Motivational: Make Your Life Easier

Make Your Life Easier

Written by David Wood

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guilty!One of my good friends - George - was complaining to me about his roommate. 'I've tried everything to get her to clean. I've created lists of jobs, we've created cleaning schedules, and I've tried cleaning more as an example. Nothing is working, and it's driving me nuts!'. Clearly he was trying to control repparttar 122666

situation - sound familiar? But repparttar 122667

more he tried to get her to clean, repparttar 122668

more excuses she came up with - and this guy is a powerful coach! When I asked him why he didn't just move out, he replied: 'But I love her to death. And other than this, I love living with her'. So together we created a completely ~opposite~ approach. The art of fun surrender. And here's what he went back to his roommate with: 'Jill, I love living with you. And I love you. I've been so hung up on this cleaning issue I've lost sight of that. I want you to know that if you never clean another thing I this house I'll be fine with that - in fact I'll handle it. I'm just glad you're my roommate'. Again - repparttar 122669

key is he meant it. He realised that doing all repparttar 122670

cleaning wasn't that big a deal for him, and he'd much rather have her in his life than 'get his way' over repparttar 122671

cleaning. All he had to do was give up his position - to give up being 'right' about it. And repparttar 122672

result? He s still got an awesome friend in his life, not to mention peace! OK - enough examples. Let's take a look at your neck of repparttar 122673

woods: Exercise: Apply This to YOUR Life' If you would like to completely eliminate a problem from your life - something that's been draining you, then try these three simple steps: 1) Notice where you are 'pushing' Are you arguing your point? Have you tried everything and repparttar 122674

person still won't change? Do they not seem to be listening, or just ignore you? Are you desperately trying to get to sleep (fighting yourself)? Have you complained about it more than twice in one week? More than ten times this year? 2) Ask yourself: 'What if they did that forever, and I was OK with it? If I embraced it?' 3) Choose an action ~you~ can do that would handle it, instead of them having to handle it. Before you may have argued, got upset or stressed out. But now - what could you do that would just handle/accept repparttar 122675

issue? To take responsibility for it? Not because you have to, but because it's more fun and will create more peace in your life? This week, make your life and someone else's life easier. Who's repparttar 122676

lucky person? And I'd love to hear what you come up with! Just zip me an email...I can keep it confidential, or with your permission even share it in next month's newsletter. Enjoy, David Wood David Wood is a Professional Life Coach, and author of repparttar 122677

powerful Free Download: '50 Life Coaching Questions to Take Control of Your Life and Help Your Clients'. He helps coaches, consultants, speakers and trainers to build their businesses via his popular ebook: "10 Super Coaches Share Their Secrets" and his audio ebook: "Getting Your First 50 Clients". "David Wood is a personal and business coach, and an original founder of repparttar 122678

David Wood is a Certified Life Coach. He helps coaches, consultants, speakers and trainers to build their businesses via his popular ebook at http://10SuperCoaches.com and his audio ebook at http://www.FirstFiftyClients.com. Get his new Free Download “50 Power Questions” and popular monthly ezine for clients and coaches (now over 15,000 subscribers) at: http://www.solutionbox.com/freedownload.htm

How to Coach Yourself

Written by David Wood

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STEP 4) Structure Having an idea, or desire is one thing. But many of these do not get achieved. This is probably one reason you are reading this article – because there is something in your life you would like to achieve or change, but it hasn’t happened yet. Change rarely occurs without a “structure” in place to support you. For example, if you want to be a public speaker, surround yourself with speakers. Talk a friend into doing your goal with you. Ask someone to check in on you once a fortnight to ask how you’re going. Set constant diary reminders for repparttar

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world (all your friends) is also a great structure. And if you’re really serious about your goal, it’s hard to find a more powerful structure than hiring a coach. Does speaking to someone once a week, and taking time out each week to focus on what’s important to you, sound like it might make a difference? You bet! Enjoy, David Wood David Wood is a Professional Life Coach, and author of repparttar 122667

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