Is a new job, career change or to start your own business something that’s on top of your goal list for this year?

If so, a great place to start is…. knowing exactly what you want!

But not only that, how you want to feel.

Grab yourself a pen and paper, find a quiet and inspiring place and answer the following questions:

1. What do you love doing so much that if you didn’t need any money you’d do it for free?
2. What skills do you have that gain me the most appreciation and biggest thankyou’s for from others?
3. What type of people do you want to work with and for?
4. What kind of working hours suit you that fit around your personal life so you don’t have to try and fit your personal life around your work?
5. Do you have a role title that you have your heart set on? If so, what is it?
6. What industry would you like to work in or know which one you don’t?
7. What annual salary would you like to receive?
8. What do you need to do to get yourself into this new position?
9. Whose help do you need to make the change this year?
10. What’s holding you back? Do you have a little voice in your head coming up with reasons why you can’t? Is it time to challenge those thoughts?

If you need help clarifying exactly what you want in your career this year and a plan on how to achieve it, I’d love to help you.

I have opened up a limited number of sessions available, to book simply send me an email at jac@lovemondaysnow.com

I look forward to the opportunity to help you achieve your 2024 career goals!

Live your best life!

Jacqueline Pigdon BSc, The LOVE MONDAYS Expert, is an Australian rowing champion, Wealth Dynamics, Talent Dynamics and Health Dynamics Performance Consultant, a spiritual life, career and business coach, speaker, author and award-winning entrepreneur!

M: +61 (0) 447728677

E: jac@lovemondaysnow.com 

Here are 3 ways I can help you achieve your goals and create a life you LOVE!

1. Book a FREE 30 min consultation to discuss your specific situation and how I can help you.

2. Get yourself a copy of my book on Amazon: Love Mondays Now – 5 Steps to a Career & Life You LOVE!

https://www.amazon.com/Love-Mondays-Now-Steps-career/dp/0992393809

3. OR if you’re ready to get started and moving towards achieving your goals right away…

Book a powerful and insightful 90min Strategy Session with me where will gain a new perspective on your situation, clarity on what is most important to you, strategies to overcome your biggest challenge and leave the session with newfound enthusiasm and excitement for your life!

Since it’s Valentine’s Day there’s no better day of the year to talk about one of the top 6 human needs ‘Love & Connection’.

For those of you who are not familiar with Anthony Robin’s Top 6 Human Needs, here is a quick run down.

1. Certainty

Which means we all like a bit of certainty, that we’re going to be safe, secure, have food on the table, a roof over our head and maybe knowing that our family is there for us when we get home, or always on the other end of a phone call. 

Too much certainty can however, be boring. When we know exactly what is going to happen next, maybe your life feels a bit like Groundhog Day… and we don’t want to know what happens at the end of a movie, we would like to enjoy the journey of the unknown.

Which brings me to the next one…

2. Uncertainty

Where we like variety, the need for adventure, new experiences, change and new stimuli which can make things exciting! 

Too much uncertainty can make people feel unstable and fearful, not knowing where the next pay cheque is coming in, whereas, others love the challenge.

3. Significance

We all like to feel important and valued. A feeling of significance can be the feeling that you’re special, in your relationship, team at work, that you’re needed and things wouldn’t be the same or would fall over without you. 

Too much importance on significance however leave some people always wanting to be in the lime light, coming across as more important than others, arrogant or swamped with people around them, because no one else is quite as good as they are!

4. Love & Connection

A strong feeling of closeness or a union with someone or something. This is definitely a top need of mine out of these top 6 human needs. I love the feeling of giving love, being love, speaking from my heart and feeling deeply connected to others. For me, nothing else beats it.  

How to get more love and connection? Read my tips below to get more Love & Connection on this Valentine’s Day.

5. Growth

This is my second top 6 human need, expanding upon your knowledge, capabilities and learning. I’m definitely a dedicated life long learner and without this in my day, my brain just doesn’t get the dose of endorphins it loves!

Too much growth, can leave you overwhelmed or give you growing pains, don’t grow too fast that you end up falling over.

6. Contribution

A sense of service and purpose, helping and supporting others. Of course I love this one too, and when I’m growing and coming from a place of love and connection, is when I feel I give back the most. The happier and more loving I am, the more I give and get back!

What top 2 needs are most important to you in your life?

