The importance to have a purpose in life

Have you just discovered your purpose in life? First of all, did you make the time to discover it? People who don’t have purpose in life normally experience self-esteem’s issue. Make the time “to dive” into your Within. It’s courageous, I know, not simple but magic, at the same time. Would you like to live this fabulous adventure called life like a dead walking human being? I hope your reply is: No, I wouldn’t!

When you find your purpose in life, every day is a new way to express your Genius level, your creativity, compassion, love and care. You feel good and important. You work hard, but you know you are going to leave a great legacy, you know you can change the course of many lives.

I found my purpose more than 10 years ago, but I didn’t have the courage to follow it, making excuses, the most common ones: no enough money, any specific title (I am full of titles, but I hadn’t the one on that specific field) and the place where I used to live. I gave up my dream. Since one year, this time my soul’s whisper was too strong and I had to consider it! How did I find my purpose in life? Simple, but not easy: hearing myself, being totally honest with myself. Since 2000, I wanted to have a great impact on others’ lives. I dreamed to empower people and organisations. My foundations were/are my great value, such as honesty, integrity, compassion (my best technique with clients like I love to say), also my life and managerial experience.

I understood that all I did in the past, such as being a manager, a journalist, working in the field of communication, PR and organisation of events, was a preparation for what I am doing now. My great foundations are also the spiritual teachings I receive since 1999, which induced me to make a difference on others’ lives. I realized the great impact I have in others’ lives by my words (the more we are steady in the Truth, the more are words become very powerful; they are like blasts of light), my example, walking my talk. My “Holy Hour” was too precious to me to discover my purpose in life and it is what “feeds the fire in my belly and my passion” for what I do.

I didn’t know that coaching was what I wanted to do, but one year ago I discovered it, looking inside myself. I started to study it, attending a course in London and learning from many sources: books, seminars, other colleagues I respect, who are in the field of personal coaching and executive/leadership coaching.

Since I found my purpose in life, I changed myself a lot and my life changed. Our outer world is an expression of our inner world. In pursuing my dream, I discovered parts of myself I couldn’t imagine, such as having fun in dealing with technology. I set up my blog, my website and webmail forms on my own, managing html codes. It was a great challenge and great fun. This way, I increased my self-esteem especially in the area of IT.

Goals are different from the purpose, because they are the medium to realize your purpose. It’s fundamental to set goals…if you want to be successful, of course! Also finding your purpose in life is fundamental. You don’t need to become another Mother Teresa, if you don’t want to. Everyone is important to God’s eyes, I love to say and every purpose is important.

Be aware that everyone can play at Genius Level, if we decide to awake the Genius who lies in our Within. Be aware that everyone can have an impact on others’ lives and it doesn’t matter what you do, where you live, if you have money…you can make a difference in how you do what you do! Smile at life and give a genuine smile to everyone you meet. You are wonderful; you are a “Masterpiece of Art”.

Lead from Within!

Linda Lattuca

Stop parenting and develop your children

Sailing with your children, staying in the elements and with the elements.
Sailing is a great metaphor of life. It's a great way to have fun,
increasing family spirit, increasing the confidence of your children. ~ Linda Lattuca

Yesterday, I received a beautiful message from a dad, who was asking me "to teach him something about life and spirituality". He told me he became dad recently and would like to be the best dad for his son.

I told him that the best he can do is giving his example and be congruent with what he will tell him. If parents tell to their children how much important is learning and then they stay hours in front of TV, do you think that it is congruency?

Stop parenting and develop your children. Be the best example you want to be for them. If you want to teach them to be courageous, show them how courage you have!

Go and visit museums/art galleries with your children to show them beauty, art, inspiration, genius level; play with them in nature; go sailing with them staying in the elements and with the elements; switch off TV and arrange evenings in reading a great book together; cook with your children, having a lot of fun; travel with your children to open their mind and give them permission to travel with the school (some parents in my country they don't give it for their fears, preventing them from having great new experiencies. That's egoism!). These are only few things that came into my mind.

We are the product of our parents, in terms of self-beliefs, values, habits...

Work on your self-discovery to transmit positive beliefs to your children, to teach them by your example the best way "to sail in the sea of Life".

Linda Lattuca

"Lead from Within"

Linda Lattuca

The Power of Your Voice: Word is energy like everything else!

One of the techniques I give my clients to increase the self-esteem is doing affirmations in front a mirror, affirming how wonderful they really are and to celebrate themselves, first of all to have the courage to be in sessions with me, embracing the fear to change. I know it seems cheesy, standing in front of a mirror, telling yourself: “I love myself, I love myself, I love myself”. Every client, and I know from my personal experience, reports how tough is at the beginning to do this affirmation, because you affirm without trust.

