Joyful Soaring Tips

By Coach Barbara Luther Of Wind Beneath Your Wings

Email: Barbara@coach2soar.com
Web Site: www.coach2soar.com
Phone: (314) 878-4044

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In This Issue:

1) Joy Juice
2) Taking Action
3) Let's Ponder
4) Soaring Free
5) Play Time
6) Joy Supplies
7) Class Offerings

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Good Morning! I hope you enjoy this issue of Joyful Soaring Tips and find something that helps you have a Joy-Filled week!

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~~ 1) Joy Juice ~~
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"Self-love is not only necessary and good, it is a prerequisite for loving others." -- Rollo May

"The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost." -- G. K. Chesterton

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~~ 2) Taking Action ~~
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REMINDER: Valentine's Day is coming up. Do you have your loving thoughts and greetings ready to mail? Have you chosen the gift for your Special Someone? Put it on your Action List today!

Here are a couple fun tips:

· When you're heading to the grocery store, change into clothes that are a little bit tight. You won't be as likely to buy that bag of cookies or chips then!

· Carry a list of clothing sizes for each member of your family in your purse or wallet. That way, when you see a great bargain, you'll know whether it's a great bargain for you or someone else. And you'll avoid an experience which Henny Youngman describes: "It's easy to tell when you've got a bargain; it doesn't fit."

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~~ 3) Let's Ponder ~~
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I'm lucky to have my mother visiting me this Valentine's Day, and it's caused me to feel extra grateful for all the precious people in my life. She came with pictures from a niece's recent wedding, and new pictures of all her grandchildren and great grandchildren, my nieces and nephews and so on. And she brought letters from her friends and relatives to share. Her suitcase was a veritable goldmine of love! Every item she pulled out had significance and a story. This blouse was a gift from one daughter, another outfit had been worn to a birthday celebration. A special pin had been a gift from her best friend. Even the suitcase was a treasure, loaned to her by one of her more travel-savvy daughters.

And you know, none of the "things" she brought were particularly valuable - from a monetary standpoint, but they were beyond priceless because of the people, memories, and stories attached. As happens at least once during every visit, I asked Mom to bring out of her billfold the baby pictures she still carries of each of her children - 6 of us, all adults with families of our own now. We lamented once more that we never got a picture of my youngest sister who died as a baby, and we marveled at the likenesses and how absolutely beautiful the babies are. We've probably noted the same things, even said the same words, about those pictures dozens of times, yet we never tire of looking at them together.

Valentine's Day isn't just about romantic love. For me, it represents the Love for family, dear friends, and special people in our lives. The candy and flowers and cupids are sweet, but the memories and the connections . . . . Ahhh, THAT is what I celebrate for Valentine's Day.

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~~ 4) Soaring Free ~~
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Celebrate Love in your life this week. You're probably planning to do something for someone you love, and my request is that you also do something loving for yourself.

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You know those squeezable balls they have for exercising our hands? Well, I have a squeezable heart in my toy box that I pull out every now and then. The shape feels great in my hands. It's bright, happy red, and it's simple fun to squeeze it and toss it from hand to hand. I enjoy playing with my squeezable heart more than those bland balls, so I guess the message is you may use it more if it's fun and colorful.

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I just love the specialty papers you can find at many office supply and hobby shops today. They add color and themes to anything you're writing. For example, I want to send a greeting and invitation to people I met at a recent conference. With these colorful papers, I can choose some design or look that may relate to my message, an upcoming holiday or season or event, or even some image or concept I want the recipients to associate with me. I can print my message on this paper through my laser printer and have a gorgeous color piece very quickly yet inexpensively. Today, it's hearts and cupids on red and white paper; next month it's green clovers and gold with leprechauns. And I've found some lovely blue sky with clouds paper for my notes sent from Wind Beneath Your Wings. It's perfect!

Check out these papers and have fun with them. You may just surprise yourself with your creative flair!

For an online link to one of the paper catalogs with a nice selection of these papers, check out http://www.paperdirect.com. Enjoy.

NOTE: Barbara offers links to many of the resources referenced here from her web site, www.coach2soar.com. If you cannot find some resource mentioned, contact Barbara for help at Barbara@coach2soar.com.

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YOU'RE INVITED! Come join me on Thursday, February 24th at 5pm EST for a free Happy Hour Telebration for anyone who wants to come celebrate the miracles, shifts, wins, and overall happy things they've experienced during the past month. It's an open, drop-in time to visit and share life's good news with new and old friends. Put it on your calendar now! It's the last Thursday of every month at 5pm EST. The bridge number is 702-257-2699.

Beginning in February, Barbara will be offering some one-time and ongoing teleclasses and groups. Go to her web site for a complete listing. You'll find a monthly Clutter Buster group, a coaches' practice building intensive, and classes on identifying personal unique talents, developing your own motivation inventory, learning to recognize ADD traits, understanding Restless Leg Syndrome, and learning to get the most from attending a conference.

If any of the above sounds intriguing, check it out and join the fun! And if you're looking for some other topic, drop Barbara a note. You just might find your topic in her next listing of classes.

Copyright (C) 2000 by Barbara Luther. All rights reserved.

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Coach Barbara Luther:
Email: Barbara@coach2soar.com
Web Site: www.coach2soar.com
Phone: (314) 878-4044
(Central Time Zone)
Fax: (208) 988-2142
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Call Barbara to discuss a coaching partnership today. Barbara Luther is a Master Certified Coach and a Certified Mentor Coach who specializes in working with successful professionals, tenure-track faculty, coaches, business owners, career types, creatives, and adults with Attention Deficit Disorder. She coaches via telephone and the internet, and in person for corporate teams.

Barbara is a graduate of Coach University, a virtual training organization, and the Optimal Functioning Institute, a virtual training organization for ADD coaches. She is also a member of the International Coach Federation and an ICF chapter host. She leads teleclasses for CoachU and Corporate CoachU, as well as teleclasses of her own. Prior to coaching, Barbara ran her own consulting business for 8 years, designing and developing online help and performance support systems for companies such as American Express, AAA of California, Bank One, Los Angeles County Employee Retirement Association, Wendy's, Pioneer, Utilicorp, Gap, and Bank of America. With a Master's in English, she has also taught college-level writing and worked in the corporate world as a technical writer, trainer, and project manager.

Along with Dr. Francena T. Hancock, Barbara is co-founder of the ADD Coach Group, an organization created to provide knowledge about the business-oriented positive qualities of adults with ADD, ways to identify employees who have ADD traits that impact their performance, and strategies and techniques to support to their specific needs. (Web site www.addcoachgroup.com coming soon.)

Barbara also hosts a coaching special interest group -- the GLBTQ SIG (Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual/Transgender/Questioning), and she writes articles for their newsletter, Reaching for the Rainbow (To subscribe: send an email to: ReachingfortheRainbow-On@lists.webvalence.com)

Barbara says: My passion is assisting people in recognizing and embracing their power. My vision is a world where every person embraces their special talents and enjoys a life built around their passions. My mission is to assist people in identifying their special gifts and designing their lives to enjoy and share them. My life purpose is to provide a loving, safe space for self discovery.

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