Your ability to be yourself, no diluting, no apologies, no holding back

Your unbridled enthusiasm for coaching and being a coach!

Your sense of humor

Your keen, curious mind

Your commitment to moving forward despite that pesky day job

Your imagination — you always have interesting blog posts

Your ability to see the best in others

And that winning personality I am always alluding to!

Hi my favorite ladies,

I invite you to take part in a creative project between you and your trusted friends, to bring further awareness to the fact that inspiration is everywhere. It is within us, and it is in other people. We just need to bring attention to it to make it come alive!

I am sending this little project to all my ladies that inspire me, So,if you want to e-mail me personally with how you find me inspiring, I will be happy to tell you how I find you inspiring, too. Yes, it seems needy and embarrassing, but I did this with my client Sophie (who started this project) & it had the opposite effect! I hope you all know how much you mean to me, but I want the chance to tell you in specifics. Also, with being thisclose to finishing my coaching school & delving into the intent of being a full-time life coach, I can use the words of encouragement in 2009! I'm planning on taking all the words and phrases I receive, printing them out & framing them on a single page of paper to hang over my desk. That way I can look at them while I'm working and remember how freaking awesome/inspiring I am.

This is honestly a very scary thing for me to ask you to do this, & I absolutely do not want anyone to feel like they have to partake in this. If you're not interested just trash this email – no harm done. But if you want to participate know that it's coming right back to ya! You can also pass this email along chain letter style & see what your other loved ones say.

Talk to you all soon!

Love, me

(Taken from Sark's "Make your creative dreams real – a plan for procrastinators, perfectionists, busy people, and people who would really rather sleep all day")

Sophie – What's so funny in this fear is that it might not be a blip on your friend's radar! Those that it speaks to will partake, but those that don't – will just press Delete & not give it a second thought. I have to remind myself of that when I say "no" to something. Usually I build it up into this huge thing where I have to make a worthy excuse so I don't hurt the other person's feelings – but who am I to determine what a worthy excuse is for someone else? And how much of a headache is that for me? Geez Louise Louise. Now I've found that I can just say, "Oh, I'm so sorry, that won't work for me" and I'm not even asked why! They don't care why! They just say, "What about this date?" or "When will it work for you?" or "Too bad, so sad."

And thanks so much for posting why you find me inspiring! I was hoping you'd do that I already posted yours on the Marvelous Magnificent Women blog (http://magnificentmarvelouswomen.wordpress.com/) but I'll happily do it again:

I find so many things inspiring about you:

* your energy

* your passion

* your enthusiasm

* your thrill at adventure

* your sense of risk

* your ability to look inward and discover what both is and is not “working” for you

* your commitment to change

* your eagerness to learn

* your sassiness

* your focus when you have a goal to reach

* your determination

* your bravery!

I am really inspired that you showed so much enthusiasm for for what started off as a "mini -project". In fact I realise now that I should have given the project mroe justice and called it a "huge" project" or a "magnificent" project, to convey it's boldness. It just goes to prove one of my main driving forces behind launching Magnificent Marvelous Women, which is how powerful women can be when they come together and give support to each other's dreams!

The things I find inspiring about you are:

Your really funky online identity/presence

Your empathy

Your really cool outlook on life

Your colourful personality

Your ability to encourage and give kudos unconditionally

Your unique creativity

Your energy

Your commitment to your coaching business, and your willingness to listen as well as go the extra mile and motivate and praise in a genuine way

Your ability to separate the things that matter from the bulls**t – very cool

The fact that you seem super happy in your own skin, and with your life

Your ability to pinpoint positive traits and celebrate people

Your natural ability as a coach

You have inspired me to journal more!

The fact that you have pedicures and go to happy hour! Good for you!!

Your ace profile photo, there is definitely a really funky energy about it (you could ask people what impression/reaction they get when they see your profile picture on twitter/your website etc cos for me for some reason it's really motivating!!)

Yes, there is so much fear surrounding this exercise, it would be interesting for a client to do it and then see how their fears in general have shifted afterwards.

Sometimes we may fear that our friends really don't find us inspiring, and if they don't then maybe it really is time to find new friends who do! Because the truth is that we are ALL inspirational and we need the support of people who are able to recognise and feed that part of us. So, in essence a fear of your friends not finding you inspiring could be part of a bigger fear of becoming successful. You may know deep down that this exercise may cause you to shed friendships and relationships that may not be serving you, and to find new friends and new ways to be inspiring, which means shedding baggage, limiting beliefs, evolving as a person and catapulting you into success! And, are you ready for success? Are you ready to be even bigger than you are now?

By the way, this was aimed at everyone when I used the word "you"!!

Especially since I'm totally with you on the scariness of asking for people's thoughts on this…

Cheers,

Alex