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As some of my readers from my previous blog may know, I am in the process of building a Life Coaching business. I have already achieved the UK Certificate in Life Coaching and am now building on these foundations with the Diploma in Life Coaching.

In order for me to increase my practical experience I am offering free life coaching to a limited number of people. This will predominately be telephone and email based, with the potential for video conference sessions.

If you would like help with clarifying your life, feel that you could be achieving a lot more than at present, are in a rut, or just need a friendly, but occasionaly critical mentor who will demand that you hold yourself to a much higher standard, then feel free to contact me and I will be happy to explain things in more detail.

I must point out though that this is a very limited offer of high quality coaching at no charge, so if you have been considering the benefits of your own Life Coach contact me soon.

Petra Rankin uses what she calls an “ABCDE method” of time management, on her weblog. Although I’m more inclined to GTD, LifeBalance and so on, I always believe in using the tool that works best for you. So if you are more Left Brained, and like using spreadsheets then this method of time management may be for you.

Achieving Our Potential (And Beyond) - A weblog about Personal Development, Self Help, Success, Happiness, Health, Relationships, Efficiency and Being an Entrepreneur: The ABCDE Method

We all have bad habits, things we wished we didn’t do. I’m currently working to improve myself in some pretty big ways, and it was while I was thinking that “it is too hard to do this…“, “If I started tomorrow…“, “Just once more and then I’ll stop…“, that I finally got it :-

Firstly, if I keep doing the same thing, I will get the same results. And these results I do not want. If I eat too much and don’t exercise I WILL get fat. If I’m lazy and goof off, I WILL be far less successful. If I act like a jerk towards my sweetheart my relationship WILL suffer. If I do not live to my highest standards I WILL feel that I’m letting myself down.

Secondly, breaking a bad habit, a really ingrained one, is going to be REALLY hard for me. That’s it black and white. Not ‘”quite hard, but you’ll overcome”, not “OK, as you’ll find a short cut, a way to make it enjoyable” blah blah blah, no, IT WILL BE REALLY HARD!

In the short term it is going to cause me some kind of pain. It will not be easy. If it was easy to do, I would have done it a long time ago. I just can’t avoid that. I can’t expect to make great strides in my life without moving waaay out of my comfort zone. I must stop pussyfooting around and thinking for easy fixes, and just admit it, it will be hard - but only for a while.

Michael Jordan used to be in his high school gym even before the teacher. Marathon runners practice until it hurts, and then some more!!

What I need to do is accept the short term pain, face it smack bang head on, stand tall, look it in the eye and say “enough is enough. I stop. NOW.”