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Here's to Mother's and Women Everywhere

2008-05-09T15:21:00.000-07:00

Happy Friday Access Your Potential Family,

Even though it’s been a crazy long time since I wrote on this blog, I’ve been simply enjoying coaching/knowing several of you, getting to work alongside others, speaking/training in your organizations or conferences, and thinking about the rest of you with much love.

As I wrap up my work for this week I am mindful of the day we are about to celebrate this Sunday and I am basking in the gratitude I feel towards so many incredible women.

If you happen across this blog today, this weekend, or anytime at all, I hope you will join me in a heart-felt “Thank You!” to Mom’s, sisters, friends and women everywhere who have blessed our lives beyond measure.

If you haven’t read it already, or even if you read it a while back when I published it, I invite you to get even more in the spirit by slipping over to the “Top Picks” page of AccessYourPotential.org scroll down to Angel’s Article and Tips, and click on? Magnificent Women- A Mother’s Day Tribute.

For now and in gratitude to each of you, I leave you with these beautiful thoughts:

“My mom is a never-ending song in my heart of comfort, happiness, and being. I may sometimes forget the words but I always remember the tune.”
- Graycie Harmon

“A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.””
- Washington Irving

With love,
Coach Angel

Cheers

2007-08-29T08:23:00.000-07:00

Happy Wednesday My Incredible Access Your Potential Family!

As you may have noticed, this has been one busy summer (I’m just getting a chance to post here). I’m sure you have also found that work, life and hopefully a good dose of play, have made the summer simply dance by for you as well. I hope you are having the time of your life and making every day, every minute count!

I’m sending ever so much love your way!

Here are my current musings/offerings for today’s post

It’s going to be a rather hot one here in Salem Oregon today (mid 90’s), but now that we have our blessed heat pump/air conditioner installed, I’m looking forward to only being in the heat when I want to be today…what a wonderful thought!

As I consider this, I am reminded of other aspects of our lives where we have the power to invest in changes that allow us to minimize or eliminate the possibility of encountering situations we don’t like or want in our lives. In coaching these things are called “tolerations” (as many of you, particularly my coaching clients, know already).

The parallel is a simple one. In this case, my Hubby and I made a decision to invest in our home’s new capacity for heating and cooling (and not a small investment), which now affords me a magnificent work and living environment (while offering me a choice to bask in the sun and heat when I wish as well). In the same way, we each have opportunities to look around our lives right now and consider what we either want, or no longer want, present in our environment, practices or experiences. “

In this light I offer the following questions and challenges for your consideration…

What are you currently “tolerating?”
(For now just think of one thing/issue situation)

What do you want to experience?

What will it take to get there?
(What do you need to do, stop doing, or do differently to insure the result you’re looking for?)

Once you’ve answered these questions, you are equipped with the tools you need to begin the investment in your most perfect future. Begin investing/taking action today and fill your world with opportunities, choices, freedom and abundance! It’s your magnificent future in the making—why not insure that it is expansive and abundant beyond your wildest imaginations?

Here’s to you and the precious gift you are to yourself, to me and to all who have the privilege of being in your life!

Love and abundance to you!

Coach Angel

Grads

2007-06-15T13:07:00.000-07:00

Happy Friday Wonderful Access Your Potential Family!

Today I have my mind all wrapped up in feelings of nostalgia and thoughts about the power of completions, closures and new beginnings. Gene’s daughter Hillary is graduating with her B.S. degree on Sunday and we’re throwing a little party for her tomorrow. So this weekend is all about Hillary—what could be wrong with that? Especially if you’re Hillary!

Here’s to you Hillary—We’re sooo proud of you!!!

As you can see, we’re really looking forward to celebrating with her and since my thoughts are swirling around graduation, celebration and transitions I wanted to take a moment to celebrate with you too!

If you are a graduate or know one I offer these quotes in a toast to the perfect present (enjoy every moment, you never get this exact one ever again)and the powerful possibilities of the future (you are the Creator—make your masterpiece!)…

“I hope your dreams take you to the corners of your smiles, to the highest of your hopes, to the windows of your opportunities, and to the most special places your heart has ever known.”
- Author Unknown

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the
safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
- Mark Twain

Have an amazing weekend and…

“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.”
- Confucius

With love,
Coach Angel

Announcement

2007-06-06T20:03:00.000-07:00

Hello Incredible “Access Your Potential” Family!

