IN THIS ISSUE:

• Happy New Year
  CBN Chair, Elizabeth Ingle invites members to take a look at forthcoming events.
• How to make your resolutions stick
  Have your New Year resolutions started to defeat you? Chris Carling, Personal and Business Development Coach suggests ways of making them stick.

Member news

CBN are delighted to welcome Marks and Clerk Patent Attorneys as a new Corporate member. Carol Collins wins contract to coach Marks and Spencer staff in the flagship Victoria store.

Member offers

Two fantastic offers to perk you up in January and February: An opportunity for early supper with friends, family or colleagues in the stylish Graffiti restaurant at Hotel Felix and 50% discount on fabulous hair and beauty treatments at Reeds Hair and Beauty for CBN members and a friend or colleague.

Member profiles

Introducing Christina Duck, Solicitor at Kester Cunningham John.

Happy New Year

CBN Chair, Elizabeth Ingle invites members to take a look at forthcoming events

Welcome to the fifth edition of Grapevine – I can hardly believe it is now 2006 – am I the only one to think the Millennium was just last year? It was in 2000 that I joined CBN as I stepped out on my own after too many years in a corporate world. Since then I have gained so much from CBN and I hope I have managed to put something back too.

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How to make your resolutions stick

Have your New Year resolutions started to defeat you? Chris Carling, Personal and Business Development Coach suggests ways of making them stick and CBN members share some of their resolutions for 2006.

In Chinese medicine, Water is the Element associated with winter. One reason for the link is that the snows and rains of winter represent a cleansing process in which everything is washed clean and bare, ready for a fresh start. For many of us making New Year resolutions is part of the need we feel to start afresh. Going through a process of metaphorically ‘rinsing through, washing away the debris’ at the turn of the year is important, helping us let go of what we no longer need from the year that’s past, leaving us more able to renew ourselves for the year to come.

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Grapevine is produced by an editorial board of cbn members (Ann Bonnett and Kate Kirk). If you have any comments or suggestions for future features or would like to submit an article, then please contact Ann Bonnett ann@abcr8.co.uk. The views expressed in this newsletter do not necessarily represent those of CBN.