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Read Joan's article "Meeting Challenge with Grace" - Download the attached pdf file.

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Read Joan's article that recently appeared in the International Coach Federation July issue
"Cellular Wisdom for Extraordinary Coaching."

 Read July's "Coaching Tips from Joan" and explore what energizes you.

Click here to read "Coaching Tips from Joan" June 2008 - "Create chanage?"

Want to learn more about Joan's next workshop to help you Step UP to your next level of
success? Click here

Do you live from the "inside" out or the "outside" in? Read how you can "intentionally broaden your thinking and actions and build resources." Download the attached pdf file.

Read  "Coaching Tips from Joan" for May. Click here

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Read Joan's April ezine "Coaching Tips from Joan" to learn how to escape the limitation your negative beliefs about yourself impose on your choices.

Dr. Taylor, neuroanatomist< reports in her video "Stroke of insight" "on the morning of December 10 1996 I woke up to discover that I had a brain disorder of my own. A blood vessel exploded in the left half of my brain. And in the course of four hours I watched my brain completely deteriorate in its ability to process all information. On the morning of the hemorrhage I could not walk, talk, read, write or recall any of my life. I essentially became an infant in a woman's body." ...."And at first I was shocked to find myself inside of a silent mind. But then I was immediately captivated by the magnificence of energy around me. And because I could no longer identify the boundaries of my body, I felt enormous and expansive. I felt at one with all the energy that was, and it was beautiful there."
Watch her movie.

Spring, a beacon signaling the appearance of the unseen, invites us to remember the promise of renewal. Summer confirms its reality. Read Joan's article - download the attached pdf.

How much stress do you experience in the pursuit of success?
What is the impact of stress on your performance?
to read about this and more in Joan's March ezine "Sress and Success"
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Are you ready to step up to your next level of success? If so, come to Joan King's Workshop on Feb. 26, 2008 in Loveland, CO at the Front Range Business Center just off Hwy 34 and I25.

Topic: "Embrace yourself and your success!" Click here for details.

If you would like to read the February 2008 ezine "Coaching Tips from Joan" which focuses on
"IDEAS - the currency of success!" click here.

Happy Valentine's Day!

The following topics are the focus of each month.

The series will repeat to help you step UP and UP and UP.

S - Strategize - where you want to go and who you want to be. 12/4/07

T - Take Time - recognize/ acknowledge your strengths. 1/22/08

E - Embrace - yourself and your success. 2/26/08

P - Prepare - your personal guide. 3/25/08

U - You - its up to you to make your own success. 4/22/08

P - Proceed to ACTION! 5/27/08

A new series will begin June, 2008

Cost = $49.00 for a single workshop.

Packages of 3 cost $130.00.

Ten percent of the proceeds will be donated to the eWomenNetwork Foundation.

If you are interested in attending this very interactive workshop, click here to register.

Special offerings for group coaching will be made available ONLY to those who attend the workshop.

Read Joan's January 2008 "Coaching Tips" about Leadership and Feedback.

How frequently in conversation do we mention the goals that we strive to attain? How often do we mention how our lives are blossoming, unfolding for us?

When we strive for success, status and respect, we often feel the energy of struggle. We even, very often, evaluate our striving and our accomplishments. With a minor change in the word strive, we create the word thrive. Then the energy transforms from that of struggle – to that of ease.

 A recent study of “high thrivers” by Jane A. Coddington reveals 3 clusters of characteristics infused with a recurring theme:

Self with a capital “S” – High thrivers are in touch with their essential self, authentic, expressing themselves in the world, engaged in learning and evolving.

    Passion, purpose and path, the capital “Ps” – Fueling their passion dwells a sense of something greater still that they are called to.

    Connections with a capital “C” -  Relationships, family, friends, co-workers and a greater whole, community locally and globally, occupies a central place in the lives of high thrivers, accompanied with a strong desire to give back.

 

Finally, the “Abundance Mindset” infiltrates all of these characteristics infusing each with its richness of expansive possibilities.,

What if we envisioned 2008 not only as a year to accomplish specific goals but as a year to begin to balance striving with thriving?

We each need to explore how we can we move from a state of continual striving -- with its stresses and pushes --  to a state balanced with thriving and its sense of fulfillment and well being. People who thrive embrace developing and becoming as an ongoing continuing process with no defined endpoint when they are “done!”

While preparing for 2008 reflect on your sense of self. Is it strong? If not, think of the times in your life when you have met challenges successfully. What characteristics did you display? Gallup poll research indicates that most of us underestimate our strengths. Ask your friends. They know your strengths. Interview 3 friends and ask them “What are my strengths? What would you come to me for? Why would you come to me?” A strong sense of self does not reflect an egotistical self, but emerges from knowing who we are, authentically. This knowledge looms essential because no one else can bring the unique combination of talents and gifts that you have into the world, except you. Who are you to deprive the world of your genius?

How strong is your passion? Have you lost your passion? Do you dream big enough? Is it time to reconnect with the passion that fuels your purpose and path? How clear is your purpose and path? Now that we are living longer in a more dynamic world, many of us are finding different ways to express a passion in a new purpose and path. Is 2008 a year for you to rekindle your big dreams and clarify your purpose and path?

Connections provide the crucible that fires our essence. For it is in relationships that we come to know who we truly are. Yet, many of us turn away from difficult relationships and some isolate themselves. Whereas certain circumstances, such as those of abuse, warrant such action, many others do not.  Is 2008 a year to reconsider lost relationships, strengthen tenuous ones or forge new relationships?

A single neuron is unable to effect an action. It takes a string of neurons communicating for us to see, touch, feel, talk, walk, etc. The body teaches us that relationships are fundamental to life. Are you suffering from severed relationships?  Maybe 2008 will be a year of forgiveness and reunion. We must create peace on a person- to-person level before it will appear on a nation- to-nation level.

Finally, the abundance mindset infuses all the other characteristics with a deep expansiveness that gives us a sense of self. That sense of self is rooted in our knowing  that we are beings constantly permeated by a live, unlimited, giving force that keeps us in existence. How can we have a small sense of self when we know our true origin? When we understand that our passion, seeded in our beings, calls forth our greatness -- who are we to question the biggest of our dream?  Since each and every one of us is infused with the same life force, how can we judge each other and sever relationships when they become difficult?

We have the means to transcend the problems and forge deeper relationships. Explore your dimensions to thrive in 2008 -- as well as strive.

This article appeared in the Jan/Feb 2008 issue of The Healing Path.

Attached is a pdf version of the article.

Read Joan's December "Coaching Tips from Joan"