Live to your full potential!

How can Success Coaching support you?
Do you have areas in your life where you would love to be more successful?

Live your relationships with more passion?

Be fit, energetic, healthy, good looking and maintain your ideal weight? Do you know your strengths and weaknesses? Energy for Life How do you become the person you aim to be, to have the career you dream of? You can do it! You just need a coach to show you how to improve your life in all areas.

Is coaching for me? Why would I “need” a coach?

When you want to:

·Change something in your life — lose weight, stop smoking, start doing sport regularly, get rid of habits you

don’t want.

·Live life with more passion, energy, health and happiness.

·Change your career but you are not sure which way to go.

·Find direction, because you feel lost or just caught up in life, or lack direction.

·Find your true life’s purpose.

·To know yourself better — a personality test is part of our coaching program. ·Find the right partner in life.

·Live your relationship with more love and passion.

·To improve your ability to manage stress.

·Work smarter instead of harder.

·To improve your communication skills.

·Be more successful and live to your full potential.

I’m already successful, so why would I need a coach?

Wherever you are in life, you have reached this level thanks to your behaviour and thinking patterns. Do you seek to go further? Successful people aim for continuous progress. A coach will challenge you to dream bigger dreams than you have ever dared. Coaching enables you to reach bigger goals in less time and with less effort. Work smarter not harder! Be your own career builder!

Sounds good, but how does it really work?

Are you good at finding solutions for other people, but sometimes have trouble finding them for your own life? That’s normal. As long as we are “IN” the problem it is very difficult to see the bigger picture. A coach sees your life from the outside, hence it becomes much easier to see that bigger picture and to reflect that back to you.

A coach encourages you to define what you really want in life.

During the coaching process you will detect some patterns that are hindering your progress. A coach guides you through simple processes that make changing easy — processes such as taking time for yourself and learning how daily affirmations can enhance your life exponentially.

How can I motivate myself?

Lack of motivation is often directly connected with lack of energy, focus, and goals. Successful people motivate themselves by setting goals, and putting plans into place to achieve them. They use motivational techniques such as making an appointment with a coach, or having coaching on a regular basis.

Good, I am really interested, but how does it work?

·You will stay in close contact with your coach using email, Skype or the telephone.

·You will receive Elessons that you can work through at your own pace.

·Your coach always works FOR YOU. Hence, you demand as much support as you need. Email and Elessons are unlimited.Conversations on Skype can be arranged for 1 hour a month, or ½ an hour every two weeks, or 15 minutes every week.

·If you need more support, that can also be arranged.

·Face to face coaching is available in Perth Western Australia. ·We also offer partner, team, group coaching, and seminars on a broad variety of topics.

Can you give me some examples from clients you’ve had?

The first example was a mother of two. She was about 50, divorced, and her career was going nowhere. At the first meeting she did not really know why specifically she came. She described her life to be “a mess”. During the coaching process she had several break throughs. She changed some of her beliefs, began speaking the new beliefs and became free in her mind and feelings. This enabled her to stand up for herself. She regained self-confidence, found better ways to deal with her drug-addicted son, and started part time further education. When I spoke with her a while ago, she had finished her degree and sounded very happy and self-contented.

Another was a 40-year-old woman who was not sure if she should make a career change and start a business. During the process she found direction and clearance for the next steps.

One 48-year-old woman had chronic back pain. After one session she changed her behaviour so completely that she even ran to escape the rain, much to her own and her husband’s surprise. She hadn’t run for several years because she was afraid of pain.

A 28-year-old man was afraid that he might die at 40, because his father and grandfather had both died at 40. During the coaching process he regained his self-confidence and changed his beliefs so that he took responsibility for his health.

Another was a 19-year-old girl who struggled with everyday life. Her lack of self-esteem and self-love was so low that she had health problems directly related to it. During the coaching process she found that she was here for a reason, that “she was worthy” to live a good life. I am still in contact with her and deeply touched and happy with how she is progressing and aiming for the stars. She is now a strong, self-confident, warm hearted, beautiful woman.

