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2 Minute Tip ~ #12 Negative Voice

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We all have these voices in our heads that seem to try to bring us down and dash our hopes; that don’t seem to have any real usefulness. What do you do when the voice in your head starts talking negative?

Welcome to Mindfully Organized 2-Minute Tips I’m Rose Hawley-Perry,  The Declutter Your Mind So Your Soul Can Shine Coach and I’m here to tell you that everyone has a little negative voice in your head… in their heads… even the people that seem to have it all together.

What you do when your negative voice starts to get loud and affect what you’re doing? The very first thing you need to do is remember that just because it’s in your mind it does not mean that it’s true. You’re mind’s kind of like receiver box. It’s full of all kinds of different television channels. Some are good. Some are bad. Some you could care less about. You get to choose what to dial into when the negative voices are in there. It’s a choice to stay on that channel.

The very first thing you need to do is sit down and listen to what the negative voices have to say. There might be something in there that you need to hear. That negative voice is often there just to protect you. So, sit down and listen. There may be something wrong with the situation that maybe not coming up as clearly, but it may be there.

If it’s just an old “I’m not good enough”, “I can’t do this”; that it might be some old programming and you need to change the channel. So how do you change the channel? There’s a lot of techniques. You can use mantras to, kind of, ease your spirit. You can give your negative voice a different job. You can focus through the fear which I talk about in a previous two minute tip. Anything to, kind of, take your mind back into a positive place. So, the next time you have some negative voices rolling through your heads, stop, listen, and then change the channel.

Let’s keep the conversation going.  Leave me a comment and let me know how you deal with the negative voice inside your head.  I will personally respond to each comment.

2 Minute Tip #10 ~ Focus Through the Fear

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What do you do when you get anxious about your business?

Welcome to Mindfully Organized Two Minutes Tips. I’m Rose Hawley-Perry, the De-Clutter Your Mind So Your Soul Can Shine Coach, and I’m here to talk to you today about what to do when your fear starts overwhelming you.

If you’re like a lot of people, you’ll do anything except work on what’s making you anxious. It may be time to try another tactic. The next time that anxiety rears its ugly head, try working through it.

What do I mean by that? Do something for your business. Anything! Your mind can’t focus on two things at one time, so if you change your focus from your anxiety to your business you’re doing something more productive.

This actually has a few benefits: The first being that you’re not in anxiety, you’re moving forward, you are creating positive momentum. Even if the things you are working on aren’t the most perfect things to work on your moving forward.

One of the other benefits I want to talk about is the fact that just starting to work gives us direction and a lot of times our anxiety comes up because we don’t have direction. When we focus on one thing and we start getting it done, it allows us to open up and be ready for the possibilities that the universe has to throw at us, and when we’re closed off, and we’re tight, and we’re anxious, we’re not open to these possibilities.

You might even find yourself inspired to change course and that’s okay. In fact, we’ll talk about that a little bit more next week.

This isn’t meant to turn you into a workaholic. This is just meant to focus you. So make sure that you’re doing the things you need to do to take care of yourself, that you’re spending time with your friends and your family. But, if you have time to work on your business and you’re finding yourself stuck in anxiety, I want you to choose to work on something.

What do you do to get out of fear and anxiety?  Share with us and keep the conversation going!

2 Minute Tips ~ #5 Dealing with Difficult People

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Have you ever said something that you really, really regret?

Welcome to Mindfully Organized 2 Minute tips I am Rose Hawley-Perry, The Declutter Your Mind So Your Soul Can Shine Coach and in today’s episode I am going give you a few pointers on making more conscious choices in our responses to others.

Before all else you must take responsibility for your own actions.  Unless someone has physically made you do something, they don’t actually make you do anything.  The part that is theirs is their behavior.  That gets processed by your brain, filtered through your stories, your experience, your expectations and then turns it into YOUR reaction.

