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Somehow I can’t believe there are any heights that can’t be scaled by a man (woman) who know the secret of making dreams come true.
Walt Disney
a five minute motivational newsletter | January 28, 2009
READ THE ARTICLE by Ginger and DJ Mitsch in Choice Magazine:
Expansion: Scaling the Benefits of Coaching for Groups and Teams
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Rocky Mountain Dream

Hutch and Roxa followed their dreams when they left Texas with their children and moved to Lake City, Colorado, a little mountain town that is over 8,500 feet high in the Rockies, over eight years ago. They gave up jobs and bought the Texaco gas station with a mechanics bay. Steve and I have been spending six to eight weeks in Lake City in the summer, and have watched Hutch and Roxa grow their business.

Four years ago, they added a barbeque place on the side of the Texaco with great food—the next year they added a breakfast menu. Last summer when we arrived we were shocked that behind the Texaco and unseen from the highway, they had built a beautiful stage of giant pine logs and an adjacent dining pavilion. We asked him how people were going to find it and who was going to sing.

It was obvious that they had built it trusting that “the audience will come.” At the end of our summer stay—Michael Martin Murphy famous for his song “Wildfire” and a member Country and Western Hall of Fame showed up to play for two sold-out concerts.

As we sat in the audience and the glow of the setting sun bounced off the mountain and lighted the stage while the sound reverberated off that same wall and into the bowl where over 200 sat in rapt pleasure. Murph said that he had recently signed a contract with a major Railroad company. That they had sent a private railway car to pick him up and take him from Denver to Chicago where he met with the President and the Board of Directors in a beautiful board room at the top of a skyscraper.

But tonight he said, "I am playing behind a Texaco Station in Lake City, Colorado." Because he believed in the power of Hutch’s dream, he agreed to stay in a cabin nearby and take a percentage of the gate. It was a magical night with a great musician who is a fascinating story teller. Hutch stood with his arms folded—in his boots, jeans and hat and glowed with pleasure.

These are bleak economic times and fear can shelve lots of dreams. It is great to remember that we are people who believe in taking action on our dreams. It is great to experience that a couple with a Texaco station in a small mountain town have created their dream.

Check out their website.


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Life Upgrade Coaching Questions

1. What is your dream?
2. Are you suppressing that dream in the present economic climate?
3. What are three steps you could take to move from fear to action?
4. Who could help you move forward toward your dream?
5. Do you have the courage to ask for help?
6. Can you trust that you will know the time to launch your dream?

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Check Out

2009

Dates for April 2009 are pending

Twelve Keys to Group Coaching Success

With Coaching a 2.4 Billion dollar business in the US alone, group coaching is the way to leverage your reach in the market, leverage your time, increase your income and provide a new challenge and inspiration in your business.

1. Twelve Keys Group Coaching Success is a six-month program that includes all the tools and skills you need to successfully launch and coach your groups. Group Coaching is not simply an intuitive process there are some things you need to know!

2. Each week we incorporate key topics, report on successful implementations, learn new proficiencies, inspire and encourage each other and coach around obstacles and opportunities.

3. You will receive extensive materials, worksheets, templates, proposals, agreements, flyers and group coaching presentations so that when you finish you have your own “group coaching manual.”

4. Laser-coaching sessions for each person help you eliminate obstacles and maintain momentum.

5. Each program group is limited to 10 people so that we have an interactive and creative environment with lots of time to customize your practice.

6. The six-month program of two 60-minute sessions per month with Ginger offers one off-week session with group members. The cost is $295.00 per month (charged at the beginning of each month). This gives you the opportunity to create and launch your own groups during the program and co-create with others who are on exactly the same path. Join a group now.


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~o^o~ Resources

Creating, Collecting and Coaching Groups by Ginger Cockerham below.
Outliers by Malcomb Gladwell
Made to Stick by Chip Heath & Dan Heath
Iconoclast by Gregory Berns – order here.
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