Transformational Life Coach

Personal Development

Are you tired of striving to have?
Do you want to stop and breathe for a few moments?
Where are you in your life?
Are you enjoying the process of living your life?
You are worthy, because you are.
You can stop striving and be.

Unlock your potential.

Unfold your personality

Ignite your passion

YOU ARE WORTHY!

Hello My Friends,

It has been a fabulous week, Hubby is in his element constructing, I am in my happy place, writing and helping.
It is so easy to become focused on the task in hand, that we forget to connect to the people around us.
Hubby and I have found this to be so this week. We are both enjoying our separate activities. Wrapping ourselves in the joy of creating.
Sitting in front of the television, eating meals, talking but not really communicating. We realised our love connection was feeling a bit jaded, neglected even.
One of our favourite ways to reconnect with each other is in the bath-tub.
It is alone time, no distractions, just the two of us. This is our space and time to catch up.
Do you and your significant other have a time and space to connect emotionally, to catch up, and to recharge your relationship batteries?

Today I want to talk about personal development.
I remember when I first walked through the doorway of the personal development world, it felt like I’d walked into a huge warehouse full of so many possibilities.
I recall thinking that this would fix me. Make me better, make me whole, complete.
I was trying to be worthy, to gain approval, to feel like I mattered.
So I dove in head first. Being the all or nothing person I was, I gave it my all, I tried to change me, I worked on attitudes, I did all the things.
And I got tired, I wore myself out, I still felt less than, I still felt like a failure, I still had all my problems.
I had expected this wonderful world of personal development to fix me, and it didn’t.
I had expected to feel better about me, and I didn’t.

I remember the day, I got it!
I got the concept that I’m not broken, I’m not here to be fixed, I’m okay as I am.
What an eye opener, I am worthy because I am, not for what I do, not for being perfect, not for earning love.
I am worthy because I was born a person.

I want you to think about that statement for a bit.
You are WORTHY because you are a person. No other reason.

This one concept changed everything for me. It wasn’t a miracle cure, but it was a massive shift in perspective.
It shifted the way I saw my life, the way people interacted with me, and me with them.

Worthiness or the feeling of the lack of worth, is so prevalent in our society.
We feel we have to be perfect. Let me say this. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS PERFECTION.
Did you hear me. There is no such thing as perfection.
It is an illusion.

The second big Aha for me was, Personal Development is for life.
I thought once I mastered a skill, or became the ideal woman in my mind, I’d be there.
In reality there is no THERE.
Life is evolvement, an unfolding, it is change.
The only constant in life is change. I didn’t understand that quote, in truth I probably have only scratched the surface of it.
Striving to get THERE, gave me purpose a goal to achieve. It was like a target to achieve. Once I got there I could stop striving.
What I am in the process of learning is that here, is there.
The life I am living today is part of my journey, as I master my inner world, the outer world reflects that back to me.
As I live my life in worthiness, worthiness is reflected back to me.
An external goal is for motivation to pull me forward, to encourage me to stretch, to grow, to see how far I can go in my life.
What if each of us, moved forward with the attitude that everyone else was as worthy as we are?
What if we decided to follow the dreams that are within us?
Where would you be, who would you be?
Our life is malleable, it is pliable, it is open to being created.
What do you want to create with your life? From a place of self love, of worthiness, of knowing you can do whatever you think and believe you can do?
What potential is laying dormant in you waiting to be ignited?
Is it time for you to develop yourself personally? To unfold your life into your fuller potential?

Your challenge for today is to look in the mirror, really look at your reflection, past your body, and look into your spirit. Then whisper, (or shout) you are worthy of great things.

Until next time, keep keeping on, keep learning and growing, keep loving yourself.

oxoxo Linda.

As a certified Life Coach, I help you to help yourself, so you can create a well lived life your way.

If what I am sharing resonates with you, follow me, reach out, share with a friend, like or leave a message below,

When you are ready to make a transformational difference in your life, contact me for a one on one coaching session.

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Decision Fatigue

Do you find yourself unable to make sound decisions at the end of the day?
Does the smallest of choices have you spinning into overwhelm?
You could be suffering from Decision Fatigue.
This weeks message is to help you simplify your choices, your life.

Welcome to Authentic Living Coaching, The Podcast,
I’m your hostess, Linda Codlin

I am a certified life coach, and the founder of Authentic Living Coaching.
I am passionate about helping you to help yourself.
It is my intention that each and every one of us has the
information we need to make the best decisions about the way we choose to live our lives.

Living life on your terms, and being your authentic self.

Hello, My Friends
Welcome to Episode # 31

Today I want to talk about making decisions.
For some of us making a decision is a very difficult process.
We are faced with making decisions hundreds of times a day.
Little decisions and not so little decisions.

Have you thought about your process for making a decision?
Often we make a decision on a whim, or a feeling without investigating what is driving that feeling.

Decision fatigue is the mental exhaustion you experience after making a lot of decisions.
The more decisions you are required to make early on in your day, the greater is the likelyhood of of mental fatigue around making decisions in the latter part of the day.
This is part of the reason, That the, what shall we have for dinner question is so tiresome, most of ask this question at the end of a long and tiring day, when we have already made many decisions and this one seems too hard.