There are several more — a 50-year-old man who wanted to stop smoking — a 45-year-old woman who had tried every diet before she started having coaching, and many others…

Discover Your Personal Potential

Discover Your Personal Potential

Being Versus Doing – Theory

We become entrapped by our needs when we fail to understand that who we really are is separate to our actions, opinions and feelings.  Our ‘neediness’ relentlessly drives us into all sorts of pathetic behaviours designed to fulfil the gaping hole inside ourselves. And whilst we can be impressed with our ability to consciously understand that some of our behaviour is never going to fill the need anyway, that doesn’t mean that we have the personal power to change our actions. We are often ‘driven’ at a level far beyond our own comprehension.

Too often, we find ourselves sitting with a client, who has described their actions and then asked plaintively, “Why do I do such pitiful things? I’m feeble!”

The answer (and therefore the pathway toward the solution) lies in the following two diagrams.

The ideal would be to develop a sense of self worth from an EQUAL combination of the things we DO and the real person that we ARE.

The real value in this model is that when our sense of who we ARE eludes us, we can depend on our track record to feel stable and worthwhile and when our track record deserts us (we have a failure) our deep and abiding feelings of being good enough, just the way we ARE, allow us to remain calm.

Unfortunately, most of us are highly trained in the applications:

DO = 100%

Are = Rarely experienced

This model implies that we ARE what we DO and that judgements about ourselves based on our results (DO) are relevant. The consequence of this madness is that our feelings of self worth are now linked irrevocably to the vagaries of life and we are ‘hooked’ by the need for positive results. A failure means that we are no good, a stuff up is proof that we are not OK and a fractured relationship is proof that we are inadequate.

Even the opposite doesn’t work.  If we were actually able to produce great results all year (and be silly enough to think well of ourselves because of them) we’d be required to do more next year just to stay level.

Having to DO more to BE more, results in what we call the series of escalating goals. This becomes a life script.

Left to its own devices, the series of escalating goals leads to the  Approval by Achievement syndrome, a situation where we will only ‘like’ ourselves and others if we/they are doing well.

Whilst success is probably more fun than failure, we need to understand that we ARE enough.  Period.  Anyone who loves us will sooner or later arrive at this conclusion.  Our actions and results may positively or negatively affect them but if they truly love us, they will look beyond what has HAPPENED and see WHO we are amidst our victories and failures.  We need to do the same.

Whatever you do, all achievements – large or small – contribute to your sense of self-worth.  How you value these achievements is important.  If you tend to base your sense of personal value on success, don’t be surprised if you feel upset at the prospect of failure or anxious that you may be rejected.

If the balance between internal and external achievement strongly favours the external, you will be cut off from your feelings and may drift into a way of life that is busy and productive in the short term but not in your best interests in the long term.  If your achievements are balanced strongly in favour of ‘being’ rather than ‘doing’ then you may find yourself having to rely on others for financial support.

The achievements you have listed all played a part in shaping your identity.

Can you imagine how you could turn your life around by working on this?
Ready to start your new life today?

Self Esteem

Get The Self Esteem You Desire

As a person seeking excellence, it is important to assess both your strengths and the barriers that keep you from achieving the improvements you want in your personal and professional life.

A Never Ending Process

Continuous improvement implies a never-ending process.  The changes we will need to make may require breaking down our habits into routines we can assess; then we will be able to combine strategies for change into easily achievable steps.

Self-improvement requires self-mastery.  We are masterful when we can accomplish our personal dreams and goals.  To achieve self-mastery we need to develop some personal characteristics.

1. Self Awareness: readiness to look at past or present information about ourselves.

1. Self Knowledge: after examining our past we will have a basis for comparing personal observations with feedback from others.

1. Self Discipline: we need to be able to make our behaviour conform to our personal goals by controlling our thoughts, feelings and actions.

Self-esteem is a state of mind.  It is the way you think and feel about yourself and others;

and it is measured by the way you act.  Your self-esteem serves as the bridge between who you are and what you do.  It can also be defined as your internal belief system and how you experience life externally.

