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FREE 10-Week Mini Life Coach Training Course – Week 10 – Video
Posted: May 13, 2012 at 1:16 am
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FREE 10-Week Mini Life Coach Training Course - Week 10 - Video
GET A LIFE: Here’s to you, mum!
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Your strengths arent where you think they are, mum would say
I miss my mum so much. To cope and survive, all its been for the past 24 years is patching the gap, disguising the wounds. So here goes. Mum, this is a tribute to your memory. Your daughter will always look up to you and love you.
Losing her year-long battle with cancer, mum passed away on Sept 1, 1988 at 10.20pm. She was only 48. Mum was tall 1.7 metre. She worked out regularly, was fit, and was never ill a day in her life. She dressed fashionably.
The cancer (or rather the handling of the disease) ravaged her spirit, turning her from a vivacious, glamorous, and energetic woman into a meek, fearful, and defeated person. I would often go to the crowded hospital ward, waiting for her doctors to do their rounds. I would stand there and insist on speaking with the oncologist, radiologist, and all the caregivers so that wed know what was happening to mum.
What did the symptoms mean? Why those tests, why those drugs, and what to do about the effects they had on mum? I remember my sister ringing me up and me going numb upon receiving the news. I wasnt home much as we travelled a lot on business and until today I wish I had been by her side more throughout her ordeal. She never asked being the selfless, self-sacrificing soul that she was, but I know it. The experience of raising my own children has made me understand the completeness of a mothers love... and a mothers yearning to be close with her babies, especially in a crisis.
Throughout the journey home, I kept thinking, Why hadnt I been there? How could I have left her when she needed me most? I was tormented by guilt. Mummy, please forgive me. My deepest values, everything I understand about the meaning of life and the wonder of living, I derived from my mum. She was my guardian angel, my teacher, and disciplinarian. She was my best friend my cheerleader, my defender, my protector. Growing up, it was mostly mum.
From my early teenage years, my dad worked in another town. Mum, my sister, brother and I only saw him on weekends. So you could say that she was a single mum, raising three growing children on her own. There was great celebration when dad came home. Afternoon tea was a tradition in our house, the family would gather and yarn about what went on during the week.
I remember a lot of laughter. Mum made it safe for us to speak up, to be expressive. She was forthright and candid and that gave us permission to be ourselves. Then I went away to college and coming home was always something I looked forward to, a time to let down my hair.
What does it cost you to be obedient and inauthentic? What would I lose if I gave up my Self to conform in exchange for acceptance and approval? Every time I compromise, I suffer the most. Every time I forget my upbringing who I really am and where I come from I run aground. This is what I know for sure because of her.
Your strengths arent where you think they are, mum would say. How I wish Id trusted her more, paid more attention to her lessons, which were always subtle and loving, never obvious or abrasive. That I work in coaching and mentoring today, is because of you, mum. That I champion womens development is because of how you inspired me. That I fight for equality, mutual respect, freedom, and esteem for womens role in our community is a candle I light in your honour.
Campus Connections launched at conference
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CollegeBound Coaching LLC (collegeboundcoaching.com), a pioneer in the field of student life coaching, which helps middle and high school students throughout the Boston area with college preparation and admissions, has introduced an innovative service called Campus Connections, designed to personalize the college-visit experience through a fast-growing network of college students who are trained to work directly with high school students and their families across the country.
Harvard classmates Phil Sloan and Steve Maislin have launched Campus Connections (campusconnections.us) at the spring conference of the Independent Educational Consultants (www.IECAonline.org) held this week in Boston. IECA is the nations leading professional organization for independent educational consultants working in private practice. For 35 years, IECA has helped its members serve families in educational decisions that include colleges, local day and boarding schools, schools or programs for students with learning or behavioral needs, international placements, summer opportunities, and graduate and professional schools.
