New Habits to Your Responses

To make changes to ensure we have the ‘The Power To Choose’ in our own life we have to develop some new habits. I recommend the following two new habits to start.



Stimulus and Response
Understand that you are choosing your reaction to the stimulus presented to you. You have the power to choose. Pause to ensure you are making the right choice for you, your values and goals.


> Are you going to yell at the driver that cut you off in the traffic or how are you going to react?
> What about that extra bit of work your boss gives you with a tight deadline? Will you spend the next few hours working yourself up because you are annoyed or will you just focus and get it done?


Evaluation
Every choice we make has consequences which can be empowering but if we make a bad choice we should not blame ourselves but reflect on that choice so we are always aiming to improve.


> Will we make a choice to hang out the washing or play with the children?
> Will we make a choice to start that new course or just keep wondering?


About Us
LifeStyle Refocus is a Melbourne based personal assistant, corporate concierge and lifestyle management consultancy. We are all about saving you TIME. By taking care of your “to do” list so you can spend time doing the things that are truly important to you. We conduct workshops on ‘Managing your Time’, ‘How to have a Productive Day’ and ‘DeClutter and Take Back Control.’


For more information go to www.lifestylerefocus.com.au or contact Michele on 0437 311 802.

The Power to Choose – Time to Reflect

We have discussed the power to choose and now it is time to reflect and think about the choices you should be making, lets start by answering the following questions:

> Imagine you are near the end of your life – look back – what do you regret not doing?

> What would you like to change in your life?

> What makes you happy? Really think about this question, it is important. What does make your happy?

> Make a list of the 100 things you would like to do?

From the list of what makes you happy you can you begin to see what some of your choices and goals may be?

Take the time to ponder what lies ahead in your life journey.

About Us

LifeStyle Refocus is a Melbourne based personal assistant, corporate concierge and lifestyle management consultancy. We are all about saving you TIME. By taking care of your “to do” list so you can spend time doing the things that are truly important to you.

Taking Action with out Choices!

We now recognise we have the power to choose so the steps to take ACTION are as follows:

Know your outcome [Set your goals]

We often know what we don’t want. Know your outcome and you have a target. Be clear about what you want to achieve today. Don’t leave life to chance.

Take Action

You have the power to choose. You can choose to act today - go for that walk, eat that apple, call that friend, join that program, finish that book, clean out that cupboard, and give away those clothes …

You don’t have to be great to get started,

but you have to get started to be great.

Les Brown

Evaluate

Evaluate and answer honestly. Notice if what you are doing is moving you in the direction of your goals or away from them. Are you on track? We need to be aware, ask questions and be honest about the answers

Be flexible

If we are off track we have to have the behavioural flexibility to get ourselves back on track by changing direction. We may need to:

> Stop

> Tweak

> Get advise

Being flexible makes a big difference to achieve out goals by adjusting, tweaking and improving.

About Us

LifeStyle Refocus is a Melbourne based personal assistant, corporate concierge and lifestyle management consultancy. We are all about saving you TIME. By taking care of your “to do” list so you can spend time doing the things that are truly important to you.

For more information go to www.lifestylerefocus.com.au or contact Michele on 0437 311 802.

The Power to Choose

All you need is within you now.



You have the resourcefulness you need for whatever you decide to choose. You REALLY do have the:
> Courage
> Passion
> Determination
> Fire


We can do anything if we have a compelling reason and the focus. We will conquer all fears; if we have a big enough reason we would get it.


Some of my favourite action quotes

“An ounce of action is worth a tonne of theory.”

Friedrich Engels

“Action will remove the doubts that theory can not solve.”

Tehyi Hsieh

“It’s not what you know, its what you do with what you know.”

Author Unknown

There is always a way
Even if it is not true, act like it is and usually you can find a way to achieve what you want to achieve.
> You can push through the tough times
> Persist a little longer
> Search a little harder
> Keep going
> Failure is giving up
> Everything else is progress

By believing there is always a way you give yourself every opportunity to experience success!

About Us
LifeStyle Refocus is a Melbourne based personal assistant, corporate concierge and lifestyle management consultancy. We are all about saving you TIME. By taking care of your “to do” list so you can spend time doing the things that are truly important to you.

