Although this is no longer "hot off the internet" news, I was thinking today about Obama's Nobel Peace Prize and the knee-jerk reaction by many as to how ludicrous it was, given that he hasn't done anything to deserve it, so they say.

In the world of life coaching, unlike therapy that listens to issues, feelings etc., we focus a great deal of attention on where one is going with their life. Learning to create, deliberately. Seeing the cause and effect of choices made. We also coach our clients news ways to communicate effectively, from the heart, so that the "effects" can be empowering ones.

One very effective strategy in the world of relationships is acknowledging potential within someone. For a parent, for example, to acknowledge within their child that they believe in them so much that they can see their child doing even better the next time they try out for dance, stand up before the classroom to speak, ask the hot guy/girl to the dance.

For President Obama to receive this acknowledgment of his intentions and actions thus far is a call to action to live into being even more. As a parent we get to call our children to always evolve and become more of who they're here to become. We don't push or manipulate but we see within them the genius and we bestow upon them either through words, hugs, notes or maybe even a Nobel Peace Prize and thus we raise the bar - a bar for them to "reach for," one that is a stretch because without stretching we don't become the more.

I hold the vision that Barack Obama will continue to reach for creating results that will inspire the feelings within him and us as a country that the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize was inspired by the divine - a call to action because the potential to do so is there.