I’m guessing that you have a lot on your plate right now, that you are busy-bee’ing around getting things done in time for Christmas/the holidays, so you can relax and enjoy a cozy time with friends and loved ones? Maybe you’re already in holiday mode? (I know I am!)
Either way, I’m also guessing that Blog-hopping etc. may not rank high on your agenda right now..?
Today’s post is a short one. I simply want to just quickly let you know what will be happening on my part for the next couple of weeks, AND then of course I want to wish you happy holidays, whichever way you are celebrating.
May you have the best and most magical, wonderful time with lots of coziness, love and sharing, lots of joy, fun and laughter, and an abundance of peace and calm and blessings!
Many thoughts and lots of love to you and your family and loved ones.
I will be staying in Denmark for the holidays, celebrating Christmas with my family.
My partner will be joining us on the 24th. I LOVE Christmas – I’m still very much a child in that way. In fact so much so that I have chosen to retire from the business side of things early this year.
Therefore, tomorrow’s (Tuesday’s ) show on Real Coaching Radio Network will be a re-run of a previous show again (last week was canceled last minute by RCRN due to a technical fault).
However, look forward to a great show on December 29 where we will pick up where we left off with Intuition – Listening to Your Inner Voice.
I will include a reminder for that topic in next week’s article.
Please remember that I would absolutely LOVE to hear from you LIVE on the show if you have a story to share about a time or situation where listening to your inner voice and following your intuition led to something spectacular or created an amazing outcome. You can call in during the show or better still; mail me in advance to let me know that you would like to come on and tell your story. This will give you more time to elaborate on what happened and why, what led to this event, and where did it take you? Mail me here: contact "at" suzannrye.com
Join the show here: realcoachingradio.net
Recap…
MERRY CHRISTMAS, HAPPY HOLIDAYS - Have a wonderful time!
This Week's - Your Voice Is Your Calling Card - Show on Real Coaching Radio Network, Tuesday 1 pm (13:00) EST/19:00 CET.
This week’s show will be a re-run of an earlier show.
PLUS…enjoy these Christmas Quotes…
“I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.”
Charles Dickens.
“What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future. It is a fervent wish that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and eternal, and that every path may lead to peace.”
Agnes M. Pharo
“Remember, this December, that love weighs more than gold.”
Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon
“Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect.”
Oren Arnold
To Your Inspired Joy and Success!
Have a wonderful week ahead!
Love,
Suzann.
Suzann Rye
Empowering Voice and Spirit
#1 Bestselling Author of Your Voice Is Your Calling Card; How to Power-Charge Your Voice, Boost Your Confidence, and Speak with Joy, Ease, and Conviction.
(The above contains excerpts from this book. Get it here: Your Voice Is Your Calling Card
Host of the Suzann Rye - Your Voice is Your Calling Card - Radio Show
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“There can be no powerful Voice without a powerful Spirit and no Spirit will truly thrive without allowing the Voice to speak its truth”.
Monday, December 21, 2009
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Quick important announcement!
Today's show on RCRN on Intuition - Listening to Your Inner Voice has been canceled due to tech problems. The show will be re-scheduled. I will let you guys know. So sorry :) Have a great day/evening. Love S
Monday, December 14, 2009
Intuition – Listening To your Inner Voice
How and why do we sometimes lose touch our own inner voice, and what can we do to restore the connection. Why are we afraid to listen to the profound inner knowing and wisdom that we all possess?
Recently I found myself in deep conversation with the mother of a close friend. We were discussing her life situation – if and how she could and should make some quite challenging changes in her life. I was impressed with her openness and willingness to learn from someone much younger than herself. At some point she asked me: “How on earth do you know all the things you know…”?
I was struck by her question, and initially I went through all the logical explanations in my head that could have lead me to where I am today. Then I simply said; “I listen”…
I believe that we are all born with infinite wisdom. Unfortunately we tend to “forget” what we know in order for us to better blend in with the communities that we have created. As a result we become more and more unhappy and unfulfilled because part of us still holds on to the original plan – the one that resonates with who we really are and what we came here to do.
And so we experience an imbalance between what we think we have to do and how we have to live – and what our “Little Voice”, our inner voice, or intuition, guides us towards. This imbalance can become almost unbearable. We get stuck and don’t know which direction to take.
