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THE
JOYGRAM™
from Peggy Joyce, PCC, The Joy Coach™
Volume 3, Number 5, March, 2005
from
Peggy Joyce, PCC
The Joy Coach™
Volume 4, Number 1, March/April, 2005
NEW
JOYGRAM!
NEW JOYGRAM! NEW
JOYGRAM!
The JoyGram is back. I have been on a hiatus for a few months. Getting
my Groove back. Much of the format is the same. The editor is much
changed. More about that as time goes by.
GROWING THE SUBSCRIPTION LIST
The JoyGram subscription list continues to grow because you pass
it on and visitors to my website keep signing up for it. Thanks!
OPENINGS
FOR NEW CLIENTS
There is space in my coaching calendar for a few new clients. Contact
me for a free 30-minute consultation about being who you really
want to be. We'll discover if we're a fit. Email Peggy@thejoycoach.com
TEAM
COACHING I am also looking
for one or two more small business teams to work with. I have training,
experience and great success in coaching teams. Call me at 806-655-7906
and we'll talk teamwork.
COACHING
FROM YOUR STRENGTHS I am enthusiastically
recommending the book Now,
Discover Your Strengths by Marcus Buckingham and Donald
O. Clifton. When we start the coaching conversation from the place
of your strengths, the old scripts about what's wrong with you are
dislodged. That creates a lot of passion for doing your life differently
using your own natural, inborn talents.
CHOCOLATE
OR VANILLA was the last JoyGram
issue. If you don't remember it, check it and other past issues
in the archives on my website.
REBIRTH
This
morning as I was making up the bed (something I enjoy doing every
day) I was thinking about some challenges I'm experiencing. Somewhere
between straightening the sheets and arranging the comforter I got
clear that what I want to experience right now is a change within
myself. And I said, very boldly, that I want this to be an Eastertime
of my own rebirth. I want to forgive some grievances.
Less than thirty minutes later I was sorting my mail, both snail
and email, before my first client of the morning. In the mail, I
found some inspiration that is making a great impact on how I am
thinking about and responding to the challenges I mentioned. (It's
kind of scary when God gets back to me so quickly.)
A
friend and colleague had sent me an excerpt from a book she is reading
that had made a strong impact on her. The book is Finding
Our Way, by Margaret Wheatley. Ms. Wheatley is writing about
organizations and I realized as I read this that almost everything
can be seen as an organization: my mind, a relationship, an apple
tree, a government, and so on. On page 86, Ms. Wheatley says
"The organization is forced... to let go of present beliefs,
structures, patterns, values. It cannot use its past to make sense
of this new information. It must truly let go, plunging into a state
of confusion and uncertainty that feels like chaos, a state that
always feels terrible.
"Having
fallen apart, having let go of who it has been, the system is now
and only now open to change. It will reorganize using new interpretations,
new understandings of what's real and what's important. It becomes
different because it understands the world differently. [my
emphasis] And paradoxically, as is true with all living systems,
it changed because it was the only way to preserve itself."
So,
how am I willing to understand my world differently and change in
order to preserve myself?
Big questions, huh? Wait. There's more.
In
the same mail assortment, I received a newsletter from a group that
meets locally which calls itself the Enlightened Journey Fellowship.
The editor of this newsletter, Cherry Hefner, writes a column that
she calls "Cherry's Note". She shares that Easter is her favorite
spiritual celebration and speaks of Jesus' life as a model for how
to find true joy.
"Jesus exampled that we must put God first in every aspect of our
lives and make a commitment to let love have its way in us. We must
practice spiritual principles all the time. Whatever form life takes,
it will always be about love and service as we are practicing. The
big challenge we all have is in the betrayals and the crucifixions.
But it is here that we have the greatest potential for Christhood."
(Note: Christhood as used here means opening to the Spirit of God
within oneself and living from that inspiration.)
Then
Cherry quotes Jean Houston: "We only really begin to grow when,
through betrayals, we lose our sense of intimate linkage with the
betrayer and are thrust into an unprotected existance. Right at
that moment, we are forced by survival to delve deep within and
find the love that has our name on it... find the Christ potential."
Back to Cherry: "In the moment of betrayal we have a choice. That
choice is to open to God's love and forgive. And it is in the moment
of forgiveness that we experience the... rising up of the Christ
Presence. The Easter message is not that we will never experience
loss or betrayal. It is that something greater is in [us]... Love."
Cherry's Note, Enlightened Journey Fellowship Newsletter, April-May
2005
So,
my different understanding of my world is that I can choose to open
to the reservoir of God's love that is deep within me and through
the forgiveness that is inherent in that Love I can choose to let
it work through me. It simply doesn't serve me to hang on to a sense
of having been betrayed. In order to preserve myself, my choice
is forgiveness.
A Noticing: Every moment is new. An opportunity to choose FORGIVENESS.
Whatever the past held, it's gone.
Peace is NOW. Joy is NOW. Freedom is NOW.
A great companion to Now,
Discover Your Strengths is How
Full Is Your Bucket by Donald O. Clifton and his grandson,
Tom Rath. The StrengthsFinder survey is a gift you get with the
purchase of either of these books. Both are published by Gallup
Press.
NEW CLASSES!
Exciting
new classes are budding. Watch for the announcements here and on
my website:
http://www.thejoycoach.com/coach-teleclasses.html
Ask to be put on the announcement list for classes. Use
this handy form.
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