Everything is Waiting for You - A Poem by David White

Your great mistake is to act the drama
as if you are alone. As if life
were a progressive and cunning crime
with no witness to the tiny hidden
transgressions. To feel abandoned is to deny
the intimacy of your surrondings. Surely,
even you, at times, have felt the grand array;
the swelling presence, and the chorus, crowding
out your solo voice. You must note
the way the soap dish enables you,
or the window latch grants you freedom.
Alertness is the hidden discipline of familiarity.
the stairs are your mentor of things
to come, the doors have always been there
to frighten you and invite you,
and the tiny speaker in the phone
is your dream-ladder to divinity.

Put the weight of your aloneness and ease into
the conversation. The kettle is singing
even as it pours you a drink, the cooking pots
have left their arrogant aloofness and
seen the good in you at last. All the birds
and creatures of the world are unutterably
themselves. Everything is waiting for you.

Welcome to the Coach and Mentor!

Lift up your spirits and toast every success

Positive Psychology

Hi to all of you,

Due to a small technical hitch I have previously not been able to post, thanks to Adrian this is now corrected.



I hope you are all continuing to thrive and have fun. I am off to Turkey tomorrow for a week of holiday - not even going to take my laptop! I shal be doing my best to just be, and to spend some time with Colin.



The wound on my leg has now healed and apart from an angry purple scar, all is fine. The dematologist at the specialist cancer hospotal in Manchester has confirmed that no further treatment is required apart from bi-annual check ups.



Anyway, I recently attended a short talk on positive psychology and learned about a great website which you may want to check out. It's called http://www.authentichappiness.org/ and is the site for Martin Seligman who is the guru on this area of psychology. There are a number of tests which you can take for free provided you register with the site. These include a happiness inventory, a values in action strengths test, worklife balance, test, etc. You may want to do them yourselves or get clients to do them as part of their coaching programme. Let me know what you think?



You are all in my thoughts.



Beverley x

Marie, Jim and Adrian send greetings to all from Dublin! -

Thursday 8th November

rainy days

evening all - how are you all. has everyone applied for their accreditation via CoachU ? hows the hours clocking up for everyone ! if only they would include coaching on mortgages as a category i would soon have a few hundred hours. its nice to know that i can use my skills across lots of different industries.
today i took time out to attend a Princes Trust Conference - i have been a business mentor for 3 years now and have to say i wear my coaching hat more than anything in these sessions.

it made me realise how lucky i have been in life - listening to the stories that these young people tell of how and why they end up on the Princes trust programme brought a tear or two to my eyes.

coaching has opened so many doors for me - i truly hope it does the same for you all.
thats all for now !
hugs and kisses
Debs