Top Tips for generating more Love & Connection in your life:

• Open your heart and speak from a place of love, compassion and understanding. What most people really want deep down under everything else… is to be loved (stay tuned for my upcoming post and more on this) and typically people are always trying to do their best. Aren’t you? It might not be your very best that you’ve ever done, but given the situation, environment and what’s going on, you are doing your best, because, ya know, if you could do better, you would.
• Be fully present - it’s the best gift you can give to someone. Throw multi-tasking or multi-thinking out the window! Make the person you’re with feel like they are the most important person in your world right now. And if they’re not and you don’t want to be talking to them, that will come across in your energy so you may as well quickly take your presence elsewhere…
• Really look at the person - I like to say, ‘see straight through them’ it can be eerie in one way but quite amazing to feel it from someone else at the same time. Like they really know you, they see through the barriers, the persona you put on and can feel your true and pure essence and love you all the more for it. To do this for others, start with being inquisitive, seek to learn about them, and not jump to judge or want them to be just like you. Be curious to their points of view, experiences in the world and unique selves, ask more questions and really listen. You never know, you just might learn something and that will help fill up your Growth Human Need.
• TIP - To really see and know someone straight away helps when you really know yourself. If you’re great at self awareness and dedicated to self mastery, you’ll be great at this. 
• Be vulnerable and your real self - if you have barriers up, if you’re trying to be someone you’re not, if you’re trying to be the person you think the other person wants you to be, will like or you will impress, you’re not connected. There will be a wall.
• Which brings me to Speak Your Truth - when you do this, it’s refreshing, the other person can tell and the best thing about this is it gives permission for the other person to do the same. Of course there is a way to do this that leaves both you and them feeling good. (more on communication strategies for truthful conversations coming here soon). If you open up and share who you are, it can give a sense of safety that the other person can too and then guess what – you’re connected on a whole new realm. 
• Take your walls down, stop being scared of what others might think, and BE YOURSELF.

I hope you enjoyed learning about the Top 6 Human Needs and that my tips help you generate more love and connection in your life.

If you need help getting deeply connected with others in your life, book yourself a free strategy session with me today where I’ll show you how.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Until then, Happy Valentine’s Day!
Live your best life!

Jacqueline Pigdon BSc, The LOVE MONDAYS Expert, is an Australian rowing champion, Wealth Dynamics, Talent Dynamics and Health Dynamics Performance Consultant, a spiritual life, career and business coach, speaker, author and award-winning entrepreneur!

M: +61 (0) 447728677

E: jacqueline@jinalife.com 

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I thought this picture was super cute because one, yes I do LOVE cats but two, I love helping people love their Monday mornings! 

Why? 

Because there was a time in my life where I dreaded going to work on a Monday morning, so much so, that it completely ruined my Sundays… 

I believe we all have a purpose in life and when we love what we do, when we’re utilising our greatest strengths, talents and passions, not only does work not feel like work, it’s our greatest potential to deliver outstanding value in the world and therefore become highly successful doing it. 

So now that 2016 is coming to an end, it’s the perfect time to reflect back upon your year with your friends and family and/or coach. 

An exercise I always take my clients through is to highlight 3 things that have happened in your life in 2016 that you are most happy about, proud of or thankful for.

Reflect upon 2016

For me one of the things I’m most grateful for is working with Jo Formosa from Back to Health and the co-creator of Health Dynamics, who has helped me enormously in my life this year. She has been an amazing support and through her process I have learned even more about neuro strategies and breaking through limiting patterns from your past. 

Secondly, I’m most grateful for the extensive travel I have been blessed to have experienced again this year, where I’m heading into my 7th summer in a row!

In 2016 I spent time visiting clients, friends and family in Australia, Switzerland, UK, Spain, France, Czech Republic, Serbia and Indonesia! 

Thirdly, I’m most thankful for each and everyone of, what I call my ‘kindred spirits’ i.e. all the people whom I have spent time with and crossed paths with this year, where I’ve not only had a great time with but who have taught me many things along the way. 

I would love to hear your greatest achievements and things you’re most thankful for in 2016 too! 

Once you’ve reflected on 2016 then it’s time to make a time to plan 2017.

Plan for your goals and dreams to come true in 2017

For me, I always start with buying an annual wall calendar and I populate it with all the most important things, people and events in my life and then schedule my work around that. 

