Yoga For the Mind: Featured Book | What Andrea’s Reading This Summer
Okay well, rereading is more accurate and some of you know I’m a lasagne reader — I read lots of things at once and together they make a creative stone soup that is the fuel for my personal growth.
I consider the book Making A Living While Making A Difference, and author Melissa Everett, defiant personal mentors.
Pick up a copy and you will soon see why. The book provided some of the firestarter that became the first-ever Coaching Day Job conversations at this link.
A quote, from page 181:
Thomas Merton said it this way, in 1966, in a letter to peace activist Jim Forrest:
“Do not depend on the hope of results. When you are doing the sort of work you have taken on, essentially an apostolic work, you may have to face the fact that your work will be apparently worthless and even achieve no result at all, if not perhaps results opposite to what you expect.
As you get used to this idea, you start more and more to concentrate not on the results, but on the value, the rightness, the truth of the work itself. And there too a great deal has to be gone through, as gradually you struggle less and less for an idea and more and more for specific people. The range tends to narrow down, but it gets much more real. In the end it is the reality of personal relationships that saves everything.”
Side Note: A question for the thoughtful among you. The last two weeks, I’ve had three people ask me who I turn to when I’m looking for a coach. And who was Thomas Leonard’s coach. Two were coaches and one other person was a leader in their niche market who put it this way: “Who do you hire as a coach when you are at the top of your game?”
This was the impetus of a lot of thought for me, because I am never without multiple coaches and mentors. Would you like to hear about this topic, and my answers to these questions, in a future issue? Please let me know, and any comments, here.
