Coaching Inspiration

Anyone else reading Ekhart Tolle’s A New Earth? So much of it is true, yet I can’t see how this is so life changing. Maybe I haven’t read enough!

The other day I watched with interest as Marianne Williamson spoke of her new book The Age of Miracles, Embracing The New Midlife. It really is true. Here I am in midlife and I feel so new. Last Friday night I performed for the first time in many years, and a friend who danced with me 30 years ago told me I looked and moved like a young girl. It’s (almost) all in the mind…..

Just back from an appearance on LifeCoach TV! It was a lot of fun and the half hour went by so fast! I really enjoyed live TV. I hope people watched it - a friend already E mailed me saying he watched and thought it went well.

Anticipating an event is so different from looking back on it. The rise in confidence that occurs after a new challenge is successfully accomplished will affect all areas of your life.

Take a chance tomorrow! See what happens.

February 23
Well, the flight took off exactly at 8:00 AM. No crowds. Arrived at JFK early. I was home by noon. But it was a bumpy ride. But once the turbulence ended, about 30 minutes into the flight, it was smooth as glass the rest of the way.  And we landed safely. Hmmm.

“We see things not as they are, but as we are” Anais Nin
On February 17, I walked out of Orlando International airport into the bright Florida sunshine, the gray cold of New York and its dreariness a world away. The dull chill of New York had done its number on my mind and I was stressed and tense. Today I walked out of JFK into an even colder New York, the gray now punctuated by patches of white snow (also rapidly tuning gray with soot and pollution.) But I am not stressed. I see that life changing possibilities are not in the sun and palm trees of south Florida (though they sure make a body feel good!) but are in our own minds. That’s part of The Secret.

February 22
Time: 3:00 PM. Place: Poolside at the Star Island Resort & Spa. Frozen Strawberry Daiquiri in one hand, The Secret in the other, my Dell on my lap. How can this stuff work? As a coach, I help people realize their dreams. But this stuff seems almost unbelievable. I decide to imagine a smooth on time flight back to New York tomorrow. Today, there is a storm dumping an inch of snow an hour on NYC. All airports are closed. Flights are delayed, canceled, backed up into tomorrow. My flight is supposed to leave at 8:00 AM. With all the canceled flights and stranded passengers from today at the airport, how will my flight leave? Well, I imagine a smooth, on time flight, leaving Orlando no later than 9 and arriving at JFK by noon. 
Let’s see. 

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  February 18
  So many people are talking about The Secret. Oprah recently had a show about it, and I find that trite as it sounds, in many instances, Oprah has her finger on the pulse of the nation. So I bought the book on Amazon, planning to read it on vacation, which began Feb. 15. But UPS came & went, and no book. I went online to check and saw “shipped - Feb. 15. Estimated delivery: Feb. 22. I became resigned but figured “I guess I was not meant to read this book.” On February 17, as I was waiting for the car service that would take me to the airport, my doorbell rang. it was a neighbor with a box “UPS delivered this to me on Friday. You weren’t home yesterday and I didn’t want to leave it at your door.” Voila - there was the book. The law of attraction at work. I had wanted the book, had visualized myself poolside in Florida, reading the book, and suddenly, the book appeared.
  The Secret is the law of attraction - we attract what we think about.  If we think about needing a new job, we attract needing a job, not having a job. If we give thanks for the job we know is coming to us, the law of attraction attracts getting the job, just as the law of attraction attracts needing a job (rather than actually getting and having a job). Interesting.

  How can I change my thoughts today? How can you?
  Let me know.