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Oct 11, 2010 01:17:09
In October 2003, Patti Digh’s stepfather was diagnosed with lung cancer. He died 37 days later. The timeframe made an impression on her. What emerged was a commitment to ask herself every morning: What would I be doing today if I had only 37 days left to live? The answers changed her life and led to this new kind of book. Part meditation, part how-to guide, part memoir, Life is a Verb is all heart.
Within these pages—enhanced by original artwork and wide, inviting margins ready to be written in—Digh identifies six core practices to jump-start a meaningful life: Say Yes, Trust Yourself, Slow Down, Be Generous, Speak Up, and Love More. Within this framework she supplies 37 edgy, funny, and literary life stories, each followed by a “do it now” 10-minute exercise as well as a practice to try for 37 days—and perhaps the rest of your life.
!1: Best Buy What a joy it was to hear the author speak at the June, Metro Chapter of ICF! As awesome as she is a story-teller, her gift for being a `noticer' most impresses. Every page is like a Godiva box of fine, dark-chocolate wisdom designed to touch the heart, open the mind, and encourage the appetite for more. Her talent for infusing her writing with tasty images is mind food I've never before consumed. (I was going to use "gustatory pleasure" but figured if I had to look up `gustatory' it was a word better left in the refrigerator.)
She writes on page 182 of this breath-taking analogy of learning that truly inspires me as a coach:
Physicist Hermann von Helmholtz likened knowledge to an alpine climb - when you climb a mountain, you don't go straight from the bottom to the top, you zigzag, you go around and through, eventually getting to the tip where you can see both the top and bottom and the straight line between them. When you're at the top, you can show others what Helmholtz called the "royal road." But being shown the royal road isn't learning, it's only the explanation, just as being taught to read a map isn't the same as reading one.
As a coach, my goal is not just to direct my clients along the path I've climbed. It also is not simply to help them to discover their own path, which is a laudable goal. Often, coaching is about a shared journey of discovery since we are both still climbing the mountain. At our best, my clients and I experience the reality of being one with the mountain.
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