Fearless Fabulous Females Ezine
Ideas, resources, and tools to help you can gain greater clarity and commitment to create a life filled with fun and fulfillment.
- Issue: Vol. 2, No. 3
- Date: February 3, 2008
In this Issue
> Feature Article:
Master Themes to Reach Your Dreams
> Teleconferences and Programs:
An Afternoon of Coaching in Celebration of International Coaching Week
> Fearless Recommendation:
Can a Woman Really be President?
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A Note from Andrea
As the first month of 2008 wrapped, I spent a bit of time to evaluate how my new approach to reaching goals is working this year. I decided to do something different with my planning. Rather than specifics, I would instead adopt themes to guide my daily activities: making connections, follow through, and completions.
My themes are moving me forward at light speed. I'm experiencing breakthroughs and epiphanies that are focusing my work in interesting ways. I'll share more in future issues.
This week's feature illustrates how this approach can work for you. I invite you to think about what your themes for the rest of this year could be. Aim for consistency and steady accomplishment. It's more satisfying and less fraught with "I'm never going to make it" thinking.
With support & enthusiasm,
Teleconferences, Workshops, and Programs
Andrea to Offer an Afternoon of Coaching in Celebration of International Coaching Week
February 6, 2008
The Tenth Annual International Coaching Week is February 3 - 9, 2008. The event is designed to provide a week each year to educate the public about the benefits of coaching. This week is dedicated to sharing this process with others and to provide a public service as the coaching profession's way of contributing back to the community in which we live and work.
As part of this event, Andrea is offering free 30-minute coaching sessions to Fearless, Fabulous Females readers. Call in (603) 478-1388 from 12 noon to 4:00 pm Eastern on Wednesday, February 6th, to discuss a business or personal issue and receive a free coaching session. No need to sign up. Just call in at the top of the hour or at half past. Are you ready to add focus and accountability to your day? Do you want to crystallize issues and opportunities? Do you want to be more productive? This is what Andrea's clients say they get through coaching with Andrea. Come see what it's all about.
Revised Start Date & Time:
Fearless, Fabulous Life Launch Set to Take Off February 25
My passion is creating compelling and deeply liberating learning opportunities and experiences. I’m talking about midlife reinvention.
The popular Fearless, Fabulous Life Launch program next runs starting Monday, February 4. I designed this program for women who are stuck and feel uncertain about the next stage of their lives.
Over 90 days, together we uncover or rediscover core values and passions, generate concrete action plans, and then initiate massive action. The end result is absolute clarity and confidence about your dreams and how they will be achieved.
Meet and grow with like-minded, vibrant women intent on getting a grip and moving forward. I want you to launch headlong into your Fearless, Fabulous Life. Learn more.
Event: Fearless, Fabulous Life Launch
Date & Time: Tuesdays, February 25 through April 28 at 7:30 pm EST
Format: Group Coaching for 90 minutes each week
Fearless Recommendation
Can a Woman Really be President?
Just Ask the Women Leaders of the World
Sometimes you have to wonder about our role as "leaders of the free world." We are often so steeped in our past, we fail to see how easy it might be to hopscotch into a new world view.
Feature
Master Themes to Reach Your Dreams
A lot of goal setting and resolution making is based on a gargantuan outcome, the biggest dreamed realized in full Technicolor. It might be losing twenty punds, tripling our income, taking a six-month sabbatical to travel through Asia. Sometimes the vision is so big it doesn't feel realistically achievable given where we are now doing what we are doing. Positive thinking or laws of attraction vibrations won't help us feel satisfaction with micro-improvements, if we've already set the stakes as all or nothing.
This year, my approach to getting more of what I want was to think in terms of themes rather than specific goals. I hold front and center my vision for the improved versions of my life and business, but I determined that consistent focus on making connections, following through, and completing first drafts would get me incrementally closer to my dreams of success and satisfaction.
I've dropped the notion of trying to scale a 22-story skyscraper in a single afternoon. I'm learning to take the elevator one floor each day, introducing myself to the people I meet along the way, and enjoying the view each time the doors open to a new height. Incremental progress is hugely more rewarding than never getting started.
It's working, because every day I am that much clearer about my mission. I realize I am suddenly much closer to it than I was when I was daily trying to swallow the whole pie and not making progress.
Make Connections
Direct Outreach. Take Initiative, tell people what you are doing, tell them what you need, and ask how you can help them. We have no idea how much of our lives are lived in our minds. So much is possible when we simply share what we are about with the people we encounter each day. Even more significant is the opportunity to offer what you know or to connect someone with a resource that will help them on their way. The richness of give and take can't be exaggerated. The most important things are accomplished in partnership.
Connect the dots, see the big picture. Step back and determine where you can add value. Each of us has a unique contribution to make, and the opportunities are everywhere. The full mosaic is more interesting and more vibrant than our one patch of color no matter how bright or shiny.
Start your day by putting it out there. Give something away early in the day -- even if it's simply "how are you doing?" to the cashier who rings up your morning coffee. Write a note of appreciation, send someone a link to an interesting story you found on the web, or share an observation you've made about work or life.
Follow Through on Intentions
Review your ideas and make a list for action. Don't let those snippets of clarity, inspirational notes, and important reference materials whither in a jumbled pile of paper or junk. Go through your stacks of "will get to some day" and prioritize what you rediscover.
Make the call, do the research. Failing to take the next step keeps us stalled and causes our confidence to erode bit by bit. File the paperwork, check the book out of the library, or buy the book at Amazon. Collect the next puzzle piece that makes real the picture you have in your mind of what you want most. Wishing won't do any good without action to support your intentions.
Eliminate the big hairy, scary mystery. Uncertainty or fear of the unknown too often stops us just when we are on to something good. You owe it to yourself to test if what you imagined is possible. More often than not, fear is misinterpreted. Fear is real and useful, but it is also a pinata meant to be broken wide open for the prize and delights inside.
Complete First Drafts
Get it out of your head. First drafts allow you to relax, because you've created something and made an idea real. Only when you can separate your inner dialogue from actually doing something can you make progress. The concreteness of the task in hand will lead you to next piece of the plan that will allow you to forge a new reality.
Free up space and time. If you never move on the one idea, there is no room for the next one. As you move on to new things, you may find the next idea is even better. And you will never finish anything by failing to start.
Become someone who gets things done. There is a surge of adrenaline that comes with achievement. Successfully dispatching a project, eliminating an obstacle, filing a pile of papers are all steps that demonstrate to your psyche that you make things happen. You will automatically move to the next item that brings you closer to your imagined future.
Feel the joy of honoring commitments to self and others and sharing the delight of your accomplishments.
© 2008 Andrea R. Williams
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Fearless, Fabulous Quote
“Try not to waste a long time 'paying dues.' Life is too short, and it's too easy to get stuck or trapped.”
—Nancy Barry
About Andrea
Andrea Williams, Personal & Business Development Coach, works with boomers, entrepreneurs, and women in transition to reach core issues quickly, to promote inspirations and aspirations, and to provide unswerving support for ongoing life improvement.
Andrea also offers teleclasses, workshops, and other resources to help individuals and groups achieve greater self-awareness, success, and satisfaction. Learn more now at www.FearlessFabulousLife.com.
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