The Versatile Blogger?

The "Versatile Blogger Award" allows the recipient(s) to sport the pretty little green badge seen in my right hand column today.  Thanks from me to Contemplative Photography for gifting me with this honor! I hope you'll visit Contemplative Photography yourself for a view of her lovely  photography, a read of her always challenging and thought-provoking posts; don't miss the constant newness in the site's left-hand column - gifts to yourself in prose, photography and daily poetry!

Part of the fun of this Award is that I'm allowed to gift or present it to 15 of my favorite versatile bloggers.  Bending the rules a little I'm bestowing it upon 10 of my blogger peers - they are not in preferred order or even alphabetical - just bloggers I always enjoy visiting:

1.  Christine Kane
2.  Diamonds in the Sky with Lucy
3.  Country Parson
4.  Anchors & Masts
5.  A Seat at the Table
6.  Seedlings in Stone
7.  JustBLiving
8.  Contemplating the Moon
9.  Textures Shapes and Color
10.The Whole Blooming World

Finally, as an award winner, I am to share seven things about myself that my readers/followers might not know - you already know I'm a Christian, a spouse/mother/retired person, exercise and travel lover.............hmmmm, things you don't know - here goes!

1.  I enjoy waking as many days as possible without an alarm sound of any kind ringing in my ears
2.  I'm hooked on the Netflix (no commercials) version of "Grey's Anatomy" - I'm into Season 3 now
3.  I'm going to have a one-woman art show in June 2011
4.  I've lost 8 lbs in the last 5 months and in the meantime,  added a number of lbs of muscle (BTW - they're lost and there is no reward for your finding them and returning them!)
5.  My current record of push-ups is 25 in a row
6.  I have a Life Coach with whom I adore working and would unhesitatingly recommend
7.  My birth year is 1942

Thanks again for the nice award from one of my fellow bloggers and to my readers for commenting or just viewing as you feel called to do:))

Too Old - for what?

A Life Coach - who in the heck works with a Life Coach?  I'm organized, happily married with adult children and adorable young grandchildren, retired from a successful business career, I'm a community leader, and a spiritually grounded individual.  I repeat - who in the heck works with a Life Coach? Me? Probably not......though through exposure to the term Life Coach, mainly through bloggers whom I had followed over a couple of years on the internet, I felt comfortable with the idea that LC's were valuable particularly for young people attempting to organize their lives, to climb the corporate ladder, to step out into the dating world with confidence.  Certainly, a charming notion but nothing to which I could relate in my more mature stage of life, right?  Right........well maybe?

One evening last spring, my spouse and I were vacationing and I was settling in after a beautiful day at the beach, a nap, a leisurely dinner, an awesome sunset.  Relaxing before bedtime included writing a post for my blogsite and, as well, a quick visit to a couple of my favorite bloggers' posts.  Christine Kane is one of those sites I visit often; she's a Life Coach, a songwriter, an entrepreneur extraordinaire and always has an entertaining and informative word of the day on her site, so I clicked over there for a quick look.  That day Ms. Kane was featuring another LC and one whose specialty  caught my eye - Tonya Leigh Williams, a Life Coach specializing in weight loss issues.  I couldn't click fast enough; I was very curious!

 

Curiosity, questions, answers, phone sessions and homework - that was almost 5 months ago.  Tonya and I are a solid team now.  Essentially she and I have addressed why it is that I gained the weight to begin with and why I could not lose two decades of it, no matter how much I exercised!  We've covered a lot of ground relating to body image - my attitude toward life, food,  and fitness - all great topics but those topics and the loss of weight have become incidental in the broader scope of expanding the life that is mine now, in this moment, in this time!  What topics you might wonder - how about a 5K race, taking on serious writing and art creation and continuing my studies of a foreign language?  Are those diverse enough, perhaps even scattered in their diversity? Perhaps, yet those topics and their implementation are breathing new life, curiosity and wonder into my being- and at my age? A Life Coach - who works with a Life Coach?!

P.S. Those of you who follow my posts regularly, will remember that on June 26, I did run my first 5K event - started, finished - loved it - no injury - no doubt there will be another event - I'm working on it!  I have a new bike (I had been thinking about that for about 18 months and just couldn't make the decision)  I enjoy stretching my body into yoga poses at least two times a week; my list of post topics is expanding; my artwork has been on the backburner for a few months but Tonya and I have been discussing a plan for that project's re-emergence......oh, and the weight loss? - that's just happening, I have no obsession about it not coming off anymore - it just is.  So a motivational Life Coach - with a specialty in weight loss?  I'm not too old for that!!??  In fact there's not too much that I can dream up that I'm too old to accomplish - how about you? ........too old for what?!!!