Inspiring your free thinking into action
Super proud of my Dad, Peter Knowles and his incredible new creative venture.
‘Pantomuse.’ Creating a new theatrical genre- a fusion between Pantomime and Musicals.
The songs for Jack & the GM Beanstalk are brilliantly catchy. Especially ‘Friends‘. Music written by Alan Creedon
The logo is created by the hugely talented design dudes Paper Rhino.
“Your coaching is open and supportive. You ask thought provoking and difficult questions when needed! This allows people to reach their own conclusions- you don’t tell us the answers, but YOU DO ask the right questions. You really believe in us and care about us achieveing what we want. I initially wanted to concentrate on having more clarity in my life, how to ‘fine tune’ it to get exactly where I wanted to be. It has confirmed for me that I should go with my gut when making decisions. This course has been really benficial to help me feel that I really can achieve what I want to do. Your use of analogies and examples allowed us to see things from a different perspective. The home actions worked well to get me thinking. You really do make a difference and it’s a legacy as well- not all the changes will happen instantly, but keep building on the work we’ve done.
This course would be good for someone who has been a passenger in their own life for too long.”
Katy, Peak District.
For more info on BE THE CHANGE course starting 21st March 2012.
New beginnings punctuate our lives they act as full stops and new chapters. New Years’ Day is often considered the time to create new beginnings. Even though this new year begins on a Sunday, a friend of mine, who always implements change on the first day of the week, describes Jan 1st as ‘the mother of all Mondays.’
New beginnings start by creating new intentions.
Consider what you want for you in 2012.
Which of your own thoughts, behaviours and actions have worked positively for you this year, and how can you create more of the same?
What do you need to help you be the person you want to be and have the life you know you can achieve?
Ask yourself these questions and set intentions that feel exciting and adventurous, grounding and stretching in equal measure.
Remember to anticipate some set backs and program resilience into your intentions at the very beginning. Don’t be stopped by the first minor set back. Brooke Castillo has a great analogy for this. She these set backs to being stopped at a red light during a car journey. When we reach a ‘stop’ light we don’t abandon our efforts and turn around and go home, feeling despondent and a failure, do we? The reason we don’t is because we have anticipated that there may be traffic lights to navigate. There may also be traffic jams. I know that when I get stuck in a queue of traffic I think creatively about what other routes I can take, how I can move around or get through the problem. I do this when I hit a block along my way to achieving any goals I set for myself too.
Consider your intentions, when you set them, remember to factor in the possibility that you may need to find an alternative route on your journey to reaching your goals. Anticipate metaphorical road blocks, diversions and red traffic lights. Be open to travelling along an unexpected route to get where you want to be.
Enjoy the journey, take the beautiful scenic route to fulfilling this years’ intentions.
Happy 2012 to you all.
xx
Found this beautiful mind map by Paul Foreman today.
I love mind maps.
Create one to inspire you today.
Find more at Mind Map Art.
What a week. Alan & I are tying up all the loose ends of our first business together. We have sold Dig Food, the organic veg box scheme we started over 4 years ago. It’s going to a fantastic woman Kirsty Vis.
It feels very strange answering emails as usual as well as completing all the jobs that we always meant to get around to!
It’s a huge step for us as we started Dig as soon as we got back from honeymoon. We had neither jobs, nor money. In fact our friend leant us the money for our rent that month! We knew we wanted to work for ourselves & that we both were interested in and had some experience of working in the organic veg world. We never dreamt that it would be as successful as it is.
It has been an incredible journey and we are incredibly grateful for all the physical, emotional & skilled help we have received from friends, family, farmers, producers and customers over the years.
We are passionate about veg, but we have other passions too. We have scratched the itch that was the desire to be business partners.
It is time to move on. We are very excited about being just marriage partners again soon-what will we talk about…can’t wait to find out.
Dig was our first born. Now Kirsty will be helping it leave the nest and taking it off to pastures new!
The other fantastic news the 2nd BE THE CHANGE group coaching programme starts in Spring 2012. Will your brain child grow just as Dig did?
Click here for the full course details.
Photo by kind permission of Shirley Bainbridge
In case you hadn’t guessed already the 8 week coaching programme-
BE THE CHANGE course is the result of a goal I created for myself to
be the change that I want to see in the world.
My mission is to give as many people as possible the tools of how to coach themselves to truly get stuff done.
I have been coaching 1 to 1 for 2 years and training and mentoring other coaches.
I have been running teleclasses for other people too and I have been dying to create my own group programme, but had been terrified of doing it.
I took my own advice; made a plan, created a support group, defined my skills and overcame my fears.
I hit a few pot holes, managed my time-management skills(!) and came out the other side.
Just writing this course has me right out of my comfort zone and it feels great, because I know this is what I want to do with my life.
This is the first time I have run this course-so you guys will be my pioneer group.
I have invested so much of myself, my coaching knowledge and own experience into this course, I can’t wait to see what you all create for yourselves.
Looking forward to meeting you!
