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Volume 4

Welcome to Volume 4 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.

I hope you are enjoying the time off with all these public holidays and using the time to relax, reflect and enjoy time with your family and friends.

Please forward onto your friends and encourage them to subscribe.

Annabel Varvel

Life Coach BA.LLB

 

COACHING CORNER

BOOK REVIEW

 How do you Esteem Yourself™?

 

You may have heard that to really love others, you must first love yourself... but do you?  The way we see ourselves can have a huge impact on the way we treat and relate to other people.

 

Have a think about the following questions:

 

  • Do you think about yourself a lot and analyze why you are the way you are?
  • Are you stressful and fearful of adversity?
  • You find it hard to smile easily?
  • Are you tired a lot? Unmotivated?
  • Are you unwilling or unable to set and achieve your goals?
  • Do you stay to yourself and prefer to be alone rather than meeting new people or being with others?
  • Do you have trouble making and keeping friends?
  • Do you avoid looking into the eyes of others?
  • You refuse to take risks?
  • Do you talk to yourself negatively?
  • Do you doubt yourself – your opinions, decisions, actions, thoughts ?
  • Do you feel unworthy – of love, attention, success, friendship?

If you answered yes to a number of the questions above you may be suffering from low self-esteem. But what is self-esteem?

 

Esteem means to regard with respect...to prize...to have regard to the value...high estimation or value...great regard...favorable opinion....founded on supposed worth...to set a high value on....to respect....to appreciate...the condition of being honored....a feeling of delighted approval and liking...

 

So my perception of self-esteem is to think of myself in these terms.  Do I have a high estimation of myself?  Do I respect myself, do I feel that I approve of or even like myself?

 

Our self esteem is formed over a long period of time so it won't change overnight, but it can change because largely it is about our self-perception.  It is caught up in the way we think about ourselves, and we CAN change the way we think.

 

In the Esteem Yourself™ workshop we address these issues, discuss some practical tools to help change the way you Esteem Yourself™ and develop an action plan to put those tools into practice.

 

There are still places available in the upcoming workshops, so please call to register.  

 

 

 

 

 

 The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

by Stephen  R. Covey

 

 This is a tried and true book everyone into self-development should read and implement.  

 

Here are the 7 Habits...

 

1. Be Proactive

2. Begin with the End in Mind

3. Put first things first

4. Think win/win

5. Seek first to understand, Then to be    understood

6. Synergise

7. Sharpen the saw

 

 It's easy to read, easy to digest and easy to implement - although does require self-discipline.

 

Apart from this book, which is probably one of the best known of Covey's books the Franklin Covey Institute provide training, development and many other resources to help people and businesses be more effective. See www.franklincovey.com.au -  I particularly like PlanPlus which is an excellent time management diary system.

 

ESTEEM YOURSELF!™

A workshop for women who want to create their lives from the inside out.

3 May 2003 (early bird expired))

31 May 2003 (early bird special expires 16 May)

9am to 4pm

EARLY BIRD SPECIAL $149

(includes morning tea and lunch)

$169

download brochure

 REGISTER: email esteem@livingedge.net or

call 07 3254 0868

 

If you are not in Brisbane but have a group of people (work place, friends, school group etc) that would be interested please call me as I can travel!

SPECIAL OFFER!

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The best way to find out if coaching is for you is to try it!

If you or someone you know would like to try a coaching session for FREE, please call 07 3254 0868 to arrange a session. (sessions can be done over the phone as well as in person)

“Low self-esteem consists of a poor opinion of oneself and one's own efforts, deeply rooted in the core of one's being. It sees oneself as no good and looks to others for affirmation. It is based on feelings of lack of acceptance and being 'put down' established early in life. It weakens motivation, performance and the ability to relate to people and affects one's own physical and emotional well-being”.

Helena Wilkenson

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