How do you know when you are suffering from decision fatigue?
You may begin to feel more negatively towards yourself and others, your physical energy is depleted and everything is an effort, and normally it wouldn’t be an effort.
You feel mentally drained, like you are in a thinking fog, it is difficult to gain any clarity around what you are thinking.
Your judgement is impaired, because you are mentally drained your ability to think and act in ways that are good for you is also affected. You may find you take the easy way, the path of least resistance, n the evening.
And then beat yourself up mentally about it in the morning, claiming you know better than that, and promise yourself you’ll do better next time. Only to repeat the process all over again in the afternoon.
Another way you may be suffering from decision fatigue is that you find yourself avoiding making decisions, you become resistant to deciding on anything, and slip into procrastination behaviours.
Which of course leave you feeling bad about yourself.
On the flip side, you may jump into decisions without due thought, just to get it over with, and then suffer from decision regret. Wishing you hadn’t made that particular choice.

Decision fatigue is when you are mentally exhausted.
It often hides behind other actions or non actions. Which we then focus on trying to fix ourselves, as an aside you are not broken, you can not be fixed, you can be enhanced, and expanded on, not fixed.

To overcome decision fatigue, there are a few decisions that need to be made ahead of time.
I know it seems counter intuitive.
Follow along and I’ll tell you more.
Simplifying your life will help to reduce the amount of smaller, less important decisions.
Things like what to wear, if you have what is called a capsule wardrobe, you will always know what clothes to wear with what, they match each other. Less decision making around the questions of “What shall I wear today?”
If you only purchase three breakfast cereals instead of five, you have reduced your decision making choices. The same with meals at the end of the day, plan a menu for the week, allow for the mental fatigue at the end of the day. Make meals easy for you to follow through with preparing. Set yourself up to succeed.
Simplify your home environment, clutter can be stressful and with a fatigued brain, clutter can be overwhelming.
Start small, throw away seven pieces of rubbish everyday, tidy one small space. And do it earlier in the day so the task is not so overwhelming. With consistency your home will become a safe haven to return home to.

When you begin to feel your mind wandering off topic, take a break, if possible splash a little cold water on your face, have a drink of water, stretch your arms above your head, relax your shoulders, these small actions make a huge difference, get some fresh air.
Become mindful of the thoughts you are thinking, write a list of all the thoughts that are circulating in your mind.
Remember thoughts belong on paper where we can look at them objectively.
Write a pros and cons list for the major decisions, and remember to include what you REALLY want to see happen in there as well.
And finally delegate, or hire someone to help you.
Ask the children to pitch in, use a reward they enjoy as a carrot, ask your partner or spouse for their participation, “I know, they should already know and be helping, partners are not mind readers, they also need direction)

The biggest takeaway I want you to have from today is by simplifying your life you can reduce decision fatigue and improve how you feel about your life.

Have a fabulous day my friends. Until next time…
Begin small to simplify your life, one small action can create huge results, make one decision now to reduce making the same decision every day. Creating space for you to make more better decisions.
Live your best life, one small compounding decision at a time, Know yourself and live your life authentically.
If you want help to simplify your decision making, connect with me for coaching. You can find me on Facebook and Instagram. Linda Codlin and authentic living coaching
If what I am sharing resonates with you, leave a comment,
hit the like button, share with your friends and follow me.
Thank You for listening.

xoxox Linda

As a certified Life Coach, I help you to help yourself, so you can create a well lived life your way.

If what I am sharing resonates with you, follow me, reach out, share with a friend, like or leave a message below,

When you are ready to make a transformational difference in your life, contact me for a one on one coaching session.

My details are…

#authenticlivingwithlinda

email: authenticlivingwithlinda@gmail.com

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Believe in your Brilliance

SIMPLICITY is the Key to

BRILLIANCE

-Bruce Lee

Hello, My Friends

This week has seen us settling into new routines.
It takes a few weeks for a new routine to become more or less seamless.
Once we stop resisting the changes and begin to move with them, and find the flow of being in a different way.
What I’ve found is I become attached to the old routine, even if it isn’t working anymore. Letting goof the old, so I can move into a new and often more efficient routine, creates friction within me.
My body and brain do not enjoy the feeling of the tension created in letting go, it feels like I am losing something. Which of course I am.
My brain is focusing on the loss rather than the gain, making the process more difficult than it needs to be.

Today I want to talk about believing in your brilliance.
You are brilliant.
The definition of brilliant is bright shining, dazzling, intense, exceptionally talented or clever, skillful.
Other words that describe brilliance are gifted, genius, accomplished, intelligent, intellectual, able, expert, educated, learned.
I think you get the picture.

You are brilliant.
When you read the list of words above where did your mind go?
Did it take you back to your school days, and the person who told you, that you’d never amount to much because you were stupid, or dumb or any of the negative words used to put us down?
Or did your mind flash to the awards on the wall of all the educational courses you have taken, and the certificates and degrees you have attained?

