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A UK opportunity to claim up to £1,000 worth of FREE personal development coaching
Leading Coaching company offers free coaching, consultancy and training to selected UK companies
The UK-government is funding this great opportunity.
The Train to Gain Scheme is offering you the chance to get more from your training budget, e.g. to:
- Maximise Productivity, especially important in the current climate
- Improve Management Performance and your Organisation’s Efficiency
- Improve Team Performance
- Improve Team Self-Worth and Inspire Creative Thinking
See the following document for more information: free coaching.
Or contact us to assess your eligibility. You’ve nothing to lose and much to gain!
CAMPAIGN FOR LEARNING: UK NATIONAL LEARNING AT WORK DAY 14 MAY 2009-FREE COACHING BY QCC
Our sister company,Quantum Coaching & Consulting (QCC Group), is supporting this day in the UK by offering free coaching & workshops in organisations throughout the week of 11 – 15 May!

Quantum Coaching & Consulting: QCCgroup
Venue: Your training facility or an external one if your organisation funds it.
Location: London, UK & within M25 (or outside + travel & accommodation expenses)
Develop & motivate your talent… Without spending a penny!
Free coaching and workshops!
*This Very Limited Offer must be booked by the 4th of April, 2009.*
Examples of offer include:
- one-to-one coaching;
- coaching bites;
- career progression coaching;
- stress management;
- work-life balance, etc.
For more details, see this PDF document: http://www.qccgroup.com/QCC-C4L.pdf
Procrastination Issues: I’ll read about it and do something about it tomorrow!
What is procrastination and why do I have it?
Maybe you’ve heard people say “I’ll get to it tomorrow,” or “It can wait,” or I’m not in the mood right now.” If you’ve heard these statements or perhaps said them yourself, you are affected by procrastination, which affects a lot of people. It can drive you absolutely crazy and/or upset the people around you.
Procrastination is a complex psychological behaviour that affects many people. Some people deal with it to some degree, while others have a hard time with it. It can go hand in hand with perfectionism. It is a means of avoiding some type of action or task.
Making 2009 your best ever year?
Internet marketing opportunity to kick-start 2009
Hi folks and a very Happy New Year to you from Vinden Grace & Eve Grace-Kelly!
In these challenging times and with internet marketing technology getting better and more affordable,it’s fascinating to learn of an opportunity that enables us to increase our revenues, while utilising thetools we need for our business anyway….
I must admit that I’m always cautious of so-called ‘next big things’, but this does seem worth a look at least.
I’d recommend that you:
- Check out both links below.
- Listen to the video messages and grab a pre-launch position today. (It launches tomorrow!)
- Then share this with all your contacts.
There seem to be some very serious players involved in this.
(A guy who ran a company with Tony Robbins, plus Implix, the company behind ‘GetResponse’ autoresponders, etc, so they seem to have an interesting track record.
NB. As always though, please do your own research….)
This program is closing pre-launch in around *30* hours…
If you have already secured your position, congratulations.
If you haven’t, I urge you to do so now:
http://dunedin.webprosperity.com/
When an opportunity like this launches, those who get in at the
beginning can make very nice returns…
(You can also go here to get more info:
http://blog.webprosperity..com)
So I’d recommend that you do not put this off because there’s very little time left.
So, what do you need to do?:
1. Secure your early position now:
http://dunedin.webprosperity.com/
2. Promote your own link if you can.
3. *Upgrade* on Tuesday, Jan 6th 2008
Once you do so, you’ll potentially be able to watch as your income grows for the rest of the year…
This appears to be very promising….
Here’s the link again:
http://dunedin.webprosperity.com/
Let’s make 2009 our best year ever ![]()
Get ready for Tuesday, January 6th!
Kindest regards,
Vinden
New Year’s Resolutions: learning to move toward our goals and desires one step at a time.
For those of you struggling to kick-start a project or get started with any goal, read on!
This was sent to me on New Year’s Day by the delightful Project Manager for our superb membership site software.
Thanks Nam Tran!
As Life / Personal Coaches, this really appealed to me and to my lovely wife, Eve Grace-Kelly. For those of you struggling to kick-start a project or get started with any goal, read on!
A story for the rest of your life
Several times my daughter had telephoned to say,
“Mother, you must come to see the daffodils before they are over.”
