Greetings, Sunny Optimist buddies,
I hope all is well with you and you are enjoying the May weather. David and I went to Dawyck Botanical Gardens yesterday, and the bluebells were out in abundance. They were just delightful and are such a lovely confirmation that we are well and truly into springtime. Mmmmm.
As we walked, I remembered the playground game ‘In and out the Dusty Bluebells’. Unfortunately, I could not quite recall all of it. I am 70, after all! It was great to come home and find it on the internet. (Click here to view.) I remember playing it with my siblings and school friends. This memory then reminded me of other playground games like ‘What’s the time, Mr Wolf?’, ‘The Farmers in his Den’ and ‘Ring, a Ring, a Rosie’.
My, what a lovely trip down memory lane this was. I wonder what playground games you remember. I would love to hear your reminiscences.
My Above and Beyond Offer
This week I would like to share with you a new adventure that I am embarking upon and ask for your help. Over the last few months, I have felt a calling to be more out in the world. I wish to go back to work. I think many of us feel a sense of moving out into life again after the constraints of the last two years.
I have really enjoyed writing The Sunny Optimist each week and intend to continue this. It brings me such joy.
AND I have realised that there is more that I want to do now in the territory of my vocation. So I took time to explore what I wanted to do at this point in my life. What I see is that I enjoy coaching people and organisations that are in times of transition. I love problem-solving and getting to the core of an issue, and from there, inviting clarity that fuels easy right action.
As I considered what I might offer, I saw that as a coach, I am good at taking an eagle eye's view of situations and rising above the ordinary to the extraordinary. I also enjoy testing the boundaries of thinking to move beyond the known, expected, or predicted.
One morning as I was musing on the next steps, the phrase 'Above and Beyond' came into my awareness. It felt so right. I had the same sense when 'The Sunny Optimist' came to me. It was like I was receiving a direct message from Source. There was no doubt within me, and I could hear a whisper of encouragement from the Divine to go for it and see what happens. Big smile.
And so I have called my new offering 'Above and Beyond' with a tagline of 5e's 'an elder's evolutionary eye on everyday existence'.
The most life-affirming aspect of this is the profound space of Elderhood that I abide in. This space holds me in the gifting of patience, compassion, wisdom and commitment to another person's wellbeing. It respects all territories of their lives and loves and brings a holistic caring that supports their adventuring too.
Eldering opens me to inter-generational relationships. I love supporting young people who are in transition, particularly in terms of career guidance. Equally, I enjoy helping older people seek their rightful place as they move into a new phase of their lives. Between these stages, I take absolute pleasure in supporting midlife explorations, too. In all these relationships, my calling is to guide people to fulfilling their unique Soul purpose with joy and playfulness.
I am excited and happy to be stepping our once more. Please share this offering with your network, and anyone you feel would welcome my support.
The website address is https://www.atr.earth.
People can contact me at atr@conscious.me.uk.
If anyone would like to know more about me, here are details of my personal background too.
Thank you,
Ann.
Please feel free to leave me a comment on my new Above and Beyond website. I would love to hear your views.
Lovely ideas Ann. I went to Saughton park the other day. So many medicinal herbs but I think that just walking round a beautiful garden can be a wonderful panacea. Often in these summer evenings I am transfixed by the lovely singing of the birds. Especially bright from my attic window. I’m not joking I think if I was on a desert island I’d love nothing better in music than a record of birds singing thoygh id hope to hear thst there. And on returning home I’d hope to pay attention all the more to so many of nature’s gifts I really do all too often take for granted. Have a lovely week. Richard x
Dear Ann, I have a big big smile on my face reading about your new adventure giving folks roots to grow and wings to fly as they say. Thank you for offering your gold. You have so much to share. What an inspiration for me. Thank you.