Peace Challenge: The last 7 days

Welcome Back to the Peace Challenge 2010

After this week, we will continue to post encouraging suggestions toward increased Peace on our face book page under coaching for LIFE. Please, forward this to anyone you know who is also in search of peace, and consider joining us on Face Book too!

visit me at www.coaching-forlife.com and click on the link to face book on our home page

February 8, 2010

Compassion before competition in all you do today

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How often do you formulate your response before the other person is even done speaking?
How often are you convinced that you are right?
How often do you work to truly understand anothers position before working to sway them toward yours?

Today as you work toward Peace, think about this? Do you really want more peace? Are you sure? Does all of you want more peace or only parts of you? Is there a part of you that is so competitive that it pulls you into fighting, instead of understanding?

Are you willing to compromise and let go some of the old parts of you that no longer serve you well in order to move toward emotional regulation and peace?

I believe that YOU are or you wouldn't be here today, with us.

So today, in all you do, consider your compassion for others before you compete for anything with anyone at anytime.

You will win through compassion every time~

Peace,
Juli
www.coaching-forlife.com
motivational speaker/organizational consultant/executive and life coach

PEACE Challenge: Day 30

Welcome Back to the Peace Challenge!

make sure that you forward this to your team at work, your family and friends.

Hold each other and yourself accountable for the peace in your life.

Do not expect anyone else to do this for you.

This is your life, quit giving it away!

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For 40 days, from January 6-Valentine's Day 2010

The Peace Challenge

Today, February 5, 2010

we strive for EVEN MORE and push ourselves even a bit FURTHER toward a world of PEACE

Love somebody today as you long to be loved

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Peaceful loving sometimes requires that we teach that which we long for, by providing it first.

We each receive and offer love from our own paradigms of what love means to and for us. Because we have each received love and learned to give love in diverse manners, we may have to teach those whom we love now, how to love us back, by showing them~

In remaining open to our own deep needs and validating those needs through sharing them with others, we take responsibility for ourselves in a profound new way.

Others may or may not choose to remain in relationship to you and learn to love you as you need, but whether they stay or go no longer dictates your right to be loved; first by self and then by others.

The transformative surrender required in this level of giving and receiving love propels us into the world far above thought, yet spiritually and emotionally sound.

Think about one specific way that you long to be loved. Write it down. Now go out and provide to your loved one~it will soon come back.

Until tomorrow,

Peace,

juli

www.coaching-forlife.com

motivational speaker, organizational consulting, executive and life coaching

PEACE Challenge: Day 29

Welcome Back to the Peace Challenge!

Be sure to go back and review each day's work beginning January 6 thru Valentine's Day

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February 4, 2010

(today we strive for more, we push ourselves a bit further, we extend into a world of peace)

In the most challenging time during you day today, extend grace to all others

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We are all doing the very best that we can do in any given moment. However, when those moments become stressed, we become confused and at times disoriented. In our own times of stress we may act in ways that we would not typically act, yes?

We do what we do from all that we have learned about the world up until that moment in time. We can only do from what we have learned. None of us has reached the point at which we no longer need to learn......not even you~

Many of us have learned to protect ourselves, our emotions, our bodies, our spirits and out of that may unintentionally hurt others, from a place of fear. If we have been hurt, we often become the one pushing others away to 'protect' ourselves from being hurt yet again-the cycle of ongoing hurt is now perpetuated yet we are not aware of our part in it.

Everyone is doing the best they can in any given moment. Today is the day to forgive and offer grace to everyone who acts in ways that upset you, anger you, frustrate you, push you to your 'window of tolerance.'

Today, find that quiet place of peace inside, and extend it out.

Feel your wise, intelligent and loving body/mind/spirit flowing with ease through life.

Choose Peace, Choose Grace, Choose to BE who you know you can truly be.

(an excerpt from my book coming out this Spring, Peace in a Broken World)

Peace,

Juli

www.coaching-forlife.com

motivational trainer/organizational consulting/life coach/relationship expert

PEACE Challenge: Day 28

Welcome Back to the Peace Challenge 2010

For 40 days, beginning January 6 and ending on Valentine's Day, the day of love, we are working collectively to bring nothing but peace to life~

I encourage you to go back and read each daily post beginning Jan. 6 and to print them out, forward them at work, to your family and friends and to join us in Bringing Peace to 2010

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February 3, 2010

Day 28

No fighting, with yourself .....or others

In a coaching session yesterday, a newer client said to me, "I feel so stuck, I am in a rut and I know it but have absolutely no idea which way to turn, what to do, how to be or how to really change. I am stuck...."

I took a very deep couple of breaths (we had been through this same dialogue several times already) and from somewhere deep within, I replied, "I encourage you to just stop fighting and give it all up."

We were both silent, completely silent for a moment or two at which point I gently reminded her to simply breathe....and the flood gates opened. And I mean OPENED. The fight finally came out, poured out in tears and sobs and more tears for many minutes. No words, just a full, huge release of what she had been fighting with for years.

When I encourage clients to give it up and stop fighting, I am in no way implying defeat, but am instead implying victory. Fighting will never produce a real winner, for even the 'winner' must live with whatever was done to the other in order to 'win.' Fighting off what makes you feel bad, makes you feel bad, which induces the fight which makes you feel bad.....

You and I and everyone, every client (nobody is beyond the hope of healing, nobody) has an incredible source INSIDE of us, that is wise, intelligent and spirited. This source inside of us is a power if you will, a drive, a force and is infinite in spirit.

