Love

For me, Love is the most important of all - spending time and being Present with those that I Love in my life.

I remember years ago when my life was so busy and I was always worrying or thinking about work or about relationships that weren't working out, or thinking about the past or worrying about what was out of my control.  And now, right NOW, I feel very relaxed, my mind is clear - I can be totally Present in the NOW.  It is so great to have a quiet mind - I feel that there is space - time to breathe.

I Love that I can enjoy time with My Man - enjoying time out, time at home, time together.  I loved celebrating My Man's birthday recently, it was so great being at a beautiful restaurant together, enjoying a long lunch - I am so happy that I have found Love.  To Love and Be Loved is the greatest gift - my greatest dream come true. 

And I Love spending time with my Mum and Dad.  I am blessed that they have always filled my life with Love.  Just the other day we were shopping and I was ordering lunch for Mum and Dad and I took a few moments to just look over at my Mum and I waved to my Mum - in that moment I just looked over and saw such beauty in my Mum - my Mum waved back - this was a moment of just feeling such Love for my Mum.  I captured this moment in my heart.  Since my Mum has been unwell I have been so conscious of just enjoying time with my Mum, telling my Mum how much I love her and telling my Mum she is beautiful.

And today was a wonderful day - time with the Family, enjoying my Niece's dancing concert.  I Love my Nieces - they bring such Joy and Love into my life.  It was great to just enjoy the day, without thinking about anything else, just being totally Present and also feeling the warmth of Love from being with my Family and my Nieces.   I especially loved seeing my Niece Ashley up on stage smiling and dancing and having a great time - what a great feeling to feel such Love in my heart as I watched Ashley performing her ballet and jazz.  And I Love the hugs from my Nieces and I loved when my Niece Olivia sat on my lap and relaxed into me, so comfortable, so relaxed, moments filled with Love.  Here are some of my favourite photos from today.

 

I Love taking photos and I also Love just capturing moments in my mind's eye.  Today I was sitting next to my Mum and my Niece Olivia who had been sitting on my lap most of the day came over and climbed onto my Mum's lap, her Nana - and it was a beautiful moment, Olivia cuddled into my Mum and I just enjoyed feeling this moment of Love.

For a long time I was searching for My True Love and during this search I was so Grateful to be surrounded in the Love of my Family.  And now I have so much Love in my life - so much Love that I Value above all else - this is Life's Greatest Treasure for me.

I remember at College we enjoyed a Meditation about our Purpose - it was a Meditation based on when your Soul is about to become human form, at the time of conception - and we were asked the question - what will be your Purpose in this lifetime?  The word that came up for me was... Love - so simple - so true for me.  

And with Love as the main Priority in my life, this guides me in my Life Design.  I now choose a job and a career that allows me to enjoy work-life Balance with plenty of time dedicated to the key relationships in my life.  I also ensure that I have time for Self, enjoying one of my favourite books, relaxing in the bath, a walk out in Nature - Self-Love.

My Commitment is to Love - Love of Self, Love of My Man, Love of My Family and Friends, Love of ALL - LOVE.

Totally Present

I love being in touch with my Values, my guiding principles in my Life.  When looking at my Values which I have on the wall in my bedroom, the most important and largest driving force in my life is LOVE.

This weekend for me has been about spending time with my Loved ones, the people most important in my life.  With next week, being a 3 day Intensive weekend of learning, it has been nice to just relax this weekend. 

I loved spending yesterday with my Mum, Dad and my Man - just enjoying time together, chatting, laughing, walking, talking.  I love seeing my Mum well and happy.  We enjoyed a walk along the beach, a nice lunch, and then Mum and Dad came back to our home for afternoon tea.  Mum also loves playing the tennis game on my Man's computer game - Mum used to love playing tennis and hasn't played since she first became unwell two years ago.  It is great to see Mum loving the game and just relaxing and having fun.  It is great for all of us to relax and have fun.  