Goodness, I know I say this far too often when I finally find a moment to post on this blog, but I truly, truly can’t believe how much time has passed since the last post.

Sheesh, sorry it’s been so very long!

Since my last posting, my new business has not only been born into the world, but she’s already growing and thriving!

If you have been crazy busy like me and so weren’t aware of me birthing a new, beautiful, bouncing baby, I’ll proudly tell you that her name is
Leading ladies: Celebrating and Supporting Natural Born Leaders.

I’d love for you to meet her, so if you are ready to join in the love come on over to
http://www.LeadingLadiesLounge.com

On another note…

I have decided to change the form of communications that Access Your Potential subscribers receive from us.

I think you will enjoy this change as you will now no longer be sent an E-zine every other month that may have started to feel stagnant or simply too familiar in content and tone.

Now you will only receive targeted and specific emails to alert you of specials, resources, articles or events being offered through ACCES. In each communication you will be offered a link to read this new information on this blog. This will cut down on the size of your emails from us and insure that you only get the most current and meaningful information available via ACCES.

We’d love your feedback about this change as we begin implementing it over the next couple months.

The beautiful thing about this is that it benefits you (which is most important to me) in that you get more concise communications from us and it also benefits ACCES in that this blog will enjoy more postings, more traffic and hopefully more opportunity for interaction (which is what life’s all about, right?).

So, friends, see you here much more quickly than ever before and please feel free to post or send your feedback, thoughts or questions
(the email address to use, if that is your preference, is info@accessyourpotential.org)

Here’s to the magnificent power and beauty of change!

Sending you much love,
Coach Angel

2006-11-07T11:36:00.000-08:00

Gratitude: the Gift That Keeps on Giving!

Hello My Wonderful Access Your Potential Family!

Boy, can you believe it’s November with Thanksgiving only a couple weeks away? Life just whizzes by sometimes, doesn’t it? As some of you may have noted, I was unable to get a Sept. newsletter out and while this article was in my Oct. E-zine, I thought I’d post here as well for those who hadn’t gotten a chance to read it yet. So the reason for my temporary silence is that September was a month taken up primarily with surgery and recovery for me. I am delighted to put closure on that season and report that I’m feeling great! So I’m back and I’m Grateful!!!

Oh, and I’m full of questions to get you in the gratitude mood too! For those of us in the U.S., it is the “Thanksgiving” time of year you know, so what better time could there possibly be to celebrate our gratitude!

What are you grateful for? Take a moment to think of just one thing or person that you feel blessed to have in your life right now. Why are you grateful for this person, situation or thing? Pause your reading of this so you can fully immerse yourself in your thoughts and feelings of gratitude.

Now, as you return to your reading of this text, take note of how you feel. Do you notice that even the act of being grateful causes your heart and spirit to sing? Do you find yourself thinking of even more things you are grateful for? If not, you might be distracted or unable to truly immerse yourself in gratitude right now. But when you are able, you will want to try this intentional focus on gratitude again and experience the synergistic results. Gratitude truly is the gift that keeps on giving! Really! Try it, you’ll like it!

I recently flew to southern California in order to attend a family reunion designed around celebrating my Grandparents’ 60th wedding anniversary. The whole time I was there my predominant thought was how grateful I am to have been born into such an incredible family. Sure, we have our “stuff to deal with” like all families, but what a brilliant, loving and kind bunch of people I am blessed to be related to!

More specifically, since we were gathered to honor two amazing people in particular, I couldn’t stop thinking of how inexpressibly grateful I am for being gifted Jan and Jay Hale as my grandparents! Throughout my life they have been my mentors, my friends and the rock I know I can count on whenever I am feeling everything else slip away. Cheers to you my beloved Grandpa and Grandma! When I grow up I want to be just like you!

As you, dear reader, also think of what you are grateful for, you are going to notice something wonderful. It is the very thing I am noticing even now and forcing myself to stifle a bit so that this article stays readable rather than ridiculously long for this brief E-zine. The fact is that once we start intentionally recognizing and sharing those things we’re grateful for, it’s super hard to stop!

You see I am now thinking of how amazingly grateful I am for: my incredible soul mate and husband, my wonderfully supportive parents (I am even blessed with two sets), my loving friends, my amazing clients, my beautiful home, and the list goes on.

Somebody Stop Me!

