Inner Circle Coaching

I've been running since I've been back from Inner Circle Coaching (ICC) at the beginning of September. I still have several more classes to talk about as I get caught up over this coming week, but I did want to share at least a little flavor of ICC before it all leaked out of my brain. ICC was held on Maui on the Ka'anapali coast. The program was incredibly INTENSE!  However, there were benefits, the setting being one of them:

Imagine 5 consecutive days of coaching with five of the best minds in the coaching field. Keith Cunningham (one of my favorite mentors) gave us coaching about how to look at our business from a much higher and broader perspective. Larry Gilman coached us on working with our emotions. Blair Singer coached us on goal setting. Dave the Monk did a morning meditation and yoga practice, as well as the art of looking within. Harv was there in between, pulling it all together as well as providing a little R&R at his home in the evenings.

We're not supposed to share much about the actual exercises that we did during the program, since the content of the program is copyrighted by Peak Potentials. I have to say that's really a shame. There is quite a bit that I would love to share about my experiences and what I got out of the course, but it's difficult to talk about the lessons without sharing at least a little of the content that lead me to those realizations.

What I can say is that there was a lot of accountability by all of the coaches during every part of the course. It helped me to see how I show up (or don't) for a lot of my life. There are little things that I do or don't do that don't seem to have any impact on anyone but me. The program helped me to see that often, what I see as not having impact on anyone else is really not true - those things DO have an impact on the people around me, sometimes more than I realize or give credit for. So that change has already started to ripple through the choices I make - I show up with everything I've got to give as soon as I arrive and I arrive on time or early. So Be It.

Sedona Fit

I am so grateful for my local gym!  I just got back from today's workout and it now feels good to be working out, gaining muscle, and losing weight.  My clothes are fitting better and I'm stronger than I've been in a while.  In addition, I'm starting to have fewer back problems and can go much longer between chiropractic adjustments.  I'm not so exhausted after my workouts any more and other things are less of a strain, as well.

For instance, on Friday, two guys were here to deliver and install my new washer and dryer.  My kiln had an accident a while back and has been sitting on the floor because it is way too heavy for me to move alone.  (I had contacted someone who was referred to me who could bring some guys over to help, but never heard back from him.)  Since the delivery guys were bragging about how strong they were, I asked them to put the back on its table.  One of the guys had no problem lifting his end, but the other guy looked like he was going to drop his side.  So, I rushed over, caught the bottom of the kiln and helped him to lift it onto the table where it belonged.  No stress, no strain, no back stress, no nothing.  And, I even got to tease the guy about needing a woman to help him...

To put this in perspective, the kiln is so heavy that when it originally arrived, the electrician called two of his buddys over to help him carry it from where it was delivered to the table where it was going, and they still almost dropped it while they were picking it up from carrying position to lift it up to table height.  Granted, this time I only had to come in for the last minute save to help lift it the last six inches or so.  Still, it felt pretty darn good to be able to do that with no stress or strain.  So, I give plenty of kudos to my stretch class teacher, Katherine, as well as to Wally, the owner of the gym and my trainer.

And the bonus is that I got the first load of glass into my kiln on Sunday and it is finished its fusing and annealing and is cooling down as I type.  I should be able to open the kiln to check out my new goodies in an hour or two.  So, I get to be playing with glass again after a long hiatus!  It feels good to want to be creating again, so I feel extra blessed by that extra strength that I now possess.