As everyone knows I love Yellow.  I love my Yellow tops, especially the one I wore yesterday.  I also put out into the Universe that I was looking for more Yellow tops - wanting the Law Of Attraction to work for me.  And I was delighted when my Mum and I went for a browse in the 'Tree Of Life' Store and I found and bought a new Yellow t-shirt that I just LOVE.  I love the image.  I can't wait to wear this to College next week.

I also enjoyed spending this morning with my Man and his Mum, having breakfast and chatting.  I don't enjoy shopping and yet I liked shopping this morning as I had a list of what I needed to buy - shopping with a purpose.  I certainly don't like shopping where I am just browsing the stores - I am not a shopper - except when I am buying presents for people that I love.

This afternoon I could have easily just relaxed at home, or did some work for College or my Business - and yet, I knew I couldn't wait to see my Nieces, I love seeing my Nieces.  And so I drove over, loved seeing their beautiful little faces light up when I get to the door and I hug them and I love just spending time with them.  Little Baby Brooke wakes up and I love just having her sit on my lap and feel in Connection with her, she cuddles in to me and there is nowhere else I would love to be.  My Dad and I then took Ashley, Olivia and Brooke to the park and we had a great time, I loved it, we all loved it - playing on the swings and the girls eating ice cream and watching the ducks in the river.

I love that Ashley wanted to dress similar to me with layers and a scarf.  She is so beautiful.  I will never forget when Ashley was born, my first Niece, the first baby I had seen within an hour or two of being born.  I'll never forget when my Brother walked down the stairs and we were all waiting that my Sister-In-Law was well and that their baby was born and he announced with so much joy "We've had a girl" - we cried and hugged and were so happy.  And when I first saw Ashley, I instantly fell in love with her - it must be incredible as a Parent, as I can't imagine experiencing more love then I felt in that moment when I saw Ashley.  It is easy to remember this moment, these precious moments, as I was Totally Present.  By being Totally Present I can bring back these happy, treasured memories so easily.  There are so many favourite times shared with my Nieces and by recalling these beautiful times, I can experience feelings of Joy - how wonderful!!!   

   

And now Ashley is turning 7 this year.  Time can go so quickly, and yet when I am Totally Present in the moment, I have no awareness of time, it is almost as if time stands still.  Today when I am walking with my Dad and my Nieces I am just in the moment with them, Totally Present, not thinking about anything else, not worrying about the time, just enjoying the right here and now.  I love seeing my Parents with my Nieces.  I just love my Family.

Olivia is definitely her own person - and I love that about her - she knows exactly what she likes and doesn't like - she loves her pretty clothes, she loves skirts and dresses that twirl.  Olivia also likes photos on her own - sometimes she will get in a photo with her sisters, today she doesn't want to be in the family shot - and that's okay.  I am just so happy to share this time with them.  They love walking and running by the lake, and Ashley loves doing cartwheels and little Brooke loves doing half somersaults (and we watch and enjoy with delight) and Olivia loves rolling down the grass incline.  I capture these moments in my mind's eye - to try and run around with a camera to capture every moment would take away the experience for me - I love taking photos and yet I love being right in the moment, Totally Present with my gorgeous Nieces.

We have a wonderful hour or two.  I love being in Nature with my Nieces, just being outdoors with them.  This is the suburb where I grew up and I always have a feeling of Home being here.  And then I see my Mum and that always makes me happy.

I am so Grateful that I have a Family that I love and that loves me and I am so Grateful to come home to my Man with whom I share my life.

I feel myself happiest when I am totally living in the moment - I find these words which resonate with me -
http://www.higherawareness.com/self-awareness/beingpresentquotes.html
"Many people live their whole lives lost in thoughts of the past and the future. Yet, we only truly live life when we are present to the moment. And being present means being fully conscious of what's going on so we can participate fully and appropriately in the opportunities that present themselves."

I have been doing so much study about Yin and Yang, that it has been wonderful this weekend to just be in the moment, not thinking or analysing or even (consciously) being a witness to myself.  I wonder what is happening with my Yin and Yang when I am Totally Present in the moment.  I have a sense that my Yin and Yang are in total harmony.  I read these words on line that feel true for me -

http://www.squidoo.com/yinandyangsymbol
"The Yin-Yang symbol represents the balance of opposites in the universe or said another way - balance and harmony. When they are equally present, all is calm. When one is outweighed by the other, there is confusion and disarray."

