https://www.totalwealthcoaching.com Financial Transformation with Kate Phillips Tue, 23 Nov 2021 20:08:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.totalwealthcoaching.com/the-transformative-power-of-gratitude/ https://www.totalwealthcoaching.com/the-transformative-power-of-gratitude/#comments Thu, 24 Nov 2011 18:14:40 +0000 http://totalwealthcoaching.com/wp/?p=1464 Yes, her challenges were greater than I could even imagine, but still… I hoped - almost ashamed at myself for suggesting it, fearing I might be wrong - there must be a hint of sunshine somewhere. (Right?)

The post The Transformative Power of Gratitude first appeared on Total Wealth.]]> https://www.totalwealthcoaching.com/the-transformative-power-of-gratitude/feed/ 3 https://www.totalwealthcoaching.com/winter-contemplation-1-or-how-to-get-unfrozen/ https://www.totalwealthcoaching.com/winter-contemplation-1-or-how-to-get-unfrozen/#comments Mon, 16 Mar 2009 11:58:33 +0000 http://totalwealthcoaching.com/wp/?p=644 I live by Lake Marcel, poised between the Snoqualmie Valley and the Cascade foothills, between the towns of Carnation and Duvall (east of Seattle).  It is peaceful, idyllic.  It looks like the kind of place you’d go to visit your financially-secure retired relatives in their second home… nestled between tall fir trees, near the community beach. Part of my daily routine is to walk around the lake, weather allowing.  I walk to stretch my legs, clear my mind, and… to listen.  Sometimes, I hear Spirit speaking in Nature – perhaps through a bird or a tree, and often, through a living metaphor.  Oftentimes, the answers to the very questions I have been pondering are to be found in Creation – in Universal, Natural Law, clearly observable in the physical world.  (For those who have ears to hear and eyes to see…) As I’m writing my eBook on “Overcoming Financial Stress,” I’m thinking of how I manage and overcome financial stress – or any stress – in my own life. (Opt in to the right if you’d like a copy… it will be finished soon.) “Stress” is fundamentally a fear-based reaction. It’s a fear-based reaction to the past: we’re afraid we’ve made terrible mistakes that we should feel regret over; and a fear-based reaction to the future: we may have food, shelter, and love today, but surely it will disappear tomorrow!  And who would we BE without the income, the home, or the “stuff” we’ve come to identify ourselves with? And perhaps things aren’t so great in the present. Perhaps we are confronted with uncomfortable challenges and find ourselves clinging to a past that no longer exists, discovering change the only constant. If only tomorrow were guaranteed to be like yesterday, if only we could predict it, manage it, control it! A natural reaction to change, challenge, and fear is to “freeze.” When we encounter a bear (or a large barking…

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