Your Pocket Life-Coach: 10 Minutes a Day to Transform Your Life and Your Work. Carole Gaskell

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      Understand your blocks and take action to move forward As you progress through this section you’ll identify any potential obstacles in your way and discover what you can do to overcome them. You’ll be encouraged to acknowledge the limiting beliefs that are holding you back and will be challenged to create empowering beliefs to move you forwards. If you need any tools, resources, new skills or abilities to ease your transformation you’ll start taking steps to find them and to close your gaps.

      8 Gain Focus and Achieve More in Less Time

      Plan ahead, clarify your priorities and stay focused A cornerstone in transforming your life is planning ahead and focusing on your priorities. The assignments in this section will enable you to hone your focus and manage yourself superbly so you achieve more in less time.

      9 Shape Up Your Finances

       Plug your money drains and create firm financial foundations

      Next you’ll be encouraged to take charge of your finances, eliminate debt and understand your emotional blocks about money. As you take action you’ll be strengthening your money situation and establishing ways of propelling yourself forward financially.

      10 Take Action, Maintain Momentum and Flow

      Pay regular attention to your goals and celebrate your successes Finally, you’ll be pulling the whole process together, integrating your action plans into your daily life and bringing your goals into reality. You’ll be inspired to step outside of your comfort zones, take advantage of synchronicity, celebrate your successes — big and small — and create real momentum to transform your life on an ongoing basis!

      Enjoy the Process

      There is a huge difference between understanding the theory and putting it into practice. Tackling each assignment, answering a question and identifying your action points will take you 10 minutes a day; however putting some of your insights into practice could take longer.

      The real value in coaching is the role it plays in inspiring and empowering you to take ACTION to do the things you say you want to do. But once you’ve taken the first few steps, you (and your life) will start to gather momentum. It may take time to fully integrate all the elements of transformation but the more steps you take, the more you’ll find yourself ‘in the flow’ and the sooner you’ll start enjoying the life you really want.

      

The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time.

      Abraham Lincoln

      Getting the Most out of the Exercises

      You are the creator of your life – no-one else, so the more effort you put in, to answering the quizzes and questions and taking action on the assignments, the more results you’re likely to achieve. Why not start now? It’s never too early (or too late) to transform your life!

      Familiarise Yourself with the Process

      Before you start going through the steps in detail, you might find it useful to give yourself an overview by quickly skimming over the chapters to familiarise yourself with the process. The assignments themselves can be followed in sequence, or you may prefer to focus on the sections that appeal to you the most – go with whatever works best for you.

      As life is constantly changing and moving in cycles, you might find you want to revisit key sections several times. The process can provide the structure for a regular review that you can re-use year after year as you perfect different elements of your life.

      Make Yourself Accountable to Someone

      No man is an island and one of the great benefits of lifecoaching is the synergy between the coach and client – people can often achieve a lot more by pulling their resources together and supporting each other – two heads and hearts can be greater than one. Bearing this in mind, I suggest you get the support of someone – perhaps a friend, family member, work colleague, or even a coach – as you work through this book. You’ll derive great benefits from sharing your thoughts and insights with another person.

      Any process of change will, at some point, bring you face to face with thoughts or issues that you would perhaps prefer not to look at. Your support person may also be able to help you with these ‘growing pains’.

      Your helper will act as a constant reminder to you of who you want to be and what you want to achieve. You need someone who will stand by you through thick and thin, someone you can trust to support you, hold you to your commitments and keep you on track.

      

       I will make myself accountable to: _________________________________________________

      Allow Yourself ‘Quiet Time’ to Think Things Through

      As you work through a specific assignment you might want to stop and ponder for a while. I actively encourage you to do this. Sometimes, it’s during the gaps between our thoughts that we gain the real insights and answers to our life’s questions.

      To do this, I suggest that you take yourself to a quiet inspirational place in your home. Play your favourite music, sit in your favourite chair, light a candle, look at your favourite view – do whatever is necessary to fully access your thoughts. If you prefer, a visit to your local café or park or a drive in your car might spark your imagination and give you the answers you’re looking for. Remember the answers are inside you, so the more comfortable and ‘at one’ you feel with your environment, the easier you’ll find it to open yourself up, increase your awareness and draw the answers to you.

      Keep Your Insights in a Journal or Notebook

      As you work through Your Pocket Life Coach you’ll probably want to make notes or jot down the answers to the questions. You can use the blank pages at the back of this book or a journal or notebook – why not treat yourself to one now, before you begin?

      Confirm Your Commitment

      As you begin the lifecoaching process, it’s important to acknowledge that whilst ideas, dreams and goals have a valuable place in your life, they’re only as good as your commitment to achieving them. Are you ready to start taking the steps required to turn your ideas into reality?

      

How committed are you to transforming your life? Rate yourself on a scale of 1 to 10. 1 being not committed at all and 10 being totally committed.

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