Is your life the way you'd like it to be? Are you living every moment of every day with passion, determination and drive? Are you sure that you're right on track to become the person you've always wanted to be?
My guess is that even if we feel that way most of the time, or even some of the time, we don't stay focused enough to remain "in the moment" with those thoughts. So here are a few suggestions that might help you to stay on course.
Most of our problem in not being on top of things each day is down to us having unconscious negative beliefs about our capability of living life to the max. So how do we change this?
We do it by managing our state of mind.
1). We can achieve this by changing our physiology, after all part of being human is to have fears and by changing the posture of our bodies we can change the way we feel. Stand the way you would stand if you were totally certain of your outcome. The way that you would stand if you were going to get all the things you want or would like. First I guess you'd be smiling, chin up, straight back and a twinkle in your eye. Am I right?
2). We can also achieve that great state of mind by the language we use when we are talking to ourselves, or when we are thinking. What kind of words do you say to yourself? Do you turn yourself from a metaphoric prince to a frog? We should use incantations to change our state, not only saying the stuff we want to happen in our lives, that will change things for the better, but also to speak to ourselves in the certainty of knowing and feeling that this frog is turning into a prince!
3). The other way to achieve the state of mind that will take you where you want to go is by keeping track of your focus and your beliefs about yourself. "Think highly of yourself because the world takes you at your own estimate!" So by using your physiology, your language or self talk and by choosing to focus on what's good in your life and having positive personal beliefs then you can become the passionate, determined and personally driven person that you know you should be.
A life coach can help you achieve this kind of personality shift, to help you to achieve all that you've always wanted to become. Please message me now or email me at musiclifecoach@gistli.co.uk to receive a free gift and set up an initial consultation.
Some say "A person is judged by the company they keep." Maybe with all the good will in the world, kind thoughts towards you, your friends could be dragging you down. It's time to raise your standards, but don't forget to continue to love your friends and your family, wherever they may be in their life's path..
Monday, 30 June 2008
Sunday, 29 June 2008
That awesome person called you!
In conversation with one of my clients recently, I was told about one of his business acquantancies that he said he was "in awe of," someone who my client had a very high opinion of; so I asked the client "Who is in awe of you?"
Often we see others as somehow further down the path than we are ourselves, they've got better knowledge, better connections, better abilities and they appear in comparrison to us as super-human. We aspire to be like them.
The reason for this conclusion, is beacuse of our own perception not only of the world, but of our own place within it. We think we know all there is to know about ourselves and we're just ordinary, the skills we have are common place.
My client is a very successful small business owner, who built up his business from scratch, having to learn the tools of his trade as his business developed over the years. I'm sure that many of his clients see him as the expert in his area.
There is another question that I intend to ask my client the next time we speak, but I'll ask you that question first, "Are you in awe of yourself?" Psalm 139 v14 says that we are "Fearfully and wonderfully made!"
It's time to realise that you aren't insignificant, you too have knowledge, connections, talents and abilities. It's my belief we have all been sent into this life with a grand purpose, but sadly many people die with unfulfilled potential.
If you'd like to discover your purpose or how to get back on track, to the place where you know deep inside you're supposed to be, please contact me now by e-mailing me at musiclifecoach@gistli.co.uk and I hope to speak to you soon. :-)
Often we see others as somehow further down the path than we are ourselves, they've got better knowledge, better connections, better abilities and they appear in comparrison to us as super-human. We aspire to be like them.
The reason for this conclusion, is beacuse of our own perception not only of the world, but of our own place within it. We think we know all there is to know about ourselves and we're just ordinary, the skills we have are common place.
My client is a very successful small business owner, who built up his business from scratch, having to learn the tools of his trade as his business developed over the years. I'm sure that many of his clients see him as the expert in his area.
There is another question that I intend to ask my client the next time we speak, but I'll ask you that question first, "Are you in awe of yourself?" Psalm 139 v14 says that we are "Fearfully and wonderfully made!"
