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You know how sometimes there’s a situation that you find embarrassing that you just find yourself in over and over? For me, this used to happen when I needed to speak loudly. I would have an extremely hard time projecting my voice. When I did, I would often duck my head and mumble something apologetic quickly afterward. I felt so flustered and mortified!

How do I deal with this situation better now?

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My latest blog on +V!

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Bronnie Ware explains her experience:

For many years I worked in palliative care. My patients were those who had gone home to die. Some incredibly special times were shared. I was with them for the last three to twelve weeks of their lives.

Based on intimate conversations with people who were dying, she came up with a list of five recurrent themes of regrets that dying people have.   I'm going to share them with you now in this series, so that you will know to modify your behavior now, before you are dying.

1. I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.
This was the most common regret of all. When people realise that their life is almost over and look back clearly on it, it is easy to see how many dreams have gone unfulfilled. Most people had not honoured even a half of their dreams and had to die knowing that it was due to choices they had made, or not made. 

It is very important to try and honour at least some of your dreams along the way. From the moment that you lose your health, it is too late. Health brings a freedom very few realise, until they no longer have it.

Its so true.  We get so many messages from so many places telling us what we should want, what we should do, what we should think, what we should be.  Enough!  

Now is the time to change.  This moment, now, is the time when you can make the most of your life.  You can choose to engage in things you find fascinating.   You can do the things you find truly fulfilling.  You can be an inspiration to those who you love, and bring them up with you!

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Go forth and conquer!

-Shannon Friedman

 Set your mind free.

I've mostly been focusing on IFS and Positive Vector. I'm working with people, writing code for the quiz, networking, making pod casts, going to meetings, etc. I'm feeling happy, and quite optimistic about our business having success.

My dating life has been satisfying and stable. I had a great holiday with the kids and Patri. Cross fit is still going well.

I really like my life as it is now, and the trajectory that its on. I'm grateful for all of the wonderful people in my life who have been helping me out. I feel restored and refreshed going into the new year.

Let me know if there's anyone you know who you think might be interested in IFS. I think people who are inclined to things like therapy are likely to enjoy and get a lot out of it. shannon.friedman at positivevector dot com.

The quiz should be out soon! I've put a lot of work into it. I'll post here when its done. I'm very nervous about whether or not it gets any traction once I release it. I also know that I've learned a lot in the process, and I have hope that what I've learned will go to good use in some fashion or other.

Adam has been meditating off and on for about ten years. He was telling me some of the same things I've heard from various respected sources of eastern wisdom, which I really don't understand.

He offered to meditate with me every morning! :) So I've been doing that for a couple of weeks now.

I just noticed a huge benefit from meditation yesterday! I was trying to make myself more emotionally open/vulnerable, and to do this, I was focusing on a particular visual/spacial sensation.

My mind wouldn't stay with the sensation for very long, because it was really uncomfortable. So I started meditating on the sensation like I would with my breath, and was able to repeatedly bring myself back into experiencing the sensation many times.

Its so cool to realize! I'm building this new skill that is already having an impact in my life!

I'm looking forward to seeing more benefits from meditation as I continue. Still no idea what Adam experiences when he describes some of the things he does, I hope I can find out! Its strange, because I can almost always model what someone else is feeling or what their experiences is like. It feels like there's this big hole in my map of these sensations regarding buddhist experiences and understanding. Being able to concentrate better is a really great unexpected benefit, which makes a lot of sense in retrospect.

We're doing podcasts for each of us at the company talking about our origin in personal growth. Here's mine!

http://positivevector.com/i-love-personal-growth-shannons-origin

Warning: this quiz will not work - nothing will happen when you hit submit.

jon_leonard and I just finished making a program that extracts the data from the spreadsheet of quiz questions I made and outputs an html page.

Next steps are:

finish writing the results
have a program that calculates which result to send
have Jeff help me turn this into a Facebook app
possibly turn it into a regular quiz that functions on our website

Feedback is super appreciated! If you don't like the answers and feel inspired to swap them around, let me know and I'll be happy to share the google doc where you can do this.

The results pages are going well. Much easier to write than I'd thought.

Warning: This is a quiz about unmet needs, so its pretty depressing.

( Quiz in its current form )

This is a podcast we did where Will tells his origin story of how he got into personal growth. Its AWESOME. I love this man. How he gets in and creates himself to be the best person he possibly be is something that I think makes him really unique, special, and is super inspiring.

http://positivevector.com/i-love-personal-growth-the-podcast-begins

I'm creating a pretty intensive quiz as a Facebook app that will ask around 35 questions, and give people categories and information. Email me if you're interested in helping with quiz development @ shannon.friedman at positivevector dot com.

Outtakes from filming the Future Self Guided Visualization.

divia83, williamaryan, practicalpowers, and I are incorporating into the firm Positive Vector.

About us:

Corporate

Positive Vector provides our corporate clients transformation through educational and coaching services. Using modern techniques inspired by the latest research and the most successful communication philosophies we create team adhesion with workshops and individual coaching. In our classes participants discover how to unblock inspiration and drive up innovation in a safe atmosphere. With curriculum based in cognitive psychology we teach employees the skills that will cause them to consistently make the rational decisions that drive up productivity and profits. Clients are given insight into the powerful nutrition science of the ancestral health movement in order to supercharge their lives. As you probably recognize, when people fail to work it’s usually because something inside them isn’t working. We target the unique personal needs of the individuals in your corporation and tailor our services to bring everyone to abundance.

Personal

Every member of Positive Vector has a passion for empowering the lives of individuals. We offer our clients custom guidance to lead you from depression, anxiety and fatigue to vibrant health. Our team will work with you in the field using exposure therapy if you need to overcome phobia or social anxiety. We facilitate emotional development in private meetings using the best of life coaching and strong visualization techniques such as Internal Family Systems. Positive Vector has seen lives reshaped by changes in diet and provides consultation services to create personalized ancestral health nutrition plans that will invigorate your body. We take a holistic approach to well-being. Each member has a specialized focus. Our full spectrum of expertise allows us to match every client with exactly who they need for their unique needs. We seek to give every client more than simple health. We want you to be your full powerful self.

Adam has been blogging away:

http://positivevector.com/blog

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