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29/03/2017 By Isla Baliszewska

Breaking the Spell to Master your Mindset

Breaking the Spell to Master your Mindset

Mindset and Decisions

Mastering your Mindset is within your reach!

Information comes into one’s life as a signpost. It’s all we need to design life as we want it. At first the signposts are subtle, very subtle in the pre-sent moment. If we ignore the signposts eventually we bring into being a life-changing event. It is essential that we get conscious and develop a practice to help turn us onto life, and to home in on the information from the Universe.

All it takes is 5 minutes each day in which to reflect and choose to see the gold versus the gloom.

 

Making the right decisions

When we decide to consciously take back control rather than allow others and events to control us it’s easy to break the spell. To be clear about what is important and to pause and breathe before making decisions helps us gain time and energy in which to make informed, appropriate, sustainable decisions.

By breaking the spell decisions can be

.       [i type=”icon-ok” color=”icon-blue” bg=””]made based on past results

.       [i type=”icon-ok” color=”icon-blue” bg=””]reflecting our values

.       [i type=”icon-ok” color=”icon-blue” bg=””]in alignment with intuitive predictions of what is to come.

It is important to let go of attachment to what might be. Viewing the situation based on present possibilities brings to the table a grounded, balanced approach. By breaking the spell we give ourselves permission to ‘turn back on’, thus enabling us to be 100% responsible and to take 100% responsibility for ourselves and our actions.

Top tip#1:

Every hour take a 2 minute break in which to invite your mind to quieten and refresh.

Mastering the mind

Mastering your mind is a certain challenge, a fascinating game to engage in, and tough on entrenched behaviours, patterns, beliefs. The question to ask in each and every situation is this: Who do I want to be in this moment? Mastering your mind is like bringing magnets back into alignment, having cogs engaging smoothly.

Creating new neural pathways is always challenging as we love keeping ourselves stuck with the familiar, the comfortable, the ‘taken-for-granteds’, the unquestioning ‘going-along-withs’. We can if we choose, learn new behaviours and create better situations. The choice is as always in our hands. Once we choose to get over ourselves anything is possible!

A helpful mantra:

Let new affirmations and behaviours pull me towards where I want to be. And where might that be, is the question?

Let the good stuff in – our brains release endorphins when we are relaxed and happy. In this state of bliss we are more likely to overcome challenges and transform situations to improve our lives. Treat yourself to indulging in savouring each day a handful of things you enjoy doing. As you do them let the good stuff in, as you both enjoy them in the moment as well as remember all the good things associated with that enjoyable thing.

Top secret: on the QT, very hush hush and strictly confidential…… is to enjoy the flow.

Enjoy the Flow

Notice that a hero or heroine tends to handle whatever turns up. Applying that principle, take the opportunity to transform in order that your dream can inch closer to your grasp.

Top Tip #2:

Withhold judgement.

Top Tip #3:

By definition different behaviour brings different outcomes.

Enjoy the journey.  Transform difficulties into gold: Turn yourself onto the way life really is – use your power!

Halina Jaroszewska

Filed Under: Being Confident, Decisions, Mindset

04/04/2016 By Isla Baliszewska

The Big Ask

The Big Ask
How Talking Books were born
How Talking Books were born

“Captain Ian Fraser lost his sight at the Battle of the Somme in July 1916, after being shot through the eyes by a German sniper. A single gunshot had robbed him of one of his greatest passions: reading. “  RNIB – How Talking Books were born

Charities have had a bit of a hard time lately, not least being frowned upon for questionable fundraising methods pressuring vulnerable people into giving. Last year Gareth G. Morgan (Professor of Charity Studies and leader of the Centre for Voluntary Sector Research) at Sheffield Hallam University) gave his valedictory lecture ‘The End of Charity’ .  In it he referred to the “extraordinary combination of threats” charities faced, including the issues of underfunded organisation,  fundraising abuses and media criticism.  He ended his talk saying  “So, what is the end to which all charity is ultimately directed?  The answer is very simple: the end of charity is public benefit. If that is our focus, both in our fundraising and our operational work, and if that can be the focus of charity regulation, then we cannot go astray.”

Halina Jaroszewska and I have been working with the RNIB fundraising staff and if we wore hats we would be constantly taking them off in deference to those fabulous people.  We have discovered the ‘public benefit‘ that this charity gives. We recently spent a day with some of them in Birmingham where we were offering our knowledge and expertise on presentation and public speaking, and where we found ourselves learning and increasing our respect for those fundraisers. Our focus for the day was the RNIB Talking Books, which began in 1935 and revolutionised reading for people with sight loss.  With a collection of over 23,000 titles, and with over 30,000 listeners, this service brings a gift to each of those listeners.

Captain Fraser’s desire to get back to reading inspired him to record an entire talking book and he began working with the RNIB in 1918 exploring how new technology could develop this recording ability.  Today, the people we were privileged enough to work with last week are now able to promote the Talking Books as their Big Ask knowing the gift that is in those Books.

“It’s like having another voice in the house.  It helps break the silence and the loneliness” (Dennis, 66,  a Talking Books reader)  – a gift of reading, of company, of meaning, of knowing someone cares.

RNIB Talking Books

 

RNIB Talking Books

www.rnib.org.uk

 

Isla Baliszewska

To find out more about how Smart Coaching & Training can help with your presentation and public speaking needs please get in touch

Filed Under: Being Confident, Presenting and Presentations

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