As we began helping high school students with the highly competitive college admissions process and started sending families to visit schools under consideration, we became more and more aware of how little they were learning from the traditional process of attending the group campus tours and information sessions conducted by the admissions offices themselves, Sloan explained. After two or three visits, students were complaining that the tour guides sounded the same, and the parents were disappointed that there were few opportunities to ask their more specific questions in a group setting.
He continued, Recognizing that both transfer rates and tuition costs are rising higher than ever and that so many parents are spending even more money for lost credits when their children find themselves unhappy with their college selections, we decided to focus our time and energy upon enhancing the college-visit process as a means of helping families to make better-informed decisions. We quickly realized that college students themselves are the best source of information about life at their own campuses.
Sloan began by leveraging his local contacts in the Marblehead and Swampscott area to interest college students in joining his fast-growing network of Campus Connections. In just several months, Campus Connections has grown to include more than 150 college students at more than 100 campuses across the country.
We expect to be on more than 500 campuses by September, Sloan said. College students are joining Campus Connections because we are providing rich and rewarding, part-time, on-campus jobs.
Campus Connections are trained to work closely with each family to understand what they are most interested in learning about and to then schedule meetings for them during their college visit with other members of their campus community who can answer their specific questions about those areas of particular interest.
We encourage families to attend official college tours and information sessions conducted by the admissions offices, and to personalize their on-campus visits through Campus Connections, Sloan said.
He concluded, For the summer, we are offering high school students and their parents the opportunity to connect with our Campus Connections online and by phone, thereby providing college students with summer jobs and high school juniors the opportunity to begin learning more about schools to which they plan to apply in the fall. We are also offering to provide some college students with summer marketing internships, leveraging their knowledge of social media to help us continue building our network of Campus Connections.
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76ers Coach Doug Collins, grayer and more mellow, back in the second round after 23 years
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When Michael Jordan buried that iconic, hanging jumper over Craig Ehlo more than 23 years ago in Cleveland, a 37-year-old Doug Collins hoisted his fists, hunted down Jordan with a frantic sprint, hair flopping wildly about his head, and jubilantly hopped around to celebrate with his Chicago Bulls players.
Collins would gray almost completely, lose several hair follicles and three coaching jobs before he would have the opportunity to feel to excitement of winning another first-round playoff series. And, his next victory came in similarly dramatic fashion, as Philadelphia 76ers all-star forward Andre Iguodala buried two free throws with 2.2 seconds remaining to complete a stunning upset of the Bulls.
Again, Collins gleefully raised his hands. But instead of joining Iguodala on the scorers table or chasing down the rest of his giddy players to dance under confetti, Collins applauded, pointed toward the crowd and headed toward the tunnel, mind already drifting to the next opponent.
Im not in this for me, Collins explained after the 76ers won a first-round series for the first time since 2003, when another player named A.I. dominated the Philadelphia sports landscape and Collins was fired after a failed two-year stint coaching Jordan again with the Washington Wizards.
The 76ers are back in the second round, against the Boston Celtics, after Collins led the only franchise for which he played to a win over the first franchise he coached. And, the magnitude of the win wasnt lost on Collins, who proudly proclaimed afterward, Im a Sixer. For life.
Since leaving his cushy existence as a TNT studio analyst before the 2010-11 season to coach the organization that drafted him first overall in 1973, Collins has repeatedly spoken about how much he has changed since his previous coaching job, in Washington; that he has become more grandfatherly and focused on a greater purpose of passing on knowledge to an impressionable young team. But while he has delegated more responsibility to his assistants in Philadelphia, losing doesnt hurt any less, and Collins remains as competitive and intense nearly two months shy of his 61st birthday.
I got to be honest with you, Im a little anal as my family will tell you, Collins said from the podium on Thursday, as he sat next to his grandson, Cooper. Im just at a different spot in my life. As a younger person, you look more for the satisfaction of the things that come to you and I think as you get older and you become a pop-pop, you look at things a little differently. So, Im not as selfish as I used to be.
