Your Changing Direction

The latest recommendation to be added to the resource section of the site is “You Can Have What You Want” by Michael Neill.

Michael Neill “has been a success coach, friend, mentor and creative spark plug to celebrities, CEO’s, royalty and people just wanting more from their lives” this book is filled with his proven techniques that he uses when working one to one. Written in a really conversational and jargon free manner it is a friendly and practical guide to how you can have what you really want.

Jam packed with lots of information, the book is split into 2 main sections – part 1, entitled “creating a life that makes you go ‘wow!’” while part 2 is called “an obstacle course to success”. Filled with both theoretical and very easy and practical thoughts, concepts and exercises this is one of my favourite books for making change easy and providing a catalyst to working around or walking through what is getting in your way.

You Can Have What You Want [Amazon.co.uk link]
You Can Have What You Want: Proven Strategies for Inner and Outer Success [Amazon.com link]

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For a couple of reasons this week I have been thinking about time, or to be more precise, how time can effect our perception of a situation we’re in.

The bits of history that have always fascinated me concern how people lived. Over the past year or so I have been following the correspondence of a British World War I soldier, William Henry Bonser Lamin otherwise known as Harry. (http://tinyurl.com/29oys3 )

I suspect it hasn’t escaped your notice that there has been a bit of an election happening in the United States of America. One of the things about President-Elect Barack Obama’s Victory Speech that set me thinking was what he said about the things that 106-year-old Ann Nixon Cooper had seen in her life so far.

Regardless of whether you agree politically or not with Obama, the changes in society that Ann Nixon Cooper has witnessed in 106 years is fairly dramatic, and although I don’t yet know the fate of Harry the WWI soldier I’m fairly certain that he too would report massive changes in attitudes and what is considered important. I also suspect that they would both report that throughout the course of their lives what they choose to prioritise and spend their time on would be different at various stages in their lives.

With that in mind, I invite you to play with the following:

1. Imagine you’re 106 years old, sat reflecting back on your life so far:
What are the things that you are proudest of?
What brings the big grin to your face as you remember it?
Notice what’s important to you.

2. Think of something that the you in 2008 would like a new perspective off. With the benefit of hindsight, as you imagine being 106 sat reflecting back, what do you notice now about that thing? Take all the time that you need to play with this.

3. When you’re ready, come back fully to the present, bringing with you anything that is important for you to bring, you may want to stretch or wriggle your fingers and toes as you become more aware of your current surroundings.

Every person’s experience of playing with this is different, some say that they gain new insight on possibilities; others say that it confirms that there are potential consequences that they hadn’t considered. Often people realise that what they have been choosing to prioritise is not that important to them in the grand scheme of things.

Whatever your experience I’d love to hear about it. Email me at hello@yourchangingdirection.com