Coached to Success

Self-Coaching to Heighten Self-Discovery

  What is Coaching?

When a person faces a challenge and becomes stuck, he or she may seek the services of a personal coach. Once this commitment is made, the person begins to experience a different, more hopeful, world as his or her perceptions evolve in meeting the personal challenge.

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As powerful and effective as professional coaching can be, it is only affordable to less than one percent of the workforce. 

 

What is Coached to Success? Coached to Success is dedicated to providing insightful self-coaching to help you achieve your life goals.  John G. Agno shares his decades of professional coaching and consulting knowledge to create a better life for many through proprietary self-coaching guides; delivered to your smart phone, tablet, eReader, and computer or via low-cost paperback books. Agno knows what caused the strain, stress and frustration of his successful clients in order to help them create effective and profitable solutions.  The purpose of Coached to Success is to communicate these unique insights in blog postings and self-help books at prices so low that as many people as possible are able to afford and use them in their personal and professional lives.  These powerful self-coaching solutions can deliver life-changing possibilities for those willing to allow their perceptions to evolve.   What is professional coaching and how can it help you?    For the answer to that question, download and listen to this MP3 recording of a recent interview.  Coach Agno knows that sometimes our thoughts aren't crystal clear and we can be diverted from our goals.  Agno's job is to coach people to greater awareness, increased clarity and focus, develop your signature talents into strengths and achieve a sense of well-being which often translates into higher compensation, job satisfaction and the practical use of their skills and abilities.  Agno believes that every executive needs a coach.  However, the purpose of Coached to Success is to help those of you, who don't now have an executive coach but need to pay attention to your intentions and get to where you want to be.  Please keep up with and "Like" us at: https://www.facebook.com/CoachedtoSuccess.info

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Over the years, I have discovered success is powered by three things: know-how, reputation and a network of contacts. That's it. That's the secret.

The formula for success = your human capital (what you know) times your social capital (who you know) times your reputation (who trusts you).

You can take away all my money but if I can keep my smarts, my business relationships and reputation, I'll get it all back and then some. 

Having knowledge, social capital and trust is the ultimate security blanket in good times and bad.

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Happiness is something you design.

 Creating a happy life is not a destination, but a process.

Happiness starts with the desire to intentionally create a life of purpose--a life in which we choose to use our unique set of gifts and talents to make a difference in the world.

Our life is full of choices.

You get to choose where to prioritize your time, and time is limited.  Will you choose to spend time with your children, or will you choose to spend time working?  At the end of life, you will not wish you had gotten one more thing done.  You'll wish you had attended the baseball game where your son hit his only home run.

The perfect career or business for you will blend your unique strengths, talents, interests and priorities into an opportunity to pursue a worthwhile, meaningful purpose in a work environment that will fit your personality and style.

You alone are responsible for creating the life you desire.

The bottom line is you get to decide what you want from your life.  No one else can do this for you.  Once you have decided, you have to act upon the discovery you have made.

Source: Becky Lynn Smith: Designing Your Ideal Life: Create Your Blueprint for Success and Happiness

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  Women, Know Thyself: The most important knowledge is self-knowledge. 

 Everyone you meet these days is overworked and out of time. 

 

Your Attitude Matters

 

Your attitude will be one of the first things people notice about you.

In his book, "Attitude is Everything," Keith Harrell writes, "You may not be able to change your height or your body type, but you can change your attitude.  A positive attitude is not only a product of genetics and heredity but, with proper trainng, an acquired trait."

Since productive work is all about getting things done with and through others, a negative attitude will cost you dearly in terms of ineffective team work, poorly functioning meetings, and ultimately significant time loss.

Choose an attitude of gratitude.  Be recognized as someone who is positive rather than negative.  Look to find opportunities where others see problems.

Accept responsibility for your internal dialogue.  Recognize and put a stop to the stories we tell ourselves that are not based on fact.

Live your life with purpose and passion.  A personal vision will keep you focused and upbeat.  Believe in yourself and take on a can-do attitude.

Effective time management allows you to be more flexible, not less flexible.  It facilitates you doing the things you really want to do and being the person you want to be.

When you put your newly adopted self-coaching tips into practice, everything that comes your way becomes organized.  Your systematic decision-making results in clarity, productivity, accountablity and empowerment.  You easily manage commitments and projects by defining critical objectives and implementation details.  You and your team do what each of you does best, becoming highly productive while achieving desired outcomes and minimal stress and maximum result.

  

Source: Keith Harrell: Attitude is Everything Rev Ed: 10 Life-Changing Steps to Turning Attitude into Action

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Do you make one or two New Year resolutions each year but have had little success in following through on them? 

