Monday, July 9, 2012 11 AM Eastern Time On VoiceAmerica Business
Create Your Own Vision
with Visioning Expert Dr. Lucia Capaccione
Listen on Monday.  Do you want to create your own vision using a tried-and-true visioning process? Do you wonder if the visioning process really works? Join Host Kate Ebner for an interview with Dr. Lucia Capacchione, best-selling author of Visioning®: 10 Steps to Designing the Life of Your Dreams and 11 other books about creativity. Widely acclaimed for her ability to catalyze innate creativity and inner wisdom, Lucia Capacchione's methods, inspired by 10 years spent as a Disney Imagineer, are now being applied in education, medicine, mental health, the arts and the entertainment industry. Her 10-step process guides you through the creation of your own powerful and inspiring vision. Don't miss this opportunity to learn exciting insights from a pioneering and accomplished visioning expert who can tell you how to create your own vision -- and make it real. More. Be inspired. Missed the Live Show?
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Dear Me: Writing a Letter to Your Younger Self
"You don't have to be the miserable one in the family -- no one does."
"You're not responsible for keeping everyone at work happy all the time."
"You are a recovering yes-aholic."
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These are just a few of the life lessons that Author Ellyn Spragins shared from various letters, including her own, on the July 2 episode of Visionary Leader, Extraordinary Life. After co-writing and editing a New York Times best-selling collection of letters by prominent women to their "younger selves," Ellyn Spragins sat down to reflect upon a difficult time in her life and write her own letter. Using the process that she had developed, Ellyn discovered firsthand the many benefits of writing a letter to one's past self, including the powerful insight, compassion and catharsis that it yields for the letter writer. "Putting words down on paper crystallizes your ideas better than just mulling it over," she explained. "The writing process takes reflections and turns them into insight."
Writing to one's self also allows for a degree of honesty hard to find in other contexts. Ellyn elaborated, "When you sit down to write to yourself, you really strip away any veneer you might want to put on your past because it's just you talking to you. There are really two stories of your life- one that's public, full of accolades and jobs and one personal story. The personal story, the one with all the bumps and bruises, is the one we want women to access when writing their letters."
One of the most powerful effects of writing these letters is the compassion women find for their younger selves. The letter-writing process allows women to reconnect with a younger version of themselves at a difficult time in the past. The process helps you to let go of any disappointment, anger or regret that you may be carrying with you and reclaim and incorporate that "previous you" into the wisdom of your present self.
Do you feel inspired by Ellyn's process? Learn more about attending a special retreat with Ellyn Spragins where you will be guided through the process of writing your own letter to your former self while surrounded by the serene beauty of the Berkshires at Canyon Ranch-Lenox.
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Nebo is pleased to announce the arrival of our two newest team members, Ann Pallasch and Rachel Wold. Ann comes to Nebo with a strong background in business management and experience in the publishing, industry association and political consulting fields. Ann will serve as Director of Operations. Rachel, a recent transplant from Seattle, will put her project management skills and social media savvy to good use as Client Services and Marketing Coordinator. Read more about all of Nebo's team members here.
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This Week on The Inspired Leader Blog
This week, Kate invites readers to write a letter to the younger leader they used to be on The Inspired Leader. For weekly inspiration, reflection and fresh perspectives on leadership, add the Inspired Leader to your RSS feed. |
