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Wisdom Horse Coaching Newsletter - February 2009
February 9, 2009
Greetings!
Can you feel the hint of spring in the air? After a long, cold winter, it feels like hope.
Realize your dreams! Talk to us about helping you move to the next level of leadership and performance and about getting your life back in balance.
Renew yourself as the seasons renew...heal and soothe your mind and spirit with us and let the horses show you the way to peace.
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In this Issue
• A Very Warm Hello from Ann and Lynn
• Reinvent Yourself
• Stories to Renew Your Life
• How to See What's Possible
Reinvent Yourself
Feel the buoyancy of hope again: Reinvent yourself in these uncertain times.
Maybe you plunged into panic and fear in these times of layoffs and pay cuts. Maybe you've adopted a different perspective: that now is an opportunity to go deep within and re-discover what you love to do. You've decided that now is a time to reinvent yourself. Through facilitated activities such as spending time with the herd in the pasture or leading a horse, horses respond when you dare to tell the truth about what your soul longs for.
Let the power, freedom, beauty, and spirit of the horses inspire you to profound learning and an extraordinary and rewarding new career. Listen to the wisdom of your heart and find real joy in your work.
Check out Job Transitions on our website or Contact us today to learn more: Info@WisdomHorseCoaching.com
Stories to Renew Your Life
Some People You Will Always Love: Finding the Stories that Satisfy Your Soul by Lynn Baskfield
Now available at our online store.
This book, written by Wisdom Horse's own Lynn Baskfield, makes life renewal an accessible, exciting process. The simple but powerful exercises at the end of each chapter will help you to find the stories that satisfy your soul. You will put the book down with stories from your own life to tell that renew clarity, purpose and joy.
Some People You Will Always Love: Finding the Stories that Satisfy Your Soul $14.95
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How to See What's Possible
From: Some People You Will Always Love: Finding the Stories that Satisfy Your Soul by Lynn Baskfield
I had lived in my house on 38th and Pillsbury for seventeen years. I had always loved lilacs, but I never planted a bush because I didn't want to wait for two or three years for it to bloom. Finally, with my neighbor Douglas's encouragement, I got my lilac bushes.
They were tiny little things when he planted them that spring, about knee-high. Five of them snaked across the north side of the yard flanked by irrepressible yellow daisies that sprang up and spread like scarves over a table that first summer. I knew I would have to wait for the lilacs. But I could imagine their perfume. I could see the nuances of color, deep purple to white. Vases of lilacs would dance through my rooms for springs to come.
One blustery October day, Douglas came over to pinch and prune my hearty, but still new, garden. I was making tortellini in the kitchen when he called to me to come outside.
"There's a lilac on your bush," he said. "Come see."
"Douglas," I said. "Come on. I've walked by those bushes at least four times today and here are no lilacs out there. Lilacs don't bloom in October."
"So come on out and look," he insisted. "There is a lilac on your bush."
I turned off the stove, poured the steaming water off the pasta, and set it in a bowl. I followed Douglas out the front door. He led me over to the second bush.
"See," he said, cupping a small flower gently in his hand. And I saw it there, right by the sidewalk, a delicate, pale, fragrant lilac.
Impossible, I thought, even in the face of seeing it and touching it. But it wasn't impossible. And in that moment I not only saw the lilac, but I saw that maybe there is a whole world of things I know so much about that I don't even see what's there.
What about my daughters? I think I know them so well. What in my knowing of them keeps me from seeing them? And Bill, my husband, the best man in the world. Do I look at him every day as if today is the first day I am meeting him? What would I ask him? How would I listen if I didn't already know him?
What else do I say is impossible without looking beyond what I already know? That business I've dreamed of starting? The play I've thought of writing? Taking time for a trip to Arizona when the desert is in bloom? Maybe if I look with my eyes and my heart in the moment instead of with my memories of what I know from the past, maybe what is possible will take my breath away, like that little October lilac.
I went back inside, not to the sink full of dirty dishes that I had left a few minutes before, but to the most beautiful, fragrant, red tomato sauce that had ever been poured over tortellini.
A Very Warm Hello from Ann and Lynn
To each of you who reads this newsletter:
We deeply appreciate your friendship! The joy you bring us is immeasurable, and we hope the strength of the horses' gifts to us all continues to be a source of interest and commitment to you.
Ann and Lynn
During January, we were priviledged to spend two weeks in Tucson, Arizona growing a partnership with White Stallion Ranch to host winter corporate retreats with equine workshops. White Stallion is a family owed, authentic dude ranch and a great place to take groups during the winter months.
We did a bunch of demos and enjoyed the press coverage created in a large part by our PR person, Kathe Stanton. -- see article in Tucson Star. We even shared the wisdom of the horses with the University of Arizona girls tennis team. They've won their first 3 matches, by the way!
It was all VERY FUN and much warmer than Minnesota!
Our goal is to inspire you, with help and guidance from the horses. Using equine-guided education to inspire changes in your lives is our greatest pleasure. If we have affected your life, please tell your colleagues and friends about Wisdom Horse Coaching. We are grateful for your references!
email: ann@wisdomhorsecoaching.com
phone: 612-823-7022
web: http://www.wisdomhorsecoaching.com
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