February 2010
Why I Cry at NFL Football Games
No, you didn’t fall asleep and miss the Superbowl and the Colts didn’t lose, and I’m not sure I’d actually ‘cry’ if that even happened (and it won’t)! But I do ‘tear up’ when I attend NFL games with 65,000 other people. Now if we can get past the image of Tom Hanks yelling at his female athletes “There is no crying in baseball!” in the movie A League of Their Own, I’ll explain why my lachrymal glands tend to overflow at such a testosterone filled event.
First, it’s because...read more HERE.
"The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot."
~ Michael Altshuler
Time and E-mail Management Tips
- Block off chunks of time on your calendar to have uninterrupted 'work time'.
- Work remotely or find a place outside of your office where you won't be interrupted.
- When working during your blocked time, turn off your phone and your e-mail. Focus only on the tasks you have at hand.
- Carry a notebook with you everywhere to capture notes during meetings, etc. It serves as a work diary to pull from later.
- More organization and e-mail tips below in Top 10's for February!
Executive Women's Foundation Retreat
Being more by doing less...a beachfront retreat is calling for you.
March 11–14, 2010
Program: begins Thursday at 7 p.m. with a Welcome Reception and ends Sunday with Brunch at 10 a.m.
Location: The Aegean Oceanfront Property on Holiday Isle in Destin, Florida.
The Executive Women's Foundation Retreat is a three-day interactive program for successful women who want more! Whether it is more success, more balance, more time, more peace or more in your personal or business relationships, this program gives you the space and resources to help you solidify your personal foundation and accelerate your success.
Through our valuable tools, exercises, materials and insights, this program will help you attract the success you envision. We will help you:
- Define your personal vision. We’ve all worked on our company and executive mission and vision statements. Do you have one for yourself? Don’t have time to work on it? We offer a fun and effective way. Now is the time for YOU.
- Stretch and challenge yourself, while being ‘comfortable’, outside of your comfort zone.
- Set effective boundaries and eliminate tolerations, so you can achieve more while doing less.
- Discover:
- What motivates you
- What you gravitate toward and why
- What you try to avoid and why
- What your Best Self and Shadow characteristics are and why
- How to be your Best Self and diminish your Shadow
- Network and have the space and time for peace and fun with other women who want more!
- More info HERE.
New Paradigms for New Leaders in the 21st Century
New group coaching opportunity:
- Fill the gap between the leadership training you've already received and what you really need to create a high performance team.
- Define your personal vision of success.
- Determine your customized blueprint to achieve it.
12 Total Group Coaching sessions, 3 per month
4 Total Individual Coaching sessions, 1 per month
Evening telephone sessions: to be determined by your personal availabilities.
Only $200/month
CONTACT ME to register. Hurry, limit of 10 participants.
"Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein."
~H. Jackson Brown
International Coaching Week
February 7 – 13
In honor of International Coaching Week, I'm being interviewed on February 13 on Connecting Women Blogtalk Radio at 11 a.m. EST. I'll be talking about tips for job seekers and a new coaching organization called A Hand Up Coaching which offers free coaching for qualifying clients.
Top Tens for February
- Read here to learn about the differences between a Leader and a Manager.
- Great article on The Practice of Facilitative Leadership.
- ACCESS: Creating a blueprint for the new worker of this century. Click on What the Buzz is about in the bottom left hand corner.
- Article: 8 Steps that take you from Self-Saboteur to Sales Star
- Lots of time management ideas.
- Tips on organizing your e-mail here.
- TED talk on why we fail to fix problems in the last mile...our brain.
- Work smart-conquering your e-mail.
- Cool tool to make word clouds: www.wordle.net.
- Eight Things Not to Talk about during the Superbowl!
Lynn Recommends
1) Take Yourself to the Top by Laura Berman Fortgang.
2) The Portable Coach by Thomas J. Leonard
What I want for you for February:
- More spring in your step!
- Massive effort in taking the best care of you!
- Enormous focus on what you really, really want!
- Gigantic leaps in your possibilities!
- Amazing realization of your vision of success!
About Lynn
Have you ever heard it said that some people make things happen, while others let things happen to them? Interesting to think about. My purpose of this newsletter, my coaching business and the other tools I have developed, is to partner with people in order to have them Design what they want to make happen in their lives. Whether it is in business, realtionships, finding a new career or any aspect of your life, you have the God-given creative and intiuitive knowledge to choose and create what you want. I can help you. This is what I love to do!
Remember to spend some quality time on you today.
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