Hi You!
I’m Carole Bryant. I’m so glad you’re here.
I’m an attitudinal life coach, author, speaker, and pastoral counselor. I created this site for people who want to live more joyful and fulfilling lives.
CaroleBryant.com
I’ve spent over 25 years helping people to refine attitudes, and coaching people with stress and trauma issues. I’ve supervised, coordinated, and managed thousands of people, and have studied throughout the world. I speak to all ages, all cultures, and all spiritual orientations to share simple and effective steps to a joyous and fulfilling life.
Perhaps you’re here because you’re realizing you have something to offer this planet. Perhaps you want to make some life changes, but aren’t sure where to begin. Perhaps you want to feel that your outer life is connected to what you feel inside. You may be realizing that changing and growing yourself changes the world you live in. Perhaps you’re ready to grow into who you want to be. You’ve landed in the right place!
Look around…This is not your average self help site. We’re going a little deeper here.
At http://CaroleBryant.com, I’ll help you realize and develop your own unique combination of abilities, intentions, and purpose which you may not yet have acknowledged to the world, or to yourself. I’ll help you create more joy, more abundance, more love, more peace, and more fulfillment, while you’re growing your consciousness.
You’ll be developing what is really…finally…going to make a difference in the quality of your life.
You’re important to this planet…and you’re important to the lives you touch.
You have gifts which only you can bring, contributions which only you can make. I want to help you realize the unique combination of factors which makes you…YOU! I want to help you bring your own unique gifts to light!
Growth
I grew up in the deep south, in Montgomery, Alabama, in the era of the civil rights movement. You may still hear a little of the south in my voice when I’m tired or mad. I feel blessed to have been raised in a family which taught me to love and honor others, and myself. Dr Martin Luther King’s church was in my hometown.
I thought I wanted to be a psychologist, but after college, I decided to become a flight attendant, then called stewardess, for a major airline. I thought it would be fun for a few years. I traveled the world, and worked with thousands and thousands of people. It was the perfect first career for me. I loved the excitement of where I went, and whom I met.
World Lessons
I was so busy enjoying the freedom and adventure that came with my job, I didn’t realize how much I was learning. It took me years to realize I didn’t just have a job…I had actually enrolled in the Life School of the World. I came away with a PhD in people!
I had the opportunity to talk with, and interact with, people of every possible vocation, culture, race, and religion in my work. I met presidents and politicians, movie stars and musicians, celebrities and intellects, CEO’s and laborers, and so many wonderful loving people from whom I learned so much. I can count on one hand the number of really difficult or disruptive people I can remember from over 30 years.
Connection
There were many people who were memorable, but the ones who stand out the most are those who had a great commitment to contribution.
Dr King’s wife and family often traveled on my airline. I enjoyed many conversations with them, and with other people who were focused in service to the world. It was during that time of meeting these incredible caring people that I began the education of learning to listen to my own heart.
At the same time I was meeting amazing mentors in my travels, I was trying to forge my own path to enlightenment. I was studying psychology again, and philosophy, and spirituality. I read all I could find on quantum physics and brain research. I trained and taught attitudinal development and pastoral counseling. I took courses in cultural diversity and group therapy. I spent my time off becoming a life coach, working in personal development seminars, and volunteering, speaking, and teaching classes and teleclasses. I was searching for everything related to creating a positive and fulfilling life, and sharing that information with others.
Synchronicity
When I look back on my life, I realize I had incredible teachers and mentors placed squarely in my path. These guides showed up in unexpected and unusual ways. I didn’t realize how much these great people were teaching me.
I wanted to learn and to grow, and deep down I knew I had something to give. I had moved from an uncomplicated world onto a international stage of powerful players. My teachers created a unique perspective and vantage point of a greater world story. Now I see the threads of my own life purpose being born in the environment of the choices and connections I was making.
When I retired from flying, I knew it was time to begin a different kind of journey, but I didn’t know where to start. It turned out my whole life had been my beginning. Everything in our lives prepares us for purpose.
I began to think about how I could serve. For too long, I had just been incubating the profound lessons and the wisdom of the great teachers who had guided my life.
I was asking for help and direction. Suddenly, my life lessons seemed to speed up. I began to have more synchronicity showing up in my daily life…you know those unexplained coincidences that can’t possibly be by accident. One great day, Oprah shared Dr King’s “Use Me, God” prayer in her magazine. Of course, it got my attention:
“Use me, God.
Show me how to take who I am,
Who I can be,
And what I can do,
And use it for a purpose,
Greater than myself.”
When I read Dr. King’s prayer, I felt a deep connection in my heart. This prayer became an affirmation for me every day. My life quickly began to take on a new direction.
Soon I began to reflect on what my great teacher of attitudes, Dan MacDougald, Jr, had said about creating our own lives. He said, “Any habit of mind you do not use will fade with time. If you pursue and practice good mind habits at all times, you will have them. With habits of mind, as opposed to material things, you only keep what you give away. Seek to give away, seek to encourage in others the mind habits which are good and right. It does not matter if the gift is not accepted. At least you strengthened in yourself what you tried to give.”
Surrender
I continued to ask for direction. It felt as if I had suddenly turned on a light switch. The synchronicity in my life continued to increase. Now it was time to give up my last illusion that I was just here to learn. I couldn’t wrap my brain around what I was being shown, until it dawned on me that I had been asking to serve. I had expected answers, and I had to acknowledge, even to myself, that I was receiving them.
Peace…Be Still
I knew instinctively it was time to be still, and to listen. That wasn’t easy for me, I had been a self motivated person most of my life. I had been constantly busy, leading others, and finding my own path….now I would be led. No choice.
I listened, and I trusted. The truths I had gathered, the wisdom I had garnered, the direction I had accepted, came pouring out.
Teaching What I Needed to Learn
My first assignment turned out to be creating a course for overwhelmed women to bring joy and purpose back into life. Just as it came to completion, my own life took an unexpected turn, resulting in the saddest and most fearful time of my life. As soon as I could get past the initial trauma, I began the course again…but as a student this time.
My joy returned quickly, and I came back stronger than ever. I believe now what I experienced was another lesson in trust.
I also learned that the course was correctly named: Surrender Your Agenda: Finding Your Life Purpose
More info is available at: http://SurrenderYourAgenda.com
I’m dedicated to helping you create the life you have always wanted. I hope you will leave me a comment so that I can get to know you as well, and that you will subscribe to http://CaroleBryant.com
Come back soon, and please share this site with your friends…Stay connected!
Joy & Blessings, Carole xx
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PSS: I just want to tell you again…I’m so glad you’re here! I’m here for you!