Anth Quinn

One sure fire way to recognise that you’re are not taking personal responsibility for your life is when you find yourself thinking you HAVE to do certain things. The truth is there is always a choice!

You might not be totally comfortable with the idea that you are choosing every aspect of your life yet, but once all the arguing is over the only thing that you can truly control is your reaction to what happens around you.

I’m a big fan of stacking the deck in your favour by being proactive and working towards what you want. But, no matter how well you set goals, plan and take action some things will just ‘blind side’ you and in many ways it’s how you choose to react to the set backs of your life that will control how your life turns out day to day.

But is it really that simple?

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Do you think anyone actually believes this?

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One of the simplest ways of improving your ability to achieve more of the results you want in your life is to begin to change the words you habitually use. Most people accept that the words you use are directly related to your thinking processes, but for most that’s as far as it goes.

For many this may seem like nothing more than “psycho babble” which is only really of interest to psychologists and academics, but this would be missing a simple and very powerful tool to take control and improve your everyday experience of life.

How can you use this simple distinction to improve your experience of life immediately?
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Regular readers of my mailings will by now no doubt be aware that being a great coach doesn’t make you a great writer.

Now before I go further, its important to realise that I believe in the power of words, there is no doubt that developing ones ability to communicate is one of the key skills in life and just like anything else that’s worthwhile in life, if its worth doing, its worth doing badly, until you can do it well!

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Motivation requires motive, is a nice catchy little phrase, but are all motives equal?

Did you know that motives for change come in two broad categories, moving towards something you want, or away from something you don’t?

If you are someone who naturally is naturally goal orientated, then chances are that you have a clear idea of what you want and find setting clear goals and achieving them comes pretty easy to you.

If you are someone who has gotten used to moving away from what you don’t want, then chances are that you could easily tell me what you don’t want, or what you want to stop doing. But if I ask you what you want, you’ll struggle to answer.

“Away from” motivation is very powerful but makes a poor long term motivation strategy for a number of reasons.

How many of these have you experienced?
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