The courageous year: an update

This post was written in November 2009 and documents my transition from part-time to full-time coaching. 

So, at this point, you wonderful people have pretty much made my day so many times that I can't quite fathom any of what is happening, and I am so very grateful for all of it, again and again and again.

Yesterday was a record day for the number of signups in one day for my Courageous Year e-course.

I'm sending all participants a little special something in the mail, and those letters are making their way to all corners of the world--today I will send something to Greece (!), I've sent packages to Canada, the U.K., and all corners of the United States.

Still more of you have volunteered to pass out Courageous Cards in your area.

What are Courageous Cards?  They're cards that dare people to dream. You leave them in special places like yoga studios or coffee shops, or (like my mother) in little nooks and crannies of bookstores (I so love the idea that someone would be browsing in a bookstore, which is a favorite activity of mine, and run across one of my cards), and trust that the right person will find it at the right time, and that when they do some little whisper or glimmer inside of them will breathe and go, "Hey. Hey, you. You're courageous. You can do this thing you want to do. You can make this shift you want to make."

Today alone, mail is going out to Oregon, Ohio, Florida, San Francisco, Toronto, British Columbia, Missouri, Massachusetts, Edinburgh (!), Colorado, and New Yawk.

That's not counting the 15 or so packets that I sent out two weeks ago, which also went to places as diverse as Ireland and Chicago.

I needed to order more cards from my printer, yesterday!

So basically, I am giddy and so excited for what this year will bring for myself and the people participating. And the enthusiasm has really made me sit up straighter and put some additional pressure on the pedal to make this good. To check every single detail that I can and to really, truly, bring this course alive because it's not just about the course or the individual goals of the participants, but I see some larger possibility here, both for connection between people as well as creating the world we want to live in. I see something so bold and beautiful and COURAGEOUS about all of this. I want you to know that I still have days, even whole weeks, where fear just runs my ass (I was going to phrase that more delicately, but I figured y'all appreciate honesty!). I mean, I seriously have these moments where my stomach is in knots, and then that goes away and I trust that it's all going to be okay. Then the knots come back and I'm going nuts-o again. I'm riding this wave. I'm just trusting that if I do what I know has worked for me time and time again, things are going to be okay: Feel afraid, do it anyway, transform.

If you would like to get on the list for my next mail out of Courageous Cards to leave in your area, please let me know--email me and send me your address. And if you're interested in learning more about The Courageous Year, feel free to click on the link and go.

P.S. Several people have emailed me to ask if I'm going to monitor enrollments to make sure that the course isn't too large and overwhelming. The answer? Absolutely. I'm using a Content Management System (CMS) that will allow me to put the people enrolled into separate groups so that things remain more intimate, and I'll also have a lot of control over the discussion forums--I can set up categories, for instance, so that things are organized and threads are easier to find.