Newsletter:Right Now! Coach

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LifeRhyme Notes
September 2006
By Rochelle Melander, Coach
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IN THIS ISSUE...
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1. WRITE NOW! Workshop
2. NEW BOOK Available Now!
3. Doing It

Time is running out for: WRITE NOW!
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Want to write a book? Get your Web site
put together?? Put your brilliant thoughts
on paper? What are you waiting for??
This weekend writing workshop--offered
by Rochelle Melander, a coach and busy
professional who has written nine books--
will give you the time and the tools to get
writing!

Register by September 20th to receive all this
at an amazing price:
•A pre-retreat coaching conversation to set weekend
goals and create a plan to achieve them!
•Three writing seminars during the retreat:
•Getting Started
•The Writing Habit.
•Celebrating Success and Setting Goals.
•A 30-minute coaching conversation during the retreat
to support you in writing now.
•12-15 hours of writing time.
•A 30-minute coaching conversation to keep you
accountable to your writing goals.
*A weekend at a first-rate hotel.

To register or get more information, contact coach
and author Rochelle Melander:
rochelle@liferhymecoaching.com

To learn more, visit:
http://www.liferhymecoaching.com/writers/index.html

Rochelle's New Book is OUT!!!
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A Generous Presence:
Spiritual Leadership and The Art of Coaching
by Rochelle Melander (The Alban Institute 2006)
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This book provides insights that will encourage and
guide you through the process of connecting with
others in meaningful ways. Filled with practical tools
and engaging personal reflections, A Generous
Presence will help you use the power of coaching to
change your life and improve your relationships.

Get the book here:
http://www.alban.org/BookDetails.asp?ID=1911

Read an excerpt here:
http://www.alban.org/weekly/web/109_060821.html

Doing It
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We've been talking about my answer to the question:
"How do you manage your life and still get your books
written?" How do you--how does anyone--get the big
things done? Last month we talked about letting go of
the things that drain our energy.

For the last month, I've been thinking about what to tell
you next. But first I had to plan a fifth birthday party for
a princess and her princess friends. Take the same
princess to the doctor and hold her hand during
uncomfortable procedures. See clients. Market my new
book. Sell and plan a conference. Fulfill important
obligations to other people. You get the picture.

In between the coming and going (and worrying),
I thought about what to say TO YOU! What do you
have to do to get to the BIG THINGS done (or even
started)?

Then I had coffee with a friend. She said, "How's
the memoir?" The next day, another friend asked the
same thing. Third day, third friend, same question.

&*#@!!! I hadn't written a word of my memoir, my
big thing. But at least now I remembered the secret
to doing big things!!! Here it is:

You have to actually do them.

Yup. That's the key to getting big things done.

You have to do the work: no excuses. You have to
write or draw or sell or manage or build or run or network
even if you:
*don't know how
*don't feel like it
*can't afford the time
*have a sick child or spouse or friend
*feel terrified
*think it's impossible
*believe that no one cares
*know that others will criticize you

You have to do the work. Tired, angry, worried, or
overwhelmed: you need to put your butt in the chair or
your foot on the pavement and do it. You have to work
even in the midst of what my professor used to call, "the
shit of daily living." There will never be a perfect time to
do what you need to do, to accomplish what God calls
you to do. Sometimes you just have to work at the big
things while the shit piles up around you.

But how ???????????

Here are some ideas:
1. Write down your big thing goal and post it everywhere.
Tell people about it and say, "Ask me about this until I want to
strangle you."

2. Build time into your day to do the work. Treat this time the
way you would treat time with a new lover: as absolutely
indispensible!!

3. Each morning, before you get out of bed, think about when
you will work on your big thing. Imagine yourself DOING IT. And
doing it well.

4. Do it. For five minutes, fifteen minutes, an hour. Just try.

5. Every night, before you go to sleep, review your day. Did you
do the big thing? Practice gratitude and compassion. Gratitude for
what you did. Compassion with yourself for not doing enough.

6. Stop talking about the big thing to anyone who belittles your
goal, criticizes it, or distracts you. As someone once said, People
who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it!

Finally and always: seek inspiration. Here's a song that reminds me
to keep doing it, day after day, in the midst of the shit of daily living:

Would you teach your children to tell the truth
Would you take the high road if you could choose
Do you believe you're a victim of a great compromise
cause I believe you could change your mind and change our lives

Your life is now your life is now your life is now
In this undiscovered moment
Lift your head up above the crowd
We could shake this world
If you would only show us how
Your life is now

Would you teach your children to tell the truth
This is your time here to do what you will do
—John Mellencamp and George Green, Your Life is Now

Now get going and do it! Rochelle

Inspired?
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Are you inspired by what you read here?
Then pass it on!

Interested in connecting around the
important issues of life?
Give me a call at 414-963-1222 or
send me an e-mail
(rochelle@liferhymecoaching.com)
to set up a free coaching consultation!

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