March's Recap

March's Recap - March into March by Simplifying

Week 12 - Six Strategies to Clear Mental Clutter

1) Get a notebook

2) Complete the uncompleted

3) Drop what isn't working

4) Schedule time weekly to regroup and monthly to plan

5) Move - physically

6) Stay in the present moment

Week 11 - Simplify - Clear Your Clutter

-Establish ground rules for your home

-Everything in your home is either functional, beautiful or both

-Everything in your home has a "home base" where it "lives"

Before you buy new things ask yourself:

1) Where will this item "live" in my home?

2) What am I going to do with it...beauty or practical use?

3) What can I donate, give away, sell or toss to make room for my new treasure?

Week 10 - Simplify - Tidy Your Finances

-Take a look at your finances

-Organize your papers

-Use Suze Orman's article in O Magazine as a roadmap

Week 9 Simplify - Your Purse & Wallet

-Set aside 20 min to clearn your purse and wallet

-Reduce the amount of stuff

-Rethink what you actually need

-Eliminate the excess

Six Strategies to Clear Your Mental Clutter

Dear Friend, "A house that is cluttered is usually lived in by people whose minds are also cluttered, who need to simplify their lives. This begins with simplifying and clarifying their thinking. Mind and life need to be freed from the "disorder of the unnecessary." ~Elisabeth Elliott

Much of our energy is drained by both mental and physical clutter. The last several weeks we've focused on our physical surroundings. This week we turn to the mental clutter that - drains your energy, robs your time, makes us less effective and really we feel badly about our inability to move forward. Enjoy six strategies to clear your mental clutter.

Six Strategies to Clear your Mental Clutter

1) Get a notebook - use this for ALL of your to do lists, thoughts and notes ... no more post it's strewn throughout your home, car and purse! If you want to ratchet up your organization - create a tab for each family member, work, home, errands and any other large project in your life.

2) Complete the uncompleted - complete all that hangs in the balance be it a never ending work project or your child's picture book. We all benefit from deadlines, make one for the projects that need to be completed. If it doesn't need to be completed...see #3.

3) Drop what isn't working - from the wrong workout to toxic friends - say yes to yourself and no to what doesn't work.

4) Schedule time weekly to regroup AND schedule time monthly to plan - for some this will be an entire day for others it may be one hour - take what you need to eliminate the loose ends from your life and refocus your priorities.

5) Move - if you find that you are having trouble moving forward mentally - then make strides physically. Go for a ten minute walk -studies illustrate that even ten minutes of physical activity has emotional and physical benefits.

6) Stay in the present moment - truly the only time we have isn't what has already passed or what might be ahead, but rather the present moment. The moment that exists right now. Embrace the moment...it is simply, but not easy. If you struggle return to your breath to be centered.

Make It Happen

This week work on clearing your mental clutter. Use these six strategies to attack two projects - one personal, one professional. May you be blessed, for you are a blessing! God Bless, Margaret. 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. The "Powerful Living, Powerful You" newsletter is written and distributed by Emerge Enterprise. Copyright © 2010 Margaret Pundmann. All rights reserved. www.MargaretPundmann.com.

Simplify Your Life - Tidy Your Finances

http://docs.google.com/View?id=dg8k56jg_245fwpmbshb Dear Friend, "I am believer that orderliness begets wealth." ~Suze Orman Sometimes in life you read something and you think, wow I couldn't have said it better. And as such this week's newsletter is borrowed with full credit Suze Orman's "Overhaul your Files and Finances" found in the March 2010 O Magazine. The article sets forth a financial spring cleaning outlining what documents to file, what to toss and how to organize them in a way that makes them accessible and purposeful! I think you will find her practical advice as useful as I have. Click here to enjoy the full article. Make It Happen This week read the article from Suze Orman twice. Look at your calendar over the next four weeks and schedule time to revisit your papers and your filing system. When you come upon your date to revisit your filing system refer to her article as a practical roadmap and reference tool to guide you. As you go through each day refer to the following de-cluttering principles: Reduce - the amount of "stuf" in your life Rethink - what you actually need Eliminate - the excess May you be blessed, for you are a blessing! 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. The "Powerful Living, Powerful You" newsletter is written and distributed by Emerge Enterprise. Copyright © 2010 Margaret Pundmann. All rights reserved. www.MargaretPundmann.com.

Forgiveness - Get Over It!