OK I’ll keep it going in my heart but bid you a loving farewell with this final quote.

"Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it."
William Arthur Ward

Indeed, my friends, may your cup runneth over with gratitude!

2006-08-08T08:43:00.000-07:00

Hello Access Your Potential Family!

Boy, I can hardly believe it’s already August with “Sept. fast approaching!

It’s been a busy, but amazing time for ACCES this summer…A new brand/business will be emerging in the next month (more coming soon) and there is a sense of regeneration, excitement and powerful new things just around the corner for so many people n my life (my clients, myself s well as friends and family).

I feel a bit like a little girl awaiting Christmas. I’m as excited about the gifts awaiting those I care about as I am my own gifts. I’ve never been one to open, or encourage others to open, their gifts early, because opening at the right time is so incredibly wonderful! Though that doesn’t mean I’m not shaking them a little (all of them, not just mine), imagining the possibilities of what might be inside, and building up an intensely magical sense of anticipation!

As we begin approaching Fall, I offer to you that you also have much to be excited about. Do you feel it, sense it? Even if you don’t yet, open your heart and mind to the very distinct possibility of what the universe may be “conspiring to shower down upon you—bask in my absolute favorite conspiracy theory--the philosophy of Pronoia…

" Pronoia is the opposite of paranoia." Rather than being an irrational fear that everyone is out to get you, pronoia is the belief that everyone in the universe is conspiring to shower you with blessings.”
Rob Brezsny

Here’s to you, the person you are and all that you are attracting into the life you are creating for you!

Cheers to you my friends!

Angel C. Hale
ACCES: Angel's Consulting Coaching & Education Services
Phone: (503) 363-6189
Email: angel@accessyourpotential.org
Web Site: http://www.ACCESsYourPotential.org

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2006-06-01T10:26:00.000-07:00

Dreams Blossom Slowly - 6

Hello Access Your Potential Family!

Welcome to the sixth and final installment of my “Closure of May and welcoming of June” blog series: “Dreams Blossom Slowly.”

The tips/observations that I am offering in this series are my gift to you, to anyone who is feeling like your dreams aren’t blossoming fast enough.

Dream Manifestation- Conclusion

No one dreams the dreams you dream and no one is capable of fulfilling those dreams other than you. Whenever you have a vision for your life that captures your heart, mind and imagination hold it dear, like the unique, invaluable treasure that it is. Plan, strategize, envision and work to make it come alive so that others can benefit from the fruition of your dream and those you love can join you in honoring and celebrating your success!

I offer you these words as you move into the wonder that each day holds for you…

"The moment of enlightenment is when a person's dreams of possibilities become images of probabilities."
Vic Braden

I send you into June, dear Dreamer, with the knowledge that each day holds within it endless beauty and possibility; we need only embrace every moment for the magic and opportunity it wants to gift us. Live, love and dream big People of Powerful Potential!!!

Namaste,
Coach Angel

Copywrite Angel C. Hale 2006

2006-05-31T16:16:00.000-07:00

Dreams Blossom Slowly - 5

Hello Access Your Potential Family!

Welcome to the fifth installment of my “Closure of May and welcoming of June” blog series: “Dreams Blossom Slowly.”

The tips/observations that I am offering in this series are my gift to you, to anyone who is feeling like your dreams aren’t blossoming fast enough.

Dream Manifestation- Action Step 4

Celebrate regularly: There are often milestones, important events that symbolize progress toward your dream, that occur along the way. Be intentional about honoring these milestones. Every time something happens in your life that causes you to grow and learn yourself more fully—celebrate! Share your success or growth with those in your life who will celebrate with you and appreciate your achievements. Take time to be silent and internalize what you have accomplished. Treat yourself by doing something out of the ordinary (a bubble-bath with candles, a night out with a loved one, whatever will bring you the most joy and will reward you for staying firmly on your path toward realizing your dreams!

And of course, remember to…

”Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast-you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.”
Eddie Cantor

Delighting with you in your every accomplishment, in your journey, in your life!

Cheers!
Coach Angel

Tune in tomorrow for the final installment in this series!

2006-05-30T13:18:00.000-07:00

Dreams Blossom Slowly - 4

Hello Access Your Potential Community!

Welcome to the fourth installment of my “Closure of May and welcoming of June” blog series: “Dreams Blossom Slowly.”

