Lamisha Serf-Walls

Gratitude: Life Purpose and Inspirational Clients

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This week has been a bit hairy, but in between juggling many tasks, I felt something I have been longing to feel for years.

A feeling of “Yes, THIS is what I am meant to do!”

I have always known that I wanted to be a life coach at honestly thought I would be pretty good at it, but this week I received the ooey-gooey feeling of exhilaration mixed with joy mixed with inspiration that let me know, this is my purpose.

image from michelleparsons.com
image from michelleparsons.com

I wish I could tell you the exact moment it hit, but I can’t.  I honestly think it was a culmination of working with two incredible clients this week who both had some major breakthroughs.  I had a feeling of awe, wonder, and excitement for their growth and am honored to be able to work with such wonderful women.  I also realized that with each new session we complete, I am also learning and evolving into a better coach.  I constantly leave my sessions feeling inspired, amazed, and content with the work I am doing.

If you told me a year ago I would be a life coach, and I would be enjoying the work that I do so much that I have a hard time falling asleep, I wouldn’t have believed you.  At that time I didn’t know it was possible.  I didn’t know, what I didn’t know.

I had no idea it was possible to simply follow your heart and allow the pieces to fall into place.  I didn’t know there was another path to the most logical and sensible path I kept revisiting.  I didn’t know I had the power to create a life and career that I both loved and appreciated daily.

I just didn’t know…

My guess is that many of you feel the same way.  You may not see the way out of a particular job or know how to get things rolling with your dream life.  Maybe all the reasons you think you can’t do it right now seem logical, but I bet if you tapped into your heart and could hear what it had to say, you would realize there are a million ways your dream can come true.  The logical option is only one.

My life purpose is to help people follow their hearts to live the life of their dreams.  It is to facilitate and co-create an amazing journey where clients leave their sessions feeling refreshed, revitalized, and inspired to keep going.

If you are interested in what coaching can do for you, feel free to contact me at lamisha@lifeoncedreamt.com to set up a FREE 30-minute intro session.  I would love to chat with you!

15-Minute Magic

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Within the last week or two I have implemented a practice that has completely changed my daily life.  It is a “life hack” I heard about many years ago, but never tried, until a few weeks ago.  I applied it to my life in order to create more balance between my full-time job, coaching, writing, and family duties and it has worked wonders.  I soon realized this magical practice can even be applied to accomplishing your dreams, 15-minutes at a time.

If you are like me you probably have a laundry list of things to do (including laundry) and some days you aren’t sure how you can fit it all in, let alone make time for you to focus on the one big thing you really want to create in your life.  You also know that without that time and space, that thing may never manifest.

So how do you do it without locking yourself in a room for hours on end to finally make some headway?

You break it into 15-minute chunks.

I know you are saying that you can’t possibly get anything worthwhile accomplished in 15-minutes, but believe it or not, you can accomplish a lot in 15-minutes if you are totally focused on the task at hand.

Here’s how it works:

  1. Select something from your to-do list that you just haven’t found the time to do.

    image from www.childhood101.com
    image from www.childhood101.com
  2. Set a timer for exactly 15-minutes.
  3. Get to work.
  4. When the timer goes off, stop what you are doing and pat yourself on the back. You have just taken a tiny step toward accomplishing your goals.

Now, at this point if you are really on a roll and you have the time you can reset the timer and go for another 15-minutes and see where that gets you, or you may decide you want to do something else for 15-minutes.  The awesome thing about this practice is you can use it for anything. (If you are a parent, this works wonders with children especially when they have chores to do.)

Do you have some follow-up emails you have been meaning to send?  Some contacts you have been meaning to look up?  Need to research business cards/webpage designers/workshop ideas/need to contact that life coach you have been meaning to hire? Set your timer and go!

You may find some tasks work better with a 30-minute set up and that is ok too.  Feel free to mold this practice into something that works for you and your unique situation.

Using this practice allows you to take little steps toward accomplishing your dreams and the more you do it, the more inspired you become.  Soon you may find yourself setting the timer for much longer simply because you enjoy working on your dreams.  The key is to do a little bit everyday.

When you make your dreams a priority by doing a little each day, you will not only begin to feel better, but you will also see your dreams take shape before your very eyes.  Don’t believe me?  Try it and leave me a message in the comments below on how it worked for you.

