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Let's
Thinking Together
Call for your very own thought provoking relationship
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Introduction
Welcome to LivingIntentionally,
a newsletter from Matthew Rochte and WorkingIntentionally
™, a life leadership coaching company.
LivingIntentionally is
the holistic side of WorkingIntentionally
™, and will delve into topics about being human by
challenging and expanding our perspective.
~ Matthew Rochte, Life Leadership
Coach
In every issue:
What's Next: Upcoming News/Events/Programs.
Reality Concepts: Tips & Techniques.
My Coaching: Who/What/How
Feeding The Brain: Current Readings/Interests
Where Credit Is Due: Public Thank-Yous.
There have been several changes in the past 6 months,
not the least of which has been the corporate change in
name and direction. Read more on our website and below
in the My Coaching Section.
NEW
CORPORATE NAME:
WorkingIntentionally
™
NEW
WEBSITE:
http://www.WorkingIntentionally.com
NEW
ADDRESS:
Matthew Egan
Rochte
WorkingIntentionally
™
5005
Oliver Ave S, 2nd Fl
Minneapolis, MN 55419
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What's Next:
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GET
STUFF DONE DAYS!
(aka Integrity Days) The new academic year is just around
the corner and people are getting ready for the fall. Cleaning
out their office, getting summer photographs into albums,
finding the table again. Come join with others on the similar
missions and have some fun with it. This is dedicated time
to GET STUFF DONE, so that you have more time to have some
FUN! Its free!
Weds Afternoon
27th of August 12-4pm CST
Sat Morning 30th
of August 8-12am CST
Drop me a line to let me know you are interested
and are coming. integritydays@matthewrochte.com
For more information check out http://www.workingintentionally.com/integritydays.htm
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Reality Concepts:
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What
the Bees
See
- or -
BEEing
Intentional
Have you ever really looked into
a flower – to see a flower’s awesome power,
majesty, and aliveness?
I am greeted today with a triumphant horn of purple and
magenta boldly inviting the universe of light to come in
to the sanctum of soft white grandeur. I feel inspired,
at peace, delighted and awed by my morning visitor. I feel
blessed to be permitted to view such a sacred beauty and
what so few humans ever take the time to see. My charming
host is a morning glory; aptly named in my opinion.
You may be wondering by now, why am I writing to you about
a flower. Well, it has to do with BEing,
a cornerstone to living intentionally. It also has to do
with BEEing
which I credit my colleague Bernie
Saunders for introducing me to last month. You see,
Bernie has been author, a teacher, a coach & business
consultant to the Fortune 100 for nearly 30 years, but most
of all he is an artist. He fervently believes that everyone
is an artist and you won’t convince him otherwise.
Bernie was at a professional and spiritual crossroads a
couple of years back and chose to follow his youth time
passion of photography to see where it would take him. It
took him to the neighborhood gardens, where he was invited
to spend the summer to take photographs. All of his shots
were taken in natural lighting with no extreme measure to
capture the image. What he captured were moments of grace
that the flowers shared with him. “This is what the
bee sees,” his wife remarked upon viewing them. His
work has become the instrument for reflective questioning
process called the Soul
of Flowers, a program that I took part in July.
In my new location I am inspired daily to engage and go
for walks around the neighborhood, Lake Harriet, and the
Minnehaha Parkway. One morning, shortly after I had seen
Bernie’s show, I grabbed my camera and set out to
follow his lead. I started taking snaps of this and that
only to review them and toss them out – they were
just pictures of flowers. Midway through my walk though
I found this white flowered bush by the rose garden. The
bush was being actively visited by bumblebees. “How
apropos,” I thought as I started to take shots. However,
every shot that I took ended up fuzzy and less than what
I had expected.
AH! There was the key – I was expecting. God doesn’t
work that way. I then remembered what Bernie had said to
me – he had felt privileged by the invitation of the
flowers to photograph it. He did not shoot unless invited
to do so.
What an amazing approach! I realized that I was trying
to take or to steal their majesty. If I wanted to celebrate
their glory, I would have to shift who I was BEing
- move away from taking to sharing / being / giving / honoring.
I relaxed, quelled my fear of the bee by shifting it to
appreciation and curiosity, zoomed in close and put the
camera an inch away from the flower and bee. When the bee
was ready and flower was ready the image would appear.
Click . . . Click . . .
Upon review of the shots I could
plot my attachment to the outcome – those all ended
up fuzzy or of nothing. However, those shots taken when
I honored, appreciated, and remained curious – Viola.
