How do you learn to hit a baseball but through effort, missing, coaching, adjustment, practice and success? Isn't that process similar to live the big life you desire? Life coaches are to a fulfilled and successful person what a baseball coach is to a fulfilled and successful ball player. Coaching no longer just lives in the gym and the ball fields. It is a burgeoning profession that lives in homes, schools, and corporations. So, what is Life Coaching? Let's compare what a baseball coach does with what a life coach does to answer that question. Imagine that you're standing a few paces from me tightly clutching a bat, in the batter's box, your legs rather straight and your eyes darting all over the place. I am your baseball coach. Again and again you miss the pitches. What do I tell you? Perhaps it's something like this:
Loosen your grip and swing a few before I pitch. Lower your body. Keep your eyes on the ball.
Keep it up! You are going to get this. I know you can do it!
Good! Your stance is more relaxed. You are watching the ball. That's great focus!
You got a hit! You stuck it out!
This week I want you to do at least 20 push-ups every day. And for 5 minutes a day picture yourself swinging and hitting the ball just where you want it to go. Imagine the feeling in your hands and arms as you hit the ball.
I just coached you into hitting the ball. Here's what I'm doing:
I notice what needs to change to bring out the baseball player.
I champion you.
I ｂelieve in you when you don't.
I celebrate your success.
I acknowledge your effort and who you were being.
I give you action to take to keep growing.
I will hold you accountable.
Life coaches use all these techniques and many more. The life coach watches and listens for words, action and energy that reflect their client's dreams and values. We encourage, champion and believe in our clients. We know them to be resourceful and capable of being in the big life they seek. We guide the client to learn from and celebrate failure. We celebrate and learn from success. We acknowledge the effort, attitude and values our clients demonstrate while on their journey. And we co-create action plans with our clients, because the change is accomplished in life between coaching sessions. Clients put into practice the insights and learning gained from coaching. They experiment in life new attitudes, behaviors, and actions. They take the actions that bring them closer to the life they want. Like a baseball coach, the life coach sticks it out, stays in the trenches and goes to the hard places with the client.
There are two differences between baseball coaching and life coaching in this example. The life coach is not an expert in someone's life as a baseball coach is an expert in baseball. However, the life coach spends time throughout the coaching relationship to become an expert in their client's dreams, values, needs, goals, and self-sabotaging techniques. The coach then uses all of his / her skills to help the client transform to be the person that matches those goals and dreams. The second difference is that the client co-creates actions they'll do between coaching sessions while a baseball player doesn't have a choice about those push-ups. What would happen if you hired a coach to know and hold your dreams and coach you to bring them to reality? Baseball season is short, and so is life! Is it time to give birth to the dreams that still want out?!
2012年7月19日星期四
A Coach or Mentor Can Accelerate and Improve Your Performance
Coaching has been a norm in the sports arena for many years now and most if not all of the greatest sporting achievements of all time, have been the result of hard work and perseverance on the part of the athlete and the great input and support of their coach. It was not until the early 1990's that people began to realise the huge benefit, which could flow to them and their businesses, if they engaged the services of a coach, to guide, assist and counsel them. Yes people did engage the services of people who did ostensibly, fill the role of a coach or mentor before then, but up until then they were not referred to as coaches.
A coach's role, to business professionals, is mainly one of support, guidance and consistent reminders about self-belief, which keep the flame of inspiration burning in the belly of their coachees. The support they offer helps the business professionals that they coach, to remain motivated and inspired and keeps them taking the consistent daily action, necessary to allow them to realise their vision, follow their mission and give life to their goals and dreams.
It is not necessary to spend a fortune hiring a great coach, although there are some really great coaches available out there, who will offer far more value in terms of improved results, than they charge in fees. Look around your environment, there are incredible people available all around you, who can coach or mentor you. The most suitable coaches very often come from within your organisation or industry. The secret to make any coach or mentor relationship work is to ensure that there is always fair exchange between the coach, mentor and the person being coached or mentored. If the person acting as a coach or mentor feels like it is a one way street and you just keep taking and they just keep giving, they will very quickly loose interest.
I have a number of people, who mentor and coach me. Some of whom I hire professionally and pay them for their services. It is really easy to find a way to ensure there is fair exchange with these people. They render a suitable level of service, for which I compensate them for their experience, time and expertise, by paying them a fee. The challenge is to find a way for there to be a flow of fair exchange with a mentor or coach, who does not do coaching or mentoring professionally.
