"Clear Directions" Newsletter
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December 15, 2009  |  Volume 4   |  Issue 8

"When I help you make sense of the things in your life, the things in my life makes sense"

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Happy Holidays

I thought I would dress up for you this Holiday season! So I dug out my elf outfit (a gift from Santa for helping out last year) and posed with my best sparkle-eyed, rosy-cheeked countenance and a cheery wave, just for you.

This is our third winter in Yuma and it still seems odd without crisp, cold air and the crunch of snow beneath my boots. It would be great to have it for about one week, but the entire winter? Uh-uh. We are getting so spoiled that when we get some clouds or temperatures below 50F(10C), on goes the quilted jacket, socks(still in the flip flops), gloves (when walking the dog) and some kind of headgear to keep the breeze from chilling the ears.

Soon we will make our first sojourn out into the desert to explore new places. The snakes are sure to be hibernating now and our friends have threatened to put a halter on me to keep me from investigating holes in the ground and falling down any more abandoned mines! Learned my lesson, no more holes. But I do plan to do a wonderful video for you.

Our Christmas tree sits right outside the door of our RV. It is a beautiful shade of green and is decorated with countless bright, yellow, round objects. They are called oranges. Orange juice coming up in January!

I wish you a Christmas season stuffed with turkey, wrapped in love, sung with hope and worshiped in gratitude. Merry Christmas!

Enjoy!

In this Issue:

       Opening Monologue

       To Your Goal Progress: "How to Cure Bright, Shiny Object Syndrome "

       Travels with My Coach: visit www.//www.travelswithmycoach.com

       Recommended Reading: NEW! "Man's Search for Meaning", Viktor Frankl

WHAT'S LYNN UP TO?

My personal coaches for 2010, Ali Brown and James Roche, have been sending all kinds of newsy emails and conducting calls to fill in the Platinum Tier of their Millionaire Protégé Club on all the most exciting classes, retreats, tools, masterminding etc. that is in store for us starting in January! My rocket is rumbling to life on the launching pad and I can't wait for lift off to the most eventful and successful year ever for my coaching business! Why not hire a coach (me?) to help you set your goals for 2010 and ride the stratosphere with me?!

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BOOK UPDATE: Aaand coming down the home stretch, it's Lynn Moore riding Secret Book Title! SBT is now in chapter nine of nine and can see the finish line! It looks like SBT will finish ahead of all other projects in Lynn's stable and will go on to race in rewrites, editing, cover design and publishing! SBT is looking like a winner!

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WEBSITE UPDATE: Progress is being made! The home page now has my WELCOME VIDEO! I’m much more comfortable writing than I am talking to a camera and this is one of my first attempts and it will do for now, but I have interesting plans for a new one after I have improved with practice! Check it out.

TO YOUR GOAL PROGRESS

"How to Cure Bright, Shiny Object Syndrome "

T'is the season for bright, shiny objects. But did you know that they are around us all year, tempting us in many ways? They get our attention very easily diverting us from any and all tasks, they make us feel guilty in the pleasure we get from them. We are hypnotized, addicted and we love the naughty wee things!

What are they? They are our distractions!

To be more precise, the distractions we encounter while working, especially entrepreneurs. Most of us work using computers at least some of the time. It used to be that the major distraction was email. Now it's social media. You are supposed to be working on data or reports or your website and then you get the 'ding' sound that you have received a comment on your Facebook status. "I'll just take one minute and find out who it is," you think to yourself. Next thing you know a half hour has gone by. So then you shrug and say, "Oh well, not enough time left to finish my work so I might as well just check Twitter while I'm at it."

Let's think of some more. You Google something and of course you have to check out all the sites on the first page. In the process you find some new software with a free trial. You think, "Wow, I could really use that in my work," and you dig deeper to find out more and play with the free trial.

You are sent information on how you can 'guarantee your website will rank among the highest within two weeks!' and you know that you really need this so off you go to explore. You actually buy the software and sign up in the program to improve your SEO rankings. Now you have two more offshoots to take you away from your main focus and your goals.

