The Constellation Learning Newsletter
November 2010

This issue marks the last newsletter I will be sending under the Constellation Learning banner. After twelve years and 120 newsletters I’m excited to be moving to a Blog format, though as with most perceived endings there is a wisp of sadness; loss of familiar territory in order to travel to new places. Look for future communication from me via my Confidence Communiqué Blog.

As a regular reader you will automatically receive the Monday Morning Message (an inspirational quote to kick start your work week) as well as notification of new blog postings. I hope you’ll find them insightful and helpful. I’m really looking forward to hearing from you, too, in this interactive format.

Many thanks for your years of faithful reading!

Cynthia Barlow

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~ Monthly Message ~

"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end."
~ Seneca ~

I’ve always had a problem with endings, must be one of my life lessons. I’ve certainly set it up to practice them often enough; each month a different program, getting to know people intimately only to say good bye as they re-enter their “real” lives again as I re-enter mine.

Endings: another name for change.

So even as I struggle with relinquishing the newsletter, a familiar format with a known visual, I am reminded that all newness springs from what once was.

My small patio garden is demanding attention, displaying dead and dying foliage in preparation for new growth in the spring. Another ending, another beginning.

And the coming year marks another ending as well, the winding down of the Trust Program™, something so familiar, so loved and well known, that like a favorite pair of jeans I hardly know where to begin to shop for another pair.

Yet I know, inside, intuitively, that this ending is necessary despite not fully understanding why this is so.  And that is where trust comes in. It’s the action side of the faith coin, the side that pushes doubt aside and creates space for courageous creativity.

Recently I remarked to someone that I felt as though (if there is such a thing as Karma) I had paid my debts in this lifetime. I don’t even know what this means, really—it’s simply a feeling of somehow living more fully, of worrying less (a LOT less) regardless of circumstances, of enjoying the smaller things of life in a bigger way, and of taking myself (and those around me) a lot less seriously. Life, with all its vicissitudes, is pretty darn short, and what felt like a very big deal at 16 or 36 seems trivial now.

So it is with a certain amount of childlike glee that I close this newsletter, the 120th issue, with full faith that I need not know or understand what’s next, I need only follow the little voice inside that so far seems to have steered me safely through many endings toward beginnings I would never have dreamed of.

Here’s to the unknown, to stepping out, and trusting.

And here’s to all of you, my dear and faithful readers: May the coming holiday season and New Year provide new beginnings and glimmers of a brilliant future springing from any endings of the past.

"There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning."
~ Louis L'Amour ~

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