Landscaping Your Life with Alison Smith

In this series of her podcast Alison is visiting the landscapes within the words you use when you're stuck and don't know what to do to help you find solutions and alternate perspectives currently hidden from view.

Today she's helping you get back on track when you feel like you're between a rock and a hard place.

You can buy Alison's book, Can't see the wood for the trees, from all online stockists.

You can find other means of keeping in touch with Alison here https://linktr.ee/landscapingyourlife

In today's episode Alison shares insight from her book Can't see the wood for the trees – landscaping your life to get back on track. Insight that uses the landscape within the words you're using when you're stuck to find metaphorical solutions to help you get back on track. Words and sayings such as:

• Stuck in a rut
• Can't see the wood for the trees (also see episode 1)
• Up the creek without a paddle (also see episode 6)
• Like a fish out of water (also see episode 7)
• Head in the sand
• Out on a limb (also see episode 10)
• Treading water (also see episode 11)
• Missed the tide (also see episode 5 for the Chasing the tide poem Alison mentions in this episode)

Can't see the wood for the trees – landscaping your life to get back on track, is available from all online stockists and also includes examples of many different ways you can use nature to help you get back on track (also covered in episode 17). See #landscapingyourlife on many social media sites.

You'll find PDF's with more hints and tips to help you when you're: Going round in circles; Stuck in a rut; or Can't see the wood for the trees on Alison's website https://www.alisonsmith.co/

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The aim of the Landscaping Your Life podcast is to share and demonstrate tools, even if they're a little unconventional, that help you uncover what you're missing about a situation you're grappling with. To see the situation from a different perspective, to uncover what's hidden, and understand there are many more options or opportunities than you might originally have thought. Do let us know, therefore, the difference that made the difference in today's episode.

In today's episode Alison shares insight from her book Can't see the wood for the trees – landscaping your life to get back on track. Insight that uses the landscape within the words you're using when you're stuck to find metaphorical solutions to help you get back on track. Words and sayings such as:

• Stuck in a rut
• Can't see the wood for the trees (also see episode 1)
• Up the creek without a paddle (also see episode 6)
• Like a fish out of water (also see episode 7)
• Head in the sand
• Out on a limb (also see episode 10)
• Treading water (also see episode 11)
• Missed the tide (also see episode 5 for the Chasing the tide poem Alison mentions in this episode)

Can't see the wood for the trees – landscaping your life to get back on track, is available from all online stockists and also includes examples of many different ways you can use nature to help you get back on track (also covered in episode 17). See #landscapingyourlife on many social media sites.

You'll find PDF's with more hints and tips to help you when you're: Going round in circles; Stuck in a rut; or Can't see the wood for the trees on Alison's website https://www.alisonsmith.co/

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The aim of the Landscaping Your Life podcast is to share and demonstrate tools, even if they're a little unconventional, that help you uncover what you're missing about a situation you're grappling with. To see the situation from a different perspective, to uncover what's hidden, and understand there are many more options or opportunities than you might originally have thought. Do let us know, therefore, the difference that made the difference in today's episode.

What do you need to let go of – or perhaps you need to turn over a new leaf – or be a little colder with someone? All potential insights from patterns in nature during autumn.

As always, it's certainly preferable to think of a situation you'd like more insight on to have at the back of your mind as you listen to Alison sharing hints, tips and tools about how to see situations from different perspectives. Otherwise, it's a little theoretical and doesn't give you an experience of how transformative these tools can be.

You'll find Alison's turn over a new leaf vlog here https://youtu.be/zT4Fz-f_xJU and turn a corner vlog here https://youtu.be/LJuIREwG2NY

If you're wanting to release old habits then two posts that might also help are:

• Do something different every day for 28 days - https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-im-doing-something-different-every-day-28-days-think-alison-smith/
• Disrupting habitual thinking https://www.alisonsmith.co/disrupting-habitual-thinking/

You'll hear Alison talk more about getting out of a rut in episode 3, and examples of going for a Landscaping Your Life walk in nature can be found in episodes 2, 13, 15, & 16.

