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Happy Holidays to Each and Every One of You!
It's that time of year again: busy with holidays, triggered by family dynamics, racing to close out fiscal 2010, sorting out how to have these holidays be an expression of our values. So take a deep breath. May this note serve as a pathway towards this season and the New Year being an expression of you, your values, and what is being called for in the world today. If you were not able to join us for our December Salon on Completion yesterday, please read below! In this newsletter you can also find information about what is coming up in 2011, a note about our Annual Report and some words of gratitude for our Beta Testers.
Thank you for a great year. Thank you as ever for the privilege of supporting your professional and personal endeavors. Thank you for your trust and for your business. Thank you for your commitment to the world.
With Warmest Blessings,
Gina, Jen and Shea
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The Power of Completion
Completing is not quite the same as ending. We end many things with which we are not complete. To be complete means to have left nothing unsaid, nothing unattended to or cared for well, nothing that is festering that will likely take even one ounce of your attention in the coming year. It's a high bar to set and it's a clear way of honoring ourselves, our colleagues, friends, family, and our organizations. Things left to fester get infected either sooner or later. Let's take some time to review your year, read on:
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Thank You Beta Testers
We are grateful for the half dozen of you who have signed up to be Beta testers. An update will be coming to you before the year end. Please send gina@sevenstonesleadership.com an e-mail if you are interested in joining our group. Any product you test you will receive as a gift for your time.
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Seven Stones Leadership Annual Report
In honor of our commitment to our investors and clients, we will publish a report on the happenings of this past year at Seven Stones, including our resource investments, business development and personal and professional development activities. It will be ready by the end of the year at this link.
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What's Coming Up in 2011
Shea is leading a four-week tele-intensive in February: Re-Invent Yourself
Wednesdays in February for 75 minutes
This is a community building course for anyone in any kind of transition, looking for a new or the next opportunity or wanting to discover the power and wisdom in the anatomy of a transition. For more information and to register click here.
Gina will present Creativity as a Devotional Practice at Quinnipiac University's Celebrating Women's Creativity conference
March 5, 2011, 2:30pmEST
Click here to see last year's conference material and stay tuned for registration information.
Jen and Gina will attend and present at the 2nd Annual Passion Into Action
Grass Valley, CA
April 29 & 30, 2011
Tickets go on sale February 1, 2011
Passion Into Action is an event through the See Jane Do organization. This conference creates a space for the women in their community to meet, network and explore ideas on how to work together on one another's projects and strengthen their community with the intention for the content created at the event to transfer ideas into action. It showcases real women with real solutions; mixing local and non-local leaders & visionaries, artists & musicians, mothers & grandmothers, teachers & students, homemakers & business owners among others. Click here to see last year's conference material and stay tuned for registration information.
We're scheduled to teach at Omega for 2011 - Save the Date!
Exquisite Sufficiency: Create Peace, Find Presence and Live Exquisitely
At Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, NY
Oct 24-28, 2011
Beyond the Laws of Attraction are the Laws of Exquisite Sufficiency - a global movement to go beyond the idea that we are not good enough and do not have enough - wealth, time, money, power, good looks, and even spiritual development. Together in community: through meditation, guided spiritual investigation, small group exercises, we will heal old patterns that live in our bodies and form the context of scarcity that rules our lives. We will re-awaken to what is enough.
Spend five days with us at this beautiful retreat center discovering the truth and freedom of exquisite enoughness. Click here for more course details. Registration info to follow.
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 Complete to Create
I. Completion
Completing is not quite the same as ending. We end many things with which we are not complete. To be complete means to have left nothing unsaid, nothing unattended to or cared for well, nothing that is festering that will likely take even one ounce of your attention in the coming year. It's a high bar to set and it's a clear way of honoring ourselves, our colleagues, friends, family, and our organizations. Things left to fester get infected either sooner or later.
Let's take some time to review your year:
- What did you create this year?
- Where did you exceed your own expectations?
- Where did you not fulfill?
- What is incomplete that needs to be handled for the New Year to be like a bright horizon stretching out in front of you with lots of open road ahead?
- What can you be really truly proud of this past year?
- Look over any documents you created (business plans, forecasts, goal setting, intention creation, journal entries) that forecasted how this past year was going to go. Where are you right now in your business, in your personal life, in your citizenship in the world relative to those aspirations and predications?
II. Creating Inside of Exquisite of Sufficiency
Exquisite
Marked by flawless craftsmanship or by beautiful, ingenious, delicate, or elaborate execution or marked by nice discrimination, deep sensitivity, or subtle understanding.
Sufficiency
Being, doing, having enough. Life is a gift and it was given for free. We have enough food, water and shelter. We have all we need to heal our wounds. Not only is there enough for me but there is enough for all of us.
How can we find a way to aspire, reach towards a future, something human beings are made for, without re-creating a sense of lack or scarcity from where we are now? Take a moment here and feel - or find some glimmer of this - that where we are right now in our lives is enough exactly as it is. Turn your attention to yourself/ your team/ your company/your family. Then ask yourself:
What do I wish to create this coming year that would be an expression of that Exquisite Sufficiency? It's a bit of a paradox so stay with us here.
If you are whole, exquisite just as you are, if enough is the ground level of everything, then what? See if you can be curious and stay with the investigation.
Wayne Muller, author of A Life of Being, Having, and Doing Enough, in his talk on the GSN tele-series The Power of Enough suggested that we ask ourselves: How little can we do - how little can we effort - and still make a difference? "What," we say almost incredulous at the thought. Notice how this fresh orientation to our aspirations influences how you design this coming year, how it would alter our relationship to ourselves, to commerce and business building, to our spouse or family or our team or boss.
Blessings on your journey of completion to creation, and have a joyful holiday season.
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