High self-esteem means that you have a positive sense of your inherent worth as a person.  Self-esteem is self-confidence, self-worth and self-respect.  The key to improving self-esteem is your willingness

to take responsibility for your feelings, desires, thoughts, abilities and interests, and to accept your overall strengths.

Your self-esteem affects everything you do.  It reflects ‘you’ to everyone you come into contact with.  Each of us is born with the capacity for positive feelings, but it is possible to learn not to like yourself through your life experience.

Self-esteem is not fixed.  It changes (often daily) depending on what you experience or how you are feeling.  Most low self-esteem is caused by negative emotional reactions.  Childhood experiences, criticism from adults, peers, your environment, media and society in general can cause feelings of inferiority and low self-esteem.  If these feelings are reinforced by negative belief patterns, they will become habit forming and low self-esteem will be the result.

As you become an adult, you depend on others for a sense of importance.  Negative feelings and thinking patterns can become so powerful they seem like the truth and your mind can then form value judgements as a result.

Self-esteem is both conscious and unconscious.  It is an ongoing evaluation of yourself, a belief about what you can and cannot do.  Self-esteem can be learned, but it does not happen overnight.

Then sign up for Coaching!

The truth about weight loss

Your body represents what you think about your self and it is always telling the truth.

All addictions reflect in our body and its health.

Here we are focussing on eating behaviours.

This might sound hard for some people, but it is a fact.
We treat our self according to our values and beliefs.

If you belief you are “not worth it”, you have a low self-esteem trouble with loving yourself it shows up in you body.
First: it is visible at the body language, lacking muscle tone, slag posture, facial expression and superficial breathing.

Further it is as simple as that:
95% of the overweight people are fat because they eat the wrong thing in mass and do not or little exercise.
You are what you eat!
If you eat fast food manly containing fat and sugar (weight bread reacts in the body like sugar) than your body mass is fatty as well. Your body uses this staff to improve fat storage.

If you eat complex carbohydrates and minerals which you get in vegetables, fruits and whole grain product your body can build bones, muscles and well formed structure.

Is your body a tractor and you can put in whatever fuel you have available (although tractors do not take all!) or a Formula 1 car?
Formal 1 car are self-confident and can only run and perform at their best if they are given a high performing fuel.

Are you worth it? Be truthful with yourself are you really worth it, the high quality food full of vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, protein and energy?

If you are worth it, you take some more time to prepare to buy and choose your food as well as by preparing it.

If you want to be forever thin, you need detailed information about
your own attitudes, beliefs, plus the proper tools for breaking out of it. The
information below has worked for John (65-pound fat loss) and for
many thousands of weight-challenged individuals. It will work for
you too.

You are what you are due to attitudes, beliefs and old habits formed
in childhood. They subtly and powerfully shape our bodies, our
self-image and the way we relate to food and life in general. Most
weight-challenged people remain trapped in the gain/lose/gain cycle

because they are unaware of this fact. Therefore, the issue is not
whether a fat-box controls your weight but whether or not you will
confront and break out of it. Here’s how.

First, identify your attitudes, beliefs and old habits:

1. Who wants you to stay fat? Most weight-challenged people are
surrounded by family and friends who “enable” their bad eating
habits and weight gain.

2. How does staying overweight serve or protect you? From life,
sex, your personal power, men/women, being visible, etc.

3. How has being overweight defined your personality, your
relationships and your self-expression?

4. What would you do with your mind, your emotions, and your life
if you were not constantly focused on food and fat?

Now, break out of your fat-box:

1. Imagine what you will look like when you drop all that weight.
Write a description and place it on your fridge.

2. Imagine that you have all the power you need to face life as it
is. How will this change your behaviour?

3. Write a letter to the people who want you to stay fat. Tell them
that you are breaking out of your used behaviours and that they no longer

have any say in who or what you are. Do not mail it. Read it out
loud to yourself every day for 30 days. This is an extremely
powerful exercise. Take the risk of feeling foolish and do it!