When I am Totally Present I feel my Yin and Yang Parts of myself embracing, holding hands, basking in the sunlight...

It's Up To Me

It is 1 June - the first day of Winter.  At the beginning of the year I had made a Commitment to be up for the Sunrise on the first day of every month - I love being a Witness to the Sunrise.  This morning I was tired, I would have loved to just keep sleeping.

It is interesting to be an Observer to these two Parts of myself - the Part that wants to get up and out and see the Sunrise and the Part that wants to stay under my warm doona.  It is interesting now that I have discovered the two distinct Parts of myself of Yin Feminine and Yang Masculine - as it helps with my Internal Dialogue.  I feel my Yin wants to rest while my Yang wants to get up and out into ACTION.  I feel my Yang Part encouraging my Yin, reminding me of how much I love the Sunrise and asking Yin to "please get up, we made plans".  My Internal World is the same as a loving relationship between a Male and Female in the outside world - there is love, encouragement, negotiation, discussion.  When Male and Female come together and work together, there is MAGIC, there is ENERGY and warmth and light. 

It is funny thinking of these two Parts of me, and I am realising that Yin and Yang are almost like the Mother and Father of all my Sub-Personalities.  In my work with Sub-Personalities, I have learnt that when working with Inner conflict, there are usually two distinct Parts that want different things, that have different needs.  And I am now seeing that I can label each Part as either a Yin Sub-Personality or a Yang Sub-Personality - such as my Sub-Personality of my Couch Girl would be Yin and my Sub-Personality of my Sporty Kath would be Yang.  I also know that as well as a Yin versus Yang conflict, it is probable and possible that there could be a conflict between two different Yin Sub-Personalities or two different Yang Sub-Personalities.  In Coaching I love working with the empty chair and working with two Parts of myself or a Client - and now I have realised that my Yin and Yang can work together to help resolve the conflict and be in a place of love and understanding and support so that there is a Win-Win.  This is wonderful work.

I am still learning and getting to know these two Parts of me and I am always interested when different Sub-Personalities come onto the stage of my life.  And yet I can see that a greater understanding of Yin and Yang can help bring me into Balance.  When working with Inner conflict or facing a decision, I feel that there may be different Sub-Personalities, and yet I feel I can be in charge of my life, I AM in charge of my own life.  If I feel a Sub-Personality come onto the stage of my life, such as the Overthinker, my Yin Feminine whispers to her Beloved Yang that he should just rest and relax.  If I have a feeling of Self-Doubt, a Shadow on the side of my Yin, I feel my Yang man loving my Yin with reassuring and loving words. 

Best of all I feel that my Yin and Yang can help me achieve all my dreams - through the Strengths and Resources of both parts of me, and through their encouragement and support of the other Part of me - I feel like I can overcome all obstacles.  I  feel I have Choices and I can rely on myself.  I cannot say that I am not good at that, or I don't know how to do that, or live in fear or Shadow - as I now see  that I am all things, I have all these Parts to me that can be developed and brought into my life.  I have always loved these words - "If It's To Be, It's Up To Me".  I feel that from a place of Self-Love and Self-Confidence I have now springboarded to a place of Empowerment - where I can work with what is within my own control and using my power to make positive Choices.

My Yang was able to encourage Yin to get up this morning.  And what a wonderful morning.  I love being outdoors.  On my way to Cronulla Beach I decide to put some of my Flyers into letterboxes.  There has been no logical order to my letterbox drops - originally from a place of Yang I was planning on photocopying pages from a street directory to keep a record of the streets where I have given out my Flyers and also to keep a record of the numbers that I am distributing - and yet I just let my Yin be in the moment and let this be my guide - while my Yang is my feet on the ground.  When I am out the front of a unit complex, I just look at all of the different numbers and rather than putting a Flyer into every letterbox, I just let my Intuitive Yin part of me guide my Yang.  When I am putting my Flyers into different letterboxes, I find it interesting that there are so many different letterboxes, and then my Yang Thinker, thinks about all the different types of houses, and then I think about all the different people and families, living in the houses, and then my Yin has a sense of so many different stories and has a sense of Spread The Yellow, and I send love and light and Yellow with my Flyer.