Collinss reputation for being too tightly wound and overbearing has followed him through his time in Chicago and Detroit, where he had initial success before flaming out; and Washington, where he never really had the chance to wear on his team, with young players such as former No. 1 overall pick Kwame Brown bristling from the outset.
He lifted the 76ers from the lottery to the playoffs in his first season coaching the 76ers, overcoming an ugly 3-13 start to finish with the seventh seed in the Eastern Conference. Philadelphia then opened this lockout-shortened season looking like a team that was ready to join the conferences elite.
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Posted: May 10, 2012 at 6:16 am
Coaching nomad Brown highlights game of musical chairs
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Philadelphia, PA (Sports Network) - Welcome back, From the End of the Bench loyalists. It's been awhile since we last met on the first Monday night in April, or should I say the early morning hours after Kentucky finished off its a fate accompli by hoisting the national championship.
Since then, the Wildcats' starting five entered the NBA draft in one press conference - the main draw of a collegiate exodus that included the likes of North Carolina's Kendall Marshall and Harrison Barnes, Connecticut's Jeremy Lamb just in time for the Huskies' one-year NCAA Tournament suspension and Baylor's Perry Jones and Quincy Miller after one underwhelming season apiece.
Seth Greenberg was hosting a recruit when he heard of a hastily called news conference to announce his termination at Virginia Tech. Larry Eustachy parlayed his second life and subsequent success at Southern Mississippi into a better gig at Colorado State. His predecessor, Tim Miles, took his halftime Twitter prowess to Nebraska. Johnny Jones packed his bags for LSU after former head coach Trent Johnson departed for TCU.
And all of those moving places came into place before we could even reflect back on the 2011 season. College basketball's transition period is so brief, allowing just enough time for Kentucky to clean up its streamers before jumping into a barrage of early entries and coaching changes.
Luther Vandross provides three minutes for reflection, then it's full steam ahead on the same plane as David Axelrod and the President's re-election campaign: FORWARD.
Yet the game's biggest leap forward to date was a step back to the past. The op-ed below isn't to wax poetic about Larry Brown's many accomplishments, of which there are many. My Sports Network colleague Phil Neuffer already laid about Brown's collegiate and professional feats in a column last week.
The point of this exercise is to look deeper, at the historical significance of the hire, the monkey in the room on the recruiting trail (Brown's age), and a nomad's (inability to maintain his interest in a game that has evolved greatly since he was last part of it.
SMU's journey to the Big East was a piece of opportunistic desperation that stemmed from power players' mass exodus from a once-proud league, and that very league's necessary search west of the Mississippi River to find teams eager to jump at the lore of major conference money, television appearances and a seat at the grown-ups' table. What SMU had going for it was its proximity to a major media market (Dallas), its football history and its willingness to say yes. The jump from Conference USA to the Big East had nothing to do with basketball; it just so happened that Brown came along for the ride in a move made for headlines.
The Mustangs haven't made the NCAA Tournament since 1992-1993, yet they have shown recent interest in improving their program, beginning with the hire of former North Carolina head coach (and one-time Brown assistant) Matt Doherty followed by the building of a new multi-million dollar basketball facility and, now, the increased exposure of playing in the Big East.
The Doherty plan failed, but in its wake still lays a sparkling recruiting showcase to the best the Lone Star State has to offer. Currently nine Mustangs hail from Texas, and Brown's first priority is not only going after a typical SMU recruit, but aiming at the state's upper-echelon talent normally reserved for Rick Barnes in Austin, Bill Self in Lawrence or Coach K out east in Durham.
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Rugby semi-final preview: First meeting of BYU, Life
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Rugby semi-final preview: First meeting of BYU, Life
By BYU Rugby
May 8th, 2012 @ 9:55am
PROVO After beating the UCLA Bruins 103-24 in front of a capacity South Field crowd last weekend, the Brigham Young University Cougars advance to take on Mid-South champ Life in Marietta, Ga., in the collegiate D1-A semifinals this weekend.