The tips/observations that I am offering in this series are my gift to you, to anyone who is feeling like your dreams aren’t blossoming fast enough.

Dream Manifestation- Action Step 3

Be gentle with yourself: As you work toward your dream, allow yourself the right to ebb and flow. There will be times when it seems like everything is moving quickly and easily and your dream is just around the bend—enjoy these times and take in all the excitement and energy these seasons have to offer in moving you toward dream realization. There will be other times when all movement toward your dream seems to have slowed or stopped completely. Use these times to solidify and clarify your vision, consider what your next steps need to be, and regain your energy by relaxing and taking care of yourself (perhaps a vacation or a couple of personal care days are in order).

As you move ever closer to realizing your closest held dreams don’t forget to enjoy your journey…

"I get up. I walk. I fall down. Meanwhile, I keep dancing.”
- Rabbi Hillel

Dance on Dreamers!

See you back here tomorrow!

2006-05-29T11:48:00.000-07:00

Dreams Blossom Slowly - 3

Hello Access Your Potential Community!

Welcome to the third installment of my “Closure of May and welcoming of June” blog series: “Dreams Blossom Slowly.”

The tips/observations that I am offering in this series are my gift to you, to anyone who is feeling like your dreams aren’t blossoming fast enough.

Dream Manifestation- Action Step 2

Break it down into manageable goals: Once you have fully visualized and articulated your dream, you will want to begin visualizing the smaller, but important goals you need to accomplish along the path toward your dream. Make sure these goals are also clear and attainable. Acknowledge when you accomplish each of these goals (e.g. list them on a sheet of paper and mark them off one they are done to give you a visual sense of how far you have come and what needs to happen next).

Clarity is the bridge between yourself and your dream—make sure it is solid and then you can walk confidently toward the fulfillment of that dream.

Consider this…

"You have powers you never dreamed of. You can do things you never thought you could do. There are no limitations in what you can do except the limitations of your own mind.”
-Darwin P. Kingsley

Cheers to you powerful Dreamer!

2006-05-28T11:16:00.000-07:00

Dreams Blossom Slowly

Hello Access Your Potential Community!

Welcome to the second installment of my “Closure of May and welcoming of June” blog series: “Dreams Blossom Slowly.”

The tips/observations that will follow over the next few days are offered to you, to anyone who is feeling like your dreams aren’t blossoming fast enough.

Dream Manifestation- Action Step 1:

(( Be sure that your vision is clear: When you project yourself into the future, to a time when your dream is realized, can you feel, smell, taste, see and hear what will be present in your experience? Share it with those that you trust and who truly support you. Ask for their feedback: is the vision something they can “see” as you are describing it, can they sense your passion about your vision; can they support you in holding that vision with you until it is realized (even if it takes months or years)?

Take a moment right now to get at least one of your wishes, one of your dreams for the future on paper. Be extremely thorough. Then share it with one person who you “know” will celebrate, support and encourage you towards achieving what you want. The more regularly you document the details of what you want and each step you have taken, or plan to take, to get you where you want to be, the more momentum you will gain. The more often you share your vision and the milestones you reach with others, the more your environment will support and propel you towards realizing your dreams. These combined actions have a synergistic impact on your ability to manifest your heart’s desires. Though it is a “process,” that is not meant to take place over night; it is a formula that is a foundational aspect of dream manifestation.

Today I bid you farewell with the following…

"Until one is committed, there is the hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness, concerning all acts of initiative (and creation). There is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred * Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now!" - Goethe

Here’s to your “genius, power, and magic” and all that they will gift you in your journey towards your dreams!

Tune in tomorrow for the next installment in the “Dreams Blossom Slowly” blog series.

2006-05-27T13:59:00.000-07:00

Dreams Blossom Slowly - 1

Hello Access Your Potential Community!

As we move into another beautiful summer, I find myself living in such a spirit of gratitude for all the beauty and abundance that has manifested in my life. I also find myself looking forward with such great anticipation for what lay ahead, for myself, my loved ones, my clients, and for all who strive to access all that is available to us!

So over the next few days, in my “Closure of May and welcoming of June” blog series, I hope to pull you into my revelry (if you aren’t already there)! Primarily, I hope to remind each of us of the beauty, the power of holding to our dreams so that we can create and live lives full of immense satisfaction and true abundance.

