It's Almost Ready!!

Ta Dah! Today I put the finishing touches on my Life in Focus and Career in Focus e-courses. The LIfe in Focus e-course is a rewrite of the previous "Life Upgrade" e-course. In this one I have improved the worksheets, added some material and revised the sequence of the lessons for better flow.

The Career in Focus course is brand new, written from scratch by yours truly. It has taken me years to collect this material and put it into practice with clients, then several months to write into a comprehensive e-course. I always thought this material would go into book form first, then follow with a companion e-course, but as I wrote and wrote it didn't make sense to me not to include the worksheets and offer coaching along with it.

So, stay tuned. All I have to do now is get them uploaded into a shopping cart and test, test, test to make sure it all works correctly and we are on! If you have thought about hiring a coach (me especially!) and have procrastinated either because of the cost or because of the time commitment of keeping session appointments, this is the second best alternative I can offer. And if you want to be one of the first to be notified when it becomes available (there will be a cost reduction for the first people to sign up) then send a blank e-mail to online_coachgwen@tx.rr.com. Don't worry, this won't add you to any other lists; you will only be notified about these courses when they are ready to order.

Am I Crazy, or just Convicted?

Today was a first for me. I actually sat down and drafted a letter to a celebrity who took a position on an issue with which I strongly disagree. I won't say what this issue is or name the celebrity, but it was important enough to me to express my view. And I will rewrite and rewrite it until I can only say what I would say to their face, in person. Then I will mail it via snail mail because I think it is more likely to be read that way.

Maybe it's the election, the economic crises or all of the above, but I am shocked at the strength of my own convictions lately. My values and beliefs haven't really changed, but the force behind them has. I seriously want to effect change and am not afraid to try.

So here is what I am going to do:

• I am going to write and speak personally when opportunities present; my voice is as credible as any Hollywood type who earns a living pretending to be someone he/she is not. (Fear not, I have no plans to turn this blog or any of my materials into personal platforms.)
• I am turning off the television. At my house we watch mostly educational preschool television anyway, which we will continue as long as it is productive. And I will still watch some HGTV and favorite news networks and my current closet favorite, "The Biggest Loser." Anything else just frustrates me.
• I will spend a lot more time reading things that inspire and motivate me.
• I will make it my personal goal to be an encourager to everyone with whom I come in contact.

The bottom line is, there isn't much point to having convictions if you're not going to exercise them and do so in a positive way.