Have you ever had a person in your life that other friends got along with just fine, but they just pushed all the wrong buttons for you?  That is because their behavior gets filtered through your brain.

So, how do you start becoming more conscious and less reactive? Anywhere you can.  It takes practice and it seems like a lot of work.  But in reality, it is less work, because you get to decide when you want to do something.  You get to decide when to ignore something.  You and only you get to decide how you are going to spend your energy. I am not saying that getting angry or having a good cry isn’t the right reaction.  I am just saying you get to decide.

Most important, give yourself time to think before you speak. Do NOT respond too quickly.  We are taught that we need to answer quickly and decisively and that is false.  Take a breath.  If the situation allows step away, if it doesn’t say, Let me think about this for a minute.

Then decide what the most important outcome is for you in the situation.  If you are talking to a co-worker and they insulted you, but you need them to get something done yesterday, following up on the insulting part of the conversation right this minute may not be the best response.

What do you think? I love to hear your opinions so let a comment below and let’s talk. 🙂

2 Minute Tips #4 – Packing

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Have a trip coming up?  Don’t know when you are going to find the time to pack?  Tired of forgetting something important?

Welcome to the next video in the Mindfully Organized 2 Minute tip series. In today’s episode I am going to give you some tips on packing effectively with less stress.

First thing first is to get it all out of your head.  Hmm does that sound like last week?  Your brain can only think of so many things at one time.  So pull out your journal, a pretty piece of paper, Evernote, whatever works for you right now.  Start making a list of everything you want to take with you.

Ask yourself a couple of key questions?

  • What is the weather going to be like?
  • Are there any events where I need something I don’t normally wear?
  • Will I need exercise gear or a swim suit?
  • Will I have access to laundry?
  • What have I forgotten before?

Now when you think of something else you can just pull out your list and add it on.

A few days or week before you go pull out your suitcase.  As you see items you may want, as you fold laundry, as you think of things take those items and drop them into your bag.  You will probably end up with too much stuff but you will be creating a starting point for your packing.  and Your favorite leggings will be in your suitcase not in the laundry.

When the time comes to pack lay out all the items on the bed check your list and decide what to take.

I made a generic packing list document that you  can use as a starting point.

PDF Version of Packing List for Printing
Excel Version of Packing List for Customizing

What do you think?  What tricks do you have for destressing and simplifying packing?  Leave a comment below and share will all of us!

Mindfully Organized 2 Minute Tips #1 – Getting Projects Done

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Have you ever contemplated a project or multiple projects you wanted to compete and thought, how in the world am I ever going to get these done with everything I have going on right now?

Welcome to the first video in the Mindfully Organized 2 Minute tip series. In today’s episode I am going to give you some tips to getting those projects you have been hoping to do, finished and reduce your stress at the same time.  Sound too good to be true?  They actually go hand in hand.

First thing, first, is to GET IT ALL OUT OF YOUR HEAD.

Your brain can’t focus when it has to remember too many things all at once!  So pull out your computer, your journal, your favorite to-do-list program, mind-mapping software, poster board and pens whatever works for you and start downloading.

This is not the final list you will be working from it doesn’t have to be perfect this is just a brain dump. Get it out where you can see it.

You will find that for the next day or so you will need to add things to the list as your brain processes. Get your project chunked into small actionable tasks.

Not build website, but

~Chose tagline ~find headshot ~write homepage copy

Now the key to choosing what to do next is to ask yourself a couple of key questions. The same kind of questions I ask my coaching clients.

~What has an immediate deadline? ~What is most important to move the project along? ~Can I concentrate on just one project?

If you have a really old project hanging over your head ask yourself, do I really want to do this project?  What is getting in my way?

Now schedule for the coming week at least one task per day.  If you are working on your business, I actually suggest 3 tasks per day. Before you know it the project will be done.

What do you think?  What have you found to be the best way to get projects started and rolling along?  Leave me a comment below.

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