Ann Badillo Coaching

Open Coaching Call 2012 #2

Join me next Wednesday, January 25th

from 8:00 to 9:00 A.M. PST

for my second Open Coaching Call this year. 

To dial in and dive in, use the following information:

dial-in: 916-558-7514

passcode: 696972

Bring a friend, pass this on! All are invited to call into this complimentary coaching call.

In this call, we’ll parse 2011’s successes and 2012’s fresh challenges, then begin strategically planning your creative solution. I’ll help you navigate your new ventures and push you to become more than you thought you could be.

To my corporate clients: consider inviting your whole team to my Open Coaching Call this Wednesday or scheduling a customized focus session with me. 

Who Should Attend

All who wish to:
- rethink, reinvent and rejuvenate their life and career
- translate their New Year's resolutions into real action
- prioritize projects and goals for the new year 

What You Will Get
- time to reflect on your successes of 2011
- strategy for what's next in 2012
- the beginning of a personal strategic plan for the new year

Change happens slowly, but even a small change can create a big impact in your system. Take the first step with me on Wednesday and let's find out where you can run this year.

Relearning the potential of what a life can be, watch and learn from Steve

The Winter of Listening ~ David Whyte

 

No one but me by the fire,
my hands burning
red in the palms while
the night wind carries
everything away outside.

All this petty worry
while the great cloak
of the sky grows dark
and intense
round every living thing.

What is precious
inside us does not
care to be known
by the mind
in ways that diminish
its presence.

What we strive for
in perfection
is not what turns us
into the lit angel
we desire,

what disturbs
and then nourishes
has everything
we need.

What we hate
in ourselves
is what we cannot know
in ourselves but
what is true to the pattern
does not need
to be explained.

Inside everyone
is a great shout of joy
waiting to be born.

Even with the summer
so far off
I feel it grown in me
now and ready
to arrive in the world.

All those years
listening to those
who had
nothing to say.

All those years
forgetting
how everything
has its own voice
to make
itself heard.

All those years
forgetting
how easily
you can belong
to everything
simply by listening.

And the slow
difficulty
of remembering
how everything
is born from
an opposite
and miraculous
otherness.
Silence and winter
has led me to that
otherness.

So let this winter
of listening
be enough
for the new life
I must call my own. 

~  David Whyte  ~

 

(The House of Belonging)

 

Finding Your Work Sweet Spot: Genuine Interest, Skills & Opportunity by Scott Belsky

source: 99% Behance

 

There are two types of work in this world. The first is the laborious kind, which I call “work with obligation.” It’s work that we do because of a contractual obligation. The second – very different – type of work that we do is “work with intention.”When we are working with intention, we toil away endlessly – often through the wee hours of the morning – on projects we care about deeply. Whether it is building an intricate replica model of an ancient ship, or pulling an all-nighter to write a song or map out an idea for a new business, you do it because you love it. 

If you can put “work with intention” at the center of your efforts, you're more likely to make an impact in what matters most to you. So, how do we find (and foster) work with intention in our lives and projects?

Over the years, I have met many creative leaders and entrepreneurs that have made an impact in their respective industries. No surprise, they love what they do. But when I ask probing questions about their career paths, it becomes clear that their good fortunes were not predestined. Aside from lots of hard work, great creative careers are powered by an intersection of three factors: Genuine Interest, Skills, and Opportunity. 

The same thinking applies to successful creative projects. The magic happens when you find the sweet spot where your genuine interests, skills, and opportunity intersect.

1. Your Genuine Interests
What fascinates you? What topic do you like to discuss the most? Most legendary creative careers start with a genuine interest in a particular field. Perhaps it's film, coffee, or airplane travel. A genuine interest is not about what promises the most economic gain. On the contrary, it is a topic that trumps economic concerns because you love it so much. 

While money is important, the drive toward remarkable achievements comes from a deeper place. To understand the symptoms of work performed without genuine interest, look no further than abandoned projects and the malnourished careers of middle managers that count down to 5pm. It's not pretty. 

Quote of the Day--Creative Incubation

  "You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don’t know what was in the newspapers this morning, you don’t know who your friends are, you don’t know what you owe anybody, you don’t know what anybody owes you. This is a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be. This is the place of creative incubation." -- Joseph Campbell 

 

Deep Dive Session--What's it like?