It was so cloudy and so I didn't see the sunrise above the horizon, and yet I just loved watching the sky and walking along the beach.  I am glad that I took my camera this morning to take some shots of my beautiful morning.

 

I love the sky, I love the sky.  I could have stayed there all day.  I am also amazed when I watch the ocean swimmers, so fearless of the cold.  I have always thought I wanted to be an ocean swimmer and yet I get so so cold.  I am so Inspired when I am dressed up warm in a tracksuit and I see the swimmers in the ocean in Autumn and Winter.

I just love seeing people in the world, living their life, doing what brings them Joy.

When I get home I enjoy a Meditation.  I have a sense of me in Sunshine and I see a Visual of me and my Man and our Baby and my Nieces.  And then I see another beautiful image of me sitting on a picnic rug on the front lawn of my Parents' home and I am with my Mum and my Baby.  I love this image.  I also have an image of Yellow bubbles floating and yet they are more like Yellow feathers floating down on someone, with warmth rather than a cold burst of water, and then I get a sense of Yellow rose petals.

I have a strong belief that if a Goal is really important to me that It's Up To Me and my Yin and Yang will come together, work together. 

I could stay at home today and then I feel two Parts of Yang in conflict - one wants to keep writing - one knows it has to go to work.  My Yin reminds my Yang that I enjoy the Community at my work and that I do get a Sense of Achievement.  My Yin reminds my Yang that there will be time tonight to do what I love to do.

I get home and I do what I love to do - a relax and read in a hot bath, I make a Vegetarian risotto, time with my Man, enjoy a chai latte (made by my Man), Blog and Art Therapy.  I am loving my Yin and Yang and as I am a Visual person I enjoy some Art Therapy to create a picture of Yin, Yang and my Sub-Personalities and Shadow and Soul and Spirit.

This Art makes sense for me - perhaps this is the Yang part of me trying to put everything in a Logical order.  I see my Soul at my core, the Yellow in me, the part of me that is my Uniqueness, my Greatness.  And within my Yin and Yang parts of me, there are some Sub-Personalities (Xs) in the light, and some in the Shadow.  And I see Spirit, my God above me, and Spirit whispers to my Yin, and my Yin hears the voice through her Intuition.  And then there is a Wise One which is the part of me that can be the Observer to myself, can be the Counsellor to my Yin and Yang, believes in the greater good - my Wise One is a Resource to my Yin and Yang, a Resource to me.

I am in a loving, wonderful relationship with my Man.  And yet for the first time in a long time, perhaps forever, I am in loving relationship with My Self.  

Sometimes, when I write so many words in my Blog, or my Blogs are so long, I have this sense of Self-Doubt come up, that I "should" make them shorter, or I write or say "too much" - this is just my Overthinker, or People Pleaser Shadows - and yet my Yin and Yang Parts give me reassurance and remind me that this Blog is for me, this Blog is my Journey.  

I love that I can be Real...  I am Proud of myself for my Courage...  I am Proud to be Me... 

I am Very Happy that I have a knowing that It's Up To Me - It's Up To Me to make Choices, to put my Dreams into ACTION, to Live a Life I Love...

I Can't Wait

My Artwork of Values is now in my Bedroom, it is great to see these Words first thing in the morning.

I look at the word Health and I know that this is very important to me.  And I am not feeling very Healthy right now - probably because I ate chocolate last night, which always makes me feel sick (and yes, I eat it anyway - yes, I am so not perfect).  I also know that I have nothing in the cupboard for breakfast - we have eaten all the fruit and I have not replaced my cereal.  If I was to put on a Scale how I feel in relation to my Ideal Health between 1 and 10 with 10 being the Ideal - I would probably be at a 2 or 3.

I have a sleep in - I feel like I am getting enough  in terms of hours of sleep and yet I still wake up tired - I feel like my night of dreams, where I always remember the adventure or drama, leave me exhausted.  I put on some Meditation music - this is a perfect way to start my day.

