Continuous Self Coaching
It’s important to realize your development can never end. On the plus side, what you need to work on is simple, not complex. It’s honest and real. It’s also not exactly the way you’d like it to be, all of the time. And you can chose to understand what you need to work on and deal with it. As compare to not understand it, not deal with it and thus not achieve the success you are capable of. Because life seems complicate to most people, you might feel a complicated approach to self – coaching is required. Not so. A simple solution works better. It does require a degree of self- review though
You can do this on your own schedule, asserting and exertion you put into coaching yourself will make for a bigger “career life-preserver”
Here are three rules that will guide you during your self coaching journey
Rule1. Remember, you’re not alone in this
Take comfort in knowing that most people spend their careers working on the same issues and problems you work on. I’ve worked on them too. “Working on them” means doing, not just knowing. A lot of things discussed you already know. The difference between you and others is what you choose to do with it. “The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their endeavor”- Vince Lombardi, the late Green Bay Packer American football coach
Your success will be in direct proportion to your commitment to your self- review and to better self coaching
Rule2. Don’t be extreme; be consistent
The secret to success in self-coaching is constancy, with a good purpose and technique. The ancient philosopher wrote “Genius is nothing but continued attention” You can’t do the “right” thing once in a while> you have to do it all the time. After you experience profitable and productivity results, you’ll agree it’s all worth it.
Rule 3. Be self-disciplined.
Discipline is fun. It rewards you with the greatest feeling. Think about when you had a fully packed day, several meetings, put out numerous fires and finally home. Thinking you will a restful evening, but wait a minute, you need to honor your promise to your son to play cricket with him. You drag yourself and manage to spend some quality time with him. Don’t you feel great? Aren’t you pleased with yourself? Don’t you walk tall with what you have disciplined to carry out your promise? Of course you do. Well that’s the kind of temerity required for your self-coaching.
Take consolation in the fact that everyone (who’s any good) works on their self-development all the time. The successful ones are consistent and self-disciplined-starting with their self-review. You are a responsible adult, you know and it does not give you the license to succumb to excuses, but to rise above them.
Sincere Appreciation,
Richaard Wong
AIG Life Companies
20/F AIA building, 1 Stubbs Road
Hong Kong
Tel (852) 2832 6762
Fax (852) 2572 1792
“Things which matters most must never be at the mercy of things which matters least” - Goethe -
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Wednesday, September 10, 2008
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