Make a time to plan out your goals and the positive changes you would like to make in your life in 2017. 

Get the help and support you need to make sure 2017 is your best year yet! 

And if you’re anything like this cute cute cat hiding from your Monday mornings… 

Then get in touch with me, I’d love to help you get onto your amazing and ideal career path, that not only fulfills you in every way, but enables you to make your difference in the world. 

Remember there are other people missing out if we are not out there fulfilling our purpose in the world in the biggest way we can! 

I have the capacity to take on just 7 new clients in January so please get in quick so you don’t miss out. 

I would like to wish you, your family and friends a wonderful Christmas and a very happy New Year for 2017  

Until next year…

 Live Your Best Life 

Jacqueline Pigdon, The LOVE MONDAYS Expert is an Australian rowing champion, a spiritual life & career coach, author and award winning entrepreneur! Beginning her career in corporate IT and as an elite sports person she knows firsthand how to achieve goals and make a successful and fulfilling career transition. Jacqueline has dedicated her life to helping other women all around the world do the same and create a career and life they love! 

T: +61447728677 

E: jacqueline@jinalife.com 

www.lovemondaysnow.com 

To get a copy of Jacqueline’s BOOK ‘Love Mondays Now – 5 Steps to a career & life you love CLICK HERE!

It’s important that your teams are in flow and collaborating at the highest level to ensure you get the best out of each and every one of your employees.

I believe in loving what you do, ensuring you’re always professional and also bringing FUN into the workplace!

Well why not?! Life is meant to be fun! :-) 

Watch today’s video where I reveal one of the very cool things I’ve been doing with two of the teams I coach across continents.

 https://youtu.be/NxSZwk-HQtU

Creating an annual humorous video has been so much fun, it helps teams relate to and see another side to the personalities of team members whom they email and have skype meetings with. And you learn a little bit about your own funny quirky traits at the same time!

If you need help to connect your teams in your office or across continents simply request a coaching session with me today.

BOOK ONLINE CLICK HERE!

I hope you enjoyed this video and until next time… have a fantastic day!

Live Your Best Life

Jacqueline Pigdon, The LOVE MONDAYS Expert is an Australian rowing champion, a spiritual life & career coach, author and award winning entrepreneur! Beginning her career in corporate IT and as an elite sports person she knows firsthand how to achieve goals and make a successful and fulfilling career transition. Jacqueline has dedicated her life to helping other women all around the world do the same and create a career and life they love!

T: +61447728677
E: jacqueline@jinalife.com
www.lovemondaysnow.com

To get a copy of Jacqueline’s BOOK ‘Love Mondays Now – 5 Steps to a career & life you love CLICK HERE!

We can be creatures of habit, we can easily get set in our ways and I fully support setting yourself up with a recipe for success  (routine or schedule) that works for you. ‘If it’s not broken then don’t fix it!’ 

However sometimes this can hold us back and we can fall victim to creating the same day as yesterday… 

When is this a problem? When we’re looking or waiting for something to change. 

Now if you’ve been trying to reach a goal or attract something significant into your life for a long time, you may well be thinking that something ‘big’ has to change.

But it doesn’t always have to be this way, sometimes the smallest of things can dramatically shift your situation.

~ YOUR SPECIAL INVITATION ~

New Path Exercise – I invite you to join me for a fun experiment (I love experiments that show us just how powerful our own thoughts, decisions and intentions are – more of these to come in my future videos). This excises consists of making simple changes in your routine to shake things up that create instant change.

CAN YOU RELATE TO THIS COMMON SCENARIO…

You get up at approximately the same time each day. you eat the same breakfast, you order the exact same coffee or morning drink at the same coffee shop, you drive along the same route to work, you have the same kind of day at work, you leave work at roughly the same time every day, you travel home on the exact same route, have the same types of conversations at home, watch the same TV shows or spend hours on social media before you go to bed at about the same time each night.

This can cause you to create the same day as yesterday… So if you’re not 100% happy with the days you are creating, or you’re looking for change, try this fun and easy exercise for 1 day to spice things up and take yourself on a new and different path. 

Get up at a different time, eat a different breakfast, order a different morning drink, travel on a new or different path to work, engage in conversations with new people and/or on different topics and travel on another route on your way home. Keep your eyes out for new and different things that surface on this new day path and share with me what showed up! You just might be surprised!

