Anth Quinn

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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There is a fundamental truth at the heart of the personal development and coaching industry that you are not being told, and it’s not what you think!

Success should be easy! There are any number of books, audio programs, DVD etc. telling you how to move forward and be successful in life. There are thousands maybe millions of coaches, trainers and speakers who make a living teaching people how to turn their lives and their businesses around.

Every now and then someone reinvents personal development, usually promising to make it easier and quicker!

So how come there are so many people struggling to achieve the promise of these personal development gurus?

This truth begins to hint at the fundamental truth I’m going to reveal to you now!
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Recently I was speaking to someone at an event and they began to talk about personal development and coaching, they had one question and it’s one I’ve heard a lot over the years.
 
Why bother really?

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Have you ever struggled to make breakthroughs in your results, or to maintain motivation and progress on some project or goal?

If so you’re not alone, experience suggests that many many people struggle for years to overcome procrastination, get motivated and take control of their lives.

One of the most common limitations I hear while coaching, is people saying that they just can’t do it on their own.

Can you see how they are holding themselves back?

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There seems to be a great deal of publicity for the DVD “The Secret” and more generally “The Law of Attraction” all over the internet at the moment.

It seems people are waking up to the fact that, what you focus on, you tend to create in your life.  Speaking to you as someone who understands the power of taking control of your life, I’d reinforce this message wholeheartedly.  You really have the power to create almost anything you truly want in your life and are creating your experience of life with your thoughts every moment of every day.

However, my experiences speaking to people about this over the last few months have led me to believe that many people are missing a crucial detail.

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If you answered yes, chances are you’re not alone. If you answered no, then chances are you may well be. The truth is that almost everyone in the modern world has procrastinated around some things.

I say modern world, because I’d be very surprised if people in the developing world procrastinate anywhere near as much as us in the developed world.

Procrastination in many ways is a luxury.

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Which is your favourite search engine?

Is it Google? Yahoo?

Have you ever considered that search engines are a really interesting way to see the power of your own mind?

How many times have you heard people saying things like: “You see what you’re looking for”?

Or: “Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t you’re absolutely right?”

Now while it’s easy to accept this on a conscious level, for most people that is as far as it goes.

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I grew up alongside our local park and our back garden was always heavily overhung with chestnut trees and oak trees. As you can imagine this was great for a young kid, as every autumn there was always a huge supply of conkers to thread and play with.

However, my dad wasn’t quite as keen because it always attracted numerous squirrels!

As everyone knows squirrels really like nuts, especially squirrels, and the squirrels that lived in the trees around us were no exception.

Now my dad is a pretty good guy and it’s not that he begrudged the squirrels the nuts that fell in our garden. What he didn’t like was they way they didn’t discriminate. Those squirrels knew what they wanted and they were very very clear it was nuts they wanted and they weren’t overly bothered whose nuts they were.

For most of the year there weren’t enough nuts falling from the trees and that mean’s these squirrels got creative!

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Do you know the difference between a state and a goal?

Many people are confused by this and I often hear people stating their goals as things like: I want to be happy, I want to be relaxed, I want more be more confident. However, these aren’t goals these are desired states,

A goal is something we work to achieve, whereas a state is quite simply and internal state of being that results from the interaction of our thoughts and physiology.

Having said that all of the goals we set are really the means to an end, which is often a state. For example people may want lots of money for the sense of peace they think financial security will bring.

In coaching we do a lot of work to help people set powerful goals, which are aligned with their values and also to ensure that the goals will work together to move them in the direction they want to go.

There is no doubt that working constantly towards a series of goals that are aligned with your values is a great and fulfilling way to live and does bring a deep sense of purpose, growth, peace and happiness.

That’s sounds great doesn’t it, but let’s be honest, we’re all human so what about those days when it all just seems a bit too much? People you love begin to annoy you, you begin to feel overwhelmed and maybe even jump into some good old self-judgement! The last thing people in this situation want is someone telling them is that they would feel better if they had a purpose or a mission. What many people really want is quite simply to feel better now!

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