Right Track Coaching News October 2009

Transform ~ Lead ~ Love

“Give Up Assumptions for Greatness”

Right Track Coaching
Transform Lead Love
October 2009

In this issue:

• Give Up Assumptions for Greatness

• Tips and Questions to Guide You to Greatness

• Get It Done Cafe – October 16th – Procrastinators & High Achievers – this is for you!

• Free teleconference: Play Full Out! – Play Full Out – October 20th – This is the last quarter of 2009 – so come &
Play Full Out

• October SOAR thru Career Moves Successfully SOLD OUT – New group starts November 17th

• Recommended Books – “The Four Agreements” by Don Miguel Ruiz and “Defy Gravity” by Caroline Myss

• Check out our Calendar of Events for new programs and offers

“We simply assume that the way we see things is the
way they really are or the way they should be. And our
attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.”
- Stephen R. Covey (author of The Seven Habits
of Highly Effective People), b.1931)

Give Up Assumptions for Greatness:

Every moment of the day you are making choices and assumptions. Choices may be minuscule or have major significance, depending on your priorities. Choosing the clothes you wear may be less important to you than for a fashion model whose career success is measured a great deal on her fashion style.

The fashion model may consistently look lovely and promotes a favorable impression from her audience, but behind the fashion runway is someone who may have a personality that turns people away. She may be bossy or unappreciative of her support staff and could be difficult to work with. She might scream at her staff, belittling them, and may well be closed to outside suggestions. Or she may be an introvert and is mistaken for someone who is aloof. Perhaps she is suffering from an illness which she has chosen to keep to herself.

Your work environment may be casual dress or classic attire; or your job may require a standard uniform. Often assumptions are made by the clothing worn by an individual. A white lab coat can suggest the wearer is a doctor, a lab technician or a chef. Jumping to conclusions by “judging a book by its cover” can be misleading. For example what are your thoughts about lawyers, teenagers, the homeless, or housewives/house-husbands? Do you lump all lawyers, all teen-agers, all the homeless and all housewives/house-husbands into general one-sided beliefs. In other words, do you see all lawyers as negative or positive and the same for the other category examples? Are they either this or that with no room for other perspectives?

Perspectives are your beliefs regarding yourself and others; about what’s possible and not possible. And these lead you to choices and assumptions that dictate your life. These beliefs are learned from childhood. And believe it or not the majority of adults make choices and assumptions from childhood beliefs. Their viewpoint in how they see the world and those in the world have not matured to self-awareness beyond the little child within who taught them how to manage and got them through the growing years. This worked just fine until the adult stopped paying attention to the little child who wanted to grow up. Caveat – this is not offered with the intention of growing to abandon the childlike qualities, but to move on to greater self-fulfillment and love.

Perhaps when you see a doctor in her lab coat you immediately assume that she has no worries; while she may in fact be thinking she made a bad choice in becoming a doctor, because there never seems to be enough she can do. She is feeling unrealistically guilty. The gorgeous fashion model on the runway gives the impression of confidence and yet may suffer from poor self-esteem. Both the doctor and model learned their professions successfully, but still feel something is wrong. Their beliefs about not being good enough and low self-esteem are underneath the success veneer of assumptions not uncommonly made in these two examples.

“The least questioned assumptions are
often the most questionable”
- Paul Broca (1824 –1880, French
physician, anatomist, and anthropologist)

Tips & Questions to Guide You to Greatness:

"Begin challenging your own assumptions.
Your assumptions are your windows on the world.
Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in.”
- Alan Alda (American actor, director and screenwriter)

Join fellow professionals at the Get It Done Café for fun, support, tips, and accountability to work on a project that will propel you up your ladder of success!

October 16, 2009 – Friday - 10:00 am Central / 11:00 am Eastern – Get It Done Cafe - Registration is ONLY $15! This is the perfect way to provide procrastinators, achievers, and want-to-get-it-done decision makers a place to have accountability and laser coaching on their projects. Attendees have earned more money by submitting overdue invoices, removed clutter from their desks, took action on getting programs started and more. Café opens via telephone at 11:00am Eastern – you will check in intermittently with final check-in at 2:30pm Eastern. Click here for more information and to register.

Free teleconference: “Play Full Out” – Tuesday, October 20th - 11:00am - 11:45am Central – 12:00noon - 12:45pm Eastern

This is the last quarter of 2009. How do you want to “play 2009 out?” Are you making assumptions that it is too late? Can’t do it? What’s the use? This is “stinking thinking” attracting what you prophesize. Come to the call and see what’s possible. You will get on your Right Track with tips and exercises. When you register there is a place to ask a burning question to help you “Play Full Out.” Expect to win and anything is possible.

Register here. For those “Playing Full Out” a handout will be provided to get you up and playing your game worth winning.

SOAR thru Career Moves Successfully with Right Track Coaching - starts Tuesday, November 17th – This begins a new group of professionals committed to SOAR thru Career Moves Powerfully - You will learn key secrets to launch into a career that is calling you. This is an opportunity to empower you with skills that are life-long and an investment in being true to following your path. Keeping the group limited to 12 is a plus for you. This allows time and space for more personalized coaching and learning. To see if you are a match for this group or if you have any questions, contact me at www.RightTrackCoaching.com

Join us for 6 months of extraordinary training and coaching geared toward your next level of growth and development professionally, as well as personally. Claim your group and space and register today. Next group starts Tuesday, November 17th . Click here for more information and to register.

Don Miguel reveals the source of self-limiting beliefs that rob us of joy and create needless suffering. The Four Agreements is based on ancient Toltec wisdom. The Third Agreement is Don’t Make Assumptions. He says to find the courage to ask questions to express what you really want. I am looking forward to his Fifth Agreement book coming out at the end of this year.

New York Times best-selling author Caroline Myss draws from her years as a medical intuitive to show that healing is not only physical; it is also a mystical phenomenon that transcends reason.

Inspired by ordinary people who overcame a wide array of physical and psychological ailments—from rheumatoid arthritis to cancer—Caroline dove into the works of the great mystics to gain a deeper understanding of healing's spiritual underpinnings. Based on these studies, she demonstrates how conventional and holistic medicine often falls short in times of need. Both systems rely upon a logical approach to curing illness when there is nothing reasonable about the emotional, psychological, or spiritual influences behind any ailment. Order her book today and receive many valuable F'ree gifts including a f'ree 2-hour exclusive Seminar download by Caroline Myss

I wish you the best and remember to check out and subscribe to our Passion to Mastery Blog for helpful leadership and transition tips. Remember you are the possibility of change and Anything Is Possible!

Theresa Maria Napa, CPCC, LOACC
Leadership & Transition Coach
www.RightTrackCoaching.com
Chicago, IL
312 320-0666

"Our chief want is someone who will inspire us
to be what we know we could be."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson