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Why Goal Setting Makes You Freeze

A life coaching client wrote in, “I have a question, When ever we are asked what our dreams and goals are, I like freeze, I can never really come up with what my dreams are and can’t find goals that excite me., its like they have been suppressed for so long I don’t even know. Its like when ever that question comes Its like a kid taking a test and just freezes.” The Drunk Monkey Reins Supremer Several aspects of ourselves stop us from setting new goals. The biggest one is fear. The Drunk Monkey is trying to protect you from getting hurt.

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Life Coach and Life Coaching
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Having a Good Life: Fitness in Every Aspect with a Life Coach

At one point or another, you will meet a very rich and seemingly successful person. It can range from real estate brokers, salesmen, executives, business owners. They seem have the power to have all the vacations they want, stuff and investments. Good life isn't it? But as you dig deeper, you will find that most of them if not all enter a life coaching program. Now do not get me wrong here; it is not because they can afford it, It is because they seek a result: a fulfilling experience in life that their money cannot buy or they can not seem to achieve.

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Six Questions to Ask to Experience an Amazing Relationship - Life Coaching Tips

As a life coach, part of my job is to support my clients in having amazing relationships with everyone in their life. But often I find that a person's primary relationship with their spouse, lover, or partner is the most significant and influential. If you are not in a good place in your primary relationship, then it has a negative impact on everything you do in your life. So in the Inspired Action Coaching program I place great emphasis on being in harmony at all times with your primary partner.

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Life Coach and Life Coaching
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How to Pick a Life Coach

How do you pick a life coach? I think that the main thing you need to do is decide what exactly you want to get out of the life coach process. For example, my specialty in the process is happiness and peace, and then utilizing that to be an action. But that’s not everybody’s specialty. I have a friend’s whose specialty is post divorce. I have other people wh […]

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You Aren't Wired for Happiness

You are a practicing Being Unstoppable! You are someone committed to having it all...right? You want the money, you want the freedom, and you want the joy of existence...you want to be inspired and in action on your dreams...feeling the exhilaration of being a fully engaged adult on this ...

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How To Follow Your Passion When Your Life Isn't Set Up For That

As a life coach, I help clients understand what their true passion in life is, and then help them set their life up so that their passion can exist within the structure of their life. Now, this is not easy, because our life is currently designed to perpetuate the commitments that we've made in the past. Oddly, that's really the hint or the key to getting our passion to fit into our life, as well. It's all about making commitments and making promises.

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Don’t Wait, Be Happy Now

So many times my clients say to me, “Well, Matthew, you know, this is just a means to an end. I’m doing this business. I’m doing this project because where it’s going to get me is where I want to go.” You know what I say to that? Means to an end equals suffering. It means suffering today. And you don’t have to do that. You don’t have to get involved in a project or do an activity today because hopefully, someday, it will turn out better so that you can be happy.

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching
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Conquer the Fear of Going After Your Goals - Life Coaching Program

As an Inspired Action life coach, my job is to help my clients successfully transition from the life that they currently have to the life they want. This means confronting and conquering the fear of change. Think about it like this. Even though your goals and dreams are exciting to think and talk about, your dreams are usually much less exciting to implement. Dreams are new. New is hard. New is different. New means potential failure.

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Why Top Sales People Achieve Stellar Results with Life Coaching

All the top sales people who are committed to having a fulfilling experience in life are in a life coaching program. Well, I say all and that is a bold statement. I’ll explain. So many of the top salespeople I have worked with don’t care about having a fulfilling experience. They care about winning. They care about awards. They care about the juice, the next sale, the win. But then what happens to their lives?

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The Danger of Complaining

Complaints are normal. Everyone complains. If you listen to the random thoughts in your head, which I call The Drunk Monkey, you will hear thousands of complaints a day. It’s natural. Complaints are aspects of your experience that The Drunk Monkey disagrees with. Life happens, people do things and your brain says, “That should not be that way!” The truth is, that complaining is a survival mechanism. Since complaints describe that which you believe is not good, complaints are a way of identifying potential threats and avoiding them.

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Do You Have To Many Goals?

I just finished creating my goals and intentions for the Second Quarter of 2010. I started by assessing my Q1. In doing so I realized that I wasn’t living my over arching intention for 2010. I have two signs in front of my computer screens… 1. Simplicity 2. My time is valuable In the first quarter I set 74 intentions and goals. Hello!!! That is not simple at all. Didn’t realize this until I went through and checked off what I completed. I only completed 44%. Second thing I realized is that The Drunk Monkey snuck into my goal setting process at the beginning of this year.

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching
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Life Coaching - How To Feel Ridiculous Bliss During Divorce

Divorce can be brutal on you emotionally. When my first wife divorced me, I was devistated for a couple years. Needless to say, back then I did not understand how to feel bliss and all I had was anger, doubt, fear, disappointment and hurt feelings. That was 14 years ago and it was the catalyst for a profound transformation in my life. I’ve sought bliss and found it. Since then, I’ve supported many of my clients through the process of divorce. In my program Creating Relationship Ecstasy (which is included in my Inspired Action Weekly Program) I mapped out the process in great detail.