You are brilliant, with or without educational status.
Some of the most talented people have never achieved in an educational institution.
The brilliance I want you to see, is the brilliance that is naturally within you.
It is your natural ability.

If you tell me you don’t have one, I won’t believe you.
Every one of us has a talent, that is ours alone. No-one can master that talent like we can.

Your talent might be talking, you may have what some call the gift of the gab.
This is a strength, learn to master it, communication is vital to understanding.
Your talent might be in music, you have an ear to hear the rhythm and beat of music, your brain thinks in music, you hear melodies wherever you are.
Use this talent to create, to bring joy to yourself and to others. Find people who have similar interests.
Your talent maybe cullinary, food talks to you, your sense of taste knows what works together and what doesn’t, you know just the ingredient needed to make the usual spectacular.
This talent may be lurking in your kitchen, you’ve been told by others how fabulous your food is, and you think it’s normal.
Branch out, extend your brilliance.
Your talent might be in creating art, you have a sense of colour, depth, and perception that makes spaces come alive.
You know exactly how a space could be, you know what colour will enhance, you know how to generate a feeling through a pencil or brush stroke.
Your brilliance is in everything you do.
Maybe your brilliance in how you interact with people. You are the ray of sunshine that lights up the room.
You are the one who knows how to draw the best out of others, your talent for making other feel great is your brilliance.

You are brilliant.
I have touched on a few things, if I haven’t touched on your talent of brilliance, let me know what it is in the comments.
There are so many, the more I give my brain the direction to find them, they come pouring in.
For Example a few vocations that tap into peoples brilliance.
Nursing, Construction, Architecture, Craftiness, Gardening, Horticulture, Health (And all it’s side shoots)
Physics and the Sciences.
I also want to mention that although a lot of these vocations require attending an eduactional facility, there are people who have natural skills in these areas without having to be trained or taught, their brilliance is within them, and going to an educational facility hones it, and strengthens it.

Today’s Challenge is for you to investigate what comes so naturally to you that you are not even aware it is a brilliant talent you possess. Think about areas where you are praised for work you do, that feel like fun and play. This could be an indication of your brilliant talent.

You are brilliant. Be your brilliant self. Believe in your Brilliance.

oxoxox Linda.

Resistance gives us feedback

Events only have meaning when we give them meaning with the thoughts that we think.
Resistance is telling us we are having a thought that is not in alignment with our feelings or our actions.
These thoughts are changeable.

Welcome to Authentic Living Coaching, The Podcast,
I’m your hostess, Linda Codlin

Living life on your terms, and being your authentic self.

Hello, My Friends
Welcome to Episode # 30

Today I want to talk about resistance.

Resistance is one of those emotions we feel, when we want to do something, but a part of us is not completely on board with the idea.
We know we should be doing something, like exercising regularly, or eating less, or getting up earlier, or saving more for retirement.
BUT, we don’t.
We talk ourselves out of the action.
Remember everything begins with a thought. Resistance is no different.
There will be a nagging thought about what you want to do, have or be.
The feeling of resistance is telling you, that you are out of alignment somewhere.

The more we resist something the more energy we expend on the resistant thing.
Where we focus our attention, that is where our energy goes.
By learning to recognize resistant thoughts, and noticing they are present, seeking to know what they have to tell us about our emotional alignment, gives us the power to change that resistance into acceptance.

Resistance is always working for us.
It is valuable feedback, when you are feeling resistant, acknowledge you are feeling resistant.
Then look at the thought that is creating the resistance.
Everything is created by a thought, your emotions, your resistance, your acceptance, your habits, everything.

Everything means nothing until a thought gives it meaning.
It can be raining outside, that’s a fact that is noted, however that rain doesn’t mean anything until you think something about it.
You might think about the clothes on the line getting wet, now. You might think about the drainage issue and the last time it rained.
You might think about how you’ll get wet, running to the car, because you forgot to take your umbrella with you.
The rain doesn’t mean anything, other than it’s raining until we put a meaning to it.
That meaning then sparks an emotional response in us, and that will either create action or resistance to action.

When we note we are resistant to going out in the rain, notice how the brain will give us a list of reasons why it’s not a good idea to go outside right now.
We get to decide what action or non action we take. We can allow the resistance to getting wet, to prevent us from doing what we planned, or we could find another way around the rain.
Like finding an umbrella, taking an undercover route to the car, wearing a rain jacket. Or we could cancel a meeting, leave the clothes on the line, watch the water levels rising at the drain, or go out and clear the drain.
You could also be like a toddler, and revel in the rain. Have you watched a small child, delight in the rain, stomping in the puddles, yelling with delight at the rain on their faces as they try to catch the raindrops with their tongues.
Same rain, the toddler has no resistance to getting wet, they have no thoughts about the rain at all, they are enjoying the moment.
Until an adult intervenes and scolds the child, telling them to come inside, that getting wet is a bad idea. Now the seed has been sown, they may be a little more hesitant the next time to play in the rain.

