New Horizons
January 1, 2011 by Jory · 3 Comments
The young girl’s face was flush with joy and excitement as she eagerly awaited The Countdown at Times Square. Her proud father stood next to her, frigid cold but beaming from ear to ear. On national TV she told us that she had begged her dad to take her to NYC for New Year’s Eve. His response: “Make straight A’s for two years in a row and I’ll do it.” Deal made. Promises kept. Sweet.
Though I’ve never had any desire to ring in the New Year with thousands of kazoo-blowing celebrants, I appreciate how meaningful the experience can be. Last night I was especially moved by this young lady’s determination to keep her part of the bargain and by her father’s determination to keep his. Their brief interview caused me to reflect upon the promises I’m making for 2011. Will I keep them?
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New horizons. January 1st is an excellent time to ponder questions such as: What do I aim to accomplish? How will I be held accountable? How will I remain motivated? It’s a time to be humbly grateful for the person I am today and genuinely excited about the person I’ll be tomorrow.
2010 was a year rich in relationships, accomplishments, and growth. With the support of my faith, family, friends, colleagues, church, and coaches, 2011 will be even better. I know I won’t be successful alone. For me to be able to keep my promises, I must seek and embrace the help of others.
On December 31, 2011, I fully intend to say, “Promises kept. Sweet!”
How ‘bout you? Will you join me?
Warm wishes for a joyful, purposeful, successful 2011,
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One Heart, One Mind (Elisabeth von Trapp)
August 18, 2010 by Jory · 2 Comments
Elisabeth von Trapp joins us on Heart & Soul to discuss the meaning behind her music as well as her inspiration for writing, composing, and arranging several of her songs. We will come away with a clear understanding of why audiences of all ages are awed by the beauty of her voice and the astonishing sound of her music. We will appreciate Elisabeth the person as well as Elisabeth the performer, and we’ll understand why no one leaves an Elisabeth von Trapp performance unchanged.
About Elisabeth von Trapp
Elisabeth von Trapp built upon her famed family’s passion for music to create her own artistic style—ethereal yet earthy, delicate yet powerful. Singing professionally since childhood, she has enthralled audiences throughout the United States, Austria, and Russia performing as wondrously in European cathedrals as in Washington D.C.’s Kennedy Center.
Elisabeth’s cathedral program includes sacred and secular music extending from Gregorian chants and songs of 12th century mystics to early American hymns, spirituals, and Psalms set to her own compositions.
Her concert repertoire ranges from Bach to Broadway — from Schubert to Sting. Elisabeth’s five self-produced albums have been featured on National Public Radio, BBC-Radio, Japanese National Radio, and CNN Spanish Radio; she has appeared on CBS’ Eye on People, ABC’s Good Morning America, and BBC-TV. Critics have called her voice “hauntingly clear,” “joyfully expressive,” and “simply beautiful.”
Find out more about Elisabeth and her music at www.elisabethvontrapp.com.
Elisabeth’s Quotes for the Day
“Gesang is Dasein…… To Sing is to be…” ~Reiner Maria Rilke
“Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that all was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous….. for they may act on their dream…. and make it possible.” ~T.E. Lawrence from Seven Pillars of Wisdom
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Even the Lone Ranger had Tonto! (Kate Steinbacher)
Going it alone is old fashioned and self centered and, frankly, makes life difficult! Kate believes in working smarter NOT harder and has discovered that collaboration is the way of doing it. Do you want to learn to work less and accomplish more? Join us for this fun and engaging conversation and go away with tools for your success!
About Kate Steinbacher
Kate Steinbacher, PCC: is a consummate entrepreneur, collaborator, and agent for fun and change as well as a coach, speaker, and prolific writer of self-development articles. She’s enjoyed being a corporate HR manager for a fortune 100 company as well as a Cruise Director on board luxury cruise ships. A business team manager and speaker/emcee for American and International groups, Kate has also served as an active Business and Personal Coach since 2001.
“Coach Kate” has owned, operated, and marketed four successful small businesses. Currently she is a principal in The Coaching Advantage and Co-Founder of The Coaches Console along with her business partner Melinda Cohan.
Change and action have always been allies for Kate’s success. Not only is she passionate about people and business and fostering positivism and possibility, but also about fostering individual and corporate greatness through the use of professional coaching skills. Part of Kate’s driving force is her passion to get the world coached and her sense of fun.
Kate’s Coaching Suggestion
1) Kate suggests that we examine our lives to discern where we are going it alone—and why. Do we have to go it alone or can we delegate the job in ways that allow others to shine and that allow us to learn new ways of accomplishing the task?