One of the best ways to continue enjoying the support of a mentor or coach, who does not charge for their services, is to form a mastermind group in which you can support each other. This forum gives you the opportunity to support each other at your monthly or by-monthly meetings. As long as everyone within the mastermind group feels they are getting something from the group, this incredibly supportive process will continue. As soon as anyone feels the time they invest into the mastermind exceeds the utility they get from the group, the mastermind will dissolve.
The other way that I have found to enjoy the on-going support of a mentor or coach, is to constantly look for ways to offer equivalent value to them, in return for their continued support. Look at the value any mentor or coach brings into your experience and constantly look for ways to add value to them, which exceeds the value they add to your experience. I have the most incredible mentor, who adds incredible value to my life in the form of consistent input and support for me as a professional speaker. To date I have found almost $ 35 000 worth of training work for my mentor, I constantly look for ways to keep adding value to his experience, by listening to what he may need and then providing it to him.
Adding equivalent value to anyone, who mentors you, is not easy. It requires listening, observing and creative thought. The improvement, which comes from having someone in your life to mentor or coach you, is well worth the effort.
Action Idea: When you are trying to identify the right coach or mentor. It is crucial to know the exact outcome you want to achieve and to ensure that you have a very clear, articulated and written down vision. The next step is to create a crystal clear picture in your mind of exactly what your expectations are regarding a coach or mentor. Record your exact requirements or expectations, which you have envisioned and then decide how much time you would need from them. Finally build a very precise and concise written introduction, which you can use to enlist the help of the coach or mentor.
Armed with your vision and your expectations about what you need and expect from a coach or mentor, search around your environment and try to discover someone, who meets most of your needs as a coach or mentor and then build a plan to approach them. If there is no one suitable within your immediate sphere of influence, expand your search into your industry and beyond by using Google, LinkedIn and even Facebook, to research for prospective mentors or coaches.
Once you have identified the most suitable person or people to coach or mentor you. Approach them with a very clear description of your expectations and the amount of time you would need from them each week, month etc. I have found it advisable to tell them at the outset, how you plan to ensure that there is some sort of fair exchange. Tell them how you plan to add value to their lives, in return for their time. In most cases, when you are really concise, people can see you are not just expecting a hand-out and you show that you know exactly what you are looking for, most people will be willing to assist.
When you learn the art of identifying and effectively utilising all the people around you, who can support you and your vision, as either a coach or mentor, you will have discovered one of the key ingredients to becoming a top performer. There are not very many super successful hermits out there. It is extremely difficult to do things alone. Have the courage and foresight to explore your environment and discover people, who can support you. The massive improvements in the results you will be able to enjoy, will be worth the effort.
A coach's role, to business professionals, is mainly one of support, guidance and consistent reminders about self-belief, which keep the flame of inspiration burning in the belly of their coachees. The support they offer helps the business professionals that they coach, to remain motivated and inspired and keeps them taking the consistent daily action, necessary to allow them to realise their vision, follow their mission and give life to their goals and dreams.
It is not necessary to spend a fortune hiring a great coach, although there are some really great coaches available out there, who will offer far more value in terms of improved results, than they charge in fees. Look around your environment, there are incredible people available all around you, who can coach or mentor you. The most suitable coaches very often come from within your organisation or industry. The secret to make any coach or mentor relationship work is to ensure that there is always fair exchange between the coach, mentor and the person being coached or mentored. If the person acting as a coach or mentor feels like it is a one way street and you just keep taking and they just keep giving, they will very quickly loose interest.
I have a number of people, who mentor and coach me. Some of whom I hire professionally and pay them for their services. It is really easy to find a way to ensure there is fair exchange with these people. They render a suitable level of service, for which I compensate them for their experience, time and expertise, by paying them a fee. The challenge is to find a way for there to be a flow of fair exchange with a mentor or coach, who does not do coaching or mentoring professionally.
One of the best ways to continue enjoying the support of a mentor or coach, who does not charge for their services, is to form a mastermind group in which you can support each other. This forum gives you the opportunity to support each other at your monthly or by-monthly meetings. As long as everyone within the mastermind group feels they are getting something from the group, this incredibly supportive process will continue. As soon as anyone feels the time they invest into the mastermind exceeds the utility they get from the group, the mastermind will dissolve.
