Be Your Own Life Coach - Part 1

I thought I would throw some tips out there in case you that would like to do a bit of self-coaching. It is possible to coach yourself although does require a high level of discipline and more importantly self-awareness. So if you are up for the challenge, here we go:

Know Your Values – Unless you know what your core values are you will struggle with blocks in your life. All our decisions are based around our values and what we consider imperative to our lives. For example, if you have a number one value of integrity and work for a business that rips off its customers (even if you are not involved in the actual process) then you will feel uncomfortable either consciously or unconsciously. There are also away from values, things that we move away from at all costs and again we should know what these are as they can frequently be the reason why we just can’t follow through with things no matter how hard we try.

Accept Beliefs Aren’t Real – Our belief system is something that we have built up over our life. It comes from our parents, our friends, our colleagues and many other sources and is ever changing. We all believed in the tooth fairy at some stage yet now we know that to be a false belief. What false beliefs about your abilities are you holding onto that are holding you back? When you know they are, undermine them, look for counter examples and replace them with more empowering beliefs. After all, if you think you can, you can.

The Map Is Not The Territory – This is a presupposition of NLP and critical to understanding and making changes. Just because we view something one way does not necessarily make it so. Respect other peoples views and opinions as they have their own maps and no one person holds the correct one.

Understand Perceptual Positions – If in moments of introspection you can take a step back and view your life or any given situation from a watchers point of view you will often see things that you can’t see from your angle. It can also be useful to take the 2nd person position, which involves seeing you through the eyes of the person you are talking to or involved with.

Realize Everybody Deletes Information – The human mind can only deal with 7 + or – 2 things at any one time so we have to delete loads of information or we go into sensory overload. Until I just mentioned it you probably weren’t aware of the feeling of your foot on the floor. We are creatures of deletion so try and be aware of what you may be deleting and also those around you.

I will follow up tomorrow with 6 thru 10, in the meantime have fun playing about with these and if you want more information e-mail me through my website.

www.adaringadventure.com

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