Accepting the resistance you are feeling, is progress towards releasing the resistance, seeing what the resistance is trying to tell you.
When we look at the action or non action we are resisting, we may find we have conflict within ourselves.
We want the result, that the action will give us, we don’t want to go through the process of doing those actions.
Resistance is showing us an area where we don’t believe we are worthy, or good enough, or ready to have the result we want.
If we ignore the resistance and white knuckle the action anyway, we get the result we want, however we don’t get the feeling of satisfaction and pleasure.

I have found that the niggle of the resistant feeling of not being worthy or good enough, taints the result, it sows doubt about the validity of the result and myself.
When I accept the resistance and look at where the disconnect is in my thinking and my feeling, and work on this aspect.
The resistance fades away, I can follow through with the action, with all my energy going in one direction.

Resistance is our friend, it is telling us about areas in our lives, where our thinking is making something mean more than it needs to. Where we are not being honest with ourselves about what we are willing to do, or not do to gain the thing we think we want.

Today’s challenge is to think about how much of your energy is going into resisting what you don’t want, instead of accepting that it is, and going with it.

Have a fabulous day my friends. Until next time…
If you want help to figure out how to accept the things you are resisting, connect with me, and together we can work a way forward through the resistance.
Live your best life, Know yourself and live your life authentically.
You can find me on Facebook and Instagram. Linda Codlin and authentic living coaching
If what I am sharing resonates with you, leave a comment on what is important to you,
hit the like button, share with your friends and follow me.
Thank You for listening.

As a certified Life Coach, I help you to help yourself, so you can create a well lived life your way.

If what I am sharing resonates with you, follow me, reach out, share with a friend, like or leave a message below,

When you are ready to make a transformational difference in your life, contact me for a one on one coaching session.

My details are…

#authenticlivingwithlinda

email: authenticlivingwithlinda@gmail.com

Website: https://www.authenticlivingwithlinda.com

Facebook: https://facebook.com/lindacodlin25

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Essential Food

Everything requires food to survive.
Your soul requires food, Your body requires food, Your brain requires food.
Everything is working for you, the question is how well is it serving you.
We get to choose what we nourish ourselves with.

Are we consuming and creating the kind of food that is healthy for us?

Listen to your body it knows what it needs.

Sleep, nourishing food, motivation, exercise, soul food.

Hello, My Friends

My, how the weeks roll around.

This week I want to share a concept that’s had me re-evaluating how I do Linda, and I hope it will have you re-evaluating how you do you.

I’ve been reading a book by Thich Nhat Hanh, ‘The Art of Communicating’
It’s not a big book, and I figured I’d have it read in a short amount of time.

Not so, the principles in this book are striking a chord within me.

Do you read, to say you’ve read the book, put it away and never look at it again?
Or do you read a book from start to end, no matter how dry, or interesting?
Or do you pick up a book, open the page to wherever it opens and begin reading there?
or maybe you don’t read, maybe you listen to audio books and programmes.

It is taking a while to read this book, as I absorb the principles.

The principle I want to share today is about what he calls essential food.

Everything needs food to survive. Without food life would cease to be life.
He states in the book, “Everything we consume acts either to heal us or to poison us.

Think about that statement, Everything we consume acts either to heal us or to poison us.

Lets consider what we consume, firstly there’s food, the substances we take in through our mouths, does this nourish us, does the food we eat enhance our health or does it degrade our health?
We have been educated in what healthy and unhealthy eating looks like. And the sublities therein can create so much mental drama within ourselves, that we give up eating for health and well-being.
Have you been on this treadmill? Eating what others tell you is unhealthy, then beating yourself up for it, so you feel so bad, you just have to reach for more food to feel better.
That’s one part of the equation of what we consume either heals or harms us.

What else do we consume that can either heal or harm us?
Lately, there’s been a lot of conversation around our social media consumption, what we watch, how the algorithms affect what we see most often.
I want to put out there, is what you are consuming with your eyes and ears, healing your soul, or harming it.
When you watch other people’s dramas, your body has a physical response, and the more heightened the response, the more the body and brain will want to experience it again.
Also remember what we look at and think about most is what we are energetically drawing to ourselves. This type of consumption becomes a closed loop of behavioural reinforcement.

What we say to ourselves and to others, has the ability to nourish or to cause suffering.
Are we feeding those around us love and compassion, or are we feeding them anger, violence and tension?
We have a choice in what we speak.
This links into what we are feeding our brain and our soul. If we are feeding our brain a constant stream of violent or hateful information, guess what is going to come out. What we put into our brain and soul, is what comes out.

Are we ingesting quality information? Things that feed and nourish our souls, that give our brain interesting and challenging things to think about.
Imagine the combined energy when all people, everywhere decided to create life giving and soul nourishing conversations.

It begins with you and I. We have the ability to create a ripple effect.
By choosing to speak kind words of truth, to choose to turn off content that is not conducive to harmony, to take better care of our body, the things we surround ourselves with, and the spaces we work, play and live in.