So what happens if we simply let go of all the ideas about what we “must” and “should” do, and instead do what we feel called to do? What happens if we allow ourselves to listen.
Join me for an inspiring talk about Intuition and Listening to Your Inner Voice.
What: Your Voice Is Your Calling Card Show with Suzann Rye
When: Tuesday December 15 at 1 pm (13:00) EST/19:00 CET.
This Week’s Topic: Intuition – Listening To your Inner Voice.
Where: Real Coaching Radio Network realcoachingradio.net
And don’t forget; I would love to hear from you as well LIVE during the program. If you have questions, comments or something special that you’d like to share on the show, please get in touch. You can call us or text us via chat. You can even connect your camera so we can see you as well.
Also, remember that you can always sign up for the show podcasts on iTunand download the audios + a snippet of the video from each show. Simply go to iTunes and search for Suzann Rye and the show schedule will pop up. Remember that you can always sign up for the show podcasts on iTunes and download the audios + a snippet of the video from each show. Simply go to iTunes and search for Suzann Rye and the show schedule will pop up.
To Your Inspired Speaking Joy and Success!
Have a GREAT week ahead!
Love,
Suzann.
Suzann Rye
Empowering Voice and Spirit
#1 Bestselling Author of Your Voice Is Your Calling Card; How to Power-Charge Your Voice, Boost Your Confidence, and Speak with Joy, Ease, and Conviction.
(The above contains excerpts from this book. Get it here: Your Voice Is Your Calling Card
Host of the Suzann Rye - Your Voice is Your Calling Card - Radio Show
realcoachingradio.net
Course leader of Your Voice is Your Calling Card Breakthrough Course on My RX for Living.com
Enroll now: Breakthrough Coaching
Suzann Rye FREE eZine/newsletter & eCourse: FREE Sign Up
“There can be no powerful Voice without a powerful Spirit and no Spirit will truly thrive without allowing the Voice to speak its truth”.
Recently I found myself in deep conversation with the mother of a close friend. We were discussing her life situation – if and how she could and should make some quite challenging changes in her life. I was impressed with her openness and willingness to learn from someone much younger than herself. At some point she asked me: “How on earth do you know all the things you know…”?
I was struck by her question, and initially I went through all the logical explanations in my head that could have lead me to where I am today. Then I simply said; “I listen”…
I believe that we are all born with infinite wisdom. Unfortunately we tend to “forget” what we know in order for us to better blend in with the communities that we have created. As a result we become more and more unhappy and unfulfilled because part of us still holds on to the original plan – the one that resonates with who we really are and what we came here to do.
And so we experience an imbalance between what we think we have to do and how we have to live – and what our “Little Voice”, our inner voice, or intuition, guides us towards. This imbalance can become almost unbearable. We get stuck and don’t know which direction to take.
So what happens if we simply let go of all the ideas about what we “must” and “should” do, and instead do what we feel called to do? What happens if we allow ourselves to listen.
Join me for an inspiring talk about Intuition and Listening to Your Inner Voice.
What: Your Voice Is Your Calling Card Show with Suzann Rye
When: Tuesday December 15 at 1 pm (13:00) EST/19:00 CET.
This Week’s Topic: Intuition – Listening To your Inner Voice.
Where: Real Coaching Radio Network realcoachingradio.net
And don’t forget; I would love to hear from you as well LIVE during the program. If you have questions, comments or something special that you’d like to share on the show, please get in touch. You can call us or text us via chat. You can even connect your camera so we can see you as well.
Also, remember that you can always sign up for the show podcasts on iTunand download the audios + a snippet of the video from each show. Simply go to iTunes and search for Suzann Rye and the show schedule will pop up. Remember that you can always sign up for the show podcasts on iTunes and download the audios + a snippet of the video from each show. Simply go to iTunes and search for Suzann Rye and the show schedule will pop up.
To Your Inspired Speaking Joy and Success!
Have a GREAT week ahead!
Love,
Suzann.
Suzann Rye
Empowering Voice and Spirit
#1 Bestselling Author of Your Voice Is Your Calling Card; How to Power-Charge Your Voice, Boost Your Confidence, and Speak with Joy, Ease, and Conviction.
