Susie Briscoe
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Acer Coaching Associates

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March 14, 2014

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There are definite signs that spring is about to be sprung! Daffodils are blooming, and I've seen hosts of snowdrops and crocuses in the woods near where we live and even the sun looming brightly overhead... I thought this wonderful picture and motivational quote would inspire you for today's ezine.

Image courtesy of Kim Clausen of www.ready2gomarketingsolutions.com

Spring is a time of renewal and refreshment -- a time to recommit to yourself even more so than at the beginning of the year. In this issue, I thought we would look at ways in which we limit ourselves, and in this instance, I recall an event from my own childhood which I'd like to share with you. Sometimes, such innocent beginnings from childhood can linger and in unexpected ways and hold us back in our adult lives.

In future issues, I will be sharing my thoughts on other issues that have played a part in my own development and how even through difficulties, our learning from each experience has the capacity to send us into a higher orbit than even we could possibly imagine.

I look forward to us being able to learn more about each other through this ezine. If you have topics you would like to know more about please let me know... I would like this to be an interactive experience for us both. My idea is that each issue I'll pick a topic -- feel free to suggest some you would like to see discussed -- and go into it with a view to dissecting it and bringing it down to a manageable size that no longer feels scary.

For now, I would like to remind you that you have the opportunity of a free 30-minute consultation with me to discuss where you are in your life, what problems you may be facing and discover what your solutions are. Please remember to click on my Skype link or email me (susie@susiebriscoe.com) to schedule a time.

Let me know your thoughts, but for now sit back, favourite mug of hot drink in hand, and settle down for a comfortable chat with a friend.

Loving hugs,

Susie xx

How We Limit Ourselves: Are You Afraid Of Charging What You're Worth?

For years, I felt awkward about charging clients for the help I was giving. For me, coaching is something I've done seemingly all my adult life, without even realising to start with that I was in fact coaching. It was a happy accident that I became aware that this was in fact a profession, and that I could make a good living by doing what I love. There was still a nagging fear that I was enjoying myself too much, and that it wasn't really like work -- and I was reminded of an incident from childhood which was still impacting on me even as late as my 50s.

I was on a training call with Linda, my wonderful US ezine mentor, and as a result of one of our calls I shared the following:

Linda shared with straightforward honesty about her son going off to academy and the feelings this brought up for her... I related to this very easily, as well as to the list of fears that followed around the fear this had provoked within her. A couple of the fears stood out more for me: that what I say has no value for others; about being boastful and thinking I know it all or at least coming across in that way; and the big one for me is around charging. I realised some years ago that this stems from a childhood incident -- I would have been about 4 years old and living next door to a bombed site in dreary and grey 1951 London (after the war everything was drab -- I simply cannot remember colour at this time at all).

My parents had a shop and an elderly lady used to come in regularly. Her name was Daisy, and she always had her black mongrel with her on a lead. This particular time she had shopping and as the evening was already enjoying the gloaming light of autumn, I helped her, merrily chatting as we made our way across the bomb site to get to her mews house, carrying her shopping for her. She gave me a shiny sixpence, and I was thrilled to bits and happily came home to show my parents, only to be given an absolute roasting for accepting money... I should always help people freely and never think of being paid for what I do; to make matters worse for a shy child, I had to go back across the bomb site and return the sixpence to her... feeling very embarrassed and crushed.

It was an absolute eye-opener for me to recognise where this fear of charging stemmed from, but such a release to identify it.

How are you limiting yourself? I hope this will stimulate your own thinking... is this ringing any bells for you? Let me know how this triggered memories for you, and what you are now able to do with them as a result of identifying where the original fear came from.

Please don't hesitate to call or Skype me if you'd like to explore this issue further.

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Great is the sun, and wide he goes
Through empty heaven with repose;
And in the blue and glowing days
More thick than rain he showers his rays.

Though closer still the blinds we pull
To keep the shady parlour cool,
Yet he will find a chink or two
To slip his golden fingers through.

The dusty attic spider-clad
He, through the keyhole, maketh glad;
And through the broken edge of tiles
Into the laddered hay-loft smiles.

Meantime his golden face around
He bares to all the garden ground,
And sheds a warm and glittering look
Among the ivy's inmost nook.

Above the hills, along the blue,
Round the bright air with footing true,
To please the child, to paint the rose,
The gardener of the World, he goes.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Giving Back... Contribution is such an important part of our lives these days, whether at a local community, an individual or a global level.

Message from the Right Reverend Jeremiah Kibobi, the Bishop of Ongata Rongai, Nairobi, Kenya

My life has always been committed to giving a chance of accessing education to the less fortunate orphaned children, because I am fully convinced that education helps people break away from poverty. I established Magnet High School in 2001 and through the assistance of well-wishers; the school has managed to help over 800 young people access secondary education in Kenya that would otherwise have no access to education.