2) She also suggests that we review our connections and contacts to discover who might be our “Tontos” in the work place and/or at home. We should then evaluate their strengths and discuss with them how we can collaborate to accomplish more with less effort.
Kate’s Quote for the Day
“Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting.” ~Katherine Hepburn
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Transform Your Life by Transforming Your Beliefs (Lion Goodman)
We’ve all heard the saying, “Our beliefs create our reality,” but what does this really mean? Lion Goodman spent 35 years researching this question and proved it to be true. Then he developed a new methodology for actually changing beliefs, quickly and permanently. This has an immediate, profound impact on our life as we know it–and on our life as we live it.
The BeliefCloset Process™ is an easy-to-master guided process that enables you to examine the beliefs you inherited or took on in the past, test them for viability today, and discard the ones that don’t work anymore and replace them with beliefs that will serve you better. Our old limiting beliefs are like outfits you once wore, but have outgrown. It’s time for a makeover!
Lion teaches this potent methodology to coaches and therapists worldwide. Reports of profound changes in the psyches and lives of clients continue to pour in.
About Lion Goodman
Lion is a workshop leader, author, coach, and businessman. He has 30 years of business experience and 35 years of study, practice, and research in psychology, philosophy, personal development, and spiritual evolution. As an executive search consultant and career coach, he worked with more than 250 companies across the U.S.
He teaches The BeliefCloset Process™ to coaches, therapists, and facilitators of transformation worldwide. He is the founder of the Sacred Centers’ Coach Training program, a whole-person coaching methodology based on the chakra system.
Lion is the author of Menlightenment, a book for awakening men, and is a co-author of the book, The Heart of Healing, along with Deepak Chopra and others. His fiction and non-fiction articles have been published internationally.
More information is available on his websites: BeliefCloset.com and EverydayAwakening.com.
Lion’s Coaching Suggestion
Lion suggests that you begin examining the hidden and transparent beliefs that are running your life.
Ask yourself, “What do I believe about ____________? “ Spend a few minutes writing down your beliefs about each of the following topics:
- Myself
- My body
- My health
- My work
- My sexuality
- My abilities
- My limitations
- My attitudes
- My family
- My relationships
- My soul, spirit or spiritual self
- Money & Finances
- God/Spirit/Source
- The world
- Good & Evil
- Life & Death
- Truth
- The past
- The future
- My beliefs
2. Circle the beliefs that you believe may be behind the difficulties in your life.
3. For the circled beliefs, ask yourself the following questions:
- Has this belief been beneficial or detrimental to me in my life?
- Was this belief indoctrinated into me? If so, by whom? Did I ever consciously choose to believe it? If so, when? Why did I do so?
- What has been the advantage of having this belief? How has it served me in my life? What did I get or gain by having this belief? What did I avoid by having this belief?
- Who would I be without this belief?
- What would I prefer to believe instead?
4. Download the free BeliefCloset Jump-Start Kit by signing up on www.BeliefCloset.com/jsk1. Listen to the BeliefCloset Audio Guide, which will take you through the BeliefCloset Process so you can eliminate and replace three of your limiting or negative beliefs that you don’t want anymore.
Lion’s Quote for the Day
“We are as gods. So we might as well get good at it.” ~Stewart Brand, founder of the Whole Earth Catalog
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You First! – Steps to Feeling Fulfilled and Excited About Life (Nat Couropmitree)
July 6, 2010 by Jory · 2 Comments
At a very young age, Nat Couropmitree, life coach and founder of ProsperityLighthouse.com, remembers asking himself, “Why am I here? What’s my purpose?” Growing up, he kept on asking himself these questions and often found no real value in his existence or any lasting happiness. Nat thought something was wrong with him, and he strove to fix it. He participated in many personal growth programs; he jumped from job to job, career to career, one business opportunity to the next. Each new experience brought excitement, inspiration, and success, but none of it was lasting. None of it was enough until Nat changed the way he approached his life. It was through his struggles and frustrations that Nat discovered a new way of living that inspires him every day. He joins us to share new perspectives and steps you can take to feel fulfilled and to enjoy a life with purpose.
