What a start to 2011 - Water, water everywhere. The flooding around the country has been phenomenal!
It has been fascinating to observe the resilience of many individuals in the affected areas; so many of them having suffered a massive loss. They are in a tough spot but, with help and support, every day becomes that little bit easier.
The German poet and philosopher Goethe said: “Everything is hard before it gets easy”. This simple saying has a great deal of comfort and meaning to it, and certainly applies to the current flood situation.
I’ve gone to many seminars where the pretence was about “seeking the line of least resistance” to get to the end-game.
In truth that is sometimes not possible; there has to be a breakthrough to move to the next level. There has to be a difficulty before the reward is realised
There are some things that are just plain hard! When they become easy for you, it means that you have achieved a level of mastery and have moved to another level. Then the hard starts all over again in order for you to move to the next level again.
The Phils_osophy
If we understand that “everything is hard before it gets easy” it allows us to deal with the problems we face daily knowing there is that “light at the end of the tunnel”.
Set your intention…. Realise “everything is hard before it gets easy”….Achieve those small wins.....Watch the results!
To your outstanding results in 2011!
Phil
Monday, 28 March 2011
Thursday, 24 March 2011
What is Coaching Really All About?
These days, the word ‘coaching’ has become an abused term.
In my experience, this has happened because of a perception, strongly encouraged by the personal and professional development industry, that coaching is there to “fix” or to “bridge the gap” between where we are today and where we want to be.
Many of you have experienced coaching in one shape or another and have formed your own views on the concept.
My opinion about coaching is very different.
It is about:
· Understanding and releasing aspirations to reality
· Building capability
· Creating / producing results
Another way to view coaching is that it is about continuously expanding your personal capacity to grow, learn and perform.
In a previous newsletter, I wrote about how “it’s always hard before it gets easy.”
Coaching is the tool that assists in making it easy to master the hard – not to remove the hard. This is why we have teachers and coaches in business, education, the arts and sport.... in fact everywhere. We just don’t always call them coaches.
A great example is Toastmasters – where you can learn to speak in public and are given coaching in the form of an evaluation.....and it’s not called coaching.
The Phils_osophy
Allow yourself to be open to coaching moments when they occur; they provide insight and the real opportunity to reflect, learn and expand your personal capacity.
Enjoy those moments ..even later when you have the realisation ...because it is a WOW moment when we get it !
A free gift – a Goal Setting and Goal Getting Worksheet is available for download. It’s yours free to do with what you want.
Download your Goal Setting Toolkit here.
To your continued success….
Phil
In my experience, this has happened because of a perception, strongly encouraged by the personal and professional development industry, that coaching is there to “fix” or to “bridge the gap” between where we are today and where we want to be.
Many of you have experienced coaching in one shape or another and have formed your own views on the concept.
My opinion about coaching is very different.
It is about:
· Understanding and releasing aspirations to reality
· Building capability
· Creating / producing results
Another way to view coaching is that it is about continuously expanding your personal capacity to grow, learn and perform.
In a previous newsletter, I wrote about how “it’s always hard before it gets easy.”
Coaching is the tool that assists in making it easy to master the hard – not to remove the hard. This is why we have teachers and coaches in business, education, the arts and sport.... in fact everywhere. We just don’t always call them coaches.
A great example is Toastmasters – where you can learn to speak in public and are given coaching in the form of an evaluation.....and it’s not called coaching.
The Phils_osophy
Allow yourself to be open to coaching moments when they occur; they provide insight and the real opportunity to reflect, learn and expand your personal capacity.
Enjoy those moments ..even later when you have the realisation ...because it is a WOW moment when we get it !
A free gift – a Goal Setting and Goal Getting Worksheet is available for download. It’s yours free to do with what you want.
Download your Goal Setting Toolkit here.
To your continued success….
Phil
Friday, 18 March 2011
“Kind, dass must du wissen ! – Child, you must know this”. What Ilearnt from my father.
This year will mark five years since my father, an extraordinary man, passed away.
He was a complex character – a highly intelligent man who could understand extremely difficult concepts and explain them in such a way that anyone could understand them.
Yet he was a technically challenged - he found it difficult to grasp technology; he once listened to the same music on his car’s CD player for two weeks after he had inadvertently hit the “repeat” function.
One of his continual sayings to his children was “Kind, dass must du wissen.” Translated from the German “Child, you must know this.”
He understood intimately that learning never stops. He read constantly. He enjoyed interesting facts.
Dad would always cut out newspaper articles that he thought his family would find interesting, give them to us and we would end up discussing them over dinner. This happened even during the time I was living interstate. He would save the ones I missed until I visited.
He even attempted to understand the basics of computers and the World Wide Web, but never quite mastered it. My father introduced us all to travel; my first overseas trip to New Zealand in 1975 and then West Germany (as it was) in 1976 opened the world to me.
He understood that learning was “something you must do”.
Phils_osophy
It’s only now that I begin to fully appreciate my father’s learning philosophy. Sadly for me, I cannot share my joy of learning with him any longer.
So just learn....and enjoy it!
Phil
Tuesday, 8 March 2011
"I will do the things that others will not, so in the future, I can do the things that others cannot.”
By chance, I came across this quote in a book I was reading on a recent trip. It was like WOW!!!!
I was so taken by its simplicity and directness that I HAD to share it with you all. Then, on my return to Melbourne, I passed a sign on the road from a small political party whose slogan was “for the millions, not for the millionaires.”
This prompted me to ask - “Which group are they – the haves or have nots or the wills or will nots?”
The Phil's_osophy
The world belongs to the people who will, not to those who “will not”. Do the things that others will not, so in the future, you can do the things that others can not.
Phil
I was so taken by its simplicity and directness that I HAD to share it with you all. Then, on my return to Melbourne, I passed a sign on the road from a small political party whose slogan was “for the millions, not for the millionaires.”
This prompted me to ask - “Which group are they – the haves or have nots or the wills or will nots?”
The Phil's_osophy
The world belongs to the people who will, not to those who “will not”. Do the things that others will not, so in the future, you can do the things that others can not.
Phil
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