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Lights On!
The "Illuminator"
April, 2010 - Vol 10, Issue 2
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Lights On! is all about Path-finding! It is about helping individuals find the personal and professional paths each has been seeking. It is also about teams, groups and organizations working together with clarity, coherence and respect. Lights On!...Especially for Women: Coaching, Consulting, Facilitation, Presentations, Retreats.

Claire Pic Niagara Falls
I spent a good part of this past winter in St. Pete Beach, Florida. Every so often, when the sun is positioned just right, and the Gulf water's ripples are formed in a certain rhythm, one can see "sparkling water". It is like seeing a host of sparklers dancing on the water. It is a wondrous phenomenon. Yet, if you look in the opposite direction---where the sun's angled rays differ---there is no sparkling water. Instead, you'll see beautiful blue water with rippling waves, but no sparkles.

As I reflect on our lives, we have that special sparkle at times too---knowing for what we stand, knowing for what we have passion, and in what we find joy. All are important to grasp and to manifest into our lives. [What is it in you that sparkles for others to see?]


Even if we're not currently sparkling, we are still beautiful- --like experiencing that sunny day at the water's edge from a different viewpoint. More and more frequently our lives can sparkle like the "sparkling water"--when we live our lives with purpose, with meaning and with passion. Then we glisten for all to see.

It was Henry David Thoreau that said, "Some men (women) lead lives of quiet desperation, and go to their graves with their song still in them." Those are lives with sparkle wanting to come forth. Isn't it great that each of us does have a measure of that inner, positive sparkle---even if it needs (sometimes) to be coaxed forward?

Sometimes life gets out of balance; we are overstressed and we lose that sparkling "me essence". At Lights on! we can help your inner sparkle to emerge---that inner light that wants to shine to do so--- if you want it to! Lights On!
Without a vision---a target...goals---you are rambling; you're without focus. Think of looking through a pair of binoculars. If the lens is clouded---you can't see where you are going---you are hit and miss.

The clearer the view you have of your target, the better your ability to focus; the better your intuitiveness can emerge, and the more that the synchronicity of the universe can rally to help you reach it.

Example: President Kennedy created a vision and mantra for the US in 1961, after Russia's sputnik rattled our confidence. He stood up and said America will put a man on the moon by the end of this decade and will return him safely to earth. Even the best scientific minds of the day didn't know if that was possible. He created a positive target. He made a declaration. He made a choice. He declared the vision and and said yes to it. And America rallied. We cannot underestimate the power of vision, declaration and choice. And what happened? NASA and America did it. Neil Armstrong--1969. The vision was manifest.

Are your Lights on? Are your binoculars providing you great focus? Can you see your target? Can you envision the steps to get you there?
* Lights On! website has been revised. Check out the video-clip excerpts of a focused Lights On! workshop. Newsletters are now archived too.

* Claire Knowles is now a feature writer for Western New York Women . com (www.wnywomen.com). Please check out the featured articles. Just click on Quick Links on the left margin of this newsletter.

* Claire recently presented at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida (Program for Experienced Learners) as they work toward their degrees. The presentation, "What are you worth?" was offered in concert with Eckerd PEL's Conference on Gender Pay Equity. Claire has been asked to make her presentation again (3X) at their Sarasota campus in May.

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At times our own light goes out and we are renewed by a spark from another.

Here's to turning your lights on!
Claire Knowles
Lights On! and Lights On! Workshop

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