To create healthy and wholesome foods that nourish our body and soul, we are required to become aware.
To become aware of what we are currently consuming, to become aware of what we are listening to, what we are eating, what we are allowing into our sacred spaces.
Awareness is the beginning of all change. Awareness is the beginning of healing and health.
As we become aware of what is poisoning us, we can make a tiny shift.
It’s the small things done with love, care and attention that can create the biggest shifts.
Listen to your body, it will tell you what is healthy and wholesome for you.
Feel the energy, vibrating in your body. Does it feel in harmony with your soul?
Does your breathing feel free, or is it constricted?
Is your body tense, or relaxed?

Awareness my friend, Awareness is the beginning of change.
Also be kind and gentle to yourself, learning a new way of consuming can have it’s ups and downs. Without harsh self judgement, picking yourself up after a slip will be so much easier.

Today’s challenge if you’re up for it is to seek out what you are feeding yourself, and asking how does this heal me or poison me.

Until next time, Breathe into your authentic self, peace, harmony and life.

Oxoxo Linda.

As a certified Life Coach, I help you to help yourself, so you can create a well lived life your way.

If what I am sharing resonates with you, follow me, reach out, share with a friend, like or leave a message below,

When you are ready to make a transformational difference in your life, contact me for a one on one coaching session.

My details are…

#authenticlivingwithlinda

email: authenticlivingwithlinda@gmail.com

Website: https://www.authenticlivingwithlinda.com

Facebook: https://facebook.com/lindacodlin25

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The 3 D’s

These three D’s will change your life, as they have changed mine.
Learning to live them, putting them into action everyday, not necessarily perfectly, just consistently will make a difference. One decision at a time.

Welcome to Authentic Living Coaching, The Podcast,
I’m your hostess, Linda Codlin

Living life on your terms, and being your authentic self.

Hello, My Friends
Welcome to Episode # 29

Today’s podcst is a recording of a speech I gave last week.
It’s a bit scratchy but I think the message is worth hearing.

The 3 D’s
Master these three aspects of your personality and you can master anything.
What are these three things:
Discipline
Diligence
Dedication

When I began my journey of self discovery I was undisciplined, I would not take any responsibility for my life.
some would say I was living in the victim mode of being.
I was dedicated, to the harmful aspects of my personality- like negative self talk, laziness, and balmae.
Being diligent wa not a word that I would have used to describe myself.

I had an elderly neightbour, Mr Cawley, how would lean over the fence and chatter away to the children.
One day, he called me over, I was frazzled, and he was stopping me from getting things done.

he leaned over closely, “Linda”, he said. “If you use these three D’s, your life will change.
I half-heartedly listened, what does a 10 year old man know.
Huh, such youthfulness, such foolishness.

He explained, if I mastered the art of inner discipline, nothing outside of me would faze me.
If I became didligent in the little things, the big things would take care of themselves.
Instantly I thought about money and budgeting.
If I dedicated myself to something bigger than myself, my life would have more meaning.

For the longest time I struggled to put these in place.
My life heritage was a strict religious background and everything I kneew was based on how things looked, and a ‘relationship with a strict deity.’

Discipline was something doe to your, under the guise of being good for you. I rebelled against rules of any knid, until I figured out he was talking about me making the rules for my life.

I get to make decisions on how I want to live.
Inner discipline comes from loving myself- it’s what I do for myself reather than what I am told to do.

Diligence was the day to day, following the routine I had set out for myself, until it became a habit, he was so right, by taking care of the little things while they were little, life became less chaotic.

Dedication is choosing something that I believe in, and that I am willing to give myself to.
This is am interesting cpncept, because we can dedicate ourselves to a cause, not because of the cause, but from what we give and receive from the giving.

Learning to dedicate my time and money, my energy and my soul to helping people is giving me meaning and purpose, which has a compounding effect.

So in conclusion.

These three D’s will change your life., like they have changed mine- if you will put them to work for you.

Discipline
Diligence
Dedication

Discipline yourself from within and nothing will faze you.
Be Diligent with the little things and the big things will be less chaotic.
Dedicate yourself to somethng bigger than yourself, to find meaning and purpose.

oxoxo Linda

Have a fabulous day my friends. Until next time…
If you want help to figure out how the 3 D’s can work for you, contact me and together we can create a system that works with your situation and your needs.
Live your best life, one discipline, one diligent action and one dedicated belief at a time, Know yourself and live your life authentically.
If you want help to find what is important to you, connect with me for coaching. You can find me on Facebook and Instagram. Linda Codlin and authentic living coaching
If what I am sharing resonates with you, leave a comment on what is important to you,
hit the like button, share with your friends and follow me.
Thank You for listening.

As a certified Life Coach, I help you to help yourself, so you can create a well lived life your way.

If what I am sharing resonates with you, follow me, reach out, share with a friend, like or leave a message below,

When you are ready to make a transformational difference in your life, contact me for a one on one coaching session.