It's time to realise that you aren't insignificant, you too have knowledge, connections, talents and abilities. It's my belief we have all been sent into this life with a grand purpose, but sadly many people die with unfulfilled potential.
If you'd like to discover your purpose or how to get back on track, to the place where you know deep inside you're supposed to be, please contact me now by e-mailing me at musiclifecoach@gistli.co.uk and I hope to speak to you soon. :-)
Saturday, 28 June 2008
I Dream For A Living!
"I don't dream at night, I dream all day. I dream for a living."
- Steven Spielberg"
I found this quote recently and I immediately identified with it. As a Life Coach (not a moviemaker) my business is to take my clients dreams and help them to believe that they can not only have those dreams (or goals as we call them) but that they can have them within a reasonable time scale.
I need to be the certainty for people that what they are aiming for is not silly or selfish, but achievable! When they display a lack of determination and or tenacity to follow through; my job is to passionately remind them of their dream and all the reasons that I can muster, to convince them again that their dream worth eagerly pursuing and fighting for.
I know people can achieve their goals, not only because I have personal achieved goals in the past, but because I have a growing number of past clients who have also achieved the goals that they set themselves through a period of Life Coaching.
I often quote the line from "Fawlty Towers" where Basil says in the "Communication Problems" episode: "Back to the world of dreams" if I digress from my initial subject matter. I then go on to remind my clients that Life Coaching is indeed "the world of dreams!"
Do you want to be a dreamer, whose dreams come true. Contact me today by personal meassage or by e-mailing me at musiclifecoach@gistli.co.uk
Monday, 23 June 2008
Wimbledon 2008
Yes it's here, it's the first day of the Wimbledon 2008, tennis championship.
Roger Federer was first out on the centre court early this afternoon, defending his title. He went through to the second round in straight sets beating his friend and old doubles partner, the Slovakian, Dominik Hrbaty.
I watched as Roger show his disappointment for not breaking serve to love. What this means, is that Roger obviously expects to win every point, even when his opponent is serving! On the other side of the court Dominik hit the ball into the net moments later in disappointment, when his serve was broken in the third set, seemingly consigning him to a 6-3, 6-2, 6-2 defeat.
It made me think, how life lives up to our expectations whether those expectations are poor or wonderful. We are never beaten until we decide we are! I know Hrbaty was playing against the current champion and that it was unlikely that he would beat Federer; but the game of tennis like the game of life is played one stroke a a time, one point at a time and we owe it to ourselves to give ourselves the advantage of a possibilty of things going our way, even against the tide.
If Hrbaty had denied Federer his 60th straight win on grass today, I think Hrbaty would have been more surprised than anyone else! We all know that upsets occur in many sports, the results we expect don't always happen. If my observation was correct and Hrbaty accepted that he was going to loose, after loosing his serve in the third set, it serves (no tennis pun intended) to illustrate that whatever we do in life, we should never give up!
"If you want to win, commit yourself to the process of winning, give yourself heart and soul, know and be certain of your outcome, imagine your success and you will live a life of triumph!" the Music Life Coach.
www.myspace.com/musiclifecoach
http://www.musiclifecoach.co.uk/
www.youtube.com/gistli
http://www.andrewsmithlifecoach.com/
Roger Federer was first out on the centre court early this afternoon, defending his title. He went through to the second round in straight sets beating his friend and old doubles partner, the Slovakian, Dominik Hrbaty.
I watched as Roger show his disappointment for not breaking serve to love. What this means, is that Roger obviously expects to win every point, even when his opponent is serving! On the other side of the court Dominik hit the ball into the net moments later in disappointment, when his serve was broken in the third set, seemingly consigning him to a 6-3, 6-2, 6-2 defeat.
It made me think, how life lives up to our expectations whether those expectations are poor or wonderful. We are never beaten until we decide we are! I know Hrbaty was playing against the current champion and that it was unlikely that he would beat Federer; but the game of tennis like the game of life is played one stroke a a time, one point at a time and we owe it to ourselves to give ourselves the advantage of a possibilty of things going our way, even against the tide.