The matchup against the Running Eagles of Life will be the first for BYU as Life makes its first semi-final appearance in the history of its program, while the Cougars will be involved in their eighth straight semi-final appearance.
BYU will be somewhat familiar with the surroundings and coaching staff of Life, as the Cougars have been involved with both during the Cougars 2009 national championship run. The 2009 regional qualifier and quarterfinal for BYU were both played at the Marietta schools rugby complex, and the Cougars emerged victorious to advance to the semi-finals against an up-start San Diego State University led at the time by current Life head coach Dan Payne.
In 2009, BYU beat SDSU coming from behind to make a similar feat against Cal Berkeley and win their first national championship.
Despite a number of players who were young in 2009 and are still on the Cougars roster today, BYU head coach David Smyth knows traveling to Life and going up against a strong team will be a tall order.
There are a few similarities from 2009, Smyth said, But as you look at it closely, this will be a very different experience. Dan [Payne] has done a great job building their team, and they are the envy of many aspiring collegiate programs with the amount of support their school provides. We expect nothing but a hard-fought game.
The Running Eagles of Life currently sit 9-0 on the season having run rough-shod through their competition, combining to score 546 points and only allow 55 points in eight conference games.
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Pathway Genomics Enhances Genetic Testing Service with Health Coaching Option
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SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Pathway Genomics Corporation, a genetic testing laboratory, now offers a health coaching service through a national non-profit organization. Provided by Healthy Adventures Foundation, the health coaching service is currently available as an addition to Pathway Genomics premier genetic testing service, Pathway Fit, which tests for food metabolism and exercise response and is available through physicians. The health coaching service provides a comprehensive approach to diet and lifestyle change by using patients genetic testing results to help set measurable goals and objectives, monitor progress, and track changes in health.
Pathway is pleased to align with Healthy Adventures Foundation and add health coaching as a complement to Pathways genetic testing services, said Jim Plante, Pathways founder and CEO. Using a health coach is an excellent option for physicians who want to empower patients to make positive lifestyle changes based on their genetic test results.
Offered as a separate service called Pathway Fit PLUSSM, the health coaching service is available directly to patients in three options each based on the level of guidance the patient needs. The service is provided by wellness coaches who are educated and experienced in assisting patients understanding of current lifestyle habits in order to identify and achieve realistic steps towards a healthier lifestyle. The goal is to build supportive relationships that empower people to change by providing encouragement, resources, tools and education.
For more information about Pathway Fit PLUS, visit http://www.pathway.com/fit-plus.
About Pathway Genomics
Pathway Genomics owns and operates an on-site genetic testing laboratory that is accredited by the College of American Pathologists (CAP), accredited in accordance with the U.S. Health and Human Services Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) of 1988, and licensed by the state of California. Using only a saliva sample, the company incorporates customized and scientifically validated technologies to generate personalized reports, which address a variety of medical issues, including an individuals carrier status for recessive genetic conditions, food metabolism and exercise response, prescription drug response, and propensity to develop certain diseases such as heart disease, type 2 diabetes and cancer. For more information about Pathway Genomics, visit http://www.pathway.com.
About Healthy Adventures Foundation
Healthy Adventures Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation that has been in business since 1997. Healthy Adventures Foundation strives to improve quality of life, while seeking balance in healthy behaviors. Behavior strategies target nutrition, physical activity, healthy lifestyle, behavior modification, health awareness, and positive self-image.
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Lester making reeturn to coaching at PikeView
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BLUEFIELD From 2007-09, Jesse Lester compiled a 76-6 record as the boys basketball coach at Wyoming East, winning two state championships and finishing second in the third.
At that point he walked away from the game.
