I've been thinking a lot about this topic lately.
What I know...today is:
Our motivation, inspiration, creativity, energy, resourcefulness, focus...etc...is DIRECTLY tied to our "Level of Acceptability". LOA
When our "level" is not being met...all these things kick in.
Think about these areas in our lives where our LOA drives us:
1 - Home Organization/Clutter - (notice what happens when company calls and they are 5 minutes out)
2 - Health/Weight/Looks (size of clothes..or what the scale says)
3 - Budget/Money (how much many you earn/save/spend)
4 - Recognition - Prestige (Do you always win? Are you driven to be the best?)
5 - Communication (Do you talk? do you hide out? Do you expect people in your life to talk or not?)
6 - Intimacy (How often?)
7 - Skills/Talents (if you build, play tennis, sing, play an instrument, bake, write, scrapbook, shoot photography, paint, fix cars...)
And this list can go on and on...
Here's an example in my life:
I am a choir/theater director (or I have been for most of my life). My LOA in this department is VERY high. So when I am rehearsing, I hold my performers to a very high level. Until my LOA is met, they don't go home.
But it's not just about working people to death...it's about motivating them to do their best; It pulls on my ability to make it fun so people WANT to give me what I want. I discover ways (resourcefulness) to help them know how to do things better...so I get what I want to satisfy my LOA.
EVERY AREA OF OUR LIVES IS DICTATED BY OUR LEVEL OF ACCEPTABILITY!
I would like to hear from you about specifics in your life regarding YOUR
Level of Acceptability.
Wanna share?
Nite,
Kim
Friday, September 3, 2010
Sunday, August 29, 2010
The "Running" Update
Many of you know that for the past year I have been excited about my new "image" as a Runner. It started with an epiphany I had in Aug 2009 that I could...(possibly...really?...could it really happen?)...Run a marathon.
I had a dream a long time ago of me running down a street...cruising along side cars...and even being at a stop light...glancing over at the cars next to me and having this feeling of exhileration that I was sooooo much more lucky to be running than they were sitting in their "weenie" car.
I was like "BRING IT"!
That dream has stayed with me...and especially that feeling of freedom and "anything is possible" (Even when I was 60 lbs overweight and getting heavier...hating to exercise at all...and never setting food in a gym because I could never lose weight with ANYTHING I did there.
When I connected that feeling with the new world I was in as a Health Coach...and after having shed my 50 lbs without exercise...but knowing that for overall health, exercise would be something I would want to learn to LOVE....and to stretch my beliefs to truly see what was possible...that's when the Marathon idea not only sparked in my "heart"...but went on to change EVERYTHING!
So...to catch up on this past year:
I started running slowly...walk/running...with the end in mind being the Marathon.
I built up to about 3 miles solid running...in a couple of months. I did this 3 - 4 times per week.
By March I was doing 5 - 6 miles without stopping. However...something started to happen around this time. My right hip and my lower back were starting to really hurt after I had run. I remember so many hours of trying to stretch it out (and I usually spent as much time stretching after I ran than the run itself...so I was always careful about that). Nothing seemed to help.
I was asking friends about it...runner friends. Many had different answers. My shoes; Needing to strengthen my core; "Running is just hard on your body...you really shouldn't do it". etc...etc...
Then I broke a rib in April. That laid me out for a few months...and I found myself back to my quandry of "WHAT ABOUT KIM THE RUNNER?"
However...the seed had been planted deep enough to have created a life of its own. (this is a key to transformation). "It" would not let me go. "It" keep bugging me inside my head to figure out something...to start over...to get back to "it".
Last week I've started researching Barefoot Running. This may be the answer to my pain situation.
If any of you have EDUCATED opinions about it I would really appreciate it. (Please don't just throw out "off the cuff" thoughts without knowing the facts...I was guilty of this myself last year when someone told me about it)...
Bottom line is...I'm persuing this idea. I'm not sure where it will lead. Not sure if I'll be any better off...but "it" is very motivated for me to be in action...and this is the only thing that makes sense for me at this point.
Nite
Kim
I had a dream a long time ago of me running down a street...cruising along side cars...and even being at a stop light...glancing over at the cars next to me and having this feeling of exhileration that I was sooooo much more lucky to be running than they were sitting in their "weenie" car.
I was like "BRING IT"!
That dream has stayed with me...and especially that feeling of freedom and "anything is possible" (Even when I was 60 lbs overweight and getting heavier...hating to exercise at all...and never setting food in a gym because I could never lose weight with ANYTHING I did there.
When I connected that feeling with the new world I was in as a Health Coach...and after having shed my 50 lbs without exercise...but knowing that for overall health, exercise would be something I would want to learn to LOVE....and to stretch my beliefs to truly see what was possible...that's when the Marathon idea not only sparked in my "heart"...but went on to change EVERYTHING!
So...to catch up on this past year:
I started running slowly...walk/running...with the end in mind being the Marathon.
I built up to about 3 miles solid running...in a couple of months. I did this 3 - 4 times per week.
By March I was doing 5 - 6 miles without stopping. However...something started to happen around this time. My right hip and my lower back were starting to really hurt after I had run. I remember so many hours of trying to stretch it out (and I usually spent as much time stretching after I ran than the run itself...so I was always careful about that). Nothing seemed to help.
I was asking friends about it...runner friends. Many had different answers. My shoes; Needing to strengthen my core; "Running is just hard on your body...you really shouldn't do it". etc...etc...
Then I broke a rib in April. That laid me out for a few months...and I found myself back to my quandry of "WHAT ABOUT KIM THE RUNNER?"
However...the seed had been planted deep enough to have created a life of its own. (this is a key to transformation). "It" would not let me go. "It" keep bugging me inside my head to figure out something...to start over...to get back to "it".
Last week I've started researching Barefoot Running. This may be the answer to my pain situation.
If any of you have EDUCATED opinions about it I would really appreciate it. (Please don't just throw out "off the cuff" thoughts without knowing the facts...I was guilty of this myself last year when someone told me about it)...
Bottom line is...I'm persuing this idea. I'm not sure where it will lead. Not sure if I'll be any better off...but "it" is very motivated for me to be in action...and this is the only thing that makes sense for me at this point.
Nite
Kim
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Hello and Welcome!
Well...this is it. I'm a Blogger now. Never really thought I needed to blog...or that anyone would really care about what I would write about. I have noticed that when I'm thinking in my mind about things, I'm really talking from a stage, teaching.
Someone then said, randomly, "You should blog". I dismissed it initially, but then thought.."you know...maybe I should. I feel like I have so much to say and this would help me "get it out"!
So...this is really for me to talk to myself...in front of whomever wants to listen.
If that's you? Welcome!
Kim
Someone then said, randomly, "You should blog". I dismissed it initially, but then thought.."you know...maybe I should. I feel like I have so much to say and this would help me "get it out"!
So...this is really for me to talk to myself...in front of whomever wants to listen.
If that's you? Welcome!
Kim
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