For Gold Coast Magazine: Feature Article on “COACH Yourself” by Muffy Churches
Imagine being able to bring envisioned possibilities into your reality, to set-up a life story that you love, or to simply feel enhanced confidence and comfort with yourself and others. So often we sense that something needs to shift in our life, but we’re unsure about how to make that adjustment happen.
Whether you’re a mum, ready to restart your career but low on confidence and direction, or a sales account manager, frustrated by presentation nerves, there is an easy step by step approach to empower yourself to design the ‘you’ that you’re ready to be.
Here are quick 5 tips for making that transformation happen and for coaching yourself into the exact life that you want.
1. Have a Clear Vision
In order to change any aspect of our lives we have to be crystal clear about what we DON’T want, and what we DO want instead. The picture of our new goal must be vivid and in full detail, so that we have something specific to move toward
2. Develop Self-Awareness
Invite your wise, inner self to hover on your shoulder to observe and listen. Which of your current thought patterns are getting in the way or holding you back from who you now want to be?
3. Build a Plan
Explore your options for operating differently. Think strategically as you design your new intentions. How will you now chose to think, feel, and behave? What practical action steps will you take toward your change-goal?
4. Perform
You’ve already envisioned…now its time to ENACT and BECOME! Look for opportunities to function as the new you and enjoy the transformation
5. Persevere
Cognitive and behavioural change takes time to embed itself in the system so embrace any slip-backs to old ways and just keep trying.
Your new self is just around the corner.
