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COURAGE
Courage
and New Beginnings
Reflection is the key to change.
by Sandra
Ford Walston
JAN
2012 | We all seem
to feel the shifts of uncertainty that are occurring at multiple
levels in our lives including our spirit.
Acknowledging these feelings about how we approach our daily lives
will hopefully open up an opportunity to stop and reflect about
our behaviour patterns prompting us to ask questions.
Ask
yourself: Are you stuck in denial, apathy, self-doubt or blame?
If these few samples of obstacles to everyday courage resonate with
you, then you’re stuck in the past unable to embrace the major
transitions going on in our culture for the past several years.
Please know that it has not been easy for me either nor did I heed
the advice when I heard the prediction that major changes were coming
along with human suffering at all levels.
Are you stuck in sorrow or blame or
are you inviting new beginnings? |
In
October 2006 at my Newfield Network coaching conference in Colorado
I heard scholar and author Richard Tarnas speak. He shared his research
and predictions about the human suffering that was coming in 2008
and lasting through 2011. While my work focuses on understanding
how StuckThinking™ keeps us from utilising our courage, Richard
writes in Cosmos and Psyche about living in delusion. “A state
of delusion about one’s actual condition in the world is carefully
maintained by filtering out and denying all information that might
cast question on the validity of one’s rigidly protected belief
system, thereby creating a closed feedback loop.”
If
you sense you are stuck in delusion about the changes going on,
then this is an opportunity to claim and apply your everyday courage.
It is a time to start new beginnings (and for women to collectively
come together). Richard continues with his predictions “...it
seems altogether likely that nother feminist propulsion will infuse
itself into the culture and that women will emerge from the next
decade and a half with considerable more political and economic
power than now.”
Are
you stuck in sorrow or blame or are you inviting new beginnings?
Simply put: It takes everyday courage to come from your heart to
face hardships without delusion. 
Visit
Sandra's homepage
at HR Matters for full access to her other column pieces.
Read
Foaming
at the Mouth, Sandra's previous article, in the October 2011
issue.
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HR
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Issue 17 | January 2012
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The Leader's Choice
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Sandra
Ford Walston, The Courage Expert, innovator of
STUCKThinking™,
is an organizational effectiveness/ learning consultant,
speaker,
corporate trainer and courage coach, specialising
in understanding women’s leadership issues,
courage behaviors, individual personalities and leadership
styles that focus on the tricks and traps of the human
condition.
Sandra
is the internationally published author of bestseller
“COURAGE: The Heart and Spirit of Every Woman.”
Her second book is currently agent represented. Sandra
writes for “Chief
Learning Officer” and “Strategic
Finance” magazines, and she posts a monthly
Courage Blog
on her own her own site and for PINK
magazine and successtelevision.com.
Sandra provides skill-based programs for public and
private businesses, including Caterpillar, Inc., Auburn
University, Procter & Gamble, Wyoming Department
of Health Public Nurses, Farmers Insurance, Wide Open
West and Hitachi Consulting. She is a Newfield Network
Coach.
Ms.
Walston is qualified to administer and interpret the
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® and is certified
as an Enneagram
teacher and she enjoys applying insights from both
systems to her work. With over eleven years of experience
with finance professionals, she instructs for the
University of Denver Graduate Tax Program Continuing
Professional Education courses and she formerly taught
for the Colorado Society of CPAs.
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up for her courage blog.
To learn
more about how Sandra can help your business cultivate
success or to purchase a copy of her book, visit www.sandrawalston.com.
You can also reach Sandra at sandra@sandrawalston.com.
For copies of this article or reprints, please contact
the author.
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