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Clear Pathways Coaching Newsletter, 1/9/10
Dear Friends: Welcome to Clear Pathways Coaching monthly newsletter. Happy New Year. Best wishes for peace, health and all that you need in the coming days.
Warmly,
Lillian
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In this issue:
Quote of the Month
The Main Thing
Humor Your Stress
QUOTE OF THE MONTH
As an irrigator guides water to the fields, as an archer
aims an arrow, as a carpenter carves wood, the wise shape
their lives. The Buddha
THE MAIN THING
What lessons will you take from 2009? How can the difficulties you've faced inform the changes you'll make in the New Year? In what ways will your priorities change in 2010?
Here are some life lessons from Cheryl Richardson that may help you get started on your list.
1. Less is so much more. The less I do things like spend money, over work, eat, fret, try to change the unchangeable, or take care of others who need to learn to take care of themselves, the better I feel. Life Lesson: When in doubt, do less.
2. Add the right kind of "more" to life. The more I laugh, connect deeply with others, get inspired, fill my mind with good thoughts, move my body, or balance work with rest, the more my life reflects my values and the happier I feel. Life Lesson:
Know your "right kind of more" and add some of it to your life every day.
3. Stop waiting to live. Over the last year I've started paying closer attention to (and acting on) the small voice inside that tugs at me to do the little things that make me happy. Calling a friend with a last minute dinner invitation, seeing a movie in the middle of the day, or enjoying the sights and sounds of nature by taking a walk before I start my workday, are now the kind of priorities that make it into my schedule first rather than after the "important things" are done. Life Lesson: Don't put your quiet desires on hold anymore. Do them first.
HUMOR YOUR STRESS:
How They Forecast a Cold Winter
One day in early September the chief of a Native American tribe was asked by his tribal elders if the winter of 2008/9 was going to be cold or mild. The chief asked his medicine man, but he too had lost touch with the reading signs from the natural world around the Great Lakes.
In truth, neither of them had idea about how to predict the coming winter. However, the chief decided to take a modern approach, and the chief rang the National Weather Service in Gaylord Michigan.
How Indian Chief Forecast a Cold Winter
'Yes, it is going to be a cold winter,' the meteorological officer told the chief. Consequently, he went back to his tribe and told the men to collect plenty of firewood.
A fortnight later the chief called the Weather Service and asked for an update. 'Are you still forecasting a cold winter?' he asked.
'Yes, very cold', the weather officer told him.
As a result of this brief conversation the chief went back to the tribe and told his people to collect every bit of wood they could find.
A month later the chief called the National Weather Service once more and asked about the coming winter. 'Yes,' he was told, 'it is going to be one of the coldest winters ever.'
'How can you be so sure?' the chief asked.
The weatherman replied: 'Because the Native Americans of the Great Lakes are collecting wood like crazy.
He who laughs, lasts.
Lillian Mills, B.S., M.Ed., C.L.C.
Reinvention Coach
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