I hope you enjoyed my video I filmed on the beautiful Greek Island of Corfu and I look forward to bringing new videos your way soon!

Live Your Best Life

Jacqueline Pigdon, The LOVE MONDAYS Expert is an Australian rowing champion, a spiritual life & career coach, author and award winning entrepreneur! Beginning her career in corporate IT and as an elite sports person she knows firsthand how to achieve goals and make a successful and fulfilling career transition. Jacqueline has dedicated her life to helping other women all around the world do the same and create a career and life they love!

T: +61447728677
E: jacqueline@jinalife.com
www.lovemondaysnow.com

To get a copy of Jacqueline’s BOOK ‘Love Mondays Now – 5 Steps to a career & life you love CLICK HERE!

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Jacqueline Pigdon, The LOVE MONDAYS Expert is an Australian rowing champion, a spiritual life & career coach, author and award winning entrepreneur! Beginning her career in corporate IT and as an elite sports person she knows firsthand how to achieve goals and make a successful and fulfilling career transition. Jacqueline has dedicated her life to helping other women all around the world do the same and create a career and life they love!

T: +61447728677
E: jacqueline@jinalife.com
www.lovemondaysnow.com

To get a copy of Jacqueline’s BOOK ‘Love Mondays Now – 5 Steps to a career & life you love CLICK HERE!

Developing your ability to have laser focus in the workplace is an essential ingredient for a successful career.

The good news is that it’s a skill you can learn and develop.

Laser focus takes practice and the more you do it the stronger it will become.

“What fires together wires together.” Donald Hebb, Canadian Neuropsychologist

I recommend that you utilise every chance you have to develop your focusing skills.

You can do this both at work and at home. Try being laser focused on your spouse or partner when they are talking to you, instead of thinking about other things or being distracted.

Here are my top 10 tips on how you can practice, develop and strengthen your ability to focus at work.

#1 STOP MULTI-TASKING

Trying to do two things at once means you’re dividing your attention and energy which eliminates your chance of achieving 100% of your potential result on any one thing you do is wiped out.

What kind of results do you want to achieve? Average, mediocre or outstanding?

If you’re struggling to focus stop multi-tasking immediately and watch your results and achievement soar!

For example: If you’re ‘sort of’ listening to someone while really reading an email on your screen you run the risk of agreeing to something you don’t even know you’re agreeing to! This can cause major issues in your workplace. Plus it immediately shows disrespect to the person, that you don’t have time or the care to stop what you’re doing and listen to them. You will have poor working relationship if you multi-task on this one…

Now I’m all for multi-tasking sometimes (and I stress ONLY SOMETIMES) for example:

1. Catching up with friends while walking to socialize and exercise at the same time or,
2. Turning your travel time into a learning environment, by listening to audio books while on the train or driving.
3. Listening and dancing to music while cleaning your house!

BUT still if I really want to do something outstandingly well, I will turn on my laser focus skills and apply 100% of my attention and energy to get my best results. I recommend that you do too.

#2 OBSERVE WHAT DISTRACTS YOU 

Different things distract different people e.g. mobile phones, pop-up messages, chatter in the office, loud music, email messages, too many applications open, a messy desk the list goes on.

If you develop a laser focus you can block all of these things out. Trust me, once I sat at a desk which was located right at the main door. I decided to switch on, my all time best laser focusing skills because I knew my boss wasn’t paying me to sit there and say hello to everyone who walked past all day long.

Usually the majority of your distractions are in your mind i.e. your thoughts which are not on the present moment or on the current task at hand.
Your mind may wonder, thinking about all the other tasks you need to do next, worse you’re too busy judging what others around you are doing or not doing and this only clogs up your brain space. Either deal with it, i.e. any issues that are on your mind by effective communication with that person, or let it go and focus on YOUR work.

#3 SET UP YOUR ENVIRONMENT SO IT SUPPORTS YOU

Turn your phone on silent and put it in the bottom drawer, close down applications you don’t need right now and tidy up your workplace for if you work in a chaotic environment chances are your mind is chaotic as well.

#4 COMMUNICATE WITH OTHERS IN YOUR TEAM

Communicate with your team members and others in the office to find out what you might be doing that distracts them, and share ideas to help everyone in your office develop excellent focusing skills.

