The answer is a resounding YES! As an example, a good coaching colleague has just released her debut album with a distinct Folk/Pop feel.

Stephanie is a great coach and her heart is with supporting charity as below:

“In February 2008, I determined that my purpose in life is to “sing a song in my heart”. I wasn’t sure exactly what that meant when it came to me.  I used it as a metaphor for what I do as a coach.  Interestingly, since then it has all become more literal, and led me to writing and recording my own songs.   As a result, I have just finished recording my first original music EP called “Resilient Soul”.

JUNE TARGET

Just like most of us, I have had family and friends who have died from cancer, including, my dad, who died from pancreatic cancer in 2004.  I wanted to come up with a way to contribute to the Queensland Cancer Council on a bigger scale and so I have set a target to sell 200 of my CDs in June & am donating $2 from the sale of each EP in June to the Queensland Cancer Council… this target won’t be bringing me any profit – it’s going to take a few more than that to break even!

I am asking people to buy at least one EP to help me hit my $400 donation target for the Queensland Cancer Council.  I would also appreciate your help in spreading the word to anyone who could do with feeling a little more “resilient” and would appreciate the gesture of giving to the Cancer Council.”

For more information, to listen to some songs from the CD (follow the link on the “Music” page) to:  www.stephaniegill.wordpress.com.  You will find the whole story behind the EP there.

So yes, Coaches do set goals and do achieve them.

Goals are crucial in moving forward in the long term.

Cheers John B

Statistics from www.internetworldstats.com have just been released for the quarter to December 31^st 2009.

There are now 1.802 Billion internet users of a world population of 6.767 Billion people!
Australia (and oceanic region) has a 60.8% internet penetration rate of its 34.7 Million population. That’s over 21 Million internet users locally. Although they only represent 1.2% of the world’s internet users, they represent 100% of our local markets.

If you don’t have internet representation and use it as a critical point in your marketing and business development, your competition will be!

If you are considering a website or giving your current one a makeover, make sure you download and go through this presentation first.  It is about understanding the internet and some basic statistics and how to use it.  You need some knowledge before you start using the world’s fastest marketing medium.

Understanding IT Website Terms

John Burkhardt – Amplio Business Solutions

Hi Everyone.  For you book fans on the Gold Coast, Australia; one of my favorite clients is having a clearance of books.

Only $2 per Book or 3 Books for $5

Hundreds of Titles to Choose From

• Business & Investment
• Christian
• Biographies
• Health & Fitness
• Cooking
• Gardening
• Crafts & Hobbies
• Family & Relationships
• Sports & Recreation
• Home & Renovation

Saturday 13th February

7 a.m. to 12 Noon

At 5 Comore Drive, Varsity Lakes Qld 4217

M: 0402 806 280

E: jellard@austarnet.com.au

DON’T MISS OUT

THIS SATURDAY ONLY

LOG ON:                                        Adding wood to make the barbie hotter.
LOG OFF:                                      Not adding any more wood to the barbie.
MONITOR:                                   Keeping an eye on the barbie.
DOWNLOAD:                              Getting the firewood off the ute.
HARD DRIVE:                            Making the trip back home without any cold tinnies.
KEYBOARD:                               Where you hang the ute keys.
WINDOW:                                    What you shut when the weather’s cold.
SCREEN:                                      What you shut in the mozzie season.
BYTE:                                            What mozzies do.
MEGABYTE:                               What Townsville mozzies do.
CHIP:                                            A bar snack.
MICROCHIP:                             What’s left in the bag after you’ve eaten the chips.
MODEM:                                      What you did to the lawns.
LAPTOP:                                      Where the cat sleeps.
SOFTWARE:                                Plastic knives & forks you get at Red Rooster.
HARDWARE:                              Stainless steel knives & forks – from K-Mart.
MOUSE:                                        The small rodent that eats the grain in the shed.
MAINFRAME:                           What hold’s the shed up.

WEB:                                              What spiders make.

WEBSITE:                                    Usually in the shed or under the verandah.

SEARCH ENGINE:                    What you do when the ute won’t go.
CURSOR:                                      What you say when the ute won’t go.
YAHOO:                                       What you say when the ute does go.
UPGRADE:                                  A steep hill.
SERVER:                                      The person at the pub who brings out the counter lunch.
MAIL SERVER:                         The bloke at the pub who brings out the counter lunch.
USER:                                            The neighbour who keeps’s borrowing things.
NETWORK:                                  What you do when you need to repair the fishing net.
INTERNET:                                 Where you want the fish to go.
NETSCAPE                                  What the fish do when they discover the hole in the net.
ONLINE:                                      Where you hang the washing.
OFFLINE:                                    Where the washing end’s up when the pegs aren’t strong enough.
Who says you can’t have fun occasionally.

Why Reflect on Things?

Whilst reading (yes, another past time) I came across this paragraph:

“but, as my father would undoubtedly have pointed out if I had been a small boy and he had been walking beside me today, despite appearances, the pathway doesn’t really get narrower and narrower the farther you go.  On reaching the other end of the field, he would have made me stop and turn to look back the way we’d come.  I would have been surprised and fascinated to discover that, even after walking the entire length of the path, we still seemed to be standing on the widest part of all.”

