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) 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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What is Success?

To laugh often and love much;
To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children;
To earn the approval of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends;
To appreciate beauty;
To find the best in others;
To give of one's self;
To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition;
To have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation;
To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived . . .

This is to have succeeded.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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~~ 2) Taking Action ~~
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Is there a room in your home that's just always a bit more cluttered than you'd like it to be? Are you frustrated because you can't keep it the way you want it? Try this approach: get the entire family involved! Call a family meeting and ask each person to answer these questions:

· What's working for you about this room? (Example: I like having our music collection here and categorized by type of music.)
· What's not working for you about this room? (Example: There's too many magazines, and I don't know when it's okay to toss them.)
· What items are essential to you in this room? (Example: Throw pillows for watching TV, remote control where everyone can find it, and a space to store my crochet project.)
· Why do you want this room to be organized? (Example: So we won't be embarrassed if company stops by and so we don't fight about the mess each evening.)
· What's causing the problem? (Example: We don't have a designated space for magazines, and we have too much stuff.)

Then brainstorm together some solutions and ask each person to commit to doing their part towards keeping the room the way you all want it to be. You might even get the room organized and take a picture of it so you have a model to check against.

(Thanks to Julie Morgenstern's book, Organizing from the Inside Out, for this idea.)

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~~ 3) Let's Ponder ~~
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Who you will be in the next few years depends on 3 things:

· What you read
· Who you associate with
· The quality of the choices you make

Choose today to upgrade the choices you make.

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~~ 4) Soaring Free ~~
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In honor of St. Patrick's day, as you think of something green to wear, try one of these to add to your celebration:

· Look for something green in your closet that no longer fits and donate it
· Spend a little green to help a shelter or environmental cause
· Make a green 4-leaf clover from construction paper and write on it, "Green Hugs. Today Only: Free!" Pin in on your shirt or blouse for the day
· Have a green dessert
· Anyone for green tea rather than green beer?
· Listen to some Irish music
· Sign checks and letters today with a green pen

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~~ 5) Play Time ~~
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Thanks to Molly Ivins for this:

My Aunt Eula's bank in Fort Worth has been swallowed so many times by bigger banks, she calls it 'Edible National.'

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YOU'RE INVITED! Come join me on Thursday, March 30th 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.

Barbara offers 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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