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was 1996 and I was part of the team opening the new International
Terminal Building at the Vancouver International Airport.
100,000 people came to visit over a week-long extravaganza:
2,000-person black tie dinner; "open house" for the community,
VIP ceremony. We worked twenty-hour days toward the end
of that amazing two-year contract. My responsibility was
to manage most of the airport's printed material. Translation?
Juggling up to 20 projects at a time, each with its own
deadlines and teams of personalities to orchestrate with
some degree of grace and dignity. I was in my element. Adrenaline
running, telephone in hand, chomping down chocolate-covered
almonds while racing for the FedEx plane.
When it was over, I collapsed in a quivering heap. It took
me over a year to recover. Even though my life's passion
was (and still is) holistic health, I was not a shining
example of "life balance." I picked myself up, dragged myself
off to a Mexican spa and lay panting on a chaise to contemplate
my future.
I loved my 15 years as a marketing and communications consultant
…event and project coordination, graphic design, writing,
amazing people, gratifying projects… but, it "burnt me to
a crisp."
By the time I had enough strength to raise my head, coaching
too, was raising its profile. I discovered an article in
early 1997 and, in rapt fascination, contacted every resource
listed. The rest is history. Coach U became my training
ground. I began coaching in September 1997, then developed
my own model based on yoga principles studied during a three-year
yoga teacher's training and my own experience as a holistically-oriented
entrepreneur and business woman.
Today, I live my passion and purpose through teaching yoga,
offering Personal Integrative Coaching and leading women's
retreats. Often I sigh with great contentment and deep gratitude…
now this is life balance!
Contact Debrah at drafel@istar.ca,
or visit her website at www.Success-by-Design.com.
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