January, 2013 - Your Attention CoachYour Attention Coach

Writing Coach and Consultant

By Maureen on January 28, 2013

Coaching and Consulting for Non-Writers

You have a project that requires writing.

Your time is worth $$$x.00 and it takes way too much time to write. For your money, you writing is not cost-efficient.

You want a writer/editor on the job.

You have an email to write that will change the course of your work life.

It is too easy to insert inappropriate emotions.

You need an editor/writer to compose the perfect email.

Your Attention Coach Pays Attention to Your Writing Needs

Maureen Nolan
Writing Coach

Everyday, your attention is pulled to many things at once.

Truly, no one can do everything our modern world demands of our attention in the brief time we have.

I do not believe in multi-tasking. I do one thing at a time and I do it well.

I have studied and written about and for client’s professional project needs since 1984.

In fact, in 1984 I wrote the letter to the International Olympics Committee (IOC) while working for an Atlanta, Georgia architectural firm that was the first point of contact for Atlanta’s bid to their being awarded the 1996 Olympics.

Does your success count on empowering communication?
What does your writing style say about you?
Do you waste expensive hours developing the perfect blog, document, or email?
Does your writing produce the results you want?

Here’s a tip:

Important emails with an attitude waste your resources. Say it straight using just the facts.

My editorial experience is for trade magazines, newsletters, blogs, and articles including research articles. My clients request support in

writing
WordPress maintenance
editing
idea generation
proposals
grant writing
project summaries and
marketing.

Writing is an Art

Clients prefer my sense of rhythm and timing to help them be expressive yet on-topic.

They require language that communicates with style and content.

What are your writing deadlines this

Week
Month and
Quarter

that will benefit from another perspective?

I provide writing, editing, coaching and project services for older students and adults. My specialty is creating the ‘software of the pen.’

Call Maureen Nolan, Your Attention Coach, for your writing/editing needs.

404-713-0488

maureen@yourattentioncoach.com

Does the Dalai Lama Live with ADHD?

By Maureen on January 9, 2013

Eastern Attention Develops in the West

The Dalai Lama as a child

Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia is becoming known as Tibet West. Together with professors at Emory, the Dalai Lama has cultivated an academic exchange relationship spanning over twenty years. A goal of this academic and scientific collaboration of Emory professors and Tibetan monks is to develop a new scientific vocabulary in the Tibetan language in order for the monks and nuns to be able to learn cell biology, an academic topic never before offered to them. The Dalai Lama initiated this pairing to better understand the universe and the value of Buddhism as it applies to creation and to enlightenment (this is my interpretation of their mission in the west).

Biology and Buddhism

It seems that his holiness, the Dalai Lama, was given free reign over much of his time as a child living in the palace. There he roamed the palace rooms full of treasures, gifts from leaders across the world, and in one room he found a telescope. The Dalai Lama was curious and his tutors allowed his intelligence to lead his interests so that he developed an awareness and knowledge of the stars and science, previously not offered in Buddhist education. From that spark, he found his way to microscopes and became curious about cells and molecules and his curiosity led to a deeper desire to understand the world and science and hence, a deeper experience of Buddhism.

Intelligence and Attention

The child Dalai Lama was monitored by loving monks whose job was to develop in him an aesthetic sense of his place in the world, and to develop skills he would need to lead his people in both the spiritual and political life of Tibet. Nonetheless, he was allowed to drift and come upon what interested him. The same is true today. A story is told of him visiting Emory Hospital for a meeting. In order to get to the meeting, he had to walk down a long hall lined with people waiting for medical services. The Dalai Lama stopped to say something to every person in the hallway. That kindness is his natural inclination no matter who is waiting for him. The Emory escort finally had to insist the Dalai Lama conclude his visiting in the hallway in order to attend the meeting. It is my suggestion that his narrow attention to one thing appears to be a distraction to observers. His impulsive nurturing would be viewed as disruptive to some while others would see it as a kind behavior.

While the Tibetans are in exile, their leader pays attention to a compassionate relationship with Chinese oppressors. In so doing, he exports the Buddhist values of attention in its many forms, meditation as a type of healing attention, and exemplifies how to use attention in a difficult world.

It is a rare privilege today for our children to pay attention to what they are really interested in. Can you remove from your homes or their sports activities one of their daily distractions and observe how they then choose to use their attention? There may be a few ruffled feathers at first but with patience and nurturing your child may develop a new interest that cultivates their developing mind. In what room in your home will they discover their strengths and personal interests?

Your Attention Coach

Maureen Nolan