“One of the reasons people don’t achieve their dreams is that they desire to change their results without changing their thinking.”
John C. Maxwell , Thinking For A Change
As a personal and executive coach I partner with people to create change in their lives, whether it is changing the career path they have chosen, the level of management they are seeking, the kind of clients they want to be selling to, or the balance they want to experience between their personal and business lives.
When an individual begins the coaching partnership it is often because they are frustrated with their current progress, it is not moving along fast enough, they are experiencing many roadblocks and they can’t seem to keep focus or stay on track towards their goal. Our first step is usually to discover where they are on, what I identify as, “the clarity scale”.
Do they truly know what the goal is and why they want to attain it? Have they defined the goal in a manner that they can feel connected to its purpose? What are their thoughts in connection with the goal?
Many times the first questions are answered with great detail and they have even created a strategy to reach the goal they wish to attain, broken it down into manageable steps and have begun the process to reach the goal. Most often the missing piece that causes the roadblock to success is not their ability or knowledge or even their organization, but the thoughts they harbor around the goal.
The first business I started was an insurance agency. I worked hard to build the agency for 5 years putting in hours and effort beyond what most people would ever put forth. After blood, sweat, and tears, the years of hard work finally started to pay off. I made many mistakes and many good decisions along the way, but I learned and progressed to the point of being “successful” financially and figuratively. I stayed in that plateau for 10 years thinking that was all I deserved, until some drastic changes in my thinking allowed me to go beyond the plateau and brought 10 times the success with less effort.
I shifted from earning a living to attracting abundance, and the shift was made in small little changes in action, skills, and most of all my “thinking”. The abundance was always there, it was I that needed to change.
Coaches Challenge: Examine your thinking around your goals and who you are with this goal. Ask yourself some questions to trigger understanding of your current thought processes and what changes you may have to make.
• If your goal is to balance your home and work days: Do you believe it is possible? Do you think you deserve to have a balanced life? How does a balanced person think, react, look?
• If your goal is to change your client base to a more affluent group of people: How do you have to think differently to make this change? What thoughts do you have that will inhibit/forward this goal?
Begin to change the way you think to enhance your goals.
Namaste
Coach Kevin
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