Hi Everyone!

I hope all our Victorian subscribers have cooled down now with the recent heat wave records and our London subscribers aren’t caught up in too much snow!

Here is a quick recording where I reveal to you the No.1 exercise I do each year that gives me absolutely outstanding personal results!

Click here to find out what it is so you can do it too:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Jacqueline-Pigdon/2009/02/03/New-Year-Find-Your-Answers

For more information visit: www.jinalife.com T: +61 404 362 379

It doesn’t have to be Spring to have a good old Spring clean! We often get bogged down with too much stuff! Which can simply weigh us down, get in the way of doing the things we really want to do and prevent us from seeing a clear life path? Sometimes we can over crowd our personal and work life that we can’t even see what we do have amongst all that stuff! Then we go out and buy more things, obtain more possessions when we don’t even have the room for what we have now… So how many ‘things’ do we really need?

You might want to take some time to reflect on how many things you actually have and if you get rid of the most basic forms of clutter in your physical environment you can feel not only lighter but a whole lot more free with space. With fewer things in the way you clear a path and create life balance moving towards what you really want and ultimately need.

Most of us are living in a very materialistic world today that possessions can just take over and often don’t make us happy in the end at all.

Here are 7 tips:

• Take a rubbish bin and go around to every room in your house and throw away any rubbish or things that you can simply get rid of and don’t need straight away.
• Pick one room and move everything that doesn’t belong in there and put it in the room that it does. Follow suit to all rooms.
• Do the above at your work desk too, old draft papers etc that you no longer need and send off for re-cycling, put everything in its place.
• Find 5 items in your house that someone else could really be better off with e.g. too many clothes, which could go to the homeless and less fortunate than yourself? Extra kitchen ware that’s really just getting in the way of your cooking. And stop buying more stuff!
• Schedule a plan that suits you to once a week go through at least one drawer in your house! This is easier to fit in than a couple of weekends of pure spring-cleaning and slowly but surely you will have done them all without too much notice and hours on end of effort.
• Schedule a time for this coming weekend to turn up your radio or put your favourite CD on and give your house a good old top to bottom clean!
• Start doing it now and see how quickly your home and office space turn from clutter to spring clean!

For more information contact Jacqueline Pigdon T: +61 (0) 404 362 379 E: jacqueline@jinalife.com

We all know that we can’t get any more time in the day and we sure can’t save it up to use later! No matter what your back ground, if you’re a uni student, teacher, stay at home mum, doctor, senior Executive, Director or CEO we can all be smart with our time. Are you being smart with yours? Here are some tips to find those extra minutes each day to get things done. First you need to recognize them and then start constantly using them. You will be surprised at the results! I call them ‘Windows of Opportunity’, they seem arise each and every day in your lifestyle can and often do go completely wasted if you’re not aware or prepared for them or action upon them. And if you add them all up they can often amount to several hours a week – What was that about not having enough time in the day to do everything you want to do?

Here are 7 Windows of Opportunity to get you started:

• When you’re ready for a meeting and the other person lets you know they will be 5-10mins late it’s not enough time to work on your bigger projects but you sure can quickly go to review your list for an action or two that will take this amount of time and do it
• If you catch the train to work and get really frustrated or stressed when they are delayed or how long your travel time takes everyday, forget that and view it as the perfect time to read those broachers for your holiday, magazine review of your industry news, (that you have with you because you’re prepared) or get to read more pages of your novel and relax longer before you hit home where you need to cook and do the washing!
• When you’re waiting for your kettle to boil – stack or un-stack your dishwasher or clean up your kitchen.
• If you exercise at home or at the gym, schedule your sessions at the same time as the news or your favourite TV program.
• When you’re walking to and from meetings or locations slip in a few quick calls you need to make on your mobile.
• When stuck in traffic jams listen to your CD’s and bop away, a motivational CD or get yourself a CD that relays stories and sit back, relax and enjoy.
• When you have to clean your house, crank up your favourite dance CD and not only get a clean house but master your dance steps and exercise and feel GREAT all at the same time!

The biggest thing is to be prepared for windows of opportunity that you know could pop up in your day and use these times wisely instead of either doing nothing or negatively. I see too many people become annoyed, frustrated and even downright angry when people or transport are late. Chill out, there is nothing you can do about this unless you don’t meet with them ever again or don’t go anywhere, but what you can do is utilise your time better and feel happier and productive instead of frustrated or annoyed.

When you have your tasks and actions right there and ready telling you exactly what you need to do in these windows of opportunity it’s just so easy to get things done that people will start saying where do you get all the time to do that?

For more information about executive coaching contact Jacqueline Pigdon T: +61 (0) 404 362 379     E:jacqueline@jinalife.com