Filed under: Gratitude, Inspiration, Mindful Living, Personal Connections, Simplify
With this day and age of excess, I love the following list of ideas to teach our children how to simplify … just follow the link here.
http://www.onlineorganizing.com/NewslettersArticle.asp?newsletter=go&article=794
I have long encouraged people to give my children “experience” gifts rather than more things and it surprises me how difficult that seems to be for people. It is almost as if they don’t think it is a true gift unless there is something they can unwrap, play with for approximately 3 days and then discard in the tub with all the other things. Of course, there is the chance that a few months from now they will rediscover it and play with it for a few more days I love the idea of having the memories of fun times with people we love rather than another piece of plastic to eventually end up in a landfill.
My hope is that, with a little direction, the experience gifts are ones my children will request on their own as time goes on. I can picture them sitting and thinking about how much fun it will be to go to the “paint your own pottery” place with Aunt Angie and then reliving it each time they look at that clay spider they picked out. Sure it leaves them with bringing another “thing” home however this one has a personal connection tied to it. Personal connections make our lives much richer, fill us with gratitude and inspire us to keep others close to our hearts.
There is a super cool organizing website called www.onlineorganizing.com that I recently became familiar with. I may be partial because they just recently had their “Simplify Your Life Week”, which had nothing to do with my business name however still enjoy the reference. They have advice, they have organizer locators, they have organizing products, etc, etc. It is a wealth on information to get your own thoughts rolling or to find someone who can come and help you through the process.
So take a look for inspiration, figure out what you need to focus on and then get ahold of me to be your life coach and keep you moving forward! 
A woman who I have turned to many times to boost my inspiration is SARK. Check out her website at www.planetsark.com and you will find some really wonderful words and visuals. Her ideas are simple and fun and definitely outside of the box thinking.
Imagine a world where everyone recognized and appreciated the fact that we have a choice in our lives. We have the choice to be happy today or to be unhappy today. We have the choice to create actions toward what we want in our lives or stay in our comfortable place that doesn’t bring what we want into our lives. It happens with marriages, careers, lifestyles, friendships, etc., etc.
Here is to a movement of the power of personal choice and the empowerment that it offers each of us. I imagine it would create quite a happy place for all of us to live in. Being mindful of the life we are living each day.
Filed under: Confidence, Gratitude, Life, Life Coach, Mindful Living, Uncategorized
Hello! So the first of my 12 supervised coaching sessions happened this past Wednesday and I am happy to report that it is a delightful experience. It is a close-knit, safe and wonderful place to grow and develop our coaching skills and techniques. What better way to become for confident with my new chosen profession!
We coach someone in 6 of them and my first was this past week. It went well and, of course, received great feedback. Our group decided to coach each other so I will have the opportunity to be coached as well. An invaluable way to sort through issues that I need to become more clear on myself. The power of coaching is one that has to be experience to truly appreciate. I am so grateful to have it in my life. I am really looking forward to the rest of the sessions.
Well, the time has come for my supervised coaching class to begin in order to graduate in December 2008. I am excited about the whole process and the opportunity to grow as a coach. While I have been received really positive feedback from my clients, the chance to hear what ICF certified instructors will be the chance to take my skills from good to great! I welcome the challenge and am grateful for the chance to build my confidence.
I’ve contacted the 1st person I’ll be coaching during our session and am really looking forward to hearing back from her. While it isn’t possible to rehearse the session word for word, it is nice to have some idea of what the focus will be. Then, with the short time we have to coach the person, you can ponder possible powerful questions and get a feel for how things may proceed. It will be a relief to have the 1st session done and have the experience behind me. From there, I am certain I will feel more and more at ease with the future classes.
