 2nd grade, they would have made the list.

It may be:
 

- finding the love of your life

- Going to Disney World

- Having a baby

- Seeing the great wall of china

- Parasailing

One of mine was definitely the up close and personal moment with two Killer whales in British Columbia last summer. (We were in Kayaks, they were within 15 feet of us, it was AMAZING!)

4) Let it All Out:

Now you have an inkling of your capacity to do amazing things, it is time to start coming up with items for your list. You likely already have ideas mulling around in your head, those long seeded dreams, that trip through the Australian outback by camel, that shiny red Corvette that has been calling to you since you were seven. Write anything that comes up. 

Remember: Your bucket list is not just for exotic travel locations or bungee jumping, it is the list for everything that you want to become, experience and create in your life.

Just let it all out. Get to it!

5) Engage in A little Mind Expansion

Question: How many of you think I can turn a drinking glass into a convertible BMW?

When I asked this question at the bucket list party I did not get too many votes of confidence (ouch!)

So I went on to tell the story of a remarkable young man I interview the other week who turned a novelty red paperclip into…. Get this…. A HOUSE!

Yep! Kyle McDonald began his adventure with one red paperclip on July 12, 2005 and 14 trades and one year later, on July 12, 2006 he got a house in Kipling, Saskatchewan!

Kyle’s story is remarkable while at the same time it is something that anyone with a big idea, passion and gumption can do.

I share this with you to open you up to allowing yourself to write down what you really want, even if it is bizarre or seemingly impossible. 

The airplane would not exist if the Wright brothers hadn’t wanted so desperately to fly.  What do you want desperately? What do you want to experience? What of this world do you want to see?

Write it on your list!

6) Get Your Google On!

To beautifully round out your list it is time to get your "Google on!" or Yahoo or whatever your search engine of choice might be.  Pull up a web browser and try searching for some of these:

“Bucket List Ideas”
“100 things to do before you die”
“Top 100 travel destinations”

Get creative…

You like personal development? Google that.
You like sports and athletics? Google that. 
You like quilting? Google that.

An intimate hour with you and your Google search and you are certain to have enough items on your list to keep you vibrant and adventuring for a lifetime.

Final thoughts:

When my husband turned 40 he wrote a list of things he would do before he was 50. It was a short list that included things like the bachelor party he never had, scuba diving and “lots more whales and dolphins”.  A little background on Jeff – when we went on our honeymoon 3 years ago he abandoned his snorkel buddy (me) because he was just not all right “swimming through the shark’s living room” as he so creatively put it.

I share this with you because less than a year later, while I was facilitating this bucket list party, not only was Jeff out on a boat with “lots more dolphins” but he actually got into the “shark’s living room!!” Repeatedly!

He dove no less than 6 times, two of which were open sea shark dives (you heard me, no cage, scuba diving with sharks!)  To top it all off, while he was there checking off items from his list he was invited on a trip to swim with humpback whales in the Dominican Republic!  And if you look at item #2 on my list below ( I call dibs on manifesting that one!) you know I will be joining him.

You write it down and the universe starts delivering.

It’s time to start writing!!

Join Joelle and the Life Makers Mastermind for a facilitated Bucket List Experience Wednesday August 11, 2010 12:00-1:00 Eastern by phone.  SIGN ME UP!

With Love,

Joelle

My Kick-Butt Amazing Life List

1. See a blue whale
2. See humpbacks breach
3. See humpbacks bubble net
4. Buy my dream house on the lake/ocean
5. Experience my 50th wedding anniversary and be more in love that I am today
6. Understand the very nature of life
7. Have a 10 year wedding celebration/vow renewal that is magical, beautiful, moving and transformative
8. Do a wine and food tour of Italy
9. Stay for 2 weeks – a month in an Italian Village
10. Write a book that touches lives and makes the world a better place
11. See my husband thoroughly and deeply passionate and fulfilled in his work
12. To see my mom find love again
13. Learn to dance (ballroom, hiphop, whatever) and perform regularly on stage
14. Be part of a fun contemporary “up with people” experience or “glee club”
15. Experience my body strong, lean and radiant
16. Have someone make my clothes
17. Have an out of body experience
18. Compete on The Amazing Race
19. Create inspiring/empowering jewelry (and it be a HUGE hit!)
20. Have a healthy happy baby
21. Dance fabulously with my husband
22. Ride horses regularly
23. Go indoor skydiving
24. Bungee jump
25. Ropes course
26. Go fire walking
27. Experience weightlessness
28. Have a meaningful conversation with Alanis Morissette
29. Go white water rafting
30. Share a ski vacation with Jeff
31. Learn how to sew my own clothes
32. Attend a Tony Robbins event
33. Have an organic garden or participate in a community garden
34. Leave a valuable contribution in your area of personal development and life creation
35. Find  a spiritual community
36. Have an outdoor hot tub
37. Road trip up the west coast of America – 2-4 weeks camping and B & B (some major wine tasting in there)
38. Find a spiritual mentor
39. Attend a TED Talk
40. Speak at a TED talk

And much more to come. Have an idea for my list? Leave it in the comments. I am always up for a new adventure!

P.S. If you happen to know a resource to make anything on this list come true, don’t hesitate to leave a note I appreciate any support the universe will deliver. J

Hi guys,

If you have ever had a knowing that you have more to give, more to create, more adventures to embark upon… if you have ever had a wondering about what was possible beyond the routine of your day to day… if you have ever taken a quiet moment to ask “what’s next”, I want you to hear the story of Liz Harvey.

Who is Liz Harvey?  Well, she’s the proud mother of 3, an operating room nurse and the CEO of Island Windjammers http://www.islandwindjammers.com , the Caribbean’s newest tall-ship sailing company!

It you were to ask Liz two years ago if she had any aspirations to be a CEO, her answer would have been an emphatic “NO!” And if you would have asked her if she would ever be the CEO of a Cruise company, knowing Liz, she likely would have fallen down laughing.  She would have told you that, while she loved her work and had a great life, she also felt she had more room to contribute and she was ready for a new adventure even though she wasn’t sure what that adventure would be.

Well, as many of you know, the universe will not tolerate a void for long.  And those of you who know such things will find it no surprise that life delivered her adventure in the most fascinating and unexpected ways.

Liz’s journey from operating room nurse to Tall-Ship Cruise Company CEO is one that will delight and inspire anyone who is wondering what’s next in your own life adventure.  Enjoy this Life Makers MasterMind Interview as Liz shares her story of how a sailing vacation, a kind gesture and a “never say die” attitude landed her in the top spot at Island Windjammers.

Listen to the interview with Liz Harvey of Island Windjammers now!

T  o Listen:

 A) Double click on the link (above) and the file will open and play in window's media or your default audio player (because of it's size, please allow 5-10 minutes for the file to download.)

OR

B) Right click on the link and select "Save Target As." Pick a folder to save your audio into.  Once the program is saved to your hard drive you can upload it to your ipod or listen to it on your computer at your leisure.

Cheers!

   Joelle