I make it a priority to work closely with my clients in helping them to literally taste, feel, see and mentally engage in those things they truly want to manifest in their own lives. The results, over and over again, are more profound and fulfilling than I could ever convey. However, the journey towards dream manifestation can sometimes feel frustrating and endless. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard the words, “But I want it now!” I also can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard the words, “I am so glad I experienced what I did prior to getting what I wanted.” Dream realization is a “process” and the beauty of that process is in the journey and in the commitment to make it so. This aspect of manifesting is a difficult one to remember at times. It is for this reason that I want to take the next few days to offer some wonderful lessons I have learned along my journey.

For today I leave you with these words of truth.

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
Eleanor Roosevelt

Tune in over the next few days if you are looking for new levels of inspiration, motivation and solid tools you can employ towards manifesting your dreams!

2006-04-04T08:57:00.000-07:00

Hello Access Your Potential Family!

Welcome to April! Are you poised and ready for your most amazing Spring ever?

We are absolutely poised and excited here at ACCES! We’ve got several new tools for you that we’re going to be rolling out over the next few months, so be sure to visit www.AccessYourPotential.org to sign up for our complementary E-newsletter—that way you’ll be sure to know the latest and greatest from ACCES.

Today I’d like to offer the poem below and some probing questions/challenges to support you in ever accessing your greatest potential…

”Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate,
our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.

We ask ourselves, ‘who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous,
talented, fabulous?’

Actually who are you NOT to be?

Your playing small does not serve the world.

There is nothing enlightening about shrinking
so that others won’t feel unsure around you.

As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously
give others permission to do the same.

As we are liberated from our own fear,
our presence automatically liberates others.”

~Marianne Williamson
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Now ask yourself these questions:
• Without fear, who would you be?
• Without fear, where would you be?
• Without fear, what would your life look like?
• Without fear, what would you have done?

Is fear worth the cost?

Shine in your own power today by taking on at least one thing that causes fear in you. Take it on and show it whose boss!

Then share your triumph with those you love. Your experience overcoming fear one bold act at a time is likely to be a catalyst for the empowerment of those around you.

Here’s to you, your power and the inspiration that you are to all those you touch!

Please let me know how I can support you in living a life of love, power and abundance.

Cheers!

Personal Success Coach
Angel C. Hale
www.AccessYourPotential.org

2006-03-28T14:48:00.000-08:00

Freedom is awaiting you! It stands at the door of your life knocking, begging to be allowed in. What kind of freedom? Freedom to live a life of abundance and peace. It is only one decision away. Will you open the door, even if ever so slightly? Will you take a journey with me to see what lay just around the bend for you?

If you are still reading, I can confidently assume that the answer is “Yes!” I am so thrilled for you!

As a Success Coach, I know the human struggle that plagues most of humanity. That struggle can be summed up in one word: Fear. You, my reader, have already taken the first step toward abolishing that struggle in you life. You are facing fear head on by looking at the possibility of opening your life up to freedom, to change, to abundance and ultimate peace.

So let's begin this new frontier together! I currently have three available slots for new coaching clients but slots fill quickly. Contact me today to schedule a complementary consultation so we can see if we are a good fit for one another.

This is a life altering call to action, so make this call today if you are serious about creating a life of unprecedented freedom and abundance!

Contact Personal Success Coach Angel:

Phone: (503) 363.6189
E-mail: accessyourpotential@comcast.net
Website: http://www.AccessYourPotential.org

2006-02-09T08:43:00.000-08:00

Hello Colleagues,

Are you a Health Care Provider (traditional or Alternative? If so, this special announcement is for you! I am in the process of writing a telecourse entitled: “So Who Takes Care of Me? – Strategies for Health professionals who want to master Balancing Healthcare with Self-care.” In order to determine the most relevant content I would like to tap into your expertise by inviting you to attend a brief teleconference call that I will facilitate in March 2006. Of course, attending the call is completely free.

What do you get for participating?

1. Free advertising—that’s right completely free. If you participate on the call I will list you and your contact information as a resource on the final course content.

2. 15 percent off of the telecourse (once it is completed) if you decide to participate—but there is no obligation whatsoever.

3. The chance to share your own experiences and listen to the experiences of those in similar professions. In short, you can discover if your experiences are unique or if they are shared by a majority of professionals in your field.

4. You will be put into a drawing for one free month of Success Coaching (value = $450.00). I will announce the winner at the end of the teleconference (must be present to win).

