Setting Goals
June 27, 2009 by
Filed under Goal Setting
In this short video, James explains some of the processes he uses in helping people in identifying, setting and achieving their goals.
Committed to YOUR Personal Productivity,
James is a productivity coach specializing in working with people who are procrastinators and those who want results quickly. His ability to get brilliant results with his clients is quite amazing…
The Productivity Coach
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Dealing With Stress
June 22, 2009 by
Filed under Conditioning
Have you ever met anyone who is rational when they are angry?
I certainly haven’t and to be honest, I must admit to succumbing to the red mist once or twice in my life 
The reason for this is simple, yet complex. It is to do with the way our brains are built.
Apparently, our brains make up around 2% of our weight but use up approximately 20% of the energy consumed by our body, and this doesn’t change no matter what we are doing. It’s the same whether we are active or sleeping, happy or sad.
Of that 20%, a small proportion is used for our working memory and conscious mind and the rest is used for the unconscious stuff, like regulating bodily functions, emotions, automatic tasks, habits and so on.
A problem arises when we get stressed.
When our brain senses a threat, as in fear, anger, stress etc. it allocates more resources to that emotion because it’s function is for our survival, to protect us as an individual and as a species.
Now, this increased demand does not increase the 20% of our bodies energy resources I mentioned earlier, it robs Peter to pay Paul and our working memory suffers, and onfortunately, rationality does too..
We go into survival mode.
The ramifications of this insight are significant because most of us go through life in modern society with stress levels that are way too high.
Do you think that this just might have an effect on our ability to think and act clearly?
Dealing with the pressures of life can be made alot easier by using someone who understands and is skilled in helping people move forward in life. More and more people are starting to realise that having a coach is a great way to achieve this.
Why not you?
Committed to YOUR Personal Productivity,
James is a productivity coach specializing in working with people who are procrastinators and those who want results quickly. His ability to get brilliant results with his clients is quite amazing…
The Productivity Coach
Extraordinary Results for Professional and Personal Freedom
To Find Out the “5 Secrets of REALLY Successful People” go to…
P: 0421 210444
Changing The Brain For Better Productivity
June 17, 2009 by
Filed under Coaching
Why Is Change Hard To Achieve?
The latest research in neuroscience confirms what we have already learned, that is, our brains are hardwired to resist change.
That’s the bad news…
The good news is that this hardwiring can be changed and there are specific ways to do this.
The brain is very good at making connections, it does it by literally hardwiring itself. When repeated and reinforced over time, these connections become very strong. Most of them support us in living our daily lives in things like walking, talking, driving a car etc.
Limited Memory
Because we only have a very limited amount of working memory, these regular tasks are done by the subconscious. Who hasn’t driven home on occasion when tired and couldn’t remember the drive home?
It is built to detect changes and is constantly dividing, comparing, contrasting and differentiating everything it comes across. Again, most of it done under the surface, subconsciously.
We know that these automatic and programmed actions and thoughts serve us well in most cases but some do not and can cause common problems such as self sabotage, procrastination, relationship issues and many others.
What Can I Do About It?
That’s great to know, but what can you do about unhelpful programmed hardwiring?
Well, as I mentioned earlier the brain is constantly hardwiring everything it can, good or bad, and it usually sees change as a threat, especially as you get older. Trying to remove unhelpful habits, beliefs etc. can be extremely hard work and can take years to achieve.
Making new connections however, is relatively easy to do but it is not so easy by yourself. How many people (maybe even you) have read the books, attended the seminars, know the theory yet still resist taking real action?
Gaining new insights and developing your focus on where you are going rather than what is wrong is best done by working with someone else, like as an experienced coach who is familiar with these principles and has a proven methodology for effective behaviour change.
Committed to YOUR Personal Productivity,
James is a productivity coach specializing in working with people who are procrastinators and those who want results quickly. His ability to get brilliant results with his clients is quite amazing…
The Productivity Coach
Extraordinary Results for Professional and Personal Freedom
To Find Out the “5 Secrets of REALLY Successful People” go to…
P: 0421 210 444
Linda Testimonial
June 8, 2009 by
Filed under Testimonials
Working on setting goals and achieving them is only a part of what coaching is about. Probably far more important for most people is who they become during the process.
What do I mean by that?
Well, it is only when you are faced with some of the roadblocks on the journey to your goals that you learn things (with help from your coach) about yourself that can literally change your life.
As you’ll see, that is exactly what happened when Linda decided to work with me…
Committed to YOUR Personal Productivity,
James is a productivity coach specializing in working with people who are procrastinators and those who want results quickly. His ability to get brilliant results with his clients is quite amazing…
The Productivity Coach
Extraordinary Results for Professional and Personal Freedom
To Find Out the “5 Secrets of REALLY Successful People” go to…
P: 0421 210 444