To be successful and break through your habits and self-sabotage you will need courage to face some fears. Most weight-challenged individuals are deeply attached to being overweight and discover great resistance
when they get close to their ideal weight. Your task is to refuse
to attack yourself or decide that you lack will power.

The problem is not your will but your deep-seated attitudes about
who you are and can be. The solution is in learning to create a new
image of you and your possibilities that is not defined by your old
programs. With some work you will be successful at breaking out and
being forever thin.

You see weight loss and changing beliefs, behaviours and self- image and self-esteem are directly related and that is where coaching sets in.

Coaching makes changes easy and reflects to us where we have blind spots. It is much easier working with an encouraging supporting coach who holds you accountable to your actions and promises than just “trying” it all alone.

Are you sick and tired of failing at weight loss?
Did you know virtually all famous diets set you up for failure by
ignoring the 2 critical requirements of lasting weight loss? If you

know how to meet these 2 conditions, you can lose all the fat you
want!

Do you want to know these secrets?

Self Esteem

Self-Esteem

As a person seeking excellence, it is important to have a high self-esteem. In this success coaching module, you will:

- Assess your own self-esteem and identify desired improvements

- Understand how a poor self-esteem develops

- Learn about the “approval by achievement” syndrome and how to prevent it

- Identify your untapped personal potential

- Examine your relationship with fear, change,criticism and judgement

- Focus on your strengths and individuality.Objectives

Self-Esteem, Where To Begin

As a person seeking excellence, it is important to assess both your strengths and the barriers that keep you from achieving the improvements you want in your personal and professional life.

A Never Ending Process

Continuous improvement implies a never-ending process. The changes we will need to make may require breaking down our habits into routines we can assess; then we will be able to combine strategies for change into easily achievable steps.

Self-improvement requires self-mastery. We are masterful when we can accomplish our personal dreams and goals.

To achieve self-mastery we need to develop some personal characteristics.

1. Self Awareness: readiness to look at past or present information about ourselves. 2. Self Knowledge: after examining our past we will have a basis for comparing personal observations with feedback from others. 3. Self Discipline: we need to be able to make our behaviour conform to our personal goals by controlling our thoughts, feelings and actions.

Self perception exercise

In order to gain a sense of perspective, to see where you stand and where you are going, it is helpful to take a step back and review your life as a whole.

What is self esteem?

Self-esteem is a state of mind. It is the way you think and feel about yourself and others; and it is measured by the way you act. Your self-esteem serves as the bridge between who you are and what you do. It can also be defined as your internal belief system and how you experience life externally.

High self-esteem means that you have a positive sense of your inherent worth as a person. Self-esteem is self-confidence, assertiveness, self-worth and self-respect. The key to improving self-esteem is your willingness to take responsibility for your feelings, desires, thoughts, abilities and interests, and to accept your overall strengths.

Your self-esteem affects everything you do. It reflects ‘you’ to everyone you come into contact with. Each of us is born with the capacity for positive feelings, but it is possible to learn not to like yourself through your life experience.

Self-esteem is not fixed. It changes (often daily) depending on what you experience or how you are feeling. Most low self-esteem is caused by negative emotional reactions. Childhood experiences, criticism from adults, peers, your environment, media and society in general can cause feelings of inferiority and low self-esteem. If these feelings are reinforced by negative belief patterns, they will become habit forming and low self-esteem will be the result.

As you become an adult, you depend on others for a sense of importance. Negative feelings and thinking patterns can become so powerful they seem like the truth and your mind can then form value judgements as a result.

Self-esteem is both conscious and unconscious. It is an ongoing evaluation of yourself, a belief about what you can and cannot do. Self-esteem can be learned, but it does not happen overnight.

