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Has Your New Year’s Resolution Flat-lined?
“I enjoyed the coaching program “How to Master Your Life—One Step at a Time” with Coach Flo Anderson. The eight-week program helped me to create a structure to achieve some challenging personal goals. The weekly coaching sessions helped me to work through barriers and face obstacles head on with practical solutions. The program energized me! It also released my creativity and gave me a broader perspective on planning; goal setting and intent. Thanks! Coach Flo!”
~Robyn O, PA, USA
This is the testimonial of one of my clients who recently completed my course. She had made New Year’s resolutions in the past which proved unsuccessful. She had personal and professional challenges which she needed to overcome but found herself in a state of overwhelm. Her words prove that she has already taken control of her life.
What about you?
First Quarter 2017 is history. Gone. Just like that! Did you blink? Can you believe it?! Wasn’t it only three months ago that you resolved that this year would be different; that the goals you had set you would finally attain? Were you successful? Good for you!
For those of you who may not have been as successful, studies have shown that when you try to change a behavior, if you do it too fast or too soon it results in relapse. Have you found that to be true of you?
Did you make a New Year’s Resolution back in January and now find that it’s not working for you, or that for some reason you have abandoned it?
For many people, resolutions of any kind result in stress, a lack of accomplishment, overwhelm, fatigue and even depression. Yet they do this year after year, hoping that this year will be better.
What about you? Has your resolution moved you in the direction you intended to go? Are you 25% on your way to your goals?
If not, instead of a Resolution, I would like to introduce you to the Solution.
Resolutions tend to force you to assume a behavior that is unfamiliar. This results in the absence of the normal “flow” that occurs when you take incremental steps to achieve a certain desired outcome.
The Resolution Solution shows you how to master your life one step at a time. It gives you a chance for a “do over”, and this time, you will do it right.
I will help you to plan your actions and channel the results of what you will learn beyond this quarter and the rest of the year so that you achieve the desired outcome.
Here are some of the benefits to you:
* Reduced stress due to better stress management
* Increased energy
* Improved sense of well-being
* Elimination of “overwhelm” by removing “overkill”
You will be introduced to a system that progressively replaces old (bad) habits with those that move you in the direction you want to go.
You will learn how to take incremental steps that will yield results in as little as 7 days.
Between May 1st and May 15th, I’m offering a FREE 30-minute consultation/Discovery session which will introduce you to the program: How to Master Your Life—One Step at a Time. You will then be able to determine if this program is right for you.
Please visit: https://secure.scheduleonce.com/floanderson to schedule an appointment. Let’s talk. Our session will be strictly confidential.
Have You Professionally Advanced?
Have You Advanced Professionally?
It has been some time now since you have made your New Year’s Resolution, or perhaps you haven’t made one especially if you have concluded they don’t work for you. If you made one, how is it working for you? Have you advanced professionally?
Over the past several months many of my blogs have been relative to personal development. Some titles are: “You Are the Cup”, “Are You Ready When You Show Up?” and “Is Your Task List Efficient?” These blog posts are designed to help you in your self-examination and guide you on the road to personal and professional success.
It is an established fact that your Task List is closely associated to your Schedule, which in turn has to be in sync with your schedule in order to achieve your goals. Therefore, if you are not achieving your goals, chances are you don’t have a workable schedule.
If you push tasks you have not completed today on to tomorrow’s Task List, then your Task List is not effective. If this has been happening to you, then you have found that you are “spinning your wheels” and invariably will ultimately spin out of control.
With this being the case it is easy to see the correlation between advancing personally and advancing professionally. If you are failing personally, you will fail professionally.
So, how do you prevent professional failure? You need to start with the basics. Decide what you want to accomplish and work backwards. This may seem counter-productive, but if you have a goal (an end point) in sight, you will have a good idea of where to begin.
If you are facing a dilemma, I would like to show you how to make the process easy. At one point, I was just like you; having many unfinished tasks and not knowing how to extricate myself from the obstacles that constantly got in my way.
I developed a step-by-step solution to my problem and have shared it with many of my clients who have themselves advanced personally and professionally.
I would like to share that experience with you. Please take the first step and schedule an appointment with me for a paid 30–minute consultation/strategy session. Here’s the link:
http://coachflo.co/your-questions-answered/
I’m looking forward to working with you.
You Are the Cup!
Every so often someone asks the question: “Is your cup half full or half empty?” Have you asked that question or have you been asked that question?
I find myself asking the question especially when someone is a chronic complainer. Something ALWYS seems to be wrong; it’s too hot, it’s too cold, or somewhere in between.
The premise is that when the cup is half full the expectation of its becoming full is a positive one. When the cup is full, “everything will be alright”.
The opposing premise is that when the cup is half empty, something is lacking and even if it were to become full, the result would not necessarily be positive.
Is it possible to find a middle ground? What is the determining factor that makes the cup seem half full or half empty?
In my experience as a coach I have found that attitude is a huge factor in how this dilemma is perceived. Some think that if you look at the half-filled cup with a positive attitude the results of filling it will be positive. To them the same holds true for the half-empty cup. Both points of view have the same focus—they are focusing on the contents of the cop.