Here’s how it works:

I am recruiting 20 Health Care professionals to participate in a 45-minute teleconference that I will be facilitating. In this teleconference you will be asked to use only your first name. You can also assume a name that we can arrange in advance if you would like to remain anonymous.

My goal is to recruit a fairly even representation of a variety of Health Services Professionals. Please feel free to forward this invitation to other Health Professionals within your practice and/or practitioners within your professional networks. This could include but is not limited to: doctors, nurses, chiropractors, massage therapists, Naturopaths health coaches, and nutritionists.

Timeframes and necessary information:

Please indicate your interest in participating and provide me with your contact information (full name, Name of Practice/Business, day phone, evening phone, Email, etc.) no later than Feb. 25th, 2006. You are welcome to call or Email me with this information.

Angel C. Hale
Phone (503) 363-6189
Email: accessyourpotential@comcast.net
If you do not already know me, learn more about my Coaching, Training and Consulting services at: http://www.AccessYourPotential.org

In your communication please let me know which of the following times/dates you would be available to attend the teleconference. After collecting the responses I will select a date and time that allows for the maximum number of attendees: (note all times listed below are Standard Pacific Time)
March 13- 12:00 (noon) to 12:45 pm
March 14- 7:00 to 7:45 am or 7:00 to 7:45 pm
March 15- 12:00 (noon) to 12:45 pm or 6:00 to 6:45 pm
March 16- 9:00 to 9:45 am
March 17- 12:00 (noon) to 12:45 pm

I will select 20 participants from the list of those expressing an interest and availability and either call or Email you (depending on your indicated preference) no later than Feb. 26, 2006 to confirm your participation and provide you with the conference line phone number. I look forward to hearing from you!

What you will want to bring to the call

Just you and your experiences as a Health Service Professional!
What do you love about your work?
What is most frustrating in your work?
What supports do you tap into for your personal and professional balance?
What supports and resources do you wish you had available?

These questions and many others will be the springboards for our conversations in this highly interactive teleconference.

My Commitment to all Participants

I am a long-time facilitator and experienced coach. For this event I commit to all participants that I will guide our discussion professionally and ensure that all participants feel safe and comfortable. I commit to providing an environment wherein each participant can feel validated and reignited personally and professionally. Your experience will also include opportunities for self-discovery and a good deal of fun.

Please visit: http://www.accessyourpotential.org/testimonials.html
to see what my customers/participants have said about working with me.

Contact me today to participate in the development of a powerful tool that will serve you and your colleagues now and well into the future!

Sincerely,

Angel C. Hale
ACCES: Angel's Consulting Coaching & Education Services
Salem Oregon
Phone: (503) 363-6189
Email: accessyourpotential@comcast.net
Web Site: http://www.ACCESsYourPotential.org

Visit our Website today to sign up for ACCES' complementary "Access Your Potential" monthly E-newsletter!

2006-01-26T12:37:00.000-08:00

Hello Friends and Colleagues!

Can you believe it’s already almost the end of January? It hardly seems possible. This month has simply flown by and I just realized I hadn’t yet blogged in the New Year! So here’s to 2006!

I want to share a wonderful experience I have had this month. I hope it will inspire you to stretch and try new social muscles.

As many of you may know, I have a very broad outreach in the work that I do. I work with clients/colleagues all over the globe. However one piece that has been lacking (or minimal) for me since the onset of my private Coaching, Speaking, Consulting and Training business is my regular contact with local people/business (outside of the contacts I have in State Government, my committee work and friends/family).

So I made a decision to change that in 2006.

My first step was to attend a Greeters meeting with our Salem OR Chamber of Commerce. I had no contacts whatsoever in this group and was a bit apprehensive about just “showing up.” I’m used to knowing lots of people at meetings/conventions I attend and I am used to being in a leadership or, training or speaking role when I do attend. So just “showing up” at a local meeting definitely qualifies as a stretch for me. However, I ask my clients to stretch regularly (I don’t ask them to do anything I won’t do) and I deeply know the value of pushing our comfort zone, so I went for it.

It was amazing!

I met so many creative, ambitious and well—FUN, business people there! I sat next to a really nice gentleman who I learned quickly is a long-standing ambassador for the Chamber. I also learned quickly that he has tried to retire but can’t help himself—he just can’t seem to manage it. He’s says he’ll be trying it again soon, but I have my doubts (even after our brief encounter) that it will stick. :-)
He took me under his wing and made sure I met as many people as humanly possible. Thank you Dean!!!

