Hope you enjoy this article on learning – just in time for the semester exams!

cheers, Gay

Many people have heard of the 4 stages of learning - if you haven’t here’s a precis from Wikkipedia:

   1. Unconscious Incompetence : The individual neither understands nor knows how to do something, nor recognizes the deficit, nor has a desire to address it. (We don’t know what we don’t know).

   2. Conscious Incompetence : Though the individual does not understand or know how to do something, he or she does recognize the deficit, without yet addressing it. (We know we don’t know but we aren’t ready to address it yet).

   3. Conscious Competence : The individual understands or knows how to do something. However, demonstrating the skill or knowledge requires a great deal of consciousness or concentration. (You are beginning to be able to do it but it is not yet easy).

   4. Unconscious Competence : The individual has had so much practice with a skill that it becomes “second nature” and can be performed easily (often without concentrating too deeply). He or she may or may not be able teach it to others, depending upon how and when it was learned. (It is now easy and maybe you can even teach others).

I invite you to think about anything you have learnt in your life you will see you went through each of these stages. For example remember learning to drive: At first you thought once you turned 17 it would be easy – jump in, release the brake and go. You didn’t know what you didn’t know.

Then you turned 17 and tried to do just that – you then realised that it took a little more skill than you expected. You then knew that you didn’t know how to drive and started to think about how you would learn.

Next you started to learn how to do it. Put the keys in the ignition, look in the mirror, take off the clutch….. it was hard work until finally it became such second nature that these days you sometimes wonder how you got home – Right?

(If you don’t drive I am sure you can relate this model to something else you once had no idea how to do but now do with ease.)

So this is all very well if (a) you want to learn that skill and (b) you feel reasonably confident about being able to learn it.

But what happens when you are stressed or have a history of difficulty learning something new – or just plain old hate new things?

Read the rest of this entry »

I am so pleased – my e-book is finally done! This month’s Resolve article is lesson five from it. I hope you enjoy it!

Learn How to Play the Marketing Game – Lesson Five
by Gay Landeta

The big problem many people find with getting their work out there is that there are so many ways to do it. What works? What doesn’t?

Do you know what results you are getting from each strategy you are doing, or even more importantly, why you are undertaking that particular strategy?

Yes, I know–to get more clients, but how will it get you more clients; what role does that actual strategy play in your big picture? And are you sure you are gaining every bit of effectiveness out of that strategy? And how much fun do you have while doing it? Is it just another job on the to-do list?

Robert Middleton, my marketing mentor and coaching trainer, talks of the similarity between playing baseball and marketing.

Hmmm, you might say, but think about it. A game of baseball consists of a bunch of people on a playing field throwing a ball, hitting that ball, catching that ball and running around. Now if you try to take all those people and get them to do that without understanding the game or knowing the rules, mayhem will result.

But if you tell them what the rules are and train them, you can develop a winning team. Read the rest of this entry »

June 25th, 2010

Anyone feeling the intensity of the energy around at present? The lunar eclipse takes place tomorrow, I just got got a newsletter from Linda Hill about it and I thought I would share this paragraph – have a look at her website for more www.sabiansymbols.com

……The tenor of this blog is a little more intense than my usual newsletters as this is a very intense and meaningful event. Wherever you are in the world, this eclipse is set to have some interesting, intense and profound energies flowing from it. This is because this full Moon is conjunct (smack on) Pluto, the planet of transformations, death, rebirth, sex, and a slew of other deep and meaningful things. Combining Pluto with the full Moon, plus being an eclipse and taking into account the Sabian Symbols points to this being a meaningful, and for many, a deeply transformational time. Some will instigate major changes in their lives, some will have the changes landing on them, sometimes unexpectedly. The trick with this eclipse is, even amongst the more challenging manifestations that emerge, is to take advantage of the life transforming, empowering and engaging energies of this extremely strong lunation. The effects of eclipses stretch on for months, and, if you experience a major event on any level; physically, mentally, spiritually or emotionally, effects can stretch on through the coming months and years. This is a time of crossroads, decisions and change…..

and just a quick plug if you are having trouble with your transformation the work I do can really help you to step into it.

Enjoy!

Gay

Your Weekly Booster – Find your Authentic Peace

This is the best remedy for the rush and chaos of the 21st century. Connecting up with your authentic self just brings such a feeling of peace and contentment.

Stop and sit. Breathe. Look around.

Recognise the support that we all can access by just being.

Whether this is the Universe, God or Guardian Angels; faith in our own ability to get things done or to think things through; trust that we always have and always will … be with whatever it is that sits at your core and helps you to know that it WILL be OK.

Sit with that and just breathe.

Enjoy!

Gay

Blue Star Meditation (from TK)

Imagine a small blue star in the middle of your brain. Gradually make it grow larger and larger until you are in the centre of a wheel of blue light. Feel your emotions, thoughts, organs and body be flooded with the blue light. Imagine that blue light becoming smaller until it is again a tiny blue spark in your head.

Enjoy the peace.

