Work Smarter Live More: Three Steps to Optimize Your Energy

How many of you have a never-ending list of items TO DO? (I know I do).

Do you ever find yourself thinking about them before you go to sleep or the moment you wake up?

Do the “undones” on the list cause anxiety and prevent you from focusing on the task at hand?

Sound like you? You’re not alone. Many people feel like hamsters on treadmills going, going, going and doing, doing, doing but never producing satisfactory results.

Every item on our to do list that is looming over our heads is like a tax deadline (we all know what that feels like, right?) If left undone it creates stress, worry, and ultimately slows down our brain’s ability to perform at optimal capacity.

We are operating with too many files open on the computer of our mind, and we can’t make any progress on our To Do list.

“There aren’t enough hours in the day,” you tell yourself, mentally cataloguing the tasks for the next day before you go to sleep. If there were only a few more hours, I could get everything done.

Right?

Wrong! Trust me. With my busy schedule as a speaker there are days that I have 27 hours. And guess what? I don’t get any more done on those days than on the days I lose time and only have 19 or 20 hours. Time is not what gets more done. It is about optimizing our energy.

I am going to give you a powerful three step process that if you follow, I promise you will have more energy, enthusiasm and feel more engaged all day long.

These three steps below will empower you to:
Prioritize Your time
Optimize Your energy
Maximize Performance
so you can Enjoy Even More Life

1. Delegate it

Anything on your to-do list for more than a month is there either because 1) you are not good at it, 2) don’t have time in your life, or 3) it is not a productive use of your time and energy. You should be focused on productive activities that affect your bottom line. Delegate the task and keep accountability tight so you can trust it will get done, and done right. If you are not doing it because you are procrastinating (it happens to the best of us) watch my five-step video here to beat it.

2. Do it

Schedule a 20-90 minute segment of your day (like you would with an important appointment with your boss or best clients) to be like Nike and Just Do IT. It’s much easier to be successful when you set concrete parameters for yourself instead of an abstract goal that you try to complete “when you have time.”

3. Dump it

Some items are simply not a good use of our time or energy. When this is the case, we need to move it from our TO DO list to LET GO list and just dump it. Maybe not forever, but for now. Just erasing it off your list will give you more energy to focus on your top three priorities.

For life coaching support to apply these tools to see results now in your life. Call Emily to schedule a complimentary 20 minute preview session with Deborah Deras. She only has slots for three more clients so only call if you are serious about transforming your life.

Preview Sessions schedule: Friday’s between 1-4pm PST or Saturday between 11am-1pm. Call with your desired appointment date and time or email deb@deborahderas.com. Limit 5 slots per week so make yourself a priority now! Call 310-945-5651.

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Happy Spring, Passover, Easter!!!

How to Spring into Getting More Done in a Day!

We all have TO DO lists and anything that is undone uses energy resources in our mind, which slows us down. Just like a computer, even if a file is not being used it is still running in the background. If it’s low on our TO DO list, it doesn’t mean it is not keeping us up at night or occupying our thoughts, even if in the background. It zaps our energy and productivity.

In order to boost our energy to have more time for the life we work so hard to build we have to create a LET GO list.

What can we LET GO of? Let me share with you my list to inspire you with ideas to Spring Clean out your mind to boost your energy, productivity so you can have more joy and fulfillment.

My LET GO list

1) Worry (especially about things I can’t control)

2) Procrastination (I created an audio on this called 5 Steps to Overcome Procrastination Now. If you are interested in ordering email info@synergyunlimited.net

3) Negative People (If I have to have them in my life than I limit time with them)

4) Driving (I decided to take Metrolink to see Mom and Dad to catch up on things like balancing my checkbook, etc).

5) Negative self talk (If I catch myself doing it, instead of judging I gently reframe myself. Here’s an example: Negative voice: You’re fat. Positive reframe: Keep tracking your food and attending Weight Watchers, and you will lose weight!)

6) Complaining (My Grandma had one cvetch–that’s yiddish for complain–day per month to focus on complaining.) The rest of the days were spent focused on results.

7) Over-scheduling  (I find when I schedule in downtime to chill, I accomplish double when I get back into the office. We are not robots—even though it feels like it sometimes—and need rejuvenation time to operate at full capacity).

