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MARY GUARINO

My coaching practice is in line with my world view -- most people are healthy, creative and competent and if given the right opportunities, support, and tools, can do amazing things in their lives.
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FIRST FRIDAY ARCHIVE:
w/ DAVE ELLIS hosted by Coaching Circles

Listen to our audio archive of Coaching Circles' First Friday Call-In Workshop with DAVE ELLIS of Falling Awake. Dave is an international speaker, trainer, philanthropist and believer that "You Can Live the Life of Your Dreams".
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Fast Company

MAGAZINE: Smart attitudes and information for entrepreneurs and business professionals. "My 2 favorite magazines: Fast Company & Economist - hands down" ~ Janice, CEO Coaching Circles
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The Incredible Lightness
of Being Focused

  by Robert Gunn
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The 80/20 rule applies to careers: our most significant accomplishments result from just a few decisions or actions. How to stay focused on the essential.

After practically every championship game, the athletes on the winning team attribute their success to "being focused." They talk about "getting priorities straight," "eliminating distractions," and "putting extraneous things out of mind."

At moments like these it's obvious that accomplishment simply requires defining the essence of the task and then doing it the best you can. The task itself teaches you the best way to perform it.

Now, does it seem possible that you could go about your work following this simple principle? Let's take a moment and see how you might do it.

What first comes to mind is the need to turn your back on all those distractions that creep into your days. It's the question of being focused, not in the sense of concentrating intensely, but more in the sense of keeping your attention on the most important thing.

Sometimes it's as easy as not acting on the thought, "I'd better check my email" or "I wonder if my boss has left me a voice mail." How much of what we feverishly respond to seems to take care of itself with a bit of benign neglect. It's amazing how many questions, issues, and requests take care of themselves if left alone overnight.

Perhaps, you say, it was easier to concentrate on what's truly essential before the advent of 7/24 communication. But I ask you: Is that capacity there to serve us, or are we meant to serve it?

Continued...
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Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth

BOOK: How to identify your own money blueprint and "revise" it to not only create success, but more importantly, to keep and continually grow it.*Barnes&Noble Bestsellers of 2007 *
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Treating Trauma and Traumatic Grief in Children and Adolescents

BOOK: This is one of the first books to present a systematic treatment approach, grounded in cognitive-behavioral therapy, for traumatized children and their families.
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Raw Food/Real World: 100 Recipes to Get the Glow

BOOK: "Light, clean, natural, and alive foods make you feel light, clean, and more alive. And sexy."
~ Sarma Melngailis
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