Pre Work

Please think about what your Focus Question is for the Deep Dive session.  This is the driving question for the session--what you want to discover through this process. Examples: What should my next career move be? What can I do to be happier, more content, feel more alive? Where should I move. What's next? Articulate the gist of what you are seeking through this process-your desired outcome.

Think about this question or this "frame" and sleep on it. Your subconscious will start processing it during your sleep cycle and you will be primed for the morning session with me.

Deep Dive Session--What's it like

This is an intensive process and a very organic one.  There are a few key models which provide a method to this process and my practice is influenced by the MGTaylor Modeling Language. Please review if you would like.

I will ask questions and move through the session in a mode of appreciative inquiry. Consider this a discovery session for yourself. We will unearth-fine tune-hone in- what you are seeking or wanting to create or change.

Consider:
-- creating new goals 
-- redirecting some aspect of your life
-- prioritizing important projects for the year
-- building new momentum in a part of your life
-- rethinking and reinventing your life and career
-- start your actions for the year



We will build a "Canvas" for you during the Deep Dive which will serve as a graphic memory of the session and use graphic facilitation techniques  to record your idea, thoughts and actions.


Resource Links
Powerful Questions
Planning and Goal Setting
The Adult Cycle of Renewal

Lastly, Please have a good sleep and arrive ready to work.

"When a man seeks obstacles to measure his strength, he goes towards the North.

If he needs rest and tranquility, he turns to the South.

To learn of his future he sets off for the West

And he returns to the East to discover his origins.

But for the longest of voyages he travels motionless, inside himself."

~ Uman

Listen to your Life Parker J. Palmer

 

Download Parker

Ten Qualities of Self-Renewing Adults

Source: The Hudson Institute of Santa Barbara
By Pamela McLean, Ph.D.

1. VALUE DRIVEN
Primary anchors within self
Time gets organized around critical priorities

2. CONNECTED TO THE WORLD
Caring and Communicating
Listen and Empathize
Networking and Seeking

3. CREATE SOLITUDE AND QUIET
Removing oneself voluntarily from one’s habitual environment promotes understanding
and perspective that transcends day-to-day life

4. GOOD PACING
Life is more than work, work, work, do, do, do... It is QUALITY rather than schedules,
INTEGRITY rather than applause

5. CONTACT WITH NATURE
Nature is a universal resource for renewal – Use It!

6. CREATIVE AND PLAYFUL
Staying alive by taking life in

7. ADAPTIVE TO CHANGE
Allowing ourselves to pursue best options

8. LEARN FROM THE DOWN TIMES
Learn more from our failures and our down times than from our long and sweet plateaus

9. ALWAYS IN TRAINING
When learning, we feel drawn to new possibilities

10. FUTURE ORIENTED
Look for challenges to deepen our experience and make a difference in the world

Ending The Cycle -- Start Today

Today we can make the choice to end a cycle or way of being that is not in alignment with our soul’s desire.
From Daily OM, Feb. 4, 2011

One of the hardest things in life is feeling stuck in a situation that we don’t like and want to change. We may have exhausted ourselves trying to figure out how to make change, and we may even have given up. However, each day offers us an opportunity to renew our resolve and to declare to the universe that we are ready for change. We may even say out loud that we have tried and struggled and have not found a way, but that we are open to help, and that we intend to keep working to create change for ourselves. Making this declaration to the universe, and to ourselves, may be just the remedy for the stagnation we are experiencing. And, it can be done today, right now. 

It is difficult to understand, even with hindsight, how the choices we have made have added up to our current situation, but it is a good idea to examine the story we tell ourselves. If we tend to regard ourselves as having failed, this will block our ability to allow ourselves to succeed. We have the power to change the story we tell ourselves by acknowledging that in the past, we did our best, and we exhibited many positive qualities, and had many fine moments on our path to the present moment. We can also recognize that we have learned from our experiences, and that this will help us with our current choices. 

When we do this kind of work on how we view our past self, we make it possible for the future to be based on a positive self-assessment. This inner shift may allow us to get out of the cycle we’ve been in that’s been keeping us stuck. Now we can declare our intentions to the universe, knowing that we have done the inner work necessary to allow our lives to change. Allow today to be the day to end cycles and enter into a new way of being. 

So

Maya Angelou Quote

"If you have done the best you can do and if you have gotten all you could extract from something -- you have given all you had to give, then the time has come when you can do no more than say thank you and move on."
~ Maya Angelou