Gratitude: Dreaming And Achieving

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If you would have told me 10 years, 5 years, or even a year ago that I would be taking a leap into the unknown of starting my own business, I would think you were nuts.  The old me would never have thought that I would have the ability, fortitude, and inspiration to start my own business and yet here I am.

While I am still in the very early stages of my business (and really client-wise nothing has changed since yesterday), I feel different.  I feel a sense of peace, excitement, and overall joy for what I have created and what is to come.  I am not worried about where my clients will come from or the amount of money I will make from my new venture.  In fact I feel the exact opposite.

Instead of worry, I am filled with faith.  Faith that those people who are meant to work with me will find me and as long as I follow my inspiration and intuition everything will fall into place. 

Today, I am grateful, proud, and excited to say that what was once a dream for me is now reality and I can’t wait to help others make their thoughts, visions, and inspirations materialize. 

I now know that no matter how big your dreams may seem or how difficult you perceive the path to be, nothing is impossible.  In fact, the process of creating the life of your dreams doesn’t even have to be hard!  It can be fun, exhilarating, and enjoyable no matter what it is.  

Believe me when I say, if I can do it, you can too!

I hope you have a wonderful weekend and spend some time envisioning the life of your dreams and believing it can happen!

A Feeling of Contentment

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Have you ever had a time when everything felt just right?  A time when you weren’t focused on any struggles, worries, difficulties, or challenges? 

I had that moment today.

Today, I experienced an overwhelming sense of peace and contentment.  A feeling I haven’t known very well in the past few years, but it felt eerily familiar.  Almost like this is how life is supposed to feel.

In that moment I was grateful for the work I have done thus far, for my clients, for my growth, and for the awareness that everything is going to be just fine.  I didn’t worry about my to-do list or the items I have wanted to get done before the launch of my business.  I didn’t worry about how, when, why, or who I would be working with in the future. 

I simply allowed myself to revel in the moment of contentment.

Thinking about it now, the feeling is coming back and it is amazing.

I encourage you to take some time this weekend to simply reflect on the week and bring your awareness to this very moment.  Can you find that space of contentment and gratitude for everything in your life right now?  If you can, enjoy it and embrace it and know that everything is working out exactly as it should.  Know that your dreams will manifest and whatever worries that have plagued your mind will be ok. 

May you find that feeling of contentment and enjoy a peaceful weekend and as always, thanks for reading!

Early Week Gratitude: Collaboration and Support

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I just couldn’t wait until Friday to share a few tidbits of info that I am so grateful for from last week and this past weekend, so I decided to post an early week gratitude post.

Last week was a bit of a challenge for me for some reason, but even in the midst of my challenge I had some pretty stand out moments that rocked my world.  First, I hit a new record high for page views in one day which moved from a previous 36 to a massive 54!  Even though I try not to view the numbers as success or failure, I love seeing them climb over time.

The second amazing thing is a comment I received on my post highlighting Michelle Ward’s post.  The comment came from Michelle Ward herself.  For some people it may be no big deal, however for someone who is consistently inspired by her work, her story, and her overall awesomeness, I was blown away.  And as if that wasn’t enough, I found out she tweeted a link to my post for others to follow, (hence the increased views).  I am so grateful that she found my blog, read it, and shared the link with others!

This weekend was equally inspiring as I attended a women’s discussion group at my local yoga studio.  I decided to attend the group on a whim an am so happy I did.  Not only did we have a great discussion, but we shared ideas and information with one another and celebrated each others positive experiences as a way of showing support.  It was a very great way to reach out to other women in the community to support and share with one another which actually leads me to my next gratitude point.

Collaboration.

I reached out to the yoga instructor that set up this discussion group and told her about my coaching business and some ideas I had for workshops etc. and told her I would collaborate with her on her vision for this group.  It turns out she was incredibly warm and receptive to the idea and we are currently brainstorming ways we can reach out to women in our community to share our visions, ideas, and gifts with others.

I have always been a fan of collaborating with others and showing support for the dreams and visions of others especially if they are in your same business.  When you think about the unique skill set two (or more) people bring to the table, just imagine what an impact those people can have when they work together.  Amazing things happen when we come together to support one another.

As you move through the rest of your week, I encourage you to find ways to collaborate and support the vision of another with similar interests as you.  You never know what wonderful things could come from your joint efforts.