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In this newsletter:
· Instead of beating yourself up, Celebrate
· Coaching & Workshops
· Crashed-on-her-Butt
· Moodling
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Musings and Mud Coaching Studio
Janet L. Whitehead
www.musingsandmud.com
250 376-8402
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· For those of you who don’t know, there is a long history behind the faeries that show up in my clay play, paintings, and stories. It all happens in a way that surprises me constantly.... I never knows what treasures await, or even how they got here. It’s a long story currently being written in the Novel in Progress.
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Summer time...¯¯
July already... more than half way through the year.
« What have you wished for this year?
« How close are you to achieving your dreams?
Instead of beating yourself up for not getting everything done that you think you ‘should’ have done,
I invite you to make a list of what you have....
« recently accomplished,
« chosen to do or be,
« enjoyed,
« gotten through,
« moved forward on,
« lifted the spirits of another,
« AND be sure to include everything that involved playing, moodling, doodling and pondering.
If you are stumped on finding anything you consider worthy of ‘The List’, pretend that you are a good friend of yours. What would you tell your friend to put on the list?
And then, I invite you to find a way to celebrate those items on the list.
We generally haven’t been taught to celebrate ourselves... yet celebrating is one of the most empowering coaching and self-coaching techniques. When you take a moment to really notice the grandness of you - your perspective shifts, your energy shifts, your ‘self sabotaging’ self talk lessens, and you create space in your thoughts for enthusiasm, confidence, and new ideas.
Coaching clients are often stumped when I ask them for the first time,
“How will you celebrate that?”
It doesn’t take long, though, before the celebrations become an integral part of their lives. The results are simply too effective to ignore. Celebrations can be as simple as lighting a special candle for oneself, to going for a hike you’ve been ‘meaning’ to get to, or getting your toenails painted (this is especially fun for the guys.), treating yourself to a movie with buttered popcorn, or taking a weekend holiday.
One client who always created goodie bags for events, had a joyous time shopping for a goodie bag of inexpensive treats for herself.
As you read this, are you feeling completely stumped? Do you have no idea of what you would celebrate or how you would celebrate? In fact, do you think maybe you’ll just ignore this and skip through to the end to see how ‘she signs this one off’?
Aw, come on, get a piece of paper and spend five minutes acknowledging you. And pretend you have no choice but to come up with a celebration.
You’re worth it. Notice how the ‘not so necessary’ thoughts diminish when you celebrate you. This simple step (albeit not always ‘easy’ at first) nurtures the energy you need to find the ways for your wishes and goals to become a reality. . . You know, those ones we hoped for 2008, but haven’t quite been able to get to yet.
Coaching and Workshops
What keeps you from creating? From changing your career? From taking the trip you’ve long been wanting to take? From taking steps to make your ‘everyday’ more true to your purpose? What’s holding you back?
Coaching is an ideal way to get those answers for yourself and sail into your future!
Quickly and Successfully.
Contact me if you would like to book a trial coaching session to learn more.
Coaching available by Phone, Skype or In-Person.
Also available are Creative Muse Group Courses, Rekindling Imagination Workshops, and more. An affordable and fun way to reignite your creative soul.
Testimonial: “I have a bodyguard now called Arnold. I call on Arnold every time the scary things show up in my life like my inner critic, those outer critics, self sabotage, fear of failure, fear of success. It’s amazing how I need him less and less as time goes on. Thank you, Janet, for coaching me through the Creative Muses – so much fun, and who knew it could be so empowering! I am achieving my dreams!” Elaine, Wisconsin
Apparently Crashed-on-her-Butt has % d #peoiupdq-81A987 something to say about celebrating:
(I know this because she’s dancing on the keys.)
Crashed-on-her-Butt is a most astounding faerie. *
One day, a rather smashed (but not in the drunk way) faerie showed up on a pot. Later, when the novel began, I learned much more about this unusual faerie – who actually worried about if anyone would like her (having broken her wing and smashed her face and all). That’s so unlike the other faeries I’ve gotten to know who really have no sense of that kind of worry.
As it turned out, though, Crashed’s wish was to better understand people. Sometimes we are such a mystery to them.. they wonder why our people world is so harsh. Squealing train brakes, catching our fingers in doors, worrying about this, stressing over that, going to a job every day and wishing we weren’t.. those sorts of things.
Since wishes do come true, Crash found herself in the people world. But not in the usual faerie way. She happened to arrive in a ‘denser’ form.. crashing smack dab in the middle of the pottery table. Her butt hurt. It took her three days to figure out how to lift her now heavy little body up off the table... all the while the other faeries were cheering her miraculous accomplishment of ‘nearly being people-like’. When she did stand up and try to fly to the pottery wheel.. well, it was good fortune that she landed on the dog, who gave her a ride to where she wanted to be. Crashed was not very happy about all this.
{“Crashed, your story is 25 pages long in the book... too long for a newsletter,” I whisper to her as we type this.
“Okay, okay” she flitters back, “I just want to say something not in the book.”
“You sure you don’t just want to leave this for the novel?” I ask hopefully.
And I receive something somewhat like a scowl in return.
“That’s unfaerie-like” I think to myself.. not that she can’t hear my thoughts anyway. “Okay, what do you want to say?” I ask}
“CELEBRATING!! It was all of the other faeries celebrating me, and encouraging me to celebrate, that reminded me that my sore butt was really worth celebrating. I had arrived where few faeries ever get to be! That sore butt was a sure sign. When I remembered that, (because I also discovered that it’s harder to remember things in the people world!) I celebrated my arrival... and my butt wasn’t even sore anymore!”
(“Good point, Crashed” I tell her.
“Thanks,” she answers and then continues qp95[[a erar to dance on the keys.aera8a;eia;’’a )
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