Magic Wands & Fairy Dust

I’ve been a bit quite on my blog over the past week or so although it’s about the only place I have been quite.

I’m sure you know that feeling….. when you are really busy and then everything else seems to turn up all at the same time.    November is always a busy month for me at the best of times and maybe that’s it, when we focus on something it expands…. so maybe focussing on being busy created more busy.   Whether you believe in all of that or not it doesn’t matter.

What does matter though is this…….whether we like it or not ALL of our lives are getting busier and busier and for some more frantic and frantic……..And the not so good news is it’s only going to get busier.

Technology is speeding up much faster than we as humans are evolving……..the way we do business is speeding up and employers are looking for more and more out of us and that’s nothing compared to the demands some of us are putting on ourselves to keep up.

And when things speed up on the outside…..you guessed it…..they start to speed up on the inside too.

Think about it for a moment….how many people if your life right now can you name that are dealing with stress in their lives that they maybe weren’t dealing with or at least not as much of it, say a few years ago.

And on top of everything it feels like the world itself is gone a little crazy too.  Just look at the madness in the world of politics alone over the last few weeks.

And with all this speeding up of available technology and even social media…. it looks and feels like the world is becoming a smaller and smaller place to live in too.

Whether its TV, magazines or the glorious facebookers, we are being bombarded more than every before with messages about how we should be living our lives.

Now…….more than any other time before, it’s so important that we give ourselves time to stop, breath, to do things we love, things that nurture us and help us grow.

And at the same time take time out to really think about what is it we want for our lives?

But how does a busy person just stop?  And what do we really want?

Well there is only one way to stop and that’s just to do it,……just stop.

Take time out.  Whether that’s heading off to the spa for a day (I’m sure there won’t be too many of us doing that)…….or just scheduling in 20 mins a couple of times a week to sit and just think about what you want.

If that’s too much, then just thinking about how you want your day to go.  Setting an intention and then defining the actions you need to take.

The more you do that on a daily basis, the more likely you are to sit down and repeat the process for other areas of your life.

Over the mid-term it got so busy that I decided I needed a daily dose of Time Out so myself and my 13 year old decided to watch some of the Harry Potter movies.  There were plenty of lessons in those movies, mainly about love and fear.   The other thing there were plenty of was magic wands.   (……And if you lost or broke your wand well you were in trouble).

It reminded me of an exercise I do in some of my workshops.   The magic wand exercise.

Now I’ve been accused in the past of luring my students in with the idea of magic wands and fairy dust…….then hitting them with the truth…..that living the dream life is not as easy as waving some fairy dust around…..it’s actually hard work….really hard work.

……Back to Harry Potter………..

If you’ve ever watched any of the movies then you will know how powerful magic really is…..

…and while the exercise I’m about to share with you might at first sound a bit woo woo….I promise you….. it’s more powerful than you might at first imagine.

And November is a great time to do this exercise because it’s getting closer to next year and there’s still plenty of time before the silly season starts.

…..So…..imagine you have a magic wand and you can swish it over any area of your life.   Close your eyes and imagine now that your magic want has transported you 6 or 12 months into the future.   Now describe that area of your life.  How has it changed and improved and more importantly….. what did you do to get there.

I’ve had so many students and clients who have done this exercise and achieved huge results.

So it still might sound like a woo woo exercise to you but if you are stuck trying to figure out what it is you want in your life then you have nothing to lose….. so go on…..get your magic wand out and give it a little swish.

Much love

Deborah