http://mastering-life.com Take control of your life... A step-by-step guide on how to be happy and start living! Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:35:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://mastering-life.com/coaching/putting-a-stop-loss-order-on-your-friends-about-friendship-love-and-relationships/ http://mastering-life.com/coaching/putting-a-stop-loss-order-on-your-friends-about-friendship-love-and-relationships/#comments Wed, 07 Jul 2010 08:47:28 +0000 chris http://mastering-life.com/?p=146 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]]> http://mastering-life.com/coaching/putting-a-stop-loss-order-on-your-friends-about-friendship-love-and-relationships/feed/ 0