Morning Meds 4.15 The Coach's Coaches

My daughter laughed at me the other day when I was telling her something about my coach. She said, "Why does the coach need a coach? You could save money and just talk to yourself!" The wisdom of a 13 year old will never cease to amaze. In fact, that is the strategy most people employ. They just work problems out themselves or with people who think mostly like they do (their friends or others they find easy to talk to.) However, the world's most successful people spend a heck of a lot more money than I do (yet) on coaching. It's kind of like the fast track to reading a book, and access to the personalization of the lessons, toward your situation. This month is gratitude month at our church, and I wanted to say thank you to my coaches. Michelle Smith, of Z&B Consulting, has an impressive pedigree of helping high level companies with their marketing. She now helps small businesses act like big companies. She definitely makes me feel like a big dog! Roddric Smith, Sims Coaching Group, is the entrepreneur's reality coach, who considers himself equally successful when he convinces someone NOT to start a business. Right now, he gives my financial goals the accountability and reality check I need. Miriam Irwey, New Life Achievements Coaching, is an awesome life coach who specializes in women in later transitional stages of life--divorce, empty nesting, menopause... To me she's an objective ear with a perspective just different enough from my own to ask questions that push me. And then there's Johnny Goplin, electrician by trade, my best friend by design. I've just discovered he is INCREDIBLY encouraging when I'm down. This, my friends, is tough to do. I try not to be, but I'm pretty picky with my encouragement. It's not just enough to believe in me, but this English major wants it said a certain way. And hey, you got it dude. Right combination for my padlocked heart.

Morning Meds 4.14 Fail Bigger My dad said something particularly motivating to me at the end of last year. In fact, I hope to one day be as inspiring to my children as my dad has been to me. He said to me, "Next year, I want to see you fail bigger." Wow! What a gift to tell your child. Instead of saying that he wanted me to try harder, which would make me think I'm not trying enough. Or to say that he wanted to see me achieve something great, which puts the fear of failure right there. He said fail bigger. I had to stop and think about that. What does that mean? And what does that mean for me in 2015? What that means for me this year is that I am putting on my first conference next Saturday. And I'm so excited! First of all I'm working with the best business partner I've ever had, Alison Henderson. I am so proud of the work that we put into this and the difference we're making in people's lives because of it. And so far we are getting tremendous feedback about our message and what we are bringing to the network marketing industry. So, so far, no failure! What is looming before us is the goal we set of the number of tickets sales. I definitely set myself up for failure. But I'm not giving up yet! And whether we have 100 people in the room next Saturday, because of my dad, I know that if I fail I'll win and if I win I know he'll be no less proud of me. And I bet he wouldn't mind if these words inspired you to plan a big huge failure for the rest of your year or maybe for 2016. Felicity

Morning Meds 4.13 Next Level Positivity

Ahhhhh growth is so much fun! Nooot...like how God has been on me for the littlest bits of cynicism or negativity. He even told me something radical...He said, "You know how people won't talk about the dead?" Yeah. "Well, you'd be better off  judging dead people whose time on earth has past. Their decisions have been made and you could learn something, but if you judge the living you'll always be confused because I'm not finished with them yet." Wow! Then He asked me "what do you need those negative thoughts for anyway?" Huh? Well, I dunno. I guess it's like sugar. It feels good to indulge but it has no nutritional value to my life. Oh Kay! I challenge you to join me in this "sugar" fast...not one negative or cynical thought will you allow to go unchallenged. When you think more God like thoughts you'll get more God like solutions to your challenges. Let's see where this healthier thought life takes us.... Felicity

Be Free (Morning Meds Live)

Morning Meds 4.12 Live Be Free