What if the focus were to shift?
What if the focus were on the CUP instead of its contents? What if the PERSON were the cup? What if YOU were the cup?
Do You Need Instant Gratification?
In your experience, have you found that most people adopt certain behaviors because of different circumstances or predispositions? One such predisposition is a lack of patience. Have you also found that some people will continue to pursue a futile way of doing things that do not produce any results because they don’t have the patience to see it through by taking another path? Some people refer to this as “insanity”.
In my practice as a coach I have been asked many times: “Florette, of all the various types of coaching, why on earth would you choose Personal Development? There is no gratification in that!” Au contraire! There certainly is!
It is true that in studying to be a coach one is exposed to different coaching genre. I had the choice of being a Life Coach, a Relationship Coach, a Health Coach, and even a Spiritual Coach. I’m certified for each of them. So why on earth did I choose Personal Development? I’ll tell you.
I chose this because it’s the one “calling” in which I relate to people and they relate to me. I remember a time in my life when I was never on time and nothing in my day was complete. I remember how being that way made me feel. I meet many potential clients who feel the same way. I also remember the “breakthrough” I had when something suddenly “snapped” and I finally “got it!” That was the biggest thrill for me! Something FINALLY made sense!
I can relate to that feeling in my clients. When they tell me “I can’t do this!” and I tell them “Yes you can! I’ll show you how!”, I also revel in their thrill when they finally “get it”! It’s one thing to be able to say as a coach that I’ve “been there and done that”; it’s quite another thing to recognize yourself as the “bridge” that connects where a person “was” in life to what they have achieved today.
Yes, some people do need instant gratification. They thrive on it. Instead of forcing my clients to wait until close to the end of my coaching program How to Master Your Life—One Step at a Time in order to achieve that sense of accomplishment, I build it into each of my eight modules.
If you can relate to any of the above, please book a 30-minute Discovery/strategy session with me. Please visit http://coachflo.co/your-questions-answered/. You will be able to schedule an appointment with me that is convenient to you. I’m looking forward to speaking with you and helping you to identify and overcome the obstacles preventing you from living your life by DESIGN. You will also get an idea of how to achieve instant gratification while learning to overcome these obstacles.
To your success!
Are You Ready When You Show Up?
On the surface this seems like a very odd question. I can almost hear you saying “Of course! What do you mean? Where are you going with this?”
Calm down, please, let me explain.
Have you ever been to a scheduled meeting where there’s always that ONE person who is never prepared? In fact they don’t have a clue as to what the agenda is. Do you find that frustrating and a colossal waste of your time? Or how about the chronic late-comer who never has his/her figures ready on time so you can compile the monthly report? Was that person ready when they showed up for work?
While showing up may be a good thing, in itself it’s not enough. There is a difference between showing up at work and showing up for work. You can show up at work and don’t have a clue as to how the day will unfold. However, if you show up ready for work you know exactly what is going to happen and when. You know which tasks are your responsibility, which tasks are to be delegated and to whom. If there is a meeting or other event that day, you are prepared. At the end of the day, you have a sense of satisfaction and fulfillment.
Life follows the same pattern; yet very few are ready when they show up for life. When you awaken each morning, do you plan your day? Or do you just let the day happen? If you don’t follow your own plans, you will invariably be following someone else’s. When that happens you find yourself chasing one crisis after another, which oftentimes have nothing to do with you. At the end of the day you feel unfulfilled, frustrated and even angry.
If that has been happening to you it’s time to break the cycle. My latest course: “How to Master Your Life—One Step at a Time” is structured to provide you with a progressive blueprint to show you the relationship between your plans, your schedule and your goals, both long-, short-, and interim-term ones.
Most likely you are fed up with a chaotic existence. If that is so, I know how you feel. I once felt the same way. If managing your time and achieving your goals are challenging for you, I will show you how to overcome these challenges while allowing you more free time with your friends and family with the ultimate outcome of simplifying your life and feeling less stressed. I’ll also show you how you can provide the incentive of rewarding yourself along the way. We know that as instant gratification!
Start the process by scheduling a paid 30-minute discovery strategy session with me. Please visit: http://coachflo.co/your-questions-answered/. I look forward to speaking with you.
To your success!
CoachFlo
Personal Development Coach
http://coachflo.co
Sculpt Your Life!
Hello, I’m Florette Anderson; my clients call me CoachFlo and I have a warning for you. If you’re the kind of person who uses To Do Lists to organize your life, your productivity is getting a beat-down.
How would you like to wake up each morning knowing exactly how you are going to spend your day? If you had no feelings of guilt when you say “No” to someone who asks a favor of you, what would your day look like? If you are not experiencing this at this time, let me assure you that you CAN! You can “sculpt” your life and live by DESIGN and not by the default of awakening to a chaotic existence where your life and time are dictated by the whims of others.
That is what the blog and website is all about. You will find information here that will help you to achieve your goals and live the lifestyle you have always envisioned. Have a question or comment? Please visit http://coachflo.co/your-questions-answered/ if you have a specific challenge. You can schedule a paid 30-minute discovery strategy session with me.