The other way that I have found to enjoy the on-going support of a mentor or coach, is to constantly look for ways to offer equivalent value to them, in return for their continued support. Look at the value any mentor or coach brings into your experience and constantly look for ways to add value to them, which exceeds the value they add to your experience. I have the most incredible mentor, who adds incredible value to my life in the form of consistent input and support for me as a professional speaker. To date I have found almost $ 35 000 worth of training work for my mentor, I constantly look for ways to keep adding value to his experience, by listening to what he may need and then providing it to him.
Adding equivalent value to anyone, who mentors you, is not easy. It requires listening, observing and creative thought. The improvement, which comes from having someone in your life to mentor or coach you, is well worth the effort.
Action Idea: When you are trying to identify the right coach or mentor. It is crucial to know the exact outcome you want to achieve and to ensure that you have a very clear, articulated and written down vision. The next step is to create a crystal clear picture in your mind of exactly what your expectations are regarding a coach or mentor. Record your exact requirements or expectations, which you have envisioned and then decide how much time you would need from them. Finally build a very precise and concise written introduction, which you can use to enlist the help of the coach or mentor.
Armed with your vision and your expectations about what you need and expect from a coach or mentor, search around your environment and try to discover someone, who meets most of your needs as a coach or mentor and then build a plan to approach them. If there is no one suitable within your immediate sphere of influence, expand your search into your industry and beyond by using Google, LinkedIn and even Facebook, to research for prospective mentors or coaches.
Once you have identified the most suitable person or people to coach or mentor you. Approach them with a very clear description of your expectations and the amount of time you would need from them each week, month etc. I have found it advisable to tell them at the outset, how you plan to ensure that there is some sort of fair exchange. Tell them how you plan to add value to their lives, in return for their time. In most cases, when you are really concise, people can see you are not just expecting a hand-out and you show that you know exactly what you are looking for, most people will be willing to assist.
When you learn the art of identifying and effectively utilising all the people around you, who can support you and your vision, as either a coach or mentor, you will have discovered one of the key ingredients to becoming a top performer. There are not very many super successful hermits out there. It is extremely difficult to do things alone. Have the courage and foresight to explore your environment and discover people, who can support you. The massive improvements in the results you will be able to enjoy, will be worth the effort.
A Weight-loss Coach On The Importance Of Your Liver
Today, people are confronted with a so much confusion about their health, well being and weight loss. The beginnings of mood swings are attributes of changing hormones in women, while they may in reality be the consequence of toxicity in the system and poorly functioning glands and vital organs. Most people do what they can to go it alone, working with books as their self-improvement guides. Some individuals make the decision to go to their doctors. Yet others seek assistance from a weight-loss coach in order to arrive at their weight-loss and health goals.
Whatever your choice and course for making changes, your first move should be to give your all for your good health. Tension and insufficient diets are uncontrolled and continue to be the leading causes of countless problems for so many people. The huge numbers of chronic diseases that continue to surface amaze medical doctors.
If you were to take a good hard look at what nutrition is now to modern people and what it was before the time of mass farming, pesticides and food processing that is laying waste to the nutritional value of our foods, you could be able to comprehend how poisoned and challenged modern man is. Living, walking, breathing and even drinking water on our globe isn't as simple for the human being as it once was.
Essential diet, health and weight loss plans in truth start with colon and liver cleansing. The awe-inspiring gains from bettering the cleanliness of these two organs by themselves can cause amazement in how you work and feel. While it is a procedure and takes some toleration, once the body returns to a balance that is more free of poisons the advantages can be amazing. Weight-loss commonly follows as well.
Your Liver Stores Fat
The liver is the most unreasonably used organ in your body. It is also the biggest fat retentive organ in the body. Here are just a few of the functions in the body that it is responsible for:
(l) Manufacturing and breaking down many hormones, such as estrogen, testosterone and cholesterol.
(2) Filtering and preparing all food, nutrients, drugs, alcohol and other stuffs that enter the bloodstream and allowing them move through, breaking them down or storing them.
(3) Making bile to change fats by digestion.
(4) Controlling blood sugar levels.
