Good News on the Green Front

The Green School

Just a few weeks ago I was able to get a tour of the internationally famous Green School in Bali by its Director, Ronald Stones. The Visionary Advisory Board of the Bali Institute for Global Renewal got a special tour plus a great meal and a talk from The Green School's founder.

Want some good news? Check out their website and read about how they are training the Green Leaders of the future by immersing them deeply in a green, sustainable environment. Everything, and I mean everything, in the school is made of bamboo.

Check it out and Happy Holidays!

Vicki

Play with Possibility Date

Would you like to play with possibility for fifteen minutes with me? I will make you laugh!

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Blessings,

Vicki

The Dangerous Business of Joy

How Can Joy be Dangerous?

The most trouble I have ever gotten into at work was for being happy. Actually, I probably could have gotten away with being happy, but when I combined being happy with being effective and not being a workaholic, I broke too many rules.

Taking a stand for living joyfully in your business and your life will simply be the most courageous act you have ever taken. When you make a decision to infuse everything you do with joy, to define your journey as the goal, you will join the likes of Gandhi, Desmond Tutu, and Tina Fey.

You will cause trouble wherever you go. By refusing to buy into the beliefs that you must be a workaholic to succeed and that fun is frivolous, you will disturb anyone who has chosen a heavy-handed, heavy-footed manner of walking on this planet.

Fun is NOT a Four Letter Word

Your own health and well-being will soar. You will be able to laugh sooner at life’s foibles rather than later. Your brain will work quickly and effectively. Your creativity will explode and your ability to love, forgive and feel gratitude will expand exponentially.

People will start to say things such as, “Must you be so relentlessly uplifting?” They will doubt your sincerity, your sanity, your intelligence, and yet you will skip along transforming hostility into kindness, increasing your abundance in every way, and serving the world. Your purpose will become even more clear and happiness will be The Way You Live instead of a destination you will get around to when you have more time.

You will be your own authority because you will not give your power away to others. Let them think you are making a fool out of yourself. So what? Let them abandon you, despise or defame you - it won’t matter. Of course, we would all prefer constant love and approval. But when we commit to living joyfully every day, we will get to experience the pleasure of sipping approval at dinner instead of the frenzy of guzzling it from a paper sack under a bridge. (Okay, I got a bit carried away there.)

When you find your authentic voice, and you practice the courage to speak your truth into the world, when you are fierce in the kindest way, and you simply never give up, when you find the joke first and are able to fly because you take yourself so lightly, you will be hooked!

All your habits and relationships will transform through the healing power of joy. And you will be dangerous indeed!

Get a Coach!

Want help getting hooked on the power and clarity of committing to living a joyful life? Great coaching can make all the difference. Contact my business manager, Sandy Parker at sandy@myefficientassistant.com to set up a free fifteen minute appointment with me and we will have a Play Date with Possibility.

Blessings,

Vicki

What Gets in My Way and Yours

I’m in Bali right now to attend a planning session for the Bali Institute for Global Renewal. Hearts and minds from Indonesia, India, Pakistan, America, Japan, and probably some other places I don’t know yet have gathered here to create a learning center which celebrates indigenous wisdom, leadership, and activism. Thirty of us are going to hang out, ask wonderful questions and make plans for an international conference in Bali in December of 2010.

When I was reading about the people who were attending and all their accomplishments, I kept chanting to myself, “I have something to contribute. I have something to contribute. I have something to contribute.” Even though I am very confident that I do have something to contribute, that part of me that worries whether I belong got triggered.

“Who do I think I am anyway?” is the question, the ghost, the spell, that keeps lurching through the room. It dives at my head. It whispers in my ear. It sits on my chest. It looms. It jeers. It invites me to crawl back into a small place, a cramped container that is very familiar to me.

So the question is: am I going to play small, or am I going to expand into my full capacity? Playing small is a non-option. But how do I support myself in this wrestling match with Incompetence?

I email my coach. I tell her what is happening and ask for her advice. She replies immediately and this is what she says: “Look around and see if there’s anyone else there who has accomplished as much as you have, who is blind, joyful, and as funny as you are. Pull your head out of your ass.”

Good advice. So good I pulled my head right out.

So what stops you? Want to learn to laugh about it? Contact my business manager Sandy Parker, at Sandy@myefficientassistant.com to set up an appointment for a free 15 minute Play Date. What’s stopping you?

Blessings,

Vicki