The biggest challenge of your life

Which is the biggest challenge of your life? Your MBA or University degree? Your new job? Maybe! Anyway, there is perhaps one you don’t consider: you! I mean leading yourself. That’s the biggest challenge to face in this life and this is part of your soul’s expansion, the main purpose why you are here.

How can you be a good leader if you are not able to lead yourself? How to mentor your team? You can reply: “I am not interested in being a leader!” I have a news for you: you are a leader, anyway…of yourself, at least. And if you are a mum or dad, if you have children, you are also a leader. How to be a good leader with your family, your team, your friends…?

Leadership is a daily inside job. Till now, the only answer I found about true leadership is that the only way to be a good leader is leading from within. What does it mean? It means that a good leader is someone who:

• Is authentic, ethic, with integrity and honesty
• Is never tired to learn (practice of Kaizen = Japanese word which means constant learning)
• Sets up goals, having daily mini-goals, weekly, monthly and yearly goals
• Schedules, keeping flexibility
• Is very passionate about what he/she does
• Has guts, courage, vision, a balance between mind and heart
• Is nice and firm (when necessary)
• Celebrates achievements with his/her team (which can be the family)
• Develops other leaders (= the best legacy)
• Enjoys life (travelling, food lover, sportive passion…)
• Mentors and rewards his/her team, making the time for doing all that
• Loves to meet others to have an exchange (constant learning), but at the same time stays on his/her own for regeneration and finding new inspiration
• Embraces his/her fears, killing the killers of self-esteem
• Loves challenges
• Works on self-confidence on a daily basis
• Works for having balance in all different areas of life (Inner life, health, family, financial, career, friends, lifestyle, influence/impact/legacy)
• Has understood that health/energy is the first priority
• Knows what others call problems is part of the soul’s expansion and only opportunity
• Takes responsibility for everything, for his/her destiny, being aware to be the captain of his/her soul
• Starts and ends days with a world-class mindset
• Wakes up very early to acquire a world-class mindset for having a world-class day, using winning tactics and techniques

Ultimately, a good leader is the one who is able to lead himself/herself at the best, having an impact on others’ lives, having influence on others and leading by example. Face your biggest challenge and enjoy the process.

Lead from within!

Linda Lattuca

How do you spend your "Currency"?

Thoughts become things. Thoughts are your currency!

How many times have you brought home from a mall something you didn’t like it? Many times, I guess. How many times in your life you manifested what you didn’t want? Tons of times, I guess. Why? The Law of Attraction is one of the universal laws, which works in our life 24 hours a day and it doesn’t matter if we know about it or not. We can decide to ignore it, but it won’t ignore us!

Why don’t we manifest what we desire? I can say many things, but the main one is lack of 100% faith about you just have what you desire in your life. I know the question: how can I have the feeling about something/someone is not yet in my life? That’s the “trick”! You need to learn it, how you can learn everything else! You need practice! YOU CAN!

100% faith in what you want is what you need to connect yourself with “Kamaloca” (Sanskrit word: Kama = desire; Loca = place), the vibrational place of the desires. When you totally believe without doubts that you just have what you want in your life, you emit certain kinds of vibrations, becoming the perfect match to what you want (an object, someone, a situation…).

During these last days, I coached a woman, who told me to manifest what she doesn’t want about her career and love. I understood that she was focused on what she didn’t want and because energy flows where the thought goes, she kept manifesting the opposite she wanted. Pay attention at what you think and feel. Yes, feel. Not only thoughts are important, but also feelings, because they are energy, too, so we emit vibrations with our feelings (our kind of vibes depend on our thoughts, feelings, actions and I add omissions).

If you focus your attention/energy on what you don’t want is like bringing home from the mall something you don’t like and you spent your currency = your thought. Yes, your thoughts are your currency. Think how rich you are. You can buy whatever you like with your thoughts and if you believe you just have it, expressing 100% faith, you manifest.

I want to tell you about the manifestations of something we are scared of. Unfortunately, we tend to manifest faster situations/people/things we are fearful of. We need more time, sometimes, to manifest what we want. Embrace your fears and you will use them for your growth. The more you are further on your spiritual path, the more you will have less fear. You will experience more courage than fear.

You see how infinite our power is! You can create whatever you like with your thoughts. You have all the “currency” you need to have everything you desire. You were already rich and you didn’t know it! Now, you know, so you don’t have excuses to your manifestations. Express your potential, work about your self-awareness, because you are more than you can imagine and YOU CAN EVERYTHING, IF YOU DECIDE IT.

Keep leading from Within!

Happy Birthday “Expansion of Your Wonderful Soul”!

On 9^th March 2010, my blog “Expansion of Your Wonderful Soul” was born on Google platform. It was a great challenge and at the same time a great fun for me. I didn’t have the clue how to set up a blog. How did I do it? Just doing it! I learnt in doing it! Very simple. My first blog posts were about “everything is energy”, “the Law of Attraction” and my idea about coaching.

I would like to thank all my friends, followers, people who supported me during all this year. I am trying to do my best in sharing with all of you many things I know, I learnt and still learning. One of my passions is writing and this blog gave me the possibility to exercise this gift I have in this life and also to improve my English…I hope! Sorry for my mistakes I do! It’s part of my expansion!

I am trying to write about topics or giving advice to have an impact on others’ lives and to help them in their soul’s expansion. It’s what I do with my coaching practise. I would love to hear from you about suggestions or advise, to share what you would like to know. I like having feed-back from those who follow me. Please, fell free to write me, asking questions or giving me advice to let my blog and what I do become better and better.

My purpose is serving you at the best, with high professionalism, great values, passion, commitment, joy and happiness. Thank you for helping me in my soul’s expansion. Thank you to be here!

Wishing you beautiful manifestations!

Keep leading from Within!

Linda Lattuca

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