Starting this Wednesday, Tracy Driscoll of Aspire Coaching will host a six week course designed to help you discover your life’s ambition, and to realize it. According to Driscoll, many of us have simply learned to cope with life, meaning that we are effectively blocking our own understanding of what makes us happy and fulfilled, and focusing on survival instead. Over the six weeks, Driscoll will help her students get back to basics. She’ll teach them to tune in to what really motivates them, what brings them joy, help them recognize the sources of negative energy in their lives.

For the chance to win tickets to the next workshop check out Agenda’s contest online – and quick! The competition ends tomorrow.

On May 12 the most powerful women in Beijing will gather to celebrate the accomplishments in their community with a day of presentations, networking, champagne, and an awards ceremony celebrating outstanding women entrepreneurs, young achievers, business women, and more.

This not-to-be-missed networking opportunity takes place Thursday, May 12, 2011 from 2pm-9.30pm at the Beijing Marriott Hotel City Wall. The event will begin with an early afternoon reception, followed by two informative and inspiring presentations on how women can develop their potential by finding “super heroes,” role models that inspire them, followed by a presentation on how companies can groom future women leaders.

For more details, read the full article on Agenda. And if you’re planning to attend, make sure you register through Agenda’s sponsorship page and receive a RMB 600 discount off the RMB 1,450 price.

Image courtesy of Women in Business.

This weekend, Agenda is proud to sponsor the Reading is Fundamental brunch in support of The Library Project. The Library Project has put books into the hands of more than 100,000 rural children, and has significantly increasing their level of education and their hope for the future. We sincerely hope that you can join us at this fabulous fundraiser this Sunday from 11-2pm. With your help, we’ll be able to support the building of one new library in Hebei province, and raise some money for the people recovering from the Japanese Red Cross as well!

For full details go to Agenda’s site, and we hope to see you there!

Lorenzo Paul Chetty likes to be known by another name: The Pianoman. Although his moniker is more intimately associated with one Billy Joel, Chetty’s enthusiasm for his instrument and playing in public allows him to appropriate the name for his tribute show, which debuts today, July 22 at Butterfly Lounge in Solana. Agenda talked to him about the show and why Beijing is a “piano city.”

Perhaps it was politics that stirred Ken Wiland’s interest in China – he was a socialist union organizer during a 26-year career on the New York subway. Maybe it was a family connection – his father flew supplies into China as a pilot during World War II. One thing that’s sure is that Wiland didn’t come to Beijing primarily for the city’s ballroom dance scene – though he did start his own club. Jennifer Ying Lan asked him why Beijingers should hit the floor with Beijing Ballroom.

Jennifer Ying Lan: When did your love of ballroom begin?