| New Easy Women News
Create with passion, live with ease, evolve for
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October 2006 |
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Our Perspectives on 'Perspectives that Empower You' | New Easy Woman of the Month Upcoming Events | NEW in the News |
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Greetings!
Welcome to New Easy Women News! We're having such a lot of fun! The photo on the right is of Lynne and Deb in the recording studio last month (with Lynne's lovely husband, Paul). We were recording our audio message about the 'Power of Being Easy', for empoweringmessages.com. Empowering Messages sends out a brief audio message each week to over 4000 subscribers in 40 countries. We were the featured guests the week of September 18th. To hear our audio message or to sign up for your own weekly empowering message click here. We are big fans! |
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Our Perspectives on 'Perspectives that Empower You'
Or She Says/She Says "New Easy Women choose the perspective that empowers them and find liberation in that.” Lynne Says: As with all of our messages this will mean different things to different people. To me it means that in any situation there are always many perspectives and we can choose whichever one we want. The perspective we choose will determine how we react, behave and feel about what is happening - and ourselves. I was talking to a good friend of mine recently about her brother and how he has lived his life. He chose a particular line of work and did it until he retired. Throughout this time he refused to apply for managerial posts, preferring to stay where he was. After he retired he took a part time job working in the produce department of his local supermarket and again resists any attempts to persuade him to seek promotion. What could the different perspectives of this story be – that he has low self-esteem? That he is doing a menial job? He should be more ambitious? What’s wrong with him that he doesn’t want promotion? What a boring life? How embarrassing for his family? He owes it to his family to take promotion to earn more money? None of these are empowering. How about – he is very happy doing what he enjoys? He knows that if he takes promotion he’ll lose the aspects of the work he loves? He experiences very little stress? He knows who he is and what makes him happy? He knows his strengths and plays to them? He has very high self-esteem hence he doesn’t worry about how he’s perceived by others? He doesn’t take the stress of work home to his family like so many others do? These are just a few, I’m sure you can think of many more. I don’t know which perspective he chose himself but I do know that he is very happy, doesn’t experience much stress and has a full and active life – so I can make a guess! What perspective did you take on his choices? How did it make you feel about him? What happened when you thought about other possible perspectives – did you change your view of him? Deb Says: For me, this message makes me think about me! Like many women, I think I tend to have higher expectations of myself than I do of others. The good part about that is that I am pretty self- motivated. The flip side is I can have a hard time letting myself ‘off the hooks’ I have created for myself. So when I miss one of my self-imposed deadlines, I could choose to think and feel judgmental and not so nice things, i.e. I am not organized enough, I must be doing something ‘wrong’ etc. And of course along with the thoughts is the corresponding drop in energy and disconnection from being in flow. If instead, I choose to know that I didn’t meet the deadline because I didn’t need to at that specific point in time, or because I focused on changing priorities, or even the energy just wasn’t right, I am then holding myself in a place of knowing, of trusting that I make good decisions, that I am in tune with and aligned with the energy of whatever that work is. And let me tell you, that feels a whole lot more empowering. The cool thing is, that we do get to choose how we want to perceive everything. And the more that you consciously choose the perspective that empowers you, that liberates you, that brings you ease, the more you are able to create that way of being. |
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Lisa O'Malley
We are so pleased to highlight our first New Easy Woman of the month - Lisa O'Malley. Lisa has created an incredible program, The Spirit in Me, a program for girls aged 8-11 that explores and celebrates who they are and who they are becoming. And she has done it in her own magnificently unique and easy way! For more on Lisa click on the new New Easy Woman of the Month page. We are featuring a real New Easy Woman each month, so please let us know if you or someone you know would inspire others with what you are creating in your life. We know you are out there! |
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Join Us!
We still have a couple of openings left for our New Easy Women Weekend at Loon Mountain in NH, November 10-12. Please contact Deb ASAP if you are interested. It will be a fun, relaxing, enlightening and amazing two days. The US Book Launch and Author Signing
will take place on November 19th from 2:00 to 4:00
at 'noa' in Groton. 'noa' is a wonderful artisan gallery and
gift shop. Please join us for some refreshements and dare I
say, begin to think about your holiday shopping? We are going to Israel! We have been asked to lead a New Easy Women event with our dear friend Miri Nave in Jerusalem from January 12th - 14th 2007. Please see NEW in Israel and forward on to anyone you know who might like to attend (or who would like a flyer in Hebrew.) |
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NEW in the News
Some Recent and Upcoming Press
The Groton Landmark recently ran a story on the New Easy Women movement and the upcoming US Book Launch. Click here to see the full story. The long awaited REDBOOK article about Deb living her dream
by singing on stage with a rock band is coming soon. It will
be in the December issue and should be on newstands in early
November. Really! |
| Links We Like |
| Empowering Messages | Sparkology | Live Your Caribbean Dream |
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In Closing We hope you enjoyed this issue of New Easy Women News. Next month, we will feature another New Easy Woman, and look at how 'new easy women find other women to remind them who they are when things don't feel easy'. For those of you in New England, we hope you will join us at the US New Easy Women book launch at noa in Groton on November 19th (refreshments served!) And to all our other readers, thank you for bringing your energy to the New Easy Woman movement and for inspiring us - and YOU! With warmth and ease, Lynne & Deb email: info@neweasywomen.com
phone: 978.649.1788 (US) or 020 8580 9511 (UK)
web: www.neweasywomen.com
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