Displaying items by tag: Personal Development

Personal and Professional Development are not an event, but a journey. We can never say, "We're done!" There is always something to learn for those with an open and enquiring mind. Don't leave your development to chance and other people's agendas. It's one of your most important assetts and something you are definitely and infinitely in control of. Take charge and consciously plot your own growth.

• Plan your professional and personal development for the year.
• Put in the rocks – key events that you really want to attend or achieve.
• Plan your own year, and do the same for your team and your businmess or organisation – goals, action plans – start the year with a clear idea of where you’re going.

Coaching Thought:

'The world is perfect. It’s a mess. It has always been a mess. We are not going to change it. Our job is to straighten out our own lives'. – Joseph Campbell. What a great time to stop worrying about global events and take stock of our own backyards.

Coaching Thought:

'The only way to do great work is to love what you do.  If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking.  Don’t settle.' -Steve Jobs

Coaching Thought:

'A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown. '– Denis Waitley. It is also a preview of possibilities - if you have the courage to pursue it.

Coaching Thought:

'Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.'  - Harry S. Truman; 33rd President of the United States.

Coaching Thought:

'..we should be remembered for the things we do. The things we do are the most important things of all. They are more important than what we say or what we look like. The things we do outlast our mortality. … That’s why your deeds are like your monuments.'  – R.J. Palacio

Coaching Thought:

'In what areas are you learning and growing? If the answer is none, that means you’re stagnating or regressing. Learn more, earn more, know more, grow more!' –  Rob Liano; coach,  author. Now more than ever, there is no excuse for not upskilling and expanding your knowledge base. Technology in the last Covid year has exploded, and everything is literally at your fingertips. During this period, more learning institutions than ever before have provided free education, courses and resources.  There is almost no subject you can't dig deeper into, if you have a curious mind and a thirst for knowledge. Your physical body may be in lockdown situations, but your mind most certainly isn't. And knowledge is one of life's true treasures, that no one can ever take away from you.

Coaching Thought:

Very often, our biggest stress in life is created by us wanting reality to be different to what it actually is.  We waste a lot of time and brain energy wishing things were different. This builds inner tension and leaves us little energy to deal with and face what's in front of us. Either we need to take action and change the situation or we need to face challenges, deal with them and move on.

Coaching Questions:

• How well do you deal with the day to day realities of your life?
• How does wanting things to be different affect you?
• How could you be easier with dealing what is?

Coaching Thought:

How often have we hamstrung ourselves by not completing a project because we felt it wasn't perfect? Maybe even prided ourselves on our 'high standards?'  'Understanding the difference between healthy striving and perfectionism is critical ….. Research shows that perfectionism hampers success. In fact, it’s often the path to depression, anxiety, addiction, and life paralysis'.~ Brene Brown

Coaching Thought:

Fear keeps us playing a small game, nervous to put our heads above the parapet, hiding in the safety of a lukewarm life. But people who spend all their time thinking about problems are in danger of imagining a false reality. Challenges are there to lift us to higher performance. We must do something, and stop wallowing in fearful thoughts.  'Thinking will not overcome fear, but action will!' W. Clement Stone.