Coach Elliott

This sunny afternoon I taped my second test of my skills at sending my messages via a video.  I am trying to be spontaneous so todays message was "gratitude".  What I believe is that gratitude creates more prosperity in our lives, emotionally, spiritually and financially.  The less we are focused on having and the more we focus on being in gratitude for what we have, the more organically things will just come to us. I find that the less I worry about money the more money comes to me.  Almost without exception I have thought about money, released the thought and then hours or days later I receive money or an opportunity comes to me to make some income.  Since my early retirement I noticed that money became secondary and that I can actually live on a lot less money than what I made when I was working a job I did not love.  Today I worry less and less about money and as a result I always have enough. When we worry about something and allow it to fester it becomes all consumi

Karma: the sum of a person's actions in this and previous states of existence, viewed as deciding their fate in future existences.   This definition has been in a way transcribed in present day terms as what you do unto others will come back to you eventually.  Some use the phrase: "karma is a bitch" to refer to people who have wronged them and how they will pay the consequences because "what goes around comes around" (another catchy phrase to mean the same thing). However karma is explained it adds up to one basic premise and that is that we don't get away with doing bad things to other people and in fact we get it back much like a boomerang is designed to do.  If you believe that your behaviors towards others effects your life then you may never say or do anything wrong.  But let's face it, we are human and we get angry, jealous, spiteful and upset at others, resulting in actions we would not be proud of. I think that karma is real.  I also belie

Once again I am drawn to share something that is meaningful to me.  Something that I am in deep gratitude for and something I like to think I am well versed in: a beautiful meaningful home.  This time I want to share the emotional aspects of home and by sharing this I hope to inspire one person to create a space that means something to them and that resonates as a loving and connected space with energy that brings them in and embraces their spirit. When I first got my own apartment I had nothing, I was a full time college student who was basically broke.  At the time I was hitting one particularly great thrift store in Logan Square in Chicago.  I dressed as if I was rich in vintage clothing that was made of cashmere wool and fine cotton.  Each items I bought went to the cleaners before wearing and looked impeccable.  The Latino students at Northeastern University use to ask me where I bought my clothing and I never made up a story but kept the location of my favorite thrift a big sec

"Never believe what you say to yourself when you are in the dark". Elliott M. Collazo I was inspired to write this blog by my cousin Hada.  She inspires me for a variety of reasons but most of all for her courage. When we are in a place of darkness we will and do "talk some smack" about ourselves .  In fact, we are sometimes truly low down and say things to ourselves that were likely said to us as children.  I know because I have the t-shirt and it says: "you're not good enough". Now my life is different and I have a shirt that says: "No Regrets".  When we are in that place of self-destruction and pity we are in fact in the dark and it is best we not say anything to anyone including our own self.  Yet despite this reasonable and logical truth about us we often times are the very first to attack ourselves mercilessly. I love the saying that Dr. Phil uses: "How's that working for you?"   I have heard my favorite life coach

Often times I am guided to the next subject of my blog and have little to no idea why or what I am going to say.  Today what came up as soon as I opened up my page was "haters" and of all people Taylor Swift's song "Shake It Off".  In this song (don't quote me), she signs "the haters are going to hate, hate, hate, hate, but I'm just going to shake, shake, shake, shake it off".  I could of used a song with a message like this one when I was in high school, but this is not about me and so I will continue with the intention that each of you will hear something that you might understand and use about haters. Haters are people who are usually jealous of others.  Although we all have feelings of jealousy, haters have a higher level of dark feelings towards others that they either can or maybe cannot control without some guidance.  People who have hateful feelings are ones who feel inferior deep inside and feel as though by dissing others they will