Flow

I be in the flow, that's said with a cool, I'm cool, gangsta accent.  Salmon swim up stream to spawn and some of them make it, yes yes, double meaning intended, and some of them don't.  I think the swim up stream is a statement about tenacity and strength and unwavering dedication and dam it (yes, misspelled on purpose), come hell or high water, rapids and rocks, the grand daddy's of salmon get on up the stream and they get to spawn, propagating the next generation of feisty swimmers.  The swimming to get somewhere is the fight for life and this is what we all must do to establish ourselves as worthy of the waters that await at the top of the hill.  It is a right of passage, a fight for the finish and the struggle is fierce and frantic until somehow, we realize we aren't fighting anymore, the water is sparkling in the sunlight of calm and we too, we salmon people, can float and swim and go with the the watery flow. No more fighting, leaping over tall edgy rocks, just the fabulous flow.  Take that struggle money monster, ha, I'm in the clear and you are out of sight!

Fee for Professional Coaching

So, I got a warning today from a collegue...she said that I must increase my coaching fees immediately upon confirmation of certification. I have an oral exam and than a brief wait to find out if I pass.  In the warning, she made it clear that once I join the ranks of the certified, there are standards, price guidelines, ethical expectations and practices, bottom line, there is PROFESSIONALISM.  She told me she is going to "come after me" and make sure I do as she suggests. I liked it, because truth be told, she is right. Bigger than little old me or you or that guy or girl over there is the Gold Star, the aspiring to greatness in service amd then the delivery.  One is a concept, the other is the living it out loud.  As the saying goes, talk is cheap, put your money where your mouth is. My after I passed the exam cuz I'm really good at this coaching stuff fee is $300 a month.  I am coach for hire~thanks Susan Morel, challenge accepted AND will be lived out loud. Which money monster am I slaying?  Fear of the asking, that's him, what would you call it?

Money monster debt

The money monster debt equals death.  Get some debt today and suffer all the live long day.  This is a tricky money monster, gnawing endlessly on the brain, making crunching sounds while drool drips from its massive masticating jaws.  With the childish voice of I want it I want it now, pestering and petulant it likes to get its own way and temperance is destroyed along with the pleasure of delayed gratification.  Self control is a pain to be resisted at all counts with this money monster, because he does not want you and I to gain mastery of ourselves, this would leave him in a tiny space, too cramped to claw out of with little brain food to gnaw on.  Observe:  other than the weather, money seems to be the number one topic everywhere you turn. Hedged in with stuff that has not been paid for, humans clammer to make ends meet, debt providing a never ending reminder of obligation, deminishing choice out of desperation.  It's a slow, low grade constant throb, just behind the eyes, or a steady gentle squeeze of the heart, and the voice says you owe me, I want you to pay, and with your health you do pay...giving yourself over to a living dying.

Two Extremes

I was approached recently, with a money making scheme...my talent was the offering, and someone else wanted to cash in.  Weird.  You don't work, you don't eat, or more specifically, you don't deserve to eat. I experienced two extremes this week, one of humble giving without desire for recognition or financial reward and the other of riding on the backs of those who have blood sweat and tears earned their food and keep. I earn my money, I earn my reputation and this is the challenge, earning, delivering, having standards, living up to and into top drawer professionalism. This slays the money monster laziness.  Laziness repels, it is ugly and slovenly...work, commit to it, serve, love serving, the money WILL come.

Indomitable

I believe in the indomitable nature of the human spirit.  The root of this word is dominate. I write with extreme energy, with an overpowering feeling of something having to be said. We fight, as infants, then as children, then as adults, to be free from dominance.  The money monster dominance has a sure glint in his wicked eye, each and every time we humans submit to his overlordship, his steel fisted grip on our souls, with his quick and dirty comments that status quo works, don't be a fool and change what isn't broken. To eat the same meal for breakfast, lunch, dinner, day in day out becomes tasteless and his steady slop onto our spirits is gruel to the soul. I will not be dominated and nor will you be, when we recognize the indomitable nature of our spirits. Status quo is for the yet to be initiated, and they too will be set free if they see in us, fearless courage in the face of a shrinking monster. Money monster dominance doesn't write my paycheck, I do, each time I decide it is my life and I refuse to be held back or down by status quo.  My spirit stands, hands on hips, calling the shots...

Qualified to Be Certified

I have an oral exam to pass, then I am certified as a Co-Active CTI trained coach. During my completion call this week, my program leader called my pod mates and I her colleagues, a bonafide verbal acknowledgement of accomplishment from one professional to another. Coaching is not for the faint of heart, it is a gruelling process of self discovery and hard work. I await my exam and the stamp of approval, the CERTIFIED word that I can put behind my name for clients interested in hiring a professional coach. The thing is, I'm already a professional, qualified coach, I have done my painstaking heart breaking risk taking work and I have earned the title. The money monster would have me, and my new to the profession colleagues believe that we are unworthy, that we have yet to earn the title, that somewhere out there, someone else will guide us, teach us about our niche and marketing and how to make our first $100 000 in year one.  I say bullshit money monster, I don't buy your line of reasoning...I will not believe your lies.  I know what I've got, what I have worked intensely for for years on end.  It is not just the year of coach learning, it is the countless soul searching years of wisdom that I have accumulated PLUS the professional training that has brought me to this place of knowing just how good I am at what I do.  The not enough money monster is not worthy of my time, searching the internet for answers I already have. I am enough, I have enough, I am COACH!

Slaying greed and thanklessness

I am confronted, affronted, with greed, thanklessness.  These money monsters are rampant, frothing at the mouth, ready to devour the human that loves money more than sister, brother, father, mother, friend...what of money if it provides food, more things, and severs the soul from relationship with others?  We hunger again, things needed anew, but the damage this love of money can do is immeasurable and damning.  Greed is desperation, a clamouring for a self protective cocoon, self love blinding the greedy to the other. Thanklessness encourages greed, tells greed that more is never enough and what we have will not provide...I see the snivelling liars, whispering their selfish twisted untruths, making the humans that listen and believe, ugly and twisted too.  The remedy, give and yea shall receive...these are hard to slay monsters, doable though, with generousity and gratitude, they too shall fall.