Learning is a process, which involves a series of other functions such as reading, listening and experimenting things. Some are fast learners while others are slow in learning. There are many factors, which affect the learning process, such as the atmosphere, attitude towards a new fact or findings etc.

Who learns faster?

The person who is willing to unlearn things faster will learn things faster than a person who is less willing to unlearn. Unlearning plays an equal and important role in the learning process. You may have already acquired some knowledge in some areas and you feel you are expert on the subject. May be a latest theory or findings can prove that whatever you learnt on the subject or part of your knowledge about the subject is wrong. Here comes the role of unlearning process. Unlearning is also a learning process in the sense that you must first learn why your assumption is wrong and how the new theory or findings help you better in solving a problem.

Sometimes, advanced learning is difficult if your foundation you built on the subject is wrong. This requires demolishing the foundation you built on the subject and building a new foundation based on your renewed understanding.

Learner’s Attitude

Learner’s attitude also determines how faster he can acquire new understandings. If the learner is less enthusiastic in a particular subject, he will be slow learner or in the worst case he will not understand a single thing he is learning. Learner’s attitude towards a particular subject needs to be corrected before he or she start learning that subject.

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Finally, Spring is here and with it comes the beginning of Fastpitch Softball season for hundreds of thousands of little girls. Along with the start of Softball season also comes the recruitment of parents to become volunteer coaches. The FEAR, the anxiety, the hope that you don’t lead your daughter’s team to a winless season. Here’s the good news, like just about anything else, if the new coach will find a successful mentor the coach can quickly learn what skills and strategies need to be utilized to win. However, the large majority of new fastpitch coaches are dads that think since they played baseball 20 years ago they can easily transfer that knowledge to their team and be successful. After all, it’s just a bunch of 7 & 8 year old girls, right? Wrong. To be successful the new coach not only has to coach his team, he must also out coach all of the other dad-coaches.

If you think coaching doesn’t make that big of a difference, then please explain how a coach went 93-4-2 over a 5 year period in 8U fastpitch softball while coaching his daughters. That’s a very impressive record no matter what age you are coaching. And don’t think for a moment that it was talent that led to that record. I’m talking about a team that every year lost half of it’s players to promotion to the older age group and had to pick up 6 or 7 brand new players…typically girls that had never played the game. So how could this one coach pile up 5 straight 1st place finishes and compile a winning percentage of .960%?

It boils down to great coaching and knowing what strategies work at different ages. That’s the only possible answer. For example, the three most important positions in 8U Softball are First Base, Pitcher and Second Base. As players get older it’s certainly true that talent can make a difference. But talent still has to be coached. An athletic player under a poor coach will never achieve her full potential. However, average talent can achieve superior levels under the guidance of a great coach.

Regarding offense, most new coaches tend to build a batting order similar to how professional baseball teams put together a batting order. That’s a sure way to lose games in 8U softball. The best advice is to stagger the strong hitters with weaker hitters mixed in. That way your team is able to bat further into the lineup, allowing for a couple of outs, yet scoring the maximum number of runs allowed. Many new coaches also forget to teach the girls how to bunt the ball. The younger the team is the more important it is teach girls to bunt as it helps to build hand-eye coordination while allowing the player to contribute to the success of the team.

Finally, most new coaches don’t know what training tools would be of greatest benefit to their team. Typically the league will issue a sack of softball gear that might include a couple of bats, a dozen balls, a few batting helmets, and some catcher’s gear and the new coach never gives it a second thought. However, regardless of age every coach needs to have a sack of plastic poly balls and a hitting tee just to name a couple of training aides. In the younger age groups a coach might want to have two or more hitting tees so his team gets plenty of practice time swinging a bat. As for the poly balls, not only are they perfect for batting practice, but they are also perfect for learning how to catch pop flys in order to prevent injuries.

Good Luck to all of the new softball coaches. Don’t assume you know it all, find a mentor, do some research, teach skills that are age appropriate, and have fun. It’s going to be a great season of softball and one that your daughter will never forget since her dad was the coach.

Jim Moyer is the author of http://www.mysoftballcoach.com Having coached over 500 youth fastpitch softball games, Jim decided to put the information online to allow parent/coaches to draw on his unique experience.

See the Future - Personal Visioning

The process of developing a vivid picture of the future is an important step in creating a future that is better than today. A clear, motivating image can inspire us to reach higher and overcome challenges. Once created, a vision will begin to impact today as a foundation for new decisions.

