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www.ComposeYourLife.ca
DECEMBER 2009 NEWSLETTER, op.1 #1
Welcome to the most recent addition to our offerings at Compose Your Life!
We are thrilled to send you the very first edition of our freshly-minted newsletter, just in time to herald the arrival of the holiday season. Due to popular demand (as “they” say!) this will be a monthly feature, offered in an attempt to connect our ever-growing coaching community. We hope that you will be gifted with inspiration and a sense of new possibilities, and that each of our readers may experience an increased measure of clarity, fulfillment and joy throughout the holiday season. Please feel free to pass this ezine along to any friends and acquaintances who may find it of interest and/or service.
CONTENTS:
1) 5 Steps in Walking along your Unique Path in Joy
2) Statistics on Goal Completion
3) New Year’s Resolutions: How to Get Your Year in Gear
4) Inspirational Quotes
5) Links for Lightening Up during the Holiday Season
5 STEPS IN WALKING ALONG YOUR UNIQUE PATH IN JOY
As we cross the threshold into the winter season and feel the cold nipping at our fingers and toes, there is no doubt that change is taking its natural course. It is the time of year when we begin to journey inward, observing where we are currently and imagining what we would like to create and transform, both in and around ourselves. Sometimes we are unsure of the details of our dreams, and we don't know how to flesh out the yearnings of our hearts and souls, bodies and minds. And yet it is also the season where the light shines most brightly in the dark, and where we can seek and find joy along our daily path.
1) Begin by taking a deep calming breath and focusing on the present moment. Breath awareness is the foundation of all meditative practices. As we create an intention to be fully present to what is, and not merely to what we are thinking about, we are enabled to reconnect with our deep inner knowing and resourcefulness.
2) Cultivate a non-judgmental attitude - simply witness distracting thoughts without identifying with them, and let them go without judging them. Develop an attitude of acceptance toward whatever happens in this process: there is no need to judge or focus on what’s right or wrong.
3) Nurture a beginner's mind – know that you do not know, and be open to brand-new discoveries.
4) Ask yourself what is truly important in this season of your life. "Good questions--ones that we care about and that we want to answer—call us outward and to each other. They are an invitation to explore, to venture out, to risk, to listen, to abandon our positions. Good questions help us become both curious and uncertain, which is always the road that opens us to the surprise of new insight." Margaret Wheatley
5) Connect with a supportive community. Create circles of support and celebration, and be conscious of the effects of the energy of all those you spend time with. Choose whenever possible to spend time with people with whom you feel good and whose positive vibrations are contagious!
Statistics from the American Society for Training and Development show that the likelihood of a person completing a goal breaks down as follows:
Hear an idea - 10%
Consciously decide to adopt an idea - 25%
Decide when they will do it - 40%
Plan how they will do it - 50%
Commit to someone else that they'll do it - 65%
And when they have a specific accountability appointment with the person they have committed to - 95% actually complete the goal
GET YOUR YEAR IN GEAR
How much is it worth it to you to actually accomplish your New Year’s Resolutions??
Need helping planning a FRUITFUL next year?
Can you afford NOT to improve your life?
IMAGINE . . .
if you had the inspiration and support to review and focus your vision, create a plan with manageable action steps and actually implement them within a realistic timeline?
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You can spend your life just wishing for success … OR you can arrange for the kind of support you or someone you know needs to actually get a life in gear!
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INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES:
"A year from now you may wish you had started today."
Karen Lam
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.”
Mark Twain
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“When we walk to the edge
of all the light we have and take the step
in the darkness of the unknown,
we must believe one of two things must happen—
there will be something solid for us to stand on
or we will be taught to fly.” Patrick Overton
"If we don't change, we don't grow.
If we don't grow, we are not really living.
Growth demands a temporary surrender of security." Gail Sheehy
“What you get by achieving your goals is as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” Henry David Thoreau
“This is the true joy of life. The being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one. The being a force of nature instead of a feverish and selfish clod of ailments and grieving senses complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and that as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die. For the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got to hold up for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.”
George Bernard Shaw
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