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    Harmony From The Inside Out: A Guide to Peak Performance
    Harmony From The Inside Out: A Guide to Peak Performance
    Harmony From The Inside Out: A Guide to Peak Performance
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    Harmony From The Inside Out: A Guide to Peak Performance

    By Jan Carley

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    Live into your potential by leveraging your biggest asset - You! Use this book and the exercises in it to explore and experience the positive results of living, working and performing from the inside out. Your world is your stage - a life of possibility awaits.

    You'll learn...
    -how a simple shift in approach will move you instantly from stuck to possibility
    -how to reduce the mental interference that holds you back
    -how to eliminate your limiting beliefs
    -how to harness the power of your mind to create your peak performance
    -how to succeed by acknowledging and maximizing your signature strengths
    -how utilizing the power of intention will transform your life

    Here's what waits for you inside the pages of Harmony from the Inside Out...

    Chapter One: The "A" Game - Living in Possibility
    Learn how one simple shift in approach can instantly shift your life or group culture with dramatic effects.

    Chapter Two: Getting In Tune - Clearing your Inner Static
    Learn how to get rid of external and internal interferences getting in your way.

    Chapter Three: Why Not? - Eliminating your Limiting Beliefs
    Identify your mental barriers and expand your possibilities

    Chapter Four: Pollyanna Lives! - The Power of Positive Thinking
    Get practical strategies to instantly positivize your life for more joy and happiness

    Chapter Five: The "Woo Woo" Primer - Creating a Grounded Foundation
    Learn how to breathe and center yourself, focus and ground your energy for maximum daily benefits.

    Chapter Six: The Brain Gain - Utilizing the Power of the Mind
    Use the power of your greatest resource, your mind, to create the world you want.

    Chapter Seven: Right Here, Right Now - The Power of Intention
    Maximize your effectiveness by being intentional in everything you do.

    Chapter Eight: Coaching - The Language of Possibility
    Improve your communications by learning the Coach Approach principles

    Chapter Nine: Doable Goal Setting - The Power of Incremental Improvement
    Finally - an easy way to set goals that set you up for success!

    Chapter Ten: You are Worth It - Celebration and Acknowledgement
    Discover how acknowledging and celebrating your unique gifts will amplify your contribution to the world.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJan Carley
    Release dateAug 30, 2019
    ISBN9780981237749
    Harmony From The Inside Out: A Guide to Peak Performance
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    Jan Carley

    Jan Carley BA, CEC, PCC Professional Certified Executive Coach, Author, SpeakerJan is a high-performance catalyst specializing in coaching executives and teams to clarify their vision and leverage their signature strengths to maximize their performance potential. With a Professional Certified Executive Coach credential from the International Coach Federation, and as an author, speaker and CEO of Creative Coaching Group, she is committed to inspiring leaders and teams to focus their purpose and create and follow-though on business strategies to achieve remarkable and sustainable results. Challenging leaders to think creatively and smash limiting paradigms that are barriers to their success while supporting them as they create transformative new possibilities in their business has made Jan a sought after executive coach globally.Jan draws on her more than 25 years experience working in executive positions in the professional non-profit world of the performing arts to bring a creative, progressive, whole-brained approach to her executive coaching programs. Her new book, THE OVERTONE EFFECT - Live Your Life on a High Note! prompted renowned leadership thinking, Marshall Goldsmith, to say "Jan Carley's engaging book is filled with actionable advice ...It will spur your creativity and curiosity, and help you become the person you want to be."A revised and expanded 10th Anniversary Edition of her popular and critically acclaimed first book, Harmony from the Inside Out - A Guide to Peak Performance, was released in August 2019. Jan uses her signature 'harmony from the inside out' approach to tap into the core values and brilliance of her clients and from that place, access their peak performance potential to take them to the next level of success.Besides her one-on-one work with executives and her coaching and facilitation of their leadership teams, Jan has established an important niche globally as the "Inner Coach of Barbershop". In that role she has inspired dozens of internationally competitive a cappella choruses, their chorus directors and leadership teams, and thousands of singers worldwide to shift and expand their mindsets and operating cultures to ones of positivity, possibility and excellence, and consequently, achieve significant performance results as they prepare for the pressured environment of International singing competitions. Jan herself is an a cappella singer singing barbershop harmony - with the award-winning Lions Gate Chorus in Vancouver, BC and Fandango Quartet.Jan is Associate Faculty at Royal Roads University in Victoria, British Columbia and co-teaches the coaching foundations and personal mastery online course of their prestigious and highly-regarded Executive Coaching Program. She is also a Certified facilitator of the Strength Deployment Inventory ®, a tool for improving communication and relationship effectiveness and managing and reducing the costs of conflict.

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      Harmony From The Inside Out - Jan Carley

      Harmony

      From the

      Inside Out

      A Guide to Peak Performance

      Jan Carley

      Author of The Overtone Effect

      10th Anniversary Edition Copyright © 2019 by Jan Carley

      Smashwords Edition

      First Edition – 2009

      Second Edition – 2010

      Third Edition - 2012

      All rights reserved.

