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From here to Timbuktu
(By Shirena Vasan from the Essential Coaching Company)Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be able to click your heels together, be transported into the future and see who you are and what kind of life you have made for yourself?
What is your ideal future?
Today, I challenge you to spend some time looking into your future and write about what your ideal health will be. Spend two minutes writing as many answers as you can to the following questions.
Picture what your future will look like in one year's time.
Are you playing with your children in the park?
Are you running a half marathon?
Have you joined a group sport?
Are you motivating others to do what you have achieved?
How will you feel?
Happy? Confident? Empowered? Excited? Free?
What can you hear?
Supportive words from family and colleagues?
People around you saying you are an inspiration?
Friends asking you, how you did it?
What are you telling yourself?
I did it!
I'm an inspiration.
I'm full of energy and vitality!
I love what I have achieved and feel as if I can do anything!
Who do YOU need to be and what changes do you need to make right now to make this ideal life a reality and live the life you truly deserve?
Shirena Vasan
Essential Coaching Company
Shirena will be running a seminar in Sydney on November 8th covering the mindset of health, how to move past procrastination and make positive, exciting, long term changes to your health and lifestyle. $48 per person. To register or for more information, contact shirena@essentialcoachingcompany.com.
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