February / March 2008
The View from Birch Corner
Aligning Purpose, Passion and Performance through Coaching
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Try a Little Kindness
I Agree to Look Within
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There are treasures within each of us.  If we choose to tap them, we can enhance our relationships, expand our leadership and improve our health.   As Bob writes in the first article, simple acts of kindness hold the key. 

 
In the second article Peggy helps us look within to understand why we react when our buttons are pushed.  The lessons we discover are treasures of a different kind, helping us live up to one of the Revolutionary Agreements we are featuring each issue of The View
 
Neale Donald Walsch summed up the theme of this month in a phrase from his book Conversations with God. "If you do not go within, you go without."
Yours in new beginnings,

Peggy and Bob MacArthur

 

Try a Little Kindness

Bob MacArthur

If there were a single behavior that would enhance your relationships, expand your leadership and improve your health, all at the same time, would you practicie it?  It would be hard to say no, wouldn't it?
 

Studies in a variety of disciplines provide new insights into how our relationships affect our emotions and how our emotions impact our bodies.  In a recent book Daniel Goleman distills these findings into knowledge and skills that comprise our social intelligence. (1)  The lessons in his book have much to teach us about how we can make a positive difference each day at home and at work. 

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(1) Daniel Goleman, Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships (Bantam Books, 2006).
 
I Agree to Look Within
When I React (1)
 
Peggy MacArthur
 
Turbulence to Opportunity
 
"What a jerk!  That parking space was mine!"  "Don't blame me..I'm just the messenger!"  "You still don't like my article?  Am I never good enough?"
 
How much easier it is for me to judge the other for being self-centered, thoughtless or critical in order to justify the negative feelings I'm experiencing.  How much more challenging it is for me to look within and ask what's going on and what part am I playing in the drama?
 
When you get a strong emotional charge in reaction to what someone else says or does, it more often than not has to do with a part of yourself that you're not comfortable with.
 
 
(1)  This is the fourth article in a series that highlights the Revolutionary Agreements by Marian Head.  For more information go to www.revolutionaryagreements.com.  Also click on the Newsletter Archives button on this page to read previous articles about the Agreements.
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