Life coaching for women

Mind the gap - we all have freedom of choice

Sometimes, we hear or read things that REALLY make us think. I mean proper, deep, sustained thought. Something that resonates so loudly that it remains in your head for weeks.
And it can be something really simple, too, can't it? Here's an example, a thought planted in my brain within the past month that I have been using as a personal reference point and a resource for clients ever since.

turn on the light (part 1)

When I'm coaching, more often than not, there is laughter. Certainly when I'm being coached there are endless hoots. (Of course, sometimes there are tears too, but more often, there's some laughter.)

Ever since I clarified my client group as women in mid-life who are stuck, being light-hearted, bringing light into their lives, has been a consistent aspiration when we start working together.

When life's tricky, when we are on a hamster-wheel, even one of our own making, life can become too serious. Fun is forgotten, laughter is lacking.

Recognition - a reasonable expectation

My mum always refused to acknowledge any of my successes or achievements to the extent that I would be hard put to identify any from my growing up years! No, really. Sooner than notice and remark on what I had done she would, in a manner of speaking, stick her fingers in her ears and sing 'la' very loudly!
As an adult I have slowly come to learn that, rather than making me 'spoilt' or developing me into a 'show-off', when I receive acknowledgement of what I do, when I get positive feedback, I become not just imbued with a  rosy glow of pleasure but also phenomenally motivated, eager to take action, to do more of the same.

fill your lens, fill your life

Sometimes, when we take close-up photographs, it's great to really fill the lens with the subject matter, fill it up with whatever you're looking at. Don't let what's beside it, behind it, above it, below it, interfere. And so it is with life - focus on what we want and need, and then fill our lives with just that. Don't focus on what you don't want, focus on what you do want. (I'm loving these photographic analogies!)

listen up

I was a bit unwell the other day and spent quite a bit of time blobbing on the sofa watching daytime TV.  I caught an extraordinary programme, one where dysfunctional families wash their dirty linen in public, apparently in the hope of DNA tests, which will change their lives, or something like that.
Being an obsessive people-watcher I was fascinated. What struck me, above everything, was the shouting, the talking over each other. Despite the host’s best efforts the 'stars' of the show would not allow each other more than two words before they started to reply to what they thought was being said.

life’s all about marketing – and marketing’s all about life

As a coach and web designer I have no choice but to make sure people know who I am and what I do. I work with people I get along with and so I need to project into the world the person I am. The plan (and it seems to work) is that once people feel they know me a little, they want to work with me. That’s my style of marketing. But this article isn’t about marketing; it’s about building new relationships. But maybe they’re the same thing.