Lucky is saying 'Yes'

I was so lucky. At my Life Club this week was one of my favourite mentors, Jane, who just turned 80 this year.

The workshop was about saying 'No'. How could we create the balance we wanted in our lives by saying 'No' to things we didn't want to do and therefore have time to do the things we wanted to do.

Jane has now got to the stage that she felt she didn't want to think about saying 'No', she wanted to discover how to say 'Yes' to the things she hasn't yet got round (or dare I say 'dared') to doing.

But saying 'Yes' sometimes just means having worked out what to say 'No' to. For example, saying 'Yes' to having a great year this year, means saying 'No' to doubt, fear, procrastination and anything else that's stopping you having that 'Yes' year.

I'm going to say 'Yes' to continuing to think I'm lucky. And I'm going to say 'No' to worrying that things may go 'wrong'. After all, what is 'wrong' but a time to take stock of what's just happened and learn from it?

I'm lucky that you're ready this and, if you're not, then what can I learn from that?

Please let me know.

Hope you have a great weekend.
I'm at The Grove Hotel... do come and join me there another weekend.
Nina
Best-selling author (I've just been told by my publisher) of The Life Book

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Playing with the scales of Life

This week we're looking at that ongoing balancing act we all have to deal with - life. Or rather, all those many things that have to be successfully slotted together and prioritised to make it all happen somehow. To have the life you want, you must have all the right elements - but you also need to get them in the right balance. There's many aspects to this. Work / life balance is something we hear about quite a bit, but there's more to life than just work and everything else. That's why our balance charts have ten sections, not two!

If life's even slightly out of balance, things can seem very overwhelming. Obviously nobody can do everything - and actually, nobody wants to. Life balance is about being clear about what you want, and not letting things from lower down the list dominate the more important things. It's like sound engineering. If you're mixing a piece of music or a film soundtrack in a recording studio, everything has to be at just the right level relative to the other elements. There's no one right mix; that depends on the overall sound you want. But when you're clear how you want it to sound, you can achieve it, by getting the mix right.

So in this week's workshop we'll be exploring how we can make changes by fiddling with the mix of life.


Mark Lister
Edinburgh Life Club

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