Conditions for success?

Are you operating at your best? - your best not anyone else's best! 

What are the conditions you  need for success -  you have individual qualities, strengths, skills, experiences, feelings, preferences, red buttons, aspirations?

The context, conditions, support you need are very individual to you?

So do you have those conditions, personal to you - whatever they are ..... maybe a good boss, great working environment, trusted colleagues to talk to, flexibility, a tidy desk, a great PA, time for thinking, time for yourself, time with others to discuss ideas, structure, regular holidays, hobbies, exercise, healthy eating, clear direction, career progression prospects, challenge and stimulation, reading time, great partner/friends/relationships, intellectual debate,  support ..... whatever it is??  I dont know what yours are, do you ?  - tell me though....

I know I'm successful when I have certain "things in place"

A coach is one of my own conditions for success!

What are your conditions for success? -  It's a powerful question - think about it  - so what can you do to improve your chances of success ...... one thing, take action, create the conditions you need...start today

Is coaching one of the conditions for success that would make you more successful?  As always, do get in touch, email or call  ....... to explore, chat or ask any questions

Get the conditions for success you need in place - it will make a difference!

Buried in the busyness .....

I have been so busy of late, I'd forgotten, not quite prioritised a bit of reflection time .... which I love so why was it not at the top of my list? 

Familiar ... things you're committed to not at the top of your list?

Then aha!  - a number of things connected together..... an article, a chat with another coach, a webinar, a meeting I'd been at ...... I hadn't connected them together ... hadn't taken the time to think ..... if only I'd seen the connection earlier ... it explained a lot ... a lot of what I was feeling

Oh the time and energy I could have saved myself .... yet again .... something I know, buried in the busyness

10/15 minutes would have done it ....

Take a leap.....stepping stones

"However long  you look at the river waiting to jump over ........it doesn't get any easier the longer you look......."  wish I could recall who said that to me and where they got if from....

Sometimes we want life to move on in a big way - we want to jump over the river and already be on the other side

Sometimes the river is quite wide....can we do it in one jump? - do we need stepping stones?  What is the other side.....do we know we want to leave the river bank we're presently on, we want to leap, jump...but where to??

What's today's stepping stone for you? 

If you want things to be different, want life to leap forward....put your foot on a stepping stone...ahh, phew, that feels better already ( although...may be a little scary) ....still feels better? Does it?

What if?

What if ...... it was easier than I thought

What if ........ in one conversation it was better and in two it was resolved

What if ..... I felt more confident

What if ...... I felt less stressed

What if ..... I was doing things the way I felt I was born to do them

What if ...... work became easier

What if ..... people around me were inspired and noticed a difference in me

What if ......... those things I wanted to get around to doing, I was achieving regularily

What if ......... things that were once hard to say,  become "comfortable" and actually releasing

What if  ....... I  could see I was on a path to fulfillment and satisfaction 

If it was easier, quicker more possible than you thought - would you  be taking action?

I know I can put obstacles in my way, stop progress, procrastinate on things I really want in life as sometimes my eyes are on the obstacles, the difficulties - not the potential and not always the possibilities! 

Then when its done or achieved - I think why didn't I do that earlier?  A client said to me the other week I'm learning to "reduce the dither time"

So - What is your What if  ? - you do know what to do ....... ( to reduce the dither time!!) 

Energy recharge, fuel for the journey

So ...... whatever journey, path you are on or are about to make at this time,  or in the future ......

Do you have the energy you need, do you have the fuel - do you feel like you need a service before you set off? 

What supports you? - to keep you motivated and clear, to support you see how far you've come, see the view from a new perspective, applaud your progress, be there as a bit of a sat nav, help you refuel along the way when your tank gets low -  and be one of the first to cheer when you're over the winning line for your destination -  In very real terms, coaching is one option that can help with this, what else?

So you're about to set off on a car trip to a certain destination, couple of hundred miles away?  I check tyres and water, even clean the inside of the car and get everything in good shape for the luggage!

Normally I'll have been very busy up to this point, finishing work tasks off - getting the house ready and everything needed for "being away"

So I prepare the car, the route, myself -  for the journey -  I have my favourite "things" with me .

Today, take a pit stop, recharge your energy and think about what you need to get you to where you're going..... what fuels you personally? We are all different  - your energy and fuel will be personal to you. Are you listening to yourself? Pause, are you going at speed - are you listening to yourself?

What do you need and what are you doing to do to make sure you get it? Take action.

 "are you nearly there yet?!!"

PS - I normally find there are one or two little things I haven't done before I set off?!  I'd have liked to do xyz -  but didn't have time and actually maybe it wasn't priority? -  so maybe do the things today, that matter to you for the trip of your life, the trip you want to be on, right now....you can get to that destination - and with more ease that you think!