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Olga’s curated Christmas gift guide
I am passionate about giving. I also love sharing the things I love having, using, reading in my life and I decided that this year I would share with you some of my favourite things in case you are looking at gifting yourself something nice this Christmas.
These also make amazing gifts for those special in your life. I believe the best gifts to give are those I would love to receive!
Here is my curated gift guide:
You are enough.
What if you could show up into your own life as mom, as a professional, as a wife, as a human, fully excited and with a strong sense that you are doing enough in each of those areas?
With full conviction that you are enough.
Despite what your perfectionist mind tells you, the truth is that it can be possible.
One thing Michelle Obama taught me…
Complaining isn’t problem solving…
Stop complaining.
We all think we don’t do it until we realize we totally do it.
I was coaching one of my Being of CEO clients and she was so surprised to realize that what she thought was “communicating her frustrations” was nothing more than plain complaining.
We spent the session learning together why she was so attached to complaining as a mechanism to deal with her frustrations.
Dear over-doer…This one is for you.
The reason you feel like crap despite the green smoothies, the salads, the motivational podcasts and the positive phrases you read to yourself every day is simple.
You are stressed.
Not the kind of stress that has you yelling at people, feeling rushed, and intolerant to the smallest of things. Not that kind of stress.
What you have, is the kind of stress that is chronic.
I wrote this for you…
If you are the kind of person hiding behind excuses or, blaming others for not being satisfied with one, some or, all of your questions above….if you never stop to reflect, learn and take action….you really need to promote yourself to the position of CEO of your own life because it is obviously vacant!
Taking full responsibility for our well-being in all areas of our lives is a full time job. The highest paid job, by the way. The job you will never want to quit from. One job worth doing.
I’m not shy to admit that I have a coach…Here is why
A life coach with a life-coach. That is me. Better yet, when I could choose to be coached privately, I instead choose to pay several thousands($30k to be exact) on….GROUP coaching. Whaaaaat?? That amount of money could afford me private coaching with someone else for three years if I wanted to…so why do I choose group coaching? I got immense value from the coaching my peers who did speak today received. I in fact got coached vicariously through them.
Stop protecting your energy.
You may feel a little crazy trying to control what happens everywhere you go, what everyone does and says so that you never get to feel the discomfort of inadequacy, failure, imperfection, insecurity, etc…
Trying to protect your energy only leads you to more controlling behaviours. To try and control what you never will control, the future, people’s thoughts, spontaneous events.
As you “fail” to control all things outside of your control, your insecurities increase and you feel weaker.
What’s Enough? Am I Enough?
Are you enough? Did you do enough? Do you have enough? Feeling, having and specially doing enough is important to you. That’s why you often overthink about these questions. “Enough” seems to be an elusive feeling that when you think you got it, POOF it disappears. No matter how much you do, you give, you buy, at the end of the day when your head is about to hit the pillow, you wonder if everyone was happy, if what you did, gave, and have, was actually enough?