In my Mediation, I feel myself going deeper and deeper into a relaxed state.  The image of me lying on a picnic rug with a Baby and my Man nearby comes to my mind's eye - this is our Baby - it is a beautiful image.  In the Meditation I have a sense that I must prepare now, I must make Health a Priority - prepare my body for having our Baby.  When I come out of the meditative state, I feel at peace.  Having a baby is my greatest heart's desire - and this is a great motivation to look after myself.  I Google 'Preparing to have a baby' and I see that it is important to prepare my body 3-12 months in advance - folate seems a Priority - and the importance of not being underweight or overweight, and not eating certain foods such as raw fish.  I am very interested to learn more.  I even go to the library and look up books to find out what I should and shouldn't be eating.  I have had some Health concerns over the last 10 years - and I have a strong sense that I will be a Mum - and I know I have to do everything I can to make this dream come true.

I have a lovely day with my Family.  I enjoy time with my Mum and Dad - we enjoy a walk around Cronulla, along the beach and enjoy lunch at Cronulla RSL - I just love spending time with my Parents.

While walking with my Parents, I am continually, constantly, so consciously looking at Babies and Children.  I always love seeing Children with their Parents - I just Love Children.  I Can't Wait to have my own Baby - I Can't Wait.  In Coaching, there is a question about - What do you ache for?  For me the answer is obvious - I Can't Wait until I have a Baby - this will be my Greatest Wish, my Greatest Gift.

After lunch we walk to the park where I am very Excited to see my Gorgeous Nieces.  Little Brooke (who is turning 2 years old in September) is with my Dad and she runs over - I love seeing my Dad with my Nieces, his Granddaughters.  My Mum just loves spending time with Brooke - probably because the day Brooke was born was the day that Mum found out she had a brain tumor - miraculously, thank God, Mum is enjoying wonderful times with Brooke - who makes us smile.

I then love seeing my Nieces Ashley (7 in August) and Olivia (4 in July) run towards me.  My Nieces bring me so much Joy.  I love my Nieces - I can't imagine loving more - and yet I Can't Wait until I become a Mum.  And I Can't Wait to look at my Baby, our Baby - I love the feeling of having a Baby with my Man.

I love the day with my Family and I love that my Brother and Sister-In-Law and my Nieces call over to our Home and we have fun playing computer games and dancing - my Nieces are so beautiful.

 
I Love them.  I Can't Wait to introduce them to their Cousin when we have our Baby.

I am 39 years old in 4 months from next Tuesday - and so I decide that I have to make some changes.  I have to move my 2-3 on my Health Scale to a 10.  I am doing my Research and feeling into my Intuition as to what feels right.  I decide that I will put a hold on my Running until after I have a Baby as I know my Running has in the past affected my cycle - and so I will continue to enjoy my Walking.  I am also DEFINITELY planning to start Yoga - I have been talking about Yoga for over a year - my Commitment is to have been to at least 1 Yoga Class in the next 2 weeks.

I am also planning to be more serious about my diet - I have started buying Organic Fruit and Vegetables - and my preference is Vegetarian and even though I love Animals, I am now wanting a Baby and so I need to continue to educate myself on the best Choices for myself.

I Can't Wait to have a Baby.  I Can't Wait!!!  I am so Grateful that I have a Wonderful Man to share my life and I look forward to the day when we hold our Baby in our arms.

I Choose To Be A Coach

Spread The Yellow - I have a knowing that this is my Soul Purpose. 

Spread The Yellow is a choice.  Today, it is in the moments of laughter with colleagues, it is in the interest and enthusiasm that I show to Customers on the phone, it is in time and interest I offer to the friendly woman at the dental surgery.  I am Grateful when I feel others Spread The Yellow to me - I am touched that a friend from College sponsored me in the 'Relay For Life' - so Grateful - and I am happy to receive the small acts of loving and giving from my Man when he helps me and my Parents in organising their phone, when my Man puts hot water in my bath and when he steams broccoli for me and organises dinner.  Spread The Yellow is sharing excitement and Joy in beauty - in the simple - in our Organic Fruit and Vegetable box that was delivered again tonight - we have placed a permanent order for Monday nights - I love it - I love the surprise and I am so Excited to explore the contents and imagine all the wonderful Vegetarian dishes I will Create.