For more information go to www.lifestylerefocus.com.au or contact Michele on 0437 311 802.

Want to give up - think you are too old to try something new?

Age isn’t always a factor in your success or failure. Consider these famous examples:



> Actor George Burns won his first Oscar at 80


> Golda Meir was 71 when she became prime minister of Israel.


> At age 96, playwright George Bernard Shaw broke his leg when he fell out of a tree he was trimming in his backyard.


> Painter Grandma Moses didn’t start painting until she was 80 years old. She completed over 1,500 paintings after that; 25 percent of those were produced when she was past 100.


> Michelangelo was 71 when he painted the Sistine Chapel


> Physician and humanitarian Albert Schweitzer was still performing operations in his African hospital at 89


> Doc Counsilman, at 58, became the oldest person ever to swim the English Channel


> S.I. Hayakawa retired as president of San Francisco State University at 70, and then was elected to the U.S. Senate.


> Casey Stengel didn’t retire from managing the New York Mets until he was 75.


Sourced: Glenn Van Ekeren, The Speaker’s Sourcebook, Prentice-Hall, New York, NY


> Bryce Courtney the well known Australian author did not write his first book until his was 55. On his website it states “At the age of 55 I decided to take the plunge. I had been telling stories since the age of five and had always known I would be a writer some day, though life kept getting in the way until I realised that it was either now or never.”


> Mary Wesley was in her 70s when she published her first novel. She went on to write several bestsellers, including The Camomile Lawn


About Us


LifeStyle Refocus is a Melbourne based personal assistant, corporate concierge and lifestyle management consultancy. We are all about saving you TIME. By taking care of your “to do” list so you can spend time doing the things that are truly important to you.


For more information go to www.lifestylerefocus.com.au or contact Michele on 0437 311 802.

Dust If You Must!

“A house becomes a home when you can write, “I love you” on the furniture.”


I can’t tell you how many countless hours that I have spent CLEANING!


I used to spend at least 8 hours every weekend making sure things were just perfect – “in case someone came over.”


Then I realised one day that no one came over; they were all out living life and having fun!


Now, when people visit, I find no need to explain the “condition” of my home. They are more interested in hearing about the things I’ve been doing while I was away living life and having fun.

If you haven’t figured this out yet, please heed this advice.


Life is short. Enjoy it.


Dust if you must, but wouldn’t it be better to paint a picture or write a letter, bake a cake or plant a seed, ponder the difference between want and need?


Dust if you must, but there’s not much time, with rivers to swim and mountains to climb, music to hear and books to read, friends to cherish and life to lead.


Dust if you must, but the world’s out there with the sun in your eyes, the wind in your hair, a flutter of snow, a shower of rain.


This day will not come around again.


Dust if you must, but bear in mind, old age will come and it’s not kind.


And when you go – and go you must – you, yourself will make more dust!


If’s now what you gather, but what you scatter that tells what kind of life you have lived.


Author Unknown


About Us


LifeStyle Refocus is a Melbourne based personal assistant, corporate concierge and lifestyle management consultancy. We are all about saving you TIME. By taking care of your “to do” list so you can spend time doing the things that are truly important to you.


For more information go to www.lifestylerefocus.com.au or contact Michele on 0437 311 802.

You Can Be In Control - Part 2

How have you gone the last couple of weeks? Have you taken note of the times you have not been in control?

Have you considered how you reacted to different situations and recognised the times when you could have reacted differently?

Have you tried to stop yourself when others are trying to take control?

Here are the steps!

Making the choice to be in control can be empowering you only need to control yourself.

> Recognise that you have the power to choose how you react to a situation

> Recognise when you are not taking responsibility for your life

> Practise stopping yourself when you are letting others control you and take responsibility

This is a new behaviour so practise is really important. But keep practicing.

“If you don’t run your own life, someone else will”

John Atkinson

About Us

LifeStyle Refocus is a Melbourne based personal assistant, corporate concierge and lifestyle management consultancy. We are all about saving you TIME. By taking care of your “to do” list so you can spend time doing the things that are truly important to you.

For more information go to www.lifestylerefocus.com.au or contact Michele on 0437 311 802