All About Energy

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Having been a coach for 11 years, I walk my talk by always having a coach myself. Sometimes I have a one-on-one coach and other times, I opt to participate in group coaching. Since last October, I have been a part of The Ultimate Game which is a combination training/group coaching program led by my friend and fellow coach Jim Bunch.

This month's coaching topic is around energy and the idea that everything in our space carries energy--positive or negative. It also carries past energy, present energy and in the case of something like a vision board, future energy. The goal is to fill your physical environment with items that have positive present and future energy.

This concept really slammed me into a wall (spiritually, that is.) I realized that almost all of my kitchen items--dishes, silverware, pots and pans, serving spoons, glassware, etc. were all wedding gifts. Identifying other things in my space, I realized that all of my bathroom towels were also wedding gifts. Now, I've been divorced for 13 years, so that's some past energy and it's tied to a relationship that failed, so that's negative energy.

I also identified that I have many other "remnants" of past relationships in the form of gifts those men had given me--a piece of expensive collectible artwork, a diamond tennis bracelet, diamond earrings, a diamond bracelet, Tiffany earring, bracelet and necklace set, etc.

The recommendation to replenish energy and keep fresh energy flowing is to get rid of anything tied to the past, especially if it's tied to something that's over or was negative. I was on board for doing that, until I realized that if I were to get rid of all of the items that fall into the either past or negative energy items, I would be replacing just about everything in my house.

Interestingly, I would love to do that. (What American girl wouldn't enjoy a whole house shopping spree?) My second thought, after how much fun it would be, was how much it would cost, and I don't want to go into debt financing items for a new house.

Jim challenged me on my financial thinking (going to a place of first thinking I'd need to go into debt to buy things) and encouraged me (and everyone in the group) to play the 1 to 10 game for a week.

Basically, this game is about making $10 for every $1 you spend. So far this morning, I have spent $180 for having Leisure Fitness come to take apart my PreCor elliptical and move it to the garage. That means I need to come up with a way to make $1,800 within the next week. I have few ideas...guess I'll need to implement them to see how they work!

Until then...is anyone interested in some really nice kitchen stuff? I have red and white Williams-Sonoma brasserie plates, a copper-bottomed cookware set, etc. Or, perhaps, jewelry is your thing--let me know!