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Welcome to the October 9, 2002 issue of LocateACoach.com's Focused Lives Update "Experts & info to bring your life, career, family, home, health & spirituality into focus" A full HTML version can be found here: http://www.LocateACoach.com/ezine/ INSIDE THIS ISSUE: - Welcome New Coaches to the LocateACoach Team!- Check Out These New Articles - Upcoming Teleclasses & Chats - Feature Article: The Parable of the Jackrabbit - Special Offers - Join Our Affiliate Program for On-going Residual Income!
Coaches in the Spotlight Jo LeahyE-mail Jo 72, Lansdowne Road, Bayston Hill Shrewsbury, Shropshire SY3 0JG United Kingdom Phone: 01743 872406 As a GP in Medical practice until recently I have an interest in coaching doctors and medical students at all stages of their career as well as working with individuals from other walks of life to unlock their potential and support them on their journey towards personal fulfilment. Want to ask a question? Click here! ~*~  Jack CroninE-mail Jack Click here for Web Site 5 Manmar Drive, PMB 459 Plainville, MA 02762 United States Phone: 508-695-8315 781-883-1470 Jack Cronin is a successful personal coach whose motivation is to help each client turn their dreams into reality and live their ideal life. To learn more about Jack or to subscribe to his free monthly newsletter visit www.JackCoaching.com today! Click here to learn more about Jack. ~*~  Leslie HouseholderE-mail Leslie Click here for Web Site CA United States Leslie is a wife and mother of 5 children. She is a certified facilitator for Bob Proctor's financial seminars, teaching the natural laws that govern prosperous living. Want to ask a question? Click here! Click here to learn more about Leslie
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Listening form your teenagers point of view- how to truly be a coach for your teenager by Phillip Mountrose http://www.locateacoach.com/article.cfm?articleid=15376 We all have masculine and feminine energies within us. Achieving and maintaining balance between these two archetypal aspects of ourselves is a fundamental part of our personal development. by Karen Ostranger http://www.locateacoach.com/article.cfm?articleid=15503 How to live a life without regrets with 7 questions to aid you in determining the best management of your time. by Mary Jo Marchionni, CCCC http://www.locateacoach.com/article.cfm?articleid=15576 A coach's take on the information we are bombarded with daily. by Jack Cronin http://www.locateacoach.com/article.cfm?articleid=15506 Every journey begins with the first step. Take your first step in improving your life. Do one thing for yourself today! by Marnie Pehrson http://www.locateacoach.com/article.cfm?articleid=15396 Life is a lot like a movie. Many times, through our spiritual eyes, we instinctively know the outcome. We know we're going to be all right. We know everything will work out in the end. We just don't know how or when.
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by Leslie Householder You have a certain goal, and you know someone that has already reached it. Maybe it is earning a certain degree, or opening a business and making it fly. Maybe it is a better family life, or a talent you’d like to master. Perhaps it is a highly developed relationship with your Father in Heaven. Before you try to duplicate what others have done to attain what they have, be sure of one thing. Understand the Parable of the Rabbit: A man was on a journey and came to a field. In this field he observed a dog, jumping around, darting to and fro, disappearing in the long, long grass each time he landed. The man stayed back, fearing that the dog had a terrible disease that caused him to jerk wildly and bark incessantly. Cautiously, he passed along side the field on the well-paved path, keeping an eye on the ravenous dog to be sure it did not harm him. Coming to the end of the field, suddenly the dog appeared in front of him, holding a jackrabbit in its jaws. Placidly, the dog glanced at the man, and walked away. This man was hungry. Thinking about the dog, he decided it would sure be nice if he could have a rabbit to eat, too. So he turned around, retraced his steps along the path for a time, and entered the grassy field. "Well, here I go," he said, and he began to jump and dart, growl and bark. Up and down, back and forth, trying to duplicate all of the crazy movements he had seen by the dog, believing this would somehow produce a rabbit. All day long he did this, and at the end of the day, he was still hungry, and very very tired. Disappointed, he returned to the well-paved path. He said to himself, "This is a well-paved path, many people have traveled this way before. I guess I just need to stay on it, and eat whatever I find along the way." Isn't it interesting that not only did duplicating the dog NOT produce a rabbit, but it probably kept them very far away? During all those "starving student" days, I remember buying in to a handful of home-based business ideas. Making beaded jewelry from home was one of them. I also remember getting very frustrated because my results were not amounting to all of their advertised testimonials of big success. Now, I understand that I was jumping and growling, expecting a rabbit to appear. I had no expectation or vision of living the success they promised. I couldn't even picture what it would be like to have abundance. All I knew was that there was never enough money, and in reality, that scenario was all I expected. It would have been very different if I had a vivid picture in my mind of living abundantly, so that when a vehicle to get me there came along, my results would have surely been much different. I have only seen a significant change in my financial picture since finding a rabbit that I could chase and capture. There are many legitimate business oppportunities out there that get written off when they "don't work". What is really going on, is that the subscribers just don't see a rabbit. The activity becomes nothing more than jumping and barking at empty fields. This brings up 2 points. First, the man was right in leaving the path in search of the rabbit. I heard a very wise person once say, "If you want to do the right thing, look around at the people in the world, see what they are doing and where they are going, and you will do well to do just the opposite." Doing what everyone else is doing is often the absolute WRONG thing to do. “Broad is the way that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it,” Matthew 7:13-14. Remember, any rabbit worth catching doesn't sit around on well paved paths, there is a price to be paid, a seeking is required. So if you want a rabbit, you may need to leave the well-paved path, but before you start jumping and barking, make sure you have your eyes FIXED TIGHT on a rabbit. This is the second point: All of the madness will be fruitless if you don't see your rabbit. Going through the motions without a clear goal in mind is energy wasted. You would burn out before attaining the degree. You would become impatient with the members of your family when things get rough. You would tire of the practice required to master a talent. Your efforts to grow closer to the Lord would too easily be thwarted without a burning desire to know Him. Satan has no power over a determined seeker. So, to duplicate the movements of the dog, without chasing a rabbit too, will NOT get you a rabbit. Identify your dream, visualize it, make it real in your mind, get excited about it, and chase it hard! Daydream about what it will feel like to have that degree, that business, that kind of family life, that talent, that relationship with God. Others will look at you and the choices you make and they might even think you are crazy. They just don't see your rabbit. But God does, and He will help you catch every worthy and righteous one that you have your eyes on. He can see where it goes when it disappears out of your vision, and He will prompt you by the Holy Spirit, which way you should go. Practice listening to those quiet promptings, and practice obeying them. Your dreams will return to your view and sooner or later become your reality. “Trust in the Lord with all thine heart, and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths,” Proverbs 3:5-6. Written by: Leslie Householder
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