The Key To A Really Successful Business
October 20, 2010 by coaching
Filed under Coaching, Goal Setting, Recruitment, Relationships
James explains in this short video exactly what you have to get right first in order to build a successful business. As you’ll see, once you are clear on the qualities that make up a successful business owner, all you have to do is….
Recruitment – Common Mistake No 1
August 20, 2010 by coaching
Filed under Profiling, Recruitment
Know What You Want
In this short 2 minute video, James takes a look at what you need to consider before you advertise for a new employee…
How To Be More Productive
July 23, 2009 by coaching
Filed under Conditioning, Productivity
In terms of productivity, there are many contributing factors that help people produce consistent excellent results. James explains some of them in this short video.
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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…
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Maslow and Productivity
July 12, 2009 by coaching
Filed under Goal Setting
I f you spend time wondering why you do what you do and for what purpose, have a good look through this article, it may surprise you.
Many of us are pursuing activities that directly or indirectly we hope will take us to new levels of fulfilment. But how can we set ourselves up to achieve fulfilment in our chosen field, and in our lives generally?
Fulfilment might also be called Self-Actualisation or expressing one’s full potential. According to Abraham Maslow (American psychologist whose theories have been influential in 20th century thought), it is intrinsic growth of what is already in the organism, or more accurately, of what the organism is.
Maslow believed we have a hierarchy of needs, beginning with (a) basic needs for food, shelter, then (b) needs for safety and security, (c) needs for love and belonging, (d) the need for self esteem, and (e) the need for self-actualisation. We cannot meet the higher-order needs until the lower ones are met. A hungry or fearful person will not recognise yet their need for self actualisation.
How do we characterise Self-Actualised (SA) people?
* Generally they are realistically oriented with an efficient perception of reality extending into all areas of their life. SA persons are unthreatened and unfrightened by the unknown. They usually have a superior ability to reason, to see the truth.
* SA people accept themselves, others and the natural world the way they are. They see human nature as is, have rid themselves of crippling guilt or shame, enjoy themselves without regret or apology, and have no unnecessary inhibitions.
* Spontaneous in their inner life, thoughts and impulses, SA people are unhampered by convention. Their ethics is autonomous, they are individuals, and are motivated towards continual improvement.
* Focus on problems outside themselves. SA people tend to have a mission in life requiring much energy, and their mission is their reason for existence. They are usually serene and worry-free as they pursue their mission with unshakeable determination.
* Detachment, the need for privacy. Alone but not lonely, unflappable, retain dignity amid confusion and personal misfortunes, objective. SA people are self starters, responsible for themselves, own their behaviour.
* Autonomous, independent of culture and environment. SA’s rely on inner self for satisfaction. Resilient and stable in the face of hard knocks, they are self contained, independent from love and respect of others.
* Freshness of appreciation. Have a fresh rather than stereotyped appreciation of people and things. Moment to moment living is thrilling, transcending and spiritual. SA’s live the present moment to the fullest.
* Peak experiences. “Feelings of limitless horizons opening up to the vision, the feeling of being simultaneously more powerful and also more helpless than one ever was before, the feeling of ecstasy and wonder and awe, the loss of placement in time and space with, finally, the conviction that something extremely important and valuable had happened, so that the subject was to some extent transformed and strengthened even in his daily life by such experiences.” Abraham Maslow.
Eight Ways To Self Actualize
Work towards meeting and satisfying the lower-order needs (food, shelter, then safety and security, then love and belonging, and then self esteem). Once you have done this, and I acknowledge that it may be difficult and time-consuming, you will be able to make progress with the following:
1. Experience things fully, vividly, selflessly. Throw yourself into the experiencing of something: concentrate on it fully, let it totally absorb you.
2. Life is a moment-by-moment choice between safety (out of fear and need for defence) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth): Consciously make the growth choice many times a day.
3. Let your true self emerge. Try to go beyond socially-defined modes of thinking and feeling, let your inner experience tell you what you truly feel.
4. When in doubt, be honest. It may take some courage, but look honestly at yourself and take responsibility for who you are and what happens to you. Self-delusion is the enemy of self-actualisation.
