Category Archives: General
Perspective on What to Do Next
ANN PATCHETT QUOTES FROM “WHAT NOW?”
Another perspective on what to do next.
“What now” is based on Ann’s lauded commencement address at Sarah Lawrence College.
“It was for me the start of a lesson that I never stop having to learn: to pay attention to the things I’ll probably never need to know, to listen carefully to the people who look as if they have nothing to teach me, to see school as something that goes on everywhere, all the time, not just in libraries but in parking lots, in airports, in trees.”
6 Steps to Holiday Sanity by Martha Beck
AN OLDY, BUT GOODY FROM MARTHA BECK, MY Mentor and Life Coach Extroidinaire.
Are you looking forward to the season ahead with shivers of anticipation? Or just shivers? Martha Beck can save you untold aggravation, angst, time and money by persuading you not to do the things you don’t want to do.
List Your Holiday Traditions
Take a few minutes to write down every holiday custom you feel you should follow. Start with family patterns, but don’t end there. Offices and friendships have their own traditions.
Happy Holidays! Spend a little, Give a lot.
HAPPY HOLIDAYS PEOPLE. How to Spend a Little and Give a Lot – Small Donations Twenty bucks buys movie tickets or a weekend’s worth of lattes. But you can do a world of good – from feeding an endangered animal to educating a child – for even less. Oprah.com | From the December 2011 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine
$1 Two books shipped to a classroom in Africa. In many schoolrooms on the continent, 20 children share one textbook.
booksforafrica.org
$2 A set of drumsticks for a low-income public school student learning to play the drums.
littlekidsrock.org
Dysfunctional Family Bingo
COACHING TIP OF THE MONTH
Going to a reunion, wedding, or a long road trip and NOT looking forward to the journey and/or event? Here’s a great tool to try that will help release tension, expand your paradigm, and put a different spin on the experience.
It is called Dysfunctional Family/Event Bingo and was originally designed by best selling self-help author, Martha Beck.
How to play? A few weeks before the journey or event, find one or two other players, such as a few of your best friends, and set a wager that the losers must buy the winner lunch (for example). Adding the element of competition to this can make it even more hilarious.
Martha Beck’s Latest Wisdom
Bright Spots
Insight from Martha Beck
I’m all blissed out because I just returned from this year’s African STAR (Self-Transformation Adventure Retreat) at the Londolozi Game Reserve. It’s impossible to describe the joy and enchantment of coaching incredible people at a place devoted to “Restoring Eden.”
Story of the Day
| Waiting for Signs | ||
| I used to wait for a sign, she said, before I did anything. Then one night I had a dream & an angel in black tights came to me & said, you can start any time now, & then I asked is this a sign? & the angel started laughing & I woke up. Now, I think the whole world is filled with signs, but if there’s no laughter, I know they’re not for me.
http://www.storypeople.com/storypeople/Home.do |
why self-improvement makes you neurotic. by DANIELLE LAPORTE
why self-improvement makes you neurotic
by DANIELLE LAPORTE of whitehot truth
http://whitehottruth.com/white-hot/why-self-improvement-makes-you-neurotic/
I’m about to make a major admission of error. I am hereby fessing up to a seriously flawed paradigm that has informed much of my adult life, and, (crap, sorry, apologies in advance,) too much of what I’ve espoused.
I’ve come to this revelatory humility through two important practices in my life: 1) getting ready to go on stage, 2) yoga.
“Our most precious gifts are often things we were shamed for as kids.”
What Does “Ground Truth” Look Like? By Nona Jordan, The Business Yogini. Seen at Jennifer Voss site: http://truthexperience.net/
I have always had a big mouth.
As a kid, in a dysfunctional family, I remember being hissed at by my grandmother (who I dearly loved) that I was the “town crier”, which was not a compliment. She wanted me to keep my mouth shut and stop telling people what was happening in my family (which was, in fact, imploding).
Never a Better Time to Be Alive
Why There’s Never Been a Better Time to be Alive: The Rational Optimist
By Matt Ridley Friday, April 01, 2011
A British scientist and author of the book, The Rational Optimist, makes the case that mankind’s progress has been vigorous, widely spread, and not just benefiting the privileged few.
Matt Ridley says, “Average citizens are becoming healthier, cleaner, smarter, kinder, happier, and more peaceful.” And he has the facts to back it up.
Read his essay right here!
FOR the past month, the news has been all bad – war, recession, riot, tsunami, earthquake, nuclear disaster, inflation, and budget cuts.