Gay

Cross Crawl Sit-ups from Brain Gym – for more information about Brain Gym have a look at www.braingym.org

Cross Crawl Sit-ups are one of my favourite crossing the midline movement because they take a good amount of focus to do them well. They also help keep your tummy trim – always a bonus after holidays! You may have done these at the gym, read carefully for little variances that turn it into a focusing movement.

You will need to lie down for this movement. There are different levels of difficulty with this – make sure you stay at each level until it feels really easy before you proceed onto the next. By feeling easy I mean you should be able to do the movement precisely and with ease and carry on a conversation. Your core is staying switched on. The aim of each level is to feel the connection between the opposite shoulder and hip through the movement. Your internal X. Don’t move to the next level until this feels very clear.

First level. Lie down with your knees bent. Put your hands towards your ears but don’t hold your head. Reach your right elbow towards your left knee and vice versa, lifting your upper body as needed. Once you can do this movement comfortably and hold your upper back and head off the ground with ease you are ready for the second level.

Now, start lifting the knees towards the elbows as the elbows are reaching for the knees. Once your elbows and knees are meeting comfortably you can move onto the next level.

When you are working at this level of integration you will start, still on your back, but with your lower legs lifted and parallel to the floor. As your knees and elbows touch and activate your internal X you will be doing a rhythmical bike movement. Make sure you can keep talking and that your core muscles (tummy muscles) are nice and tight (not bulging).

Once you are feeling nice and focused then you can get back to work! Or play!

Have fun!

June 6, 2010

I have been feeling impatient lately. I am in a time of perturbation (love that work for agitation!) in my work…. I am in the process of making changes and growing – like us all and, to be honest, I am now finding the waiting and patience bit required to allow the process of transformation really hard!

Yesterday I started thinking about snow. Partly as a grateful Queenslander that our sunny winter days rarely fall below the mid 20’s but also as an ex-Canuk remembering many types of snow. For example there is the crazy blizzard that you can’t go out in without a danger of dying, there is the slushy yucky stuff that just drags you down and there is the beautiful soft silent flakes that drift down.

Seems to me that being in a time of ideas is a little like being in a snowfall. And right now I am in the big soft quiet fall of snow, one that drifts down quietly. Beautiful to watch and even to be in but frustrating if you are trying to make a snowman! Get in too early in a fall of snow like that and you end up with a yucky muddy snowman. Wait and you can create one that lasts long into the spring melt.

So I need to just sit and allow those flakes to fall until they are deep enough to make my snowman. Holding that picture helps me to feel less frustrated and controlling and more quiet and open to change as it presents itself.

Enjoy your snowfalls!

Gay

LAUGH!

Yup, laughter is the great healer. What do you like to do that makes you really laugh….. maybe a movie or karaoke, trading silly jokes with a friend or perhaps playing in the park – with or without the kids – or something else? What gives you that natural belly laugh high?

For me Zoolander is one of my great all round fixers…. perfect for ‘one of those days’ or just because. = ) Figure out yours and make sure you do it!

Have fun!

Gay

by Gay Landeta

Some people love change, some hate it but most of us experience mixed feelings about it at some time or another.This is because there are so many factors involved in the actual process that is change, psychological being the most challenging for most of us.

Wikipedia says psychological topics include perception, cognition, attention, emotion, motivation, brain functioning, personality, behavior, and interpersonal relationships. Whew. When you think about it, it becomes fairly obvious that some or many of those areas will be challenged during the process of change.

Very often, once several of those areas are challenged we move into a ‘fight or flight’ reaction to life. Fight or flight means just that – it is a survival mechanism where once we would either fight the sabre tooth tiger or flee. It is useful in our system in short blasts – not so healthy long term.

Futurist Faith Popcorn suggests that during change, the fight or flight response activated by the philological challenges, result in “cocooning” (cutting our self off from all those around us to try to ignore what is happening) or through actively resisting change through negativity, destructive criticism, even sabotage.

Obviously these tactics are not congruent with a peaceful, harmonious and connected life!

In this article I am going to offer you a handful of tips that can take you out of the reactivity of fight or flight and into being pro-active.

Try them, see which work for you and add your own little helpers to the list. Then, when you notice yourself hiding away or becoming negative and obstructional you will have a few tactics up your sleeve! Read the rest of this entry »

May 27th, 2010

I just received my latest newsletter from Babula on the state of the planets – change, change change – here is a precis of what is about in the skies …..and to get your own newsletter or find out about any of Babula’s courses see www.newdawnastrology.com.au

“The time has come the walrus said……..

The planet action is really hotting up now, but I’m sure you’ve all noticed! Things are feeling pretty wired, wild and generally all over the place.

The next 2 weeks bring so much change, new energy, change, inspiration, change, new possibilities, change, excitement, change, upheaval and change, we can either spontaneously combust with the thrill of it all or freak out and have a nervous breakdown.

Below are the dates when these energies are exact, but remember, with slow moving planets, the influence is around for a week or two at each event. It’s always significant when slower moving planets change sign, change direction and/or meet each other in aspect. And we have all that happening Read the rest of this entry »