Having laser focus in the workplace doesn’t mean you can’t or won’t stop to help others or enjoy a little bit of social time too. It’s all about balance.

You can educate your fellow office workers when you are about to go into your laser focus zone. I love using this approach which teaches others when is a good time to ask for your help and when to avoid interrupting you. You can use this example:

“Hey everyone I just want to check in to see if any of anyone will need me in the next 2 hours. I’m about to concentrate on a detailed piece of work in this time, so if you have any questions for me, I can either help you now before I start or afterwards, which will be at 3pm.”

People will either catch you now or say 3pm is great for me I have a few questions for you then.

Agree to that time and then get into your focus zone. If that person attempts to interrupt you after 10mins, do not get frustrated! Simply answer with something like this:

“I’d love to help you out with that, however as discussed, I’m currently focused on X task right now up until 3pm. Is it ok if I help you at 3pm or has something come up that is urgent and I need to help you with right now?”

If it’s urgent, good you want to know and help out, if not, you’re just letting the person know that you take your focus time seriously. It’s not that you won’t help them, but there are times set for when it’s best for you, to both help them and get your work done each day as well.

TIP: At 3pm stop what you’re doing, even if you haven’t finished because you want to be true to your word. Go over to the person and let them know that as agreed, you’re ready to help them now.

Chances are they are not ready! If so, just smile and remind them 3pm was agreed, they will hurry up and not fail to be ready for you next time.

The last thing you want to do is not follow up on your promise, because then others will not trust you that you will help them, when you put them off to another time.

#5 LISTEN TO MUSIC WITHOUT LYRICS

This is a common way for open plan office workers to block out distractions from others.

#6 WEAR SOUND PROOFING EAR MUFFS

These are all the rage now, with people wanting more peace, quiet and tranquility in the world. You may see people walking around in airports, busy train stations and even open plan workplaces to block out noise and distractions for peace and quiet.

This can be a good alternative to asking others around you to be quiet, or listening to music when you just want peace.

#7 GET A GOOD NIGHTS SLEEP, EAT WELL & EXERCISE DAILY 

It’s difficult to focus when you’re tired, dehydrated, hungry or feeling lethargic. Get out for a quick brisk walk to get your energy flowing before sitting down to focus on your work.

Taking regular breaks between focus times helps too.

#8 DON’T ALLOW YOUR STRENGTHS TO BECOME WEAKNESSES 

If one of your strengths is attention to detail or making things perfect, sometimes these strengths can get in the way of delivering your work in a timely manner.

Be careful that you’re not letting your work performance down by spending too much time trying to make something perfect or getting off track zoning in on minor, sometimes unnecessary details that take you away from seeing the bigger picture and ultimate goal you’re trying to achieve.

Perhaps you love helping others, be careful that you’re not too busy stopping to help others all day long that your own work is at risk of being done.

#9 TRAIN YOUR BRAIN 

First, get crystal clear on EXACTLY what you want to focus on and do in this moment and for the next e.g. 90 minutes. Then every time your mind wonders off… thinking about another task, bring your focus back to the task at hand.

As you commit to doing this, you will build the strength of your focusing powers until they become a natural and easy way in which you work.

#10 SET TIMERS & YOUR OWN STEEP DEADLINES 

Establish how long you think a task should take you, or set yourself a new target to complete it in, check the clock and stay committed to completing the task in that time.

You will be surprised that for every 5 minute interruption or distraction, it can completely wipe out that latest hour in your day of doing real focused work.

It’s up to you how you spend your time!

Studies show that when a person is distracted, even if for only 5 minutes it takes them 25 minutes to get back into flow. Only to be interrupted again within the next half an hour, people in the workplace often can expect to have only 2 hours of real work time!

Research also shows that people will take as long a time as they have, to get the job done. That’s why when we have big looming deadlines we can work fast with focus and literally move mountains! This is because we know we do not have time to think about or be distracted by anything. When workflow is slow, we slow down right along with it.

What I do here is set myself my own tight deadline with a reward once achieved, so I’m not left wondering where on earth the week went and feelings as though I barely got anything done.

No wonder so many people leave work feeling as though they didn’t really get anything or enough done. Let’s change that, with encouraging and developing laser focus, high productivity and efficient brains in your team!