- Personal potential exercise

- Being versus doing theory

- Approval by Achievement

- Focusing on strengths – exercises and meditations

- Calling up strength – meditation

- Knowing the behaviour you need – exercise and meditation

- Poster of positives

Catalogue of strengths

– magic moments

- Change, Theory, Change in your life

- Questions regarding your willingness to change

- Changes that can be employed to increase feelings of self worth
Fear, looking at your relationship with fear, fear and self-sabotage

- ‘Things I want to do’ exercise

- Theory, fear versus courage, overcoming fear

Creating a positive belief about ourselves

- How we get the negative beliefs

- Catching your negative self-talk

- Keeping a Journal

Criticism and Judgement

- Theory, awareness exercise, dealing with your inner critic

- Disarming the inner critic

- Deflating the inner critic – meditation

Self Esteem Boosters

- Making mistakes – reject perfectionism

- Reviewing your day

- Tracking your self esteem weekly

- Daily reminder exercise

The Secrets to Amazing Self Confidence

Lack of confidence not only affects your state of mind but it also affects how others treat you. Self confidence is something that can be missing from early childhood and continue throughout all of adulthood.

When you fail to develop the self confidence you need, it can affect every aspect of your life, e.g. workplace, relationship, and social situations.
However, it’s never too late to improve your confidence and become the person you’ve always wanted to be. This article will discuss the problems associated with a low confidence level and start you on the journey to a better understanding of what steps to take to rebuild your confidence to levels that you never thought possible.

Shyness and fear are typical expressions of a confidence problem. Hiding from interactions with others and avoidance are symptoms which are correctable with time, effort and the knowledge needed to rebuild your self confidence. The tools you need for improving your confidence are with you all the time: your mind and your emotions.

Your mind will begin the process of control while eliminating emotions like shyness and fear will start you on a track that continues on for the rest of your life. Remember, how you see yourself is how others will see you and having confidence will earn the confidence and respect of others.

Often times our own thoughts are to blame for our low self-confidence. Positive thinking needs to win-out over negative thoughts to be able to build and govern your self confidence. In essence, thinking positive will help develop a stronger you. Negative thoughts often lead to negative actions (like overeating, smoking, alcohol, medication and drug abuse) up to possibility of unlawful actions.

Whereas, positive thinking will lead to positive actions which then lead to more positive thinking and more positive actions (like exercise, healthy nutrition looking after yourself). It is a very circular behaviour pattern both negative and positive. With the proper positive mindset, you will exude confidence and success will not be far behind.

So often in today’s world we promote the idea of fitting in and being like the rest of the crowd, but we really should be talking about what makes each one of us unique and how important our individual contributions to society are.

Comparing ourselves to others often leads to continued negative thinking and again the cycle continues forever downwards. Emotions like envy can be very destructive and can quickly tear apart years of confidence building only to have to start over.

Developing your self confidence is a continuous life long process. Everyone will have setbacks in their lives but how we react to those setbacks often distinguishes between success and failure. Other powerful techniques that you may work on are learning to use your inner filter, self-criticism and positive self-talk which can take you to the next level of building self confidence.

How to gain self confidence starts with identification and ends with behavioural change and results in a better you. Get started building a better you today!

Decide today to start the journey to the real you with a coaching session.

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Free Personality Test

August 16, 2009 by ursula  
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Free Personality Test

Knowing your personality type, is the key for success in relationships, self-improvement, personal growth, career planning and leadership.

What type of personality are you? In only five minutes you get a snapshot of your personality type. Furthermore an exert will analyse the result with you so that you can get most out of it.

This test has been thoroughly tested and many clients have used it as a baseline to implement specific changes and produce great success in all areas of their life.

You will be surprised what results you will get.

