Blue Rose Coaching

Taking Stock in Our Lives

If you never thought a stock tip could actually be a disguise for some really smart life-coaching advice, I suggest you read on…

Last night my husband and I were watching a television show called Mad Money with Jim Cramer. Jim is an entertaining guy who’s made millions in the stock market and now he shares his expertise with his large nightly audience.

His topic was “speculation stocks” which he defines as stocks that are pretty low in price and belong to smaller companies.

Jim says that because of the possibility that the stock could jump rather quickly, holding spec stocks tends to keep investors really interested in their investment. They seem to pay lots of attention to their spec stocks… checking them more often to see if anything exciting is going on.

He says that all investors should have 20% spec stocks in their portfolios.

What does this have to do with life?

Imagine YOU and your happiness are your portfolio.
Imagine your spec stocks are special things you do JUST FOR YOU.
Your goal is even greater happiness.
Do you OWN at least 20% spec stocks in your life?
Are you INTERESTED in your life's spec stocks?
Are you giving enough ATTENTION to your life's spec stocks?

Take Jim’s stock advice and you may become rich.

Apply Jim’s advice to your life and you may become unbelievably happy.

I say we do both!

Mirror on The Wall

My 76-year old uncle just left my house. I asked him to help me hang this beautiful 80 pound mirror I bought almost 3 months ago. I absolutely LOVE this mirror. Yet I’ve been looking at it leaning on my kitchen floor because I was so afraid of hanging it. I almost didn’t even buy the mirror because I knew I couldn’t hang it without destroying my walls.

This mirror had two small holes for hanging which meant that two heavy-duty screws were necessary which meant that, in order for this mirror to hang evenly… exact precision was necessary.

I had myself convinced that I alone could not hang this mirror… So I asked Uncle Will to help.

He arrived with tools, ruler, and level in hand… yet his greatest tool was inside him. He had absolutely no doubt that he would measure and drill just once and that the job would be complete and perfect.

So, he measured and he drilled. Then, when it came to hanging time, he struggled. The picture just wouldn’t catch onto those screws in the wall.

I began thinking that maybe Uncle Will’s confidence was really over-confidence this time. I knew he was just going to have to re-measure and re-drill. But Uncle Will didn’t have that thought. He had such faith in his placement of those holes that he knew something else must be the cause of his frustration.

He decided that the screws he used must have been just a sixteenth of an inch too big to fit into those holes on the back of the mirror. So, he pulled out the screws and put smaller ones in.

Then he hung the mirror… Perfectly straight! No extra holes in my wall!

My uncle showed up for this job with certainty and he completed the job just as he had planned.

On the other hand, I showed up for the job with self-doubt. It got me nowhere… for three months!

I’ve decided that I’m going to be more like Uncle Will… I’m going to take that doubt out of my tool-box.

The Best Christmas Present

On Christmas Eve in my mail I found a catalog. As I was throwing it in the recyclables, I noticed some bracelets on the back cover. Out of the four, one jumped out at me and I knew I wanted it. So I threw the catalog in my drawer and planned to order it sometime after Christmas.

You guessed it. Christmas morning I was very pleasantly surprised to receive that very bracelet from my sixteen year-old daughter. I truly love the bracelet and I’ve worn it every day since she gave it to me. But what I love even more is that Marisa gave it to me and also the words she spoke as I opened the package.

She said she was shopping with her friend, saw the bracelet, read it and said, “that’s my Mom”.

Now for the best part… The saying on the bracelet is “Live the Life You Love”… and my teenage daughter said that this reminds her of me!

My coach and mentor, Brooke Castillo, has always told me that the greatest gift I can give my kids is my own happiness. It feels awesome giving that gift and the bonus is that it’s being noticed!

There is no greater compliment!

I DO love my life.... and I love that daughter of mine!