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In this
issue: Who Are Your Models? Arturo
Sandoval Who are your models? Please email me and tell me what it is about their story that inspires you. If you received this issue from a friend and you would like to read Current of Life regularly, you may subscribe here. Read prior issues here. Contact Ginny here. |
Who Are Your Models? Everyone Has a Story I love to watch movies based on true stories, interviews on the Biography channel, and performers talking to James Lipton on Inside the Actors Studio. I think it’s fascinating how lives evolve and how one pivotal decision —or one decision made repeatedly— impacts a person’s destiny. I’m especially intrigued by their challenges, failures, espoused philosophies, risks taken, and moments of victory. To consider someone a model, you don’t have to agree with everything that person has said or done, and everyone has foibles, yet it is the imperfections that often add to the remarkability of someone’s story. Who Has Done What You Want To Do? When I take people through the Now What?® coaching program, there is a section early on where you examine your beliefs. Part of this process involves identifying people you know who “have accomplished something by thinking the way you need to think”.¹ Rick, a client who lives in Europe, aspires to run an internet business that would enable him to work, travel, and live in different countries. As he looked for potential models, his research led him to three people who have each created a successful work-travel lifestyle and have established a forum (which Rick has now joined) to connect others who want to do the same. Who do you know who has done what you want to do?
For example, someone who has: obtained a position you’d
love to have, built a successful business, switched industries
late in his career, managed to get into a company where there
wasn’t a job posted, reached a certain fitness goal, manages
finances well, has a relationship you admire, balances her work
and personal life, followed his passion, is an exemplary leader,
or overcame a challenge you’re experiencing. Hang Out with Your Models
This past weekend I got to hang out with one of my models about whom I’ve written before, virtuoso jazz trumpeter, Arturo Sandoval. In this case, hanging out meant attending the Scottsdale Latin Jazz Festival³. Jess (my husband) and I sat five rows from the stage and applauded like crazy as Arturo moved from trumpet, to flugelhorn, to piano, to drums. I didn’t get to use the camera I’d brought in hopes of a picture with him, but I did hand his super-talented percussionist a personal note to deliver to Arturo. Hope it made him smile! Here’s what it said:
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Hanging
out with your models may mean reading about them, watching a TV
interview, or spending time with them in person. The idea is to
observe them and “enjoy their company” in some way.
As you do, take note of what obstacles they overcame, what inspired
them, and what strengths they exercised. Ask yourself: What
do I appreciate most about this person? What is he or she modeling
for me? What desire does this model ignite within me?
Virginia
Kravitz, Career
and Life Coach, has always
had a fierce desire to be
in the full current of life.
She founded 