(The above contains excerpts from this book. Get it here: Your Voice Is Your Calling Card
Host of the Suzann Rye - Your Voice is Your Calling Card - Radio Show
realcoachingradio.net
Course leader of Your Voice is Your Calling Card Breakthrough Course on My RX for Living.com
Enroll now: Breakthrough Coaching
Suzann Rye FREE eZine/newsletter & eCourse: FREE Sign Up
“There can be no powerful Voice without a powerful Spirit and no Spirit will truly thrive without allowing the Voice to speak its truth”.
But I Just Wanna Bake Cookies With The Kids And Cut The Grass...
Some people may feel genuinely happy and content living a subtle, quiet, and simple life. They don’t feel like they have any major ambitions other than taking each day as it comes and enjoying time with their loved ones. They don’t need to explore or expand any further. Some people find their purpose in devoting their life to a cause or to worship. Some people see themselves as a vehicle for other people’s success. They are perfectly happy living somebody else’s dream and never really making any fuss about their own.
They have made their decision. They have found their truth—what’s right for them. They are at peace with themselves, and they are in fact living their dream.
It’s really important to remember that what’s right for one person may not be right for another—and that’s OK.
It is also important to recognize that dreams can change, because we, as people, change. That means that our priorities change too. Sometimes we come to a point where we need to re-evaluate the dream that we are currently living. Does it still hold? Does it still excite and fulfill us, or is it time to move on?
If our needs and priorities have changed, the dream must change too. We have to let go of the old vision and allow the seeds of a new one to blossom. This is not giving up. This is being aware enough to know when it’s time to do some spring cleaning.
Self-development, fulfillment, and self-realization are very much in focus these days, and coaching has become second nature to many people. As much as this is largely a wonderful thing, it can also trap us into feeling that if we’re not heavily drawn into all of this and if we’re not wildly ambitious—there must be something wrong with us! It is easy sometimes to lose sight of ourselves and our own personal, individual needs and priorities. In today’s world, we are constantly being bombarded with information and images that we are told are supposed to make us happier, more fulfilled, more popular, more beautiful, more loved, more famous, wealthier, and so on. No wonder so many of us suffer from stress trying to keep up! That’s invasive programming right there.
Stop and think. If what you really want and enjoy is a nice, quiet everyday life, working a regular job, cooking dinner, doing a bit of gardening, walking the dog, and spending quality time with your friends and family, then that’s exactly what you should do! Nothing wrong with that whatsoever. Don’t feel that you have to have huge ambitions for something else if that’s really not you. Don’t feel that just because someone else wants to change their life around and move in a different direction, you have to feel that way too. If you are perfectly happy where you are, why on earth should you change that?
The core principles of coaching and any kind of self-development are really about identifying your needs and priorities and fulfilling them because when you do, you feel happy. You will pass that on to other people too.
I cannot count the times when I wished that I was one of those people for whom baking cookies and cutting the grass was genuinely enough. I honestly look at people like that and think to myself, “They have it all worked out.” They have found their bliss, their peace, and their purpose in the small, simple things in life—the very core values like family, community, and close-knit friendships that last for life, hanging out on weekends in the garden, popping in to see a friend for a cup of coffee and ending up staying for five hours chatting about something not really important but still wonderful . . .
Isn’t that really what life is all about—caring for one another and enjoying time together? As a coach, I put myself in an unusual position when I say: Who cares about how many things you achieve today? There’s a new day tomorrow—relax!
But I’m dead serious. If you’re the one with the cookies in the oven, I salute you! In this day and age, you are a rare species. I bet you are a lot less stressed and a lot happier than most of your ambitious friends, right? So stay that way. Relish the fact that you have remained untainted by the super-high-achiever-syndrome of the twenty-first century.
So now I have possibly confused you. Am I now telling you not to follow your dreams and pursue your goals?
No, I am not! I’m telling you to recognize your dream, whatever it is, and go for that. If it happens to be baking cookies and tending to the garden, then great! Will you feel excited about it every single day of your life? Probably not, but mostly—and that’s good enough; in fact, that’s pretty darn fantastic.