You and I both know what happens. The 'do-it' list gets longer and longer and the longer it gets the more bright, shiny objects you need to stuff down the guilt and overwhelm. This cycle just keeps repeating itself until you find yourself fiddling while Rome burns.

So now we know what this syndrome is and why we don't want it. Especially when it comes to goaling (this is a new word I have invented because typing or writing 'goal setting and achievement' is just too long and I use it a lot!). Goaling takes focus and those BSO take that focus and smash it. In turn, your goals are smashed.

So let's take a look at how you can avoid being annihilated.

• Turn OFF the 'ding' announcer
• Do not read email more than twice in a working day and set a time limit
• Give yourself one half hour a day on social media. Set the timer and honor it.
• Vow, with hand over heart, that you will not investigate anything new for your business until you have finished the long term target you have set for yourself
• Choose the time of day that you are most productive ie: morning, early afternoon, late afternoon, evening etc., and use this for your uninterrupted rubber meets the road focus time (at least 3 hours)
• Place yourself in a quiet environment where no one will bother you. Let the phone take messages
• If a thought sneaks through that is not to do with your focus, write it down for later
• Don't allow a BSO to take you off on a tangent over a minor detail ie: a graphic
• Hire an assistant ie: bookkeeper, administrator, virtual assistant whatever you are not good at
• Practice saying 'No' to yourself and others

This is a great motivator:

• Decide what you want to gross for income in a year
• Divide that figure by 50 weeks (you take two weeks vacation. Yes, you do!) to give you what you would make in a week
• Now take that figure and divide it by 5 days to give you what you would make in a day
• Take that figure and divide it by 5 hrs. per day to give you what you need to make per hour in order to gross the figure you decided upon for the year.

Is what you are doing right now worth that much per hour? Look at what you shouldn’t be spending time on. Remember it takes five times longer to do something if you have to keep starting and stopping.

Do what you love to do vs. what sucks the life out of you. Automate, delegate or delete the rest. And when you see a Bright, Shiny Object trying to get your attention, put on your sunglasses!

Make it a goal!

Would you help me write my book? I'm doing some research and have put together a short 8 question survey. Thank you for participating!

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RECOMMENDED READING

Books are some of my closest friends. Even in my RV one overhead storage cupboard is dedicated to my library. Below are some classics and some newbies that I'm sure will become classics:

NEW! 'Man's Search For Meaning' Viktor Frankl. Written in 1945, it is the story of Dr. Viktor Frankl’s years of unspeakable horror in Nazi prison camps and how he, as a psychiatrist, not only survived but went on to develop the most significant psychological movement of the modern day.

'The E Myth Revisited' Michael Gerber. Anyone in a business or contemplating beginning a business would do themselves an honour if they read this book. Subtitled: "Why most small businesses don't work and what to do about it"

'A Whole New Mind' Daniel Park. Exciting and entertaining. Taking a peek at where we are going after the Information Age'.

'The Alchemist' Paulo Coelho'. An oldie but goodie modern classic worth a re-read often. Written as a fable, it teaches us the essential wisdom of listening to our hearts and following our dreams.

'The Moses Code' James Twyman. Book and DVD. Another outstanding publication from Hay House. This book and DVD had a profound impact on me!

'The Last Lecture' Randy Pausch. The legacy left by one man with an incredible soul to his wife, children and the entire world. Magnificent!

'The Pillars of the Earth' A superb piece of fiction by Ken Follett

Three Cups of Tea' Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin. "Thrilling proof that one ordinary person, with the right combination of character and determination really can change the world" - Tom Brokaw

'You Can Heal Your Life' DVD and book by Louise Hay

'The Secret' DVD and book by Rhonda Byrne

'Eat, Pray, Love' Elizabeth Gilbert'

'Five Wishes' Gay Hendricks

'The Four Agreements' Don Miguel Ruiz

'Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus' Dr. John Gray

'Conversations With God', Books 1,2 & 3 Neale Donald Walsch

'A New Earth' and 'The Power of Now' Eckhart Tolle

'Life on the Other Side' Sylvia Browne

IN CLOSING

"Life holds a particular meaning under any conditions, even the most miserable ones."~ Viktor Frankl

Happy Holidays

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