Archive for the ‘Self Improvement’ Category
Your belief in your abilities may be stronger sometimes than others. As a result, your ability to feel optimistic about succeeding in all aspects of your life or with projects wavers depending on your mood.
Turbulent Times! Reversal in your financial security. Home Foreclosure accompanied a job loss. Have you reached your stress threshold? Do you find methods previously used when at this point just don’t work anymore? Is this the scene or one similar? Bills mounting, payment deadlines missed, plumbing breaks down, turns into a major problem; roots of the beautiful weeping willow tree have entwined the sewer line pipes to the house, tree must be cut down, major repair to sewer system, one of your car needs new tires; yesterday. You can’t afford to explode! What do people do, for heaven’s sake?
Do you want to draw in more customers and bring in more business? Maybe you have been a coach for a long time and your practice does not have the number of clients you want or maybe you are just starting out and you want to attract a larger client base. Here are a few practical tips to help you on your way! 1. Check Your Beliefs
Aren’t all leaders strategic? Isn’t being strategic a prerequisite for being identified as a leader? I have coached hundreds of leaders; those who have been terminated (right-sized, downsized or fired) and those who are seeking to enhance their leadership prowess. After working with this large volume of executive clients, I am able to fairly easily identify those leaders who have an innate strategic component as part of their leadership makeup, those that have acquired a certain skill level and those who talk about strategy - but don’t have a clue as to how to be a strategic leader.
Of course we all have questions from time to time that we need to find answers to. The need to be in the “know” keeps many people jumping from one fad to the next. We are so eager to find out information that we spend countless hours and money searching every possible facet of what ever it is that we are interested in.
1. Take Your Business Seriously You need to have a plan for your business. I read a quote recently that said If you fail to plan, you plan to fail. If you are serious about becoming a successful coach, Here are a few questions to get you started on your business plan. Can your clients afford you, and if they can what is your optimal pricing? Who is your competition and why should your clients choose you over them?
Panic attacks: this is not something that we are unaware of. Attacks are triggered by fear, anxiety, depression, discomfort and yet many more reasons. Anxiety plays a very important role in panic attacks, where a person is gripped by immense fear all of a sudden and begins to panic. These attacks are said to be a caused when a person is extremely nervous. Such attacks last for 1 to 30 minutes and in certain instances a person might faint. One out of sixty Americans is said to experience a panic attacks at some point in life. Some people tend to leave the thought of attacks upon time; instead they should find an effective treatment to this. If not cured it can reach a stage where it will be out of your power to control it. The ones that are affected by panic attacks and anxiety attacks should look for treatment as soon as possible, as any more wastage of time might lead to another horrifying panic attack occurrence.
Overcome Your Fears If you have come to believe that the path to success lies in the leaders ability to be fearless, than you have misled yourself. Fearless is like a unicorn in that it is utterly imaginary! One must only be capable of finding a way to face and conquer fear. This gives an individual the capability of assuming risk and taking chances. Take Educated Chances
This is a work in progress. Tastes change. Memories change. Recipes are always being revised. I could not but help draw parallels between the flow of life and the use of metaphors to explain some things. No big book Doing some genealogical studies a few years back, I looked and looked on the Internet for a recipe for “chili sauce” that my great aunt Rose had assembled in her Nicetown kitchen (Phila.) Some fifty odd years ago during a long summer break in grade school.
As a young woman, I worked my way through college as a teacher at a small Christian School. One morning shortly after arriving at work, the teacher who worked across the hall from me shrieked, “That ruined my whole day!” Before I could think, the words escaped my lips, “What ruined your whole day?” “Sota, he’s taken his snack, this “jello-jiggler”, and thrown it on the floor. Before I got a chance to stop him, he’d stomped on it and squashed it all over the place!” Her words sounded thick and her face was drawn up like she had just bitten into a piece of rotten fruit. |
philosophy here. Just trial and error flavors, some empirical mixed in, along with spices derived from life’s ebb and flow.