Lesley Love and a HUGE inspiring kick in the butt!

So the post for today is short but REALLY sweet!

I have to send huge love and thanks to my pals at Lesley University: Sue, Michele and Jan. You all are amazing rockstars who have provided me with tremendous opportunities to share my skills and passion for health coaching with the people closest to you in your work environment. Thank you for adding to the ripple effect!

SHOUT-OUT to the students in Jan's class (email me and keep in touch) and the great folks who attended my workshops on Staff Development Day and Eco-Week!

And please please read this email I received from one of my beautiful clients, Trish. I asked for her permission to share this incredible message I received from her yesterday. She moved me to tears.

READ and SHARE IT with people you love and tell them to do the thing they think they cannot do.

Dear Dillan,

I know I'll see you tomorrow but thought I'd share a cool experience from the weekend.  After 4 years and 2 failed attempts at trying out for another league, I am so excited about having skated in my first roller derby bout on Saturday.  I'm still glowing about it, and even though we lost, the day as a whole was the most amazing thing.  I tend to feel like things conspire against me to make it so that things I really want (or at least think I want) don't happen, and so I spent a lot of time worrying about what might happen that would take this goal away from me.  Was I going to trip over something at home and hurt myself and not able to skate?  Was I going to get sick so I wasn't at my best?  You get the idea.  Saturday came, I got up early and put some songs together on my iPod to listen to on the way to the bout.  After a nice breakfast with my team, we went off to the arena.  I won't be able to express it well, but the feeling I got when walking out onto the floor of the (then empty) arena was incredible.  It was huge, it was awesome and most importantly, I was going to skate!  The long story short is that I had about 20 people who came to watch me (out of a crowd of about 1200) and I felt such amazing love and support from them all.  Our team lost in overtime, but I couldn't have been happier. I have a ton to still work on, but no matter what happens in the rest of my life, I can say that I persevered and DID IT.

So yesterday, as I was watching runners after they finished the marathon (I work in the Back Bay) I thought about all the hard work and training they had put in as well, and while I didn't run a literal marathon, I ran a marathon of my own.  I didn't give up.  I kept at it, and I reached a goal.  It felt awesome and I hoped those runners were feeling the same way.

Looking forward to seeing you tomorrow!
Trish

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Limiting Beliefs-Stop Being Selfish

Stop.

Stop whatever you're doing. Typing, calling someone, txting, chatting on gchat, knitting, etc.

Rest your hands on your lap. Focus on this screen. Only read this.
Don't go anywhere else in your head.

What are you thinking in this very moment? What are the thoughts in your head?

We are our thoughts. I've heard this said to me at least 20,000 times in the last few years and still I find myself coming back and having to remember it. I am a health coach but I'm first and foremost a human being. I get tricked and seduced into negative, nagging and limiting thoughts and beliefs at every turn in my life---in some places more than others. The reason I'm a good coach is because I share the same struggles my clients face, either in my past or in my present life.

Here's an exercise. READ THESE QUESTIONS:

What do you want to do with your time every day?
What impact do you want to have?
What do you want in a partner?
What time do you want to achieve for that marathon you're running?
What is your ideal living situation?
What would your life look like if you were doing what you truly love and were born to do everyday and making all the money you needed at the same time?
What would it feel like to have all the love and abundance you want and need?

I want you to write down 3 thoughts you have that are currently limiting your potential to do right by yourself and live the life you were made for. Write down 3 thoughts that came up as soon as you read those questions above:
1)
2)
3)


AH HA! See! Those thoughts are what are keeping you where you are. If you're not doing exactly what you want to be doing in this very moment, or having everything you want to have, or experiencing life the way you want to be it's because of these thoughts. These "constructed glass ceilings*".

the sky is really and truly the limit for all of us! (except pilots, parasailers, birds, bugs, clouds and astronauts. they have a different limit.)

I say this with all the love in my heart and the mindfulness of someone living a life outside the "norms of society" and aware of my own privileges within my situation. I have alot of experience training people to be conscious of the "isms" that mold our society AND I have clients who have shown me that they and they alone are responsible for their own health and happiness, no matter their identity or past life experience.

I had a good friend and mentor say this to me on the phone today: "Remember to not be selfish. Alot of people need your help and you're depriving so many people of your gifts by wasting your time [insert ways I'm wasting my time]."

It was exactly what I needed to hear. I AM wasting my time in many ways--the question is WHY?

The answer: limiting beliefs.

Stop being selfish. Identify your own limiting beliefs, take action steps and get out there and share your gifts in the ways that YOU want and need. As soon as a thought comes up to dissuade you, remember it's a limiting belief and it's not the truth. Truth is what feels good, warm and right. It can feel scary but as my mentor Joshua Rosenthal says: Fear and excitement feel the same way in the body.

Do you feel scared or excited? How can you tell the difference? By what you're attaching to it.

If you're attaching limiting beliefs, it feels like fear.

If you're attaching TRUTH and LOVE, it feels exciting!

Stop limiting yourself. Stop being selfish. 

START LIVING!


Eat. Love. Live Better. 
Savor Your Existence!