Getting the structure right for one's own life is essential. I sometimes coach people who begin transforming in their lives by deciding what time they'd like to get up and what time they'd like to go to bed each day.
This doesn't mean having a completely rigid schedule but it does mean knowing how you feel if you get up at mid day or if you're awake most of the night. If that works for you then that's fine but some people find being awake at 3am very lonely and find that if they retrain their sleeping patterns their life looks quite different quite quickly.
I get up early every morning so I can take my dog out for a walk in woods or along the banks of the Wear in Durham. Its not always a great start if its dark or wet but I prefer the idea that I'm getting up to go for a walk then getting up to go to work. And of course whatever the weather, walking gives me the chance to establish a positive start for the day especially when my dog is so full of joy when he's free to run about. Joy is infectious after all!
Saturday, 21 June 2008
Tuesday, 10 June 2008
Choose just one question to answer or problem to solve
Coaching is full of suprises.
Here at the next level (www.coachingatthenextlevel.biz) I specialise in coaching people who feel stuck, people who feel there's so much to do or so many problems to solve that they can't do anything to improve their lives. They live in a over full, dusty, stressed, uncomfortable comfort zone.
Many of us do have very complex lives and sometimes I think we'd all benefit from simplifying our homes, our diaries and our relationships. That isn't always the best place to start however because it can sound like an instruction to throw things away or to give things up and when a person feels disempowered and demotivated asking them to give up or throw away parts of their world really just doesn't help.
What does help is to choose one question to answer or one problem to solve. From all the possible irritations and blocks, choose one and make a change there.
Time and time again I have been delighted and surprised to see the impact of making one change. Why ? Because when we make one change everything changes. It may only be a tiny change but it is movement from the comfort zone which is anything but comfortable.
So if you feel stuck today, choose one question to answer or problem to solve and see how that feels.
Here at the next level (www.coachingatthenextlevel.biz) I specialise in coaching people who feel stuck, people who feel there's so much to do or so many problems to solve that they can't do anything to improve their lives. They live in a over full, dusty, stressed, uncomfortable comfort zone.
Many of us do have very complex lives and sometimes I think we'd all benefit from simplifying our homes, our diaries and our relationships. That isn't always the best place to start however because it can sound like an instruction to throw things away or to give things up and when a person feels disempowered and demotivated asking them to give up or throw away parts of their world really just doesn't help.
What does help is to choose one question to answer or one problem to solve. From all the possible irritations and blocks, choose one and make a change there.
Time and time again I have been delighted and surprised to see the impact of making one change. Why ? Because when we make one change everything changes. It may only be a tiny change but it is movement from the comfort zone which is anything but comfortable.
So if you feel stuck today, choose one question to answer or problem to solve and see how that feels.
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