New Futures - May 14th 2007
Happy Mothers Day

I suspect you all either have one or are one… so I’ll extend this for you because while this is written ‘yesterday,’ enjoy it today.

Okay – what has this to do with coaching? Well, this morning I took my wife and my oldest granddaughter to the annual Azalea festival here in Hamilton, NJ. I don’t know how long it has been happening – I never knew about it and it’s not even ½ hour from my home. It’s held every Mother’s Day. And it is very beautiful – held on about 30 acres, sculpted with Azaleas, other shrubs, beautiful glens,… A site worth seeing. Yesterday was perfect – the blooms, the weather, the crowds, the entertainment (Diamond always get her face painted – I suppose women start early.)

Here’s my point. I think I’m like all of us. We see what we see. Some of us explore, know all the odd routes from here to there, consciously look. And even for you, there are probably large invisible patches in your lives. That’s why magazines like “Weird New Jersey” and the like continue to sell well.

What can we do about that? It’s not only geographic unknowns, yet these invisible patches can have strong affect on our lives. Because, we often have opinions and judgments about those very things we don’t know. Just as we keep discovering new facts about our own history that are counter to our understanding; we keep learning new things about health that could have changed our well-being… Autism and vaccinations, greening and building codes, political machinations and the rightness of law….

I ask again – what can we do about it? Are we stuck with the world we have? I am increasingly resistant to ‘I know’ and even more resistant to ‘that’s right.’

I have two blogs Contributing Coaching - Creating New Futures and Blogging for the Reading - Making a Difference in how we Create.

Useful Quotes

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
Marcus Aurelius

Progress in every age results only from the fact that there are some men and women who refuse to believe that what they know to be right cannot be done.
— Russell W. Davenport

It is up to us to make the right choice and the right decisions.
— Karolina Kurkova

Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
— Rainer Maria Rilke

There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them.
— Jean Cocteau

Creative Corner

The Anchor

I know it’s all a fiction,
and life is just the cover of the book
that history and habit often rule the day

But still I make it matter
Because mattering is more than fun
(and never forget it’s the most fun that fun can be)

It matters ‘cause I say I matter
Even though I haven’t made page one
Yet
Or even twenty three
Though my letters have been published
And my daughter was once the NY Times
Quote of the day

And she made that quote because
She said she mattered
It’s all
about integ-rity