Get a life!

So, only a week til my NLP exam and I feel like I should be:

a) working harder
b) worrying more.
Firstly, I feel like I have so much in my head I can't cram any more in and secondly I really don't know where the time goes to. Have I got a life at last?

I have spent so many years listening to people who say they can't exercise or eat healthily or whatever because they don't have the time and I have always pooh poohed the idea. After all I got my MA with the OU, trained 5 days a week and worked very long hours in the pub trade at the time. But cats don't need walking and if you are not with the right man you don't want to sit around nattering and enjoying the company.

So now is the time to feel really grateful for what I do have and appreciate that if I don't get the qualification this time then there are always re-takes. But I am a positive person so I will do just fine next weekend. The time and the words will come.
Launa
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A mad mad world

For the past couple of weeks I have been living in a whirlwind, trying to fit everything in and running from one job to another. All in all I have 3 start up businesses and four part time jobs to help pay the mortgage. Someone asked me yesterday where I get my energy from and I hadn't even noticed that I needed that much. It really makes you realise that you CAN change your life for the better you just need to start NOW.

A year ago I was in a very stressful life; a full time job I loved to hate and they hated me too, a real clash of cultures! Out of work everything was cool but I could not appreciate it because I was so highly strung with it all. 12 months on I have work that I love, people around me that I have chosen to include in my life and they are all, without exception, fab: A positive and very hopeful future. As the boss at 2nd Skin says...'bring it on'.

Don't get me wrong. There are still days when the shadow of before casts a cloud over this happy chappy but I have enough around me to drive it away ASAP and move on.

Thank you universe and thank you to every person who has stood by me 2011-12, you are much, much appreciated.

Launa
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New shoes

I had a lovely unexpected treat today. Sat in the office at 2nd Skin Lingerie I was given a pair of lovely pink shoes by young entrepreneur Chloe Tomalin. Director of The Nilamot Group at the age of only 16. I hope she does not mind me mentioning, but I have been coaching Chloe to help her with focus and direction; she is a woman of many passions! I was however never expecting such a generous gift and was so overwhelmed that I even gave her a hug (and other than Jonnie, I am not particularly touchy feely!)

New client today too, my first for NLP techniques, so it has been a grand day. Topped off with doggie walking with Hope and pilates with Sarah (check out Taylorfitpilates, the best in Bromsgrove). A grand day indeed.

Launa
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Busy, busy, busy

What a non-stop weekend it has been! working in the lingerie shop yesterday, getting the new stock prices on the system followed by a good session with the NLP girlies. I am currently training to be a practitioner, so much to learn but it is fascinating.

Part of my qualification is to answer 104 questions. I am on 80 now with one weekend to go so I have fingers crossed. Jon and I have agreed that we will take the mutt up the Malverns next Sunday if I have finished all 104 so that is an incentive. She was fab at puppy training today but we know it is cause her bestest friend in the whole world, Alf Taylor, came round to play last night. He is twice her size after all.

So, with article for the Worcester Standard written and photos of said mutt on Facebook at last, I am ready for that beer and a chilling session. Yes indeed.
Launa
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Sleepless night thanks to local politics

OK, so it is not particularly the local politics that has kept me up but my blood starts to boil and that triggers a few things that I would rather not dwell on, but why is it that we live in such a can't do world?

Without going into too many details, I was asked to help organise an event for a local school which I have done exactly as they asked and a week beforehand they change the goal posts giving me a lot more work and that sleepless night.

Well, to be even more honest, I don't have the time to do what they now want me to do so I have had to pass it on so a big thanks to ST for this one.

Being a positive, go getting person is a great way to be but boy, does that make me bloody annoyed with the other half of the population whose glass is empty, never alone half empty. Mmmmmmmm, planning a stress management class for next week. Need to take note of some of the exercises for myself!

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Confidence course ongoing

Last year I started teaching for the WEA as you know. I realised over time that there must be many women out there who would like to tap into such a course but in the evenings, after work. For the last 3 weeks, finishing next week, we have been running a course out of Karen's shop, 2nd Skin Lingerie in Droitwich. Most of the learners are customers of hers or heard about the course from the local paper as they were kind enough to print an article for us.

I have so enjoyed putting this together. For me, I have been able to share some of the stuff I have learnt on my personal development journey and I have also been supported by local professional women who have given their time to talk about areas outside my reach such as health and fitness and style analysis.

Tonight, one of the learners commented that she would miss the course when it finishes next week and I know I will, thank you universe for the opportunity to share.

Launa

Surrounded by NLP

With only a few weeks to go until my practitioner's exam I am surrounded by NLP workbooks and websites, hard to believe that only a few months ago I had never even heard of it. My coaching training provider offers a package deal for all its courses which I decided to invest in as I am a student at heart. When I looked closer I began to realise that I did in fact know something about NLP because I have had the exercises done to me in the past as part of my personal development journey. I have great faith in their ability to change a life for the better and am looking forward to being qualified to use them with my PD clients. It is just a shame I have to be tied to the computer for the next 4 weekends to get that revision nailed!
Launa
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Catch up......

Well, looking at how long it has been since I last wrote on this blog just shows you how busy I have been and apologies to my hoards of fans out there!!!!

I can only gasp that it is March already and I am still chasing round life like a mad women but it is so much fun (and how much less stress than working for a load of public sector workers with no soul).

Most important to me at the moment is that I feel like I am getting to grips with what I want to do and have found a title for myself...Personal Development Coach and Trainer. I have been lucky enough to have delivered some one off confidence workshops recently and they have been so successful and massive fun. I know I can support people to change and get the best out of themselves. What I have definitely learnt in the last couple of years though is that they need to want to change, that bit I can't make a difference to, as hard as it may seem. 

Happy to share, happy to support, but then it is up to you. Cool. x