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• CK 11:10:01 am on August 29, 2009 | 0 | # |
  Tags: Energize, Feel IT, Manifest, Music, Rock Your Walk

  I use music all the time to elevate my mood and help me embody a particular feeling (I call it “Rocking My Walk”).  I have playlists titled “Energy,” “Uplift,” “Meditation,” “Sing It,” etc.  Here are some of my current favorites, hope you keep on hand the beats that keep you “up.”  Love, Coyote

  *Sweet Home Alabama
  *Go West – The Village People
  *Let’s Stay Together – Al Green
  *Love & Happiness – Al Green
  *Hooked On A Feeling – Blue Swede
  *Thank You Lord – Bob Marley
  *Jabula – Vusi Mahlasela
  *Flowers – The Emotions
  *Dance With Me – Talking Heads
  *Power To The People – Black Eyed Peas
  *Hi ‘Ya Sophia – Benny Goodman
  *PPA – Rodrigo Y Gabriela

   

• CK 11:43:36 am on August 26, 2009 | 0 | # |
  Tags: +Intention, Focus, Movies, Rock Your Walk

  I’m not feeling the song, I can change the station or let’s say I can’t at the moment.  I can still look for reasons to be happy. I get to choose which aspects of my experience to focus on, and that really makes the music.

  I love how this is illustrated in the movie August Rush.

  Love, Coyote

  While on a walk her iPhone started jumping randomly through songs.

   

• CK 01:23:51 pm on July 2, 2009 | 0 | # |
  Tags: Rock Your Walk, Energize, Imagine, Career, MonkeyMIND

  Photo:  Industrious Blur/NYC/iPhone/Coyote Karrick

  Some ideas to bring more joy and energy into your day and what’s innovative at the office.  The June issue of Fortune Small Business shares some of the happenings in business for better life-work integration and satisfaction.

  “…Intimate workplaces, cutting-edge benefits and creative input…that’s exactly what the companies profiled offer.  At Daxko, an Alabama software firm, employees keep stress levels down by playing Rock Band on a  52-inch office television.  Maya Design, a creative consulting agency blurs the line between work and life by allowing staffers to bring their babies to the office.  After one year at Colorado’s New Belgium Brewing, employees receive a free bike to lower their carbon footprint.  They also get  shares in the company, giving them a voice – and a stake…”

  (Fortune Small Business Special Report Meet The New Boss, June 2009)

  ENGAGE:  Imagine your life on the job a little more “outside the box.”  What might make your work day more balanced?  More fun?  Energizing?  What comes to mind?  What does it feel like to start dreaming about ways to improve your experience?  If you immediately come into contact with pessimism/skepticism/inner-critic that is telling you something about your expectations.  Have you given up on being “happy” at work?

  Change can happen first with you – who knows your co-workers and bosses may follow.  But remember whose “job” it is to improve your state of well-being and happiness.  Here are some simple ideas – TRY IT IN YOUR DAY:

  • Take a five minute walk.  Use it as a meditation or what I call “Rock Your Walk” (I walk to specific music and intend to feel and notice a specific quality in myself – strength, flexibility, self-appreciation, energy, etc.).   Note:  I see so many people (including myself) attached to their phone – so I’ve started walks without phones, without dogs, without music, without needing to get anything done, just a simple walk to feel my joy a little more.
  • Breathe.  Come up with a creative reminder to take a deep breath before meetings, before picking up the phone, before answering requests, and throughout the day.
  • Lean back in your chair with your eyes closed and visualize something that brings you joy for a full minute.  To stay focused for a whole minute (set a timer).  The monkey mind can be distracting so focus in your visualization on as many pleasing details as possible.
  • Invert your posture!  Yes – stand on your head, or more simply and less attention getting – do a “downward dog” pose or stretch toward your toes over your chair.  Let the blood flow in new directions and feel more energized.
  • Make a list of creative ways to fuel your mood during your work day and keep it at hand to remind you.

  LINK:  Great Places To Work Institute based in San Francisco.  See what’s happening outside the “box” on the work scene.

   

• CK 09:09:38 am on January 30, 2009 | 0 | # |
  Tags: Feel IT, Get Physical, Laugh, Rock Your Walk

  New day, same bad haircut, same gray winter weather that makes me want to crawl back in bed.  I’ve been driving more lately and distracted from my practice of taking a morning walk.  This morning instead of going back to bed I throw on the headphones and go outside.  I let my body wake up via movement and beats that I love.  Here’s my MUSIC LINK if you’re interested; find what suits you, everyone get’s energized by different music and each day is different (I recommend having a few playlists handy).

  The walk to coffee about 10 minutes.  My thoughts include some worries and some negative commentary (especially with regard to the weather).  I consciously also notice what looks, tastes (like a big cup o’ joe!) and feels good.  On the walk home, I notice myself smiling at other walkers and bicyclists, and there’s that familiar desire to put a little dance in my walk.  Ahh!  This is a great practice for me on all levels, I’m happy to realize it and get back into the walk.

  Maybe I’ve shared this before, but I love this phrase and it encapsulates much of my self-coaching.  One of my clients was taking sailing lessons in Spain and her instructor liked to ask her, “En tu salsa!?”  Which translates to something like, “Are you feeling it?”  Today, I got back to that sweet place of feeling myself, others, and the environment as positive.  I like to take a walk at least twice a day to get “in my salsa.”

  PRACTICE IDEA: Mind Body Heart Exercise – Move “En Tu Salsa!”