I have started reading 'Soulcraft' by Bill Plotkin (I have 3 other  books on the go - and yet I am called to start reading this book).  It is a wonderful book.  I love the definition of Soulcraft "the skill needed in shaping the human Soul towards its fulfillment in its unity with the entire Universe".  As A Coach - a Tranformational Life Coach - it is my desire to be a witness and Honour the Soul and offer Soulcraft.

It is 3 days until I start my Coaching Business. The common question I am getting asked is "Have I got my first Client organised?". Now if I was in my Corporate Business world, entirely in my Yang, I would be overthinking my Business, or racing around getting all my Marketing organised - yet in my Yin-Yang, I feel comfortable and relaxed.  My Yin-Yang is my new way of being, it is definitely new to me and I am just learning to be in this new way - trusting my Intuition, being in the flow and then taking Inspired ACTION.  I love in the first few pages of 'Soulcraft' that the author writes "I heard the Soul's call again, this time as an urgency for wilderness solitude, to look inwardly as far and as innocently as possible, and to wait until some truth rang out."  

Normally in Yang style I would be driven and writing lists and getting everything done and writing Business Plans and a Marketing Strategy - yet I want to enjoy the flow of this Journey. I was intuitively guided to the Bookstore where I will now be working, I listened to my Yin and my Yang took the ACTION necessary to confirm the agreement and pay the rent. I just want to take one step at a time and see where that leads and then another step will follow - feeling into my Intuition, my Yin being the wanderer and then my Yang will take the necessary steps.

My Yang has been working hard for his beloved Yin - the two parts of myself working together to create my business. I am Excited that I am getting my business cards and Flyers printed and I will receive them during the week. I am Excited that I will be able to put some Flyers at the Clinics of my Physiotherapist, my Chiropractor and my Doctor. I am really Excited that when talking to my Doctor last week, he was very interested in the work that I do and asked me to drop some Flyers and cards to him, that he thought he would be able to definitely refer people to me that needed Support. I am also Excited that the Owner of the Doctor's Clinic has also offered me space at the Clinic.

Wow... the Universe is Very Wonderful.  My Doctor showers me with compliments, tells me and my Man how happy I always am, and how I brighten his day. We then go to the shops and while getting groceries I see from a distance a Doctor that I used to visit years and years ago - probably over 7 years ago - what is interesting is that I had visited this Doctor a long time ago when I was suffering from Depression, when I was at the bottom of the dark hole. It is ironic, coincidental, synchronistic - that I should see both Doctors in one day and that their experience of me would be quite different.

This experience allows me to reflect on Why I Choose To Be A Coach. A long time ago, seems like a lifetime away, or someone else's life, I experienced Depression. It was a very Dark time for me and my Family. I remember the lead up to the Depression - I was in a job that I didn't feel was right for me, I lacked confidence in my role, I didn't feel comfortable at all, I didn't feel like I belonged in the workplace, my Marriage wasn't working, we had put ourselves under huge financial strain, I was an insomniac and would go days and nights without sleeping. I wish I had have worked with a Coach - or had someone to catch me before I fell down the BIG, DEEP hole. All the signs were there, I was so stressed and anxious and felt trapped. Luckily for me I had a wonderful Mum, Dad and Brother who loved me, sat with me, helped me - and two great friends who listened and sat with me in this black space. Miraculously I eventually saw some light and found the strength to live again, without medication, just time and support.

Thinking back on this time is still emotional for me. It was so difficult for my Mum and Dad and my Brother and Sister-In-Law. Sadly, my Marriage ended - although I know my ex-Husband is a very good man and our Marriage was not supposed to be. My Marriage ended because we didn't have Connection, we didn't have enough heartfelt Conversations.

