Archive for the ‘Community involvement’ Category

With the Canadian Thanksgiving just behind us and the American Thanksgiving ahead, I am filled with gratitude for this wonderful, mysterious, surprising and at times challenging life. I feel so very blessed to do what I love and make my living doing just that. I am reminded once again of just how different life felt, when I found my labour of love, life coaching, by working with my very first life coach over eight years ago. The best analogy I can think of is the difference between night and day.

I love to support my clients in arriving in the light of clarity about their strengths, values and passion and craft their career based on that. I am thrilled to offer a class on that very subject of FINDING CAREER CLARITY beginning in just a few weeks at Oaklands Neighbourhood House, here in Victoria.

The class is quickly filling up, so please take this opportunity and think about the people in your circle in Victoria and their friends whose lives may be changed for the better, simply by participating in this class. Life is too short to compromise!

Here are the class details:

Finding Career Clarity

Learn how to:
• Get in touch with your passion, strengths, values and dreams
• Make your path to success meaningful and enriching
• Design the next steps on your professional path

WHERE: Oaklands Neighbourhood House, #1 – 2827 Belmont Avenue, Victoria, BC
WHEN: Tuesdays, 7 – 8:30 pm, Nov. 8 – Dec. 6, 2011
Space is limited, to register call 250-370-9101

I recently met Joel who created an initiative called “bring your own bike” BYOB. He is going to bike through Malawi, Central Africa to raise funds, interest, and to get bikes to the Taulo Project. BYOBike’s initiative is to establish locally run bicycle tours out of the Taulo Region as a sustainable income generating activity. The bike Joel will bring for his pilot tour will be left there for local use. Each person participating in a BYOBike tour will bring their own bike and leave it for use on-site. I am inspired by Joel’s initiative, enthusiasm and commitment to making a difference.

As part of my own commitment to contribute towards positive change in the world every month, either through funds or time, I decided to  contribute  a month of coaching and a copy of The Mini-Retreat Solution for the silent auction at the upcoming fundraiser party “The World on Wheels” on Wednesday.

To learn more about BYOB, check out Joel’s website www.bringyourownbike.ca or even better, come to “The World on Wheels” party, Wednesday night in Victoria.

Whenever I give my time or money towards initiatives in which I believe and want to support, I feel empowered. My contribution matters. I can make a difference. I also feel connected to a larger movement of positive change in the world. Through giving my time, my talent or my money, I am contributing to a web of positive connections.

I want to share my contributions with you, so that you can feel inspired and encouraged to think about how you want to contribute.

Last month, I got involved in a small way in the election campaign of Green Party leader, Elizabeth May. I began by sharing the good news of the promising polling results with my network. After connecting with a friendly volunteer coordinator, I spent a Saturday afternoon going door-to-door to distribute campaign material promoting Elizabeth May.  I encouraged my friends locally to volunteer their time and contribute financially towards the campaign. With this initiative, it was especially rewarding to see the immediate positive result of Elizabeth May winning in her riding and becoming the first Green Party Member of Parliament in Canada.

Noticing how inspired and strong I felt during the election celebration, I made a commitment to myself to contribute every month to a cause that I believe in. In this case, size doesn’t matter, in my humble opinion. The fact that you get involved does. Whether you contribute half an hour, five hours, $10 or $1000, it is the act of giving, the act of choosing something you believe in and want to support and the act of doing it, not just thinking about it, that matters.

Each month, I will share the cause that I am contributing towards in hopes that this will inspire you to consider your potential contribution to the great projects happening in your own community.  For those of you who are already experiencing the joy of giving, more power to you! Please share your ways of giving back by writing a comment. Thanks!