The higher you go in the organization, the more important well developed intuitive abilities become. Intuition is essential in business decision making when rational analysis of data is not enough. This tends to occur when there is too much data or the data is contradictory. Facts are limited or they do not clearly indicate the direction to take. Problems are complex with a high level of uncertainty.
You have within yourself a resource you can draw on to find inner guidance and discover unsuspected personal strength. You can connect with this inner wisdom by relaxing deeply and inviting an image to appear. What you receive will enable you to successfully address the challenges you face, creating enhanced personal confidence and self esteem easily perceived by those around you.
Here is how my life coaching clients have benefited from this method:
In my work as a life coach, I find that there are five basic ingredients that lead to sustained happiness. Cultivate these deceptively simple behaviors and you will make your good life better.
Give and Receive Love
Your relationships are what nourish you the most, whether with family, friends or pets. Be kind to those around you. Be willing to give and receive support, encouragement, hugs. Make time for those you care about.
Research has shown that kindness to others provides more lasting satisfaction than having fun.
Think of the times when you have been stuck in worry about an upcoming project, presentation or event. You put all kinds of energy into imagining negative outcomes and the disastrous consequences those outcomes could create. The more anxious you became, the more energy was drawn into the vortex of worry, increasing its intensity and its power.
The first step in any life change is to visualize what it is that you want for yourself. Before you can plan the necessary action, you need to know where you are heading. To do this you must visualize your goal.
Conceptualize your goal in positive terms
Our desire to change is usually motivated by dissatisfaction with the present situation. Because of this, when it’s time to identify our goals, we often think in terms of what we want to get rid of.
You have within yourself a resource you can draw on to find inner guidance and discover unsuspected personal strength. You can connect with this inner wisdom by relaxing deeply and inviting an image to appear. What you receive will enable you to successfully address the challenges you face, creating enhanced personal confidence easily perceived by those around you.
Here is how my life coaching clients have benefited from this method:
In times of economic downturn it’s good to know that some of the most effective ways to manage your stress cost nothing at all. Here are seven of them:
Take a relaxation break.
If you are overwhelmed with too much to do or when you get upset about people or things you cannot control, give yourself some time to calm down and get a fresh perspective. This might be as simple as taking a few deep breaths or going for a brief walk. You will return better able to handle whatever challenges you face.
Jennifer loves her job. But when work demands threatened to wreck her marriage and her health she came to me for coaching. Ambitious and hard working, she prided herself on arriving at work early, leaving late and working through lunch. Her husband had enough when a get-away weekend had to be cancelled for the second time due to a last minute crisis at work. The stress of her job was taking a toll on her health, too. Jennifer’s doctor suggested she go on blood pressure medication, which she wanted to avoid if possible.
Do you hurry through your day, rushing from one high-pressure activity to the next? Do you view taking a break as a waste of time? If so, you may be heading for burnout.
Most of us face a tottering tower of to-do. You may regard any break as unthinkable, fearing it will steal too much of your precious time. Yet, taking a few moments to relax will enable you to return to work refreshed. Your increased efficiency, effectiveness and productivity will more than make up for the time you’ve used relaxing.
Most of us think of change as a simple linear process. We set a goal and we move toward it until we succeed. Research has shown, however, that change is actually a more complex and circular process.
In his study of people who successfully quit smoking, James Prochaska identified six stages which characterize any behavioral change. Understanding these six stages of change can help you transform problem behaviors so you can more easily achieve your goals and make your good life better.
The story is told that when the very first European tall ships arrived in the New World, the people on the beach were unable to perceive them. These things were so far out of their experience and so entirely unexpected that they simply were not noticed.
We all tend to be like those native peoples when confronted with something out of the ordinary. We generally notice those things that fit into our concept of the world and ignore events that fly in the face of reality as we know it.
How many times have you made a New Year’s resolution that got lost along the way? You start out with great resolve and change your behavior for a while. Before long, however, you’re back to your old habits.
Let’s face it. Behavior change is hard. What’s familiar is always the path of least resistance. Unforeseen challenges arise and throw you off track. Things improve a little and you forget the pain that made you want to change in the first place. Before long you figure that maybe you don’t need to follow through after all.
Our culture places great value on modesty. Children are commonly told not to “toot your own horn” or “get a swelled head.” When singing our own praises, many of us have been reproached: “What! Do you think you’re better than everyone else?”
When such attitudes are deeply ingrained, it can be difficult to acknowledge your strengths and accomplishments and to derive legitimate satisfaction from your successes. Yet honest pride in your achievements is an essential element of personal confidence and self esteem.