If Hrbaty had denied Federer his 60th straight win on grass today, I think Hrbaty would have been more surprised than anyone else! We all know that upsets occur in many sports, the results we expect don't always happen. If my observation was correct and Hrbaty accepted that he was going to loose, after loosing his serve in the third set, it serves (no tennis pun intended) to illustrate that whatever we do in life, we should never give up!
"If you want to win, commit yourself to the process of winning, give yourself heart and soul, know and be certain of your outcome, imagine your success and you will live a life of triumph!" the Music Life Coach.
www.myspace.com/musiclifecoach
http://www.musiclifecoach.co.uk/
www.youtube.com/gistli
http://www.andrewsmithlifecoach.com/
Saturday, 21 June 2008
Life experiences
Sat at the dinner table the other day, my 11 year old son asked me how many jobs I'd had in my life. I said "How many jobs do you think that I've had?" He said he knew of three, I said "I think it's over 20, would you like to count them?"
I then recited my employment history, I'll spare you the details for now! :-) However, by the time I'd finished, my son had counted 27 in all. I was stunned, but like when I had my "aha" moment and realised what my life is about, what it had all been leading up to (i.e. becoming a Life Coach) I then realised that these 27 jobs, along with my two periods of unemployment, have prepared me to be able to understand a lot about being human.
I suppose first having a broken engagement and before entering a 25 years + marraige, four children (two boys, two girls) and now two grandsons is an impressive CV for a Life Coach; not forgetting my year at Bible school in 1979/1980 and the public speaking that I did around that time.
Maybe it's possible to get a handle on life at an early age, maybe I'm just a slow starter? But I know that my life experiences and the knowledge of personal development gained in the past twenty years or so, along with my Life Coaching qualification make me the kind of person who can show people how to get the most out of their lives.
"When you really want to know how to get the most out of your life, ask someone who has lived their life to the full!" the Music Life Coach.
www.myspace.com/musiclifecoach
http://www.musiclifecoach.co.uk/
www.youtube.com/gistli
http://www.andrewsmithlifecoach.com/
I then recited my employment history, I'll spare you the details for now! :-) However, by the time I'd finished, my son had counted 27 in all. I was stunned, but like when I had my "aha" moment and realised what my life is about, what it had all been leading up to (i.e. becoming a Life Coach) I then realised that these 27 jobs, along with my two periods of unemployment, have prepared me to be able to understand a lot about being human.
I suppose first having a broken engagement and before entering a 25 years + marraige, four children (two boys, two girls) and now two grandsons is an impressive CV for a Life Coach; not forgetting my year at Bible school in 1979/1980 and the public speaking that I did around that time.
Maybe it's possible to get a handle on life at an early age, maybe I'm just a slow starter? But I know that my life experiences and the knowledge of personal development gained in the past twenty years or so, along with my Life Coaching qualification make me the kind of person who can show people how to get the most out of their lives.
"When you really want to know how to get the most out of your life, ask someone who has lived their life to the full!" the Music Life Coach.
www.myspace.com/musiclifecoach
http://www.musiclifecoach.co.uk/
www.youtube.com/gistli
http://www.andrewsmithlifecoach.com/
Friday, 20 June 2008
Find your purpose, then find your passion!
I am a people person, I care about everyone that I meet, what will become of them when my interactions with them are at an end? Will their lives be better for having met me, will I have touched them in some way for the good?
As a Life Coach I see part of who I am and what I do is to help people to find their purpose and their passion. So many seem to live lives of quiet desperation, I've stood outside our local shopping mall watching people coming and going and thought to myself - where have the smiles gone?
I believe we all have talents and that we were all sent here with a purpose. A life coach can help you to find out what your purpose is if you really haven't got a clue, then once you know what it is can help you to work towards achieving your purpose.
When someone is on purpose in their lives, when what they do everyday what they love doing; then although someone looking in from the outside would say, you're just like me you've got a job. The one on purpose would say it's really not like work for me, it's what I love to do. That's when you are passionate about your life and you can feel fulfilled everyday.
