This week Jen and Leah continue their two part series and they discuss their thoughts about one of Jennifer’s favorite coaching tips! This tip is referred to as the ’slow it down, turn it around’ tip, which actually means:  Think Before You Speak! They discuss the manner in which you respond to situations and how often times people tend to react and say things they do not mean because they are acting defensively and haven’t thought their words through before speaking.

If you can begin to slow down, and turn it around before speaking your opinion you might find that you will respond very differently than you would have anticipated.

Referencing the book The Greatest Man Who Ever Lived by Steven K. Scott, Jen and Leah review the checklist that Scott created that will help you to slow down and turn it around before you speak! Excellent tips for living your life from a position of empowerment.

1. Respond calmly – think before you speak and respond calmly instead of just *reacting*

2. Listen first – don’t interrupt, don’t think about what you are going to say in response….just LISTEN

3. Approach others from THEIR frame of reference – realizing that if someone is saying mean or negative things to you, it probably means that they are not happy with themselves

4. Begin to look at others from the perspective of what you can give in the relationship rather than what you can receive. When you live proactively and worry less about what you are *getting* from your relationships, your life becomes more peaceful, easier, less stressful and more fun!

For more great coaching tips from Jennifer and Leah, be sure to purchase their cd Your 30 Day Guide to Becoming the Artist of your life. It’s just a $20 investment and promises to give you the tools, tips and resources needed to start living your life to the fullest!

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This week Leah and Jen start a two part series where they each share one of their favorite coaching tips with their podcast listeners. Leah shares one of her favorite tips this week, which is Setting Boundaries in your life. Boundaries are imaginary lines that you draw around yourself that allow you to grow and become your authentic self, because these imaginary lines *protect* us from the actions of others. When we create boundaries in our lives, we are basically setting *rules* for what are acceptable behaviors by others in our lives. Boundaries clearly define what people can and can not do to you.

Some examples of setting boundaries include:

1. Determining what actions and behaviors are acceptable in your marriage, with your family/children and with your friends and co-workers. This is probably the most important (and often most difficult) area to set clear boundaries. When you don’t set boundaries in this area, many times you end of feeling like a *victim* or that you are being taken advantage by others.

2. Deciding how you will be spoken to and treated by others – what you accept and what you do not accept.

3. Deciding what places that you will go, things that you will do, and people that you choose to have in your life. When you know what you do not want to do, then you no longer have to do it.

4. Determing what type of risks that you will take in life and ones that you won’t.

One tip that will help you in beginning to set boundaries in your life is by learning to say NO. Leah and Jen often talk about that fact that ‘NO” is a complete sentence. When we learn to say no to those things that we do not want to do, we are in essence saying Yes to ourselves.

To learn more about setting clear boundaries in your life, be sure to listen to this week’s podcast! Also, you can purchase Leah & Jen’s CD – 30 Days to Becoming the Artist of Your Life! It is chock full of coaching tips, techniques and practices to help you begin living a proactively, passionate and purposeful life!

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This week on the Creating Your Masterpiece podcast, Leah and Jen focus the conversation around a quote that is used quite often by Dr. Phil Mcgraw. If you have ever watched the Dr. Phil Show, you know that he often asks his quests the famous question: How’s that working for ya? He usually asks the question to emphasize the point that whatever the guest happens to currently be doing in their life isn’t working out the way they had intended it to.

Leah and Jen discuss what to do with your life when things aren’t working out exactly as they should. By now, most people who made New Year’s Resolutions in Janaury have fallen off the wagon, and are probably not feeling really good about themselves…So, how can we get back on track in our lives and make things happen!

Leah and Jen suggest reviewing each area of your Life Palette and determining what’s working and what isn’t. Once you identify what ISN’T working the way you want it to, then its time to create the PLAN and the PATH to reach your goals.

Remember, the five areas of your Life Palette include:

Health/Emotion

Financial

Physical Environment

Spirituality

Relationships

Take a good look at each area and write down what changes you want to make to improve each area, and thne create the Action Plan to get there!

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Queen for a day!

The queen~

Today on the Creating Your Masterpiece Show – Leah and Jen experience the wonderful opportunity of interviewing ‘Queen” Linda Sacha. Linda is a fellow life coach who works with women around the country on projects and passions of their heart. She is the author of ‘Queen for a Day, Reclaiming your Happiness One Birthday at a Time’. Her book was released last month with Gotham books and is available in all major bookstores…including Barnes & Noble and Borders. You can also order the book from her website!

Linda explains her motivation behind writing the book….like many women, she had put her needs last and everyone else’s needs first. When her birthday came along, and no one made a big deal out of it….Linda experienced an “Ahh-Haaa’ moment. It was at that time she decided her day of birth was worth celebrating, and she was no longer going to wait for others to do this for her!

Sacha (as her friends call her) as been inspriring women ever since that day to CELEBRATE their lives! Rejoice in who they are! And, realize that the day of their birth is the day for them to rejoice in themselves and their lives…and, not just on their birthday…but the whole year through!

If you are ready to begin celebrating yourself, your life…and your birthday again…you owe it to yourself to read Sacha’s book: “Queen for a Day, Reclaiming your Happiness one Birthday at a Time”. You deserve it!

In addition, Sacha has written and narrated a children’s CD – “Neen’d Lost Song” – which is Book One of her series ‘The World Within’. Click here for more information about the WONDERFUL Linda Sacha!

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This week the ladies of the Creating Your Masterpiece Show answer YOUR questions! That’s right! Leah and Jen answer several questions they have received from their podcast listeners over the past few months.

The questions pertain to many different topics that have been covered on the podcast show. For example, Tracey from Orlando wants to know more information on how to incorporate the ‘NO’ is a complete sentence philosophy. She has tried saying NO, but continues to feel guilty when she has to say NO. Is there a way she can still say NO without feeling that people are upset with her? Is there a way to not feel guilty?

Wendy from North Carolina wants to explore the concept of Life Shifts more. She has made several life shifts over the past several months, but her challenge is finding balance in her life and also how to get everything done that she wants to achieve……something we all struggle with….time management!

Finally, Chris from Ft. Lauderdale simply asks ‘How long does it take for all these coaching tips and techniques to be incorporated into your life? He has been hard at work on building a strong personal foundation, setting goals and creating action plans!

Tune in this week to see how Leah and Jen answer these tough questions that most of us face on a regular basis!

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