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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
