Aileen Gibb, Author VOICES, A COACHING STORY TO INSPIRE YOUR FUTURE |
Author Aileen
Gibb has written a collection of fictional stories entitled VOICES, A COACHING STORY TO INSPIRE YOUR FUTURE. In VOICES, Gibb offers fictional stories
that incorporate the choices we make that might assist us in achieving the life
we want to live. A “future-guide” weaves
throughout the stories to suggest key messages for an improved future
world.
Aileen Gibb is
a world-wide coach and facilitator. Originally from Scotland, she currently
lives in Canada with her husband and their two dogs.
In the
following guest story, Gibb’s future-guide Tashia -- “the voice of the questions
that inspire your future” -- offers some tips for us to follow to achieve “whatever
we wish for.” Don't miss the opportunity to join the VOICES Virtual Book Blog Tour at the end of this post.
If Anything
Were Possible
By Aileen Gibb
In the VOICE of Future-Guide Tashia
I am Tashia: river of your soul, earth of
your spirit, air of your voice and fire of your being. I am the infinite space
of possibility. I am the voice of the questions that inspire your future. When
you listen, you hear my voice asking again and again – if anything were possible, what is it you want to do, be, feel, have,
experience, offer or receive in life. What do you wish for?
As you tap into your daily thoughts and
feelings, you can ask the questions that capture your innermost desires. When
you listen deeply to these desires, and truly hear them, they become your call
to action. The call to your inspired future.
*Practice AWARENESS in everything you do. Be aware of your reasons
for doing something or for saying no to something. Practice awareness in every
conversation, listening for the opportunities it might present for you. As you
become more aware of what’s possible, quiet your inner voice – the voice that
says you can’t do that – and invite in the voice of courage and trust that
enables you to step into something you may not have experienced before. Let it
inspire you to take the next step.
*Be more ACCEPTING of each situation you find yourself in. Don’t
waste energy fighting when things are beyond your immediate control. Rather
search for what you can accept about the current situation. Accept that your
experience is what it is. Acceptance means observing – it does not mean you
agree with something being right or wrong. From this place of acceptance and
observation, you can open up to seeing aspects and perspectives you might not
otherwise have appreciated were there. Once you accept a situation or
experience it for what it is, you can start to ask what your next step will be.
*Own your CHOICES. One of the challenges in life is not that you
don’t have choice – rather that you have so many choices you are sometimes
paralyzed as to what to do with them. Make a choice – any choice- that moves
you forward. Until you see where that choice is going to take you, you can’t
know how it impacts your future. There’s nothing worse than staying still and
not making a choice.
*Take time to REFLECT on each step of your journey. Today’s busy
world means you often don’t slow down enough to reflect fully on what you are
learning, how much you are growing, and what strength you are gaining. What is
truly emerging for you? Stop and reflect on what you need and how you can go
about getting it. As you reflect more inwardly, you change your reflection out
into the world and others see you differently. In leadership, the success of
any team or organization is a direct reflection of who the leader is. Consider
what you want to reflect out into the world for others to follow.
*Have a regular routine for your own RENEWAL. Whether you need time
on your own to walk and be replenished by nature, whether you need a good night’s
sleep, whether you need to re-ignite your commitment to the gym or to yoga
class, whether you need to eat better food to support your body. Ask when you
feel most renewed and make it part of your daily or weekly routine for
yourself.
Ask
again – if anything were possible, what
is it you want to do, be feel, have, experience, offer or receive in life?
Regularly ask this key question to inspire your future. Make a list – don’t
edit or delete anything, trust your inner voice to let your inspired future
list emerge. Once you’ve got it, keep it handy, and ask yourself what do you
need to take the first steps to making all come true?
I
am Tashia – may life bring all you wish for.
About the
author, Aileen Gibb
Aileen Gibb is
an inspirational coach, facilitator and leader whose work has taken her around
the globe. She has worked with leaders and teams in Kazakhstan, Venezuela, the
Middle East, France, Angola and in many companies in the UK and North America,
to uncover new possibilities and transform results. Where she has travelled she
has been amazed at the power of coaching-style conversations and the choices
people make to become more successful in their work and to live more fulfilling
lives. Aileen is from the small village of Fyvie, in North East Scotland and
has lived for the past twelve years amidst the rocky mountain in Canmore,
Alberta, Canada with her husband, Jake and their two boxer dogs. Aileen thanks
you for your interest in VOICES, please let her know how it inspires you.
About VOICES
VOICES is a series of connected coaching stories which
reflect many of the real-life choices people might consider making to live the
life they truly wish for. All the stories are fiction and her hope is that one
of the stories – or one of the questions in one of the stories – might resonate
with your life story and invite you to make a choice. The coaching stories are
interwoven with the musings of a future-guide who travels to and from a
parallel time, considering what the key messages are for inspiring a better
future society.
VOICES is available for purchase now and although
Aileen has some upfront costs to recoup, as soon as it starts to generate
profit, funds from the book sales will be going to support people going through
cancer to access complementary therapies such as acupuncture, which are proven
to mitigate the extreme fatigue and other side-effects of cancer treatments.
Links
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Hello Joyce,
ReplyDeleteOn behalf of Aileen and Book Marketing Services, I would like to thank you for hosting Aileen today on Strands Simply Tips. She has been looking forward to being your guest today. If any of your followers have any questions and/or comments they would like to share with Aileen, please leave them in the comment box. She will be by later in the day to respond to everyone.
Aileen is having a giveaway during her tour. 1st prize is an autographed copy of VOICES plus 2 hours of personal, one-on-one coaching; 2nd and 3rd prizes are autographed copies of VOICES. You can enter through the link on Aileen’s Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/aileengibbVOICES (look for VOICES Giveaway next to the Likes) or on her website http://www.aileengibbvoices.com/events/.
Please join Aileen tomorrow, Wednesday, November 7th, when she will be the guest blogger on elynjacobs http://elynjacobs.wordpress.com/. She will provide insight on how coaching was beneficial during her husband’s cancer treatments.