Your coaching tools for a new year

Coach Katie Grames Fri, 31 Dec 2004 15:19:53 -0800

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Table of contents

New Yorker Cartoon of the Month

Tip for the New Year

Download of the month

Time and Stress
Management Tip

Tool of the month

Web site of the month

Book Review
of the Month

Katie's News

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New Yorker Cartoon of the Month

MAKE IT NEW New

As the sun makes it new

Day by Day make it new

Yet again make it new

âChinese poem translated by Ezra Pound

The new year is here, full of promise and possibilities.

There is so much you can achieve and experience this year, so many different ways you can grow. There are so many ways we can lose sight of that promise, so many ways we can let ourselves down, so many ways we can lose sight of the vision of possibilities we have now.

What are you going to do to honor the promise of this coming year? What are you going to do to keep its potential fresh, vital, and growing? What are you going to do to achieve your most wonderful possibilities?

Your coaching challenge and assignment for your new year is in your download of the month.

Download of the month

Think through what possibilities are speaking the loudest to you. Think through as well what you need to learn from the past year, and what you need to do in order to finish the business of 2004, so it does not hold you back. Your assignment is contained in your free download of the month, which is a worksheet for planning your most wonderful 2005.

http://www.possibilitiescoaching.com/make it new.pdf

Extra bonus Download for some of you

Last month's issue contained a book from a terrific fellow coach. Just in case you did not notice - this book also contained a time-limited offer for a bonus computer program to help you optimize your life. Peter Lowell Ayers stated he would only give away a certain number of these programs. To get your copy, email Peter at [EMAIL PROTECTED] and request one. The subject line of your email must say âFriend of <person or who recommended this eBook>â which in this case would probably be me.

For those of you who did not receive or open this newsletter, you can find the inspirational book "101 Great Ideas to Make Your Life Just About Perfect" by Peter Lowell Ayers at http://www.possibilitiescoaching.com/perfect.pdf

Enjoy!

Time and Stress Management tip of the month

If I had to give you only one simple, practical, tangible suggestion for reducing your stress and increasing your time in this coming month, I'd tell you this.

(Before I do, I'd like to ask that you actually try it before leaving this list! It does sound too simple to be true).

Spend 15 minutes most days for the next 30 days de-cluttering the worst part of your home or office. Be as brutal as you can be in terms of donating items and throwing things out. Unless you are already very tidy (in which case you already understand how clutter can affect your mood, raise your stress, and waste your time) you can almost be guaranteed to experience some improvement in your mood and efficiency. The average person is said to spend an accumulated six weeks a year looking for things. This average person also has an unquantified increase in stress and negative mood due to clutter.

The person who de-clutters almost always experiences a powerful reduction in stress, and increase in time, and an interesting increase in energy and mental clarity. There has been ample anecdotal evidence on the latter. Why do you think this is the case?

Give it a try and email me your results!

Cool Tool of the month

COOL DESK!

Does your computer desktop ever get too cluttered? If you've been reading my newsletter for any length of time, you probably know I love to try out new things on my computer. And quite unfortunately, my desktop shows it. Cool Desk - Virtual Desktop Manager for Windows (sorry Mac users!) is a useful tool for managing this desktop clutter. It allows you to create multiple, skinnable desktops. You can easily toggle between them. The upshot is that you can have it all there on your desktop, and still be tidy and organized! It is free to try and under $25 to purchase. Check it out at http://www.shelltoys.com

Web Sites of the month

http://www.flylady.net

Need help in that 15-minute-a-day de-clutter exercise? The Fly Lady is an incredible resource for anyone who needs assistance with organization in the home or office. The format is a bit light-hearted and may not seem as professional or serious as some other resources on space organization, but the content is excellent.

http://www.justgive.org/

Do you have good charitable intentions, but less than stellar follow-through? This is a site that may help you with that. justgive.org lists one million charities, many of which have been pre-screened for you. The charities are in categories, so you can easily research and target those that matter most to you. Plus, there are a number of creative ideas on how to give over and above the standard options. You can create your own wish list to share with others, you can create a "giving" wedding registry, and more. This is a fine site to make it easy to follow through on those good intentions!

Book Review of the Month

Be Your Own Life Coach: Dream It! Plan It! Do It! by Diane M. Scholten

Here is an excellent collection of basic life-planning worksheets that you can use on your own or with your coach to brainstorm where you want to go and how you might best get there. It includes thought-provoking questions and exercises on your whole range of life planning, from career to relationships. Diane also includes some very useful case studies which illuminate how different people have sorted through some their own goals and dreams. I strongly recommend this as a useful set of exercises in discovering what you want out of life.

One final Coaching Thought

There is power in someone brainstorming with you, strategizing with you, challenging you to your best, holding you accountable to your commitments, seeing what is in your blind spots, and championing you as you reach your aspirations. Coaching works.

I bring 20 years of project management and process improvement experience to your specific goals and dreams, and work with you to brainstorm what you want, create a plan, and work that plan.

What has not yet yielded to your best efforts? A weight issue? Energy issues? Paper chaos? Time management problems? A stalled business or career path? A project that you just haven't been able to complete?

Call or email me if you'd like to see if coaching can make a difference with this.

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