What is the value of experience?

Sometimes I wonder what is the value of experience. On a personal level, I think we find our own experiences mean something. What we have lived through in the past may guide in the present and prevent us from taking a similar path to the one we have taken before. After all, the definition of insanity is to do the same thing every time expecting different results. So, if we cannot plead insanity, we use experience to change our response or our course of action when we see a pattern that is familiar.

Still, I wonder–is there any value in sharing our experience? Can it be so powerfully communicated to another person that it will change the way that person walks in her life? I do not know the answer–maybe it will become more obvious as I age a little longer. What do you think? Would love to get the conversation going!

Life is amazing! Live well.
Anna Grassini

What is holding us back?

Ok, so the drop dead dealine for filing the 2007 taxes is coming up in a month.  I have never before taken such a long time to file–especially since I have had all but a little piece of data since back in May! What has kept me from filing? And I fear I am not alone! What holds us back? Normally I am not a procrastinator–so what happened this time that made me delay filing taxes?

I will not bore you with the list of excuses I could come up with.  Rather, I am willing to use this experience to open the conversation.  What our our energy drainers? What are the things that hold us back from being on top of the wave? Is fear of success one of them? Is fear of failure another?  What a great thing to explore with a coach.

So, rush along and get ready to file your taxes (I am!) and get on with all that you have been procrastinating on.  And then, hire a coach and figure out how to move forward with great courage and optimism.

Life is Amazing! Live Well.

Anna Grassini

Would you want to be a child again?

Or are you going to be content with being a child at heart?

Over the last few days I have talked to a few moms whose teen daughters are returning to school. Some of these young girls are starting high school.  While I have no children of my own, I can vividly remember what it was like to be that teenager.  As I look back with my new wisdom of age, I can now relate  to what my own mom had to put up with back then.  I was moody, irrational, unsecure.  Really, and mercifully, the only thing I had going for me is that I was a good student.  What energy it took to live (or muddle through)!  Youth is wasted on the young–I know that now that my body is transforming, the pieces not quite so effortlessly working together as they used to!!

When I look at these young girls and their mothers today, I think I would not go back to being child since that would entail having to go through adolescence again.  I will be happy being a child at heart…

I wish we could share wisdom with those young girls–but I am afraid that the best we can do is be present for them and remember that we have been through it ourselves, and that we managed to blossom into amazing women.  So, dear friends, take heart in the wisdom of our age…and know that one day, thanks to your magnificent efforts, your own daughters will be strong, self-confident women with a brilliant heart and future.

Life is Amazing! Live Well.

Anna Grassini

www.lifeinbalancecoach.com