The New Leaf^™
The Official Newsletter of Authentic Promotion™
Volume 5, No. 21, May 27, 2003
U.S. Library of Congress ISSN: 1530-311X
Molly Gordon, Master Certified Coach

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In This Issue
Fast Focus: Test for Traction
Simple Gifts: The Jump Start Guide to Press Releases
Open for Business: Commitments That Matter
Come See Me in Seattle
Grace Notes: Go for Less
The Bedside Table
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Fast Focus
Test for Traction
Traction is the power to maintain contact with a surface
without slipping. Traction keeps tires on the road, feet
on the ground. It's one of those things you don't notice
until you need it and then it is often too late.

You can test for traction by checking the tread on your
tires or on your shoes, but how do you test for the
traction you need to launch a new idea or see a project
through to completion? You might start by simply posing
the questions, "What would traction look or feel like in
this situation? What would provide that?"

Take a few moments to ponder what kind of traction would
help you "maintain contact with the surface" so that you
can meet your current challenges without slipping. What
would help you to be more surefooted now and for the long
term? Pay particular attention to any images, ideas, or
sensations that flit by, flirting with your attention. See
if you can get them to inform your notion of traction.

Asking what will give you traction may shift the way you
think about managing your time or even how you eat. Maybe,
for you, getting up 20 minutes earlier to exercise or
write will give you the traction you need.

Remember, getting traction in real life means paying
attention before you enter the skid!

Simple Gifts
The Jump Start Guide to Press Releases
This week's freebie is The Jump Start Guide to Press
Releases, an online summary of how to write and use press
releases to get publicity for your business or project. To
print your own copy of this guide click on the link at the
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Grace Notes
Go for Less
Sometimes the way to get more out of life is to go for
less.

Going for less is saying to a stack of unread books,
"Thank you for holding all that knowledge. It's good that
you're such good containers, because it makes me tired to
even think of trying to hold all that for myself. I think
I will let you hold it for a while longer. Right now I'm
going to take a walk!"

Going for less is saying "No" to some opportunities,
entertainments, and possibilities so that there can be
room for others. Going for less in this way demonstrates
your faith that there is enough now and will be enough
later.

Going for less is saying to some of the opportunities that
come along, "Thank you for generating more seeds than can
possibly sprout and grow in my garden. I honor the
abundance you represent by sharing you with other
gardeners." It honors nature's exuberance without becoming
obsessed with trying to turn every sprout into a
full-blown plant.

Going for less is spending an hour after you get up being
curious about what you want to do instead of being busy
with what you think you have to do.

Going for less is holding the joyous conviction that some
people will get along just fine without you at least some
of the time. In this way, it cultivates humility as well
as peacefulness.

Going for less is wondering how many things you don't
really need to figure out and then not figuring them out.
Think of all the time you could save!

If going for more is not getting you where you want to go,
maybe it is time to go for less.

(Revised from material that appeared first in The New
Leaf, May 6, 2001)

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The Bedside Table
Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix, JK Rowling
I preordered my copy of the fifth book in the Harry potter
series a couple of weeks ago. Maybe it's the times we
live in, but I find it increasingly important to exercise
my capacity to believe in magic. What better way than to
feel into Rowling's fantasy world where good and evil do
battle in the guises of wizards and witches, fantastic
animals, animated staircases? While I can be a terrible
snob about what I regard as overly popular, Harry makes
the grade with me.
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A General Theory of Love, Thomas Lewis, M.D., Fari Amini,
M.D., Richard Larmon, M.D.
What, really, can we expect from therapy or personal
development? How did thirteen years of unconditional
affection transform Boodle (my desk-sitting cat) from a
crank into a love goddess? Why did it take so long? What
does this have to do with becoming a more effective and
joyful person? This book answered those questions for me
in a manner at once poetic and scientific.
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The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle.
Seemed like everywhere I turned for several weeks, someone
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three versions of his powerful work calling us all into
the mystery of presence, the power of now. This volume is the
most complete.
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Changing for Good, James Prochaska
Why do we struggle and fail repeatedly to change, and then
suddenly things fall into place? Why does the technique we
use to make or break one habit fail on another? James
Prochaska's book shows in clear and understandable terms
the stages of change and the actions that are appropriate
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