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Kim Romaner
Possibilities Amplified, Inc.
415 East Shoreline Drive
North Augusta, SC 29841
Saturday, September 9, 2017
How to Stop Doing What you Hate and Start Doing What You Love RIGHT NOW
Kim Romaner
Possibilities Amplified, Inc.
415 East Shoreline Drive
North Augusta, SC 29841
Tuesday, May 16, 2017
5 Ways to Avoid Unintended Consequences from Your Actions
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| Dear Visitor, This year, my husband Michael and I are planning a very long trip in an RV. A fifth wheel, to be precise. About a month ago we traded in one of our vehicles for the truck we will use to pull it. It's a Dodge Ram 3500. White, with black trim. It's huge, and it's gorgeous. Until getting behind the wheel for a test drive at the dealership before we bought it, I'd never driven a truck before in my life. Michael said I handled it beautifully, but I know I'll have a case of nerves every time I take it out until I feel I've mastered it. The fear of being the first to ding the beautiful beast has made me not-so-anxious to drive it. And then this happened. Michael and I were backing out of our own driveway, talking about the lawn as we went. Is the fertilizer watered in enough yet to mow? We've watered it three times, etc. The proximity alarm went off, which we apparently ignored, because we were interrupted by a crunching sound coming from our rear and the body feel of a collision. Michael, who was driving (Thank you, Lord!), swore, and threw the truck into drive to pull it off the vehicle parked at the curb across the street. "Arrgggh!! I don't how many times I said to myself that I need to go talk to Dan about asking those workmen not to park right across from our driveway!" In our 11 years together, he's never had an accident. (It's possible that he might actually be human, but it will probably take more than a fender bender to convince me he's not perfect.) The chances of it happening were slim to none, in my mind. I had concluded that it would be me, somewhere in a campground far, far away, that would do the first damage. In thinking back on how both of us had been in the truck and neither of us noticed the impending doom, I would almost swear to you that the proximity alarm had not gone off. I can't remember hearing it at all. Of course, I've also been training myself lately not to backseat drive. If you intend to cross the country with someone else you love primarily behind the wheel, you'd best learn to keep your driving instructions to yourself, or face the consequences. Now I'm reconsidering. When we add that 37' trailer to our rear, there'd better be two people looking! Not just sitting in the truck, but actively monitoring our surround. Today I found an article on the BBC travel site that would have helped us with this. And it gives us our first tip for avoiding the mistakes, missteps and misactions that slow us down, diffuse our energy, cause us emotional pain and otherwise take us off our path. How can we call our attention to the most important things that are before us, and take our minds off those things that are ancillary to our course or downright debilitating? 1. Shisa Kanko. From the Japanese, meaning "checking and calling," a very deliberate review of the necessary steps to successfully achieve your goal. You may not feel like you need to run down a pre-flight checklist before you get in your car, but one sure would have helped us avoid our tragic little accident. Will we have a checklist once we're hooked up to our RV and on the road? You betcha. What would your shisa kanko list be for getting to your revenue number this year, or completing a creative endeavor, for example? What are your necessary steps? 2. Thanking. Again, from the Japanese culture. If you haven't listened to Tim Ferris' interview with Marie Kondo, Japan's great organizer, it's not only melodious to the ear (Marie speaks in Japanese via interpreter), but grounding as well. Marie shares her culture's tradition of thanking items for their use and service before discarding them, which she says makes it easier to let them go. When next going through your closet you might give the practice a try. You might also consider the concepts, behaviors and attachments that once served you but no longer do. If you know you have a tendency to cut your fingers when chopping vegetables, for example, might it behoove you to learn to chop your veggies differently? And I might possibly be speaking from experience here… ;o) Need some help cataloguing things you might be thankful for? Try the Happier app, which will also immerse you in a positive, grateful environment of fellow users. Ever made a mistake because you were lost in your own miserable thoughts? I thought so. 3. Morning Rituals. What better way to make sure we're doing the right actions that will create our desired consequences than to start each day off with rituals that reinforce what we intend to create? Fabulous is an app that can help you build those morning rituals and walk you through them every morning according to your predesignated timing. (Sadly, the Fabulous app is not yet available for iOS users, but you Google users will be thrilled.) Bedtime rituals are helpful, too, preparing you for sleep and for a jump start in the morning. 4. Body Management. Something as simple as dehydration can throw you right of your game. Hunger, oncoming illness, recent injury…all these things put us slightly off balance, and will niggle in the background until we do something to create more comfort for ourselves. For example, I just changed chairs because my butt was asleep. (What? Your butt doesn't ever fall asleep? Come on.) 5. Emotion Awareness. I remember once being so agitated as I went about my day that I finally sat down and said to myself, "Okay, Kim. What's going on?" Within a few minutes, I was sobbing. Recent events were clearly taking their toll, yet I was still soldiering on as if nothing was wrong. Denying your own state of being is a truly bad habit. I have made some major blunders under such circumstances, damaging vehicles, relationships and even myself because I chose not to be present to my own angst. I now regularly check in with myself if I'm feeling wonky before it all goes off the rails. Here are two guidelines I recommend to clients working through my coaching process: #1), be kind to yourself. And #2), be kind to yourself! You only have one you. Treat you with the respect you deserve! I hope these ideas will help you to move forward on your journey today! If there's a particular challenge you're facing, please share by replying to this email, and I'd be happy to reply back with some ideas that might help you break through them and get back to Amping It Up! In possibility— Kim Romaner
Author: The Science of Making Things Happen: Turn Any Possibility into Reality Follow me on Twitter: @kmromaner
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Kim Romaner
Possibilities Amplified, Inc.