My details are…

#authenticlivingwithlinda

email: authenticlivingwithlinda@gmail.com

Website: https://www.authenticlivingwithlinda.com

Facebook: https://facebook.com/lindacodlin25

Instagram: @lindacodlin

Confirmation Bias

Have you noticed your words you those of someone else can have a huge impact on the emotions.
By using your brain to tap into your emotions positively you can create momentum.
Words and pictures have power, hence digital devices have so much sway.

Use your words to create mental pictures of what you want.

Use your mental pictures to create emotions

Use your emotions to create momentum.

Hello, My Friends,

There are two things our brain knows and understands.
The first is the words we speak.
The second is the pictures we create in our minds. With the words we speak.

When we use words that create mental pictures, we are more likely to follow through, on what ever we are doing. And if we add emotion to the equation we are more likely to complete what we have started.
Our brain needs to be given direction.
The more vividly you give your brain instruction, the more your brain understands what you want. The brain then sets out to find what you are looking for.

Have you ever found that when you or a close friend is pregnant, every other woman you see is expecting a baby? However just a few months prior you never noticed.
Or maybe you’re looking to purchase a new car, you’ve chosen the make and model you want, you’ve taken it for a test drive. The timing isn’t quite right to purchase now.
All of a sudden you see that car everywhere, your eye is tuned into the ads. You’re looking for a great deal.
This is called confirmation bias, and we can make it work in our favour.
It is important to feed your mind images, specific images of what you want.
Your mind is tailored to find what you focus on.
The mind likes powerful dramatic words that create direction and mental pictures.
It doesn’t care whether they are helpful or not.
I am taking a photograph every day, and I’ve set my mind the task of finding the out of the ordinary, interesting things to snap.
You get to give your mind direction. By pointing my brain in the direction I want it to go, It works for me, finding fabulously different pics to snap everyday.

Your challenge for today is to begin to find a better vocabulary of words.
Find words that bring mental pictures into your mind, that create the emotions you want to feel.
We tend, as humans to use the same vocabulary words over and over, learning new words and meanings, then putting them into conversation seems to be too hard for our brain. Give yourself a challenge and add a few new words every day, choose words that create bright, clear mental images for you.
Words like magnificent, dynamic, loving, pleasurable, valuable, super, fabulous.
Add these words into your day to day conversations.
When someone asks you how your day is, Tell them “It’s a marvelous day,” and watch your mind go, aye what?
You’re saying this day is a marvelous day, lets find all the marvelous things about today.
Compared to “Oh, it’s alright, it’s fine. ” or “it could be better”
Give your brain direction, and give it some enthusiasm. Try it, see the difference it makes.

You and I have the choice of what goes on and what goes into our brains, we can put rubbish in, or we can put encouraging and idea stimulating words and pictures into our brains.
What we put in, is what we will get out. Ever wonder why you do some of the things you do? It’s what’s you’ve been feeding your brain.
Words have power, you have power to use words to uplift and encourage, to spread good news and to inspire others.
You also have the power to drag people down with the words you use.

Today’s Challenge is to exercise your brain, think of a train, then use your minds eye to see it.
Think of your goal complete, imagine it, see it. Then tap into your emotions, what are they feeling.

Pick out one person today, use your words to make them feel good.
How does it feel? Do it, step out of your usual zone and use your words to compliment someone today.
Then notice your feelings. Notice your body response.
words have power, use your power wisely.

Until next time experiment with your thoughts, try them on other people.

Have a great week My Friends, until next time.

xoxox Linda

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3 Words That Changed My Life:

I would love to share with you the 3 Words that began the journey I am on now, and the difference they have made to me, as I have learned to trust that they are true and that I can change any thought at any time.
Simple but not always easy to follow up.

Welcome to Authentic Living Coaching, The Podcast,
I’m your hostess, Linda Codlin

Living life on your terms, and being your authentic self.

Hello, My Friends
Welcome to Episode # 28

Today I want to talk about self-love and what we believe it to be.
Do you know what your self-love belief is?

For me, it is knowing who I am, being at peace with my past, and trusting myself
to live into the future with the attitude of whoopie, lets see how far this thing goes.

My journey to self-love began with a ‘simple’ revelation.
It isn’t a new revelation, I have heard it over and over all my adult life.
I have read about it in almost every self help, self improvement book I have ever read.
And I have read a few.

For some reason this little phrase and it’s side kick, touched my heart and changed my life.

“THOUGHTS BECOME THINGS”

“If you can think a thought, You can change a thought.”
“All thoughts are optional”

Thoughts become things.
Everything is created twice.
Think about that, roll it around inside your mind.
What do I mean? Everything is created twice.

Everything that is now, once wasn’t.
The chair you are sitting on, wasn’t always a chair, once it may have been a tree, or a sheet
of metal, if you have leather or fabric covering they were something else before they became
furniture coverings.
The bed you sleep in, the television you watch, the book or magazine you read, the phone you use.

There was a time not so long ago, when these things didn’t exist or weren’t as refined as they are now.

