Thursday, September 3, 2009

Put Me In The Game Coach

I coach a course called the Self Expression and Leadership Program (SELP) and it has been the most rewarding thing I have ever done. Participants sign up for this course to "make it hurt so good". In other words, they take on projects that confront them and they have breakthroughs as a result. It is who they are and how their community sees them that causes results. So it really ends up not being about the project but about their way of being that makes the difference. There is a participant in the course right now who is a bit on the shy and meek side. He is a crew dancer who is expressive in motion but hard pressed to communicate when talking about his project. But recently, he faced that fear and came up with a project that is incredible. It is called, "Knockout for Knockers". He is organizing a breast cancer fundraiser around a boxing event and he is off-the-charts excited and lit up. He is being someone he never thought he could be and he will never be the same as a result. The rubberband has been stretched and it will never go back to it's original shape.
So many times we let a "story" or our past predict our future. By hanging on to that past (a bad situation or experience) our future is most certainly doomed or stopped. But if we confront it head on and thank it for sharing and move on, we can be unstoppable in anything we want to do. Did you know that the movie, Pay It Forward was a project developed in this course?
The possibilities are endless. Have a great day today and be unreasonable, impossible possibilities.
And here is an article about a former collegue at Deluxe Corporation who is now living in Colorado and livng out his dream. http://www.5280.com/issues/2009/0909/feature.php?pageID=1911