BEing with
the BEE
Click
on image to see larger image
How does this apply to your environment? What
does it say about how we interact with the people in our
life? What would it be like if we surrendered to
the beauty instead of trying to possess it? Go
out for a walk to see what the
bees
see. How
can you bring that into your environment - or how
can your environment bring that to you?
If you want some coaching around this
give me a call.
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My Coaching:
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Hello
WorkingIntentionally ™
WorkingIntentionally
is a leadership coaching company. We specialize in working
with leaders of small businesses to move from thinking of
leadership as the right things to say or to do, but instead
think of leadership as who you are BEing.
Leadership
is simple, though not necessarily
easy.
I work
best with company owners and executives who are too smart
for their own good. They quite often have hit a brick wall
or are going through growing pains with their company and
leadership style. I help them find clarity and intention
to what they are doing and who they are BEing.
Together, we discover who they
are so that they can come to leadership from a standpoint
of alignment and integrity.
Leaders know who they are. They speak
about what they believe. Lastly, they make happen and do
what they say & believe.
Its the alignment of those things
that creates followership, which is really the core to leadership.
Who would
you follow?
Call me 612-332-1642 Lets
bring some clarity into your life.
Surf the website
to find out more.
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Feeding the Brain:
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You want
a book that will shake you up?
The book I have in mind begins with a
man in his 40s who is struggling over a newspaper ad that
he found in the morning’s paper.
Teacher
Seeks Student
Must have an intense desire
to save the world
APPLY IN PERSON
The man, after much angst (Where was this
person 20 yrs ago when I was looking him?), finds himself
in an abandoned warehouse for the interview only to find
a big leather chair, a book shelf with a few books, a wall
of windows, and funky smell in the air. After waiting around
a bit he approaches the glass and looks in. His gaze is
met with two very big eyes looking back at him – they
are not human – they belong to a gorilla. At which
point the gorilla communicates “Yes, I am a gorilla,
why don’t you have a seat and lets talk.”.
The book is Ishmael
by Daniel Quinn. I read this book five
years ago and was blown away. Recently it has resurfaced
repeatedly in my conversations. It has even found its way
into my coaching calls. It is book about illusions, it is
about control, it is about the stories we tell and those
that we are told.
I found the common thread to my conversations while I was
writing the above article
about BEEing.
It struck me when I wrote the words “take” a
picture. I had shifted into taker mode. I believed that
I was in control.
Ishmael
is about changing the way we think. It certainly shook
up my world view. Ishmael challenges the great myth that
we all live under, what "mother culture" teaches
us, what we will die defending, but is only a myth. I no
longer see the world the same way. I have discovered that
I never want to go back to my old ways of thinking.
This book planted the seeds to my own transformation two
years later and to my choice of profession – coaching
– helping people change the way they think and view
the world. Daniel Quinn speaks of the New Renaissance
– perhaps this is the beginning.
As I have recommended this book I have notices some reading
guidelines are appropriate.
1) ATTENTION:
All those power readers and skimmers – LISTEN
UP! – DO NOT ZOOM THROUGH
THIS BOOK! Read this book one chapter at a time.
Stop. Ponder, Reflect, Let it sink in (I ended up reading
it one chapter a week over several Sundays after I had tried
to zoom through it and was left totally confused).
2) Some people have difficulty with the story’s protagonist
(a gorilla who communicates through telepathy) – Roll
with it, suspend your disbelief, suspend your certainty.
How can you possibly learn to think differently from people
who think and act just like you.
Dare
to change you mind
Read ISHMAEL
Available at amazon.com
- may be available at half.com
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Where Credit's
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To list all of the people who have entered into my life
since the last newsletter would be longer than this email is already.
Thank you for stepping forth, connecting, challenging, and
supporting me.
To all of those who responded to my email about needing
to move. I thank you - the process was delightful and an insightful
experience. It brought great clarity as to what exactly
I was looking for which allowed it to come into my life.
Thank you.
I want thank all those who have attended the first
year of D.A.N.C. gatherings. It has been a great pleasure to share and grow with you.
Thank you
Bernie Saunders
for the impetus for the above article and sharing your beautiful
soul and those of the flowers with the world.
Minnesota Coaches
Association for embracing me and pulling me forth and
for being the resource which it is.
Thought
Leader Gatherings for embracing, challenging, expanding
and simply jiggling my mind.
Be Well & Treat
Life Well Today!
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