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The Importance of a Past You Regret

As a Life Coach, this is where I find people. Great lives born out of negative pasts. If your past sucked, then you benefited and your life is better today because of it. Having a negative childhood is almost always the best thing that ever happens to someone. The contrast you experience gives you new desires, new ideas, and the energy you need to create the life you want. The negative past is a catalyst for profound change. In that way, it is great!! But your unwillingness to accept it and appreciate it becomes a barrier to the next level of happiness and peace.

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How do I gain forgiveness from my parents? - Life Coaching

As a life coach, I help my clients get into harmony with everyone in their life as soon as possible. Once you have achieved harmony with all the people in your life, everything you do is easier and comes together faster. So here it is. To gain forgiveness with your parents is very simple and yet 99% of all people will never do what I’m about to ask you to do. 5 Step Forgiveness Process 1. Forgive your parents. To empower yourself in this situation, you must surrender your fears and resentments.

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Life Coaching - Law of Attraction Explained

There are two ways you can approach life. You can approach life as if you are at the effect of things or like you are the cause of things. Both are true. The way you focus creates your reality. It’s clear that you are being the cause of your life because you are reading this blog about self improvement. The only question is, “Are aware of what you are causing?” In order to manifest a new lover, the perfect job, that next big opportunity or millions of dollars…you have to get present to your ability to magnetize what you want. You have to see it, realize it, know it and trust it.

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Does an obsession for success kill the passion for life?- Life Coaching Training

Deluxe. Several times I was moved, elated, bouncing and feeling so happy being right here, right now. In the last month I read all four Twilight books and I was so blown away by how it made me feel. I’m sitting here thinking. Where have I been? What have I been doing? What have I been waiting for? When was I going to start appreciating art, beauty and artistry again? After I achieved what? What does achieving have to do with appreciation? I remember being a teenager and I was moved, touched, inspired, sparked, enraged and validated by song, art, film and theater.

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4 reasons you’re a con artist and don’t know it - Life Coaching

As a life coach, my job is to help people see beyond their limitations and ultimately live in a state of happiness and peace. The problem is that most people are con artists and they don’t know it. The dictionary defines con artist as a person adept at lying or glib self-serving talk. Most people are trying to con everyone around them for self-serving reasons such as achieving more, getting ahead, having more sex, subverting responsibility, and, of course, avoiding potential breakdowns. As an Inspired Action Coach I realize that you can’t be faulted for your conning nature.

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How To Follow Your Passion When Your Life Is not Set Up For That - Life Coaching Training

As a life coach, I help clients understand what their true passion in life is, and then help them set their life up so that their passion can exist within the structure of their life. Now, this is not easy, because our life is currently designed to perpetuate the commitments that we've made in the past. Oddly, that's really the hint or the key to getting our passion to fit into our life, as well. It's all about making commitments and making promises.

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What is Life Coaching?

Life coaching starts with a rigorous examination of your entire life. You will identify everything that is standing in the way of living the life of your dreams. Working with your coach, you will uncover what is working and what is not working. You will spend some time getting clear about what you are happy about and also what you are unhappy about, so you can eliminate what doesn’t work and expand what does.

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What Are Intentions & Delegations?

I’m teaching a class to 1300 people called Instant Manifestation Now. The Purpose of the class is to manifest your wildest dreams. In the class I ask my participants to write intentions and delegations every day to help clarify goals and dreams. First I ask people to dream big. What would be something amazing and life altering, that when it manifests, life is never the same again? From there we figure out, how it would feel and what the experience would be once it was complete. I call this your true intention. In the end you want to feel and experience life.

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3 Actions That Create Happiness

Over the years, I’ve discovered three actions that can guarantee your happiness. To start off, it’s important for you to know that happiness is a skill that anybody can learn. Most people believe that happiness is some kind of circumference that is outside of yourself. To be happy, many people think that have to own a certain thing, live a certain place, make a certain amount of money, etc. They think, “if this thing happens, then I’ll be happy.” Also, a lot of people think happiness is formula. They need certain events, things, etc to all align in order to be happy.

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Let Go of Body Fascination and Be Happy!

I’d like to invite you to release your body fascination, so that you can become a happier human being. Your body is a part of the earth. It’s doing whatever it’s doing. You can certainly manipulate it into different forms, that’s for sure. We’ve seen people become stunning bodybuilders. We’ve seen models sculpt their body and adjust it so that they can be more beautiful for the photographs or movies that they’re in. You can certainly do that.

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching
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God Helps Those Who Help Themselves - Spiritual Life Coaching

God helps those who help themselves. You ever heard that before? I notice with some of my clients are visioning, visualizing, writing out their goals and affirmations, but they’re not taking any action. They aren’t getting the results that they want. Now, I notice that also there’s another truth here. Some of my clients do no visioning, do no goals, do no dreaming, and I’d like to propose that the visioning, the goals, the affirmations, the dreaming- those are modern day ways of connecting to God.

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