Imagine understanding everyone. Imagine knowing what motivates people. Imagine getting your message across first time, every time. Imagine reaching your full potential. Imagine predicting people’s behaviour with ease and accuracy. The Success Coaching Personality Profile does far more than reveal an individuals strengths and weaknesses. Designed and tested using sixteen years of clinical experience, it includes an outline for a detailed personal development plan. This step-by-step process is the basis for teaching the self-management tools necessary for reaching our full potential. Most personality systems focus on type identification – leaving the user confused by the introduction of new jargon and the need to learn a whole new classification of body language. The Success Coaching Personality Test is a simple, single page, multi choice questionnaire, available in digital or printed format. You will learn to: • Identify your major strengths and learn how to “play” to them. • Recognise your major weaknesses and form a plan to rectify them. • “Self manage” the realisation of your full potential. • Understand the formative factors in the development of your personality,allowing for a deeper understanding of your thoughts and actions. • Recognise the various “types” of personalities and understand their source of motivation. • Predict the likely actions of the various personality types and learn strategies to effectively deal with each type. Experience this great tool for you! Enrol for the Personality Test, . During the free trial you get your personality test, and the analysis from it, to Live to your full potential!

You will be surprised what results you will get.

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Create High Performing Teams

August 16, 2009 by ursula  
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Why team coaching?                                           

Team Coaching to Create High Performing Teams

“Employees are the backbone to your business. Their motivation, initiative commitment can take your business to the next level.

Every employee has his/her specific personal and educational skills.

Coaching discovers these unique and specific skills and enhances people’s value for your company.

In specific strategies conscious and unconscious potential of every team member is accessed and utilised to produce outstanding results.

It is shown that this strategies increase turn over (some companies have tripled their turn over within one year).

Coaching increases workers satisfaction and decreases sick days.

In this tough economical crisis it is more important then ever that every employee and every team performs at its best.”

“Evaluating the impact of team coaching”

What are the results for team coaching?

• Coaching affects each team member, the team, the organization and other teams.

• Coaching affects processes (how the team and the individuals do things) and outcomes (the results of what they do).

Sample of outcomes:

• Achieving sales target/ annual bonus higher personal productivity
• Improving customer satisfaction rating higher team productivity
• Reduced cost of quality

Coaching produces Outcome

The results of a recent Australian study entitled An Evaluation of Life Coaching Group Program: A Wait-List Control Study (presented at the International Positive Psychology Summit in the US in 2003) reaffirms Dr Grant’s findings. Undertaken by Suzy Green of the University of Wollongong, this study found that “a 10-week life coaching group program increased well-being, hope, and goal-striving in the normal, non-clinical population.”

While the evidence insists that coaching improves unquantifiable factors such as hope and mental attitude, it can also produce tangible benefits.

International property firm, Century 21 Real Estate, concerned with poor sales performance and high attrition rates of new sales staff, implemented a coaching program in 1994. Targeting both behavioral skills (lead generation, basic communication and selling skills) and cognitive skills (dealing with fears, rejection and developing an optimistic outlook), the coach worked with the coachee for a total of 20 one-hour coaching sessions.

Century 21 Real Estate – Coaching Results

An evaluation of the program found considerable benefits in terms of increased property listings, sales and staff satisfaction. The time for a new sales associate to get their first property listing fell to an average of 3.53 weeks, less than half the industry average of 10 weeks.

This translated into a first month’s gross commission of $2,430 compared with an average of $871 for those who did not participate in the coaching program.

In another study, this time investigating the difference between coaching and training, executive coaching increased performance by 88% compared with an increase of 22.4% for training alone (Olivero, Bane, and Kopelman,1997).

An International Coaching Federation poll of 210 clients in 1998 confirmed that 98.5 percent of those surveyed considered hiring a coach worth the investment.

And it looks like coaching is here to stay. The News & World (1997) reported that coaching was second only to management consulting as the hottest consulting field in the United States. In 2000, life coaching was ranked the second fastest growth industry after Information Technology (Sydney Morning Herald, 2000).

Team coaching example

A client described the aim of team coaching with his teams as following:

• Positive thinking
• Building moral
• Harmony at the workplace
• Promote teamwork

The teambuilding processes we are offering are leading to:

• Higher workers’ motivation
• Job satisfaction
• Improving communication skills

Advantages of higher workers’ motivation and job satisfaction:

• They are proud to work at ??? and refer business to friends and family.

• Less sick days, higher workplace commitment.

• Higher customer satisfaction.

• Higher work motivation, sharing ideas and the aim to improve business outcomes.