If you need support zapping procrastination get a Synergy Supporter to team up with you. Get a free Procrastination audio when you sign a friend up to my newsletter.

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Remember, the power of Synergy allows you to achieve quantum results. When you partner with just one other person your results are quadrupled.

Please send me your LET GO list to anchor your commitment to success with ease and grace, deb@deborahderas.com.

SPRING GIFT TO YOU!
Spring is a great time to start new beginnings. I am going to be opening up my private practice to five new life coaching clients due to my busy travel schedule. If you need support, resources, energy, motivation and encouragement to achieve your goals the ease and grace way.

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session…when you sign up for  Synergy Unlimited Coaching during the month of April.

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To your success with ease and grace,

Deborah Deras, M.S., C.R.C., ALSP

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That Was Easy!

Have you ever felt overwhelmed by the challenges you are facing?

Do you ever feel like crawling under the covers and going back to sleep to avoid life?

Do you feel frustrated, anxious, or even depressed at times because a solution to your problems is not clear?

As a work-life balance expert I am not immune to life’s challenges. But after two decades of studying, practicing, using tools and processes on myself, coaching clients, and teaching my audience members around the world, I know some proven techniques that work every time.

The other night at 3 a.m. I was startled to wake up to hear a man’s voice that seemed to be coming from my living room. I really just wanted to ignore it and go back to sleep—but I heard it again and started to panic. So, I got up and slowly started to go to the living room armed with a prayer and a hope that I was simply hearing things.

I looked in my travel basket, where the sound turned out to be coming from, and my EASY button from Staples was spontaneously going off. How crazy! Normally, it does not make a sound unless you press it—so I brought it to my room to see if it had anything else to say—now that I was completely awake. I put it on my bed-side table and waited for it to say something, maybe “that was easy!” again. But nothing—just silence!

Since I was in a mental at (now) 3:17 a.m. I just closed my eyes and went into a meditation. Then, I heard my intuition (which I call my IGS or Intuitive Guidance System) tell me that anything I was worried or concerned about was really easy. It told me that I was overcomplicating things and making them more difficult than they needed to be. If I just took one step at a time everything would work out and it would be much easier that I expected. Woah. I was not expecting that divine download. Normally during the business of my day I am so connected to my left brain (and laptop) that even if the message had appeared I may not have heard it in my cluttered mind. But in this moment it came through loud and clear. And guess what? After that I felt such a peace come over me. It was as if a weight was lifted off my shoulder and I was in a state of serenity

In consideration of my recent experience, I wanted to share the steps that can help you to open your mind to a divine download.

1) Pause during your day. Set the cell phone to go off 15 minutes earlier before you get out of bed so you can listen to your inner voice before you start your day.

2) Ask a question that is concerning you. Then wait and allow your Intuition (IGS) to download the answer. Be patient. It may not come right away. But maybe while you shower, drive to work, or later in day, you will hear your answer.

3) When things seems difficult, release them from your left-brain (the problem-solving, analytical part of our mind), and allow your emotions to process them before acting.

4) Thank your intuition. The more we recognize our power to resolve our life’s challenges, the more it will be enabled to help us.

Click here to see video with my viral video of the EASY button in question.

Email me your insights. I would love to hear what your IGS is telling you.

To your success with ease and grace,

 Deborah Deras

Do you feel sometimes overwhelmed by everything that is on your plate?
Do you ever stay up late at night trying to figure out ways to resolve your problems?

Many of my coaching clients come to me because they are depressed, anxious, or just unhappy about certain conditions in their life. They want more peace, more balance, more money, or a satisfying relationship. Yet, the more they worry about why they don’t have it the worse they experience the fear of not receiving it.

Einstein says, “We can’t solve a problem from the consciousness [place] it was created.” Likewise, we can’t problem solve our way out of challenges or conditions in our life. We have to LET GO of the idea that if we don’t resolve or fix it, no one will. We all have these wonderful right-brains that get under-utilized. Our poor left-brain is in over-drive trying to solve our problems, the problems of our family, and the world.  Meanwhile, our right brain that is creative, intuitive, and full of tons of ideas we may not have even considered.

So how do we Let Go and allow our intuition to take over? We release the problem to it. Make a commitment right now to stop thinking, worrying, talking, or lamenting about what you don’t have or don’t want.