Everything is created twice.
When you are hungry, do you think about the food you want to eat?
That’s the first creation.
You think about what you have available and what you want, you decide whether to cook,
or to get take outs, or go out to eat.
Still the first creation.
When you reach into the fridge to prepare your meal, drive to the take away outlet and
place your order, or go to the restaurant, read the menu, then give the waiter your order.
You have begun the process of the second creation.
When the food is set out before you and you are ready to eat.
The second creation is complete.

Everything is created twice.
This is such good news.
It means that between the first creation- our thought about what we want- and the second
creation – the actual thing we were thinking about- becomes reality, we have the opportunity
to change what we are thinking.
Which then changes the reality we create.

Wham! It’s that simple and it’s that hard. All in a small nutshell.

Everything is created twice.
We get to decide what it is we create.

Be a detective, and investigate the times you can see that you created results by the thoughts
you had and the actions, you took to make those thoughts reality.

Did you build a house?
A lot of thought and planning goes into building a house.
A lot of background work happens before the section is purchased, or the first foundation is laid.
Most of this background work isn’t seen by the average person walking past an empty section, all they see is a vacant lot.
However when the proud new owner of this plot of land looks at it, they see the potential of their dream home.
They stand in various positions, visualising their view from the lounge, seeing which way the sun will strike at different times of the day, they see the gardens.
The new owners of the land are creating, they are creating for the first time, in their minds eye.
In reality, they have already created, they created their home well before the land was purchased.
The idea that they could buy land and build a home, began as a seed someone, or some thing planted in their brain.
Over time as they thought about it, they watered the seed and it began to grow, they did some research, watered the seed some more, they began to believe that it could be possible.
They watered that possibility, they took action on their belief and eventually, they created in reality a structure that could be felt, held and lived in.

Our ability to love ourselves is just like that.
It begins with a thought.
That thought might be triggered by something you read, or something you heard. The seed of hope planted, that maybe you are indeed worthy to be loved.
That you can love yourself.
You can find the kindness to extend to your self.
Self love to me is allowing me to be human, and as a human I make mistakes, I laugh, I cry, I hurt, and I hurt others, I also have compassion, and all the human emotions.
And this is okay.

What is your belief around self-love?
Do you believe you are worthy of putting yourself first in your life?
Do you believe that taking care of your body is important, and make it a priority?
Do you believe you can be good enough to live the life you want?
Do you believe you are lovable?

What is your belief about yourself and how you love you?
Your mission for today should you choose to think about it, is to be the detective and investigate the ways you love yourself now.
And listen to your brain giving you all the ideas, on how you want to take care of yourself lovingly.

Thoughts become things.
Think about the ways you can love yourself, and then begin to act on them.
Change your thinking, change your life.
There is freedom in those words.

Have a fabulous day my friends. Until next time…

Live your best life, one thoughtful thought at a time, Love yourself and live your life authentically.
Helping you, to help yourself. For more help and support in loving yourself, connect with me for coaching. You can find me on Facebook and Instagram. Linda Codlin and authentic living coaching
If what I am sharing resonates with you, leave a comment.
hit the like button, share with your friends and follow me.
Thank You for listening.

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Listen, Listen , Listen

Stretching yourself out of your normal routine, encourages your brain to think in new and unfamiliar ways.
This brings up new feelings,.
Do you listen to your feelings?
Do you care about how you feel?
What is your breaking point?

“Listen with your eyes,

Listen with your ears,

Listen with your heart,

Listen with your intellect,

Listen with your intuition.”

Hello My Friends

This week has been an interesting one for me. I taken up a temporary short term role, which involves going door to door, introducing myself and handing out packs.
When I chose to stretch myself and put myself into unfamiliar surroundings to promote personal growth, I had no idea this would be part of that journey.

I am finding it interesting to note the sentences my brain tells me, how it wants me to procrastinate in certain areas, and now it tries to tell me, I’ll have even less time to do all the things I need to do.
What I’m actually finding to be true, is that the fluff and unimportant, busy stuff is falling away.
I am still writing, recording and seeing clients everyday as well as this temporary role.

So today I want to ask you, How are you stretching your boundaries?
It’s in stretching into the unknown, that we stretch our thinking, we find the things that are just time fillers, and we find out who we are.
Watching tele the other night, I saw an advertisement about being alone and surviving in the wilderness. There catch phrase is “What will it take to break you?”
I commented to hubby, that I couldn’t do that now.
He asked, “Why not, and why now.” My response surprised me, “I care too much now.” “It’s easier to be ruthless when you don’t care.”

That was a knock out statement. “It’s easier to be ruthless when you don’t care.”
I care about how I treat my body.
I care about my mental health.
I care about people in a different way than I did in the past.

Caring can be tough, sometimes because you care, you have to place a red velvet rope around yourself, stating what is important to you and what you will do if what you state is violated.
Then caring enough for yourself and the other person to stay true to what you have stated.
It’s in the staying true to yourself that you build trust in yourself.
It’s in this trust that you gain strength in yourself.
When you care about yourself, you have the ability to care more for others.

In what area’s of your life are you ruthless because you don’t care about how the result is gained?
Or it does it matter to you how the result is achieved.
Sometimes we over-ride other people, we don’t listen, we don’t hear what they are saying to us.
We have our point of view and we perceive we are ‘right’ in our thinking.