5. Listen to your own tastes. Be prepared to be unpopular if necessary.
6. Use your intelligence, work to do well the things you want to do, no matter how insignificant they seem.
7. Make peak experiencing more likely: get rid of illusions and false notions. Learn what you are good at and conversely what you are not good at.
8. Know thyself. Who are you? What are you? What is good and what is bad for you? Where you are going? What is your mission?
Opening yourself up to yourself in this way means recognising one’s defences–and then finding the courage to give them up.
Good luck,
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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Setting Goals
June 27, 2009 by coaching
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
Extraordinary Results for Professional and Personal Freedom
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Dealing With Stress
June 22, 2009 by coaching
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
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
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P: 0421 210 444
Linda Testimonial
June 8, 2009 by coaching
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
Congruence and Productivity
May 10, 2009 by coaching
Filed under Coaching, Relationships
What is an Emotion?
This is the sixth post and last post on how success and productivity can be stymied by emotional reactiveness.
It is said that emotions are the body’s reaction to a thought. Fair enough.
It follows then to say that if there was no bodily reaction to an event or thought then there would not be an emotion.
In a sense, all you would be left with is an opinion, a viewpoint.
In her book Molecules of Emotion, Candace Pert puts forward a strong argument that not only do thoughts trigger feelings by the release of chemicals in the brain, but the opposite is also true. Feelings affect thoughts. Just think of a time you were sick. The chemicals communicate in both directions, from brain to body and body to brain.
Who is Driving The Bus?
She has the view (which I share) that the subconscious mind IS the body because that is where the emotional memories are stored.
Whether we like to admit it or not, our subconscious minds run the show.
If we consciously aim for a goal that subconsciously we believe we do not deserve or are not worthy of, then the subconscious will win. It wins because it uses feelings to get its own way.
You are not aware of the real reasons, all you know is you don’t feel good and that is enough to stop you. Of course, gut feelings can be and often are beneficial as well.
All I am suggesting is that you take a look. It may well change your life.
Get Congruent
People who learn to steer their subconscious mind so it is pointing in the same direction as their conscious mind are far more likely to achieve their goals than those who do not.
We call this congruence.
My job as a performance coach is to enable my clients to be as congruent as possible so that self sabotage and other self limiting behaviours are minimised.
Simple isn’t it?
It is okay to write or say this, but it is not so easy to stop the feelings coming up when things aren’t going so well.
Or is it? My job is to help you do that.
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Self Esteem
April 11, 2009 by coaching
Filed under Relationships
This is the fourth post (part 1, part 2, part 3) on how success and productivity can be stymied by emotional reactiveness.
“When you become immobilized by what anybody else thinks of you, what you are saying is that someone else’s opinion of you is more important than your own opinion of yourself.” Dr. Wayne Dyer
I remember being at a function and being introduced to somebody who seemed to look down on me. I sensed sarcasm and that this person felt they were superior.
My feelings were a mixture of feeling inferior and being angry.
Looking Through the Mirror
Looking back on the incident using the mirror it is clear that again, I was seeing something in a person that I did not like about myself. That is, I sometimes behaved in the same way towards other people I considered inferior to me.
Dropping the need to judge others has been a wonderful release for me as I am learning to be more accepting of myself.
Because I have given up blaming people, which is a very destructive form of judgement, I no longer feel the need to forgive anybody for anything. That does not mean I cannot hold them accountable for their actions – I can.
What it does mean is that if I don’t assign blame, I accept that what is, IS. There is nothing and nobody TO forgive.
Looking through the eyes of the mirror I can see that their pain is my pain. They are stuck in their own stuff just as I was. If you are like most other people then you are probably much harder and more judgmental on yourself than you could ever be towards anybody else.
Lunacy
Imagine meeting somebody whom you instantly dislike because you consider them arrogant. The other person sees the same in you and an argument starts over something trivial.
Then you have the sight of two people having a go at each other when all they are really doing is having a go at themselves.
It is bizarre and funny looking at it from this angle but that is what happens.
Does something similar happen to you occasionally? If you feel like you need some help why not give me call on 0421 210 444 anytime. It won’t cost you a thing to find out if I can help.
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…
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