While all that sounds great, crafting a meaningful vision of the future isn’t always that simple! A blank piece of paper can be daunting whether you are an artist, a writer, a programmer, or a CEO. If your natural inclination is to skip ‘the vision’ and get right down to business, read on. Everyone can be a creative visionary!

ART AND SCIENCE

It is not a surprise that visual thinking plays an important role in the creative process; what many people don’t realize is the role that creative thinking plays in the strategic thinking and planning process.

Henry Mintzberg in “The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning” makes a clear distinction between the skills necessary for strategic thinking and the skills needed for planning. He explains that planning involves the left side of the brain with a need for logic, reasoning, linear and rational thinking. Strategic thinking, on the other hand, requires the ability to examine new possibilities involving the right brain. Strategic thinking entails tasks such as dealing with large chunks of information, and the ability to pull pieces together into a big picture. Planning involves words and numbers and strategic thinking requires patterns and visual images.

In “Strategic Thinking and The New Science,” T. Irene Sanders tells us that “strategic thinking has two major components: insight about the present and foresight about the future.” Visual thinking can help us link our intuitive sense of events in the world with our intellectual understanding.

Although there are different viewpoints, most current scientific research shows that while no one is totally left-brained or right-brained, most people have a distinct dominance on one side or the other. In tasks such as the development of a long-range strategy, where thinking needs to come from both sides of the brain, it is important to find ways to draw out both our imagination and our analytic abilities. Visual based techniques can help us link possibility thinking, intuition, and current realities.

VISUALIZATION

A vision can be a mental picture of an “ideal” organization, relationship or life. Studies have shown that we are more likely to reach an objective if we can see it and can imagine the steps to reach it. Visioning is a common strategy in sports. Olympic skaters imagine themselves going through the steps and landing a perfect jump.

Visual thinkers create pictures or models of a problem in their mind, play with the visual, move it around, refine it, and use it to raise more questions. A drawing or model helps push thinking further. Albert Einstein imagined himself traveling through the universe as a “man in a box” on a ray of light. This vision helped him develop the theory of general relativity.

TOOLS and TECHNIQUES

In any personal strategic planning process, there are four basic questions to answer:

Where are you now?
Where are you going?
Where do you want to be?
How are you going to get there?
Visual techniques can help to address these questions and assist the mind “to see.” Seeing can help with the process of identifying opportunities, organizing thinking, and setting goals.

Try out one of the following exercises:

Envision an article written in the future about you What would it say? In what publication would it be written?

Draw a picture of your desired future in a diagram, sketch, model, or in a
photographic montage. In “The Artist’s Way,” Julia Cameron suggests
creating collages or journals to help develop ideas.

Imagine yourself receiving an award for a major accomplishment.

What is the award for? What has been accomplished?

MIND MAPPING

Mind Mapping is a powerful technique that can help generate ideas and expand thinking. While there are many different “mind mapping” systems, the basic process involves expanding on ideas using key words and branches. The objective is to make a complex or thorny issue easier to understand, explore, or or talk about. The ‘Map’ itself uses words, lines, logic, colors, images, and links to draw out associations and stimulate thinking.

Create a simple mind map:

A. Draw a circle in the middle of a blank sheet of paper and write a project, goal, dream or idea in the center of the circle

B. Draw lines (spokes or branches) radiating out from the central circle

C. Write down thoughts/ideas that relate to the central circle at the end of each spoke and circle them

D. From each of the new circles repeat steps B-C, continuing out as far as you feel comfortable

Try translating the ideas to an outline form and try to create some action steps based on your thinking.

SUPPORT

Visual tools and techniques are the most effective when they are set in the right framework. One of the keys to good visioning is asking good questions. The combination of questioning and visual techniques can bring out the “creative thinker” in even the most task-oriented person. Are you focused on the right questions?

A properly trained coach can help you use these and many other techniques to help you paint a better picture of the future, and take action

Helene Mazur, MBA, CFP is the founder of Princeton Performance Dynamics, a business coaching company. Helene coaches professionals, business owners and their teams to reach out of their comfort zone to achieve important goals and do more of what makes them come alive. Her website is http://www.ppdbusinesscoaching.com

Do you spend hours reading self-help materials? Are you looking for that one insight that will change everything for you? Do you read about really good ideas that you would like to implement in your life, but never get around to doing so? Why is that? What is keeping you from making the changes that will improve your life? Read on and I will answer that question for you. Finally, you will know the secret to implementing all of those good self-help strategies.