      No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form, or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information browsing, storage, or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher except for the inclusion of brief quotations in a review.

      Many names and identifying details of client stories in this book have been changed to preserve confidentiality.

      Published by:

      Creative Coaching Group Publishing

      775 Sawyer’s Lane

      Vancouver, B.C. V5Z 3Z8

      CANADA

      ISBN:

      978-0-9812377-3-2 paperback

      978-0-9812377-5-6 hardcover

      978-0-9812377-4-9 electronic book

      Legal Deposit, Library and Archives Canada 2019

      Dedicated with love and gratitude to

      Sandy Marron

      and the women of Lions Gate Chorus

      for their inspiration and support

      CONTENTS

      Introduction

      1 THE A GAME

      Living in Possibility

      Where’s Your Focus?

      Individual Exercise: Flip Your Focus

      Chorus Exercise: Flip Your Focus

      2 GETTING IN TUNE

      Clearing your Inner Static

      External Interference

      Internal Interference

      Exercise: Turning Your Duck into Your Greatest Ally

      3 WHY NOT?

      Eliminating Your Limiting Beliefs

      Exercise: Turning a Limiting Belief into a Powerful Possibility

      Reframing Limiting Beliefs

      Removing the Limiting Barriers to Possibility

      Exercise: Creating Possibilities

      Exercise: Why Not?

      4 POLLYANNA LIVES!

      The Power of Positive Thinking

      Creating Positivity Zones

      Switching to the Positive Self-Talk Channel

      Exercise: Switching to a Positive Self-Talk Channel

      Seven Strategies for Positive-izing Your Life

      End the Awful-izing

      Exercise: End the Awful-izing

      Changing Your Thought Default

      Exercise: Changing Your Thought Default

      Positivity Breeds Possibility

      5 THE WOO WOO PRIMER

      Creating a Grounded Foundation

      The Body Check-In

      Breathing Basics

      Focusing

      Centering

      Grounding

      Energy

      6 THE BRAIN GAIN

      Utilizing the Power of the Mind

      Affirmations

      Visualization

      Exercise: Creating Your Own Visualization

      7 RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW

      The Power of Intention

      8 COACHING

      The Language of Possibility

      Feedback

      The Coaching Process

      9 DOABLE GOAL SETTING

      The Power of Incremental Improvement

      Exercise: Goal Creation

      Exercise: Action Planning Worksheet

      Exercise: How to Keep Going

      The Power of Incremental Improvement

      What To Do When You Get There (Or Not!)

      10 YES, YOU ARE WORTH IT

      Celebration and Acknowledgement

      Exercise: Celebrate Yourself

      The Football Field Principle

      Exercise: My Touchdown List

      Exercise: My Ongoing Touchdown List

      The Power of Acknowledgement

      The Power of Gratitude

      Exercise: My Gratitude List

      Celebrating the Success of Others

      Continuing the Conversation

      Acknowledgements

      Resources & Recommended Websites

      Also by Jan Carley

      About the Author

      INTRODUCTION

      Welcome to the 10th Anniversary Edition of Harmony from the Inside Out.

      When I wrote in 2009 what I thought was a practical little guide to help people access their inner brilliance, I never could have imagined what would follow. I underestimated the thirst and drive the singing community would have to pursue excellence, and their willingness to dig deep to begin that process within themselves.

      Since its publication, there has been a wholehearted adoption of the book’s inner mastery principles by choruses big and small worldwide. Dozens of chorus directors have committed to intensive personal paths of self-mastery, and entire leadership teams have adopted new ways of operating that have created generative chorus culture change.

      The voracious appetite of my readers to make positive change in their lives and organizations has led me to coaching and teaching engagements all over the world – from North America to Scotland to Australia. It also led me to expand on the principles in this book to create a full step-by-step system to personal and organizational success outlined in my second book, THE OVERTONE EFFECT – Live Your Life on a High Note! – published in 2016.

      As I step back to consider the impact of this inner mastery work, I find it very humbling and fulfilling to know that the book and its principles have impacted and continue to inspire thousands of singers (and non-singers) worldwide.

      I deeply thank all of you for your support and openness to live your life in harmony.

      -Jan Carley

      The book introduction from the first edition in 2009 follows:

      Back in high school, I went on a date with a boy to a concert in which his dad was singing in a barbershop quartet. I wasn’t expecting much from the men in striped jackets and straw boater hats, but I liked the boy, so I went. I was happily shocked by the visceral reaction I had listening to his dad’s quartet sing a stunningly moving rendition of Oh Danny Boy. I quite unexpectedly felt the hairs raise on my arms and tears well in my eyes. That was my first exposure to the power of harmony.

      Many years later I heard about the Sweet Adelines, the women’s organization singing a cappella four-part harmony in the barbershop style. Remembering how moved I had been by Oh Danny Boy, and wanting to give myself an outlet for singing, which I loved and hadn’t done much of recently, I visited a rehearsal of Lions Gate Chorus, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, in November 1994.