Source (c) Ghosts the story of a renunion by Adrian Plass 2001

Hope you enjoy it.

by Lea Belair – Agent of the Future

How can you make the start of your New Year a real start toward the future you want? Studies show that about one in four New Year’s resolutions is broken after two weeks.

It’s clear that what we need in order to keep our resolutions is more than change, we need sustainable change. One way for you to make a change that lasts is to look at your New Year’s Resolutions in a new way. As I’ll show you, it’s easier to stick to your New Year’s resolutions if you look at any change as evolutionary not revolutionary!

When we want to make a change we often ‘see’ ourselves in the future as we would like that future to be, whether the goal is to reach a healthier weight, become financially secure, overcome an old habit, start a new career or attract a new relationship.

As a coach and Agent of the Future, I often suggest that my clients start by seeing the goal as already accomplished. However, trying to make radical changes to get to the future we want can quickly derail our efforts.

Radical change or revolution is a sudden, casting aside of the past in order to bring about something new. (Think: French Revolution.) The same is true about establishing new habits, behaviors, or frameworks of thinking. Just thinking of bringing an aspect of you under the knife of the guillotine is stressful!

When you decide to make a change that is sudden and drastic, without a firm foundation to support you over time, you naturally struggle and give up. Radical change is not sustainable. On the other hand, sustainable change is a step-by-step process, using what ‘is’ as the basis for something new.  Personal sustainable change is the process of creating and unfolding new patterns. See change as a continuum built on a strong foundation that supports you in taking the next step. When you take one step after another in the same consistent direction you make progress and use strengths you already have and reach your goal.

The first step in making a sustainable change is to have a clear intention to do something differently, or create a new pattern. Intentions tap into the field of energy called ‘the flow’ that opens the space for something new without the stress of a revolution. That’s because intentions redirect our focus, allowing us to identify old patterns, choose to see things differently, and take new actions.

In addition, in making change that is sustainable it is important to have our environments support our intentions.

Environments are the things that surround us in our every day life, such as our physical environment, our environment of relationships, and our environment of thoughts and emotions. Environments can happen accidentally or intentionally. Intentionally crafted environments help us to continue to make consistent steps forward toward our goal by supporting our new patterns of thinking and behavior. Environments define us and we define our environments.

Pick one thing in your environment right now and ask yourself what it says about you. Did you put it there intentionally? Does it resonate with what you value? Does it help or inspire you? Or, does it make your life more difficult?

One of my friends told me how he wanted to read at home but never seemed to get to it. Was it that he didn’t have the time, or perhaps the energy? Let’s look at the problem from the environmental standpoint: he had the intention to read, but what about his reading environment? It turns out he didn’t have a cozy chair or a well lit space for reading. Once he changed his physical environment to include the cozy chair and put a good standing lamp next to it, viola he was reading at home without the struggle of having to find more time or energy!

Supportive and inspiring environments come in a variety of forms, whether physical, mental, or spiritual. Whatever the environment, you can craft it intentionally.

Here is a fun and easy way to help you to create an intentional environment to support and inspire you in keeping your resolutions in the new year

1. Gather 25 pictures from magazines, newspapers, and photos that remind you of your intentions. Create a collage and hang it in an appropriate place in your home. If your New Year’s resolution is about food, hang your collage in the kitchen; if it’s about relationships, hang it in the living room or bedroom; if it’s about money, hang it next to where you keep your money paraphernalia.

2. Put a pen and paper by your bed. At the end of each day, for at least one week after you hang up your collage, write down what you noticed about your intentions. Did you remember them? Did something unexpected happen? Did you learn something new? After a week you can keep this practice if you still need support in keeping your resolutions. Or, you can invent another way to remain inspired by your environment. Music, smells, and things you can touch that remind you of the future you want will work with your subconscious mind to keep you on track.

Set yourself up for success.Instead of making change a stressful and frustrating task, take the sustainable change step-by-step route. Taking even one small step at a time with intention and purpose moves you consistently in the direction of what you want and sends a strong message to everyone that will magnetize your future vision to you! As we change, with the support of our environments, we naturally begin to thrive in change.

Lea Belair is a personal and business coach residing in Vermont. This article is based on the distinction Revolutionary vs. Evolutionary in her breakthrough book Walk on Water: How to Make Change Easier which focuses on practical things you can do to support your changes. Walk on Water – 2005 Change Agent Press is available at www.walkonwaterthebook.com

This is a great little article from a US coach.  It is tweaked slightly to fit in with our Christian terminology but the essence and content remains Lea’s.

Sourced from “You Can Do It!” by Bob Budler (c)

“Everyone can have an impact on the quality of life in the world.  No matter what your I.Q., size, shape or race, do the best you can do every day.  Out-work and out-think the other guy and success will follow.  Be patient – good things don’t happen every day or every year, but they will happen.  There are no short cuts to success to replace honest, hard work.  Never give up on yourself!”

James R Moffett

Chairman & CEO

Freeport-McMoRan, Inc.