415 East Shoreline Drive
North Augusta, SC 29841
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Friday, March 24, 2017
Your Personal Immigration Policy
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| Dear Visitor, The current U.S. administration is providing such a lovely metaphor for how you might be addressing your own possibilities. But let me say right now that as far as you and I are concerned, I have no politic affiliation whatsoever. I hope our conversation is much bigger and yet more intimate than whatever might be happening at a political level. I'm writing this to support you in creating what it is that you want to create. Or, as I and some quantum physicists might put it, to support your amplification of your desired possibilities into reality. Let's talk about the infinite possibilities available to you. Are you welcoming them, or pushing them away? Are you culling the things that haven't been serving you, or are you letting in terrorists? Have you kept your borders too tight, your comfort zone too small? Are you tamping down the possible outcomes you're envisioning, in order to be "realistic," or "serious?" Ask yourself this: Am I making enough room for me in my life? Ask yourself this: Am I willing to open my borders in positive ways and let all of my possibilities in? You and I, we need to start an exchange program with the universe. Take the energy it readily provides and craft it into reality by steadfastly molding it with the right information: Dreams. Goals. Desires. Visions clarified. Steps taken. Words said. Thoughts thought. We can't always control what enters through our borders. But we can remember what we are here to do, and be who we are here to be. And that's completely up to us. With love, Author: The Science of Making Things Happen: Turn Any Possibility into Reality Follow me on Twitter: @kmromaner
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Friday, February 3, 2017
The Value of Hardheadedness in Creating Your Own Reality
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| Dear Visitor, A study published in December in the Nature journal, Scientific Reports, backed up what we already intuitively know to be true about our politic beliefs: the more people try to argue us out of them, the harder we hang on. This is true because our political beliefs are strongly related to our personal identity and our perceived position in the social order. If someone tries to get us to leave our tribe, we feel threatened, and we dig in. People who are more resistant to changing their beliefs fire different activity in their brains, specifically in the amygdalae and the insular cortex. This is my favorite paragraph from the article about the study on the ScienceDaily site: ""Political beliefs are like religious beliefs in the respect that both are part of who you are and important for the social circle to which you belong," said lead author Jonas Kaplan, an assistant research professor of psychology at the Brain and Creativity Institute at USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences. "To consider an alternative view, you would have to consider an alternative version of yourself."" Read that last sentence again, because within it lies a key to creating what we want in life. Is your belief about who you are and what you are intending unshakeable? If someone tries to tell you—including yourself!—that you'll never be this or that, or you'll never do or have this or that, do you listen to them? Or are your beliefs so firmly embedded that it doesn't matter what anybody says or does, you still know you will prevail? Are you wasting your most solid beliefs on things you can't control? What if you staked out your claim to your own future and refused to be moved? What if you REFUSED to be confused, or relent, or suffer from cognitive dissonance? What if you decided that ambivalence was no longer in your vocabulary? Get clear about what you want and whom you will be, and then own it. There is a biology to belief! Be a hardhead! Wishing you every possibility! Author: The Science of Making Things Happen: Turn Any Possibility into Reality Follow me on Twitter: @kmromaner A great book on overcoming the internal fight you might want to read: Dissolve the Problem A book that will make you laugh out loud: We're All Damaged |
| 415 East Shoreline Drive, North Augusta, South Carolina 29841 United States (803) 426-1726 kim@possibilitiesamplified.com |
| © Copyright Kim Romaner & Possibilities Amplified, Inc. 2013 |
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Saturday, January 21, 2017
Today is YOUR Inauguration Day
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| Dear Visitor, Yesterday was Donald Trump's inauguration. Today is yours. An inauguration, in its simplest definition, is a ceremony to mark the beginning of something. Perhaps you've written down your New Year's resolutions. Or maybe you don't believe in them. You might have a goal list for this year. Or perhaps your goal is to survive. Maybe you've decided to give yourself a break this year, and just let things be as they will. No matter how you view 2017, it's for certain that you will be inventing your whole year. And this is true whether you've identified what it is you'd like to amplify into reality, or not. The whole year will still feel the way you feel it. It will still deliver what you're focused on. It will still pass. With or without your deliberate input. So, on this day of your own inauguration, in which direction will you lead your own personal country? Or might you abdicate your throne? The ownership of thrones is no game, despite great television titled as such. I personally am pivoting. I've been running a business for the last four years that I'm putting to bed, despite being an award-winning practitioner at it. I've taken down my Possibilities Amplified website and I'm launching a new one that hopefully will encapsulate everything my clients and readers have said is important to them. I have been mostly silent on this email list for years running this unrelated business. Above all, I want to apologize for that. I did not continue to remind you of your amazing ability to amplify possibility into reality, and that probably was the most important thing I needed to do. Because every time I remind you of your powers, you do amazing things! And, I remind myself of my own powers to do the same. I want to hear the stories of your own journeys of creation, so that I may learn from them and share them, if you will allow me. I want to share what I have been turning into reality over the past few years, even though some of it has stunk. I want to share what I am amplifying next, which I believe is truer to my core self. Most of all, I want to support you in whatever it is you are beginning now. If you still want to be on this email list, thank you. If not, please find the unsubscribe link below. If you're not sure, hang out for a bit and find out. Via this email, I am promising to connect with you every week. I will not forsake that promise. Because, after all, today is my inauguration, too. I am beginning something new. And without you, my heart, there's absolutely no point at all. Wishing you—and us all!—every possibility in 2017! With love, Author: The Science of Making Things Happen: Turn Any Possibility into Reality Follow me on Twitter: @kmromaner
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| 415 East Shoreline Drive, North Augusta, South Carolina 29841 United States (803) 426-1726 kim@possibilitiesamplified.com |
| © Copyright Kim Romaner & Possibilities Amplified, Inc. 2013 |
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