by miami | Oct 4, 2006
Last post I talked about a former coaching client who was has being going through some challenging issues in his life and is willing to share with you. Finding happiness is not an easy thing.
I believe if you try too hard to find happiness it eludes you.
Not too long again I challenged him (let’s call him Steve) to do something to help him move out of his own way.
Steve had shared he thought his main challenge was getting focused.
Here is what I challenged him to do. Answer three simple questions.
1. Why do you want to be focused?
2. When do you want to get focused?
3. What is standing in your way of being focused? What would it take to get focused?
Here was his answers:
1. So that I can earn a stable income and raise my self esteem back up to where it
should be. This will pretty much eliminate my depression.
2. Immediately
3. I left this one for last because I don’t know the answer. Maybe coming up with something (like a baseball bat on the head every
morning) to remind me first thing every morning would help. I have been getting
to the gym every day for a while now. I do know that I feel more energized when
I exercise regularly. I think that perhaps starting earlier every day with the
gym routine may be useful. I seem to have problems with mornings and getting
started and the exercise helps. I also need to follow your advice and make more
time for myself and do a little less for others. Helping other people is a good
thing but it can also be excessively time consuming.
Interesting hmmmm?
I want your comments on this. Do you relate to this? What would be your answers? What do you think of these answers?
Stay tuned as tomorrow I will share with you what I told him. Put it this way – he wasn’t a real happy camper!
Miami
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by miami | Oct 3, 2006
It’s been quite the week around here.
On Saturday I found out ALL the blog posts were going to everybody who had signed up for the article list. Although in my opinion my writings are interesting reading, I can write a lot!
So some folks were a bit put off when they got something from me every day! In fact sometimes I post more than once a day!
It took me until Monday to get hold of tech people who walked me through what I had to do and then another couple of hours to get it done. Now just you who want to be notified are notified.
And then:
If you have not been following along, we have a small horse ranch in Dallas Ga (outside Atlanta at www.highcountrystables.com) that we have been building for three years.
I have just completed building a big barn with a conference facility and 1 BR apt over it. Someone rented the apt and moved in Monday so I have been a bit busy taking care of last minute finishing touches (like HVAC!)
But I am back. And eager to finish this story of my client.
But first.. One of the blogs I get in my inbox is from John Carlton who spoke at the Underachievers conference in San Diego. He has a great post today on what is really important in his life. I highly recommend reading it!
Money will solve problems that not having money creates — like paying the rent, keeping sharks at bay, indulging in toys and extragavance. Being broke sucks. But once you still have a few bucks in your pocket after taking care of all your needs, having even one more dollar ain’t gonna change anything for you on any meaningful level.
John Carlton’s Big Damn Blog » Blog Archive » Squandering Free Time
In fact, I think so much if his post I am going to ask you to go read that one and I will finish my story tomorrow.
ps I got a call today asking me to speak to the freshman class at one of the local high schools about choices creating your life. It is something I know about and am tickled to be asked.
Namaste’
Miami
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