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Success seems to be about making your time count. It is not necessarily about squeezing more into the time you have. This means you do not have to be stressed out and time-pressured to make great progress. You just need a great goal and great steps.

Begin by effectively defining your overall goal. You need to have a sense of what you don’t know and what is realistic. In other words, you can definitively identify the gap between where you are now and where you want to go: With an understanding that you cannot become a world-class athlete if you have never worked out.

Next, you need to be motivated to engage. Your plan should include opportunities to put what you are learning into practice and get some kind of feedback that allows you to adapt. This is where the steps you identify are critical.

The space of uncertainty is magical because it contains the seeds of creation. Not Knowing is OK, but it often doesn’t feel that way. When we don’t know, it can be uncomfortable because we have no framework from which to plan our activities in the external world. However, this is a time for internal rather than external movement. A process that is driven by much questioning and reflection and the opportunity to connect to our intuition and higher-self more deeply. Moreover, it is well documented as a critical stage in the developmental cycle. In other words, it is absolutely a part of the human process.

One of these models is Frederick Hudson’s Cycle of Renewal which has four phases.

The Wheel of Life is a very powerful coaching tool because it prompts a conscious examination of your experience of life. You can repeatedly apply this tool over time as a prompt to refining your life.

However, to get the absolute most out of this coaching tool you have to be open to change.

Often our mindset can impede our ability to fully engage if we think things are set as they are. This includes our ability to change ourselves and our capabilities as well as our ability to change things in our environment and circumstance. In other words, our belief that our internal attributes or our external situation is fixed can prevent us from taking action to make small changes.

So, start by setting the intention to be wide open to any adaptations you might need to make and then engage in the Wheel of Life introspection.

I recently came across a short narrative article about hormones and happiness doing the rounds on social media. It inspired me to do my own research and write this blog post to share with you. The premise of this article was to make sure we actively promote the production of the four hormones which determine a human’s happiness. These are Dopamine, Oxytocin, Serotonin, and Endorphins, which conveniently have the acronym DOSE! They provide our daily DOSE for happiness.

Why are these four hormones so important and how can we stimulate their production?

The concept of the Law of Attraction has become common knowledge. Whether or not you believe in it as a principle for conducting your life is another matter. Simply put, what you give out is what you get back. So, if you are clear about what you want in your life you can expect it to manifest over time. Most of us do not adequately question or examine what we actually desire our life experience and expression to be. It is far easier (and perceived to be safer) to go along with the status quo by retaining expected roles and timetables. However, many Universal Laws speak to how we can actually get what we want out of life. Imagine that, the universe actually wants us to be insanely successful.

The Ten Universal Laws* that speak to getting what we desire in life are the Law of Attraction, the Law of Belief, the Law of Cause and Effect, the Law of Choices, the Law of Clarity, the Law of Expectation, the Law of Frequency, the Law of Giving, the Law of Integrity, and the Law of Success. These Laws are given below with my thoughts on how they guide us in manifesting and creating the life that we want.