Outcome: I’m joining!!!

I’m making it a point to attend as many of the Greeters meetings and other Chamber events as I can within the scope of my work schedule.

And I’m delighted to do it too!

A challenge for you…

Think of one social or networking encounter that you’ve been meaning to make a reality, but have always found some reason not to go for it.

Commit to trying it at least one time before the end of Feb.

Tell your coach or a person you consider to be your closest friend about your commitment and ask them to hold you accountable.

Then share the results of your experience with that person and others in your life.

We’d love to hear them here too!

Here’s to stretching and reaping the beautiful benefits!

Consider these wise words…

"When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge."
– Tuli Kupferberg

2005-11-30T12:49:00.000-08:00

Hello Access Your Potential Community!

recently I published the following article about gratitude...
http://EzineArticles.com/?id=100430

Since that time I have been very conscious about looking for opportunities to observe all of the beauty in my life. I've made it a point to sit quietly at least once a day and think of all the aspects of my life that I am grateful for. I have verbalized my gratitude regularly and told the people dearest to me how much I love them and appreciate having them in my life. It isn't that I hadn't been doing these things before, but since writing the article "I Am Not My Stuff," I have been consciously making it a part of my daily habits.

The results so far can almost be summed up in one word: "peace."

There's something about consciously delighting in our life --even the small things, that bring a sense of calm. This is a fairly logical result but not one I had necessarily thought about before. It's ever so clear now though...

When we intentionally fill our hearts and mind with gratitude there's no room for all the clutter and nagging thoughts that serve to cause use unproductive stress. Gratitude makes us "present based" so that we have little room or reason to look back and regret or look forward and fear. We can only live "now" and appreciate that we get to have one more moment, one more day on the planet to touch the lives of others and to be touched. What a freeing experience.

We would love to hear how applying a daily practice of gratitude has impacted your life if you'd like to share.

Here's to the power and beauty of the simple act of being Thankful!

Happy Holidays to all!!!

2005-11-10T19:48:00.000-08:00

What if?

How many times have we asked that question? What if I hadn’t entered into marriage at 18 years old? What if I had taken that job offer ten years ago? What if I hadn’t had children so young?

These questions have to do with choices we made that impacted the course of our lives. These are powerful questions to consider, not because we can turn back the hands of time, but because we hold the same power today, at this very moment to make choices that drive our life’s course. In fact, I assert that our thoughts and actions hold even more power today because we are more aware--we have witnessed and experienced the results, the true power, of the choices we make. It is a very human, but very limiting, temptation to want to dwell on the question, “what if…?” The truth is, that question is unanswerable and irrelevant at this point in our journey. Better to ask ourselves the promising and exciting question, “what now?”

So then, “What now?”

“I’ll go first!”

Now, in this moment, I choose to be present in my body and consider all of the riches I possess—my family, my friends, my job, my home, my ability to love and be loved. Now, in this instant, I make a conscious choice to awaken and experience life as I have never experienced life before—not frivolous or oblivious to the pain or difficulties that surround me, but fully accepting my place, my role as a fellow journeyer, a follower, a guide, a light (whatever is needed and I am able to provide in any given situation).

I commit to living my life to its’ utmost capacity. I will grieve, when those times come, without shame. I will dance with full abandon. I will love to my very core myself and those I have been bless with in this life—even if it breaks my heart at times. I will seek to grow, learn and stretch myself mentally, emotionally, spiritually and physically.

What if I choose to embrace all that life has to offer—all the beauty, all the pain, all of the unpredictability—all of it? Well then I have gifted myself with an authentic life worth living!

"As the season of believing seems to wind down let me gently remind you that many dreams still wait in the wings. Many authentic sparks must be fanned before
passion performs her perfect work in you. Throw another log on the fire."
Sarah Ban Breathnach

Want to take a stab at the question “What now” in your own life? We’d love to be inspired by you!

Here’s to being a witness and support of your “What Now?” !!!

2005-11-05T20:39:00.000-08:00

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Angel Hale, Success Coach, Consultant & Trainer, will be posting articles and insights here regularly, so please visit often, feel free to ask questions and offer your own insight on the topics at hand.

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