I am a business and life coach. I work with people just like you. I work with people who are dedicated to improving themselves and have read the best of the self-help materials out there. Like you, they know what they SHOULD be doing to improve their lives. And, before they worked with a coach, like you, they were wondering why nothing they read ever really made a difference in their lives. Here is the answer to that question: Change is hard!

Change is hard. Doing what is familiar, even if you know it is not working for you, is easier. The familiar is comfortable. Even if you don’t like the results you get, at least you know what to expect. When you do something different, you step outside your comfort zone. When you are outside your comfort zone, you don’t know what to expect. Whatever you get, it will be something different. That is what makes change scary and uncomfortable. That is one of the barriers keeping you from implementing the strategies you read in self-help materials.

There is another barrier. When you implement something new in your life, you have to persist with it until it becomes a habit. Most people try a self-help strategy a couple of times, then give up on it. You must do it repeatedly, for a long enough time, until it becomes a habit. That is when you see results. Persistence is crucial!

Finally, there is another barrier that gets in your way–yourself! You get in your own way. Most likely, you are overlooking the key to making important change in your life. Each person is different. The barrier to implementing self-improvement strategies is different for each person. Most likely, you are overlooking the key to making important change in your life. What can you do about this situation?

Have an important conversation. Talk with a coach. A well-trained coach will hear you in a way you have never heard yourself before. A well-trained coach hears what you are not hearing within yourself. Coaching is about listening to yourself in a new way. Coaching is the process to implement the right self-improvement strategies for you. A well-trained coach strategizes with you to persist with important changes. A well-trained coach ensures you persist with positive changes until they become habits.

Working with a well-trained coach is priceless. Finally, you will make the life improvements you desire. You can read all you want, but if you are serious about improving your life, talk with a coach. Just one conversation will change your life!

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If you use teleclasses to promote your courses, products or coaching services, you know that getting people interested in your class is essential. And the first exposure your potential clients have to your message is in your teleclass description. By putting some thought, along with tested and true marketing principles, into your description, you are more likely to attract your ideal client. Here are 5 easy steps to follow.

(1) Target Practice

Have you defined your target market clearly? Of course, the biggest audience is best, but what you need for your teleclass to succeed is a message that speaks to your particular niche market.

Define your niche in very specific terms. Rather than “working mothers” go further into the market: “working mothers of children under the age of 6 who are feeling overwhelmed by the combination of work outside the home and family life”.

This will help you tailor your message to your specific target.

(2) Speak to a Single Person

Now that you have defined your target market, construct an image of a typical member of that group. Give your person a name, hair style, height, weight, etc. Make a “virtual target” complete with a name. Those who are visual learners will be able to do this quite easily, but it a great tool for writing your class description to have your target become as “real” as possible.

(3) Create an Outline

Bullet points are the best thing since sliced bread when writing a teleclass description. Make an outline of the top 3 to 5 things that you want your target to learn during your class. Be excruciatingly clear and specific.

No detail is too small for the outline and no stone should go unturned here. This is the “meat” of your description so take your time with this and consider what you want to impart, and what you feel the target needs to hear.

(4) Answer the Questions

Take the target’s place and make another outline of the top 3 to 5 things you think that your target would like to know about your teleclass subject. Consider all the angles from which your target may approach your teleclass.

If you know someone who is in your target, ask their opinion. Are you part of a message group that you could poll? Take this research and use it to your advantage.

(5) Write Away!

Now that you have your outlines, use them to craft your description. Keep it short and sweet. An attention grabbing headline is a must as most people will decide within seconds whether to read on or move on. Tell them what they will learn and how it will help answer their questions or address their issues.

Make your description conversational. Avoid technical jargon to make your description easily readable. Make it concise, as most listing services have a word limit. Create an opening, body and end; you can use your opening as a teaser or summary on some listing sites.

Don’t forget that even the smallest things will impact your reputation as a teleclass leader. Be aware of your spelling, grammar and tone of voice. They all represent you to your target. Since your ultimate goal is to grow your practice, pay attention to the fundamentals that create your foundation.

Now put it out to the Universe, and let the people come.