Live Your Best Life

Jacqueline Pigdon, The LOVE MONDAYS Expert is an Australian rowing champion, a spiritual life & career coach, author and award winning entrepreneur! Beginning her career in corporate IT and as an elite sports person she knows firsthand how to achieve goals and make a successful and fulfilling career transition. Jacqueline has dedicated her life to helping other women all around the world do the same and create a career and life they love!

T: +61447728677
E: jacqueline@jinalife.com
www.lovemondaysnow.com

To get a copy of Jacqueline’s BOOK ‘Love Mondays Now – 5 Steps to a career & life you love CLICK HERE!

‘Blowing their Top’?

People who get mad a lot, particularly over little things, are really telling us they feel out of control in some aspect of their life. Generally the small things they appear to be getting mad at, aren’t the real reasons they are mad.

Firstly, always check in and listen to what the person is saying in case there is a very valid point about you, that you can address and change to help the situation.

However, here we’re talking about common occurrences of yelling and/or getting upset or frustrated at the little things. You have probably experienced someone like this in either your personal or professional life.

So these tips can be applied both at work or home – to anyone who dares to yell at you! 

6 TOP TIPS!

1. Stay calm

Your heart rate might start to race when someone is yelling at you, but it’s important to stay calm on the inside and BREATH. 

Work on calming down your inner self and remain looking calm on the outside. 

Keep your face and body relaxed. 

Chances are they are letting loose i.e. raving on and on about something – which actually gives you TIME to work on being calm before you need to respond! :-) 

2. Don’t be or show that you’re afraid!

If you can see a “mad manager” walking around your office or they are directly yelling at you – don’t be afraid. (Unless you fear physical violence then best step away fast!) Certainly don’t coward down to a person who is yelling. They are only emotions and they OWN their emotions, don’t allow them to put their emotions onto you.

3. Ask intelligent questions.

For example in a confident and caring way, ask with a concerned look on your face that also says – I know you’re really upset but I know I’m not the deep cause of your anger and I’m not going to ‘buy into’ this behaviour of yours or think for a second it’s all my fault.

“Is everything is ok?”

This can show, if done correctly, that you can see the real reason why they are getting mad, is NOT what they’re blowing up about. This is your chance to show your emotional intelligence and insight.

4. Never get mad back.

People might push your buttons and if you do get mad, well that is for another topic of discussion (i.e. Finding your own deeper causes of what is upsetting YOU! Contact me today if you need help with this.) 

So never get mad back, because this just turns into a fight and you have raised your voice, volume and emotions to match theirs. Instead as tip #1 stay calm and strong so they have to come down and match your calm state. 

If a person is lashing out, what they really need in that moment is love, understanding and care. For that person is upset and feeling out of control…. and that’s not nice. 

* It doesn’t mean we allow them to take it out on us, but that we know it’s not a nice place for anyone to be in, and we wouldn’t ever wish it on others. 

5. Don’t criticise them or put them down.

We are not here to judge others, but we do teach others how to communicate with us.

You could ask (and this is my personal example I used with someone, many years ago, who used to yell at me, but not anymore!) in a calm voice:

“Why are you yelling?”

The person responded yelling at the top of their voice:

“I’M NOT YELLING!!!”

* Quickly realising yelling that statement was a bit silly and calmed right down instantly :-) 

With this question, the person will think about the real reason why they are so mad or frustrated, and not actually be able to answer this question and often they walk away or calm down. The reason for this is because, more often than not it’s either: 

1. Nothing to do with what they are yelling about or, 

2. It’s too private or difficult for them to share. 

So often in the workplace, the underlying cause won’t generally have a lot to do with you. It’s something personal or other work issues within them. Or if it does have something to do with you, it goes much, much deeper…. and they can’t seem to speak to you about it in a way that they think will gain a successful resolution. It’s best to help them try, by creating an open and safe environment to communicate with you in.

6. Be assertive

Here is a great example of a way you can respond any time anyone is yelling at you, at work or at home – whatever the topic or situation:

“I would really like to talk to you about this issue, but not when you’re yelling at me, so perhaps you can calm down now and we can discuss it in a professional and/or nice way, or let me know if and when you’re ready to talk to me calmly in the future.”

Here you are open and willing to talk, just not in that way. 

Taking this approach using the 6 tips above, helps communicate to the person yelling, that you’re not someone to be yelled at or someone they can take their frustrations out on. 