2010 - Destined Forgiveness - Get Over It!
Links Website Blog Life & Business Coaching Young Adult Coaching Past Newsletters Press Purchase a Copy	Welcome to February! My heart is heavy for the people in Haiti and for those who are without because of Haiti's devastation. To play some small role in helping I'm donating all profits from book sales during the next month to the American Red Cross. Purchase a personalized copy to help yourself and to help others. February's Recap Week 5 Loving ... You -Read Derek Walcott's poem Love After Love -Feast on your life -Take one step to build your love for YOU! Week 6: Love Isn't Love Until You Give it Away -Refuse to hold your love inside -Share your love - speak it, show it, write it, sing it -Let those in your life know your love for them Week 7: Relationship Rx - A Check Up! -Review the six questions with your significant other for a relationship check up -1. How are we doing? -2. What is good about our relationship? -3. How can we work together on _(you fill it in)__? -4. What do you need more of? -5. When we disagree how can we understand each other better? -6. How satisfied are you with our intimacy? As your coach I want to encourage you to dream wildly, love wholeheartedly, persevere relentlessly, believe in yourself unwaveringly and give abundantly! If you are new this week...welcome...let's make 2010 your best year yet! For a recap of what we've covered during January and February visit the archives. In February we are covering love...and all things on love! God Bless, Margaret.
This Week's Topic: Forgiveness - Get Over It! Dear Friend, "To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness." ~Robert Muller During the month of February we've been focused on love and relationships. And let's be honest a key component to loving someone is having the capacity to forgive. According to Merriam Webster to forgive is to "cease to feel resentment." When we forgive another we release ourselves from ill will of the past. When we harbor ill will, we are hindered from healing. Indeed, we must understand that failing to forgive is really handing over our power to someone or something else. The experience or person to whom we have given life and power is the exact thing that we are running from, that we fear or that torments us. In order for our lives to flow as they were designed to, we must claim our power, and that can only be done when we grasp the concept of forgiveness - and act upon it! Each of us has suffered in some way. To move beyond this suffering and pain, we must forgive. When we continue to be a victim, we remain powerless. In order to live our most powerful life, we must bravely and boldly look into our past and see where we have unresolved scars and face them! Make it Happen This week select two people or situations that you need to forgive. As you review who you need to forgive - be open to the possibility that you may need to forgive yourself. Write each a short letter forgiving them or even you for what has or what hasn't happened in the past. Write the letter all out - as if no one but you will read the letter. Don't hold anything back, let go. We can even become complete with people who have already passed away. This process is about you not about them. If you become frustrated remember that we are doing this for you, so that you may move forward. Here is the line you've been waiting for...you don't have to send the letter. What you write is from your heart and for your eyes only. This process is difficult, but not forgiving is even more difficult in the long run. Allowing resentment to live within gives permission for negative energy to have life and power over you. Your goal is to say good bye to that which does not serve you so that you will have room to replace it with that which will serve you. This process will lead you to live your most powerful life. May you be blessed for you are a blessing! 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. The "Powerful Living, Powerful You" newsletter is written and distributed by Emerge Enterprise. Copyright © 2010 Margaret Pundmann. All rights reserved.www.MargaretPundmann.com.

Relationship Rx - A Check Up!