FREE 1 hour TELECLASS
8 STEPS TO CREATING CHANGE
Next programme Spring 2012
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Thanks
Beth x
- You must be the change you want to see in the world.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Indian political and spiritual leader (1869 – 1948)
Want to spend 8 weeks concentrating on you, your own individual skills & what you can give to the world?
How you can use your super powers for good & be fully self expressed?
Get to know a group of inspiring like minded people, be supported & give support to get stuff done?
Learn a whole tool kit of coaching skills to enable you to coach yourself for ever more?
Ready to make a difference to your life?
Be the Change
Course details
8 weekly group coaching telephone classes.
Topics include: Money/Abundance. Community. Comfort Zone. Reality. Choice. Happiness is a serious business.
This is the course that I wished I could have taken 10 years ago. I have pulled together 10 years of personal development work & training to create a programme to stretch, excite & inspire you to take the steps to then ‘Be the change’ that you wish to see in the world.
Now I want to pass on all the skills and training I have gathered over the years to accelerate you in finding & living your own path!
I am a qualified coach, so this course won’t just be a training exercise. It is a rigorous investigation into who we are and what stops up from being what, where & who we want to be. Ready for some fun?
We work to get results.
SOLD OUT- next programme Spring 2012
Dates & Times
8 x 90 minute telephone classes using a teleconferencing call.
(Costs are 2p minute = £1.80 per call on your phone bill, this is not included in the cost of the course)
The classes will be every Tuesday evening 7pm til 8.30pm
Tues 18th Oct
Tues 25th Oct
Tues 1st Nov
Tues 8th Nov
Tues 15th Nov
Tues 22nd Nov
Tues 29th Nov
Tues 6th Dec
1 to 1 peer mentoring & support-you will be partnered each week with a different participant to work through structured exercises between teleclasses.
(Bonus) 1 hour -1 to 1 coaching session with Beth. (Worth £75)
Cost
£320 (concession £275)
To be paid in one installment.
If you are not completely satisfied at the end of the course & you have participated fully I will give you your money back!
Contact me to arrange a free 30 minute enrollment consultation telephone call.
bethcreedon@gmail.com or call 07833 774775.
I had a wonderful time in this dress at a wedding last weekend. My friend Esther Miller allowed me to borrow this dress she made out of a 1970′s duvet cover! The petticoat attracted alot of attention, specifically a boy called Alex, who is 5 years old-who kept demanding that I spin! I obliged of course.
I’ve had one client come to the end of her sessions this week too. She was glad that she had reached a point where she had now- ‘Stopped wanting to change‘. Instead she said ‘ I have completely changed the way I approach and see life and its challenges.’ Becky has been a joy to work with, read the rest of her review of our sessions here.
Continuing the loose theme of new from old…
What can you create new today from the old/original & best you?
Spinning & Twirling…
Beth x
One of my clients has written a blog piece about how she is investing in herself through different means-
Take a look. Investments May 2011.
Now I love getting stuff done. I love taking action & making a difference.
Sometimes though, things don’t quite work out how I imagined.
Does that ring a bell?
Do you sometimes get excited, make a plan, take some action & then feel disappointed?
I know how I feel when that happens-
Frustrated, not good enough, a failure, sad, angry and resigned. Feel like giving up, hiding away.
I feel like I need a little bit of time to lick my wounds & then I take a step back from my emotions to see what has actually happened.
I can get caught up in my plan & get very attached to the results that I want to create.
I know that when I do that, an expectation builds inside of me. I expect to get a certain result.
I get into a pattern of telling myself that I should have such and such a thing.
That I must achieve such and such a thing, and that only in gaining these things will I then be successful.
These kind of thoughts create in me a sense of unrest, disquiet & dissatisfaction.
I feel I am lacking something, I feel useless and incomplete.
Over the years I have made many plans to achieve things, those plans have often not gone the exact way that I had intended. Not happened as quickly as I would have liked, or turned out differently, or not happened at all. So, what can we do with the feelings that arise when things don’t go to plan?
I have notice that if I consciously choose to surrender myself to whatever outcome I might get, I feel a great sense of relief. It is much harder for myself to experience disappointment.
Also, in hindsight, more often than not, the ‘wrong’ outcome turns out to be an even better result than I had ever envisaged.
Dr Wayne Dyer in his film The Shift explains how this can be achieved, much better than I can.
A shift in our thinking is how we can deliver ourselves from suffering & disappointment.
“Move into a place of service. Living from your authentic self (, rather than from your fictional EGO self). Moving into meaning. Ambition with meaning, ambition transformed into purpose. You have to learn to become the observer, to step back. You begin to live in your process, trusting where the universe is taking you. Detach from the outcome and that detachment allows you to be no longer fighting. It allows things to just come to you. You are allowing them to show up. We aren’t here to push, we are here to enjoy life.”
Trust in the process of life, chill out!
This is not about becoming a martyr, but sharing all of our gifts with the world, unconditionally.
As a small physical aside…I also find that cooking helps me deal with disappointment.
Today I’m making marmalade. Have had the seville oranges in the freezer for 15 months!! I didn’t feel I had enough time last year-now I’ve made time. Feels great.