Alison's book, Can't see the wood for the trees – landscaping your life to get back on track, is available from all online stockists and also includes examples of many different ways you can use nature to help you get back on track. See #landscapingyourlife on many social media sites.

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The aim of the Landscaping Your Life podcast is to share and demonstrate tools, even if they're a little unconventional, that help you uncover what you're missing about a situation you're grappling with. To see the situation from a different perspective, to uncover what's hidden, and understand there are many more options or opportunities than you might originally have thought. Do let us know, therefore, the difference that made the difference in today's episode.

Talking about this episode Alison said "I could have pushed on, I could have waffled and said something, and yet the words wouldn't form.

A great reminder, like in episode 16 when I was headed for that crossroads, that impatience and the ought/must/should/need to make progress is not always our best friend.

Today I am honouring the fact that nothing came, no great idea, no fabulous insight. Just an invitation to sit with the doing nothing and that be ok.

After all, a seed knows when it's the right time to take action and not a minute sooner."

If you've discovered this episode today, therefore, how might doing nothing be the perfect antidote – knowing the time to make a decision is not in this moment now, to have patience knowing decisions and action are instead needed at some future date. There's certainly 17 other episodes packed with ideas to help if you're stuck and do want to make a decision or take action (just best to avoid episode 9 that also touches on doing nothing.)

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You can of course just go for a walk in nature and find that when you return that the situation you're grappling with feels different. As Alison shares in today's episode there are, however, numerous other ways you can proactively invite nature to be your coach to help you get insight about challenges or problems to help you get back on track.

As always, it's certainly preferable to think of a situation you'd like more insight on to have at the back of your mind as you listen to Alison sharing hints, tips and tools about how to see situations from different perspectives. Otherwise, it's a little theoretical and doesn't give you an experience of how transformative these tools can be.

There's an example of a Landscaping Your Life walk in this post https://www.alisonsmith.co/how-to-find-some-get-up-and-go/ and other demonstrations of LYL walks in episodes 15, 16, 13, and 2.

There was also a section in each of the first 12 episodes where Alison demonstrates how to mine the landscape hidden in your language when you're stuck – such as when you're stuck in a rut, going round in circles, are treading water, out on limb, backed into a corner, up the creek without a paddle and so on.

To help you find the episode that will help you most today do see the description for each episode as that provides more about what's covered.

Alison's book, Can't see the wood for the trees – landscaping your life to get back on track, is available from all online stockists and also includes examples of many different ways you can use nature to help you get back on track. See #landscapingyourlife on many social media sites.

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The aim of the Landscaping Your Life podcast is to share and demonstrate tools, even if they're a little unconventional, that help you uncover what you're missing about a situation you're grappling with. To see the situation from a different perspective, to uncover what's hidden, and understand there are many more options or opportunities than you might originally have thought. Do let us know, therefore, the difference that made the difference in today's episode.

Take a situation you're struggling to know what to do next on a walk with Alison as she uses her poem 'paths & destinations' as a means of finding different perspectives from which to view the current situation.

The aim of the Landscaping Your Life podcast is to share and demonstrate tools, even if they're a little unconventional, that help you uncover what you're missing about a situation you're grappling with. To see the situation from a different perspective, to uncover what's hidden, and understand there are many more options or opportunities than you might originally have thought.

You'll find the words of the poem Paths & Destinations here https://www.alisonsmith.co/paths-and-destinations/. Alison also shares a little more about what the poem means to her in episode 3.

You'll find out more about how Alison uses poetry in her work to help you get back on track here https://www.alisonsmith.co/poetry/

There's another example of a Landscaping Your Life walk in this post https://www.alisonsmith.co/how-to-find-some-get-up-and-go/ and other demonstrations of LYL walks in the podcast with Alison in episode 15, Susan in episode 13, with Amy in episode 2.