Jill Chongva is a Virtual Assistant with over 21 years experience in the Administration field. Her Executive Support Services for small business owners assist solopreneurs in making the most of their time and relieving their stress. You can find her at http://www.vadiva.com

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Have you ever thought about what your perfect work would be? How about the pattern of a typical work day for the rest of your life? What daily routine would get you excited and bring joy and happiness to your work?

This didn’t come with the job description

The problem with job descriptions is that they are defined by someone else. They rarely take into consideration what brings you fulfillment.

How do I get started?

Whether you work for yourself or someone else, it is critical to start with the idea of what would be just perfect for you. For example, when would you get up in the morning? Once up, what would your morning routine be? Would you start your day exercising, with a little run, or perhaps some yoga or meditation? Or would you make breakfast first instead? Would you eat alone or with others? Who would they be?

What would you wear to your work?

Sweats, suit, shorts?
What would be just perfect for you?
I’m sure by now you’re thinking, “What does all of this have to do with my job? After all, I go to my job and I’m stuck with the rest of the day based on how much time is left.”

Yes, that is the traditional way of looking at your work.
For those over you 40, I’m proposing a radical new way of looking at your work. You get to design your entire day around the work YOU want to do instead of just the limited time left over after an empty and meaningless day at the office.

Where would you go?

Where would you go for your work? What would be perfect for you?
Would you like to work from home, or would you prefer to work outdoors? Would you prefer to work alone or with others? Maybe you would rather drive a short distance to a small office and work with a small group of other people. Or perhaps you would enjoy working with hundreds of others around you in a large organization.

How about lunch?

When will you eat lunch? Where will you eat lunch? Who will you eat lunch with on a typical day?
Back in my corporate days, I remember sneaking out at lunch (I was in management) to go for a run. I also remember too many lunch hours spent in drab conference rooms, working with others while eating unhealthy food. I can remember thinking how terrible this was for my system.

How long will your work day be?

How long will you work each day? What will you do after work? Who will you spend your time with after work?
This is all part of the design of your perfect vocational day. How will your evenings go? Who will you spend your evenings with? It’s so important to have support and love and downtime after your work ends each day. Coming home, instead, to someone who does not support the work you love will drain you and you’ll have less energy for your quest for vocational happiness and for the experience of life itself.

How will your evenings go?

When will you eat dinner? Who will you be with at dinner on a typical day? What will you do after dinner? What does your evening look like?
Will you spend the evening alone, with others, or a combination of the two? Your evenings are an important part of your perfect vocational day. This again, is something most employers don’t care at all about, unless you are spending your evenings at the office, of course! This is the difference between creating the perfect work for you, and just dragging yourself home after a long day at the office and collapsing on the couch.
When you do just a job, the quality of your downtime suffers as you worry about the next day of work.

What about sleep?

At the end of your perfect vocational day, when will you go to sleep? How will you go to sleep? What nightly ritual will you follow before bed? A little yoga, a warm bath, light reading, television, or intimacy with someone you love?

What’s perfect for me?

You must keep asking yourself this question, because no one else will do it for you. Be careful as you design your perfect vocational day, because you will indeed start to move towards it. Make sure you really know just what you want.

Typical job searching is all backwards

Most people look for jobs that are available with little thought to all the other hours of their days. The typical job description only covers the requirements of the job. I have never seen one that covers whether you should exercise or eat a big breakfast.
The point is: it’s critical to design what you want BEFORE you go looking for it.

Now you get to play by new rules

After many years of playing the work game the traditional way, now you get to change the rules. When you design the work day you want, you automatically start to alter your thinking, and you start to focus on what you want and what you do not want. Unless you place your focus on what you want, you’ll start to focus too much on what you don’t want in your work life, and then this is exactly what you’ll end up with.

Now at work

Once at work, what exactly will you do? What activities will align your abilities and your interests and bring you the most joy?

Joy?

Yes joy! Now that’s a question no one in the HR department will ever ask you about! This is where you must be specific. Your mind can’t tell the difference between what is real and what is imagined when envisioning a work day that will bring you joy. You must create the reality you seek.

What are you working on?

Are you developing software, making sandwiches, teaching math, painting, speaking, doing financial analysis, taking pictures or promoting a new cosmetic product?
What would give you the most joy in your work? What would leave you breathless? What would make Monday your best day of the week and Friday the worst because you have to wait until Monday to resume your beloved work?
What work could you do now and continue to do until you stop breathing?

