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Love yourself, Love others, Love your Life.
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Vol. 2, Issue # 36                       August 15, 2001
www.BrightSideCoaching.com          ISSN: 1530-4334
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Welcome
Incredible Things
Soul Restoration Tip
Contact Info
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Greetings! While I live in Atlanta, I am sending this today from Chicago where I am attending the 2001 International Coach Federation Conference! I am privileged to be here with some of my fabulous colleagues and friends. We are listening to powerful speakers such as Suze Orman, Don Miguel Ruiz, Margaret Wheatley, Richard Strozzi Heckler and Cheryl Richardson. I will return home a more blessed person for having been in the company of such esteemed speakers and basking in the synergy created by 1400 coaches here. Wow! I will share my experience and new insights with you in a future issue of The Bright Side.

Welcome to our many new subscribers! Also thanks for all the great emails you have been sending -- such inspirations you are! Thank you so much!

With Love,
Beth

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Incredible Things

"We have what we seek. It is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us."

~ Thomas Merton

Here is a true, but interesting little coaching story. A client, Keith, calls me up for our scheduled coaching session and begins to discuss all the things going wrong in his life. He rants. He raves. He vents. I listen. I always listen and will generally tolerate a 5 minute "gripe" session. When the 5 minutes are over, I calmly say, "So, Keith, tell me something incredible that is happening in your life now."

Silence. Complete stillness. Apparently, he is stumped. Silence is the trophy of coaching -- when the client is quiet, the coach knows she really has got him to shift into a different thinking mode. A long while passes before he softly says, "I can't think of anything incredible happening in my life."

"You can't?", I quietly respond.

More silence.

"No.," Keith says. " I know it is pitiful, but I cannot think of a thing."

"Well, when life is going great, how is it that incredible things come to be in your life? What manifests them for you? I'll give you an example -- when I take the time to work on my book, I find incredible things happen in my life -- synchonicity is effortless then. Or when I spend quality time with loved ones -- incredible things happen."

"Hmmmmmmm.," he says. "I don't know -- nothing good is happening so I can't answer. I have an issue with my immediate boss and .... "

"OK, then. I am going to hang up now and you can call me back when you think of how incredible things come to happen in your life."

"You are hanging up?", he asks with a nervous edge to his tone.

I know he is wondering who the heck I think I am. I can almost hear him thinking aloud, " I pay HER for THIS and she is ending the call???"

"Yes, I am hanging up -- our work today will move forward when you can come up with some answers. Write this down: WHEN I ____________, INCREDIBLE THINGS HAPPEN."

With reluctance and uncertainty, Keith agrees to hang up and call back when he can answer the question.

A little time passes. Tick tock.

The phone rings and it is a much different Keith. Apparently, he did not want to waste our coaching session! :-)

He is excited and his voice is full of enthused energy! "I got it, Beth! I have a few answers!"

"OK, tell me!" I say. I am excited too.

Keith begins, "Well, when I take the time to organize my day each morning, incredible things happen. When I write out my goals and review them weekly, incredible things happen. When I take the time to meditate and pray quietly upon awakening, incredible things happen .........."

Keith goes on for several more minutes before he says, "Wow! That was really great -- I'm not sure how it happened but I feel like a new person."

I respond, "What happened here is that you got OUT OF YOUR HEAD AND INTO YOUR HEART -- that is when incredible things happen."

It is so easy and yet it sometimes so difficult to do. He is amazed that he never made the connection before. Now Keith knows what to do to find extraordinary joy in everyday living. Slow down, get in touch with the internal feelings and reject external circumstances. Simply, he must get out of his head and into his heart!

Align your thinking (head) with a higher form of thought (heart), and incredible things are capable of happening!

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Soul Restoration Tip

When I __________, incredible things happen.
When I __________, incredible things happen.
When I __________, incredible things happen.
When I __________, incredible things happen.
When I __________, incredible things happen.

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I've been on the road a lot this summer and now it is time to spend some time connecting to the things and people I love most, thus manifesting incredible things in my life! September is going to be a bit of a restoration time for me. As we head into autumn, you'll find me quietly coaching, writing, reading and watching some darn good college football! ;-)

Wishing you an overflow of incredible things happening in your life,

Beth
Professional Life Coach /Writer / Human Being

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Beth Burns is a Professional Life Coach -- partnering with motivated people on their personal and professional goals. Her mission is to teach people to love themselves and love their life! She offers two free email newsletters and can be visited on the web at www.BrightSideCoaching.com. She can also be reached by calling 678-938-0419 or by email Beth@BrightSideCoaching.com.