Well, what an incredible few days it really has been. Yesterday especially!

Yesterday started at 7:30 AM with a trip to the television studios in Cluj, the main city in Transylvania in Romania..I have to say they looked after me incredibly well and were so professional and friendly. We were on air for about 15 minutes discussing exactly what coaching is and how it benefits people. It was broadcast nationally.

Then it was a mad dash taxi drive back to our hotel to prepare for our introduction to coaching event. We had a packed room, and the event was very well received. People travelled from many parts of Romania some over 400 miles way !!

When that finished at 5:15 PM it was then a case of reset the room and prepare for the

Noble Manhattan Coaching Support Group. The group in Cluj is run by Monica Ichimescu, our senior coach and group president in the area.

Monica Ichimescu

There were well over 35 people from all around the Cluj area and the main topic was spirituality in coaching, which of course I love 

Then, a short trip to the Toastmasters club where I was given a most wonderful reception, I gave a short talk on Communication Skills and Public Speaking.  what a fantastic group of people This had been organised by Irina Irimia, our coordinator in the Transylvania area, who has done an incredible job.

Irina Irimia

Then eventually a hot cup of mint tea and bed !! After a long and eventful day.

I wonder what today will bring ??

Gerard

I came across this on the website of David Icke.

It was a voice-over at the beginning of the video which I have transcribed here.

As a life and business coach,and someone who devotes his life to training others to be coaches, I really couldn’t have said this better myself.

we could do a lot worse than take this as a set of guidelines to live by.

I don’t want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone if possible. Jew, gentile, black man, white. We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each others’ happiness, not by each others’ misery. We don’t want to hate and despise one another.

In this world, there’s room for everyone, and the good Earth is rich, and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful. But we have lost the way. Greed has poisoned men’s souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed.

We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical, our cleverness hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities life will be violent, and all will be lost.

The airplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men, cries out for universal brotherhood; for the unity of us all. Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world, millions of despairing men, women, and little children, victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people.

To those who can hear me, I say, do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

Soldiers! Don’t give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you, enslave you, who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, what to think and what to feel! Who drill you, diet you, treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder. Don’t give yourselves to these unnatural men, machine men with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines, you are not cattle, you are men! You have the love of humanity in your hearts! Only the unloved hate, the unloved and the unnatural. Soldiers! Don’t fight for slavery! Fight for liberty!

In the seventeenth chapter of St. Luke, it is written that the kingdom of God is within man, not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you! You, the people, have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. Let us fight for a new world, a decent world, that will give men a chance to work, that will give youth a future and old age a security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power. But they lie! They do not fulfill that promise. They never will! Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people. Now let us fight to fulfill that promise. Let us fight to free the world! To do away with national barriers! To do away with greed, with hate and intolerance! Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men’s happiness.

I was trying to think of something to say about the power of our thoughts and then remembered this.
It says it so well.

When you focus upon lack in an attitude of complaining, you establish a vibrational point of attraction that then gives you access only to more thoughts of complaint. Your deliberate effort to tell a new story will establish a new pattern of thought, providing you with a new point of attraction from your present, about your past, and into your future. The simple effort of looking for positive aspects will set a new vibrational tone that will begin the immediate attraction of thoughts, people, circumstances, and things that are pleasing to you.
— Abraham

Last night I was interviewed by Denis Rancourt who is a well-known scientist, lecturer and radio host.
He runs a wonderful radio station details of which are on this blog site

http://trainradio.blogspot.com/

He interviewed me for approximately one hour on Canadian radio. We discussed mainly life coaching and corporate coaching, how it works and the impact it can have on corporate culture.
If you would like to hear and see Denis then he has done a very interesting and slightly controversial video which can be seen here on you Tube

Personally I agree with everything he says.

My interview will be available shortly,
Warmest
Gerard

Went for a beautiful scenic walk yesterday with Jurassic Jaunts. The weather was absolutely beautiful and my wife and I and Michael ( age 11) met Andy Petherick who runs the walks, at the Smugglers Haunt and we set off at 11 AM. It was only for two hours along the coast by Osmington. Arrived back at the smugglers in time for lunch at 1:30 PM.
The views were absolutely beautiful.
Here are some random photographs of the group during the walk.

The walks are run by Andy who has a business called ” Jurassic Jaunts” http://www.jurassicjaunts.co.uk/
I’ve known Andy for many years and he is an exceptional guy. A wonderful leader, he gives up his time to lead groups on walks every weekend along the Jurassic Coast.
Walks like this I find really beneficial, it gives me a chance to think very clearly about many things..
It helped me to plan the launch of “Colour Coaching” our new Division to help Women Coaches to build lots of New Clients.
Here is an idea of what the site will look like when it’s finished. This is only the front page right now

http://most-important.com/

Although, one of the things that is bothering me right now is the numbers. We are very deliberately limiting the amount of people that we will allow to train to only 10 per course.and we only plan on running two or possibly three courses this year. So, I know a lot of people are going to be disappointed.
But, I don’t know what else to do, it is so important to me that we keep the quality of the training to a huge standard.
As indeed is everything we do at Noble Manhattan.
Next week the walk is around Corfe Castle. Looking forward to that
Bye for now
Gerard

Back at home at last.

WOW what an adventure trip. I arrived back on Sunday night having spent the last 16 days travelling around Eastern Europe on my motorbike.

Went through the following countries

However it has made me realise that one trip isn’t enough I now need to plan for more

Here are our bikes parked outside our Frankfurt hotel at the end of our first long day of riding . Mine is the white Honda on the right-hand side (the mighty Honda !!)

I will upload some photographs and journey details in my next post

Warmest

I came across this beautiful poem and felt compelled to share it with you all.

Success Requires a Willingness to Act

If you want to be successful, you can start at anytime.
But you must start.

Don’t make the mistake of not doing anything
because you can only do a little.
Do what you can do.

It will always be your attitude
at the beginning of any difficult task which,
more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

To be aware of what you want and not go after it,
to spend years wondering if something could have materialized,
and never knowing if it could have been,
is a tragic waste of your life.
The worst thing you can do is not to try.

To reach a port, you must sail.
You must sail, not lie at anchor.
You must sail off in the direction of your dreams, not drift.

A journey of a thousand miles, begins with one step.

Max Steingart ©2002