From Out of Their Eyes

Submitted by thekenshow on Thu, 2008-03-13 15:13.

(Things Behind the Sun, Part IV)

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If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

– Jim Rohn

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Fate Amenable to Change, Mike Williams Relationship is one of the reasons coaching can be so effective. The International Coaching Federation (ICF) has a list of 11 core competencies for a coach, and #4 is establishing trust and intimacy with the client. In describing this competency, they state that the coach “champions new behaviours and actions, including those involving risk taking and fear of failure.” (Emphasis and Canadian spelling mine ;-).

We’re inclined to turn back at the threshold of significant change when there’s no social support for it. It’s tricky to believe we can succeed and to make the necessary commitment without encouragement. In a sense, it’s unrealistic to expect a universal cheering section in our current network of family, friends and society. If everyone rallies behind your new direction, ask yourself whether it’s really new.

A coach expands the options of your social system by advocating new behaviours and actions. Possibilities are reflected back to you, not only brick walls. A little soil appears where there was only rock. Hope and belief are like water – it doesn’t take a lot, just a steady trickle over time can wear down seemingly insurmountable obstacles.

Tomorrow: Open Wide the Hymns you Hide


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OK, first up I am NOT going

Submitted by thekenshow on Sun, 2008-03-16 20:53.
OK, first up I am NOT going to ask what you are or aren't wearing. Wink Second, where do you find Shugo Chara - it sounds amazing!
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Right after reading this,

Submitted by mrG on Thu, 2008-03-13 16:31.
Right after reading this, the next blog in my aggregator was from Different Waters, and I don't know why, but in the name of coaching and jumping into new and different ways and means, I just felt compelled to share it:
i think it makes me a hippie to love Sandy Bull and you know what I am 1. not ashamed and 2. proud. no not the lazy and smelly part, but the peace, man, and the love and the drugs and the nudity. it is super fun to be naked in public. i suggest you try it if you haven't. maybe later today? how about right now? your co-workers will just think it's cute. trust me. [ re-ups and new up ]

In a more practical sense, the kids and us have become quite addicted to the anime Shugo Chara where there are these floating beings that follow the principal characters, guiding and coaxing them with phrases like "Do you like the 'you' who feels this way?" and "Does this move you closer to your would-be self?" -- say what?? in a kids cartoon show?? a far cry from what they serve up on YTV!

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