Phew! Today I posted the last of my Christmas cards and sent my final e-mail greetings. I take the scale of this as a sign of the abundance of people who contribute to my life.
You, too, dear Readers. With this in mind, I share my greetings with you. Of course my newsletter (mentioned below) is not attached – still if you would like to receive a copy or to join my circulation list, please e-mail me directly at dorothy@learningforlifeconsulting.co.uk.
In the 93 years of my life, depressions have come and gone.
Prosperity has always returned and will again.”
John D. Rockefeller
1932
Dear friends
As 2008 draws to a close, we are surrounded by the signs of a deepening and world-wide recession. Whatever our circumstances, whatever our response, 2009 will bring new challenges to us all. For many of us, these challenges will lie outside our prior experience. Perhaps we are young enough to be experiencing the first major recession of our lives. Perhaps our experience of recession is radically different, because of the responsibilities we have now that we did not have last time round.
No matter what our experience of the current recession, we get to choose our response. For this reason, I have chosen in my December newsletter to return to a subject I have written about before and to ask: 2009: a time of scarcity or abundance? I have also invited you to your own personal exploration in my accompanying paper, Whatever the Weather, Choosing Abundance Whatever the Climate. And whether or not you are a regular subscriber, I am choosing to attach my newsletter and accompanying paper.
I close the year with a deep sense of abundance and I want to express my gratitude to you for your role in that. You are my readers: the people who send cheery messages in response to my writing and encourage me to stay in touch. You are my clients: the people with whom I work in coaching partnership to produce major and minor miracles; the people with whom I look across whole organisations to ask, what can we do that will make the difference? And, dare I say it, you are my sales team! For even whilst I continue to explore new ways to help those people to reach me who can most benefit from our work together, the majority of new clients continue to come to me because you choose to refer them to me. I thank you all.
Sending you heartfelt wishes for a Christmas, 2008 and a New Year, 2009, which are happy, abundant and prosperous.
Dorothy Nesbit
Coach to Leaders