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I am reminded by fellow coach Phil Evans of the following truth. The most common 'theme' that I introduce to new clients when working in the Life Coaching realm, is the critical importance of being true to oneself!　 It's just so darned easy to get into doing everything for everybody else, but sadly neglecting that important person in the mirror.

Yep, too darned easy to put everybody else first; and eventually something will kick our butts as it tries to alert us of the need to look after that person also known as ME!

TAKING PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY

What happens to us is not as important as how we respond.

The external events of our lives are largely beyond our control. We do not choose our parents, our emotional environment, the historical period in which we live, our body type, or the flow of circumstances that shape our experience. These are givens. We do not select them, but we can choose how we will react to them, and in that choice lays our freedom and our responsibility.
Instead of complaining about the hand we've been dealt, we can concentrate on playing it well. This is the way we exercise our freedom. What might appear to be random chance can take on meaning and purpose as we delve for insight and use our deficiencies as opportunities for growth.
Our responsibility is to do the best we can with what we have where we are. And we don't do it alone. We have help in learning how best to respond. We have a support group, we have a Higher Power, and we have an inner guide if we will listen for direction.

Need some help in how to respond to deal with your response to "happenings" and "circumstances"? Give us a shout.
Today, I will remember that "the what" of my life is not as important as "the how."

From my friends at Hazelton, a great way to look at things. Read and think.

HANDLING CHANGE

In the life I live and the work I do, it is apparent that many people have trouble with change. Yet change is as certain to happen as it is certain that to live, you will draw another breath.

"We cannot live the afternoon of life according to the program of life's morning; for what in the morning was true will in evening become a lie." -- C.G. Jung

It’s interesting, in reading sent out this week by both Dr. Randin Brons, my mentor, and a friend and coach in Australia, Phil Evans, the subject of "change" was their themes, and I have borrowed from both of these sources! Helping people make change is a key to what we as coaches do, and is a key to the personal happiness of many.