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THE
JOYGRAM™
from Peggy Joyce, PCC, The Joy Coach™
Volume 1, Number 3, October 1, 2002
Circulation: Ever-Growing
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Notice:
I reserve the right to change my perceptions as well as my weight
and hair color. What you can count on is openness, an unabashed
belief in a beneficent Creator, and the ability to see another point
of view. Dialogue is encouraged.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
1) I am currently taking new clients. Email or call for a free thirty-minute
consultation and details about various coaching packages.
2) Money Moxie teleclass with co-facilitator Rose Milbeck, MCC,
begins in November. Email for details.
FREEDOM
I
decided to write about freedom this month. Thence my mind has been
either conflicted or mute. Hence the apparent lateness of this issue
of The JoyGram.
The
topic of freedom crops up everywhere: "free to be me", "the freedom
of the open road", "pain free", "the defense of our freedom", "free
with the purchase of ..." and on and on. "Freedom's just another
word for nothing left to lose..." moans the ballad "Me and Bobby
McGee". "Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you," wrote
Jean Paul Sartre. To which Ruby, Gremlin Extraordinaire of fellow
coach Julie Ann Graziano, says "Honey, there are lots of choices."
Thanks, Ruby. You unstuck my mind.
Choice
and freedom are analogous. Without exercising the one, I do not,
cannot experience the other. When I surrender my right to choose,
I have surrendered my sense of freedom. "I had no choice" is an
inaccurate statement. At every point in life's progress from moment
to moment, I am at choice. I can be free shut in a cage and I can
be imprisoned though it might appear to the world that I am unfettered.
Ultimate freedom is a mental state which is unaffected by the circumstances
of life, the opinions of others and, perhaps most importantly, the
opinions of myself.
To
me, freedom starts in recognizing that most of my beliefs originated
somewhere else and I am at choice as to whether I subscribe to any
of them. It also lies in accepting that the beliefs I originate
may also be and probably are untrue! I can choose to send The JoyGram
on the 8th of October rather than the lst and make it right on time.
So it is.
Where
and how do you choose to be free? If not, what IS your choice?
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2002, Peggy Joyce. All rights reserved. The JoyGram may be distributed
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