Hi Everyone,
Well this week it was my turn to take a leaf out of my own book and think about taking that summer vacation we all need so desperately, and that I was advocatig for us all in the last newsletters!
Speaking to a friend on Monday night we both decided we needed a break and by Tuesday lunch time the deed was done and the holidays booked, house sitters sorted, dog booked into kennels, and currency ordered. Now there is just that lovely period of anticipation waiting for the holiday to come. Planning all the lovely things we will do, the clothes I will need to buy, imagining all the interesting people I will meet and ....... oh the list could go on and on!
I think for me the anticipation and excitement is the best part, I am very future orientated, I live my life in full anticipation of how good things will be in the future when I have...... but that got me thinking about some of my clients and thinking about how so often some of them are stuck in their past, reflecting and going over past events, thinking if only... that they miss out on the present possibilities of what they could be enjoying now. Life is too short to be filled with regrets and to spend time musing about lost opportunities but the danger for me in being future orientated is that I am in danger of missing out on the here and now. I am so busy anticipating my holidays that I might miss the lovely things that are happening right now under my nose!
In my work with clients it is important to find out where and how they live their lives to ensure they get the most out of the opportunities being made available to them. It is important to get a balance between all three areas and not be so entrenched in one area to the detriment of the others. If we fail to spend any time in our past orientation then we fail to gain all the benefit we could from reflecting on what we did, what we felt about it and what we learned from the process, if we are too engrossed in the present we might fail to identify new opportunities on the horizon and if we are too future orientated life will just pass us by and we will be left wondering what happened along the way as we sit quietly at the end of our lives only then having the time to really reflect on how things were along the way!
So I guess my message is take each day as it comes, enjoy the moment, reflect on things completed and done but do not dwell needlessly on lost opportunities or you may miss the next batch as they come along.
I have a special offer on personal coaching sessions at the moment, just for the month of August, contact me now to hear more. This offer cant last long and once the places have all been taken up prices will revert to their usual rates. If you book and pay for 4 sessions in advance you can have them for the price of three! How about that for a summer bargain!
Thursday, 30 July 2009
Wednesday, 8 July 2009
Hi Everyone,
This week has been an exciting time in my house, my youngest daughter has just graduated from University with her 2:1 BSc Geography and I am one very proud Mum!
It has not been an easy time for her as she has worked through her final year and now safely at the end of the degree it seemed to me that this would be a very exciting time for her as she started to plan the next stage of her life. However along with a large number of her friends this new status seems to have come with a new set of challenges, what is this new stage of her life to be?
Will she seek employment and a car and all the trappings that go along with that or is this a time to explore the world and all that it has to offer, or are there other things that I have yet to hear about that she might have up her sleeve?
This dilemna got me thinking that although as adults we may have gone through University with a clear expectation at the end of what our next step might be, the choices for young people today are somewhat different to the ones we had. travelling is now a favoured option by many, others like to take on a number of different jobs to widen their CV prior to looking at longer term options while others may opt for straight employment or maybe graduate schemes. One thing that seems to be common for many young people is the lack of "something" that prevents them moving on. For some that may be confidence, others may have a lack of understanding about the processes, for others it may be a a lack of awareness or knowledge about what to do.
So my thoughts went on, how could I as a life coach help with this process?
I thought about the model I work to and realised that the model would work perfectly to help the graduates consider their options. The next stumbling block may have been the price, so as a Mother of a new graduate I thought about how could this be made accessible for penniless graduates?
In training as prospective coaches, we were encouraged to consider the perceived value of the coaching for the client, and with this in mind I started to consider the costings and how I could encourage the graduates to come along and have a taster of what the coaching could offer to them. To this end I am offering taster sessions in what will be a user-friendly format where a group of up to 5 graduates can book my services for a flat fee of £300 for 3 x 2 hour sessions.
In this way we can begin to look at the coaching process, they will each gain an understanding of how coaching works and they will be able to make a plan for the next steps of their life. At the end of these three sessions the graduates can negotiate further group sessions if this is working for them or they may prefer individual sessions either by phone or face to face to move them on to their desired outcome.
One thing I will guarantee is that provided they come along committed to the process the coaching will work and will shift some of the perceived blocks in their minds that may be preventing them from achieving their goals and by the end of the three weeks plans will be in place to move them on!
The pay off for me is that once these young people have experienced the power and effectiveness of coaching they will want to come back to be coached over issues such as work-life balance, career coaching, stress management and other things they may encounter in their working lives.
So how about it, why not check this out on the website and book those sessions now, coaching at these prices cannot last. In fact Mums and Dads would this not be a wonderful investment as a Graduation present to help those off spring, spring forth into the rest of their lives?
Check it out now at www.barbaracobboldcoaching.co.uk
This week has been an exciting time in my house, my youngest daughter has just graduated from University with her 2:1 BSc Geography and I am one very proud Mum!
It has not been an easy time for her as she has worked through her final year and now safely at the end of the degree it seemed to me that this would be a very exciting time for her as she started to plan the next stage of her life. However along with a large number of her friends this new status seems to have come with a new set of challenges, what is this new stage of her life to be?
Will she seek employment and a car and all the trappings that go along with that or is this a time to explore the world and all that it has to offer, or are there other things that I have yet to hear about that she might have up her sleeve?
This dilemna got me thinking that although as adults we may have gone through University with a clear expectation at the end of what our next step might be, the choices for young people today are somewhat different to the ones we had. travelling is now a favoured option by many, others like to take on a number of different jobs to widen their CV prior to looking at longer term options while others may opt for straight employment or maybe graduate schemes. One thing that seems to be common for many young people is the lack of "something" that prevents them moving on. For some that may be confidence, others may have a lack of understanding about the processes, for others it may be a a lack of awareness or knowledge about what to do.
So my thoughts went on, how could I as a life coach help with this process?
I thought about the model I work to and realised that the model would work perfectly to help the graduates consider their options. The next stumbling block may have been the price, so as a Mother of a new graduate I thought about how could this be made accessible for penniless graduates?
In training as prospective coaches, we were encouraged to consider the perceived value of the coaching for the client, and with this in mind I started to consider the costings and how I could encourage the graduates to come along and have a taster of what the coaching could offer to them. To this end I am offering taster sessions in what will be a user-friendly format where a group of up to 5 graduates can book my services for a flat fee of £300 for 3 x 2 hour sessions.
In this way we can begin to look at the coaching process, they will each gain an understanding of how coaching works and they will be able to make a plan for the next steps of their life. At the end of these three sessions the graduates can negotiate further group sessions if this is working for them or they may prefer individual sessions either by phone or face to face to move them on to their desired outcome.
One thing I will guarantee is that provided they come along committed to the process the coaching will work and will shift some of the perceived blocks in their minds that may be preventing them from achieving their goals and by the end of the three weeks plans will be in place to move them on!
The pay off for me is that once these young people have experienced the power and effectiveness of coaching they will want to come back to be coached over issues such as work-life balance, career coaching, stress management and other things they may encounter in their working lives.
So how about it, why not check this out on the website and book those sessions now, coaching at these prices cannot last. In fact Mums and Dads would this not be a wonderful investment as a Graduation present to help those off spring, spring forth into the rest of their lives?
Check it out now at www.barbaracobboldcoaching.co.uk
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