Welcome to 2010 and a brand new year filled with Ki Moments and key moments. How many will you be present for?
As I swam my laps this morning, I thought of my youngest sister who is shopping for wedding dresses today. Talk about a ki moment ... I can't imagine a more joyful way to enter the new year.
Last week I spoke with a friend whose daughter is in intensive care - a lovely young woman we're all hoping will recover and thrive as the year unfolds.
We each approach this first month of a new decade with unique hopes, worries, curiosity and dreams of what might be. Twelve months from now, will we be telling the story of 2010 "with a sigh," like the narrator in Robert Frost's poem, "The Road Not Taken"? What kind of sigh? Much of the answer depends on the choices we make.
Right now all the roads are "grassy and wanting wear." Even the ones that feel well traveled - work and family relationships, old hurts and longings, happy trails and sad ones - can be traveled with new eyes and new awareness. Our choices make "all the difference."
Will I choose to persist in patterns that come easy but are no longer purposeful? Could I practice new ways of being real in the world? Find undiscovered selves and unrealized capacities for living, communicating and connecting?
Time evaporates. It will be 2011 before you know it. Make each moment count. Nourish wonder. Expand your thinking on what is possible, and explore the courage to create new patterns of thought and action.
With each choice, grassy roads emerge that lead to unexpected gifts.
Life is precious. Fill it with joy and good practice.
PS - Thank you for your loyal readership over the years. Please let me know anything I can do to make Ki Moments more helpful.
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I just updated my website with new workshops for January, February and March.
Come learn, network, and enjoy yourself with other likeminded students. All workshops are limited to 20 participants. Visit JudyRinger.com to learn more:
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Many of the principles reflected in Ki Moments come from Aikido, the Japanese martial art that teaches self-defense through the redirection of energy.
If you live locally, Portsmouth Aikido offers ongoing practice at the Seacoast Y in Portsmouth . Classes are held on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Sundays. Stop by anytime and watch.
The next Aikido Beginner Class starts Jan. 10. The eight-week course runs through Feb. 28, from 3:00 to 4:00 p.m. each Sunday. The cost is $95.00 per person. Anyone aged 12 or older is welcome. Gift certificates? Email info@portsmouthaikido.org.
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Start your year off sliding and flowing gracefully through life!!
Tom Crum offers his unique program of skiing, snowboarding, learning, living and loving life in the winter wonderlands of Aspen and Snowmass, Colorado. Two opportunities:
- January 16-23, 2010
- February 6-13, 2010
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Judy Ringer
Power & Presence Training
76 Park Street
Portsmouth, NH 03801
voice: 603.431.8560
website: www.judyringer.com
Judy Ringer is Founder of Power & Presence Training, a Portsmouth, NH company specializing in unique workshops to help you and your organization manage conflict, communicate effectively, and co-create a more positive work environment.
E-mail Judy at judy@judyringer.com for a free initial meeting to discuss your training needs. Ki (from Ai-ki-do) is Japanese for life energy. Ki Moments is a complimentary monthly "e-zine" with tips and how-to articles to help you manage the key moments in your life.
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The Road Not Taken
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
Though having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same.
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads onto way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh,
Somewhere ages and ages hence;
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
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