La Rentrée: Plans and Promises
Elegant Alchemy
by Rima Nouri
2y ago
“Wishful thinking is in fact the first step: a desire. But just not enough to get into action, let alone into sustainable action. You need a plan and a promise.” It’s this time of the year again: La Rentrée! After the ritual of les vacances (read: France is closed, come back in September) follows the ritual of La Rentrée, France’s answer to January 1rst. People are rested, full of energy and yet glad to get back into their normal life. New perspectives open, new cycles start, new ideas wait to be realised, and plans are made how to make most of the last third of the year. But do you know tha ..read more
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The Art of Asking the Right Questions
Elegant Alchemy
by Rima Nouri
3y ago
Questions are a fascinating topic. A young child asks up to 300 questions a day (as every parent is well aware of :). As adults, we tend to value answers more than questions. But it is actually the questions that will move us forward! As a coach, mastering the art of asking the right questions will be a lifelong endeavour.  But do not think that the art of asking the right question is only something to concern geeky coaches :)! Asking the right questions will shape the course of your day, your week and ultimately your life! At the root of every great success was a great question. Wh ..read more
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5 Ways to Embrace Self-Confidence with the Help of Your Home
Elegant Alchemy
by Rima Nouri
3y ago
Today is March 8, International Women’s Day! As we globally celebrate the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women, let’s have a look at what it took all those women to bring us that far. It’s a safe bet that they all had to up their self-confidence! How often has a lack of self-confidence, or a feeling of inadequacy, stopped you from achieving or even starting something that could potentially have been awesome, something that could have been your contribution to making the world a better place, something that could have filled you with pride and joy? The good news: sel ..read more
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4 Ways to Boost your Energy with the Help of your Home
Elegant Alchemy
by Rima Nouri
3y ago
Winter is coming to an end, there is an unmistakable feeling of spring in the air, and in pre-Covid-times I would now have gushed about sitting in a café and enjoying people watching and the newest spring collections and activities in Paris … You too might feel that right now the only right place you long for is outside of the house. After a long winter, to say nothing of a l-o-o-o-n-g last year, most of us are sick and tired of our four walls. Yes, your home is ideally a place where the alchemy between you and your environment gives you the much needed calm, strength and inspiration to boost ..read more
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Accomplished! Get your unfinished business done, 4 weeks at a time
Elegant Alchemy
by Rima Nouri
3y ago
I first came across the power that unfinished things hold on us when I was working on clutter. Each time I mentioned to clients or students that unfinished things are the worst kind of clutter in my book and the effects that unfinished business has on people’s mind, psyche, success, relationship and finances, a collective groan was to be heard! Unfinished business comes with a hefty mental and emotional price tag, which is why I’m advocating to get it out of your life asap and for good. Topics covered in this episode: How to understand the difference between unfinished business and a project ..read more
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Making it Happen With Liz Warner
Elegant Alchemy
by Rima Nouri
3y ago
“I had no idea of what I was doing, I had no idea how to fundraise, I had no idea how to put together a campaign… I felt like I jumped off a cliff and I had no idea what I  was doing, but I think going forward, I’m actually less afraid of jumping off the cliff”. About two years ago a young woman set out to realize a slightly crazy highly unusual dream, and although she was tempted more than once to give up, she kept going, or rather running: Liz Warner is the founder of Run to Reach.  Her big dream: doing something that would make a difference to the world.  Her starting point ..read more
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An elegant Adieu to 2020 and a Welcome to 2021
Elegant Alchemy
by Rima Nouri
3y ago
What a year it has been! Many of you can’t probably wait to leave this year behind you without so much as a glance back, and who could blame you! However. If you want to have the best possible start into something new, you need to create a proper and clear space for that start, and that means clarity and closure on the old.  My invitation for you: today’s podcast, where I crafted 20 & 1 questions for you. They guide you through a review, a celebration (yes) and closure of the old year and to set the stage and get yourself elegantly on track for the new one! The more you organise your ..read more
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Stop Playing the Waiting Game
Elegant Alchemy
by Rima Nouri
3y ago
“The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today. You are arranging what is in Fortune’s control and abandoning what lies in yours.” Seneca Seneca wrote this about 2000 years ago, which proves that humans haven’t fundamentally changed ;). His is an elegant way to say: “Stop playing the waiting game!” What are we all waiting for? Currently the answer might be: “The end of Corona or at least Corona restrictions”, but this is just a smokescreen. We always seem to be waiting for something to happen, so that we can do what we really want to do. At least ..read more
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How to Thrive through Corona Restrictions
Elegant Alchemy
by Rima Nouri
3y ago
Are you feeling punished or frustrated by the increasingly tight Corona restrictions? When at the beginning of the year we all hoped that ‘this’ would be over soon, we now know better. If you feel that ‘thrive’ and ‘Corona restrictions’ don’t even belong into the same phrase, this episode is for you. Right now, here in France we are in a complete lock down again, meaning that you can’t as much as leave the house for grocery shopping without a certificate. But when the announcement that there would be a complete lock down finally came… the first thing that sprang to my mind was ‘What can I do ..read more
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7 signs that you have the right relationship with your home (making it easier to have the right relationship with yourself)
Elegant Alchemy
by Rima Nouri
3y ago
You’ve probably seen more of your home in 2020 than in the decade before. You also had and still have to make more of your home than ever before. You probably had to juggle around and add all kind of weird and wonderful functions to your home:  home office, classroom, playground, canteen, workout space (check out this wonderful video from the dancers of the Opéra de Paris), art studio… What you may have discovered You probably discovered things about your home that were less than desirable and that you weren’t aware of before and/or that you could previously avoid or simply didn’t notice ..read more
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