Coaching Thoughts
Coaching creates accountability to make progress and fulfil goals. Coaching avoids advising or diagnosing. While problem-thinking focuses on what is wrong, outcome-thinking requires self-distancing and provides the platform to move towards something you want rather than away from something you wish to avoid.
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'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.
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'Nothing so conclusively proves a man’s ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.'- Thomas J. Watson Sr.
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'Don’t check your smartphone or email first thing; doing so lets others set your agenda. Instead, lay out your top three objectives for the day and only then check incoming email.' - Mel Robbins, author
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'Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.' - Harry S. Truman; 33rd President of the United States.
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'Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.' ~Dale Carnegie.
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'..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
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'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.
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'Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes you made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched in some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower that you planted, you’re there.'
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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.
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- 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?
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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
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Failure is so often considered a negativity. But failure is actually just information - how to do things differently. If you mine for the gems in everything that happens, you are constantly learning new ways, new information. All of which brings you closer to success. As Edison, inventor of the light bulb, said, 'I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.' Every failure should be a stepping stone to something better.You start the next project from a place of higher knowledge.
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It's not enough to just have goals, as vitally important as they are. We MUST work on them - daily! We must have a practical action plan, which must be implemented, refined and adapted as we need to, but it must be worked! We need to have a fixed goal with variable ways of getting there - be open to changing circumstances, and flexible in our means of achieving those goals. 'The great successful men of the world have used their imagination; they think ahead and create their mental picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building – steadily building.' ~ Robert Collier
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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.
There are many successful people in the world who have had not the advantage of formal education. Some famous high school dropouts are:
Albert Einstein (physicist); John D Rockefeller (oil magnate); John Glenn (astronaut); Steve Jobs (Apple co-founder); Henry Ford (entrepreneur and industrialist).
The qualities they all had in common were consistency, focus, curiosity, persistence, continued self-education, action-taking, calculated risk-taking - qualities we can all choose to focus on and become good at. There has never been a better time to seek, learn and upskill ourselves. 'While formal schooling is an important advantage, it is not a guarantee of success, nor is its absence a fatal handicap.' ~ Ray Kroc.
Change is the foundation of all progress and development in the entire universe. Without change, we stagnate and atrophy. Without change, there can be no rewal. 'The greatest remedy in the world is change…It is the opposite of change that holds us back…Real change… is always internal. It is the change within that first produces the change without. …. It is the renewal of mind that produces better health, more happiness, greater power, the increase of life, and the consequent increase of all that is good in life…He who can change his mind every day and think the new about everything every day will always be well; he will always have happiness; he will always be free; his life will always be interesting; he will constantly move forward into the larger, the richer and the better.' ~ Christian D Larson
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'Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And 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. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.' ~ Steve Jobs
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This magical universe is so faithful in waiting for us to get out of our own way. No matter how long you have gone astray, when you take action, the universe moves to support the act. Move in the direction of your goals and watch the magic flow. ~ Dr Steve Maraboli
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'The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives is to think we work for anybody but ourselves.' ~ Brian Tracy. Most of us are too busy doing our day to day jobs, but our careers are far too important to ignore and hope for the best, or to leave in the hands of anyone else. Like our goals, we need to have a direction and outcome, and we need a plan to get there, and we need to work it. We need to be taking strategic moves and upskilling ourselves accordingly, in order to be in the next best position on the chessboard of our careers. This is our responsibility.
In this TED talk, Ruth Chang discusses what makes hard choices so tough for us, how we’ve confused ourselves by thinking that one choice is always better than another, that they can be quantified, and a numerical worth placed on them somehow. What happens when a choice is neither better, worse nor equal to another? The difference probably lies in competing values which can’t be quantified – that’s why tough choices are so hard.
If you believe, as I do, that your employees truly are your most valuable asset, you will do whatever you can to help them do their jobs as well as possible.~ Harvey Mackay
