April Alert – Change is Coming! « Executive and Life Coaching Courses and Information

Did you ever see those funny signs that you have to read at least twice to try and understand what they mean? For example: “Success is relative – the more the success, the more the relatives! “

The thing about a sign is that quite often we are moving too fast to really appreciate what it is telling us.

April is the month for noticing the signs that change is coming.

In order to notice the signs of change you need to identify what those signs are so when they show up you notice them.

“Change always comes bearing gifts” – Price Pritchett

April has a natural way of alerting us that change is on the way by bringing us the gifts of Spring growth. Daffodils nod their heads at us so many times during April – do you notice or do you ignore – maybe you just take them for granted.
What would your life be like if you were to notice all the good signs that change is on the way?

What would you do differently?

Imagine you had a jar for collecting all the ‘good feeling’ emotions that are evoked when you notice change is on the way. Every time you saw a daffodil you deposited your good feeling emotion in the jar. You could dip in to the jar when you want or need that extra boost to make a positive change happen. If you did it for every daffodil you noticed you would have a very full jar to be dipping in to.
“Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens.The sleeper must awaken” Frank Herbert
What are the April alerts that you have been missing out on that you want to start noticing?

Maureen Hewitt

Daffodils
William Wordsworth

I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed–and gazed–but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.

Author : Maureen Hewitt