Remember only 7% of our communication comes from the words we use, so embrace the message you want to deliver with your entire body language and inner thoughts and intentions of a positive outcome.

All the best in teaching others that you are not someone to be yelled at! 

Try it out for yourself if and when you need to, and let me know how you get on! I would love to hear from you. 

Thanks for reading and until next time… 

Live Your Best Life!

Jacqueline Pigdon, The LOVE MONDAYS Expert is an Australian rowing champion, a spiritual life & career coach, author and award winning entrepreneur! Beginning her career in corporate IT and as an elite sports person she knows firsthand how to achieve goals and make a successful and fulfilling career transition. Jacqueline has dedicated her life to helping other women all around the world do the same and create a career and life they love!

T: +61447728677
E: jacqueline@jinalife.com
www.lovemondaysnow.com

To get a copy of Jacqueline’s BOOK ‘Love Mondays Now – 5 Steps to a career & life you love CLICK HERE!

Happy New Year for 2015!

Here is my new January video tip to help you plan for 2015!

Now that January is here it’s a fun and exciting time to make plans for the year ahead. If you’re anything like me, I like to set an annual mission, one BIG thing that I’m going to achieve and when I achieve that I will have had an incredible year.

Then I set 2 or 3 specific goals and the rest goes to being flow!

To me this means having fun and navigating myself throughout the year learning, adjusting as I go and making the most of all the opportunities that surface that I don’t yet know about.

To do this successfully you need space and some flexibility. I know that even by the time February and March rolls around I will have learnt and grown and perhaps even see things very differently than I do right now.

Situations change… they can change at any moment good or bad (and of course bad is only the way you see things. If they do feel bad don’t forget to look for the lesson and seed of opportunity in the challenging period or situation you find yourself in).

What I’m doing this January that’s new and fun in regards to planning out my year ahead is studying up on the book ‘Your Personal Horoscope 2015′ by Joseph Polansky. Now I’ve never done this before because here in our coaching programs we delve much deeper into astrology and spirituality that I haven’t bothered with generic astrology.

Until now….

In 2014 I just happened to link way too many situations that perfectly collided with what the planets were doing and what was happening both in my life and the lives of others around me.

In particular the lunar and solar eclipses were so profound in initiating change they literally blew me away as to what happened at those times.

So this year, I’m looking ahead and I’m being super proactive in terms of what’s coming up and happening in the solar system.

I recommend grabbing yourself a copy of this book too (or one similar), checking your sun sign reading and observe the uncanny coincidences that happen. Or like me, even plan in accordance to the best times of the year to do certain things and see how things turn out!

Here are a few dates to be aware of:

• Solar Eclipse – 20th March 2015
• Lunar Eclipse – 4th April 2015
• Solar Eclipse – 13th September 2015
• Lunar Eclipse – 28th September 2015

Let me know in the comments below if you’ve experienced any interesting coincidences in regards to astrology, the moons or planets too!

Live Your Best Life

Jacqueline Pigdon, The LOVE MONDAYS Expert is an Australian rowing champion, a spiritual life & career coach, author and award winning entrepreneur! Beginning her career in corporate IT and as an elite sports person she knows firsthand how to achieve goals and make a successful and fulfilling career transition. Jacqueline has dedicated her life to helping other women all around the world do the same and create a career and life they love!

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To get a copy of Jacqueline’s BOOK ‘Love Mondays Now – 5 Steps to a career & life you love CLICK HERE!

I’ve created a short Christmas video message for you with my 2 easy tips for this festive period! Please go ahead and watch it now!

Wishing you, your family and friends a wonderful Christmas and New Year!

I look forward to seeing you in 2015!

Live Your Best Life

Jacqueline Pigdon, The LOVE MONDAYS Expert is an Australian rowing champion, a spiritual life & career coach, author and award winning entrepreneur! Beginning her career in corporate IT and as an elite sports person she knows firsthand how to achieve goals and make a successful and fulfilling career transition. Jacqueline has dedicated her life to helping other women all around the world do the same and create a career and life they love!

T: +61447728677
E: jacqueline@jinalife.com
www.lovemondaysnow.com

To get a copy of Jacqueline’s BOOK ‘Love Mondays Now – 5 Steps to a career & life you love CLICK HERE!