About Nat Couropmitree
Nat Couropmitree supports clients internationally as a life coach and as the host of the popular weekly radio show, Law of Attraction Success Radio. He supports his clients to see the root cause of their frustrations, challenges, and struggles and then effectively empowers them to shift away from those patterns. He supports his clients to reinforce and expand their new and improved reality by helping them develop new self-nurturing habits. Nat is very skilled at taking the insurmountable and transforming it into the doable through the use of simple action steps. He loves helping his clients to see that they already have within them all the tools they need to make the profound life changes they desire.
To learn more about Nat and to listen to his radio show, visit ProsperityLighthouse.com
Nat’s Coaching Suggestion
Nat has found that being passionate and purposeful requires us to know what we personally want in life—to know what makes us happy and brings us joy. To become clear about what we truly want, he suggests the following:
- Create two columns on a piece of paper.
- In the first column, write down everything you don’t like and don’t want.
- In the second column, write down everything you do like and do want (which is often the opposite of whatever you wrote in column one).
- Make room for what you want in your life now by actually scheduling it into your day and week. This will help change old patterns that may be keeping you from a life full of purpose and joy.
Nat’s Quote for the Day
“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and then go do it! Because what the world needs are people who have come alive.” ~Dr. Howard Thurman
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The Sky is Green and The Grass is Blue – Turning Your Upside Down World Right Side Up! (Deb Scott)
Deb talks about what she does best–helping others transform “bad” into great and being happy in the process. Anything bad, she says, can be transformed into a diamond you love. During this program, you will obtain tangible tools and resources to help you accomplish this personal transformation.
About Deb Scott
Deb Scott is a motivation and lifestyle consultant, specializing in working with business and corporate environments to transform poor interpersonal dynamics and low-energy groups into high-powered, successful, dynamic teams. A biology major in college, Deb became an award-winning sales and leadership specialist with 20 years of background in cardiac surgery sales. Now she applies her sales and business background to motivational speaking and consulting in the fields of sales, marketing, advertising, hiring, and team building. “The Sky Is Green and The Grass is Blue – Turning Your Upside-Down World Right-Side-Up!” is her first book.
Deb has battled and dealt with depression, other people’s alcoholism, a dysfunctional family, sexual abuse, and religious doubts. Yet she has emerged as a happy, successful executive who trains others to follow a proven path to happiness. Now she teaches the same life-changing techniques that enabled her to overcome her challenges.
Coaching Suggestion
To “sabotage ourselves for great success,” Deb suggests that we write down three goals or affirmations on sticky notes and place one note on our bathroom mirror, one in a pair of shoes we don’t wear very often, and one in our car or near the coffeepot. These little “mind vitamins,” as she calls them, will help our lives come to life in a big way.
Deb’s Quote for the Day
“Be yourself. Everybody else is already taken.” Oscar Wilde
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Graceful Divorce Solutions – Splitting Apart and Staying Whole (Marcy Jones, JD)
Marcy wants to help people who are thinking about divorce, separated, or already in the divorce process. The divorce statistics are staggering. Almost 50% of first marriages, 67% of second marriages, and 73% of third marriages are ending in divorce. “It’s time we do it better,” Marcy asserts. “I want to help keep people out of what I call the ‘legal vortex’ and help put them back in the driver’s seat, rather than with lawyers or in the legal system, so they can go through the process more ‘gracefully’ in a way that preserves their relationships. It’s still a challenging time, but it doesn’t have to be the nightmare it turns into for so many people. Especially if children are involved, it’s important that mom and dad still be able to talk to each other and get along.”
About Marcy Jones
Marcy Jones is an author, speaker, lawyer, coach, and advocate for change – change in the way lawyers represent clients in divorce, change in the legal system, and change in the way people divorce. She has practiced family law since 1995, going to law school after her own divorce and with two young children at home.
Marcy has worked as a domestic violence prosecutor and as a private practitioner specializing in collaborative divorce and mediation. She’s also a certified personal coach.
She has just published her first book called Graceful Divorce Solutions: A Comprehensive and Proactive Guide to Saving You Time, Money, and Your Sanity. She wrote this book to get essential information to people BEFORE they go to a lawyer to enable them to make the best choices for themselves and their family.
Her ultimate goal is to help people go through divorce better–with integrity and dignity.
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Why Manners Matter (Susan Schlossberg)
Haven’t we all been just a tad bit anxious when attending social networking events? Haven’t we all been on the receiving end of dead-fish handshakes and in-your-face rudeness? Since 2002, Susan Schlossberg has directed the National League of Junior Cotillions (NLJC) in Lynchburg, Virginia. She strongly desires to promote kindness, civility, and gracious behavior—so lacking yet so vital to our society. Helping a painfully shy young student become a confident young person…transforming a timid college graduate into a polished professional. Such challenges are what fills Susan with purpose, passion, and joy! The NLJC program trains not only young people in manners, etiquette, and social dance–it also provides greatly needed etiquette training to professional adults.
