TIME FOR A SPRING CLEAN IN YOUR LIFE?
Spring-cleaning has its origins in ancient history. Back then, with no labour saving devices and no electricity, Spring marked the start of the season when the weather allowed complete cleaning of the cave or house.
Since then, the tradition has been maintained but now there is a new angle. It’s called coaching and it is, in effect, spring cleaning for your life.
Coaching is one of the most effective ways of staying green and growing, instead of becoming ripe and rotten. It is simply a way of looking at where you are now, where you want to be in the future and how you are going to get there.
A few people are able to do this themselves, but the vast majority find that having an outsider like me, to keep them on course is a vital ingredient in their lifes spring-cleaning.
Frankly I am not interested in how they got to where they are now. The only place that they can start to change their life is here and now. So I focus my clients totally on the future and the actions that will lead to the positive results that they actually desire.
In the same way as our homes become musty during the winter months, and often look in need of a new lick of paint, so our lives can become a bit tattered and full of mental junk that no longer serves us well.
We all without exception carry a load of excess baggage in the form of worry, guilt, fear and false beliefs or expectations. I am a great believer in the power of positive mental attitude and without this, very few of us would ever achieve anything or reach our full potential.
I work with clients to show how they can easily let go of all this baggage to create room in their lives for new and exciting challenges. Many clients are amazed at the positive impacts that even a small change or shift in attitude can produce. This really is spring-cleaning for the mind.
In the same way that the onset of Spring is often the catalyst that triggers a burst of domestic action, so a coach can be the catalyst that allows amazing and positive changes to happen.
I am still surprised at how often my clients tell me that their emotional and mental spring-cleaning is like a weight being lifted from their shoulders. The joy is that they do it all themselves. I am just there to show them the way.
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Jon Daniels is always happy to discuss this or any other aspects of his approach to coaching, absolutely free of cost or obligation. He can be contacted during normal office hours on Tel: 07778 521759 or visit his website, www.feelingfantasticltd.co.uk, for more free information.
Date: 07/05/2008
Category: SOCIAL ARTICLES