COACHING NOTES: LIVING ON PURPOSE Bonus Issue April 25, 1995 Brought to you by Ann McAllister, Ph.D. (But you can call me Bubba.) ************************************************************************* TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. A Reminder for the Coaching Call-In 2. Words of Wisdom 3. Humor ************************************************************************ FREE COACHING OPPORTUNITY TOMORROW Would you like some help on how to survive and thrive in today's constantly changing corporate environment? Do you wonder how to become truly excellent in the work that you do? Would you like some coaching on becoming You, Inc.? You, Inc. was discussed in the 4/21/99 issue of Coaching Notes. Just call me tomorrow, Monday, April 26 between 8 and 9:30 PM EDT at 770-399-6619. It is as simple as that. If you get my voice mail, I will be talking to someone else. Please call back a few minutes later. If, by 9:30 you haven't gotten through, leave a message, and I will call you Tuesday to schedule an appointment for you. If you at all attracted to calling, do it. You have nothing to lose but a few minutes and the cost of a long-distance phone call. You just may gain a lot. I look forward to talking to you. Hey, it's an adventure for me, too. **************************************************************************** WORDS OF WISDOM To wait for someone else, or to expect someone else to make my life richer, or fuller, or more satisfying, puts me in a constant state of suspension; and I miss all those moments that pass. They never come back to be experienced again. - Kathleen Tierney Crilly We become what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is NOT an act but a habit! - Aristotle When one door of happiness closes, another opens--but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us. -Helen Keller ************************************************************************** HUMOR Dealing with anger is always a challenge. Here is a tool to help you. A coach is always helpful when she can be. THE OFFICIAL SHAKESPEAREAN INSULT KIT To construct a Shakespearean insult, combine one word from each of the three columns below, and preface it with "Thou": Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 artless base-court apple-john bawdy bat-fowling baggage beslubbering beef-witted barnacle bootless beetle-headed bladder churlish boil-brained boar-pig cockered clapper-clawed bugbear clouted clay-brained bum-bailey craven common-kissing canker-blossom currish crook-pated clack-dish dankish dismal-dreaming clotpole dissembling dizzy-eyed coxcomb droning doghearted codpiece errant dread-bolted death-token fawning earth-vexing dewberry fobbing elf-skinned flap-dragon froward fat-kidneyed flax-wench frothy fen-sucked flirt-gill gleeking flap-mouthed foot-licker goatish fly-bitten fustilarian gorbellied folly-fallen giglet impertinent fool-born gudgeon jarring guts-griping harpy loggerheaded half-faced hedge-pig mangled hell-hated joithead mewling idle-headed lewdster paunchy ill-breeding lout pribbling ill-nurtured maggot-pie puking knotty-pated malt-worm qualling motley-minded measle reeky plume-plucked miscreant roguish pottle-deep moldwarp ruttish pox-marked mumble-news saucy reeling-ripe nut-hook spleeny rough-hewn pigeon-egg spongy rude-growing pignut surly rump-fed puttock tottering shard-borne pumpion unmuzzled sheep-biting ratsbane vain spur-galled scut venomed swag-bellied skainsmate villainous tardy-gaited strumpet warped tickle-brained varlet wayward toad-spotted vassal weedy unchin-snouted whey-face yeasty weather-bitten wagtail Now try a few! Thou warped beetle-headed ratsbane. Thou surly tickle-brained measle. Thou warped hasty-witted puttock. There, don't you feel better? ************************************************************************* SHAMELESS MARKETING Do you want to achieve excellence? Great athletes have coaches. Great musicians have teachers. Great leaders have advisors. Isn't YOUR life just as important? For a complimentary introductory session to see if coaching is for you, call me at 770-399-6619 or email me at CoachAMcA@aol.com. I am available for individual and group coaching. Who is Ann McAllister, Ph.D., you ask? Well, she has been helping people achieve the lives they really, really want for 26 years as a psychologist and more recently as a Success Coach. She is a member of the International Coach Federation and the Coach Training Program of Coach University. Ann works with professionals, executives, and business owners to achieve personal and professional excellence and still have fun in the process. Ann considers herself a recovering psychologist. When she is not "working," you can often find her strolling through her estate (a small perennial garden) admiring the beauty of nature. She is often followed by a herd of cats. ************************************************************************** Coaching Notes: Living on Purpose appears twice monthly. I welcome submissions from all of you for the newsletter, suggestions on what you would like to see in it, constructive criticism on what you don't like about it, and even messages to unsubscribe because you don't find it useful. Please feel free to distribute this newsletter in its entirety (including copyright) to anyone you think might enjoy it. GIVE YOUR FRIENDS, FAMILY AND COLLEAGUES A GIFT! To subscribe, send an email to CoachAMcA@aol.com with "subscribe" in the body of the email. To unsubscribe, just type in "unsubscribe." This subscription mailing list is completely confidential and will not be sold or released to anyone. Copyright 1999 Ann McAllister, Ph.D. All rights reserved. Permission is granted to reproduce, copy or distribute Coaching Notes: Living on Purpose so long as this copyright notice and full information about contacting the author is attached. Ann McAllister, Ph.D., can be contacted at CoachAMcA@aol.com or 770-399-6619. http://www.AnnMcAllister.com