Welcome to the FUTURE...

I offer you a deep-dive perspective on vision and goal theory, and reveal what I see as the secret to being able to set and connect with the vivid images of your ideal future; while, at the SAME time, not be ATTACHED to the outcome. 

It seems like an oxymoron—right?  

The Secret To Creating Powerful Life Visions

How do we allow ourselves to see and believe in a future, while NOT being attached to it? 

Much theory in goal achievement supports the essential function of FOCUS.  To manifest our future, we want to bend time, blast ourselves into that future, to see, feel, hear, taste, and touch its reality. The more clearly we can enhance and embody that picture, the more likely it is to manifest.

BUT, how do we create this crystal clear picture, while NOT being attached to how it turns out?

Doesn't it stand to reason that we protect ourselves from disappointment and failure by merely ALLOWING...

Imagine that you are in a coaching session with a new client, and you ask them, “Tell me about your life?  

98% of clients don’t have the capacity to answer this question.

The negative, disserving, unnecessary consequence when a coach lacks the CONTEXT of understanding the client’s life is MORE TIME spent and MORE PAIN experienced. 

It doesn’t have to be this way. That’s why the best coaches use the best tools to support and accelerate the coaching process.

12:38 Start: “The difference… 
13:53 End: “Safe”

S4 E12 - Maurice Thibodeau 
Watch the full interview here: https://watch.e360tv.com/player/29490/663140
Visit www.illuminationexperiences.com for more resources on coaching and living on purpose. 
www.illuminationexperiences.com/blog/Clients-Lie-or-Withhold

I'm committed to sending you a few updates a month with helpful resources in answering the time old question: What does it mean to live our best life?    

Originally Published, Wednesday, Nov. 13th, 2019 - through email
Sometimes living with your heart wide open is bloody painful.  

Sometimes, the reality of having my heart wide open feels like it is literally throbbing on an open white table, blood sputtering about, exposed and vulnerable, available for anyone to take a squeeze, or walk past by, or worse yet, stab through with a dull scalpel. 

I've had an interesting few weeks, full of wisdom and connections. 

I find myself seeing more of the world than ever before, and sometimes seeing more makes it harder.  

I see the opportunities for connection, for deepening, for shared experience, for co-creation...and I also see closed doors, fear, rejections, and...

Hard Time

A caring group of people is going through a hard time right now. I wrote this thinking about them.

Hard Time

Are you living your "purpose"?

In the past, when I've been faced with this question, it used to send a punch of fear and a spike of pressure that made me want to run for the hills.  

Without a clear answer to that question, it left me thinking:

• Does that mean I should know exactly what my one thing is?
• And if I don’t, does that mean I’m not living my purpose, am I missing it?
• And jeez, if I pick my one thing, but I’m wrong? 
• Does it make me a hypocrite if I change my mind and my purpose path changes with it? 

I think the reference to “purpose” as being the one thing that we were put on this earth to do, is limiting, not all that helpful, and can harm our progress to living it.  I want to offer a different perspective.  

"Purpose" -  the lived expression of our values and our gifts.

I believe that the experience of living with purpose is one that takes...

• My three greatest learnings from John and his work with an explanation of how I got here:
  1. Trust my intuition. (Time Stamp 3:03)
  2. I am not my fears or my limiting beliefs. (Time Stamp 7:26)
  3. Life is energy and how that energy...

Today, we talk back to school parenting, during "these times".  

For me, COVID 19 acted like a magnifying lens helping me to pay even closer attention to my kids’ experience. 

As parents, we want to know that our kids will be alright, and with them facing a new school reality, I had some anxiousness.  

After watching my girls leave yesterday morning, I’m pleased to say I was less anxious and most inspired. 

In our house, the first day of school felt very much the same as others. COVID has not changed or ruined it. It is different, yes. And also, in that difference, there are opportunities.

Ten Opportunities To Pay Attention To "During These Times"

1. Opportunities to face heavy disappointments. To know that they will be hard AND that we will get through it.  
2. Opportunities to adapt to significant changes in routine and structure, together we figure it out. 
3. Opportunities to meet new...

A story about the saboteurs of a great nation and what one ruler did to protect it.

The following story invites you to take on the role of the central character, a ruler of a great nation that is amidst an attack.

There are two versions of the story (each provided below), which ruler best describes you?

Act I - losing ground

Imagine you are the ruler of a great nation, you are under attack, you stand to lose your land, your rulership, and everything you’ve built a lifetime creating.  

You are hurried, you are under attack, and it's up to you to decide how to respond, your main line of defense is currently under siege, and losing ground quickly.  

On the ground, your enemy seems to be swarming from EVERYWHERE.  All angles are compromised, time is running out, soon there will be nothing left. There is too much to take in; you can’t possibly weigh all outcomes.  

You feel ...

These 4 saboteurs account for 90% of the reason why we don’t do what’s best for us, the first two are external, the last two are internal, and they are all interrelated:   

Saboteur #1. Information Overload & The Paradox Of Choice:  we are living in an era of abundant information, ask Siri or Alexa, type in where you want to go or what you want to know, and pages of answers magically appear. Information comes from everywhere at an alarming rate.  

For example, according to an article written in Forbes in 2018, “over the last two years alone 90 percent of the data in the world was generated.”  It went on to say that “2.5 quintillion bytes of data” were being created each day. 

We also enjoy the freedom of abundant choice.  We, for the most part, are the designers of our life, from who we hang out with, what we eat, wear, live, and believe in.  We have choices to make in every...