Note:  I am not an affiliate of Tara Mohr’s course and will not make a commission should you decide to register.

Special note from Tara: Are you feeling  a little intimidated to sign up? and two videos re Tara’s agenda for the programme and the three most asked questions

Playing Big  is a fusion of inner transformation and skills training. You get the practical, Stanford MBA, tactics-loving side of me – in modules on negotiation, public speaking, getting media attention for your work, and getting into action. But you also get the poet, the coach, the personal growth teacher and spiritual seeker in me – in modules on clarifying vision, unearthing your calling and dealing with big fears. Playing Big is a fusion of inner and outer work, and that makes it one of the most unique programs out there.  Tara Mohr

Are you holding yourself back?  Are you ready to move forward? Are you ready to check your inner critic and discover a vision of an older, wiser you in the future? Are you ready to stop playing small and have a greater impact in the world?

Are you a woman?

Are you an artist? Are you a politician who wants to step up her game or an aspiring politician? Are you a social worker or teacher? Are you a mum at home full time who wants to start an at-home business or re-enter the work force? Are you a 20-something who wants to kick-start her career or a retiree who wants to start a new venture?  Are you a Gen-X woman who wants to switch it up at work? What’s your story? Who are you and what do you want to do next?

Tara Sophia Mohr is a writer and teacher who focuses on women in leadership and well being.   Starting January 24th, 2012 she will be offering round two of her popular Playing Big course – a six month online programme for women.  Here’s what Tara said recently about Playing Big:

What my audience most wanted to learn was what I most wanted to teach. My biggest passion was their biggest quest: playing bigger. Specifically, how visionary, creative, entrepreneurial women can play bigger.

From there, I developed my Playing Big program – a natural outpouring of all that I already knew from my own journey to playing bigger, from coaching other women, from my MBA training, and from a lifelong passion for helping women share their voices. Over 100 women from around the world – from Dubai to Detroit – have participated in Playing Big, and now an amazing group is signing up for round two. (Taragentile.com)

You may have seen Tara on The Today Show discussing 10 Rules for Brilliant Women. Perhaps you’ve read her work on the Huffington Post.  Perhaps you’ve signed up for her E-mails and receive copies of her exquisite & sensitive poems focussed on helping women to quell their inner critic and take risks.

If you think you’d like to take part in Tara’s next six month programme, listen to this informative and uplifting  online phone call which provides more information about what you can expect.  (Note: You can pay for the cours on a monthly basis.) Over 100 women around the world will take part in this programme. Will you be one of them? If this isn’t an option for you right now, consider sharing a link to this page on your website or social media network (via LinkedIn, Facebook or Twitter, for example) and do check out Tara’s website.

It would a treat to hear from you so don’t be shy! You can comment about this posting using the comment function below or visit the BCFamily.ca Facebook page.

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Friday Photo: Autumn leaves and playing big.  Reflections of a previous course participant

Who is playing big?  Reflections of a previous course participant

Subscribe to Tara’s E-mails (ignore boxes under First Name)

Your Other Names: Poems by Tara Sophia Mohr

10 Rules for Brilliant Women PDF and Related Workbook

The Goals Guide: Turning Your Goals Upside Down and Inside Out (Free download)

7 ways to recognize your inner critic

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If you are linked to the BC Family Twitter account, you might have noticed the following Tweet:

Just registered for the Fortune Most Powerful Women Virtual Conference  It’s free/looks like a great idea http://ow.ly/6MB6l

On October 4th, 2011 women everywhere who have access to the Internet will have a chance to listen in on – and to some degree take part in – the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit Virtual Conference.  The conference will feature some of the most talented people working in their disciplines.  Some of the guests include the CEO of Stella & Dot, Jessica Herrin, Sheryl Sandberg of Facebook, and actor Glenn Close, to name just a few.  If you are interested in topics related to women in leadership, do check out the agenda online. 

Whether you’re a Stay at Home parent who volunteers in your community; you work part time with a home business; or, you work full-time out of the home, it can be helpful and inspiring to hear how other women are getting along in the world.  Year by year, as we get older, we increasingly realize just how much experience we have, how much we know, and how much we have to offer in our community,  both in a private and professional capacity.