With all of my travels—with all of my exciting, and, at times, exotic adventures—I still feel like I’m somehow missing out. Of course I have close friends and a wonderful family, but they’re spread out all over the world, and having a typical birthday party with all of them is simply not an option. So I look at my old childhood friend with her house full of kids and friends and busy Sundays by the stove, and I tell her how lucky she is. “Are you crazy?” she says. “You’re the lucky one. Look at all the exciting stuff you have going on!” And we laugh, because isn’t that just how we all are—always thinking the grass is greener on the other side?
However, she knows and I know that we could never change places. She could never live my life, nor I hers. We would both go nuts.
We are who we are, and we have different dreams, goals, and purposes to fulfill in our own way. We have different paths to take. No one path is any better than another. But one path is right for you.
My friend always wanted a steady job, kids, and a husband who had a steady job too. As far back as I can remember, she dreamed about what their house would look like and how everyone would gather on the weekends for freshly baked bread with butter and homemade jam and hot chocolate. And they would play cards and watch movies and eat popcorn. This is her life. She is living her dream.
I, on the other hand, always had this urge inside of me to go out and do all these wild, worldly things that seemed nearly impossible. Why—am I crazy? Perhaps, but it’s who I am. I dreamed of being a pop star and traveling the world; I dreamed about writing music and publishing books; I wanted to speak to people and tell them my ideas about life and freedom and to encourage them to follow their dreams; and I wanted to never have to get up early in the morning, because I hated that!
This is what I did. Most of it is what I still do.
I grew up in a small place—five million people total—with a funny language... (By the way, that’s five million in the entire country, not the nearest town.) Not exactly a head start if you want to take on the world.
How did I succeed in doing all these nearly “impossible” things?
Well, I guess I didn’t know it at the time, but already as a child, I had a very strong vision—just like my friend. And we both created exactly what we “saw.”
Anyone can do that.
But many don’t.
The above ercerpt is taken from "The Path To Freedom" by Suzann Rye available here: www.suzannrye.com/books
Have a great day!
Love and Joy to you,
Suzann.
Suzann Rye
Empowering Voice and Spirit
#1 Bestselling Author of Your Voice Is Your Calling Card; How to Power-Charge Your Voice, Boost Your Confidence, and Speak with Joy, Ease, and Conviction.
(The above contains excerpts from this book. Get it here: Your Voice Is Your Calling Card
Host of the Suzann Rye - Your Voice is Your Calling Card - Radio Show
realcoachingradio.net
Course leader of Your Voice is Your Calling Card Breakthrough Course on My RX for Living.com
Enroll now: Breakthrough Coaching
Suzann Rye FREE eZine/newsletter & eCourse: FREE Sign Up
“There can be no powerful Voice without a powerful Spirit and no Spirit will truly thrive without allowing the Voice to speak its truth”.
They have made their decision. They have found their truth—what’s right for them. They are at peace with themselves, and they are in fact living their dream.
It’s really important to remember that what’s right for one person may not be right for another—and that’s OK.
It is also important to recognize that dreams can change, because we, as people, change. That means that our priorities change too. Sometimes we come to a point where we need to re-evaluate the dream that we are currently living. Does it still hold? Does it still excite and fulfill us, or is it time to move on?
If our needs and priorities have changed, the dream must change too. We have to let go of the old vision and allow the seeds of a new one to blossom. This is not giving up. This is being aware enough to know when it’s time to do some spring cleaning.
Self-development, fulfillment, and self-realization are very much in focus these days, and coaching has become second nature to many people. As much as this is largely a wonderful thing, it can also trap us into feeling that if we’re not heavily drawn into all of this and if we’re not wildly ambitious—there must be something wrong with us! It is easy sometimes to lose sight of ourselves and our own personal, individual needs and priorities. In today’s world, we are constantly being bombarded with information and images that we are told are supposed to make us happier, more fulfilled, more popular, more beautiful, more loved, more famous, wealthier, and so on. No wonder so many of us suffer from stress trying to keep up! That’s invasive programming right there.
Stop and think. If what you really want and enjoy is a nice, quiet everyday life, working a regular job, cooking dinner, doing a bit of gardening, walking the dog, and spending quality time with your friends and family, then that’s exactly what you should do! Nothing wrong with that whatsoever. Don’t feel that you have to have huge ambitions for something else if that’s really not you. Don’t feel that just because someone else wants to change their life around and move in a different direction, you have to feel that way too. If you are perfectly happy where you are, why on earth should you change that?
