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"You must go after your wish. As soon as you start
to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning." * * * * * This newsletter is sent to you byCoachBenita.. Copyright © 2007, Benita Stafford-Smith and CoachBenita. All rights reserved. Nothing in this newsletter may be reproduced or published without the written permission of the individual author and/or copyright owner. |
The Coach Approach, May 2007 Week One: Wonder Ever wonder how... All my life I’ve had a burning desire to get the passion inside of me, this excitement and wonder for life, out and expressed in a way that others can grab onto. I now realize there are many ways to do this, not just one. Most importantly I know it all begins with my being authentic. Here’s how: I gave a speech on reincarnation. I spent my precious ten minutes of podium time giving a historical overview of reincarnation, sharing “my great expertise” on the subject. Blah Blah Blah. In the end I only needed to have shared the following story: I felt a great connection to a male friend. This connection was so strong at times it really baffled me. Then I had this experience: I received a movie like picture of my friend, but he was female and was my wife. We had eight children and a brand new baby. My wife (he) was holding our new baby and I was observing the tenderness and love so apparent on her face. The feeling of love was so tangible I felt it could be touched. We were at home in a rough wooden house. Although the time period was not immediately apparent we were dressed in pioneer like clothing. * * * * * Week Two: Calling to Authenticity Authenticity: True to one's own personality, spirit, or character. How do you stay true to yourself? How do you create environments conducive to being authentic? What does it feel like in your heart when you are authentic? Things that make you go Hmmm! * * * * * Week Three: Setting the Gods to Dancing Wow! Can you image setting the gods to dancing? What could you/I possibly do that would set the gods to dancing? A reader shared this story: A saying that has always made me chuckle goes something along the lines of, "If you want to make God laugh, just state what you're going to do..." After a favourite house companion died, we decided to find an adult dog to join our family, so we could avoid all the time and aggravation of house-training a puppy. We finally found a little female terrier who was 18 months old. She had been kept back to improve the breeding program but a decision was made to keep her sister, instead. The breeders said she was house-trained and ready to go. Perfect! Only after we got her home did we find out that in fact, she didn't know how to communicate to us that she needed outside... However, she did know that she was supposed to do her business in the yard. There were countless "oopses" in her crate, a few little "incidents" in the house and endless trips in and out of the house with her. We tried many methods to train her to let us know. It took us far, far longer to catch on to her rhythms and subtle body anguage than it would have taken to house-train a puppy. In the end, we admitted that it would have been so much simpler to train a puppy from scratch. We dearly love our little dog who's taken so long to get us trained... Surely the Gods were dancing and laughing at our great plans gone awry! * * * * * Week Four: What are You Suffering? “We love the answers and suffer the questions. We worship the flower and ignore the soil. We covet the diamond and overlook the pressure it took to make it.” Gregg Levoy How can you honor the questions, soil and pressure in your life? “It is about taking up the pickax and digging, chipping away a bit at a time at our stony questions, or feeling our way like a bird that travels for thousands of miles guided only by instinct and the whisper of magnetism.” Gregg Levoy Many times in life I have felt like a bird traveling thousands of miles guided only by instinct and the whisper of magnetism. How about you? Visit Gregg Levoy’s website at www.gregglevoy.com * * * * * Week Five: Ever Wonder How to Rewrite the Story? Jean Houston, psychologist, shares this method for rewriting
your story. Lee Hillman states that the puzzle then becomes not “How did I get this way?” or “Why did this happen to me” but “What does my angel want with me?” We all know stories of people overcoming seemingly impossible obstacles. Winston Churchill was dyslexic and stuttered as a child. Ever wonder how life would be different if you rewrote your stories? * * * * * Want to get published? Share your stories? Please email me at stories@coachbenita.com and I will publish your stories! |