Today writer, coach and wise living coach Tara Sophia Mohr shared a poem entitled This is Your Time.  In the conclusion she writes that [she] believes this is truly your time. The world needs your voice, your gifts, your light.  On Tara’s website she writes about her beliefs regarding women today:

Most brilliant women don’t see their own brilliance and are “playing small” and they know it: not speaking up, doubting themselves, seeing themselves as “not yet ready” to launch the big idea, the organization, to put themselves at the table. The 10 Rules, and the other work I do with women leaders are about learning how to quiet self-doubt, clarify purpose, and become comfortable with taking bold action in the workplace and in the world. That is what I teach, and I love to teach it because I’m still learning it myself.

If Tara’s ideas resonate with you, you will be keen read the Fortune Magazine write-up about the virtual conference and the related invitation to women and teenage girls everywhere: 

Fortune will stream all plenary sessions of the Summit to our virtual audience—plus customized sessions exclusive to the virtual audience. Join the conversation with most prominent women leaders in business, philanthropy, government, education, and the arts. Attend from wherever you are.

The best feature of podcasts, online shows and virtual conferences, for example, is that you can follow along as you go about your daily business at home or even at work.  In the spirit of Tara Sophia’s poem, is this “your time to ask your big questions, without apology?” 

Related

The Real Life Poems by Tara Sophia Mahr, Free Download

You may give them your love but not your thoughts, For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you, For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday. You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

Kahlil Gibran (1883 – 1931) Source: The Prophet, 1923, On Children

Image source for K. L. Jones’ artwork.

When you worry and hurry through your day, it is like an unopened gift.. ..Thrown away…. Life is not a race.  Do take it slower. Hear the music before the song is over.

Every week it is likely that you receive an E-mail forwarded from a friend featuring some kind of poem talking about life issues.  Often photos of cute animals and children are attached.  Sometimes you are advised to forward the E-mail on to your friends so that you can cheer them up, or avoid some kind of chain E-mail curse.

In the case of the poem Slow Dance the poem can be traced back to a poet who shares his work on the Internet.  It is a poem worth reading, even if you do not forward it on.

Slow Dance

© David L. Weatherford

Have you ever watched kids on a merry-go-round?
Or listened to the rain slapping on the ground?
Ever followed a butterfly’s erratic flight?
Or gazed at the sun into the fading night?
You’d better slow down.
Don’t dance so fast.
Time is short,
The music won’t last.

Do you run through each day on the fly?
When you ask “How are you?”
Do you hear the reply?
When the day is done do you lie in your bed
With the next hundred chores running
through your head?
You’d better slow down.
Don’t dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won’t last.

Ever told your child, “We’ll do it tomorrow?”
And in your haste, not see his sorrow?
Ever lost touch, let a good friendship die
Cause you never had time to call and say “Hi?”
You’d better slow down.
Don’t dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won’t last.

When you run so fast to get somewhere
You miss half the fun of getting there.
When you worry and hurry through your day,
It is like an unopened gift…
Thrown away.

Life is not a race.
Do take it slower
Hear the music
Before your song is over.

Here are two thought provoking pieces about life and how it can be lived.

DESIDERATA

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Go placidly amidst the noise and hast, and remember what peace there may be in silence.

As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons.

Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even the dull and ignorant; they too have their story.

Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexatious to the spirit.

If you compare yourself with others, you may become bitter or vain, for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.

Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.

Keep  interested in your career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.

Exercise caution in your business affairs; for the world is full of trickery.

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But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals; and everywhere life is full of heroism.

Be yourself. Especially, do not feign affection.

Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is perennial as the grass.

Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.

Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.

But do not distress yourself with imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.

Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself.

You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.

And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be, and whatever your labours and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul.

With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.

Be cheerful.

Strive to be happy.

(*** Flight 93 passengers who attempted to take back the plane before it crashed. Sept. 11, 2001).

“ADVICE LIKE YOUTH” COLUMN

“The long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience.”