The stress and strain of constantly being connected can sometimes take your life -- and your well-being -- off course. GPS For The Soul can help you find your way back to balance.
GPS Guides are our way of showing you what has relieved others' stress in the hopes that you will be able to identify solutions that work for you. We all have de-stressing "secret weapons" that we pull out in times of tension or anxiety, whether they be photos that relax us or make us smile, songs that bring us back to our heart, quotes or poems that create a feeling of harmony, or meditative exercises that help us find a sense of silence and calm. We encourage you to look at the GPS Guide below, visit our other GPS Guides here, and share with us your own personal tips for finding peace, balance and tranquility.
You have the power to de-stress and recreate your life with Positive Choices -- life choices that fuel your body, mind, spirit and heart. We live in a frantic world -- bombarded by more information than we can possibly assimilate, and we are exhausted from a lack of leisure. The Positive Choices program is simple, yet potent. By adding one Positive Choice at a time to your life, you feel happy and in control of your life, once again. To make room for Positive Choices that bring you joy and fulfillment, you must subtract your personal Serenity Stealers -- the negative life choices, like doing work you that drains you of your life force, staying in destructive relationships or ignoring your health. These Serenity Stealers rob you of your peace of mind and zest for living.
If you are feeling stressed out, meditating or vacationing, etc. will provide vital temporary relief. But if you have a challenging Serenity Stealer, you need to analyze it and then create strategic solutions. You have three basic choices -- you can start avoiding or eliminating what is causing your stress or you can renegotiate or modify it. Most situations we can subtract or remedy -- really, it’s true. Deep down, you know what disturbs your inner peace and what you need to cast off. For example, if you hate where you live, you can move or feng shui your space so that it feels nurturing, for the moment.
You are in charge of your life choices every day, which make up the quality of your life experience. We often “forget” to leverage our available personal power to transform our lives.
Below, find some pictures of Positive Choices and inspiring words. What Positive Choices will calm and nourish your soul?
Gail McMeekin
Gail McMeekin, LICSW is a national executive, career, and creativity coach as well as a licensed psychotherapist and writer located in Boston. She has over 30 years of experience helping people to vision and achieve their personal, professional, and creative goals. She coaches clients on how to leverage their creative ideas into heart-felt, prosperous businesses and fulfilled lives. She wrote the best-selling book The 12 Secrets of Highly Creative Women: A Portable Mentor (Conari Press) which was just be released as a 10th anniversary edition along with a brand new companion Journal called The 12 Secrets of Creative Women Journal . Her newest book is The 12 Secrets of Highly Successful Women: A Portable Life Coach for Creative Women. She also wrote The Power of Positive Choices (Conari Press), which won the Living in Balance magazine Award. She created a 90-minute companion audio workshop called Positive Choices: From Stress to Serenity which has been featured in Human Resource Executive, Training, The Improper Bostonian and The Lifestyle Book of Tufts Associated Health Plan. Her beautiful deck of Creativity Courage Cards was just featured in Artist Magazine. Her work has been profiled on television and radio as well as in major publications such as Investor’s Business Daily, National Business Employment Weekly, Boston Business Journal, Redbook, Shape, Woman’s Day, Health, The Boston Globe, One Spirit Book Club, The Christian Science Monitor, and The Sunday New York Times. Her website is http://www.creativesuccess.com .
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