Anth Quinn

Fear can be a good thing because it can keep you alive, but the key to working and playing in potentially dangerous environements is not just a lack of fear, or mindless confidence it is developing the ability to understand and manage the risks assoicated and learning to manage your “fear”.

If you’re looking for total confidence make sure you pack your thermals ;o)

I’m not a career’s advisor but I am frequently contacted by people who don’t enjoy their job but lack the self-confidence to go after something else.

What do you think they should do?

As ever there is no “right” answer, there are many potential approaches some people would say “Get up and walk out!” and maybe for some that’s a great strategy, others would say “Begin to look for what is good about your current job, you can learn to be happy where you are!” Again this can be a useful strategy to experiment with, especially as you already know that you see more of what you look for in life.

Today I’d like you to consider an alternative approach, I’d like to tackle the problem at the root and look at one of the major sources of a lack of self-confidence.

I’d like you to review another example of my initial question:

“If you could do better in a job, should you?”

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Yes, your life is a perfect example of what you have done with excellence throughout your life and so is everyone else’s around you.

In the last article I introduced the concept that each of us has own unique ‘model of the world’ and we can often get the best results by sharing maps. In this article I aim to get you even more curious about how to improve your understanding of yourself and others and to use this increased understanding to help you improve your own life.

As part of my overall coaching methodology, I am one of the minority of coaches who pay particular attention to the effect of a client’s environments. I believe that many people underestimate the effect of environments of all types, and today I’d like to share one way you can begin to use one piece of your environment to your advantage.

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What’s limiting you?

Lets face it, very few of us believe we have everything going for us, everyone can come up with reasons why they are not living the life they want?

These limitations come in many forms:

• Not being able to go back to school because they have to look after young children,

• Working in a 9-5 job they hate because they need to earn enough money,

• Not being able to get out cycling and keep fit because of the dark evenings,

• Not being able to have a relationship because they have to care for an elderly relative,

• Not getting that promotion because their boss doesn’t value them,

The list goes on.

The seductive thing about these excuses is that by holding them as true, people get to be justified and right! They don’t have to go after what they really want because they have good excuses.

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Once we’ve accepted personal responsibility for our experience of life and set a powerful mix of well formed long and short-term goals, life inevitably changes dramatically! These two steps alone cannot fail to have an impact. Just identifying that where we are is not where we want to be makes it very difficult to settle for the status quo any longer. We feel compelled to make changes – to take action – and that means making some decisions!

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Imagine for a moment that you are waiting for an important meeting. You’ve been up since the early hours preparing, and you’re really excited about how things are developing. You arrive five minutes early and the clock ticks slowly on as the designated time approaches. You are on tenterhooks, excited and apprehensive. Then as the clock hand moves slowly past the appointed time you begin to wonder where the other person is. Self-doubt sets in. What could have happened? Are you in the right place? Have you got the wrong time? In the end you decide that whatever happened they’re not going to turn up. Deflated and dejected, you make your way home.

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Would you be interested in buying a really simple, user-friendly tool that would allow you more control over your life, help you to recognise your choices in any given situation, and at the same time increase your productivity and peace of mind?

How much would this be worth to you?

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