Ann Badillo Coaching

Thought for the Day

"Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation) there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would not otherwise have occured. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favour all manner of unforseen incidents and meetings and material assistance which no man would have dreamed would come his way."

- W.H. Murray, from *The Scottish Himalayan Expedition *

Thought for The Day

"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star."

~ Friedrich Nietzsche from *Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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Friends, This essay was waiting for me in my inbox this morning and I wanted to share it.

A Fire Inside: Thoughts on the Credit Crisis and the Creativity of Winter http://www.davidwhyte.com/ 

A Fire Inside: Thoughts on the Credit Crisis and the Creativity of Winter Outside my window the wintry English fields spread, as they have for centuries to the dark, smoke blue line of woods that limit the horizon of the valley. A bright fire burns in the grate to my left, while outside I can hear the call of a barn owl cutting the still, even air. All is exactly has it has been for many a hundred year in these Cotswold hills where I happily find myself this winter's day. Everything from horizon to horizon is eternal and quiet and seemingly unchangeable - except, that is, for one tiny but extraordinary portal I can open on this laptop to a parallel world of web-borne news, a world supposedly more real than the quiet one I inhabit this cold but beautiful evening. With a few clicks, I can enter an astonishing world of worry, anxiety and for many individuals, and indeed whole societies, material hardship, brought on by the cessation of credit. Out of the hermetic silence of a quiet winter day I can take a few short steps and almost touch the sense of panic and the extraordinary breakdown in trust that has stopped the flow of currency from one person to another, one bank to another, one society to another. It is as if the cold hands of this financial season have touched every last monetary stream and rivulet, and frozen them over. It is winter here in the countryside with all its well-loved beauties, but out in the world of money, it is winter with another form of terrible beauty, the winter of disappearance, immobility, and the worry fret and anxiety that comes from seeming to have very little shelter from its effects. It is always a trauma for the human psyche when those elements it has over-invested itself in at the periphery of life are withdrawn, and the spring-like world of growth and opportunity seems to close down, as if the old currencies have become worthless while we as yet do not know how to value or harvest the following season. 

January 2009 Open Coaching Calls

2008 Year in Review

• What are your successes? Personal, Professional,
• What are your wins and victories?
• What are your strengths you learned about in 2007?
• What do you leave behind in the year that has passed?
• What do you wish to take with you?
• What does your inner guide and navigation have to say?

2009 Planning & Goal Setting

• What do you want to create this year?
• What are your intentions?
• What's calling you?
• What's interesting?
• What are you attracted to or energized by?
• What projects or goals do you have for yourself this year?
• How would you like to grow your ______ ? What kind/types of customers/relationships? Revenue goal? Time commitments?
• What does the personal/professional balance look like?
• What are the agreements between you and ______?

January 2009 Open Coaching Calls

Friday, January 2nd , 12:00 -1:00

Friday, January 9th, 8:15 - 9:15

Call in Number: 646 444 5502
Participant PIN: 696972

Join us!

All are welcome. Drop me an email  ann@badillo.com and let me know you are coming.

Thought for the Day

“Hope is the dream of a soul awake.” - French Proverb

2008 Year In Review

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

As we end the year I want to share this set of questions for us to reflect upon.

This last year --In myself, my relationships, my work, and my community:

1. Where have I been strengthened this year?

2. What has softened in me this year?

3. What has deepened (integrated or fallen into place) this year?

4. What has opened (what's new, what have I learned, where am I being stretched) in my nature this year?

Source: Angeles Arrien 

Winter Solstice Open Coaching Call:

Sunday, December 21st, 9:00 - 10:00 AM

CANCELED

Call in Number: 646 444 5502
Participant PIN: 696972

Join us!

All are welcome. Drop me an email  ann@badillo.com and let me know you are coming. We will reflect on these valuable questions as a community of practice.

Planting Lettuce

When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends or family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like the lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason and argument. That is my experience. No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding. If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change.

—Thich Nhat Hanh —

Thought for the Day

"You were born an original. Don't die a copy." 
~John Mason

Moon-Jupiter-Venus

The Moon-Jupiter-Venus conjunction occurred on Monday, Dec. 1, 2008. Photo by Martin, an astronomer from Adelaide in Australia.