Financial Services Professionals
Entrepreneurs and Business Owners
Life Upgrade
a five minute motivational newsletter
Issue 87
By Master Coach Ginger Cockerham
Having his own successful business had always been one of Jack’s dreams. Despite the fact that his financial services business was growing, he was feeling frustrated. “When I am at home with my family, I am thinking about things I need to do at the office. And when I am at the office, I lament that I am not spending more time with my family,” Jack told me.
We explored possibilities for changing that frustration. One decision he made was to be fully present wherever he was. As we coached, he related how he flipped on the television to watch the news while he ate breakfast with his boys each morning. I asked Jack, ”If you were fully present with your sons, how would that time be different?” The following week, he was delighted to tell me how much he enjoyed his sons without the TV. He also discovered that by ‘being present’ at work, he was focusing on and accomplishing his goals more easily.
Jack also had a dream of climbing the 14,000-foot peaks in Colorado, but because of his busy schedule, he had given up that dream. We explored the possibility of him training regularly and spending two weeks a year with his friends climbing in the mountains. He started 2006 by marking out five weeks of free time on his calendar. By doing that, he was able to schedule a vacation with his family as well as the climbing trip. At the end of the year, he was shocked to discover that by taking a lot more time off to rejuvenate, he was a better dad, husband and businessman. In fact, he set a new bar in his business by exceeding all his 2006 production goals.
Do you schedule your free time on your calendar at the beginning of the
year?
Do you have over 100 days of free time booked for this year?
How much more effective are you when you are rejuvenated and passionate?
What’s your big vision/dream for 2007?
When will you design your strategy for getting there?
You have PLENTY of time and energy to reach that dream!!
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Ginger Cockerham, Master Certified Coach
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Previous Issues:
- Experiencing Miracles (#86)
- Meeting the Challenges (#85)
- What If It's Possible (#84)
- Astronomer as Poet (#83)
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