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July 2006

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Dear Kevin,

Welcome to this month's edition of the Clarity Success Coaching Newsletter.

In this issue

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·  The Significance of a Life!

·  Inspirational Quote

·  Recommended Reading

·  About Clarity Success Coaching



The Significance of a Life!

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On July 13th my mother passed away. On July 18th I had the privilege of saying some things in tribute to my mother. In this months newsletter I would like to share them with you. I am doing so with some reluctance. I received some feedback recently that a subscriber thought my messages were self serving. My goal is that each of my newsletters gives you a chance to get something that will help you in your life and career. The simple message this month is to take time to love and appreciate all the significant people in your life. One of my preferred ways of sending this message is to share personal stories that illustrate a point. Please indulge me.

Thank you for coming here today to celebrate the life of our mom and your friend Jean MacDonald. On Thursday July 13th heaven got another angel. But the lucky thing for us is that we had her here on this planet since February 23, 1917. What a life!


Our mother was not a tall woman. Although she measured close to 5 feet tall at one point (and that might be generous), in recent years she had shrunken considerably. I have a picture that I took last summer as she was modeling a new summer dress. She looked so cute in the picture and just over her right shoulder was the doorknob. I dont know if there is such a thing as a cute meter, but between her diminutive stature and pleasing personality she would have been right off of it.

A few years ago she was in the hospital after a heart attack and the doctors wanted her to get out of the bed and start walking. They got her out to the hall and asked her to start walking. Her two little legs started moving like they were on the bottom of a windup toy. The nurses said, Jean, we wanted you to walk, not scurry. With a little smile and a little laugh she looked at the nurse and said Alright dear. She was cute and as I said earlier she was not a tall woman, but lives are not measured by the distance from the ground to the top of your head. They are measured by the contribution you have made, the lives you have touched and the love you have shared. By these measurements, she was a giant.

Our mother had a hearing problem during the last quarter of her life. This must have been terribly frustrating for her. In addition to hearing aids, pocket talkers and rechargeable batteries, she developed some strategies to get around her challenges. One of them was deciding she didnt have to know 100% what the question was before she answered it. One day I was there when her grandson Nigel asked How are you Grandma? She answered with the now classic line, Oh, in about ten minutes. To this day, when I ask Nigel how he is doing, I get the same response.
One year my mom and dad came to visit us is in Vancouver. At the end of my dads life he had almost completely lost his eye sight and my mothers hearing was very impaired. Between the two of them they could see and hear but it wasnt always exactly efficient. One night while they were visting I came home late and my wife told me that my mom and dad had an argument. She walked into it and my mother was crying because my father had eaten her batteries. My wife asked a second and third time to make sure she understood what my mother had said. My mother had taken the batteries out of her hearing aids and handed them to my father. In addition to being blind my father also received various medications from my mother each day. When she put the batteries in his hand he popped them in his mouth and washed them down with a drink of water. My father with his great sense of humor said to my wife Rose, I dont know why she is so upset, I am the one who has eaten the batteries, and Im not sure thats good for me. After hearing about this incident one of my club management friends asked me, "Is it true that when you eat batteries you keep going and going and going and going.

Our mother had a hearing problem and the irony was that her favorite pastime in life was the art of conversation. She would much rather sit and talk to someone than watch TV in the earlier parts of her life. Although it might have been hard to see it in recent years, the world has lost a wonderful listener. She listened with her ears and with her heart. She taught us caring, compassion and tolerance. She was a great listener.

Our mother was not very active during the last few years. Her heart did not allow her to do much before being tired out. But that was not always the case. She was a woman of energy and although I did not get to know her as a young woman, I did see the energy she put into being a wonderful wife, mother, daughter, twin sister, grandmother, great grandmother, aunt and friend. In the first 8 or 9 years at Kingsville Court a place where she was supposed to be taken care of she was still in service, helping out in the kitchen because she wanted to contribute.

Now in heaven, no longer confined by a tiny little body, no longer suffering with the difficulty of hearing, no longer tired and out of breath, I would like you to imagine this tall beautiful angel, who is hearing every conversation, and buzzing around in service like never before. I hope Dad is ready to hear everything that has happened in the past 10 years.

Thank you for coming to celebrate the life of our mom.



Inspirational Quote

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Keep your loved ones near you, let them know how much you need and love them and treat them well, take time to tell them "I'm sorry", "Excuse me", "Please", "Thanks" and all the loving words that you know. - Gabriel Garcia Marquez



Recommended Reading

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This month I want to recommend you read a biography about someone you admire or inspires you.



About Clarity Success Coaching

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