Magnet High school is a charity school and gives opportunities to orphaned and poor children to access education. And most children are in the school free of charge and some at very nominal fees. In 2010, we established Magnet Junior School, which is totally committed to giving a chance for education to orphans aged 4 to 13 years. Currently, Magnet Junior School has 48 children being supported fully to access education.

It is unfortunate that poverty has contributed immensely to the high rise of vulnerable children in our community. It is sad to note that the great majority of children with less education and high illiteracy come from the economically weak background. They lack access to basic health care, water, food and shelter.

Inability of the poor to support themselves makes some to turn into prostitution, child labour and other anti-social vices such as thuggery to earn a living. Other more vulnerable children with their inability to defend themselves are easy prey to sexual abuse with the result being an increased exposure to infection by HIV/AIDS.

Magnet High School was established to give a chance to these vulnerable children a chance to access education though the support of well-wishers and other people of good will so as to build our young people to become a people with respect and dignity.

It had been a great challenge to have this school moving on, especially due to financial constraints. However, through the assistance of friends and other people of good-will, we have managed to put up structures for the school like classrooms, dormitories where the children sleep, bathrooms and office space.

I met Susie Briscoe on 19th November 2002 when she visited Magnet School, and she was very impressed with what we were doing in assisting the less fortunate children. Since then, she became involved in assisting the endeavors of Magnet school and has been a great resource to the success of the school. During my visits to the UK in 2006 & 2009, Susie introduced me to several schools where I was given a chance to speak about my work of assisting the less fortunate children. Among the schools that I spoke to, St. Catherine's School, Bramley responded so well and they raised funds for our school which we used to build a modern school kitchen.

Susie is very committed in supporting Magnet School and Orphanage. She also introduced me to the Cheltenham Ladies College, where I was also given a chance to speak in the school assembly, and since then, the CLC has been encouraging their students in their gap year to come and volunteer in our work at Magnet. This has really given our school a very great change, because through our connection with CLC, we have managed to have a donation of ten laptop computers which we use in training our children computer lessons. The CLC also did a fundraising and sent us some money which we used in building very nice bathrooms for our girls at Magnet School.

God bless St. Catherine's School and the Cheltenham Ladies College.

Our current greatest challenge in Magnet school is funds to support the less fortunate children access education effectively. Being a boarding school, we are often facing great challenges of feeding the children under our care and also paying our workers. We have 178 children that are currently boarding at the school, and since we do not have any government funding, we struggle a lot in the running costs of the school. Each child requires a monthly support of 20 pounds so as to be supported effectively in the school.

We are appealing to people of good will who are willing to support a needy child to consider assisting a child at Magnet school by giving a monthly donation of £20 GBS ($30 US) which will be sufficient is feeding, educating and giving medical care to one child per month. We have established a distant adoption scheme where willing sponsors on needy children can adopt a child and support him/her with the £20 ($30) a month for the period that the child will be at school. We shall be committed in giving periodic progress report of the child adopted and the child will be having chances to communicate with the sponsor through email and so transparency and accountability is assured.

To communicate with me, my email address is jeremiahkibobi@yahoo.com.

Sarah Stevenson, Community Fundraising Manager, Action Medical Research

I have worked with Susie for the past 16 years in her capacity as an exceptional and dedicated volunteer for Action Medical Research. For many many years, Susie has spearheaded events and ideas for this charity that have gained us hundreds of thousands of pounds, which ultimately has funded our excellent research and made a significant difference to the lives of people in the UK. I have found Susie to be an inspiring leader, a great team player, a lively and fun character and always open to get involved in any way she can help! She is an asset to our organisation, and we do cherish and value all the time and support she has given us over the years, especially when she is so busy!

There is vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium, and it will be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, nor how valuable, nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep yourself open and aware to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open.

Martha Graham (May 11, 1894 - April 1) 1991 American modern dancer and choreographer whose influence on dance has been compared with the influence Picasso had on the modern visual arts, Stravinsky had on music, or Frank Lloyd Wright had on architecture.

Until next time, Susan Jefferies said it best: Feel the fear and do it anyway!

Susie Briscoe has devoted nearly a decade of her professional life to achieving excellence in entrepreneurship. She now brings her years of hands-on experience to help struggling business owners breakthrough their own blocks and overcome their personal gremlins to become the success that they know they are meant to be.

Susie has identified 'Leading Legacy' work as a major part of her passion. This is about filling the gap; working with people who still have an empty feeling inside themselves for whatever reason, and finding a way to give back to the world whilst recognising the importance of not wasting time as the clock continues to tick...

With her signature spirited style, 'can do' energy and exceptional skills as a catalyst and educator, Susie is without question the go-to-girl for guidance on overcoming disadvantages and finding 'silver lining rainbow solutions' within any grey clouds. Since 2004, Susie regularly meets and speaks with clients from around the world to educate and inspire them to bring money and meaning into their business and personal life, showing how to overcome any individual hurdles along the way.

She has successful experience of working with all ages, from teenagers in their senior year at school or technical colleges approaching University and other life choices to those either retired or approaching retirement who recognise there is still music yet to be played within them.

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