Why retiring will lead you to a quick death

The other day I received the enrollment package for AARP (American Association for Retired People) in the mail. This really scared me. Most Americans after 40 do not like their work, let alone love their work. They dream, instead, to one day retire, and then finally do what they enjoy. The problem with this strategy is that life tends to get in the way while making long range plans. After 40, crises will hit — it’s only a matter of when. If you are doing what you love, you have the best kind of health insurance. When your crisis hits, your work will give you the strength to ride out the storm, and then recover quickly.

You need to be specific

What are you working on that will last a lifetime?
Whether you are working for yourself or someone else, the questions are the same. What specific products or services are you offering in your perfect day of work? What are the features of each of these services? What are the benefits to others of what you are offering? Who are the ideal customers for your services? Day in and day out for the rest of your life, what type of person do you want to work with? Are they engineers, students, disabled children, artists or advertising reps?
Unless you are clear about it, you and your work will end up being mismatched.

Now what?

Ok, now you have the vision of your perfect vocational day. Is this a daily pattern you could follow for the rest of your life? Good! Now you can start to examine how to close the gap between your new vision and today.
For some of you, this will come easy. For others, years of external negative influences, and perhaps a little fear, might prevent quick action, and your next steps might have to be small.

The important part is that you start

Little steps turn into bigger steps. New possibilities turn into bigger possibilities. You are unique and special, and you have many gifts to offer the world. With a new vision of what would be just perfect for you, you can begin to create the second half of your life and work in a way that includes what is most important to you. As you plan your perfect vocational day, you will have begun moving down the path to an authentic life.

Can’t I just separate my life from my work?

This is just an excuse for not moving forward, and down deep, you know this is not possible. I wish it were, but it’s not. Your work and what you do impacts your health, your sense of self, your relationships with others and your overall happiness. Isn’t it worth taking just a little extra time to think about your perfect work life?
Before turning 40, we needed jobs and careers to build both our egos and our sense of self. After 40, jobs and careers are both limiting and outdated.

A new sense of urgency

After 40 when your crisis hits — and it will — you will have a new sense of urgency about your life and what to do with it. Your work, and what you do each and every day, is a great place to start.

I’ll be cheering you on as you go………

Craig Nathanson is the author of P Is For Perfect: Your Perfect Vocational Day, and a coaching expert who works with people over forty. Craig’s new E-book, Discover and live your passion 365 days a year is a workshop in a box designed to help busy adults go insane with their work. Craig’s systematic approach, the trademark “Ten P process,’’ helps people break free and move toward the work they love. Visit Craig’s online community at http:www.thevocationalcoach.com where you can take a class, get more ideas through Craig books and CD’s, get some private coaching over the phone or read stories of mid-life change and renewal.

Craig lives in San Anselmo, California. You can reach him at 415-457-0550 or at craig@thevocationalcoach.com.

Craig’s systematic approach, the trademark “Ten P process,’’ helps people break free and move toward the work they love. Visit Craig’s online community at http://www.thevocationalcoach.com where you can take a class, get more ideas through Craig books and CD’s, get some private coaching over the phone or read stories of mid-life change and renewal.

Craig lives in San Anselmo, California. You can reach him at 415-457-0550 or at craig@thevocationalcoach.com.

It’s nice, it’s nice to hear you know!

If someone will going to tell that you are not an arrogant and a hypocrite person.

It’s nice, it’s nice to hear you know!

If someone will going to tell that you are an honest and a trustworthy person.

It’s nice, it’s nice to hear you know!

If someone will going to tell that you are a friendly and a humble person.

It’s nice, it’s nice to hear you know!

If someone will going to tell that you’re an open – minded and respectful person.

It’s nice, it’s nice to hear you know!

If someone will going to tell that you’re a hardworking person and rendering a service with a quality results.

For continuous hearing these words it’s nice, it’s nice to hear you know!

Always encourage and motivate yourself to practice self-discipline,

Encouragement instead of discouragement,

Honesty instead of dishonesty,

Humbleness instead of pride,

Kindness instead of greediness,

Love and faithfulness instead of wickedness,

Sincerity instead of duplicity,

So you can be able to win favor from God and from your fellowmen.

Inculcate these words in your heart and mine,

If you really want to be successor in life,

Then don’t look and wait to someone to motivate you,

But look at your inner soul as your best motivator.

Finally, never ever take someone for granted,

Hold and value every person near to your heart,

Because you might notice and wake-up one day,

Realize that you’ve lost a gem while you were too busy in collecting stones!

