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Life
Integration Coaching:
Beyond Balance to Life Integration
Be
a Fan of Life©
You are unique
and so your Fan of Life© will be too. It looks a certain
way right now, whether you intentionally designed it or it happened
by default.
Now you can
create your future (YOUR LIFE!) by design. This page will help
you do just that. But first it's helpful to get more familiar
with the different parts of the fan.
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Blades |
Everything
in life falls into these 5 principal areas.
At any point in your life, your primary focus
is on only 2 or 3 areas. The blades are all
inter-connected and impact each other. For example,
your career affects your relationship and finances
and well-being; your finances affect your relationships;
your personal growth affects your career and
your career impacts your personal growth!
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| The
Motor |
This is
you. Your talents, skills, abilities, achievements;
who you are in your various roles; everything
you do. This is you the doer, the achiever,
the goal setter.
Most people try to get the fan (their life)
to work with just the motor. They never really
turn the electricity on - that connection to
the power source that's in the middle of the
fan.
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| The
Power Source |
Within
the motor, there's the power source. That's
You, your higher potential, the you of your
dreams, who you Really are.
When the power is turned on, the blades move
in harmony and become a circle of energy, creating
a positive force that has far-reaching effect.
This is Life Integration!
I'm sure you've already experienced this. Think
about a time when you were doing something and
everything was just clicking, going perfectly,
almost on its own! You were tapping into this
part of you....and it created flow.
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If this makes
sense to you, then I invite you to apply it to your life and design
your own fan. If you own a business or work in a corporation,
you will also want to check out how to design
a Fan-tastic Business using this model
How to
Design Your Fan of Life©
Step 1. Decide what
you'd like each area of your life/blade to look like.
Click on the fan blades to explore the five areas
to get some ideas about what each means for you. What's included
will be different at different times in your life. What captures
the most attention and is your priority also will change at different
times in your life.
Read through the description
of each fan blade and start to think about and jot down what you
really want for that area of your life.
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There
are additional resources listed to help you get clearer
about what you want. They are PDF files that require Adobe
Acrobat Reader to open. If you don't have this installed
on your computer, you can install it here. It Is FREE!
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Sometimes a good
way to identify what you want is by looking first at where
you are now. A good starting point is The
Quality of Life 100 that will give you an overview
of these areas of your life and more.
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Career/Professional
This is your work. It may be your job/career,
a business you have or want, a practice you're building.
This can also be the activities that are your contribution
to the world, even though you may not be paid for them.
For example, a stay-at-home mom; a retiree who does volunteer
work; a student who is doing an internship.
First
Steps to Setting Career Goals
Financial
Money and material things. How much money
do you want and what would having it mean for you and
buy for you. What kind of lifestyle do you want.
Evaluate
Your Financial Situation
Relationships
All your relationships. Friends, family,
significant other.
Relationship
Questions for Couples
Personal
Growth
Think about what enriches you, what makes
you more of what you want to be. This could be formal
education, skills you want to acquire, adult ed classes
you take for fun, books you want to read, cultural events,
travel, hobbies. No assessment form here. Just come up
with your own personal wish list!
Health
& Well-Being
Taking care of your body, mind, and spirit.
This includes recreation as well as diet, exercise, managing
stress, your general health.
Extreme Self-Care Program
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If you do these assessments,
you'll have some ideas about how you want the blades of your fan
to look. Then the next step is to look at the motor, which is
you and how you relate to each blade.
Step 2.
Check the motor/you, your talents, skills, and abilities.
Look at the part you play in reaching your vision for each area/blade.
Decide what additional skills, resources, and tools will you need.
Here are some assessments that will get you started.
Congratulations if you've
been willing to look at any of the assessments in this section.
They can help you locate the energy leaks that may be holding
you back from tapping into your Higher Potential. Now let's look
at how you are already tapping into it. That's You, the Power
Source of The Fan, Your Higher Potential.
Step 3.
Look at how you're already tapping into your Higher Potential,
where you're already living a value-based life. Like the rest
of The Fan, this is unique for each person. There is no right
or wrong. The way most people measure this is by how life is working
for them. Is it easy, effortless, and flowing or is it difficult
and a struggle? The other measure is by looking at what is showing
up for you. Are you getting the results you want in each area?
Here are two checklists that
look at areas many people use as yardsticks for true success.
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Have you ever heard
someone called a Class Act? That was probably their Higher
Potential showing!! Read through this Class
Act Checklist and come up with your own definition
of what Class Act You will look like.
We've come a long
way from our Cave Man ancestors. Guess what, we're still
evolving. Not just making progress, but really evolving
and becoming a 'different breed.' This is about using
your mind and your energy in the most effective ways.
It's about moving from 'you' doing all the work to 'You'
doing it with great joy, ease, and satisfaction. Here
are ideas about Ways
You Know You Are Evolving in this process.
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If you follow these three
steps, you'll have a good basic draft of your Fan of Life©.
I hope you enjoy this process. The next step is to come up with
a plan to set it all in motion, making sure the motor is operating
at full capacity and maximizing the energy from the power source.
I invite you to contact me
for a complimentary session so I
can give you a few strategies that will have you tapping into
your higher potential energy by the time we finish the call!
How
to Design a FAN-tastic Business
Decide on the
4 or 5 imperatives that most influence the business at this point
in its life cycle. These can be tied to Baldrige Award criteria,
such as Leadership, Strategic Planning, Human Resources Focus,
Customer and Market Focus. Or the focus may not be as broad and
the components could include areas such as Organizing and Staffing,
Planning and Budgeting, Aligning People, and Establishing Direction.
What is the highest potential envisioned for the organization?
It begins with creating the vision… by turning on the energy,
not just by cranking the motor. This is accomplished by inspiring
the leadership team and all team members to tap into their higher
potential and giving them the tools to do so. This is how man
reached the moon, which was inconceivable when it was first envisioned!
Imagine what the business
would be like if all the employees created their own Career/Business
fan based on this empowered vision created through the Organizational
Fan. Everyone would be tapping into the energy of higher potential
to co-create the organizational vision. The combined energy of
all those individual fans would be enough to blow the competition
away!
The Process:
The process is basically the same with individuals and with businesses.
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Identify
the major areas of focus - the blades of the fan. |
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Create the
vision for each area, using the tools of higher potential
and possibility. |
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Then set
up a separate fan for each area, creating a new fan from each
blade of the original fan. Come up with the components, the
specifics of what the vision would look like. |
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Work the
process until the specific inspired actions needed to create
the vision are identified. |
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During this
process, use the tools to access each employee's higher potential.
This allows them to tap into all the skills, abilities, talents,
and knowledge that they bring to their role (the motor of
the fan) in a powerful way. |
Contact me for
further information or a complimentary session to start designing
your own personal or business fan.
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