This life of purpose, passion and fulfilment is available to everyone. What do you love to do, maybe that is what you were meant to be doing all along? Where do your talents lie, what are you good at? Why aren't you doing that very thing to earn your keep, give up the drudgery and live your life to the full.
Let a Life Coach help keep you on track, by sharing the tools andstratergies that we have to share, to make your life all you ever dreamed it to be.
You can visit my other places on the internet by following the links below or email me at musiclifecoach@gistli.co.uk
"When you know your calling, you'll know ultimate fulfilment in your life!" the Music Life Coach.
www.myspace.com/musiclifecoach
http://www.musiclifecoach.co.uk/
www.youtube.com/gistli
http://www.andrewsmithlifecoach.com/
As a Life Coach I see part of who I am and what I do is to help people to find their purpose and their passion. So many seem to live lives of quiet desperation, I've stood outside our local shopping mall watching people coming and going and thought to myself - where have the smiles gone?
I believe we all have talents and that we were all sent here with a purpose. A life coach can help you to find out what your purpose is if you really haven't got a clue, then once you know what it is can help you to work towards achieving your purpose.
When someone is on purpose in their lives, when what they do everyday what they love doing; then although someone looking in from the outside would say, you're just like me you've got a job. The one on purpose would say it's really not like work for me, it's what I love to do. That's when you are passionate about your life and you can feel fulfilled everyday.
This life of purpose, passion and fulfilment is available to everyone. What do you love to do, maybe that is what you were meant to be doing all along? Where do your talents lie, what are you good at? Why aren't you doing that very thing to earn your keep, give up the drudgery and live your life to the full.
Let a Life Coach help keep you on track, by sharing the tools andstratergies that we have to share, to make your life all you ever dreamed it to be.
You can visit my other places on the internet by following the links below or email me at musiclifecoach@gistli.co.uk
"When you know your calling, you'll know ultimate fulfilment in your life!" the Music Life Coach.
www.myspace.com/musiclifecoach
http://www.musiclifecoach.co.uk/
www.youtube.com/gistli
http://www.andrewsmithlifecoach.com/
Thursday, 19 June 2008
Hello!
I thought it was about time that I had my own blog, so here it is! :-)
My name is Andrew Smith and I am the "Music Life Coach". I was born in Bradford, UK and now live in Sheffield, UK. It is my privilege to work with people all over the world, in the music business as a life coach, I love my work and in my blog I intend to share some of my thoughts on life.
People tell me I am an inspirational coach, rather than a success and motivational coach, which is the way I used to describe myself. To be motivated I was told involves someone pushing you or pulling you in the direction of your goals; to be inspired however is when you see, feel and touch your goal, when it's so real to you - that you find it within yourself to get up and go after it every day. Apparently that is what I do I translate my clients desires and goals into inspiration.
You can visit my other places on the internet by following the links below or email me at musiclifecoach@gistli.co.uk
"Live a life of passion and purpose then you'll live the life of your dreams!" the Music Life Coach.
www.myspace.com/musiclifecoach
http://www.musiclifecoach.co.uk/
www.youtube.com/gistli
http://www.andrewsmithlifecoach.com/
My name is Andrew Smith and I am the "Music Life Coach". I was born in Bradford, UK and now live in Sheffield, UK. It is my privilege to work with people all over the world, in the music business as a life coach, I love my work and in my blog I intend to share some of my thoughts on life.
People tell me I am an inspirational coach, rather than a success and motivational coach, which is the way I used to describe myself. To be motivated I was told involves someone pushing you or pulling you in the direction of your goals; to be inspired however is when you see, feel and touch your goal, when it's so real to you - that you find it within yourself to get up and go after it every day. Apparently that is what I do I translate my clients desires and goals into inspiration.
You can visit my other places on the internet by following the links below or email me at musiclifecoach@gistli.co.uk
"Live a life of passion and purpose then you'll live the life of your dreams!" the Music Life Coach.
www.myspace.com/musiclifecoach
http://www.musiclifecoach.co.uk/
www.youtube.com/gistli
http://www.andrewsmithlifecoach.com/
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