Welcome to Your Roadmap to Extraordinary Success
 Wednesday, January 16, 2008 – Vol. 28

Written and Published by Natalie R. Manor
Visit our website at: http://www.NatalieManor.com 

Your ROADMAP(sm) for Success in the "YOU" Year

Happy "YOU" Year!!! 

For most of my life I thought that I had to be "ready" for the new year on January 1st.  As a business owner, the weeks before Christmas and the New Year became increasingly stressful because not only was I trying to provide a great holiday season for my two girls, but I was also trying to make sure that I had everything in place so that I could start the new year of "right".

Sound familiar?

Well this year I decided to do what I could do before Christmas and the New Year holiday and that I would pick up where I left off on Jan. 1st.  During the week of Christmas, we actually closed the office and didn't do any work!  And you know what...it felt great! 

As a result of my decision, we have spent the last two weeks digging out old files and to date we have ELEVEN (11) boxes to shred.  While digging out and paring down, we have had some pretty amazing conversations about our marketing and our strategy for 2008.  As we went through old files, we came up with new ideas and tabled old ones.  The result is the most focused and streamlined strategic business and marketing plan NMA has ever had.  I highly recommend giving up the rule and belief that you have to be "ready" for the new year and that you have to start it off "right". 

My Advice: Start the new year off right by taking care of you.  Find out where you have been, where you are and where you want to go.  Make 2008 the "YOU" Year.  

The article below is all about you.  Here are three concepts to support you in making 2008 the best "YOU" Year yet!

To your Success,

The-Roadmap Team

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Article: It's all about You: Habits, Time and Awareness

 
What if I could let you in on 3 concepts that have the possibility of drastically changing the way you currently run your personal and professional lives, reduce your stress and practically guarantee success results in whatever you do?

No, I did not have too much eggnog at my sister-in-law's house in New York during the holidays. I must confess though, that the chocolate covered popcorn with toffee bits was totally over the top. I hope I never get my hands (or hips) on that stuff ever again. Dangerous and delicious.

Ok.  Are you ready for the three concepts that will help you to change your behavior and outcomes and create successful results for you in the "YOU" Year of 2008?
  • Habits
  • Time
  • Awareness
Ask yourself:

What are you Habits?  Are they good or are they bad?  More importantly, are your habits serving you?

What are you doing with your time?  Do you feel like you never have enough time?  Are you using your time wisely?

Are you aware of your life?  Do you feel like you have a grasp on what is really going on around you?  Are your surviving your daily life or are you thriving?

These three concepts have showed up again and again as limiting issues with my coaching practice for the past two years. These are the blocks that my highly successful, results producing, clients are facing on a daily basis. I hear comments like:

“Natalie, I have run out of time…to do anything. I don’t have time to breath, much less take time for myself.”

Once you have come to the point where you cannot find time for yourself the first thing you need to do is STOP!  Then ask yourself: How did I end up on the bottom of my own giving list?

No one is going to take as good a care of you as you will.  We need to understand when we are not in a good place to create the successful results we want and work so hard for.  It all comes down to creating
awareness around the habits that we have developed – most of the time my clients were not
aware that they had allowed themselves to provide into little or no self care.

I have some news for you...there are so many executives, leaders, managers - all types of results-oriented folks are acting and feeling like you act and feel:

  • Tired, bone tired
  • Headaches - developing daily
  • Bad attitude – most everything is annoying and hard
  • People are frustrating and hard to work with
  • Little to no motivation
  • Weight gain with little to no consistent exercise
  • Lack of confidence about work, goals, new learning

What did we do in our coaching that changed this low energy and general malaise way of living??

We took Time to assess and create Awareness around their Habits.

When you take time to assess your daily habits and behaviors around how you run your life you
will create the following for yourself:

  • You will find out what is working and what is not working - then you get to choose what
    you WANT to do
  • You will gain a real knowledge of how you are running your day - time management, prioritizing, scheduling, and planning - a real time snapshot of how you are actually spending your time
  • You will find out what you have allowed to creep into your practices - the kinds of things that
    may or may not serve you
  • You will discover that part of your issues are well...YOU!.  That is great to know because you can take immediate action to begin to change your awareness around your habits and time

Once you know what is NOT working, you can choose to integrate what would work. Then
you get to decide how you want to integrate new behaviors. You are now in control of your
time, how you think about your habits and you have an awareness that was hidden from you
a short time ago.

Success comes to us in many forms.  We cannot be successful unless we have an opening
or a place for it to "come on in".

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On a more personal note:

One of my most successful time and awareness habits is meditation. I meditate on a daily
basis now and without it I would be crazed, fat, angry and very annoying.  Mediation relaxes
me and allows me to connect with the powerful side of me. The side of me that thinks
clearly, creates good habits, leads well, eats good food, exercises and coaches with high
integrity.

I have a meditation that I created and shared with my clients over the last couple of years. I
am now going to share it with you. I think you might be interested in the story of how I got to
my successful self also.  My story can be found at: http://www.the-roadmap.com/index6.html

Habits, Time and Awareness


Three simple concepts that can derail the most dedicated among us.

Three simple concepts that can make for a success producing life.

It really all depends on our mindset and what we want to create for ourselves.

I'd love to be your coach and help you create the best year you have every had both personally and professionally. Let me know how I can be a support and resource to you.  Send me an email at CoachNatalie@NatalieManor.com and let's get started together.

My love and blessings,

Natalie
Natalie R. Manor. CEO
The Roadmap Team
http://www.The-Roadmap.com/index6.html

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NEW!! The Green Corner: Tips and news about how we can all become more green for our
lovely Planet Earth.

I read (see below) that we are using 12 million barrels of oil and 14 million tres to produce plastic and paper bags that are used to cart home the things we buy at the store. The following information is about using "reusable bags" when we shop.

My daughter in Nashville already does this for her shopping. I asked her if it was a big deal in changing her shopping habits and she said no.  It was easy and she likes bringing her own canvas bags now. I just started this week and she is right. It is easy and now I don't have a glob of plastic bags in my cabinet.

Good luck. Let me know your comments. And thanks for caring and helping to
take good care of this place where we all live call Planet Earth.

http://c3.newdream.org/campaigns/c3/register/99c7c93be7dc8f520c5254b7d303fe7a

Did you know you can reduce your carbon footprint, help eliminate waste and pollution, and
give yourself a chance at some great prizes in one simple step?  It’s a win-win situation for
you, the community and the ecosystem…and you can even win a $5000 prize package from
Brighter Planet.

What do you have to do? Just fill out the pledge form at www.c3.newdream.org  and then start
using reusable bags when you go shopping.  It’s that easy.  Just by doing that you'll start
making a dent in the waste of the 12 million barrels of oil and the 14 million trees used to
produce plastic and paper bags each year. Plus you'll curb your carbon footprint by almost 4
pounds each month.

Visit the C3 site to sign up and then tell your friends: you could win a $5000 prize package
from Brighter Planet or one of several other terrific prizes.

New American Dream has also made it easier for you to join the new BYOB, when you
pledge you get a coupon for 20% off from http://www.ReusableBags.com.  Worldwide, an estimated 4 billion plastic bags end up as litter each year. Tied end to end that’s enough to circle the earth
63 times. Isn't it time to start making a difference

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