Here are five reasons why it is so difficult to achieve our New Year resolutions:

1.  Powerful countervailing forces appear when we attempt to engineer positive change.

2.  Our overbooked lives and strong immunity to change try to keep us from relearning deeply ingrained habits.

3.  Most people don't respect their strong immunity to change and, therefore, don't develop the support systems necessary to overcome this powerful and dynamic equilibrium to stay the same.

4.  We don't give our brain enough time and energy to relearn deeply ingrained habits by developing and following a goal-achieving plan through personal determination, practice, repetition and the support of others.

5.  Some feel they need a change but have a difficult time articulating/envisioning what that change looks like and how to plan to make it real.

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Why does self-awareness matter?

By learning from Coach Agno's self coaching tips, you can take the shortest, most direct path to success. 

The actionable tips you receive make the abstract concrete, provide useful technique and suggest that the full spectrum of consciousness encompasses both the physical and a multitude of nonphysical dimensions of reality.

Don't read these insights with your mind only.  Watch for a "feeling-response" and a smart sense of recognition from deep within you.  Coached to Success aims to reach that place within you where you already know and where the truth is recognized when it is heard.

It is our hope that Coached to Success will reach those who find the content worthy of consideration--even though they may not be ready to fully live or practice what they read.  Perhaps, at a later time, the seed that was sown while reading an insight will merge with the seed of enlightenment, that one carries within, and suddenly sprout and come alive.

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What is Success?

 Our assumptions and beliefs drive our behavior. 

What we believe we can achieve, we achieve.  Yet, when we believe we are not good enough to achieve something, we don't.  Fear is the only thing that holds people back from achieving personal success.  Success lies in being who you are, not in what you fear you should be.  What you think, happens to you.

Everyone strives for success in one form or another. 

People need to achieve worthwhile goals to feel satisfied with their lives, but everyone's goals vary.  We all need to become the kind of person we individually aspire to be.  Only you know what's important in achieving your vision of success.  However, we all seek shared outcomes, like happiness, self-awareness and expression, achievement and satisfying interpersonal relationships, to provide a foundation for where we want to be. 

You can drastically increase your chances of succeeding in business and life when you learn from a coach or mentor--someone who once stood in your place and overcame all obstacles to earn success and happiness.  Coaching and mentoring provide the personal training that helps you focus your natural abilities in the right direction.  Coached to Success insights allow your inner potential to erupt out toward success.

An important aspect of self-discovery occurs when we recognize that individuals are all unique, that each of us sees the world through our specific lens. This is the perspective from the inside looking out. We’re not better or worse, we’re just unique. When we accept that fact, we begin to understand the importance of allowing individuals to approach situations in their own way, both in personal and professional arenas.

When Doing It All Won't Do

The most important knowledge is self-knowledge.

Control Your Own Destiny

On demand, immediate learning in digestable bites allows for on-the-job application while fitting easily into action-packed schedules.  Research indicates that people learn better, retain more and are positively motivated when supported by regular and frequent coaching.

As powerful and effective as professional coaching can be, it is only affordable to less than one percent of the workforce. 

That is why self-coaching insights, easily retrieved from a mobile smartphone, tablet, e-reader or laptop, grabs managers’ attention with compelling content to make them feel a sense of urgency to act on what they learned. 

In psychology, the term “thin slicing” refers to the brain’s ability to draw surprisingly accurate conclusions from very limited information.  Applied to leadership development, thin slicing is about isolating thin slices of learning and delivering powerful insights from a single bite-size concept.  Instead of starting big, it starts small.  A short, incomplete slice of learning can deliver a powerful “Aha” moment and create behavior change more effectively than a longer learning module or conversation that tries to cover too much: 

1) Workplace performance coaching should be delivered in short bursts – just six to 10 minutes at a time.  Today’s multi-tasking workforce has neither the time nor the attention span for traditional lengthy training formats. 

2) People learn best when training and coaching is focused on a narrow concept where learning goals are clearly defined.  When this knowledge is delivered in small packets, the brain can easily absorb, remember and apply what it learns. 

3) Performance coaching and self-coaching are most powerful when grounded in verifiable research.  When managers see performance coaching and self-coaching as credible, they’re more likely to translate their learning into on-the-job behavior.

Leadership development matters.

Albert Einstein once said, "We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles but no personality. It cannot lead; it can only serve." 

 

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Coached to Success books and coaching tips exist to heighten self-discovery for better work/life integration.

For example, the background for our career women book series evolved from working with a succession of coaching clients.  We realized that women do not automatically experience the same professional issues that men routinely face.