Wish you many blessings to come and God bless!

Moises P. Reconalla

About the Author:

Moises P. Reconalla is the School Guidance Counselor, College Instructor and Working Students Supervisor at North Davao College, Panabo City, Philippines.

He has taught several courses at the college including: Guidance and Counseling, General Psychology, Philippine History: Roots and Development, General Anthropology and Sociology, and Dr. Jose Rizal: Life, Works & Writings.

You can send your comments about this Poem through his email wisdomisgreat@gmail.com or visit his blog at http://www.mosesreconalla.blogspot.com and read his articles that can motivate your mind to Think and Grow Rich!

All rights reserved worldwide. Copyright 2007 by Moises Padin Reconalla

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I just got a new computer. It’s the most fun I have had in a long time.

For those of you thinking, “Boy, she needs to get out more,” let me explain. My old computer was dying a slow death — and I’d procrastinated mightily in identifying its replacement. I was nervous: what if the new computer didn’t work any better? What if I picked the wrong one? I don’t know anything about computers. What if the person I hired to transfer the files did a bad job? My business relies on this computer.

But finally, the reality of my computer’s imminent demise overcame my list of worries. I took action – activated my network, found someone to build a machine for me and then transfer all of my files. In short, I had to make several decisions that involved a good-sized chunk of money and the health of my business.

So what made this process fun?

The RISK.

I fell in love with the risk. I was absolutely exhilarated by it. After a life time of hoping to avoid it and trying to circumvent the discomfort associated with it, I embraced it. I said, “Bring it on!” Granted, when I review my life, I see that through the years, I’ve taken lots of substantial risks, and most of them have worked well. I still dreaded them, but once resigned that I needed to move forward with those various actions, I proceeded in an agonized, albeit effective manner. The computer experience kicked off an internal shift in the way I perceive risk and make decisions. Looking back, I realized that I used the six steps to help me through my computer purchase and set up. Unknowingly, I’ve used these steps many times before. Perhaps these steps will help you as well.

The next time you’re making decisions that feel risky or are making a choice to take risk:

1. Gather information. When faced with any risk, whether you fear it or not, it’s imperative to gather the information you need to make informed decisions. Some people struggle at this point, depending on their personality and decision-making habits. Some want to jump into action too quickly, while others get bogged down in the information. Identify your own habits.

2. Look the decision or risk squarely in the face. What do you need to be honest about? What are the facts? What are the assumptions you’ve made? Do you require a contingency plan?

3. Notice any fear. If fear has crept in (and it probably has), observe it. Is it stopping you from moving forward, standing up for yourself, or expressing your needs or desires? Try jotting down your concerns on a piece of paper. Review each one – which fears are ungrounded? What are you avoiding? Which concerns require action? What would that action be? What support or assistance do you need?

4. Identify the decisions. Usually, any risk involves making a series of smaller decisions that either lead up to the big decision or follow it. Again, note these on paper. What’s the logical sequence for decisions? Do you know the decision that you’ll make? What obstacles, if any, are in your way? What else do you need to know?

5. Check in with yourself. What’s your gut feeling? Tuning in is especially important if you’re sitting on the fence or feel forced to take a risk with less information than you’d like. Risk taking inherently requires a leap of faith and confidence in yourself that no matter what happens, you can handle it, find a solution or get the help that you need.

6. Make the decision! Now that you’ve completed the previous five steps, you’re in a better position to take the risk that’s right for you.

Here’s the other thing my computer adventure taught me about risk. It becomes exhilarating when you have confidence in yourself and have faith in your actions. I was pretty sure that if I took the right actions, I’d see the right results. I also noticed that facing my fear was a more direct route to my goals than continuing along the circuitous path of avoidance I’d been taking while procrastinating.

By the way, the new computer runs like a champ. It’s wicked fast — as we like to say here in the northeastern part of the US (in New England??). The files transferred beautifully. And, it turns out that, in the end, I knew a thing or two about computers after all.

Claudette Rowley is a professional coach, speaker and author who helps savvy professionals like you identify their true purpose and calling and mobilize the courage to pursue it. Sign up for her free monthly ezine “Insights for the Savvy” at http://www.metavoice.org or contact her directly at info@metavoice.org.

