When you need some building work done you employ a builder because you know they can do the job, when you are ill you go to the GP because you know they should be able to help.  When you want a holiday or a car you go to the experts to help you make a decision.  When life or work is not going to plan don’t resign yourself to the situation, call our experts at Mpowerme and see what we can do for you.

‘By just changing your thoughts you can transform your life!’

What do you want to change?

Positively Coffee
Positively Coffee was launched in early 2008.  After experimenting with venues and meeting times Positively Coffee is now moving to a more regular time of the 2nd Monday of every month at 7pm for a 7.30 start, ending at 9.30pm with coffee available till 10pm.

The next meeting is on the 14th July, but for full details of our new programme of topics and dates for 2008/09, please click here.

Of Two Minds…
Want to stretch your mind a little, how about a little quantum theory? Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor had an opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: one morning, she realized she was having a massive stroke.

As it happened, as she felt her brain functions slip away one by one, speech, movement, understanding, she studied and remembered every moment. Her explanation about how our brains define us and connect us to the world and to one another is amazing.
Follow this link to find out more.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyyjU8fzEYU&eurl=http

Mpowerme Articles
The pen is mightier than the sword
Edward Bulwer-Lytton

We’ve been busy this month on the articles trail, watch our blog for future articles but for the meantime just log on to www.babyhampshire.co.uk/content/view/259/47/ and read an interesting article titled ‘Being your best – today’

Self Development

Mind Body Spirit
In May I visited the Mind Body Spirit festival for a couple of days.  I went to some great workshops and saw Sonia Choquette, Steve Taylor and Jason McDonald.  There was lots of meditating and I had some shiatsu on my very painful back, it was very helpful.

I met lots of new and very interesting people and it was great to have some time out to focus on me. This in turn means I grow more and have more to pass on to my clients.I was so inspired by the workshops that I went to the library and book shop and got some of the books to read, and here are some which I would heartedly recommend.

If you would like to find out about time and why some days it flies by and other times it seem to drag, have a read of the research conducted by Steven Taylor read: Making Time: Why Time Seems to Pass at Different Speeds and How to Control It.

If you are interested in spirituality you will really like Sonia’s books.  Here is just one from a range she has written.  Her four hour workshop was fantastic and her books have the same enthusiasm as her workshop did. Your Heart’s Desire: Using the Laws of Manifestation to Create the Life You Want (Paperback).

Stress Management Seminar
In early June I attended a Stress Management Seminar at Solent University to present a workshop. Click here to read more about my interesting and (and very informative) day out.

A ‘Magical’ Testimonial
You may be interested to read what Glenn Neckles, a professional magician has to say:

‘A few years ago I attended a team training course facilitated by Janet Ashfield. The course provided some very interesting strategies for team and personal development. It was the personal development elements of the course that caught my imagination and I arranged a private consultation with Janet that proved to be truly life changing.’

Click here to read the full testimonial.

Imagine

Imagine choosing what thoughts you carry in your head.
Imagine removing the burden of all the pressures you carry on your shoulders.
Imagine knowing yourself and being able to trust in yourself.
Imagine having good health and the energy you need.
Imagine this being achievable.
Imagine waking up to a new and bright day every day.
Imagine putting this in action today.

call Mpowerme now!

That’s all for our Summer newsletter, we hope you enjoyed it.  If you have any feedback you would like to give us, please do, or if you have any ideas you would like to see explored in the next issue (later this year) just drop us a line. In the meantime, have a great summer and remember

‘Once you free yourself from your limiting thoughts
you have the freedom to live your dreams’

Best wishes,

Janet Ashfield
Mpowerme

Here’s what Mpowerme is up to over the next few months;

Positvely Coffee
Positively Coffee was set up in January by popular request received from clients and colleagues who wanted somewhere to go to be positive. Somewhere they could remind themselves that ‘we really are in control of our destiny’ and to find a few more tools for the journey.

Click here to read more about the first Positively Coffee meeting.

If you would like more information on any of the above events, please visit the Positvely Coffee page on this blog. If you wish to attend, please book in advance.

Women’s Networking and Peer Learning
Have you heard about The Women’s Networking Company – Connecting Women in Business?

The Women’s Networking Company have numerous network and premier business groups across the South. I am pleased to say that I am hosting the new Petersfield Premier group.

Click here for more details.

Business Link Peer Learning Group
Business Link is a nationwide self-help organisation offering action-focused information for small and medium businesses.

On the 30th April I will be doing a presentation to the Peer Group ‘Your business, your stress, top tips for survival’ at Sparsholt College Winchester.

If you are a small business and have not joined the Peer Group, do take a look at the Business link web site and see more about the benefits of networking, meeting like minded people, getting your company known and hopefully learning along the way too. Like to know more?

Tell Me About It…
We live in a society now where people are always busy, where it often feels that no one has time for us.  Work, children, education, and careers -  the list is endless, lots of things that always seem to come before we look after our own needs.

You may be struggling and cannot talk to work colleagues, your partner may too be stressed out so you don’t burden them, or perhaps you have no partner.  You may want to change a relationship, have a relationship, change career or start up a business but you have no idea where to start.

A good place to start is with a coaching session.

Sit down with someone who is going to focus on you 100%, you don’t have to worry about anything else but you – now how often do you get this luxury? – pure ‘me time’, you are worth it,  live life to the full.  Make that call to Mpowerme now 023 8061 8388.

‘When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.’
Paulo Coelho
Contact Janet to book a coaching session

It’s Springtime – Spring Clean

We live in a materialistic society, we are always looking for the next thing we need. 

Our cars, worth potentially thousands, sit on the drive whilst the garage is full of junk that we don’t want to get rid of in case we need it one day.

Our wardrobes are over flowing with clothes that we can no longer even get in to but one day we might (and if we do we will probably find out they are not even in fashion anymore)!

Our kitchens are full of gadgets we will never use.

We have mobile phones and BlackBerry’s, we are now contactable 24/7, never a moment to ourselves.  We have Ipods or MP3’s, various play stations, DVD’s, widescreen TV’s, the cinema experience in the home, all of which we use to block out the world that engulfs us.

We stack up the post on the kitchen work top, always dealing with it another day, we write lists of things to do and lose them; we can never find the MOT certificate, home insurance documents or letter for the school trip when needed – sound familiar?

How can we change things for the better?
Have a spring clean, have a clear out.  Bag up your clothes that don’t fit and send them off to the charity shop.  Do not fall into the trap of bagging them up and putting them in the attic, (which is probably overflowing with stuff you might need one day!)

Sort out those files for the household paperwork and use them!

Be good to yourself – let it go.  Enjoy the quality of being able to find things.  It truly will be a weight off both your mind and your shoulders, it really is therapy!

Fancy a spring clean- read more 

Rocking Year
We hope you enjoyed our first Mpowerme Newsletter.  If you have any feedback you would like to give us, please do, or if you have any ideas you would like to see explored in the next issue (later this year) just drop us a line.

In the meantime, enjoy the sunny weather and think about making 2008 a rocking good year for you too by contacting Mpowerme. Even independent people can struggle alone, dependant people can drain others and never take any responsibility, interdependent people believe that they can have a great life, they seek out those that can benefit them and work together to ensure they live life to the full.  Can Mpowerme benefit you?

Best wishes,

Janet Ashfield
Mpowerme