Alison's book, Can't see the wood for the trees – landscaping your life to get back on track, is available from all online stockists and also includes examples of many different walks people have taken to gain insight for their life. See #landscapingyourlife on many social media sites.

Coaching sessions with Alison by way of a landscaping your life walk are available 1:1 or in small groups, virtually or face to face, see www.alisonsmith.co for more.

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Today's episode demonstrates using nature as a source for insight in a couple of very different ways both accessed whilst travelling through nature's landscapes as Alison travels south from Fife, Scotland to Staffordshire, England. You may get insight from Alison's own insights or simply be inspired to take a journey for yourself through a familiar or unfamiliar landscape.

The aim of the podcasts is to share and demonstrate tools, even if they're a little unconventional, that help you uncover what you're missing about a situation you're grappling with. To see the situation from a different perspective, to uncover what's hidden, and understand there are many more options or opportunities than you might originally have thought.

There's another example of a Landscaping Your Life walk in this post https://www.alisonsmith.co/how-to-find-some-get-up-and-go/ and other demonstrations of LYL walks in the podcast with Susan in episode 13, and with Amy in episode 2.

Alison's book, Can't see the wood for the trees – landscaping your life to get back on track, is available from all online stockists and also includes examples of many different walks people have taken to gain insight for their life. See #landscapingyourlife on many social media sites.

Coaching sessions with Alison by way of a landscaping your life walk are available 1:1 or in small groups, virtually or face to face, see www.alisonsmith.co for more.

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Do leave feedback about what you're enjoying, would like to see more of, or would like Alison to demonstrate / answer in a future episode.

Continuing the theme of demonstrating the tools in the LANDSCAPE coaching toolkit today's episode follows Alison as she uses the Framework for change coaching process to help obtain insight about a situation she was mulling about – ie marketing her business. Insight that can also be applied to any situation you'd like more clarity about.

More about the Frameworks for change coaching process, cards and insights chosen in this episode: https://www.alisonsmith.co/are-you-setback-by-separation/

More about the Transformation Game: https://www.alisonsmith.co/are-you-ready-for-personal-transformation/

The poem mentioned that markets the work Alison does is called 'From not knowing to knowing what to do' https://www.alisonsmith.co/from-not-knowing-to-knowing-what-to-to/

Cards and Games is one element (C) of the LANDSCAPE coaching and problem-solving toolkit helping you to see situations from different perspectives. You'll find out more about the toolkit here https://www.alisonsmith.co/the-landscape-toolkit/

You'll also find out more about her book Can't see the wood for the trees available from all online stockists along with many other of the idioms used in this podcast.

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The process, the insight, setback and mentor cards used here are from Frameworks for Change © Innerlinks - www.innerlinks.com.

Today's episode follows Alison's commitment to do something different every day for 28 days and encompasses the three elements she's shared in previous episodes and yet doing it differently. Instead today's episode is a recording of a Landscaping Your Life walk with Susan who is at a crossroads on her life. The episode shares Susan's exploration of the patterns she notices as they walk in nature helping her to see the situation from a different perspective and to understand what to do next.

See #DoSomethingDifferentEveryday on social media channels or this blog post for more about the challenge https://www.alisonsmith.co/do-something-different-every-day-2/. It's also the first subject of episode 1 of the podcast.

There's another Landscaping Your Life walk in this post https://www.alisonsmith.co/how-to-find-some-get-up-and-go/ and another demonstration of a LYL walk with Amy can be found in episode 2 of the podcast.

There's a demonstration of turning a corner in this vlog https://youtu.be/LJuIREwG2NY which is also discussed in episode 3 of the podcast.

You'll find out more about the paths & destinations poem mentioned here https://www.alisonsmith.co/paths-and-destinations/ and in episode 3 of the podcast.

Can't see the wood for the trees – landscaping your life to get back on track is available from all online stockists and includes many of the tools, techniques and idioms covered in the podcast and via #LandscapingYourLife

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