Personal Coaching Programs are being increasingly undertaken by various individuals in order to tackle different aspects of their professional and their personal lives. The basic idea that lies behind personal coaching programs is to enhance the individual himself. In other words this means, that self improvement is an important aim of personal coaching programs. The number of personal coaching programs has grown. However, their aim has remained the same i.e. self improvement.

In the process of personal coaching programs, an interview is first conducted at the personal level. This is undertaken to understand the position of the individual. Goals that need to be accomplished are put forth. Ways to achieve them are taken into mind. During personal coaching programs, the individual is expected to accomplish certain objectives; these will help him in enhancing his personality. This will, in turn, help in self- improvement. The process of personal coaching programs will continue depending about the requirements of the individual. The individual will have to be assessed as per his necessities. This sort of assessment will provide information about the person’s self. And will undoubtedly contribute in self improvement.

The awareness of an individual about himself will definitely have to be increased through the coaching program. Unless the self is analyzed improvement will remain a distant dream. New insights are put forward about the inner workings of an individual through personal coaching programs. A better knowledge about the self will help in formulating a game plan to achieve the aims and objectives that have been already decided. This should instill new energy into the individual to work towards improving himself. Thus, it will contribute in making him a better person.

The personal coaching programs have a specific approach. The level of communication that is basically required is set up. The technique that is to be used to establish an efficient rapport among people is decided. Opportunities that are available to a person are analyzed. Effective ways to tackle challenges that are there have to be formed. Feedback is important in personal coaching programs. Without any feedback, one cannot embark upon the path of self–improvement. Hence, feedback should be effectively provided. This will enable the individual to tackle the shortcomings. After this, aims and objectives can be achieved. In this way, personal coaching programs contribute in self-improvement.

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I had a client, on my Television show; ask me why I felt he would benefit from a Coach. I knew he wasn’t asking for the usual list I gave. He wanted to know why, working with a coach, actually worked. I usually tell people a few things about how I coach. I find that telling too much generally goes into information overload or I just send them to my Squidoo Lens.

But I do say three things:
1. I consider them an expert in their life. They have all the skills, tools, power and knowledge to create permanent change in their lives.
2. I also work using Intentional Questioning. This means it is my intention to provoke thought, reflection and finally inspiration.
3. Lastly Inspiration is the key here. It is the single most powerful tool available to them that creates permanent change and enhances motivation.

It still doesn’t explain why they need a coach to do this. So I allowed myself to get a bit technical. I reminded him that it only takes two seconds to create a new habit. I also told him that the brain loves to be organized and loves working on problems. When your brain is working on a problem the electrical firing that goes on is amazing and actually visible on an MRI.

Because the brain is organized the second you introduce a new pattern of behavior it immediately starts firing up again. This is not a problem but it most definitely messes up the neat and tidy way it’s got your mind organized. Introducing a change causes a great deal of electrical activity which causes a lot of emotional energy to be released. You may know it by another name: fear.

So you’ve got two strikes against you if you try to Do-It-Yourself. First the brain prefers to look at a problem instead of a solution. Unless you have someone outside of yourself to keep you focused on dealing with a solution, it’s much easier to just fall back on focusing on the problem. It’s quite an energy rush but does it really create the solution and change a client is looking for? Not really.

The second problem is the issue the brain has with change. If you are alone in doing this you will constantly come up against your brain’s huge desire to avoid change at all costs. This is almost as powerful and energy rush as just looking at the problem.

As a coach I offer two methods of helping you get past this hump. Yes it does take 1 – 2 seconds to create the habit but it takes time to nurture and anchor this new idea in your mind. And that is exactly what I do. I spend my coaching time nurturing the idea, reminding of you of the idea and offering delayed-feedback so that the idea and the excitement of the inspiration stays foremost in your mind.

The second thing I do is offer encouragement and positive feedback at the right times, regularly and often. When you come up against that fear the only way to deal with it is have someone, outside of yourself tell you that everything is going to be okay, you are doing great and just hang in there. Now that takes more than 1- 2 seconds and probably why people say it takes 21 days to create a new habit. I believe it takes 21 days to anchor the new behavior and eliminate the old one.

It would be great if you could do this yourself but I told my client we are our own worst enemy when it comes to change. Doing-it-Yourself just doesn’t cut it when you all alone, doubt your ability and being seduced by the energy your brain is releasing.

Maureen Miller B.Ed., C.U.G.,
Associate Certified Coach
Certified Teleclass Leader
Coaching Personally
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