Instead, they stuggle to be all things to all people--and along the way they neglect themselves and their own priorities.  What we discovered serves as the backbone for these books, and for their solutions, strategies and essential tools. 

Our goal is help make their lives easier, richer, happier and saner.

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Top Jobs for 2015

 Looking for a new job in the New Year?

CareerBuilder partnered with Economic Modeling Specialists Intl. (EMSI) to compile a list of hot jobs for 2015 based on supply and demand. The list features occupations for which the number of jobs companies post each month significantly outpaces the number of people they’re actually able to hire – showing where companies are hungry for talent and how much the positions pay.

“Job creation is gaining ground and job seekers are gaining leverage,” said Matt Ferguson, CEO of CareerBuilder and co-author of The Talent Equation. “For nearly 70 occupations in the U.S., the rate at which workers are being hired isn’t keeping up with the frequency and volume of open positions being advertised. By drawing attention to talent deficits, our list underscores opportunities in everything from technology and health care to sales and transportation for job seekers looking to make a change.”

The analysis uses EMSI’s extensive labor market database, which pulls from over 90 national and state employment resources. CareerBuilder and EMSI looked at the average number of people hired per month in more than 700 occupations from January 2013 to August 2014 and compared that to the number of job postings for each occupation aggregated from online job sites for the same period.

Among occupations that require a college education and have the largest gap between job openings and hires are:

Occupation	Average Monthly Unique Job Postings	Average Monthly Hires	Gap Between Postings and Hires	Job Growth 2010 - 2014	Total Employment in 2014	Median Hourly Earnings
Marketing Executive1	34,613	11,617	22,996	10%	191,872	$57.42
Software Developer, Applications	52,700	31,616	21,084	15%	684,614	$44.66
Registered Nurse	122,922	103,804	19,118	5%	2,729,647	$32.51
Industrial Engineer	26,031	7,880	18,151	9%	235,817	$38.96
Network and Computer System Administrator	35,788	18,734	17,054	7%	378,638	$35.84
Web Developer	30,108	14,616	15,492	17%	151,081	$28.02
Medical and Health Services Manager	27,696	12,626	15,070	6%	317,314	$43.61
Physical Therapist	24,425	10,880	13,545	10%	211,296	$38.63
Speech-Language Pathologist	15,113	7,112	8,001	5%	133,383	$34.00
Sales Manager	28,589	22,280	6,309	8%	376,238	$51.98

Among occupations that don’t require a college degree, but have gaps between job openings and hires are²:

Occupation	Average Monthly Unique Job Postings	Average Monthly Hires	Gap Between Postings and Hires	Job Growth 2010 - 2014	Total Employment in 2014	Median Hourly Earnings
Truck Driver, Heavy and Tractor-Trailer	242,400	131,902	110,498	9%	1,838,993	$18.37
Merchandise Displayer and Window Trimmer	20,808	6,126	14,682	5%	79,145	$13.11
Orderly	7,287	2,079	5,208	4%	56,944	$11.66
Sales Representative, Wholesale and   Manufacturing	18,547	14,802	3,745	7%	385,789	$35.59
Purchasing Manager	5,286	2,534	2,752	7%	72,351	$49.86
Medical Records and Health Information   Technician	9,224	7,332	1,892	6%	187,947	$16.81
Telemarketer	23,733	22,224	1,509	8%	250,429	$11.03
Demonstrator and Product Promoter	12,742	11,308	1,434	10%	96,096	$12.26

¹ The Marketing Manager occupation includes everything from Vice President of Marketing to Director and Manager, etc.
² Some occupations may require additional training after high school.

About EMSI
Economic Modeling Specialists Intl., a CareerBuilder company, turns labor market data into useful information that helps organizations understand the connection between economies, people, and work. Using sound economic principles and good data, EMSI builds user-friendly services that help educational institutions, workforce planners, and regional developers build a better workforce and improve the economic conditions in their regions. For more information, visit http://www.economicmodeling.com/.

About CareerBuilder®
CareerBuilder is the global leader in human capital solutions, helping companies target and attract great talent. Its online career site, CareerBuilder.com®, is the largest in the United States with more than 24 million unique visitors and 1 million jobs. CareerBuilder works with the world’s top employers, providing everything from labor market intelligence to talent management software and other recruitment solutions. Owned by Gannett Co., Inc. (NYSE:GCI), Tribune Company and The McClatchy Company (NYSE:MNI), CareerBuilder and its subsidiaries operate in the United States, Europe, South America, Canada and Asia. For more information, visit http://www.careerbuilder.com/.

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