Coaches Alliance of Maine

Abigail Thurston

Core Zero — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 12:20:19 +0000

Abigail Thurston

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Email:: abigailthurston@ymail.com

Until One Is Committed – Goethe

Wed, 02 Feb 2011 16:22:43 +0000

There is a Goethe quote that has been very important to me over the years.
It is a great mantra to keep faith and courage alive during times of turmoil.

Until one is committed
There is hesitancy, the chance to draw back
Always ineffectiveness.

Concerning all acts of initiative (and Creation)
There is one elementary truth
The ignorance which kills countless ideas and splendid plans:

That the moment that one definitely commits ones self
Then Providence moves too.

All sorts of things occur to help one
That would never otherwise have occurred.

A whole stream of events issues from the decision
Raising in one’s favor all manner
Of unforeseen incidents and meetings
And material substance
Which no one could have dreamt
Would have come your way.

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

GOETHE

Life Makeover group is off and running!

Core Zero — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:31:21 +0000

If you missed our last gathering, we got involved with establishing four challenges for the weeks ahead. Stay in touch and you’ll see progress before you know it.

New Morning, New Digital World!

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:12:27 +0000

I am so excited, and humbled, to be included as one of the coaches on this site! I absolutely love all that I am involved with in life, as a writer and consultant, but most of all as a mother of five wonderful children. Anyone who knows me either personally or professionally knows that I include my children in everything I do…well…most everything. Honestly though, I watched a program on Maine PBN that really made me think about how the digital world has affected relationships and had to ask myself if I am one of those who has fallen into the digital world as much as young people have.

As a writer and Communications major, the digital world is a fascination to me just as much as it is to my children and I can fully understand how easy it is to become addicted. I am glued to my laptop from morning until late into the evening, either writing or reading assignments for online classes, managing household bills, communicating with teachers, etc. While I do spend alot of time with my children, we are often sitting together each with our own laptops and checking our cell phones for current messages, posts, and tweets.

You know, I went to bed feeling guilty and asked my teenagers this morning over coffee…when we are together, am I really engaged in conversation or am I focused on what I am doing online? Though they insisted that I am plenty involved with them and that I have no need to be concerned, this is something I am going to give more thought to. Am I truly listening to them when they tell me about their day or when they ask me a question? Or…am I concentrating Generic viagra whithout prescription on what I am doing in my own digital world? This brings about a similar question for reflection…how often do we correct children about things that we could also be called on?

…off to my life online, checking into class, reading assignments, making appointments, compairing prices, yada, yada, yada….