Jane's Journal
People Change When the Pain of Staying the Same Outweighs the Pain of Changing
A few years ago, I came across the quote – “People change when the pain of staying the same outweighs the pain of changing.” It has been attributed to a few people, so I am going to go with unknown as I haven’t seen it written in a book – only in a presentation. Today…
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Time to Power-Up Your Priorities?
Recently I have been talking about priorities a bit as I have also been focusing and paying attention to my own. Priorities have been a big adventure for me and although I still struggle a bit with expressing my needs, I am a lot further along than when I started when I didn’t know that I had them and had…
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Kaizen – Adding The Benefits of Continuous Improvements in Life
It is coming up to the end of the quarter and during this time I reflect on the past quarter, discover where I am in each area of my life and start to decide where my focus is going to go in the Next Quarter. I have been doing this practice for about 10 years…
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Why Do a Personal Quarterly Review?
Wow – can you believe it is almost at the end of another Quarter? Yep it has been almost 3 months, since we said goodbye to last year in the end-of-year review ritual and then created your goals for the first quarter. Remember those? You know the ones – starting to write a book, finishing that course…
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With Love – The Only One Stopping You is YOU!
This week I was talking to a friend and I was talking to her about a goal of mine and she said something similar to “the only one stopping you is you.” As hard as it is for me to admit that (and yes I love the directness of this friend), it is true. I…
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What is the Difference Between a Goal and a System?
Recently I started Lead from Within One thing that comes up when I am coaching clients, is the difference between a goal and a task. So, in this post I wanted to share Let’s get started! What is a Goal? The definitions of goals I discovered were – Generally goals follow the SMART acronym –…
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20 Quotes to Inspire You to Take Small Simple Steps Each Day
In life we can get overwhelmed with everything we want to do in order to get to the future and reach our goals (whilst avoiding the present moment). Or maybe we have faulty thoughts or distortions playing in our mind, saying we are not “good enough” to be the person we would like to be. One thing I…
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My 100 Chat, Walk and Connects
I remember it like yesterday, sitting in meditation and the 3 words – Chat, Walk and Connect coming through. Back then, they were just 3 words, today they are so much more as I just completed my 100th Chat, Walk and Connect. Besides the people who have been involved, very few people knew the little…
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The ‘Create Your Year Planner’ is Published
This week has been a big week as the Create Your Year Planner was published. Evolution of the Create Your Year Planner… The Create Your Year Planner has been an evolution over the past 8 years as you can see by the image below. I know I haven’t been that create with the front cover,…
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