There is a recently established liver disease that is growing at a fast pace. This disease is called NUFLID. It is a non-alcohol, fatty liver illness. NUFLID affects about 5% of all people and over 25% of patients with type II diabetes and hyperacidity.
Today, people have stepped up liver stress through overindulgence of sugar in their diet, chemical stress, lack of in choline in the diet and poisons (over the counter medications, chemicals in topical or airborne products, lipid peroxidation (fats become rancid in the liver), ingested chemicals and plainly alcohol.
Fundamentally, all of this accretion of toxins virtually eeps?through the body, resulting in a wide range of symptoms, including: obesity, mood swings, fatigue, breath problems, depression, migraines, hormonal imbalances, bloating after eating, cravings for sugar, allergies and more.
So that elementary diet you are considering that includes loads of processed foods claiming to be ow carb?or ow calorie? etc. may really be forcing you to remain overweight! A great many people are sensitive to foods and their allergic reaction causes them retain weight, including holding lots of water.
In addition, these pre-packaged, processed foods lack nutrients, enzymes and all the important nutrition nature meant for all humans to have.
These concepts aren really perplexing or all that complicated. It is quite honest. However, making the liver and colon pure can be a difficult process. If you are ready to dedicate your attitude to your health, then this is a super place to begin. Yet it is justifiable to have someone like a diet or health coach directing you along the way and to help you stay with your commitment and decide to change your life for the better.
Not only could you merely add years to your life, but you may also add ife to your years!?
Whatever your choice and course for making changes, your first move should be to give your all for your good health. Tension and insufficient diets are uncontrolled and continue to be the leading causes of countless problems for so many people. The huge numbers of chronic diseases that continue to surface amaze medical doctors.
If you were to take a good hard look at what nutrition is now to modern people and what it was before the time of mass farming, pesticides and food processing that is laying waste to the nutritional value of our foods, you could be able to comprehend how poisoned and challenged modern man is. Living, walking, breathing and even drinking water on our globe isn't as simple for the human being as it once was.
Essential diet, health and weight loss plans in truth start with colon and liver cleansing. The awe-inspiring gains from bettering the cleanliness of these two organs by themselves can cause amazement in how you work and feel. While it is a procedure and takes some toleration, once the body returns to a balance that is more free of poisons the advantages can be amazing. Weight-loss commonly follows as well.
Your Liver Stores Fat
The liver is the most unreasonably used organ in your body. It is also the biggest fat retentive organ in the body. Here are just a few of the functions in the body that it is responsible for:
(l) Manufacturing and breaking down many hormones, such as estrogen, testosterone and cholesterol.
(2) Filtering and preparing all food, nutrients, drugs, alcohol and other stuffs that enter the bloodstream and allowing them move through, breaking them down or storing them.
(3) Making bile to change fats by digestion.
(4) Controlling blood sugar levels.
There is a recently established liver disease that is growing at a fast pace. This disease is called NUFLID. It is a non-alcohol, fatty liver illness. NUFLID affects about 5% of all people and over 25% of patients with type II diabetes and hyperacidity.
Today, people have stepped up liver stress through overindulgence of sugar in their diet, chemical stress, lack of in choline in the diet and poisons (over the counter medications, chemicals in topical or airborne products, lipid peroxidation (fats become rancid in the liver), ingested chemicals and plainly alcohol.
Fundamentally, all of this accretion of toxins virtually eeps?through the body, resulting in a wide range of symptoms, including: obesity, mood swings, fatigue, breath problems, depression, migraines, hormonal imbalances, bloating after eating, cravings for sugar, allergies and more.
So that elementary diet you are considering that includes loads of processed foods claiming to be ow carb?or ow calorie? etc. may really be forcing you to remain overweight! A great many people are sensitive to foods and their allergic reaction causes them retain weight, including holding lots of water.
In addition, these pre-packaged, processed foods lack nutrients, enzymes and all the important nutrition nature meant for all humans to have.
These concepts aren really perplexing or all that complicated. It is quite honest. However, making the liver and colon pure can be a difficult process. If you are ready to dedicate your attitude to your health, then this is a super place to begin. Yet it is justifiable to have someone like a diet or health coach directing you along the way and to help you stay with your commitment and decide to change your life for the better.
Not only could you merely add years to your life, but you may also add ife to your years!?
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