Anyway, repetition is a key factor to reach success and when you practise affirmations, one day you start to believe in what you are telling yourself, increasing your confidence. Then, you start to love this practise and the more you do, the more many people in your life start to give you compliments and many aspects of your outer life change, because you change your inner life.

The power of affirmations is tremendous, because word is energy like everything else. That’s why is so important to pay attention not only to our thoughts, but also at every word we speak. I know…you are thinking: impossible! I reply: No! It’s possible! Success is the result of training, so only with a daily practise you can master the way you speak. Clean up your language: don’t swear, don’t use negative words, don’t watch news or read newspapers (I don’t watch TV since 1 year), delete from your vocabulary the word “impossible”, please!

Create your own positive vocabulary; create your own positive affirmations, your “Success declarations” - I learnt this way to call affirmations from the famous Leadership Coach Robin Sharma. Here you are one I am practising. It’s from Émile Coué:

"Every day and in every way,

I become better and better, stronger and stronger".

My spiritual Master told me to create an energetic stream like a rhythm, while you are doing the affirmations, like rapping. It’s like to launch a spell into the Universe and I can assure you that it so powerful! Practise this affirmation every single day. It becomes your “Mantra” to recite as much as you can. It is better doing it aloud. You can do it also mentally, but aloud is better and better. This Mantra will work inside yourself at a deep level and it will become like when you have a song in your mind and you mentally sing it.

Personally, I feel happiness and joy when I do my affirmations, while I am “rapping”, launching the magical energetic stream into the Universe.

During my “Holy Hour”, among the things I do, I sing Mantras in Sanskrit (the Mantra of Courage, Gayatri Mantra and others) and I pay attention to the pronunciation a lot, because the sound of a word is energy and if I want to have a certain result, I need to use the correct pronunciation of those words.

Do affirmations in the morning to have a fabulous start, to go out with a confident and positive attitude, if you want to have an impact on others, if you want to play a better game, if you want “to be the change you want to see in the world”, like Mahatma Gandhi used to say. Do affirmations before going to bed, because it is the time we reprogram our subconscious. Just do it and you will see!

Affirmations are of course only a part of the work to do on ourselves, but they are a very important part. Practise and practise to see tremendous results in your life. Be happy in doing it, feel joy and trust in the power of affirmations. That’s really important! Then, what are you going to lose if you try? Nothing. You can only gain!

Linda Lattuca

Inner Wisdom & Law of Attraction Coach

“Master your Mind, Body, Emotions and Spirit

To Master your Life”

Linda Lattuca

Focus

Tonight, I received a very important message from Higher Level of Consciousness, which I can summarize in one word: FOCUS! What does Focus mean? Focus means putting your maximum attention in whatever you do, pursuing the excellence. Whatever thing you are doing, do it with passion, with the highest quality, do it from your heart. Staying focused on what we are doing is crafting our mind and only when "We master our Mind, we master our Life" (one of the quotes I made up recently, after reading a great book I advise you: As you think from James Allen).

Everyday, stay focus on your BIG 5 goals of this year, then split them in 5 daily mini goals. Think how many goals you will achieve in a month! And in a year? Powerful? Yes, it is. Everyday, during my "Holy Hour", I do my Spiritual Practises and that's the great chance I give myself to become better and better, stronger and stronger! It's an incredible exercise to stay focused in what I am doing. It can be a prayer or singing a Mantra or a visualization, which is so powerful. If I sing "Gayatri Mantra", for example I focus my attention on the words I speak, to the exact pronunciation. Yes, because if the pronunciation is wrong, the Mantra won't have the desired effect, because word is energy and word is so powerful. That's Focus! The more you will excercise your mind this way, the more you will acquire the habit to stay focused in everything you will do, avoiding distractions.

We live in a world, full of distractions and it's so easy to be distracted, especially from technology: Facebook, Twitter, e-mails, TV...Try to do what you do pursuing perfection. I know...you are thinking: no one is perfect! I would say that we are perfect in our imperfections! Anyway, if you look for perfection, maybe you can catch excellence! Focus your attention on your goals, having fun, enjoying the process, because this is very important to increase your vibrations. When the thought goes energy flows. Stick the paper with your Big 5 goals in front of you, look at them and recite them everyday, every morning.

The image I chose for this blog post is the cover of an old book, about Focus in business. Focus is essential, if you want to achieve excellent results. If you do everything pursuing high quality, you will have high quality results. Remember...what you put out, you will receive back!

