Wow! This year is starting out with busy, fun, and enlightening.

I am currently half way through my first Sage-ing course – 3 weeks of delight. I feel so honored to be taking these souls through the Sage-ing journey.

I start my next class on Monday, March 4th at Apositiva in Portland, Oregon. See the flyer on the Sage-ing page or on my Wise Heart Coaching Facebook page. This will be a 5-week course.

I am also taking a fantastic course from Janet Connor called Writing Down Your Soul from her book with the same name. It is journaling – but not journaling. This is a way to get into the Theta brainwave so that you are writing, but not with your conscious, critical mind. It is done quickly without editing. When writing you address the voice within. I have so far called mine, My Dearly Beloved. It is a love letter from myself to myself. I am very much looking forward to reaching my soul self in writing. With this I will discover even more of my purpose in life, be more successful in my work, and feel more satisfied within my life choices. This is a gift I am giving myself.

I have also completed my thesis on Intergenerational Communities and receive my second masters from Marylhurst. I feel proud that I made it through this a second time – but I wouldn’t want to do it again.

Blessings all, Judith

It’s been a busy year!

I am so excited! Yes! I did it! It is done! Yesterday, December 27th I handed in the 6 copies of my 137-page thesis on Intergenerational Communities. This will mean that I get my 2nd masters dated 2012. Wow! Getting it done and handed in was like taking a monkey off my back. Just to let you know, monkeys are not fun hanging on your back all day nagging at you.

Do you have any monkeys that are hanging onto your shoulders weighing you down? I bet it would feel good to get those dudes gone. A coach helped me get mine off – maybe I can help you with yours.

So, are you setting goals for 2013? I already have my goals outlined for me. As per usual, it will be a busy year. First of all I have my Sage-ing Leadership program to finish. I am suppose to fulfill all my assignments by this summer in order to graduate. I am already working on that one.

I also really want to get serious about my bucket list. Just a few months ago I fulfilled something on my bucket list which was to got to a Murder Mystery Dinner. I did. My girlfriend and I dressed up as husband and wife. I wore a mustache, hat, cane, pink tennis shoes, and a clip on tie. They asked me to be a part of the play – I said sure. I was totally stoked. I ended up playing the groom and I was even the murderer – although I didn’t know I had “done it” until the end. It was so much fun! It was one of the highlights of my life. In fact, I enjoyed it so much, it has given me the courage to try out for our community theater. (I will keep you posted on that).

So, think about your Bucket List. The Bucket List is an important part of the book I wrote on goal setting as it really does inspire you to do things you might say otherwise is silly, or not possible. You’d be surprised what your Bucket List might inspire you to do.

See you next year. Happy New Year’s everyone.

• Let me do a free Sage-ing Workshop for you. I cannot graduate until I do several workshops – so I am really looking for “gigs.” What is really cool is that I cannot charge for these workshops until I graduate, so they are FREE until July 2013.
• Do you have something you would like to work on? If so, let me coach you so that I can get back into the swing of coaching. Cost is what they can afford.
• Do you have a friend who could use coaching? A friend or family member who is having difficulty with his or her age-ing? Please let them know about me. Again, for the rest of this year, cost is what they can afford
• If goals have been something that you set each year only to find it more of a chore than fun, then maybe the new edition of my book will help.

This has been a busy year – as most years seem to be (remember being bored??). In 2012 I finally completed my second master’s degree – Masters of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies and Certificate in Gerontology – from Marylhurst. My “hiccup” with completing my thesis on Intergenerational Communities has been dealt with, and my 137-page document to my education is now available for the reading public.

During this year I also started my yearlong training in the Sage-ing Leadership program with Sage-ing International. This is a wonderful program that is based on the book by Reb Zalman, From Age-ing to  Sage-ing. Addressing various aspects of age-ing, the 15 separate topics include:

• Expanding Consciousness – what does aging look like?
• Life Review – looking over your life, remembering, allowing regret, joy and love flow through you
• Forgiveness – repairing relationships with yourself and others
• Embracing mortality – preparing for the next journey
• Creating a legacy – how you want to be remembered
• Gifts of the Emerging Elder – addresses your spiritual self

My goal is to use my training in gerontology, combined with my coaching, and my certification as a Sage-ing Leader to address the issues most of us face as we get older; namely, how do we do it? Most of us did not come with a manual on how to age – and the media is not making any of this process any easier. We are told that nothing about our age-ing selves is okay. Mostly, what we are told is to fix everything. I believe there is something more to life than fixing every wrinkle and sag and worrying that we might be getting dementia. What do you think?

As part of my own inner work, I have started counseling to rid myself of any left over “stuff” from my childhood dramas/traumas. I am not going through “typical” talk counseling, but instead, I found a doctor who uses some more modern techniques, such as EMDR.  Along with everything else, I have been studying the Enneagram and finding out how my number (which appears to be a 7) affects many of the decisions I make in life.  Along with all of this, I am exploring my heritage through studying the Jewish Faith at the Florence Melton Adult Mini-School.

I have not been ignoring my business, Wise Heart Coaching. Instead, I have been working on my website, and rebuilding it from the bottom – up. I hired a graphic artist to create a logo for me, which I love. She also created business cards for Wise Heart Coaching and a new cover for my book, The Power of Goal Setting – Transforming Thoughts Into Action!  To go along with the cover, I went over the inside and corrected and updated where needed.  To get me through all of this, I have also hired a life coach to help me get my business back up to rock and roll status.

I am very excited about all these changes.

Now, I would like to ask for your help in any way that you can. Here are some ways that I could really use your assistance:

• Look over my website and tell me what you think. Does it interest you? Is it boring in places? Does it flow nicely? What do you like? What do you think could be changed? There are also several free e-series your can sign up for as well as articles that can be downloaded.
• Let me do a free Sage-ing Workshop for you. I cannot graduate until I do several workshops – so I am really looking for “gigs.” What is really cool is that I cannot charge for these workshops until I graduate, so they are FREE until July 2013.
• Do you have something you would like to work on? If so, let me coach you so that I can get back into the swing of coaching.
• Do you have a friend who could use coaching? A friend or family member who is having difficulty with his or her age-ing? Please let them know about me.
• If goals have been something that you set each year only to find it more of a chore than fun, then maybe the new edition of my book will help.

Anything that you can do to help me get my business up and running will be greatly appreciated.

Thank you so much my dear friends for all your continued support.

Love ya,

Judith