There are so many wonderful, amazing, beautiful things happening in our world but in order to focus on those things you must protect your eyes, ears and mind. Listen to the encouragers, they are out there. Listen for the Hope it exists, Listen for lessons on how to take better care of yourself so you can serve others, Look for simple things to make you happy because JOY, Smiles and kindness are contagious. Seek the good things in life you will find them and they will multiple!
Winnie the Pooh, What character are you?
Winnie the Pooh
Do you long for simpler days when you were young and carefree with your friends at times? Do you miss hanging out and talking about everything in life, getting to know all the things that make them tick? As we continue finding new ways to connect, it’s much harder to get to know someone with all of us behind the screen.
However, something that’s always intrigued me are the fun personality assessments you can take online. There’s plenty of great professional ones available but I feel I learn more about someone, their personality, and their characteristics through quizzes like “Which Winnie the Pooh Character Are You?”
Stop for a moment and think about who you may be. Are you Tigger, like me? Bouncing all over the place, always having fun, in danger of getting into trouble or breaking something along the way. How about Rabbit who’s always overthinking, or Owl who’s always yearning to know more?
Maybe you’re like Piglet, going along for the ride; or how about Roo, just traveling along with his loving mother? Do you feel like Christopher Robin who’s overjoyed to simply wander through the woods with his friends? Are there times where you see the sad side in everything, like Eeyore?
Thinking of others as Winnie the Pooh characters helps remind me we’re all different yet need one another to thrive. Each of us brings a unique response and perspective to the varying situations we encounter each day. Getting to know someone is a learning opportunity to help grow our minds and our hearts.
This week, I encourage you to take the time to seek out and learn more about one person in your life. It’s important now more than ever that we strive to understand each other, learn how we can use our differences to achieve new goals, and to love even greater than we already do!
What does living your exceptional life look like to you?
Which Winnie the Pooh character are you? Why?
Who will you take the time to learn more about this week? What do you think you’ll learn?
What’s your favorite way to get to know others right now?
Turning Ideas into Reality
Turning Ideas into Reality
Are you someone who’s full of ideas? Sometimes, when I begin coaching a new person in transition, they have hundreds, if not thousands of ideas which is always so exciting! I love helping them document all the things they want to do, could do, and think they should do. Once the list is created, we then start narrowing it down.
As I work with clients to narrow their lists down, we not only narrow them down to what they could do, but more importantly, what they would love to do and why it’s important to them. From there, we work to select their top ten most important ideas, followed by their top three, until finally we identify the top idea they want to explore.
We then work together to break down the components of the idea into a step by step, week by week plan to keep positive momentum going. Whether an idea is set professionally or personally, it still needs to be taken one step at a time and given great care.
I’ve always been a big dreamer, and over time I’ve learned that without an action plan and accountability, very little will be accomplished. Without a proper road map, some people may never see their idea in action because they get caught in the dreaming stage.
It’s important to me that I work with clients to make a plan, help them share that plan with others in their lives, then start coaching them through the plan to see them turn their idea into reality. One of my greatest joys as a coach is watching my clients achieve what they set out to do while walking alongside them to offer support.
This week, I encourage you to act on an idea you’ve long held in your mind! Take time for yourself to write that idea down, create a list of the steps you need to take to get there, and then break them down further by adding the who, what, how, and why to each step. From there, it’s time to start seeing your ideas as reality by taking the first step!
What does living your exceptional life look like to you?
Do you write your ideas down? Where do they go from there?
Do your ideas stay in your head and turn into daydreams?
What do you imagine building or creating? How would it help your life?
Tell Annie what life you’re living! E-mail her at:
Annie@AnnieMeehan.com
H3 Cultures in the workplace where people are Healthy, Hopeful and Happy
H3 Cultures is the Key to bringing your office back as you recognize, appreciate and support your employees as they move forward from the challenges of last year. H3 Cultures is about bringing Health, Hope & Happiness back to the workplace. Showing your team you care and support them as you bring me in to Present some positivity and ideas around getting Healthy so you can bring your best to the workplace #h3cultures #healthyhopefulhappy #BeTheException #mentalhealthmatters #wellbeing #selfcare
From Hate to Hope
Staying Hopeful can be a challenge but it helps me focus on what is possible rather that what is happening, How do you stay in Hope?
From Hate to Hope
Two little letters are all it takes to change us from hate to hope. It seems some people are more likely to get stuck on hate and what someone has done to them in the past, or what someone hasn’t done for them. In order to move forward from hate to hope they must first grow their vision and belief that the future can be better than the past or the present have been.
Hope speaks to us differently and reminds us that even if we’re feeling stuck or constantly working through hard things, that there’s a light at the end of the tunnel. While it may be a blinding light at times or a candle flame at others, the light of hope is always there in some form if we’re willing to believe.
Life will be hard for all of us during different seasons, some of which may last much longer than others. When you encounter these seasons, I implore you to think like a victor, not a victim. Practice directing your thoughts toward hope, positivity, and the belief that something better is coming next in your life.
When I’m facing tough times, I focus on eliminating my excuses to help lead me to hope! Sure, there are always going to be details that are out of our control but there are going to be just as many that we can control if we’re willing to do the work and see the change through.
With everything going on in the world recently, I think it’s vital for us to look to the future together with a vision of hope and how we can all play our part in creating positive solutions. When I think of the words hate and hope, there’s just two tiny letters that make the difference. It can’t be that hard to move the AT to an OP, can it?
This week, as you encounter your next challenge, I encourage you to choose hope instead of hate. By making the conscious effort to choose hope versus hate in smaller aspects of our daily lives, we will have the ability to enhance our vision of the future and how we can make a difference as our newfound hope continues to spill over into even larger buckets!
What does living your exceptional life look like to you?
How do you practice hope and looking toward a positive future?
Was there a time in life where having hope changed the situation? How?
Are you more likely to show up with hate or hope? Why?
Tell Annie what life you’re living! E-mail her at:
Annie@AnnieMeehan.com
H3 Cultures bringing Health, Hope and Happiness back to the Workplace
H3 Culture: Hope, Health and Happiness in the Workplace
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After the past year, the 3 H’s are at an all-time low.
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Working from home
Exhausted homeschooling their kids
Not having the regular system
Engaging with co-workers live
All of these things have challenged the workplace culture.
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Annie Meehan Shares:
How to stay hopeful when things are challenging
The 5 Keys to maintaining Health, Physically, Emotionally & Mentally
Where to seek Happiness when things get hard
