BOTT POWER!

When I write BOTT POWER, I mean it from the bottom of my heart.

As you know, I wrote about my International Coaching Federation application on BOTT and the next day it was complete and in the mail.  I had put off this application for almost a year.  Because I shared it with you, it was done!  Since then, I've been writing BOTT POWER.  I believe in BOTT POWER.

Now, I have to share the next step.  I received a notice from the ICF that my application was approved.  The final step was the oral exam.  I get very stressed at tests so I wasn't sure.  My ICF assessor was a male and he is very high up in reputation, training and experience in the coaching world. Additional pressure!! 

I had my oral exam yesterday.  While I won't receive formal notification for up to four weeks, it went very well.  His feedback was very positive and he gave me 99% very flattering feedback.  I was on a major high.  I was so happy that it is a good thing I have my pilot's license because I was flying high!  He couldn't tell me if I passed or not but he all but told me that I passed through his high praise.

Thank you for our BOTT group.  I truely believe in the power of BOTT.  For me, BOTT is so much more than food and exercise.  BOTT is about living our best lives and being at our own personal best.

Thanks for your support!

Hugs, Cathy

Congratulations Cathy!  You can excel at anything you attempt.  Thank you for BOTT POWER, and thank you for the BOTT site I don't know where I would be without it.

           

                        

                                              

YES,     YES      YES    

CONGRATULATIONS    CONGRATULATIONS     CONGRATULATIONS  

WAY TO GO GIRL    

Cathy - I am so proud of you - not at all surprised your assessor saw in that one session what we see every day.  YOU ARE SPECTACULAR!!!   (The appropriate and healthy response to that, Cathy, is "Thank you very much - yes, I am")

Never doubt it for even 1/2 a second - BOTT POWER is real!  I'm reading the most amazing book (well, actually, I have barely started reading - but it's still amazing).  Was watching Book TV one day and the book was How God Changes Minds.  Not a "religious" book but a researched factual book that doesn't ignore the source.  Briefly and simply - the brain is measurably different when we think positively and when we think negatively.  MEASURABLY!  Isn't that amazing!!!!!  So, dear friends, I invite you to spend whatever time, energy and concentration it takes to banish negative thoughts - especially negative mind-sets - from your daily life and replacing them with positive throughts.

With BOTT we dare to begin  to believe "I can" instead of "I can't" get back on track.  We dare to let people see our humaness and when they accept us as we are we dare to begin to accept ourselves as we are.  As we see that "as we are" does not make us a failure, scum of the earth, or worthless in the eyes of others, we dare to begin to not put ourselves down in this way - then we begin to dare to not run and hide in shame.  And we begin to set in motion the daily journey which leads us in the direction/achievement of our goal weight (and other goals in our lives as well)   I'd say that's a might big "bang for our buck" for the time and energy we spend on this site!!!!!!!!

But we all know this - if not with our "thinker", down deep where it REALLY counts, with our "feeler" because we experience it every day we come here.

Cathy, thank you for sharing yourself so freely and giving us this incredible opportunity to do the same.  You are truly our angel in disguise as a human (and the healthy and appropriate response here is, "Thank you, yes I am.")   You have touched my life and I am the richer for it.  Thank you.

Hi Cathy

I can see the gleam from your big wide grin over here in the UK!!!  I can tell you are smiling from here to there across the pond.

Congratulations

hugs, Ruth