This source is waiting for you to call on it, to give in to divine surrender, to know that once you can get quiet enough to listen to what you know is right and true and just, and to follow that, you will find peace. This source is IN you, it is not anywhere outside of you. You have been made to manifest the Glory of God in all you do, and the power to do so was gifted to you at conception.

You just have to be quiet enough, removed enough from the noise of your day, to hear it and to listen and to follow.

Even in the times when we alone may not have the energy or wisdom to navigate a challenging time, situation or relationship, there is something inside of us that does.

Only in quieting the mind, calming the body and lighting the spirit can we experience the divine surrender that will offer the guidance we long for, instead of reacting to the conditions outside of us that keep us 'stuck' and overwhelmed.

Today, no more fighting; seek this source, merge with in in body/mind/spirit and feel peace infiltrate as you never have.

Until tomorrow,

Peace,

Juli

www.coaching-forlife.com

PEACE Challenge

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Thanks so much to all of you for the messages about our email and website issues. We are working on them and both should be back up within a couple of days.

Counting down, 18 days to go!

Welcome back to the Peace Challenge. Take this challenge as a family, at work or in your social/support groups but take the challenge! Go back and read the daily notes encouraging you toward increased peace beginning January 6, 2010-

Today:

If there were a tape recorder publicly announcing all of the thoughts running through your mind, hour by hour, minute by minute would you be content with others knowing how you truly feel and what you truly think?

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If the whole world could read that which you think, and feel, would the world be blessed by your presence? Sometimes our thoughts run just below the surface of consciousness and they become angry, resentful, jealous, or down right mean toward others. In truth, those thoughts are just as damaging to the thinker than to others, and perhaps even more so.

Work to 'awaken' to the very thoughts that rule your day. Work to consciously, intentionally and purposefully fill your mind/body/spirit with loving, peaceful and kind thoughts about self and others.

There is no way to peace, when you are filled with the opposite~

Peace,
Juli
www.coaching-forlife.com

PEACE Challenge: DAY 20!!

Welcome Back to the Peace Challenge!

We are half way through our 40 day challenge, ending on Valentines Day~

a note: i received a very compelling email from a man who is following this daily, and is sad beyond belief that his wife will not engage in the challenge with him. He was seeing no reason to continue as he struggles with his family 'falling apart'.

I encourage him, as I do each of you today, to know in the deepest part of your spirit that

Peace can not be given to you, found for you or forced in you.

Every one of us longs for peace, quiet and calm. Every one of us, whether we know it or not, want more than anything, a life of ease and joy.

It is in you; you were born with it; the spirit that God gifts each of us with, a spirit full of joy, life and excitement; willing to take risks, love openly and invite any and everyone in. Remember? Can you remember the joy you once had?

It is still there, just buried by the events of this life that we mistakenly have begun to believe can consume us, so they do.

You live in this world, but are not of this world~ No event in this life can destroy you, only your reaction to it can destroy you. No person in this world can destroy you, only your reaction to them can destroy you.

Nobody can give you peace, deep internal and eternal peace, only you can do that for you. As you do this and live this more and more for you, others in your sphere will be drawn in, on their own, which is really the only way.

So, don't you dare give up on you, go back, read each post, feel what you feel, but move on~ Make Peace with you first.

Today and everyday,
Peace,
Juli
www.coaching-forlife.com

PEACE Challenge Day 18

Welcome Back to the Peace Challenge and Welcome New Members

I encourage you to view my blog from January 6 forward or visit coaching for LIFE on Facebook and follow the Peace Challenge.

You can do this as a family, at work, in your unit, or with your social/support group, but I encourage you to take the challenge!

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Monday January 25, 2010

Today, Be Nice.....All Day

It sounds so simple. Just be nice. The golden rule, do unto others....

So how did we all wind up so angry, so convinced that we are the right one, the other must be wrong, I am justified in my resentment, lack of forgiveness and rage?

Today, bring Peace.

Be Peace.

Be Nice, all day~

Peace,

Juli

www.coaching-forlife.com

PEACE Challenge: Day 15-16-17

Welcome Back to the Peace Challenge and Welcome New Members

the personal emails some of you have forwarded are very powerful, I pray that you will consider posting your comments as well, so that others may share in the journey toward peace...

Take a moment to review the blog from January 6 forward, print them out, take this challenge as a family, as a team at work or in your social/support group, but take the challenge!

Friday-Saturday-Sunday; January 22, 23 and 24 2010

Pay It Forward This Weekend

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If you have been challenging yourself daily since day one, you are no doubt discovering that Peace, true Peace, has not one thing to do with anything or anyone, but you. It is never about what is happening outside of you, but the ability to find peace, stay in peace internally regardless of that which may be occurring in our world, in your relationships, or in your family today.

Are you who you are because of who others are? Do you become angry, frustrated, loud, unhappy in response to others?

or~ Are you who you are because you know who you are, and you are a peaceful, loving, warm, friendly and generously giving person, regardless of what the world and people in it throw your way?

This weekend, you are the later. You are peace. You are forgiveness. You are calm. You are safety for others. You are living with ease in a quite mind, a calm body and your spirit is lit up with love. You remember with gratitude all that has been given you and all that you have been forgiven.

And, this weekend you take that power in peace and pay it forward.

Do something BIG. Do something real in your life. Forgive that person of long ago. Get off the couch and help a neighbor. Take a blanket to the homeless. Send more than you typically would to Haiti. Start a support group for parents who are scared, lonely and isolated.

This weekend, almost half way through our challenge; Become the Peace you long for in this World, during this lifetime.

Every breath is a second chance. Take the chance and Pay it Forward.

Peace will come. It must. It is written.

Peace,

juli

www.coaching-forlife.com

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