I was kind of worn down and to be honest with you, I was living in Camp Creek when I had those last two coaching jobs, and I had what you could call long distance coaching jobs, said Lester, who was a head coach at Wyoming County schools Herndon and Baileysville prior to arriving at New Richmond as an assistant in the early 2000s.
Lester, who still lives in Camp Creek and teaches at PikeView, now has a shorter drive to be able to resume a coaching career that includes a 298-129 record at three schools, including two state titles and two state runner-up finishes.
Basically my role in life is to help young people as a teacher and coach to reach some of their goals and dreams in life, Lester said. That is why I coach and teach.
He had to do it from afar in the past. During a 13-year span, Lester had to endure a daily drive of more than 1 1/2 hours from Princeton to Baileysville, and later had to commute an hour and 10 minutes from Camp Creek to Wyoming East.
His trip to PikeView? Less than 20 minutes.
Anytime you are traveling that much and gone all the time, it kind of wears you down and burns you out a little bit, said Lester, whose first job at his alma mater in Herndon was just three miles from his home. Now it takes me about 15 to 18 minutes to get to school every day...
Those kind of things just wore me down and I needed to get away for a while.
When Anderson resigned after last season, Lester started getting hints from students and community supporters to take over the program at PikeView.
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Robert Vido Ghilotti — 1922-2012
Posted: May 7, 2012 at 2:13 am
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Robert Vido Ghilotti, a longtime resident of the Bay Area and Lake Tahoe, passed away April 29 at Scripps Green Hospital in La Jolla with his family and friends at his side.
Throughout life his positive attitude and enthusiasm were hallmarks of his character and professional football coaching career.
Robert Ghilotti left behind a legacy in football being a part of some of the most innovative passing games of the time. While most teams were still dedicated to running the football, and only throwing the ball when absolutely necessary, the teams Ghilotti was a part of always featured a dangerous and cutting edge passing game that led to the development of All-American and record setting quarterbacks and receivers. Joe Marvin a football historian, former football coach, and long-time friend of Ghilottis said Bob Ghilotti was way ahead of his time with the passing game, no doubt about it. He was a pioneer in the passing game and he was an outstanding man.
Robert Ghilotti was born Aug. 6, 1922, in Clovis to Giovanni and Maria Ghilotti from Grosio, Italy. He was the youngest of three brothers. He grew up in Modesto and eventually went on to attend Modesto High School where he was described early on as a mighty popular fellow and a scholar too. He was an excellent tight-end and the student body president. He later attended Modesto Junior College where he was an athletic stand-out, lettering in three sports; football, basketball and track. Ghilotti had a deep allegiance and love for our constitution and the United States of America. A veteran of the Second World War, Ghilotti served in the Army (1942-1946) as a medic and sharpshooter; he was honorably discharged in February 1946.
Following the war, he played wide receiver and defensive end for the Stanford Cardinal.He continued to follow his passion: the game of football and became a freshman football coach at Stanford University in 1950. During Ghilottis tenure at Stanford as a coach he helped lead Stanford to the 1952 Rose Bowl against the University of Illinois.
After Ghilottis successful coaching career at Stanford University, he accepted a coaching position at the University of Colorado at Boulder where he continued to work with the wide receivers from 1959-1961. Ghilotti was highly regarded by the Colorado football staff and faculty for his ability as a coach, as well as his tremendous representation of the school at speaking engagements.
Following the 1961 season Ghilotti made the jump to the professional coaching ranks where he accepted a position with the Dallas Texans of the American Football League. Ghilotti spent the 1963 season with the new Kansas City Chiefs before departing back to the Bay Area and taking a coaching position with the University of California, Berkeley.
Moving to the other sideline of the big game rivalry between Stanford and Cal, Ghilotti spent five seasons coaching the Golden Bears of Cal under head coach Ray Willsey.
He retired from coaching football so that he could focus on spending time with his wife and three daughters while developing a real estate career and managing the Ghilotti family ranch in the Central Valley.
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