Dying and Rebirthing- Finding the light in the darkness

Hello and Happy Friday Fabulous Leading Ladies!

O and happy New Year!!!

May this year bring you all you desire and then some!

As I considered writing something for this post, many thoughts flitted across my consciousness. This is the one that seemed most dominant…

I know we are currently surrounded by the harsh realities of recession, job loss and a seeming domino effect of infrastructures crashing down around us. However, I also sense a very real shift, a creative new way of living, doing business, collaborating and managing our resources.

In short, I see our current situation as a sort of wild fire that is devastating and deeply painful to experience, but which is clearing away the ineffectual, dead way of thinking and acting. This “clearing” process is necessary in order to create fertile ground for heightened levels of thinking, behaving and engaging (at micro and macro levels).

I feel and sense this dying and rebirthing happening all around me. Do you?

If you have not sensed this process underway, I offer you an eye-opening challenge. I offer you the opportunity to begin listening, looking and being curious about if and/or where you witness this dying/rebirthing process in action. And if you, as many of us do, need to be lifted up mentally/spiritually, I offer that you may want to focus initially on the “rebirthing” you encounter in your life and in the world around you.

Since we, as Natural Born Leaders, are the ones that others often turn to in times of need, it is our beautiful duty to see the light in the darkness, point it out to our own sometimes weary spirits and gently but regularly share it with those who have not yet seen it.

So lovely Leading Lady, find those pin pricks of light/rebirthing, take them in as the nourishment they are for your soul and then share the nourishment with those who care to partake.

Here’s to you and the rebirthing of all things good and beautiful in your life and in the lives of all those you touch along the way!

With much love,
Coach Angel

To You, the Dance and a Magnificent Future

Happy Wednesday Leading Ladies!


As you may have noticed, August has been one busy month (I’m just getting a chance to post here and our beloved “Fit To Play Wednesday” coach, Debra, has taken some well deserved time off too). I’m sure you have also found that work, life and hopefully a good dose of play, have made August simply dance by for you as well. I hope you are having the time of your life and making every day, every minute count!

I’m sending ever so much love your way!

Here are my current musings/offerings for today’s post


It’s going to be a rather hot one here in Salem Oregon today (mid 90’s), but now that we have our blessed heat pump/air conditioner installed, I’m looking forward to only being in the heat when I want to be today…what a wonderful thought!

As I consider this, I am reminded of other aspects of our lives where we have the power to invest in changes that allow us to minimize or eliminate the possibility of encountering situations we don’t like or want in our lives. In coaching these things are called “tolerations” (as many of you, particularly my coaching clients, know already).

The parallel is a simple one. In this case, my Hubby and I made a decision to invest in our home’s new capacity for heating and cooling (and not a small investment), which now affords me a magnificent work and living environment (while offering me a choice to bask in the sun and heat when I wish as well). In the same way, we each have opportunities to look around our lives right now and consider what we either want, or no longer want, present in our environment, practices or experiences. “

In this light I offer the following questions and challenges for your consideration…


What are you currently “tolerating?”
(For now just think of one thing/issue situation)

What do you want to experience?

What will it take to get there?
(What do you need to do, stop doing, or do differently to insure the result you’re looking for?)


Once you’ve answered these questions, you are equipped with the tools you need to begin the investment in your most perfect future. Begin investing/taking action today and fill your world with opportunities, choices, freedom and abundance! It’s your magnificent future in the making spectacular Leading Lady—why not make it expansive and beautiful beyond your wildest imaginations?

Here’s to you and the precious gift you are to yourself, to me and to all who have the privilege of being in your life!

Love and abundance to you!

Coach Angel