You Had Me at Retarded

 

     Chris Dorris (above) is a wonderful coach, trainer and speaker who has just made a deeply personal, entertaining and moving...no, MOVING... video he calls "You Had Me at Retarded," please watch both parts.
    
     To see and hear the whole story go here:
     http://chrisdorris.wordpress.com/2010/11/14/tbolitnfl-and-all-inness/  

     And don't miss the part about what shifts...no, SHIFTS....in the universe when we are, as Chris says, ALL IN.

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     If you can sing, OR if you don't think you can sing, but deep down you know you COULD sing if the stars were aligned just right, you need to be with my friend Monique.

     Monique DeBose's Creative Vocal Improv Workshop comes to Phoenix.
     Sunday, December 5, 2010. 12pm-2pm.
     Location: TBD (in Phoenix area)

     What to expect… We will sing our hearts out in a safe, fun environment. In the style of Bobby McFerrin vocal improv, and explore the crevices of our voices, the rhythms in our hearts and the joy that arises from singing with other creative folks. 

     We’ll warm-up, set the intention for our time together and let loose. We will create beautiful music with the guidance of loose structured exercises and prompts from Monique and our intuition. 

     It's a great time and past participants continue to rave about the value they have received from Monique's unique workshops. Make sure you RSVP to get the location details. The MeetUp will take place in the Phoenix area. We are looking for someone to open their home to host this event for 15-20 people. If you have a great home, are located in the Phoenix area and are willing, please let us know and we'll waive your payment. Let us know if you can host the December 5th workshop. http://www.meetup.com/VocalImprovPhoenix/

     About Monique. Monique DeBose is an award-winning singer/songwriter who has traveled from Los Angeles to Amsterdam to Fiji to India to perform. She has written numerous songs and released two albums. She recently returned from a three-month residency at Centro Lounge in Beijing, China and is currently in rehearsals for an off-Broadway show. She sings jazz, R&B and her most recent passion is connecting with other voices. She has studied with Rhiannon and Joey Blake of Bobby McFerrin's Voicestra and can't wait to sing with you. 

     You can hear Monique at  www.MoniqueDeBose.com  or  www.cdbaby.com/cd/debose2. Monique has run Creative Vocal Improv circles in Los Angeles, London and Puerto Rico for groups, private clients and world organizations. She also offers one-on-one 'Wholistic Voice Coaching' for people who are ready to step into their voice fully. She has studied the voice, performance and music all her life and recently received her Master's Degree in Spiritual Psychology at the University of Santa Monica in California and is a certified Kundalini Yoga teacher. She is able to assist those in her workshops experience a deeper connection with their voices, their heart's desires and themselves.  

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   My good friend Will Keiper, the brilliant writer and speaker and business coach sent me this email:

    Steve—This week marks the anniversary of Lincoln delivering his Gettysburg speech in 1863… you may want to remind Club Fearless members what a fantastically concise message this is about American freedom, values and responsibility….It is an outstanding historical reference…In many ways, given the separation that has torn our nation over the past couple of years—it represents a fitting reminder of our responsibility as citizens…

        Lincoln's conclusion:

    "The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

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     Human beings were not put on this planet to live up to the expectations of others.  They weren't put here for that.  They know that deep down.  They have a rebellious, free spirit in them that knows it was not put here to live up to another mortal human being's expectations.  

     Therefore, whenever you use the "expectation" word, you create rebellion, and you create less likelihood that what you expect will happen.  Less likelihood by expecting it!!!!  So by expecting something, you make it go away--you don't draw it to you.  You chase it away because it's toxic, it's cowardly, it's radio-active, it is cancerous. Expectation is.

     I can't stress it enough. I've never seen expectations work as sound self-programming.  Any kind of positive benefit in any relationship (personal or otherwise) -- I've never seen it work.  I've never seen it bring people closer together.  I've never seen it make one partner more faithful.  I've never seen it do anything, but damage.  Terrible damage. Every time it is used inside the human system.

    Now what I have seen work beautifully on the other hand, in the other way, is agreements.  So the person's late for a meeting.  I meet with him and say, "Let's you and I create an agreement and I'll tell you why I'm requesting we create an agreement.  I would like to have you at the meeting…the whole meeting from beginning to end every time.  You are that valuable to me.  You're that important to me.  You're that important to the rest of the team.  Your strolling in late does not work for me.  It's not wrong, it's not unjustified, it simply does not work in what I'm creating. Now let's you and I talk so we can get an agreement; and an agreement is something that works for you, otherwise, I don't want you to agree to it." 

     So we work on an agreement together, I understand the other person's concerns, they were in another person's meeting that morning that got out late.  We find a way to have that not be the case anymore.  We agree.  We shake hands.  We now have an agreement.  

     If you want people to do something, create an agreement. Don't just "expect" them to do it. They won't. Or, haven't you noticed?

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"I slept and dreamt that life was joy. 
I awoke and saw that life was service. 
I acted and behold, service was joy." 

~Rabindranath Tagore, philosopher, author, songwriter, painter,
educator, composer, Nobel laureate (1861-1941)

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