  Go out for a walk, try it with music if you have an portable music device, it certainly works with the music of your heart beat and the pulse of the environment around you too.  Walk for 10 minutes and then ask yourself, “How might I enjoy this more?”  “My breathing is relaxed?”  “Am I enjoying a natural swing in my arms and in my hips?” “How do my feet hit the ground?”  I encourage you to play with it within your own body.  Exaggerate.  I do lots of experimentation with how it feels to shift my weight forward or back, bigger or smaller steps, loosen and soften here or there, let it swing more here or there, notice tight muscles and think of relaxing them…and sometimes I start a little dance, skip, or song in my head, and it’s always a laugh when I realize it’s no longer in my head and I’m actually singing out loud or wiggling down the street.

  Laughing feels great!

  Experience more possibilities in your body mind and a feeling of relaxation and joy from a simple walk.  Reconnect with your natural “salsa!”

  CHECK THIS OUT:  Just as I finished writing this post I found a link from “KarmaTube” to an inspiring salsa video of a one legged dancer.  It’s 2 minutes.  See even ten seconds!  I hope I can dance like that someday!

   

• CK 12:52:23 am on January 13, 2009 | 0 | # |
  Tags: Feel IT, Rock Your Walk

  What’s the tune you hope to set for this year?  Have you adjusted your station?

  For the past two years I’ve had a practice of identifying a feeling I would like to amplify in my life and then listening to music that is a match.

  “Yes Officer, I was speeding, it was the music!”  I have a friend who actually said that and got a ticket.  So while I’m not recommending speeding, I do recommend turning on the noise or the silence that soothes, inspires, energizes, makes you want to shake it, or name-your-quality…it feels good to you.

  Here is a free online music station where you can design your soundtracks: http://www.pandora.com.
  

  I happen to be listening as I write – great antidote to being awake in the middle of the night!  And if you want more musical inspiration, check out these You Tube links for one of my favorite movies of the year,  August Rush.

  Can you hear it? The music. I can hear it everywhere. In the wind… in the air… in the light. It’s all around us. All you have to do is open yourself up. All you have to do… is listen.

  August Rush

   

• CK 05:14:10 pm on August 28, 2008 | 1 | # |
  Tags: Appreciation, Center, Inspiration, Rock Your Walk, Think IT

  PRACTICE IDEA:  For one day explore the power of a “Yes!”  It’s habitual and often unconscious that we move through our day saying, “I don’t want that,” “I don’t like that,”  “Not me,” “Not my style,”  “No,”  “I can’t do that,” “Not possible,” “He or she is not enough of that,” etc.

  For one day add some more authentic “Yes!” to your inner and outter dialogue.  You may also start the practice of observing how frequently you make statements like the ones above.  But to flip the direction of your focus try out a little more of:  “I like this,” “I like that,” “I appreciate this in me/in him/in her/in that,”  “I appreciate the quality of,” etc.  If you are really up for a challenge – find something you can authentically appreciate in every single person you encounter – strangers, friends, co-workers, family, etc.  Some “Yes!” is better than none…so start, re-start, and try it anywhere for any length of time.  What do you notice?

   

• CK 01:19:44 pm on August 23, 2008 | 0 | # |
  Tags: Get Physical, Rock Your Walk

  What are you listening to?  I just got a Nano and an armband.  A bit geeky perhaps, but so much fun.  I highly recommend it and here’s why:

  • To get in the mood.  Imagine watching a movie without the soundtrack!?  It brings alive the action, the romance, the victory, the challenge, the humor, the “build up,” etc.  I use music to focus, to relax, to energize, to make myself laugh, to move, etc.  It’s poetry in my day.  Have you noticed all those Olympic athletes listening to their soundtracks?
  • To have more fun doing daily things.  I love wearing my armband when I am doing dishes, watering plants, folding laundry, and chasing the dog around.
  • To tune out and tune in.  I take a break from the constant stimulus of the world with my headphones.  I have a habit of listening to every conversation and thing around me…it’s nice to tune into a song.
  • Books on tape.  Is that what we call them?  I just bought “The Power of Now” by Eckhart Tolle from iTunes.  I can listen to it in the house, on walks, or in the car.  I also have Podcasts, a yoga workout, a guided meditation…I am never bored and always ready to travel.
  • The spring in my step and desire to dance like the people in the billboards (but my way).

  What’s playing on my Nano today:  Think, Aretha Franklin/We’re Not Deep, The Housemartins/Ain’t No Mountain High Enough, Marvin Gaye/We’ve Got The Beat, Go Gos/La Fee Clochette, French Cafe/Burn Baby Burn, Disco.  I make playlists for all kinds of moods.

  PRACTICE IDEA:  For a week, take a daily walk by yourself if you can (no dogs or distractions) and listen to your mood enhancing soundtrack of choice.  What do you notice?  Explore what sounds move you into the mood you are wanting.  Share your thoughts and findings!

   

• CK 04:10:01 pm on August 7, 2008 | 1 | # |
  Tags: Center, Rock Your Walk

  “…some people have everything and some people don’t,

  but everything don’t mean a thing if ain’t the thing you want…express yourself!”

  Check out this fabulous song by Charles Wright Watts 103rd St. Rhythm Band

  There is no one here to do or be what you are here to do and be!

  Warren Bennis said, “The point is to become yourself, to use yourself completely – all your skills, gifts, and energies – in order to make your vision manifest.”

  His believes that leaders are people who are able to “express” themselves fully.  This is an old book, but I found it inspiring.  You might want to check it out…On Becoming A Leader, by Warren Bennis.

  What is it that the leaders you notice express?
   

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