Archive for July, 2010

Putting a “Stop-Loss order” on your friends – About Friendship, Love and Relationships…

how to deal with people that postpone or cancel appointments?Yesterday I met up with one of my friends who asked me for a coaching session some months ago and I finally managed to free up 90 minutes in my schedule so we met, had dinner and started chopping away at what seemed like ‘external circumstances that could not be overcome’ that caused all of the problems. Since I have noticed similar problems in almost all of the sessions that I provided, I decided to write a little bit about it in generic terms.

One of the first problems people have is that they don’t know what they want. You may have known what you wanted as a young child but over time society, culture and environment polished you into who you are right at this moment. It is said that “environment is more important than heredity” – meaning that the people that you interact and meet up with are more important factors to who you will end up becoming than what is in your DNA

A lot of times, people don’t know what they want because they have been conditioned and because the people around them tell them that their dreams are “impossible!”… so they just give up on them.

What I’m about to tell you today may seem radical. You may even think I have gone out of my mind with the title: “Put a stop loss order on your friends” but you will understand what I mean shortly. Read more

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Procrastination is easy to overcome, when you know what it is telling us

what is procrastination and how to tackle it?We plan a whole lot of things but never get to it. You might hear the alarm clock buzz, turn it off and head back to sleep… or you may keep pushing back some important task that you really need to finish… Why is that and how do we overcome it? It’s quite easy when you understand what it is and why it is happening to you…

Procrastination is the habit of putting the wrong priorities on tasks. It’s not that you don’t know that it’s important – you DO know it’s important – but that it’s just so much easier to do those five smaller things instead of clearing this one hurdle. Quantity does not make up for quality though!

So why do you procrastinate and how can you solve it? Read more

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