Remove the Obstacles

So you've set your goals and you're ready to take action. However weeks pass and nothing happens. What's stopping you from getting where you want to go? Often what is stopping you is not external but internal. So, often its YOU that is stopping you!

To break the chains that bind your emotional psyche, push yourself outside of your comfort zone. We all have a comfort zone and because of that it's easy to become complacent. Complacency kills. As Sir James Goldsmith says," The ultimate risk is not taking a risk."

So perhaps you have a job, a lover or a family situation that you're not particularly satisfied with but its safe enough and you've had it for a long time so therefore, in your own mind, isn't it easy enough just to settle for what you already have? NO. Don't let yourself fall into the trap of settling for what is good enough when what will give you true ecstasy might be just around the corner with a little effort.

The key to true happiness is consistently pushing yourself outside of your comfort zone to create the life you really want.

G.G.

Life Abroad Coaching + Language Study

Follow any of our 3-Day Coaching Workshops with two weeks or more of Intensive Language Lessons:

Once you've completed our Coaching Workshop, take advantage of language training in French, Arabic, Italian Turkish or Spanish at any of our locations, to prepare you for your new adventure!

Our Coaching Workshop/Language Combination Package includes;

■ 3 day Coaching Workshop in Montpellier or Nice
■ Minimum of 2 weeks language (of your choice) training
■ Housing assistance during your entire stay
■ Support service throughout the program
■ Access to client only website for continual support while setting up abroad
■ Opportunity to live and experience the south of France, Morocco, Turkey or Italy.

We partner with multiple language centers in France, Morocco, Italy Turkey and Spain to provide you with the best quality lessons for the lowest prices. We consistently take feedback from our graduates to ensure you receive the best language training possible. For Coaching/Language combination rates, contact us at info@lifeabroadcoaching.com
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Preparing for a New Challenge

If you are about to embark on a new challenge that you worry you may not be able to accomplish, one way to motivate yourself into tackling it is to think of past goals that you've successfully achieved. Think of rather big milestones that you've reached such as finishing university, having a child, buying a house. If you were able to do those things which require considerable commitment why can't you face the next milestone ahead? Once you have listed some past accomplishments, try to think about how you felt before you actually started to work towards your goal. Were you nervous? Apprehensive? Afraid you could fail? Are they similar feelings to what you have now faced with a new challenge? If so, you've already proved to yourself that despite past apprehensions or doubt you were able to accomplish the tasks at hand so what is stopping you from doing it again.

What you can and can't do is all in your head.

G.G.

The Best Way to Manage your Stress

Forget about therapy. The best way to manage your stress is to just breath. And its free.

Take a deep breath. Breathe deeply and bring yourself only into the here and now. Stand with your head held high and your shoulders pulled back, breathe deeply and smile. Do you feel stressed doing the exercise?

Breathing is essential. In order to listen to our bodies and solve the problem that is creating the stress in the first place, we must breathe; reconnect with our own resources and allow the options to come. You have a choice when you become stressed.

Now think of a typical stressful situation in your life. Welcome that feeling, get in touch with it and now let it go. Could you let it go? Would you let it go? You always have the choice to let it go.

Breathe, take a step back from the problem. The more often you do that, the more often the answers will come.

G.G.

Check Your Happiness Quotient

One way to maintain and even heighten your awareness to your level of happiness is to regulary take stock of what activities and people gave you joy over the past day, week or month. By keeping a journal and noting when you felt happy can actually help you determine what makes you happy. As well as help you make choices which will lead to even more happiness.

What Makes You Happy?

Life is too short. The older you get, the more apparent it becomes that time goes by quickly. So why waste time doing something you hate?

Study after study shows that the majority of working people in the richer countries of the world are unhappy with their job. And as one spends the majority of their day at work, we can only assume that there are many unhappy people out there. As each person is different, we all want different things but one of the common factors amongst us is that most of us want some happiness. How do we attain that desire?

To start, we should ask ourselves these questions:

When was the last time I was truly happy?
Where was I?
What was I doing?
Who was I with?
In general, what makes me happy?
What activities give me the most pleasure?

Next, list the five situations that give you the most happiness. They should be activities. So for example, for me, I get pleasure from traveling with a purpose and participating in group sports. List your five things. Then examine the list and actively plan how you will incorporate more of the things that make you happy in your daily schedule. Thats right, not monthly but a daily/regular schedule.

The more you intergrate things that make you happy in your life, the more happiness you fill your day or week with. While this exercise is not the answer to all of your problems, its a start. Its a beginning to allow other great things and opportunities to enter your life.

GG

Adopt an Abundance Mentality

An "Abundance Mentality" is based on the belief that there is an infinite amount of resources for everyone and that possible opportunities are endless. People with an abundance mentality beleive that there are plenty of resources for accomplishing their goals and that one person's success does not mean another person's failure. This type of person can be genuinely happy when friends or associates are successful.

To make the idea clearer, let's compare it to the opposite of abundance, which is scarcity. If you have a scarcity mentality, you believe there is only so much success to go around. You see success as a limited resource. If someone else succeeds then that means it will be that much more difficult for you to succeed. This type of person typically has difficulty sharing, money, power or recognition. This mentality breeds greed, fear, spite, jealousy and all those nasty things that end up making us miserable.

With an abundance mentality, you are above such petty things. You can breathe easier because you know, for certain, that whatever life brings your way that there are solutions and opportunities waiting to be discovered. You don't have to live in fear of losing what you have because there is plenty for everyone.

Increasing your abundance thinking is easier said than done. To get started on the path to abundance, stop dwelling on what you don't have and begin appreciating what you do have. Each day, write down 3 things you are grateful for....I think I got this from Oprah:) but it works. Soon, each day, you'll actually start paying attention to what you are thankful for and become more appreciative of what you've been given in life.

Next, try helping others. More specifically, teaching people something you already know. Watching people grow thanks to what you have taught them is the biggest step along the road to abundance. G.G.