Was 2009 Your Best Year Yet?

POWERFUL LIVING, POWERFUL YOU This Week's Topic: Was 2009 Your Best Year Yet? This Week's Topic: Was 2009 Your Best Year Yet? Dear Friend, "There's no disaster that can't become a blessing, and no blessing that can't become a disaster." ~Richard Bach Can you believe we are upon the New Year? 2010 is nearly here, and 2009 is almost behind us. This week I want you to review 2009 - the truth - the things that worked and the things that didn't. By reflecting upon where we have travelled we can acknowledge the things that worked and continue them in 2010. As importantly identifying where we have faltered allows us to adjust what didn't work. What were your goals in 2009? Was 2009 Your Best Year Yet? Before we leave this year, here are seven questions to consider: 1) Did you achieve what you set out to in 2009? 2) What were your successes? 3) What were your failures? 4) Have you credited yourself and celebrated your successes? (The 31st might be a fun time to do this.) 5) Have you made note of where you stumbled? Are some of these goals moot? 6) Describe the best version of you...how do you live up to that daily? 7) If you could meaningfully change one thing in your life what would it be and how might you make that change? (This must be something authentic...not a should or an ought to...) Make It Happen This week I hope that you have joyous celebrations with your family and friends. Keep your focus tuned into the blessings in your life. Treasure each family member and celebrate what they bring to the table of your life. Try to find a few quiet moments before and after the fun to consider the questions above. We will use your answers to these questions as a basis for planning 2010. Regardless if 2009 was your best year yet or if it left a lot to be desired keep your eyes on the bountiful blessings in your life. Next week we will focus on creating your vision for 2010! Blessings to you for a warm and joyous Holiday! Ignite Your Fire - 8 Week Challenge !!!Your Challenge is Over!!! Wow you have arrived! It is time for you to celebrate your success...don't minimize what you've accomplished. Celebrate what you achieved and take a few minutes on the 31st to celebrate where you've travelled over the last 8 weeks and over the last year!!! Blessings to you, Margaret. P.S. Encourage your friends, family, and colleagues by sharing this newsletter with them and invite them to subscribe! Direct them to www.MargaretPundmann.com where they can sign up. Margaret Pundmann is a life and business coach, speaker, and author of numerous articles on living your most powerful life. Stay tuned, Margaret's first book for emerging women will be available for pre-order in the coming weeks. To ensure you receive our newsletter each week, add Margaret@MargaretPundmann.com to your address book or your approved list of senders. Please feel free to forward the "Powerful Living, Powerful You" newsletter to friends and colleagues, but please forward in its entirety. The "Powerful Living, Powerful You" newsletter is written and distributed by Emerge Enterprise. Copyright © 2008 Margaret Pundmann. All rights reserved. www.MargaretPundmann.com.

How Can You Create A Clean Slate?

Dear Friend,

"A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step." ~Lao Tsu   This is the second full week of the New Year. Many of us view this year as an opportunity to have a tabula rasa, Latin for "scraped tablet" or in other words a clean slate. This clean slate enables us to forge ahead and create new things in our life. However, a clean slate doesn't come just because it is a new year. We can be available for fresh starts, at many points in our life irrespective of the calendar. Yet, often we must get-rid-of in order to be ready for a fresh start and to have a clean slate.   This week I'd like you to think about what you need in your life in order to have a clean slate for 2009. Having a fresh start will allow you the space mentally, the space physically and the space emotionally to accomplish the goals you've created for the coming year.   In the last three weeks I've asked you to reflect on 2008 - celebrate what worked and identify what you want to change, I asked you to identify six goals for 2009and last week I asked you to create a plan to achieve your goals. Together we have visited the past to gather lessons, we've gone into the future to contemplate what you want to accomplish in 2009, and we've focused on what steps you need to take to accomplish your goals.   This week, I'm asking you to step into the present. Consider what in your life needs to change or what space you need to open up in order to follow through with your plans and ultimately realize your goals for 2009.   Consider what type of space you need - mentally, physically and emotionally and how might you achieve this space? If you need mental space perhaps you make some quiet time each day on your drive to and from work, savor meditation, or enjoy a yoga class. If you need physical space perhaps you take ten minutes each day this week to de-clutter the surface of your desk, organize your mail, or file 2008 papers. If you need emotional space, perhaps laughter with some friends, service to those in need, prayer, a romantic comedy, or a good run in the cold crisp air will give you breathing room. You may even need an entire day of rest. Consider taking a sabbatical-day or a sabbatical-afternoon so that you have the space and rest to clean your slate mentally, physically and emotionally in the best way for you.   Make It Happen Make a conscious effort to examine what type of space you need in your life. Take this week and search your soul for your truth, what you need to make 2009 Your Best Year! Only you know exactly what you need right now. Blessings to you as you create your tabula rasa.

Blessings to you, Margaret.