I listened to a speech the other day, and the speaker said, the key to getting to know people is LISTEN, LISTEN, LISTEN.
Listen with your eyes, listen with your ears, listen with your heart, listen with your intellect, and listen with your intuition.
When we get into a “I know better than you,” mindset, we switch off all forms of listening, and hearing because we are focusing on ourselves and how we can prove to those in conversation with us, that we are ‘right’.

Today’s challenge is to care a little more about what those closest to you are saying, hear them with your heart, with your intuition.
This is one of the most vulnerable ways of connecting with people, it opens you to feelings that may not have been given space to breathe before.
Empathy and compassion for how life is for other people.

“What is your breaking point?” What will break your emotional walls? What will bring you closer to your authentic self?
Are you brave enough to explore this inner world?

Until next time, stretch yourself into unfamiliar environments and feel all the emotions that arise.

oxoxo Linda.

As a certified Life Coach, I help you to help yourself, so you can create a well lived life your way.

If what I am sharing resonates with you, follow me, reach out, share with a friend, like or leave a message below,

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Affirming Yourself

We use affirmations all the time.
An affirmation is the way we speak to ourselves.
What are the words you regularly use to describe yourself?
Do they make you feel better or worse about yourself?
Words have power, lets use them for you instead of not.

Welcome to Authentic Living Coaching, The Podcast,
I’m your hostess, Linda Codlin

Living life on your terms, and being your authentic self.

Hello, My Friends
Welcome to Episode # 27

Affirmations are the sentences you use to tell yourself, who you think you are.
Are you using these sentences for your good?
Every day in hundreds of ways we are telling ourselves who we are.
I was listening in on a conversation the other day,
Every second or third statement was an affirmation about who they believe themselves to be. And it wasn’t helping them to be their best today.
Listening to people living their lives from the past, and being tied to it as if it is the only thing they have to live for.
Grieves me, I know that there is so much more to life.
And I know it is there for each of us.
The sad thing is we don’t actually believe we are worthy of a future that doesn’t have pain, or harm in it.
Are you like I was, some-one who thinks that life is not supposed to be easy,
Let me give you a few examples from my life on how I made life more difficult than it needed to be.
I told myself the story that raising children was hard, children were to be trained, and disciplined, it was up to me to make sure they minded what I said.
I made life so difficult for myself and my children.
I told myself that earning a living was hard, that I had to work long and hard hours, unsocial hours to earn the money I wanted. I wasn’t worthy of an easy job.
If the work wasn’t hard, physical or arduous I wasn’t working hard enough.
I told myself that having nice furniture and things wasn’t for me, I didn’t believe I deserved such things, and if I did get them some-one or some-thing would take them away or break them.
You get the picture, my value of myself was so low, I didn’t expect to be treated nicely.
And you know what, I wasn’t.
Each of the above affirmations were true at that time in my life, because that was what I was putting out.
We get back what we put out. Simple as that.
The vibration of your core belief is what draws things into your life.
When you have a subconscious belief that you have to work hard for every thing, every thing is hard.
We prove ourselves to be true.
Why not up level your core belief, begin to walk up the ladder of self love.
Begin to treat yourself a little better from within.
Use the I AM ENOUGH affirmation to change the not enough thoughts.
Part of where I am today is because I chose to reprogramme my core belief about myself.
From I am not enough, to I AM ENOUGH, and I AM WORTHY OF THE BEST THE UNIVERSE HAS TO OFFER.
You can make this transition too.
Do you want to move into prosperity?
Do you want your life to feel easier?
Do you want to find the love of your life?
Do you want to have children who enjoy their child hood?
Do you want to believe you are worthy of the best that the Universe has to offer?
What does that look like for you?
Today’s challenge is to Smile, and treat yourself kindly.
Treat yourself like you would if you were a small child who had just lost their ice cream to a licky playful Labrador.
Treat yourself like you want some one you love and respect to treat you.
Become some-one you love to be around.
Let your fun side out to play in the sunshine.
Helping you to help yourself create a life that you love one affirmation at a time…
I AM ENOUGH
I AM WORTHY OF THE BEST THE UNIVERSE HAS TO OFFER.
If you’re ready to reinvent and transform yourself connect with me for a coaching session

Have a fabulous day my friends. Until next time…

Live your best life, one affirmation at a time, Know yourself and live your life authentically.
If you want help to find what is important to you, connect with me for coaching. You can find me on Facebook and Instagram. Linda Codlin and authentic living coaching
If what I am sharing resonates with you, leave a comment,
hit the like button, share with your friends and follow me.
Thank You for listening.

As a certified Life Coach, I help you to help yourself, so you can create a well lived life your way.

If what I am sharing resonates with you, follow me, reach out, share with a friend, like or leave a message below,

When you are ready to make a transformational difference in your life, contact me for a one on one coaching session.

My details are…

#authenticlivingwithlinda

email: authenticlivingwithlinda@gmail.com

Website: https://www.authenticlivingwithlinda.com

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