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"Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better,
you have to take things into your own hands." * * * * * 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, November 2007 Week One: Thinking vs. Acting "While scholars are comparing and contrasting theories, debating intellectual questions, and dividing humankind into categories, the world is changed by persons with faith, spirit, emotion, compassion, intuition, and irrational thinking." —Grey Owl This quote speaks to me of thinking versus acting from our hearts. When head and heart are disconnected, how good are your decisions? Leaving out the heart leaves out the most important part of the equation. So how do we ensure that we connect head and heart when making decisions? Here are some things that work for me: • Writing out all the things running around in my head.
Somehow this allows me to stop the mind from running wild and
give me space and time to consider what my heart might be saying. Here’s a great story from a Coach Approach reader that illustrates how the world is changed by personal with faith, emotion, compassion, intuition and irrational thinking:
* * * * * Week Two: Possibilities "Within us, possibilities are born in our hearts. We must feel them, become passionate and then move our mountains." —Grace Cirocco I love the sequencing in this quote: How do we begin the feel the possibilities born in our hearts? How do we open up to these possibilities? For me, it begins with love. A wise person told me that love and fear cannot exist at the same time, they cannot live together. Love opens my heart and gives me the courage to feel. Fear closes my heart and takes away my courage. With courage and an open heart, I begin to feel and slowly become. It’s not an overnight processes for me but a gentle awakening. As I become passionate and as this grows, the strength comes. The strength to move mountains! What are your mountains? It may seem impossible to move mountains but it is not. Throughout history humankind has continually moved mountains. In Canada and the US, the building of the railways are a good example of moving mountains, literally. What are your emotional mountains? Your spiritual mountains? Even mountains are changed by the constant trickle of a small stream. Open your heart today, even just a trickle and LOOK OUT MOUNTAINS!!!! * * * * * Week Three: Passion or Anxiety? "Passion wants to burst forth, to fly up and be noticed. It wants to express itself in creative ways. The enemy of passion is fear. Live life at full throttle." —Grace Cirocco I have been reading Take the Step and the Bridge Will Appear, by Grace Cirocco, and have fallen in love with her language and images. The quote above is a wonderful example. These words alone awaken passion in me. I connect with wanting to burst forth and fly up. Sometimes passions speak so loudly to me it is almost deafening! Sometime I just don’t know what to do with that strong surge of passion that wells up within me. Do you recognize times like this? Moments of glimpsing a world so beautiful it brings a tear of joy to your eye. Just as quickly it can all be replaced with fear. Another strong surge that can consume you: moments of great anxiety. I wish to stay with the passion, beauty and joy. I’m getting better at it. How about you? Are you getting better at it? Happy Thanksgiving to my American subscribers! Special thanks today to the 19 CoachApproach subscribers who contributed to the Uganada project. I was able to send four $250 loans to Uganda. Gail Fonnes was so excited to receive these funds that will help to put Uganda women in business and allow them to feed their families. Gail is gone to Uganda and will be bring home pictures for us to enjoy! Thank you for changing the world! "While scholars are comparing and contrasting theories, debating intellectual questions, and dividing humankind into categories, the world is changed by persons with faith, spirit, emotion, compassion, intuition, and irrational thinking." —Grey Owl * * * * * Week Four: Live Your Passion Norma Carr-Ruffino, Professor of Management, San Francisco State University shares her vision of the role of Creative Intelligence in her book, The Innovative Women, Creative Ways to Reach Your Potential in Business and Beyond. People use only about 10% of their brainpower Carr-Ruffino introduces three brains, seven intelligences as
a Creative Intelligence model to help you use more of your brainpower.
She states, most experts now believe it’s because of Western
culture’s love affair with the straight line that we use
so little our brainpower. She says we actually have three brains:
the neocortex connected with your thinking processes, the limbic
brain connected with your emotional processes, and the basic
pattern-parameter brain connected with your instinctual and routine
behaviour. These are related to your seven types of intelligence: She offers this interesting exercise in the Motivational Intelligence section: Identify your passion factor: Using the following scale she provides, rate the passion you feel about your life purpose and your current path. 10 = Hot, hot Then repeat the process for your long-term goals and your top three short-term goals. Repeat for your key activities on your current to-do list. How did you do? What changes do you need to make to ramp up your passion factor? Enchanted Millennium —Norma Carr-Ruffin * * * * * Want to get published? Share your stories? Please email me at stories@coachbenita.com and I will publish your stories! |