Listen to this episode to learn how to:
- Make a positive and lasting impression face-to-face as well as by phone and email;
- Mix and mingle with grace and ease;
- Show appreciation and gratitude in your day-to-day actions; and
- Get the most out of life by treating others with honor, dignity, and respect.
About Susan Schlossberg
Susan Schlossberg, a native of Lynchburg, Virginia, graduated from the University of Georgia with a degree in education and retired after 20+ years as a travel consultant. Since 2002, Susan has directed the Lynchburg Chapter of the National League of Junior Cotillions, teaching students about manners, etiquette, and social dance. In her spare time she serves as a substitute teacher and is very popular with her students because of the respect she models, gives, and expects in return. Susan lives in Roanoke with her husband Neil and her youngest son Daniel. She enjoys traveling, music, minor league baseball, and doting on her two cats.
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Develop Your Personal Brand: Uniquely Express Who You Are and What You Do (Sherry Dutra)
How well does your personal brand clearly, consistently, and authentically express who you are? How effectively do you distinguish yourself from other service providers in your industry?
Whether you’re just starting a new business or an experienced entrepreneur looking to increase your business results, it’s time to decide how you want to be known in your market—in a compelling and unforgettable way. You will do this by developing a personal brand. Brands are not just for big corporations. In fact, a personal brand will serve as an important key to your success. A personal brand will help clearly and consistently define, express, and communicate who you are, whom you serve, and why you have chosen to dedicate your life and work to serving your target market so that you can attract your most ideal clients and repel those who are less than ideal. Personal branding is far more than just what you do. It is you—uniquely you. It allows you to distinguish yourself and what is unique about who you are and what you do from everyone else.
This interview topic is based on Michael Port’s bestseller, Book Yourself Solid. Sherry Dutra, a certified Book Yourself Solid Trainer and Coach will discuss the key components of developing a personal brand and provide you with tips and exercises to help you create your own or enhance what you already have in place.
Small Business and Career Management Coach, Sherry Dutra, CPC, and owner of Dutra Associates, LLC, is a Certified Professional Coach who helps professional service providers get all the clients they want even if they hate marketing and sales. Sherry specializes in coaching baby boomer, corporate professionals who have left or are considering leaving their corporate positions to start their own service-based business. Through her coaching, she helps business owners build financial freedom while expressing their passion and purpose in the world.
Her coaching credentials include:
* Certified Professional Coach – iPEC
* Certified Trainer for the iPEC Program
* Certified Book Yourself Solid Trainer and Coach
She also holds an MBA from Rivier College and a BA in Human Development from Boston College.
Sherry draws upon her extensive corporate background in leadership development and career management to clearly define desired client outcomes and partner with the client to support their achievement of tangible and sustainable results.
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Five Secrets To Explosive Growth Interview with Brian Duvall
Brian Duvall has gone from selling cell phones & office equipment to being the CEO of two Chambers of Commerce where he was named one of the region’s Top 20 Under 40. He has gone from being the CEO of an extreme sports company to being unemployed for up to a year twice in his career.
Through it all he has felt that he was capable of greatness but couldn’t seem to find the right opportunity. Then one day he was fired from his last job and hired by his first client to do for them the very thing that got him fired.
Today, Brian owns Duvall Media – a marketing company that is on track to earn over $1 million helping clients sell more of their products & services.
Brian and his wife of more than 22 years have three kids of their own, one adopted child and three foster kids all over the age 13.
In this episode of Heart & Soul, Brian will share the five secrets to explosive growth that have helped him take his start-up company to a quarter million in sales in the first nine months.
- “Freely ye have received, freely give.” Even when you are unemployed you still have these two priceless assets that can be leveraged to launch massive growth.
- “Find Your Lynda.” Now is not the time to be shy or think you can go it alone.
- “Fear Worse Than Death.” This is something nearly every person on the planet can do but few do well. It costs nothing but is one of the MOST powerful secrets you already have.
- “Stupid To Say No.” Remember the Golden Rule? Now use the Platinum Rule and watch your business grow.
- “Streets of Gold.” This one strategy can literally give you EVERYTHING and will lead to explosive growth beyond anything you ever imagined.
Be sure to take notes because he also shares some tips on how you can take action now to experience explosive growth in your own business.
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