I am definitely a cheerleader personality (99% of the time) - I am positive, happy, friendly, motivated, I get Excited. Had I not been through Depression, I never would have understood or had the level of Compassion and Empathy that I now have for others. My Mum and friend Ann were wonderful to me - they would just sit with me, they did not try to rush me, or talk their 'sense' into me, or give me advice, or give judgements - they just accepted me and gave me space to talk and be myself - in Counselling and Coaching we call this Unconditional Positive Regard - and allowing Attentive Silence and Space.  Had I not experienced Depression, I would have been more inclined to motivate people or cheerleader them in a new direction - and now I have learnt the power of just sitting and holding the space for someone as a witness and in Honour of their Journey.

I have always been interested in working with others, and since I was about 27 I was considering studying Psychology. I also remember around this time seeing an article in the Sunday magazine about Life Coaching and immediately I was interested and wanted to become a Life Coach. And after my experience of Depression, I know that I want to help people - I want to catch people before they fall into a black hole - help people find the steps in their lives to keep them moving. 

And not only moving, in terms of just going through the motions of life - but to live in a state of Joy and Happiness. 

I am fortunate in that I know the signs in myself - I know when it is okay to just surrender and sit with the feeling and I also know when I need to take ACTION. 

As well as being in the depth of a dark Valley, I have also been at the top of the Peak of Mountains.  I am fortunate, through hard work, to have won the major Awards at University, graduated with a High Distinction.  I was also selected by my company to live and work in Atlanta for a major Project, which was an incredible experience.  I have excelled as a Manager and Motivator with a love of bringing out the best in others.  I have done well in Sport - loving being the Club Captain of a running club and loving competing, winning and achieving places in running events.

For me now, the Peak Moments are when my Nieces were born, being hugged by them, seeing them dancing, loving them - as well as times with my Mum and Dad, especially when we receive good news that Mum is healthy and well.  Another Peak Moment was falling in love with my Man - and being in love everyday - choosing Love, honouring our Love.  I have been in some very difficult and heartbreaking relationships, I have made mistakes, I have stayed too long in the wrong relationships, and it was only when I made the decision to Honour myself, and Honour what I deserved, that my Man showed up in my life.

I Choose To Be A Coach - and I Choose To Be Authentic.  I am on My Own Journey.  And I have the training, skills and the capacity and an open heart to Support others on their Journey.

At College the other weekend, we did a great Coaching activity - which involved reflecting back on what you have loved about your career - the highlights - the pieces of Gold - while the Client speaks, the Coach writes down the responses to the questions - here are some of my highlights - which also show that my Career is moving in the right direction - I've always loved:

- Hearing people's stories

- Genuine Conversations

- Conversations - hearing about people's lives - joys, excitement, challenges

- Seeing the Greatness in others

- Creating Community

- Getting to know others

- Celebrating with others

- Creating structure for others to grow

- Believing in others

- Helping people find solutions

- Sitting with people in Connection

- Making people feel Valued

- Bring out the best in others

- Charity work

- Coming up with ideas

- Being free to make decisions

- Working with other people

- Harnessing the energy of others to Make A Difference

- Bringing people together for the Greater Good

- People

- Connection

- Nurturing

- Journeying with others rather than teaching them.

The Power of Coaching is about the relationship, about the Connection.  It is helpful and wonderful to read Self-Development books and Journal and yet there is something very magical about the Coaching space and Connection between Coach and Client.  Friends and Family are very wonderful and I am blessed to have such wonderful Support -yet the Coaching Connection offers a difference - offering a Space where there is no advice giving, no judgement, no opinions - just a space dedicated to the Client.  The Coach offers confidentiality and total Support and the freedom for someone to be themselves and just be.  The Coach walks beside a Client on their path, enables awareness of the right steps to help them walk towards their Vision, acknowledges their Client's greatness, their uniqueness, celebrates their Client's Wins.  I am Excited to Spread The Yellow in my Coaching.

I Choose To Be A Coach - I Love Being A Coach... 

I Love to see people SHINE - hearing people speak with Passion, seeing their eyes light up, people doing what they love, people loving their life.  My Passion is that through the Process of Coaching my Clients will feel:
- Successful
- Happy
- Inspired
- New
- Empowered.