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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