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Everyone has experienced a day – where you simply wait for it to end. You can’t deal with it anymore. It’s like – all that can go wrong went wrong. All things that could add to misery kept on happening. The best way to deal with a bad day – Get OVER it! O: Obsessing over it will not make it better
Its cliched but so true! It is also true that when the going gets tough, the toughest thing to do is to become tough. I so understand you! I am totally with you on this one. It at times simply adds to misery when people advise you to do ten different things to come out of the tough situation – they speak what worked for them! Today I share with you, things that can help you become TOUGH: T – Take some time off to think constructively
In my last two posts I discussed what does a life coach do and the benefits of coaching. The third typical questio I get as a Life Coach is “What happens in a Life Coaching Session?” Each Life Coach has a different process and methodology. I choose to describe a personal coaching session by answering the following three questions 1.Where is it conducted?
As I set up my own company –there is plenty to think and do every single day – how to add value to clients, how to reach the target audience, best way of marketing & networking, optimizing social media use, continuity plans, expansion plans, deadlines to ensure things get completed etc.
Making the right choice is indeed aha! The catch – one can only know if a choice is right or wrong in retrospect. Every day we are faced with multiple choices and as society is progressing choices are increasing multi-fold. With this multi-fold increase, decision making is becoming complex whether you are a homemaker or a business owner, a student or a working professional, an artist or a sportsman – simply due to plethora of options available in everything. Some choices are easy and some hard. Choices are hard – when they cannot be reversed easilyr
In my last post I shared What does a Life Coach do? The next question that I get is who benefits from coaching or what are the benefits of coaching? "Coaching benefits all those who see a gap between where they are and where they want to be and most importantly want to bridge that gap!" If you are satisfied with where you are and wish to remain where you are – Coaching is not for you. To explain the benefits of coaching, I will address three typical questions that I get: “I am happy, how will coaching benefit me?”
In conversations with clients – I hear some of the most amazing one liners that help my personal growth. Today’s blog is a reflection on one such sentence. “Me: What has stood out for you in the past three weeks? Client: I now distinguish between reasons and excuses – that helps me in getting things done!”
A Google search on the word motivation gives 33,20,00,000 results! "Motivation – A word for your inner self searched in the outer world." We want someone to plant motivation in us. Many of us are simply seeking motivation. We have often said… “Once I am motivated, I will do it” “The problem is not in doing it, but I don’t feel motivated enough.”We want motivation in everything we do – work, exercise, cook, business, the list is endless. We want to feel motivated every single day and yet motivation seems to slip from us.
There is some degree of confusion today as to what a life coach does. This month I will be sharing with you what a life coach actually does and how everyone can benefit from hiring a life coach. I thought the best way to go about it would be to tackle the 5 most common reactions that we life coaches get, when we tell someone that “I am a Life Coach”. Let us begin > “Oh you are a Life Coach? – What a nice profession – simply give “Gyaan” to others and get paid for it!” – This a typical response which 8/10 life coaches get. Sad but true!
If on a given day your aim was to accomplish the following: A glass of water in the morning 20 min walk in the eveningr Paying the phone billr Doing groceriesr Having a nice cup of coffee And you accomplish all of it – You are successful! By definition you are successful. You aimed to complete certain tasks and you completed them all – it is success! Success by definition is the accomplishment of an aim or purpose.
It was lovely to see Virat Kohli taking things to the finish in the recent matches against Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Do you start brilliantly on a project and then give up before the job has been done? This is a very common ailment. The beginning of any new project or venture is full of excitement and enthusiasm, but it doesn’t always last. Part of being a successful person is learning how to take things to the finish. Taking things to the finish is a habit that can be developed. I share with you some strategies that can help to become a FINISHER: F – Find out when you are likely to quitr
I asked around “What comes to your mind when I say consistency?” Here are the responses : State of Data, Jugge aut, Roger Federer, Sachin Tendulkar, Apple i-phone sales, Day and Night, Rahul Dravid, Regularity, Cake dough consistency, Fibonacci series, Government Failure, Water shortage, Traffic problems, Balance, Good health, Uniform growth, Discipline, Reliability, Volatility of stock markets
Focus is about saying no – Steve Jobs Something struck me very deep when I stumbled on this quote. All this while I thought focus only meant fiercely concentrating on what you want to get done, but now I have come to understand that – Focus is more about saying no to distractions! I finished reading Peter Bregman’s book 18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done…what an amazing read! It has left me with completely fresh perspective on focus and time management. If you have been struggling with getting things done on timer
Have you ever felt: “It was easy to finish, it was just the matter of starting” “I feel good at the gym; it was just the matter of getting to the gym” “I finished it in lesser time than it took for me to start” – This is definitely something we have experienced as students when we left home- work for Sunday nights!
All of us (whether you are an executive, home maker, student or retired person) have felt the following at some time: >To-do lists are increasingrn>Mind is cluttered with thoughtsrn>You want to do so many things but simply don’t know from where to startrn>The worst of it – You start taking action, an unexpected event happens, your attention is redirected and you start thinking “If only I had started actioning earlier”
As students we have always wondered – how will arithmetic help us in our daily life? We did innumerable word problems to become perfect at solving the same. While I was thinking “what to write?” last night I simply used the ART of solving the arithmetic problem.Let me show you how! Let’s solve the following problem:
“No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.” — Elbert Hubbard I am sure 99% of the readers associate with the above line. Lucky are the 1% who actually have a relaxing vacation and get recharged. Idea of relaxation and relaxation techniques are different for everyone. All of us however, do agree that all of us need to relax. In this age of super activity we have lost the meaning of relaxation and quite often associate it with sleeping and watching television.
“Patience is not simply the ability to wait – it’s how we behave while we’re waiting.” – Joyce Meyerouble In an era where things are digitized and everything seems to be happening at a click or swipe – let’s accept that patience as a quality seems to be dying. Here is an interesting study – Google engineers have discovered that if we are made to wait for 400 milliseconds –the blink of an eye; we respond by searching less or going to a faster website!
Are you overworked? Are you feeling drained all the time? Are you desperately waiting for your next vacation? Do you simply wish to feel fresh? We lead busy lives. Most of us find ourselves overworked, leaving us tired or exhausted. Chronic tiredness leads to fatigue. When fatigue enters your daily life, it effects your physical and mental well-being making it very difficult, if not impossible, to get things done.
Once upon a time, there were three brothers Past, Present, Future. Everyone used to love to play with them. Most of the people liked Past and Future. Present was ignored by most of them. One day, Health and Wealth – the most popular couple found Present weeping. Present said, “No one likes me, why do I exist?” Health and Wealth looked at each other and decided that it was time people learnt a lesson. They announced a contest – “Feed one of the three brothers and we will forever stay with you. You can feed only one but all three must survive.”
Has your 2016 started exactly the way you wanted? If yes then this post is not for you. Has your year begun completely the opposite of the way you pictured? If yes then read on. There is a choice here – BOUNCE back stronger this month or simply sulk and let the remaining months go down the drain. I will not explain the second option much as it more or less involves complaining all day about how nothing is going your way. For the first option you may choose to do the following – B – Be OK about what has happened
Ever had a problem in life? It feels like you are dancing on fire, doesn’t it? A problem is a problem – small or big does not matter. A problem results in unpleasantness in life. It comes in way of our joy. For those who have multiple problems; unpleasantness seems to become a way of life. However some of us deal with problems rather well and experience joy and happiness despite these problems.