2010 - Destined Relationship Rx - A Check Up! Links Website Blog Life & Business Coaching Young Adult Coaching Past Newsletters Press Purchase a Copy Welcome to February! My heart is heavy for the people in Haiti and for those who are without because of Haiti's devastation. To play some small role in helping I'm donating all profits from book sales during the next month to the American Red Cross. Purchase a personalized copy to help yourself and to help others. My friends at Two Blue Doors are offering personalized note cards for you with all of the profits going to help the people of Haiti. Don't miss this neat opportunity to help others and personalize your correspondence! February's Recap Week 5 Loving...You Read Derek Walcott's poem Love After Love. Feast on your life. Take one step to build your love for YOU! Week 6 Love Isn't Love Until You Give it Away Refuse to hold your love inside Share it - speak it, show it, write it, sing it Let those in your life know your love for them As your coach I want to encourage you to dream wildly, love wholeheartedly, persevere relentlessly, believe in yourself unwaveringly and give abundantly! If you are new this week...welcome...let's make 2010 your best year yet! For a recap of what we've covered during January visit the archives. In February we are covering love...and all things on love! God Bless, Margaret. This Week's Topic: Relationship Rx -- A Check Up! Dear Friend, "Success in marriage is much more than finding the right person; it is a matter of being the right person" ~Anonymous "What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility." ~Leo Tolstoy During the month of February, we've been focused on love - loving yourself, loving others and this week we turn to marriage. Professor James Cordova of Clark University, funded by the National Institute of Health, conducted research on 217 married couples. The research focused on intervention rather than therapy. The couples who participated in the intervention based research fared better than those who didn't participate. The result is six key questions for you! This week I would like you to use these six questions to reconnect with your significant other. My suggestion would be to take these questions on a date night, or discuss them with a glass of wine after your children are in bed or even a quiet moment one afternoon this weekend. In every relationship - no matter how strong - there are always things we can do to improve the relationship. Improving our relationship begins with respect and communication. When you bring up these questions do so with an open mind and open heart. Leave your armor at the door. Be open to the feedback that you receive - even if it is a surprise. Use these six questions to learn more about what your partner is thinking and how they are feeling inside your relationship. Allow this exercise to be a relationship check up! Make It Happen 1. How are we doing? Use this question to get a status update. 2. What is good about our relationship? Focus on what is working and the positives of your relationship. When you answer these questions for your spouse aim to identify twenty for them! 3. How can we work together on _____________? Let your spouse fill in the blank whether it is helping a child in crisis, communicating better, navigating compromises or even just picking a paint color for your kitchen be open to what they put in the blank. This question tells your spouse that you are in it together - whatever it is! 4. What do you need more of, from me? Listen carefully. Refuse to be defensive - listen and be open. Now isn't the time to say anything. 5. When we disagree how can we understand each other better? In other words, when we are fighting - and we all do, what can I do to understand you better? How can we fight better? When we aren't on the same page, what can I do or say to better understand you? 6. How satisfied are you with our intimacy? Remember there are all different types of intimacy - explore physical, emotional and spiritual intimacy. May you be blessed for you are a blessing! 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. The "Powerful Living, Powerful You" newsletter is written and distributed by Emerge Enterprise. Copyright © 2010 Margaret Pundmann. All rights reserved.www.MargaretPundmann.com.

Love Isn't Love Until You Give it Away

2010 - Destined Love Isn't Love Until You Give it Away Links Website Blog Life & Business Coaching Young Adult Coaching Past Newsletters Press Purchase a Copy Welcome to February! My heart is heavy for the people in Haiti and for those who are without because of Haiti's devastation. To play some small role in helping I'm donating all profits from book sales during the next month to the American Red Cross. Purchase a personalized copy to help yourself and to help others. My friends at Two Blue Doors are offering personalized note cards for you with all of the profits going to help the people of Haiti. Don't miss this neat opportunity to help others and personalize your correspondence! February's Recap Week 5 Loving...You Read Derek Walcott's poem Love After Love. Feast on your life. Take one step to build your love for YOU! As your coach I want to encourage you to dream wildly, love wholeheartedly, persevere relentlessly, believe in yourself unwaveringly and give abundantly! If you are new this week...welcome...let's make 2010 your best year yet! For a recap of what we've covered during January visit the archives. In February we are covering love...and all things on love! God Bless, Margaret. This Week's Topic: Love Isn't Love Until You Give it Away Dear Friend, Some months ago a family that is close to ours lost their father suddenly. Watching the family suffer was heartbreaking. After having a conversation with the mother she told me a story of a family vacation several years prior to the father's death. On this family vacation the father wrote a letter to each of his children telling each one how much he loved them, how proud he was of them and how they along with his wife completed his life. By taking a few moments of time this father sealed his children's understanding of his love for them. Life is fleeting...do not hold on to the love inside of you, express it! This week I'd like to challenge you to share your love. Make sure those in your life know just how much you love them! Do you remember the song; Love Isn't Love (Til You Give It Away)? Below are the lyrics...enjoy reading them! Or have fun with with Disney's modernized song Send It On featuring the Jonas Brothers, Selena Gomez, Miley Cyrus and Demi Lovato. Smile's not a smile until it wrinkles your face Bell's not a bell without ringing A home's not a home when there's nobody there A song's not a song without singing Love isn't love till you give it away Love isn't love till it's free The love in your heart Wasn't put there to stay Oh love isn't love till you give it away You might think love is a treasure to keep Feeling to cherish and hold But love is a treasure for people to share You keep it by letting it go Love isn't love till you give it away Love isn't love till it's free The love in your heart Wasn't put there to stay Oh love isn't love till you give it away Cause love can't survive When it's hidden inside And love was meant to be shared Love isn't love till you give it away Love isn't love till it's free The love in your heart Wasn't put there to stay Oh love isn't love till you give it away Make It Happen Consciously share your love...don't hide it inside...speak it, write it, yell it...do whatever you can to let it out. Because remember, love isn't really love until you give it away. May you be blessed for you are a blessing! 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. The "Powerful Living, Powerful You" newsletter is written and distributed by Emerge Enterprise. Copyright © 2010 Margaret Pundmann. All rights reserved. www.MargaretPundmann.com.