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Issue #18 - February 4, 2000
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Brought to you by Laurie Riddell Geary, M.Ed., Coaching you to get your life
IN GEAR by making shifts, getting unstuck, finding balance and re-alignment,
accelerating your growth, and mapping the best route to your chosen destination:
a perfect life.

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Table of Contents:

*Feedback from Readers
*The Butterfly Story
*Topic: The 7 C's - Characteristics of a Responsible Risk-taker/Edge-Maker
*Upcoming Workshops
*Tarea (Homework suggestions)

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READER FEEDBACK:

"I just wanted to let you know that I find your newsletter and teleclasses very
helpful not only for myself but the people that I work with that are in career
transition or going through job loss...know that the work you do has had an hundred fold effect to the people I serve."
From: Miste Taylor miste.taylor@twc.state.tx.us
 

"Laurie,
Great job on your newsletter - you get better and better - this encourages me."
Jan Mclean, coach
 

and...more on THE EDGE=
 

From Rhoda Riddell, writer and writing coach...
"In a book called HERE BE DRAGONS, the first of a trilogy, historical fiction,
on early Wales..the author explains her title by saying that this
phrase used to be on the edge of maps. The maps would show the ocean and at
the edge of map/ocean they would write HERE BE DRAGONS. In other words, they did not know what was beyond their map...at THE EDGE.. but assumed there were dragons"
What are our current dragons?
 

"According to graphologists, your handwriting shows if you approach life
bravely or fearfully, and some say that to change, you can change your
handwriting. That theory is called graphotherapy. To try graphotherapy, if
you want more courage take a look at your handwriting and the rightward
slant, spacing and margins. When you write you go forward and backward and,
according to graphologists, this represents your movement toward
relationships. That wide righthand margin may be the EDGE for you..so practice
moving more to the right in repeated penmanship exercises--more rightward
slant, narrower right margin. But at the same time you must constantly affirm
to yourself, "Every day in every way I'm getting braver and braver!" So it
may be the affirmations that persuade you. Certainly as you practice writing
in a movement that takes you more firmly into the future, and tell yourself
at the same time that you want to be more courageous, you may be persuaded."
 

Rhoda wrote her PhD Dissertation on Handwriting Analysis as a Psychodiagnostic Technique.

For more information, she can be reached at gaby1028@aol.com

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THE BUTTERFLY ..<received by two readers>
..on the importance of struggling at our EDGE!...

     "A man found a cocoon of a butterfly. One day a small opening appeared
He sat and watched the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to force its body through that little hole. Then it seemed to stop making any progress. It appeared as if it had gotten as far as it could, and it could go no further. So the man decided to help the butterfly. He took a pair of scissors and snipped off the remaining bit of the cocoon.

     The butterfly then emerged easily. But it had a swollen body and small, shriveled wings.

     The man continued to watch the butterfly because he expected that, at any moment, the wings would enlarge and expand to be able to support the body, which would contract in time. Neither happened! In fact, the butterfly spent the rest of its life crawling around with a swollen body and shriveled wings. It never was able to fly.

     What the man, in his kindness and haste, did not understand was that the restricting cocoon and the struggle required for the butterfly to get through the tiny opening were God's way of forcing fluid from the body of the butterfly into its wings so that it would be ready for flight once it achieved its freedom from the cocoon.

     Sometimes struggles are exactly what we need in our lives. If God allowed us to go through our lives without any obstacles, it would cripple us. We would not be as strong as what we could have been. We could never fly!"

From Betsey: bdalbeck@pop.mindspring.com
 
 

THE 7 C'S - CHARACTERISTICS OF RISK-TAKERS...
EDGE MAKERS
all rights reserved, Laurie Geary,1999

1. CHANGE: Open to change; not afraid of the unknown; can deal with ambiguity, uncertainty, contradiction

2. CONTROL: plans, prepares, takes charge

3. COMMITMENT: persistent, determined, a "go-for-it" attitude

4. CHALLENGE: gains strength from adversity; rises to the challenge; sees "failure as feedback" - is a CLIMBER=a life long learner/explorer
<see ADVERSITY QUOTIENT, by Richard Stoltz>

5. COURAGE: trusts in oneself; has faith in one's ability; has a go-for-it attitude.

6. CREATIVE: always sees alternatives and options; is flexible and COMPLEX: multi-talented/multi-tasked; can take on various roles & tasks; has "emotional intelligence"/lots of "reserves"

7. CONFIDENT: has high ("good enough") self-esteem, a strong personal foundation; is assertive
 

Recommended Book on Developing your 7 C's=
THE SURVIVOR PERSONALITY by Al Siebert: Why Some People are Stronger, Smarter, and more Skillful at Handling Life's Difficulties...and How You Can Be Too...
 

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TAREA:

1. Develop your 7 C's!

2. Order <and read> THE SURVIVOR PERSONALITY

3. Call or email me for a complimentary coaching session to support you in developing your 7 C's to help you get to <and over> your EDGE. (617-494-1422)
 

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UPCOMING LOCAL WORKSHOPS:
 

RISK-TAKING: THE PATH TO PERSONAL GROWTH
*Boston Center for Adult Education - Monday, February 7, 6:30-9:30 p.m.
*North Shore Community College - Wednesday, February 23, 9 - 3 p.m.

BECOMING A PERSONAL/PROFESSIONAL COACH
*North Shore Community College - Saturday, February 26, 9 - 3 p.m.
*Boston Center for Adult Education - Two Mondays, February 28 & March 6,
6:30-9:30 p.m.
*Middlesex Community College - Saturday, March 4, 9 - 4 p.m.

ATTRACTING WHAT YOU WANT IN LIFE
*Middlesex Community College - Wednesday, June 7th from 6:30-9:30pm

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