If you find that you are resisting something, then it’s a good practice to simply make that known to yourself.
“I am resisting doing…”
This way, we can at least see what we are doing, and it doesn’t pass by in a dazy haze.
Archive for February, 2008
Resistance – exercise
Posted in John the Coach on February 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Create your reality – exercise.
Posted in John the Coach on February 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Look at a situation, person, object – right now. Notice how you feel about that is based upon how you perceive that situation, person, object.
If there were 10 other people in the room, they would each have a different perception and therefore a different feeling.
That being that case, your own perception is not THE [...]
Starting the Day
Posted in John the Coach on February 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
How do you start the day?
You may not think it’s important, but if you can set your intent at the start of the day, this will have a tremendous effect of your focus and your energy levels.
Do this each and every day, and you will notice your intent getting stronger.
For example, you might say, “The [...]
Fear’s many faces
Posted in John the Coach on February 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Fear comes in many guises, and I find that it is easy to justify fear with the aim of escaping from a challenge.
For example, feeling the fear and recognising it, but telling myself, “Oh, I don’t really need to do that right now.” and putting off.
But often, this is simply fear of being exposed, one [...]
Needs not Forms
Posted in John the Coach on February 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
When you begin to explore your purpose, look at what needs are being met by the things (forms) you love to do.
For example, if you draw, what does that feel like? If you write a great report, what needs does that meet? What did you do it for?
To put it another way, What [...]
Purpose and Meeting Needs
Posted in John the Coach on February 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
What is your purpose? What are you alive for in this moment? The operative word being “for”.
Think about when you are feeling “on purpose”. You will find that it is synonymous with having your deepest needs met.
They are met through the medium of your actions operating through a particular form.
Don’t make the [...]
New = Challenge = Opportunity
Posted in John the Coach on February 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If you want to change something in your life, then inevitably it will be NEW to you. Being NEW it will be a CHALLENGE, and within a challenge sits an OPPORTUNITY waiting to be invited out.
So decide on something that you wish to change. Then ask yourself, “What is the challenge in this [...]
Questions are useless without Open-ness
Posted in John the Coach on February 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A great deal of coaching revolves around asking questions. Questions are seen as the doorways into possibility. And they are. A question can open up an new thread, or shift our perspective, or change the meaning…
But without an open-ness to receive the question fully, and to respond as objectively and as [...]
What would progress look like?
Posted in John the Coach on February 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It is often the case, that there is no need to focus on the “problem” as such.
Instead, focus on what progress would look like.
For example, if you were wanting to be more organised at work, you could spend a lot of time examining the causes of your dislike etc etc etc.
On the other hand, if [...]
Tactics of Not-Seeing
Posted in John the Coach on February 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
There are some issues/challenges that we know are there but which we choose not to see.
Whenever we try and deal with it, something happens to throw a spanner in the works. Often, it results in a distraction of sorts. The end result being that it has “slipped out of our fingers”.
The best way to hold [...]
