Ruth Sanderson

Goals and new years resolutions, have you given up setting them, or do you set them and then they fall by the wayside?

As you look back to 2009 how much of your plans are now part of your life?  What has come to fruition and where is there still work to do?

What are your plans for living more of your potential and creating prosperity in 2010?

The year 2010 is the threshold of the next decade of the 21^st Century-and my good friend and expert in the field of vision, Geraldine Sheehy, is on hand to help you.

Geraldine Sheehy specialises in leading and facilitating change both within business and with individuals.

In 1995 Geraldine set up her own development business delivering a range of consultancy, facilitation, training and coaching services to corporate clients in both the public and private sector. Her clients include: Allianz, BBC, BP, BT, Mars, ITN, the NHS, and Royal Mail as well as various organisations within the Charity Sector.

Geraldine is also an experienced personal transformational Coach and Mentor. She has coached hundreds of individuals - teachers, therapists, business owners, leaders, coaches, in fact people from all walks of life through personal transitions and transformational experiences, enabling them to achieve breakthrough results.

How clear is your vision for making this the year that you are living more of your potential and creating prosperity?

If we briefly fast forward to January 2011 and imagine you are looking back on 2010 - what will you be saying about this year?

Imagine being able to say it has been an extra-ordinary year! A year that has exceeded your expectations! The year began with you creating a clear vision. You have been able to sustain the necessary clarity and focus to work with this vision. When you wavered or began to lose faith, you had some practical tools to help you stay on track.  You are now well on your way to realising your vision.

The foundation for creating a year like this is having a clear vision.

With the Christmas holidays behind us and as we enter the New Year this ‘Crystallise Your Vision for 2010′ workshop is an ideal opportunity for some quality ‘me’ time and creating your crystal clear vision for 2010.

Take this opportunity now to join Geraldine on one of her rare open workshops.

Saturday 6^th February 2010

The purpose of the day will be working to help you:

• Crystallise your vision for 2010
• Align your thoughts, feelings and action to support you bringing your vision into reality
• Discover what blocks you and how to overcome these
• Sustain your focus - practical ways to retain focus
• Stay on track - tools to enable you to do this

The workshop will be a highly participative and inter-active day.  Like I say I’ve known and worked with Geraldine for some years now and I’ve yet to ask her a question she couldn’t answer, and I can ask some complex questions.

Act now and book your place.

The information you need to do this:

Date:     Saturday 6 February 2010

Time:     10.00 - 16.30 (Registration and Coffee from 09.30)

Venue:  Moor Hall Hotel, Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands. (Hotel website: moorhallhotel.co.uk)

Your investment:  £97 + vat @17.5% = £ 113.98

Lunch, morning and afternoon refreshments are included in too.

To secure your place either call Geraldine’s office on 0121 354 6879 or fill in the contact us section and I’ll forward on your details.

As a child what did you want to be when you grew up?  Nurse, fireman and teacher were the hot options at my infant school.  Then of course you somehow realise there are more options out there.

I’m still surprised at the number of people who tell me what they do, listen to what I do and then wistfully say “ahh but I’d love to ….or as a child I always wanted to be …” as a profession.  What stops them from pursuing this desire? - being sensible and responsibility are the 2 most popular answers.  Apparently I am blessed and lucky to be able to do what I love.  Well so I’m told.   So why do I get to do what I love, and others don’t?  Especially as I’ve never thought of myself as unsensible or irresponsible.   What is it that causes one person to choose to remain in an unfulfilling job and another to go out and pursue it?

I have a hypothesis, just as “I don’t have the time” is very often an excuse rather than the truth, responsibility and sensibleness are also acceptable excuses.  We can trot them out in public without fear of ridicule or being called on them.  These are socially acceptable ways of skirting the real issue of why someone has chosen to stay where they are.  And choosing to stay where you are is not wrong, but what about a bit of authenticity in the answer, how about “I’m too scared”, or “I can’t be bothered”, or “my job is currently funding my kit car and once that’s built then I’ll think about it”.  Well at least we wouldn’t be having a superficial conversation trying to smoother some simmering passion.

Then again some of the answers I’ve had include “you need a degree, or you have to be charismatic”.  In both cases I didn’t agree so I found out how they knew their reason to be true, and we shared our evidence.  I’m pleased to say that upon hearing contrary evidence they went off with renewed vigor, the stumbling block removed.  Sometimes what’s stopping us is real, other times it’s all an illusion.

So now I am asking myself what else would I love to do this year, and what’s stopping me, is it real or an illusion.  The real blocks will take a bit longer to break down, but the beauty of illusions is they lose their power as soon as you see through them.