Listening

You hear, listen to your inner voice and you will find your direction.  Listen when someone is speaking for greater understanding.  Listen to your elders for they will deliver wisdom.

With a constant bombardment of informaton and the constant demands of life, we hear so much.  Using our  ability to filter, we choose what suits us or just rely on habits or old patterns of behavior to process the message.

What if we slowed down a bit and challenged ourselves to listen differently?  What if we decided to establish new habits and patterns of behavior based on what we actually hear? 

Consider using your listening to gain learning, appreciation, awareness, gratitude, or peace.  How would that feel when your hungry, angry, lonely, tired, or in pain?

Imagine a difference...

Start a conversation

This blog was created to spark communication around managing one's life with a medical condition.  The hope was to create an environment where ideas, resources, thoughts, and information are shared, not only, for the individual with a medical condition, but also, with those closely associated with that individual.

With this in mind, I ask you to please forward any topics of interest or questions to me. You can relay your subject in the comments section at the bottom of this page or go to www.considercoachingnow.com and click on the contact page.  At the bottom of the contact page is a section where you can sign up  for a complimentary sesson, however, please use the space for whatever topic you would like to address.  I am working on changing the page to reflect an area for topics for further discussion.  Please bear with until this can be accomplished.

Let's use this valuable resource as a way to learn from one another and enhance wellbeing. I want to know what's on your mind and how it's  effecting your life.

Which way?

Charles Stanley, a well known Christian minister, delivered a sermon today entitled, "Direction Without Doubt."  He named 6 steps that would lead to the discovery of your direction.

Coaches, through active listening and powerful questioning, promote awareness of one's intuitive knowing, thus discovering which direction is best for you.

Ernst Holmes, in The Science of Mind, states, "we must be still in our own consciousness and know that the Spirit within us knows which of these ways is the right, and most constructive way, and will guide us."

Each concludes that you will know peace when you have chosen right.

If you listen for direction and discover peace, just think of what is possible...

Forge ahead with faith and confidence!

Maintaining Balance

Maintaining well being requires thought, prudence, reward, and action. Ultimately the goal is to stay in balance. In the absence of balance we could display rigid self denial or excessive overindulgence. There are times to make exceptions and allow yourself a treat.  A treat is something for  special  occasions or for giving yourself a lift.  But, treating yourself all the time is self-deception.  Like when you eat too much and then over indulge in exercise to compensate. You're out of balance, both physically and psychologically. 


Coaching helps identify triggers for the self deception that creates the imbalance.  Conversations revolve around the causes and then how to manage them so that you maintain balance.  Sometimes working with a personal trainer or a good friend will keep you motivated to stay in balance. These proven approaches will help you form better habits that will come automatically.  A quote I read says, "be always at war with your vices." War is a strong word, but, somehow appropriate because it often feels like a battle.

Summer is a good time to start new habits because we're more active and tend to eat less.  It's also a time when we may slack in other areas as well.  So, for this week, I challenge you to discover ways, with your coach, to maintain your balance. Make a plan, be consistent, practice prudence, and have that occasional treat.  The benefits will be extraordinary!

4th of July

Let the CELEBRATION begin!

What a TREASURE-- AMERICA!

FREEDOM,
COURAGE,
BRAVERY,
HONOR,
COMPASSION,
EQUALITY,
JUSTICE,
PROMISE, and,

all that is GOOD with a declaration of TOLERANCE,

a place of DIVERSITY, of HOPE,


FOR ALL,


OUR AMERICA!


the WISDOM,

the  BRILLIANCE!

How GRATEFUL  we are!

Declare Victory!

Shall we declare victory over what ails us this week?

We know it's wise keep healthy no matter what our medical condition.

We know there is help available like:  coaches, rabbis, counselors, doctors, lawyers or just a trusted someone.

We have access to all types of transportation to move us to and fro -- a place here, a place there, wherever our want-need-desire-compulsion sends us.

We have vast amounts of food choices awaiting our consumption -- organic, stuffed, salt- free, sugar-coated, carrots --- you name it and you can eat it.

And, the drugs. way, way too many to name.  Drugs that heal, reduce, induce, cure, perpetuate, arrest, coma--synthetic -- all designed to... remedy...

Hopefully one of these, or even something else, will help what ails you. Take charge, find a remedy, and Declare Victory!

Fathers Day

To my father, who always:

was kind and gentle
said nice things to me
had the love of all the neighborhood kids
provided cash and candy (he had a candy drawer and a jacked pocket with money)
told me stories
taught me about sports
wrote me letters after I left home
was kind to animals
was a great painter
put out the American flag
was there for his country (he went on 7 invasions while in the Navy)
quietly handled things
was generous, good looking, and humble
was well liked
made me feel important and loved
stood by me...

I miss you Dad. Happy Fathers Day.