Linda Lattuca
Inner Wisdom & Law of Attraction Coach

"Master Your Mind, Body, Emotions and Spirit
to Master Your Life"

Linda Lattuca

How to handle criticism?

The more you are higher visioneer, the more you are innovative, the more you deliver excellence, the more you will attract criticism. You can look at criticism from different points of view:

- as an opportunity to grow and think/perform bet...ter what you do;

- as a compliment. Leaders attract critisism, because they deliver not less than excellence;

- as a "trap" which tries to let you defocus from your goals/dreams/mission;

- as a good sign about you are an innovator (normally people don't like change...you are changing the status quo!);

- as Leader without a title...criticism is part of the "package"! :)

At the end, criticism fuels you, because if you are a real "Leader without a title" you won't be discouraged!

Linda Lattuca

Self-Esteem & Leadership without title

How do you respond to situations? I just finished a coaching session with a wonderful girl, who is a receptionist in a hotel in London. She is very loved and adored by customers. Recently, a customer embraced her, telling her: “You are the best receptionist in the world and I travel all around the world!” Wow, what a fantastic compliment!

Anyway, this wonderful receptionist, who delivers excellence in doing her job, felt very bad because of some words spoken from her boss, recently. Her manager told her to go back to her working place, being nice and doing her job. She started questioning about herself, if she really delivers excellence and so on. Her self-esteem was down and down. Today, she told me she would like to change her job, but she can’t find another one and she feels “powerless”.

What I started to tell her is that it is important how we respond to situations and not the situation itself. The words spoken from the manager hurt her very deeply; although she knows her value and that she delivers excellence to customers. What does it happen in these cases? Every time, we feel hurt from some others’ words, questioning about ourselves, with a consequent loss of self-esteem, we have to take our responsibility of our feelings. It is our decision to feel bad, it is the decision we take about the reaction we have. In that moment and this way, we decide to give our power away. Yes, we give our power away!

The most important person, who has to know your value, is yourself. Why? Because in your life, you can find, on your path, people who can have self-esteem issues, trying to put you down (it’s their favourite game! Only, this way, they feel stronger!). Don’t give your power away, please! Of course, every one of us can improve the performance in any kind of role; no limit, but at the same time, don’t lose your self-confidence, because everything starts from there in life, in any area of your life.

Don’t take personally what others tell you, try to understand if someone is talking to you in a certain way because he/she feels anger or frustration or she/he is under pressure. At the same time, be strong and if someone is not dealing with you with respect, exact respect and be respectful, at the same time. Don’t give your permission to people to deal with you without respect. Be still about that!

Self-esteem is the first brick to put at your base – one of my favourite quotes. Feel to be a leader whatever you do. It’s not important what you do, but how you are doing it. Are you delivering excellence to your customers? (Any role you play in this life. Even if you are a mum/dad…your “customers” are your husband/wife, children…). Self-esteem is a daily inside job and leadership, too. Leadership starts from your mind, heart and then actions. It’s about how much passion you have in your belly in doing what you do. And if you don’t like what you do, stop complaining and act to find what you like, to pursue your dream. Being bold!

Today, I had a powerful chat with one of my cousins and he told me: “I learnt that to have success in life you need two things: courage and respect. You need to take risks and only the experience will give you the answer you are looking for in taking a decision. Then, you have to be respectful in front of everyone!” Wise words!

Be the CEO of your area, whatever job you do or role you play. Do you think you need titles and money to be a leader, to have an impact on others’ lives? Change these limitative and false beliefs, if you have them, please! What about Mother Teresa and Gandhi? Not very tall, not riches (her best richness was inside them!), but at the same time with an incredible inner strength, with a will of iron towards their goals, expressing their talents and potential, their True Self (they expressed the God/Divinity they had in their within! Like every one of us should do it!). You can follow their example, because they are great examples. Feel inspired from them and emulate their best practises: be loving, caring and be still in your great values. Deliver not less than excellence, have faith 100% in yourself and don’t forget how power-full you are and that you can everything…only if you decide it!

Linda Lattuca

How do I work on my Self-Development?

I work on my self-development every single day. How?

1. My Holy Hour

2. Spiritual teachings from my Spiritual Master

3. Reading great books written by great Souls

4. I follow other Fab Colleagues (Coaches in different fields, especially in personal and executive/leadership coaching)

5. Powerful chat/chats

6. I learn from my life and others lives

7. I decide to listen than merely to hear

8. I ask questions to learn more

9. I travel with my mind, my astral and physical body towards interesting destinations. :)