      The rest, as they say, is history. I joined Lions Gate Chorus and have been singing barbershop harmony with them ever since. Something about the joy of singing with a group, the weekly rush of endorphins and the incredible feeling of singing tight harmonies, creating ringing chords and screaming overtones, has hooked me.

      Little did I know that my once-a-week hobby (ha!) would turn into a lifetime passion. Not only would it include incredible performance experiences, it would connect intimately with my mid-life career change to professional business and personal coaching as well as inspire me to write this book.

      My professional work life had, to that point, been in theatre, in the performing arts. I saw a chance to bring my training to this committed group of singers and began to work as Artistic Director on the Lions Gate Chorus’ annual shows. Working with 100+ women from all walks of life, of all ages and professions, was a challenging and fascinating experience. I quickly found that the biggest part of creating a memorable show was to motivate, inspire and instill trust and confidence in the singers/performers so the best of who they were could shine. It became not so much about my artistic vision, the script, the staging, the lighting or the content, as about how to help create the optimal conditions for performers to connect and communicate with the audience.

      At the same time, I decided I needed to get closer to helping people connect with themselves and each other, so I embarked on the amazing profession of business and personal coaching. With the guidance of my mentor, Carollyne Conlinn, I enrolled in the transformational executive coaching program at Royal Roads University in Victoria, British Columbia. I knew then that I had found my life’s work.

      Music is a passion for many. According to a Chorus Impact Study done by Chorus America (www.chorusamerica.org), there are an estimated 32.5 million adults regularly singing in one of over 270,000 choruses in the USA today.

      It occurred to me, therefore, that if the coaching work I do could add to the joy and enjoyment of those singing in choruses and choirs, that that could be a really huge and profound contribution to make. I saw how applying the inner coaching principles could add to the happiness one feels, not only while performing, but also in the rest of one’s life. I began my work as the Inner Coach of Barbershop coaching directors and chorus members worldwide on the principles in this book. The response was huge, and after receiving testimonials from person after person on how this coaching spilled over for positive effect in their personal and business lives, I decided to write this book.

      Is this book just for singers? Absolutely not! The content of, and exercises in, this book are easily applied principles to create key shifts and fulfillment in any part of your life.

      As you will discover on the pages that follow, I am a passionate believer in the power of positivity and that your life is what you create it to be. There is no magic formula – there is nothing you need to buy, assemble or otherwise put together to achieve harmony from the inside out. Everything you need you already have inside. I believe all of us have the capacity to experience true joy, to live authentically and connect with our world. Sometimes we just need help to access the how in order to let it out, cherish it, nurture it and celebrate it.

      My hope is that you will use this book in whatever way feels right for you – read it all at once, stop and do the exercises, skip around. For maximum effectiveness I recommend that you buy some kind of notebook or journal and begin to record your thoughts as you work through the reflection questions.

      In closing, if this material in any way touches you, changes you, inspires you or motivates you to begin to live life to its fullest, then I am a happy woman. I welcome hearing from you. Please email me at jan@creativecoachinggroup.com and I will be sure to respond to you.

      Harmony awaits!

      1

      THE A GAME

      Living in Possibility

      You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.

      – Deepak Chopra¹

      As we begin our quest to achieve harmony from the inside out, we must start with the very foundation of our lives – the bricks and mortar upon which we will build the rest of our world – the fundamental principle to shift our thinking into an infinite world of possibility.

      The foundation of all of our work together is an approach to life called the Appreciative Approach, or as I like to refer to it, playing the A Game. This is the one principle to which I hope you will really pay attention and will embrace. It may be the biggest shift you make in your life and work.

      The A Game uses principles of an organizational approach called Appreciative Inquiry pioneered by professors David Cooperrider and Suresh Srivastva in the 1980s. Organizational consultants around the world increasingly are embracing an appreciative approach to bring about collaborative and strengths-based change in organizations. Appreciative Inquiry (AI) is an exciting way to embrace organizational change. Its assumption is simple: Every organization has something that works right – things that give it life when it is most alive, effective, successful and connected in healthy ways to its stakeholders and communities. AI begins by identifying what is positive and connecting to it in ways that heighten energy and vision for change.²

      What a concept! Imagine looking at your world – your work, your home, your chorus – in the context of identifying what is working and then consciously building on those strengths to create the changes you want. The A Game also embraces making a shift in how we look at individuals – be they colleagues, partners, offspring or fellow chorus members.

      Appreciative Inquiry deliberately seeks to discover people’s exceptionality – their unique gifts, strengths and qualities. It actively searches and recognizes people for their specialties – their essential contributions and achievements. Appreciative Inquiry builds momentum and success because it believes in people. It really is an invitation to a positive revolution.³

      Simply put – the Appreciative Approach is an asset-based approach to life. Most of us have been taught, trained and been rewarded for using a problem-solving approach – that is, to look for what isn’t working, figure out what the problem is,

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