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Volume3
Welcome to Volume 3 of Living on the Edge, the fortnightly newsletter from Living Edge Life Coaching, designed to inform, educate, challenge and inspire you! Especially welcome to the new subscribers.
As you will see from last issue Living on the Edge will now come to you as an HTML email. Hopefully this will work better for most readers and computer systems as there is no attachment to the email.
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Annabel Varvel
Life Coach BA.LLB
COACHING CORNER
BOOK REVIEW
Whilst many of you pay have a good idea about what coaching is, I thought in this issue I'd clarify any misconceptions...
What is coaching?
“It seems like life is no longer passing me by – I'm now in it!” is what one of my client's has said after 3 months of coaching. More and more people are now discovering the benefits of coaching. Call it what you will – life coaching, business coaching, success coaching, executive coaching, performance coaching, personal coaching – essentially coaching is a process that is a catalyst to real, tangible change!
Coaching can take place for a variety of purposes – hence the different 'labels'. Whether the coaching is focused around personal, professional or business goals (or as is most common, a combination) your coach works with you (1 on 1) to set inspiring goals.... and achieve them! It is not magic. It does require hard work and commitment, but when you spend time focusing on and working towards your goals, you can achieve them. Coaching is very practical and action orientated. It is not all talk it's breaking your goals down and working through activities each week to work towards your goals.
When Annette Freeman owner of The Results Factory (a graphic design, marketing & communication company) first started coaching in April 2000 she didn't think she could afford it as she was in the start up phase of her new business. Now she says she can't afford not to have coaching! She found that with the discipline of meeting weekly and working through the actions we set that she has grown her business significantly, challenged previously held beliefs that were holding her back professionally and personally and for a sole practitioner has now got “someone on her team”.
Whether it be getting a business up and going, obtaining that illusive life balance, losing weight, achieving your financial goals or finding your passion, coaching could help you! I like to think of coaching as these 3 things:
- Inspiring...you can lift your vision of yourself, your business, your relationships through coaching.
- Encouraging... you to be all that you can be, and more. Part of the coach's role is to encourage you in your highs & lows, to achieve your best.
- Stretching...
you beyond what you might ordinarily thought was possible. It's
about trying new things, getting out of that comfort zone and going
for it! One of my client's has said “...she stretched me to
places I didn't think myself capable of reaching”
Call 07 3254 0868 to arrange a FREE trial coaching session.
The E-Myth Revisited
by Michael Gerber
This is MUST read for anyone in their own business or thinking about starting their own business. I have heard many refer to it as the small business bible.
Michael Gerber addresses in an easy to read style the issue of why so many small businesses fail. Basically he says it's because people enter into their own business not recognising the many different hats they are going to have to wear. Eg. a plumber might be an excellent plumber but a hopeless manager and so the 'back end' of his business fails because invoices aren't sent or followed up regularly. Naturally if this continues, the business doesn't.
The book goes through many practical tips for developing systems that will sustain your small business and importantly see that it grows and can support that growth.
If you are in business or thinking of it and haven't read it - go and buy it today!
ESTEEM YOURSELF!TM
A workshop for women who want to create their lives from the inside out.
3 May 2003 (early bird special expires 17 April)
31 May 2003 (early bird special expires 16 May)
9am to 4pm
EARLY BIRD SPECIAL $149
(includes morning tea and lunch)
$169
REGISTER: email esteem@livingedge.net or
call 07 3254 0868
QUOTE
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each one of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
Robert F. Kennedy
Questions, comments or suggestions, email annabel@livingedge.net
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