The New Leaf™
The Official Newsletter of Authentic Promotion™
Volume 5, No. 39, September 30, 2003
U.S. Library of Congress ISSN: 1530-311X
Molly Gordon, Master Certified Coach


Yes, there's still time to enroll in the four-week teleclass,
Believe! How to Work With Your Beliefs to Grow a
Prosperous and Meaningful Business. Details and online
registration a http://www.authenticpromotion.com/believe.html


In This Issue
Fast Focus: Follow the Sun
Simple Gifts: Reading for Healing and Wholing
Readers' Keepers Contest: One Day Left!
Open for Business: The Art, Science, and Grace of Thriving
The Art of Coaching Teams
The Bedside Table: Now, Discover Your Strengths!
Quick Links: Resources
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Fast Focus
Follow the Sun
The sunflowers along the fence outside my office window are thriving
in the golden light of our Pacific NW autumn. I love watching them
dazzle without effort, beautify without artifice. It soothes,
grounds, and inspires me to watch each bright head follow the sun,
infallibly keyed to the source of its well being.

In our own lives, we are in many respects both flower and gardener.
If we are to thrive, we must make wise choices, keeping the source
of our well being in clear view. While we cannot control all of the
conditions and challenges in and around our lives, we can keep our
own brightness aligned with its source. When we do so, we thrive,
knowing our purpose and prospering in its pursuit.


Readers' Keepers Contest
One Day Left!
What are the books that you turn to again and again? What titles
have shed the most light on the way you live, work, and play? Share
your keepers by sending the title, author's name, and a brief
statement about how each book is of enduring value. Send to
keepers@mollygordon.com. I'll create a list of reader's keepers for
everyone to enjoy and I'll enter your name in a drawing for a
hardbound copy of Simple Abundance by Sarah Ban Breathnach.
Deadline for entries October 1, 2003.


Simple Gifts
Reading for Healing and Wholing
What wants to be made whole in your life and work? Spend some time
surfing the reviews of these healing books, and choose one to focus
your intentions for health and wholeness for yourself, your
community, your planet. Send a blank email to
healingbooks@mollygordon.com and I'll send you a list of New Leaf
readers' favorite books for creating wholeness in your life and work.


Open for Business
The Art, Science, and Grace of Thriving
Thriving is part art, part science, and part grace. A thriving
business must not only accommodate but support life in all its
complexity. A thriving business requires and provides resilience and
continuity.

How do you go about building a thriving career or business? Here are
some of the things I've learned and that I credit with supporting my
own thriving business.

1. Recognize that life happens. There will be ups and downs in your
personal life and ups and downs in business. When you can accept
these ebbs and flows of attention, energy, and focus, you will
better be able to adjust to changing conditions both in your heart
and in your environment.

2. Cultivate systems, practices, and networks that provide
continuity. For example, this newsletter and my Web site are ongoing
and reliable means of staying in touch with a meaningful network in
good times and in bad.

3. Pay attention to transitions. When change is happening, it can be
easy to get caught up in reactionary thoughts and feelings that can
muddy your thinking and make complex situations chaotic. Learning to
detach and observe your reactions, thoughts, and fears will help you
keep a steadier course without being rigid.

4. Learn to notice when things are expanding and when they are
contracting, and choose your strategies accordingly.

5. Learn to regard mistakes as stepping stones to mastery. Avoid
wasting time in needless guilt and defensiveness. Seize the
opportunity to correct your error and move on.

6. Listen to your clients and customers. Identify those who get the
most benefit from working with you with the least effort on your
part. This is not laziness. This is learning to operate from the
sweet spot – that place in which you add the most value by working
from your strengths.

7. Rigorously address personal issues that inhibit success. This
could mean seeing a therapist, paying off old debts, or starting an
exercise program.

8. Learn to listen. Listen for guidance from Spirit, from your
heart, from your environment, from colleagues, from clients.

9. Raise your standards regularly both for your own performance and
for the caliber of client or customer that you attract.

10. Periodically update and refocus your business plan, including
income, expense, and investment plans. Keep it simple. Distill your
plans into a sentence or two that summarizes your goals and
strategies so that you always know where you are going.


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The Art of Coaching Teams
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The Bedside Table
Now, Discover Your Strengths!
Marcus Buckingham and Donald Clifton, Ph.D.
I recommend this to everyone in my Authentic Promotion® course.
It is both a book and an assessment tool. (A special code on the
inside cover will let you take the strengths assessment online.) I
tend to be lukewarm about assessments, however this one is
useful for identifying what the authors term your signature
strengths and showing you how focusing on those strengths can
help you operate more in your "sweet spot."
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Authentic Promotion: Grow Your Business, Feed Your Soul,
by Molly Gordon, MCC
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Quick Links
Resources
Neuroscience and meditation – Interesting article from
The New York Times (thanks to Melissa West).
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/14/magazine/14BUDDHISM.html


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