Advantage of improved communication skills

• Better teamwork
• Higher customer satisfaction
• Accessing individual skills and talents in the team
• Faster problem solving
• Increased creative ideas to improve business

What we do

Our processes facilitate team members to find creative solutions for existing problems and to find new ideas to uplift business performance.

This enhances communications skills, team moral and positive thinking.

If asked in this settings, it has been found that employees present solutions and ideas to improve business processes that are more cost effective and produce higher outcomes.

Unfortunately this knowledge is not to often utilized.

The most common problem we see is that management implements changes without team involvement with leads to a cascade of negative reactions. These then cost the business time and money until the business is able to work at its best again.

Changes from the inside, implemented from the team are generally more easily accepted and implemented. A cascade of positive reaction follows such as improvement of work performance, employees feeling more connected to the business and regularly creating ideas for improvement.

Investment

The best outcomes are seen in regular team coaching sessions over a period of one year.

Depending on the business and team situation 3-4 hours for 2-3 days once a month, six weekly or every second month would be the appropriate interval.

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The Secret of Success

August 13, 2009 by ursula  
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Actually it is not a “Secret” anymore,

but why do only so few

use this simple & powerful success strategy?

A Survey of Success

In 1953, Harvard University famously conducted a detailed survey of its graduating senior class.  The questionnaire that each of the three thousand students filled out specifically asked that participants look deeply at their expectations of life.

In 1973 another questionnaire was completed by each of the two thousand remaining ex-students that were contactable.  In many areas of life the results were quite predictable.  In some, there were a number of surprises; however nothing had prepared the researchers for the shock they received when appraising the respondents’ net worth.

Shock Number One arrived in the form of a 97% to 3% split.  Any one of the 3% (sixty people) selected on their own, had a net worth greater than the other 97% combined.  Put in everyday language, any single one of these sixty people could have bought and sold the other 1940 individuals combined.

Shock Number Two was the realisation that these sixty people did not constitute the ‘cream’ of the graduating class.  Their positions in their various classes at graduation turned out to bear no relation to their successes in life.  It was not the geniuses who had succeeded financially.

Shock Number Three was that the 1953 survey unknowingly predicted this 97% to 3% split.  The students of 1953 had predetermined their own success levels, and the information lay dormant for twenty years.

Before any further consideration of this amazing material, let us consider the following state of affairs in Australia: six of Australia’s ten wealthiest people do not have university educations; three of the remaining four failed university at their first attempts; the last graduated having taken five years to obtain a three year degree and none of the four with degrees actually use it directly in the production of their income.  So, if you think that you aren’t academically inclined, you’re in the right company!

If you could find out a secret that would guarantee your success in everything you attempted, would you treat it like a valuable tool and commit yourself to using it, even if you did not understand how it could possibly work?  If it was the silliest thing you ever heard of, but you knew that it worked well for others over extended periods of time, would you stick with it anyway?

So, What Was the Secret?

What was it that these sixty people had in common in 1953 that brought them enough wealth to live on happily ever after, even if they never worked again?

These people – and most successful people, for that matter – didn’t just think about what they wanted.  Anybody can sit and consider what they would like to have happen in their future, but it takes a brave human being to actually commit it to paper and say to themselves, “this is what I am making a stand for in my life; this is what I want to do”.  Essentially, the difference between a dream and a goal is the written word.

Time and again, sociological experiments have demonstrated that specific, challenging goals result in better performance than vague goals, no goals, or people simply trying to “do their best”.

Putting things down in black and white is the key.  There is a magic that mobilises the brain when we set a goal on paper.  In simple physics (which has nothing to do with the magic) when you write down a goal, it makes its first step into the physical plane.  Before this time, your goal has existed purely in the esoteric thought patterns that rattle around inside your head.  Consequently, writing down your goals is one of the most basic secrets of success, whether you like it or not.

If the secret to success is so simple, is there any reason why you shouldn’t start doing it today?

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Download Life Management E- Book

August 7, 2009 by ursula  
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