Instead, ask your right brain some questions.

And then be still and patient to allow the answers to download.One of my mentors said the quality of the questions we ask determines the quality of our lives.

How can I have even more abundance right now?
How can I have even more balance right now?
How can I have an even healthier relationship right now?
How can I have an even healthier body temple?

I am purposefully coaching you to say “even more” because I want you to know that balance, joy, peace, abundance is your natural state-of-being and it is only our perceptions of circumstances, conditions and situations that get us out of alignment. Practice it by asking the questions, then listen for the answers and you will begin to hear these loving whispers that say, “what about this?” “Have you considered that?” Before long you find that you are guided to be at the right place at the right time meeting the right people for whatever you call forth.

For example, rather than worrying about not having that ideal relationship and asking yourself why there aren’t any good men/women out there; you can use the principle in my book, Confessions of an Adrenaline Addict, “The Power of Choice,” and ask an empowering question instead.

How can I be even more available to a committed, monogamous, passionate and lifetime soulmate type relationship?
How can I be even more receptive to meeting my divine right partner?
What can I let go of to be even more available to a partner?
What qualities can I embrace to be even more magnetic to my ideal partner?

Everyday, have a question like this as your first appointment of the day in your iPhone, blackberry or desk calendar. If you are open to what you are desiring, instead of concentrating on the lack of it, you will be more in alignment with it, and create a space in your life to receive it.

In summary:

1)    Decide what you really want in life
2)    Focus on that desire in your conversation, thoughts, beliefs, behaviors
3)    Let Go of figuring out how
4)    Ask the questions to your intuition and be still or quiet for a few minutes to allow the answers to download. Your intuition is always conspiring for your good.
5)    Create the space to allow it to come in (if you want more money organize your bills and finances. If you want a relationship make room for one in your life. If you want more career opportunities say no to extracurricular activities so you have the time).

I want to hear about your experience practicing this. The first four people to e-mail me at deb@synergyunlimited.net your successes and/or challenges with this will receive a complimentary coaching session.

To your success with ease and grace,

Deborah Deras, M.S., C.R.C., A.L.S.P

All Love All the Time not just on Valentine’s Tune In To K-Love (Radio Amor)

I know for some Valentines Day can bring up mixed feelings. If you are in a relationship there may be unspoken expectations or a feeling of pressure for forced romance.

If your not in a romantic relationship it can feel lonely or even discouraging if you choose to let it.

I personally choose to celebrate it as a day to spread even more love and positive energy into the world.

If you choose to join me you will find that it is impossible to be dissapointed, frustrated or any other negative emotion while simultaneously emitting love.

Try it right now! Think of someone or animal you love unconditionally and try to be depressed.

See…it is impossible.

Just like we work out our muscles at the gym we can work on having mastery over our minds and where we focus our attention. I am choosing today Valentine’s Day and everyday, to stay tuned in to K-LOVE…Radio AMOR, if you join me you will always feel inspired because your joy and happiness .

Plus, due to the Universal Law of Circulation what we give away we get to keep so the more love you give the more love you will receive.

Great news, right!  So join me and stay tuned in to K-LOVE, let go of the past, release worry about the future and give thanks for the blessings of love in your life that you have right now.

You are a blessing to me so let me start the ball rolling by saying, I appreciate you.

Token of My Appreciation & Your Valentine’s Day Gift if you choose to accept it:

So in the spirit of spreading the love, I have a new transformational audio program to improve your relationships, get paid for your talents, accept even more abundance, experience vital health, life balance and inner peace. I plan to launch it officially in March and you can name these transformational processes that work at both the conscious and subconsious level.

I want to give you an opportunity to receive the program complimentary to get your feedback in a special focus group where you will have a private inspirational evening with me. If you live in the Southern California area and are interested please email me to receive the product to listen right away and and I will give you a personal invite to my focus group and inspirational evening in March. Email: deb@deborahderas.com.

Let’s shine love upon this world Valentine’s Day and every day. May it come back to you tenzillionfold.

To your success with ease and grace,

Deborah Deras, M.S., C.R.C., ALSP

Email me at: deb@deborahderas.com or call for coaching at 310-945-5651

Remember, with the power of Synergy anything is possible.