How much sleep do you get?
How is the quality?
What is your body telling you?
Are you giving your body the amount of sleep it needs to be healthy and fit?

I was sick since several weeks. I had bronchitis, took antibiotics, had a cold, took lots of vitamins, sore throat, I licked on strong lozenges for weeks… Nothing helped deeply enough or was sustainable. Today is Sunday one week after Easter. The sun is shining with record high temperatures. My husband and my boys are happily bonding outside washing my car… Space and time for me to have a nap. I slept nearly three hours in the afternoon and woke up the first time since weeks without a sore throat!

My lesson learnt here: Sometimes – specially in times of external stress factors, sickness and with pre-schoolers waking me regularly at night – I just need waaaayyyyyy more sleep than statistically normal in order for my body to get the time to really recharge and heal itself. Sometimes sleep is the best medicine. I will use these spring break to go into a sleep-cure…

Do you believe too that sleep can be the best medicine? Please leave a comment.

About what did you feel totally right recently?
Did you take the time and the awareness to question it?
Maybe just for fun?

While my boys studied the new LEGO catalog I became aware that they already lost an action figure from the last set I bought them, feeling a bit of anger rising inside me. Just a tiny bit of course. So I asked them: “Do you know where the little yellow monster went from the new Atlantis set I bought you?” My older son responded: “ No and it was NOT an Atlantis set. If it had been an Atlantis set, it would have had swimming flippers!” (Atlantis = a LEGO brand) I felt my LEGO authority challenged and answered: “ Honey, it WAS from LEGO Atlantis. Because it had this bright neon green little pieces which are typically for Atlantis.”  Adding some proof for my opinion and feeling very confident and authority assured.

I was soooo sure. It felt totally right. I even believed to remember the packaging with the word Atlantis in one corner!!! – 5 minutes later my younger son came and showed me the set I bought some days ago in the catalog. “You see! It is Atlantis.” still believing what I wanted to believe and seeing what I believed was true. My older son insisted: “No, Mom. Look this kind of wheels are not for underground vehicles.” As if he knew better than I, how underground vehicle wheels look like!

After letting go of the whole discussion and seeing the catalog with the same page still laying on my counter I looked at it and turned red of embarrassment: In the top right corner, there it was: The proof that I was wrong the whole time: ‘Power Minors’ was written there, a different brand than Atlantis. I ran to my son to say sorry and acknowledged that he was right and that Mommy made a mistake…

 

The points I learned here are:
1. Even when things FEEL totally right, doesn’t mean they ARE.

2. Adding emotions like anger and the attitude of righteousness increases the likelihood that I am wrong and can’t think objectively.

3. What I feel creates a reality inside my brain which could – to different degrees – be aligned with the outside reality but also could be totally wrong. What I feel is my internal creation which can be triggered by external input but is not a logic cause and effect consequence by nature’s laws.

What was a situation in which you felt being totally right only to discover later you weren’t?
What did you learn from that? Please share.

How do you perceive people who interrupt you while you speak?

I have a great new friend Nina Farrell (http://ninaferrell.com/blog/). Today she checked in with me how I’m doing, I wasn’t very present and prepared or focused and just started rumbling something around the struggle I experience with my two boys annoying me saying something like: “They are my training masters with a high level of power to push my buttons…” and Nina interrupted me. I didn’t clearly hear her words but I got/felt the massage without her saying it this way:

“Sylvia, stop talking like this. This is not the woman you want to be talking. You give your sons the power over you through this kind of self-talk. You know better. You are creating your sons and your experience with them through your projections, your beliefs, your expectations, your own self-talk. Focus on what you want to experience instead of complaining want you don’t want, which gives it your attention and therefore makes it bigger. As whom do you create yourself wanting yourself to be?”
Nina interrupted me in a negative self-talk which not only doesn’t serve me but rather is the opposite what I want to say and how I want to create myself as a powerful creator in my life.

Her interruption was a gift for me.

Thank you Nina for having the courage to be impolite and serving me as a friend and coach regarding the Law of Attraction.

Please share situations where being interrupted was a gift and not an offense for you.

What did you learn today?

Welcome world. This is my first official post in my new blog The CoachMakers Diary.
Feels like giving birth to something new in my life.  

In the Myself April issue (my favorite German women’s magazine www.myself.de) I read an article today about women who became famous through blogging. One of them said: “I didn’t plan that success. It just happened. I didn’t plan the whole blog. I just started knowing that if I waited for the perfect moment it would never come.”

I feel inspired by her courage and just do the same. I’m still not sure about my target audience, I’m still not sure about my main content focus. I’m still not sure where this journey will lead me to. I just feel, I have to start now because I learnt today the perfect moment doesn’t come through waiting but creating.

So I declare this moment to be the perfect one for me to start my blog. It’s a gray April day in Michigan and I’m sitting in my ‘second office’ the Life Cafe from my Life Time Fitness studio posting my first blog.

In order to be able to generate easily often content of value I decided – being a coach and believing in the power of questions and having a passion for learning – to answer each time I write the question:

“What did I learn today?”

I hope to attract like minded people who share my passion for learning because they believe like me that this is simply the meaning of life on this planet and like to take their evolution into their own hands by consciously learning as much as they can.

Welcome again and please share your comments and lessons learned with me and my community of followers!