| If we heard someone talking to another person the way our Inner Critic talks to us, we might be tempted to intervene. The lead article this month offers suggestions for ways to subdue—possibly even embrace—this voice of harshness and negativism. Read on for ways to work healthfully with change, and take a quiz to see how well you take responsibility for yourself. For comments, questions or responses to this newsletter, please click here. Messages using the reply button will be deleted. Feel free to forward this newsletter; if this was forwarded to you, you may subscribe here..
The Voice of the Inner Critic
Chattering away inside the heads of most human beings is an internal monologue that goes on and on at about 45,000 words per day. It consists of a variety of ... full story here
Ways to Work With Change
All change carries with it the risk of the unknown and the unexpected. Some find this exciting and welcome the challenge. Others go....full story here
 How Well Do You Take Responsibility For Yourself?
Years ago, comedian Flip Wilson created a character named Geraldine, who excused her outrageous behavior by claiming “the devil made me do it.” Poor Geraldine was helpless and ineffective because she wouldn’t take responsibility for herself. In his book...
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Recommended Reading
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom, by Don Miguel Ruiz
Coach Your Teen to Success: 7 Simple Steps to Transform Relationships & Enrich Lives, by Barbara McRae, MCC
The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal, by Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz
Today's Quote
“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.”
—Aristotle
Clients Share Coaching Experience
“I came to the coaching a year ago, confused as to why I felt like I had everything I thought I wanted but was not feeling happy or fulfilled.
Through the coaching process I have been able to get back in touch with the ‘real me.’ I had completely lost touch with who I was in my role as a mother, a wife and a successful business woman.
I am now able to identify and express my needs and am able to balance my masculine and feminine energy, so as I can direct and focus my professional life and drop into my true feminine essence in my relationship with my husband and children.
I have never been happier or experienced so much joy and love in my life on a daily basis.”
—Linda Johnson, CPA, Sydney, Australia.
"...The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are....."
—Joseph Campbell
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