I wanted to go, but it was a two-hour drive from Laguna to Lake Arrowhead
“I will come next Tuesday”,
I promised a little reluctantly on her third call.
Next Tuesday dawned cold and rainy.
Still, I had promised, and reluctantly I drove there.
When I finally walked into my daughter Carolyn’s
house I was welcomed by the joyful sounds of happy children.
I delightedly hugged and greeted my grandchildren.
I told my daughter, “Forget the daffodils, Carolyn!
The road is invisible in these clouds and fog, and
there is nothing in the world except you and my grandchildren
that I want to see right now. I don’t want to drive another inch!”
My daughter smiled calmly and said,
“We drive in this weather all the time, mother.”
“Well, you won’t get me back on the road until it clears,
and then I’m heading for home!” I assured her.
“But first we’re going to see the daffodils.
It’s just a few blocks,” Carolyn said. “I’ll drive. I’m used to this.”
“Carolyn,” I said sternly,
“It’s all right, Mother, I promise.
You will never forgive yourself if you miss this experience.”
So we went!
After about twenty minutes, we turned onto a small gravel road
and I saw a small church. On the far side of the church,
I saw a hand lettered sign with an arrow that read,
“Daffodil Garden —->”
We got out of the car, each of us took a child’s hand,
and I followed Carolyn down the path.
Then, as we turned a corner, I looked up and gasped.
Before me lay the most glorious sight.
It looked as though someone had taken
a great vat of gold and poured it over the mountain peak
and its surrounding slopes.
The flowers were planted in majestic,
swirling patterns, great ribbons
and swaths of deep orange,
creamy white, lemon yellow, salmon pink,
and saffron and butter yellow.
Each different-colored variety was planted
in large groups so that it swirled
and flowed like its own river with its own unique hue.
There were five acres of flowers!
“Who did this?” I asked Carolyn.
“Just one woman,” Carolyn answered.
“She lives on the property. That’s her home.”
Carolyn pointed to a well-kept A-frame house,
small and modestly sitting in the midst of all that glory.
We walked up to the house.
On the patio, we saw a poster.
“Answers to the Questions I Know You Are Asking”
was the headline.
The first answer was a simple one. “50,000 bulbs,” it read.
The second answer was, “One at a time, by one woman. Two hands, two
feet, and one brain.”
The third answer was, “Began in 1958.”
For me, that moment was a life-changing experience.
I thought of this woman whom I had never met,
who, more than forty years before, had begun,
one bulb at a time, to bring her vision
of beauty and joy to an obscure mountaintop.
Planting one bulb at a time, year after year,
this unknown woman had forever changed
the world in which she lived.
One day at a time, she had created something
of extraordinary magnificence, beauty, and inspiration.
The principle her daffodil garden taught me
is one of the greatest principles of celebration.
That is, learning to move toward our goals and desires one step at a time.
“It makes me sad in a way,” I admitted to Carolyn.
“What might I have accomplished
if I had thought of a wonderful goal thirty-five
or forty years ago and had worked away at it
‘one bulb at a time’ through all those years?
Just think what I might have been able to achieve!”
My daughter summed up the message of the day
in her usual direct way.
“Start tomorrow,” she said.
She was right.
It’s so pointless to think of the lost hours of yesterdays.
The way to make learning a lesson of celebration
instead of a cause for regret is to only ask,
“How can I put this to use today?”
The Daffodil Principle.
Stop waiting…..
Until your car or home is paid off
Until you get a new car or home
Until your kids leave the house
Until you go back to school
Until you finish school
Until you clean the house
Until you organize the garage
Until you clean off your desk
Until you lose 10 lbs.
Until you gain 10 lbs.
Until you get married
Until you get a divorce
Until you have kids
Until the kids go to school
Until you retire
Until summer
Until spring
Until winter
Until fall
Until you die…
There is no better time than right now to be happy.
Happiness is a journey, not a destination.
So work like you don’t need money.
Love like you’ve never been hurt,
and, Dance like no one’s watching.
Wishing you a beautiful, daffodil day!
Don’t be afraid that your life will end,
be afraid that it will never begin.
A very Happy New Year to all of our readers!
Vinden & Eve

