A Great Argument for Coaching

According to the blog Trizle (my latest discovery and a daily must read for me):

Progress Breeds Happiness

Harvard’s Teresa Amabile and Researcher Steven Kramer studied how people became most happy at their work:

We found that the single most important differentiator was a sense of being able to make progress in their work.

Achieving a goal, accomplishing a task, or solving a problem often evoked great pleasure and sometimes elation. Even making good progress toward such goals could elicit the same reactions.

Even very mundane successes led to positive feelings.<

That, folks, is what HypnoCoaching is all about - helping you to move forward in any area of your life that you want/need to work in. Call or email me to set up a free trial HypnoCoaching session to see if it will work for you.

What Do You Want? (Part 1000)

What do you want?

...and what would be better than that?


...and what would be better than that?


Comments?

Reality Check

"To know and not to do is not to know. To learn and not to do is not to learn."

Dr. Stephen Covey

Ouch!

I post these quotes as much for me as for you, my readers.

Keep smiling! Let me know what you think.

Focus

For those who are sometimes discouraged and impatient with their personal improvement progress, as I often am, Dr. Stephen Covey offers the following metaphor.

"There is a certain species of the Chinese bamboo tree that, when you plant it, you see nothing for four years. Just a little shoot our of the ground and that's it. You weed, water, cultivate, nuture and do everything you can do to make it successful, but you see nothing. In the fifth year, this particular species of the Chinese bamboo tree grows up to eighty feet. In its initial stages, all of the growth went underground in the root. Then, once it had its roots in place, all of the growth went above the ground and was visible..."

This is a reminder to me to keep working, stay focused, and the results will surely come.

What do you think?

5 Blogs I Check Every Day

I have probably 20 blogs in my Google Reader now, but there are 5 in particular that I check first thing every day (and sometimes several times a day).

Scott Ginsberg's HELLO, my name is Blog
Scott, That Guy With The Nametag, offers some of the freshest, most usable personal development and marketing material you will find anywhere. Read everything he has written!

Aaron Potts' Today is that Day
All about personal development and the Law of Attraction. I like the way he thinks and the path he is on. Always something to think about and apply to your life.

Seth Godin's Seth's Blog
One of finest marketing minds around. Posts sometimes several times a day. And I LOVE his short posts.

Steve Rubel's Micro Persuasion
Marketing, PR and always something for my inner geek.


What are your 5 favorite blogs?

Greatness

I'm on a roll with quotes. I read this one this morning and had to post it.

Psychologist and philosopher William James said,
“Most people live in a very restricted circle of their potential being. We all have reservoirs of energy and genius to draw upon of which we do not dream.”


What do you think?

Excellence

"We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit."

~Aristotle

Failure To Notice

Here's another great quote to think about. Read it, think about it, and then do it again. I am......

"The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice what we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds."
~Daniel Goleman, Vital Lies, Simple Truths: The Psychology of Self-Deception


As always, I welcome your comments.

Dream Big Dreams

Questions:

If time and money were no object, what would you like do with your life?

Why aren't you doing that right now?

What would be the first, simple step you could take to move you in that direction?

remember, Potential minus Interference = Performance
(Timothy Gallwey, The Inner Game of Work)

As always, I welcome your comments.