Headaches in Life
Many driven, hard working and intelligent professionals have reached many goals over the years. But, nearly all of them took at least 1 of the 4 most common wrong directions, costing them time, money, and frustration.
If you are ready to create change in your life, this section can save you a headache or two…Here are the most common headaches you can prevent…
Headache Cause #1: “You can create change by reading a self-help book.”
While self-help books provide a volume of great and useful information to learn to prepare for success, they cannot hold you accountable for applying what you’ve learned. They also can’t specify measurable goals, create strategies for achieving those goals, support your growth, nor do they keep you focused. Without a commitment to daily application of new strategies, ideas, and behavior, there is very limited room for your growth and real change.
A book can’t act as a mirror to reflect your ingrained and sometimes unconscious patterns of behaviors. These thoughts and decisions shape your daily actions to create the outcomes in your life. On the other hand, a life coach reflects these things to you in an honest, open, and non-judgmental manner. A coach then guides you in re-framing these experiences and thoughts of your past, and helps you establish new ones that are congruent with your goals, values, and desires for the future.
Headache Cause # 2: “It is possible to stick with goals on your own.”
While some people are able to create goals and achieve them every time, this is not the general experience for many. For goals to be achieved, they must be specific and measurable. Aside from that, specific strategies and tasks must be designed and completed.
Working with a life coach enables you to reach goals at a faster speed with more ease. It does this by providing you with a neutral sounding board which holds you accountable, pushes you out of your comfort zone, and identifies new ways of seeing opportunities and possibilities.
Headache Cause #3: “Everything just works itself out.”
Thousands of people agree with this statement. These are people that choose not to make decisions in their life. They choose not to take their life by the wheel and drive it in the direction they want it to be. They choose to live their life as victims and commonly use the excuse of “it just wasn’t meant to be for me” when they encounter a failure. Instead of designing, creating, and taking steps to achieve the life they desire, they instead live life being blown by the wind.
Even our most decisive clients are often surprised to discover that they let the wind blow themselves willy-nilly in one particular area of their life, even though they have a specific vision for every other aspect of it. This ends up having a detrimental effect on every other area of their life.
Headache Cause #4: “I make a good income, have a nice car, and a wife and kids. I don’t need coaching.”
Your income is good for buying things, paying the bills, and investing. Your car is good for transporting you where you need to go. These are just the luxury versions of food, clothing, and shelter. They’re at the bottom of the human hierarchy of needs.
Are you fulfilled? Do you have personal and professional satisfaction? Do you have work life balance and time to spend with your wife and kids? Do you feel good about the direction in which your life is going and excited to get up in the morning to face each new day?
If you answered no to even one of these questions, then you must know there is a big difference between a high income and high quality life.
Our clients usually find that balance brings more success, not less.
Headache Cause #5: “I just have to accept the ways things are. It’s a lot easier this way.”
This is the most common excuse used by people who are afraid. These people fear change, failure, and even success. They allow this fear of decision-making and action to become so strong that it overpowers them. Their fear paralyzes them and they live their life in status quo. They are robbing themselves of experiencing true fulfillment, enjoyment, or success.
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