CREATING A GREAT LIFE IN 2006
The beginning of a new year always
seems to present a great opportunity
to make changes in ones life, to
pursue long cherished hopes and
dreams, break away from bad habits,
disempowering relationships or
unhealthy life-styles and to move
towards greater wholeness, wonderful
relationships, healthier life-styles
and more satisfaction and joy.
The first step in creating this
great life we need to identify our
values and determine to pursue a
path that honours those. A
great, healthy and satisfying life
requires that we know who we are,
what we believe and what we stand
for.
Secondly, we must decide to do
what it takes. A great, healthy
and satisfying life results from
exploring our potential. It results
from growing, learning and from
allowing the difficult experiences
we all encounter, at one stage or
another, to make us better rather
than bitter.
We take the third step in the
right direction when we determine to
use our potential - the
qualities, abilities and gifts we
have been given - not only to make a
good living, but to also contribute
in some way towards making this
world a better place.
Last, but not least, we need to
ask ourselves what legacy we wish to
create. How do we want to be
remembered by those who matter to?
One of my most cherished mottos
comes from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s
words of wisdom: Do not go where
the path may lead; go instead where
there is no path and leave a trail.
(Ralph W. Emerson)
What kind of trail you would like to
leave in 2006?
If you
would like to
join me in the challenge of making
2006 a great, healthy and satisfying
year, please read on...
CHANGES I HAVE MADE FOR 2006
Challenging myself in the same way,
I too have made important changes
this year. Some of these are:
The amalgamation of my website -
The Step Stop - with the
Stepfamily Zone. This was a
difficult decision that became
necessary as demands on me steadily
increased in some of my other roles
and I began to feel overwhelmed and
overloaded and eventually became
aware that my life was getting
dangerously out of balance. As I am
a great believer, as well as
teacher, of the necessity of balance
in order to be the best person
possible, I knew that I needed to
make appropriate changes.
The building of a new website -
Sonjaridden.com This website
will, in time, serve you in the
following ways:
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It will inform
you of all the services provided by
myself and my network.
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It will keep
you updated on dates and times of
our courses, workshops and
seminars.
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It will become
a vast source of information
relating to coaching, counselling
and the corporate world.
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It will
provide you with loads of links to
other important websites.
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It will be
host to a number of affiliate
programs that will ensure that you
get a variety of input and
information on
inspirational, motivational and
other topics of interest.
Exploring a number of different
ways of offering courses to you
in a more accessible fashion. More
details of this will become
available in the next few months.
THE NEWSLETTER
What will you gain by subscribing
to our newsletter?
LIVING ON PURPOSE will
challenge you to create and maintain
a great and healthy life. Each month
it will explore a topic aimed to
assist you in building better
relationships, better businesses,
better health, better communication,
better ways of dealing with
conflict, difficult situations or
people. In short, each month it will
discuss one of the multitude of ways
that will help you BECOME THE BEST
PERSON YOU CAN BE and lead THE
GREATEST LIFE possible.
SUBSCRIPTION to the newsletter
will ensure that you are the first
to know about courses, workshops and
seminars we offer throughout the
year and enable you to take
advantage of discounts which will
only be offered to subscribers.
It will entitle you to periodic
counselling and/or coaching
discounts.
It will provide you with
inspirational words of wisdom,
introduce you some of the
inspiration and motivation gurus of
this world and will offer so much
more.
Please join us for this exciting
journey through 2006!
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WORDS OF WISDOM
Quality begins on the inside... and
then works its way out. (Bob Moawad)
There is just one life for each of
us - our own. (Euripides)
Whatever you can do or dream you
can, begin it. Boldness has genius,
power, and magic in it. Begin it
now. (Goethe)
The pessimist sees difficulty in
every opportunity. The optimist sees
the opportunity in every
difficulty.(Winston Churchill)
A day is a span of time that no one
is wealthy enough to waste.
(Anonymous))
The greatest use of life is to spend
it for something that will outlast
it. (William James)
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