The core principles of coaching and any kind of self-development are really about identifying your needs and priorities and fulfilling them because when you do, you feel happy. You will pass that on to other people too.
I cannot count the times when I wished that I was one of those people for whom baking cookies and cutting the grass was genuinely enough. I honestly look at people like that and think to myself, “They have it all worked out.” They have found their bliss, their peace, and their purpose in the small, simple things in life—the very core values like family, community, and close-knit friendships that last for life, hanging out on weekends in the garden, popping in to see a friend for a cup of coffee and ending up staying for five hours chatting about something not really important but still wonderful . . .
Isn’t that really what life is all about—caring for one another and enjoying time together? As a coach, I put myself in an unusual position when I say: Who cares about how many things you achieve today? There’s a new day tomorrow—relax!
But I’m dead serious. If you’re the one with the cookies in the oven, I salute you! In this day and age, you are a rare species. I bet you are a lot less stressed and a lot happier than most of your ambitious friends, right? So stay that way. Relish the fact that you have remained untainted by the super-high-achiever-syndrome of the twenty-first century.
So now I have possibly confused you. Am I now telling you not to follow your dreams and pursue your goals?
No, I am not! I’m telling you to recognize your dream, whatever it is, and go for that. If it happens to be baking cookies and tending to the garden, then great! Will you feel excited about it every single day of your life? Probably not, but mostly—and that’s good enough; in fact, that’s pretty darn fantastic.
With all of my travels—with all of my exciting, and, at times, exotic adventures—I still feel like I’m somehow missing out. Of course I have close friends and a wonderful family, but they’re spread out all over the world, and having a typical birthday party with all of them is simply not an option. So I look at my old childhood friend with her house full of kids and friends and busy Sundays by the stove, and I tell her how lucky she is. “Are you crazy?” she says. “You’re the lucky one. Look at all the exciting stuff you have going on!” And we laugh, because isn’t that just how we all are—always thinking the grass is greener on the other side?
However, she knows and I know that we could never change places. She could never live my life, nor I hers. We would both go nuts.
We are who we are, and we have different dreams, goals, and purposes to fulfill in our own way. We have different paths to take. No one path is any better than another. But one path is right for you.
My friend always wanted a steady job, kids, and a husband who had a steady job too. As far back as I can remember, she dreamed about what their house would look like and how everyone would gather on the weekends for freshly baked bread with butter and homemade jam and hot chocolate. And they would play cards and watch movies and eat popcorn. This is her life. She is living her dream.
I, on the other hand, always had this urge inside of me to go out and do all these wild, worldly things that seemed nearly impossible. Why—am I crazy? Perhaps, but it’s who I am. I dreamed of being a pop star and traveling the world; I dreamed about writing music and publishing books; I wanted to speak to people and tell them my ideas about life and freedom and to encourage them to follow their dreams; and I wanted to never have to get up early in the morning, because I hated that!
This is what I did. Most of it is what I still do.
I grew up in a small place—five million people total—with a funny language... (By the way, that’s five million in the entire country, not the nearest town.) Not exactly a head start if you want to take on the world.
How did I succeed in doing all these nearly “impossible” things?
Well, I guess I didn’t know it at the time, but already as a child, I had a very strong vision—just like my friend. And we both created exactly what we “saw.”
Anyone can do that.
But many don’t.
The above ercerpt is taken from "The Path To Freedom" by Suzann Rye available here: www.suzannrye.com/books
Have a great day!
Love and Joy to you,
Suzann.
Suzann Rye
Empowering Voice and Spirit
#1 Bestselling Author of Your Voice Is Your Calling Card; How to Power-Charge Your Voice, Boost Your Confidence, and Speak with Joy, Ease, and Conviction.
(The above contains excerpts from this book. Get it here: Your Voice Is Your Calling Card
Host of the Suzann Rye - Your Voice is Your Calling Card - Radio Show
realcoachingradio.net
Course leader of Your Voice is Your Calling Card Breakthrough Course on My RX for Living.com
Enroll now: Breakthrough Coaching
Suzann Rye FREE eZine/newsletter & eCourse: FREE Sign Up
“There can be no powerful Voice without a powerful Spirit and no Spirit will truly thrive without allowing the Voice to speak its truth”.
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