Lifestyle

Lifestyle creep is what we call it when your spending increases along with your discretionary income. You get a bonus, and with it a new Louis Vuitton bag. You get a raise, and start looking for new apartments. Lifestyle creep isn’t always creepy but it’s important to understand why it happens and how to manage it. At the end of the day, lifestyle creep isn’t a big deal as long as you’re crystal clear on your money mindset.

So many of us are seeking wellness tips to enhance our lives – wondering if we’re missing out on something we should be doing, or how to cut back on something we suspect we shouldn’t be doing. The types of wellness tips out there really depend on the agenda of the person providing them. Vitamin companies will focus on vitamins, vegans will focus on plants, bodybuilders will focus on exercise, you get the idea!

People who are drawn to the concept of wholeness for high achievers come to Umoya Institute because they know they’re smart, and capable, and already pretty successful, and they’re interested in mindset coaching to bring about an uplevel in one or more areas of their life – relationships, career, wellness, spiritual development, communication, you name it. What an uplevel means is just an improvement or increase in the level of skill or satisfaction in an area. And it’s inherently subjective – there is always more to learn, more to accomplish, more to grow and expand.

Journaling is one of those things that works so well when it’s done consistently, and so few people actually do it. This happens for lots of different reasons. But I’ve found most often with clients is one of two things happens when they sit down to write. Either they’re afraid they will write something imperfect, or they have no idea what to write at all. I love free-writing and encourage it with clients all the time – it’s amazing what’s hiding in our brains – but sometimes we need more concrete tools and a bit of inspiration, so that’s what these journaling questions are for!

I used to think successful life coaches and thought leaders never dealt with ongoing stress and anxiety relief challenges. Why would they need to if their lives are perfect? (And how can someone possibly be a life coach or contribute anything meaningful in the space before they have attained a perfect life?). Now that I’ve been in this space for years, I can confirm that a lot of us do have a secret weapon, sort of.

Looking for inspiration for your reading list? Or if you’re like … what reading list? But maybe you want to start reading more in the new year, and have no idea where to begin. There are literally hundreds of millions of books out there. 129,864,880 according to the Google search I just did. And that apparently doesn’t include any self-published titles or anything more recent than the early 2000’s. Anyway, there are a lot of books. And if you’re like me, you have interests across a wide range of topics. So I wanted to share a random sampling of books I’ve read (sometimes more than once) that you might also enjoy!