Atelier

One of the biggest obstacles to cultivating the TRUE YOU, is living in the wake of continual manipulation and control. When we find we are the victims of consistent manipulation or control we may recognize that our personal identity pays the price for enabling unhealthy relationships. These three strategic steps will allow you to gain margin and objectivity when negotiating and maintaining your personal freedom. You deserve the right to chart your own course, carve your path and pursue your dreams without the power struggle of manipulation and control.

Where did your expectations come from? Ideas? Comparison? Your hopes and dreams? Or were your expectations formed from patterns around you? This podcast addresses the origins of our expectations and the outcomes. Inevitably our expectations can lead to disappointment. In order to avoid that, we can manage our expectations of ourselves, others and the world around us. This podcast issues a challenge that can shift the focus of our expectations so that we are able to rise to a higher level of self-efficacy and resilience. We cannot control the outcome of our expectations but we can control the expectations of our outcome.

Ralph Waldo Emerson was quoted as saying, "All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better." Could building up a tolerance to failure be the missing element in our experiment called life? If so, how many dreams, plans and ideas are frozen by our fear of failure? In this podcast, we address the need to remove the personal rejection from failure and experiment with risk in a way that will move us forward.

We have some ideas about what our ideal mentor should look like. I'd like to challenge those ideas with some new perspectives about what a mentor is truly given to provide. How many great mentors are passed over simply because we have the wrong wish list? Ultimately, we lose when we don't connect with the right qualities in a mentorship relationship.

Relationships can offer a reflection from which we grow and learn. How to give and receive feedback is a crucial skill in self and dream development. We can close ourselves off to the reflection of relationships that so beautifully prepare us for the future. This podcast offers practical tools for giving and receiving feedback and keeping an open heart in the process! Recommended reading: Tribe of Mentors by Timothy Ferriss

Don’t follow your heart, DIRECT your life by pursuing the easy steps in this acronym. Who wants to live at the mercy of ever changing emotions and fleeting feelings? Not me. I want my feelings to follow what I value. Since our heart naturally shadows our investment, we can get our heart in the right place simply by choosing to invest in what will have the greatest return. In this podcast we go over the importance of intentional investments and practical strategies for growing our commodities of education, inspiration, confidence, wisdom and energy. When we find ourselves stuck or hung up on feelings this acronym can get us moving again. D - Discover I - Invest R - Reflect E - Experiment C - Cultivate T - Tailor

I hate competition but I have come to learn from my experiences with a competitive spirit. In this episode I share a personal experience where I got my feathers ruffled from competition I didn't see coming. Along with my story I give you clues that someone may see you as their "competition" and how to recognize it and shut it down. If we aren't aware, competition can cause us to conform to our experiences instead of create them. I don't know about you but I want to show up in life as "me" and not the poor reflection of my response to competitors. In this podcast we can explore the competitive edge and you can leave each encounter a winner.

Could you be your own worst enemy? If you constantly do things to betray your own goals, you need to know why. Self-knowledge gives you a 50% rate of victory against an unknown and a 100% rate of victory against self-sabotage. If we can be our own worst enemy then beating ourselves at our own game should be our cardinal quest. It's not what life hands us, but how we respond to it that shapes our future. Knowing yourself means that you are better equipped to interpret adversity and use it to your advantage. If you are responsible to find yourself, see yourself, heal yourself, correct yourself, love yourself, be yourself, honor yourself, build yourself and grow yourself...then you better know yourself.

How do you serve the world, serve your purpose, serve yourself...when you don't know what you are serving up? We are born from the deep wells of unlimited potential. Each of us able to see the unseen through the gift of imagination and convert dreams to reality. Add to those eternal traits, our personality, passion and purpose then combine your core values, preferences and unique perspective...add to that the priceless experiences of your life, both the triumphs and tragedies- take in consideration your limitations, your invaluable relationships and wrap it all up in your strengths...that's your presence. And the world needs you! Find the KENDAL LIFE LANGUAGE PROFILE on my website under the LOOK resource page!

"Be a fountain, not a drain", has been a saying we've heard and aspired to fulfill. But we all find different environments either draining or fulfilling. We can't be a fountain if we find ourselves without the resources to stay full. It is our responsibility to identify what inspires us and what drains the life out of our motivation. Finding and collecting inspiration can give us critical clues about our own ability to inspire others. Once we identify what fills our well of inspiration we can begin to cultivate the ideal environment we need to succeed.

We don't actually need all things we think we do to create the life we envision. In fact, the infection of perfection can inhibit our ability to risk dreams and ideas and to put forward the priorities to pursue space to create. All the master artisans throughout history were particular in the design of their Atelier' (workshop) but didn't get hung up on perfection - they prioritized the mess of the process. They didn't stall and pack up their creative methods in order to appease on-lookers. We too must recognize that there are only a few raw materials needed to dream and to DO. They are few but they are vital to identify and protect. Drink: Lady Gray by Twinings. Read: The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho.