How to be a success

How to be a success

Ah, success, what a marvellous word it is.

Success! SUCCESS!!

Who wouldn’t want to be a success? Yeah, nobody, right – but how do you define success? Tricky that one isn’t it? I mean, someone might have a million in the bank, but be nursing an alcohol problem and a broken marriage. Or another person may not have a spare penny to their name, but be doing a job they love, and be in the most wonderful relationship ever.

So who’s the success?
A lifecoach takes a holistic view of a person. Lifecoaches break you down into little chunks and try to make all those little chunks successful.

It works like this:
Break down the important aspects of your life into around 8 units. Here are some examples:

• Career
• Health and fitness
• Family
• Significant other
• Finances
• Hobbies
• Spiritual
• Self improvement
• Domestic environment
• Free time

Choose your own aspects of importance, and write them down.

Now decide how ‘perfect’ each chunk of your life is by awarding it a score out of 10. So if your Health and Fitness aspect scores 10, that’s perfect – you look and feel a million dollars, have the perfect figure, don’t smoke, eat plenty of greens, and not too much meat, consume alcohol moderately (if at all), and run 20 or 30 miles a week.
Hmmmm!
If, as I suspect, you score less than 10, then your job is now to start bringing your score from where it is, to a little bit closer towards 10.

How do we do that?

Patience, my pals, and all will be revealed. For now, complete the exercise as above so that you can now see how all the important areas of your life score, and that will give you an idea of how much work you are going to have to do on yourself over the course of the next wee while.

Now before we get to my next blog, I want you to choose just one of those important life aspects to begin working on immediately – any one you choose – but at this time of the year, health and fitness might be a wise choice.
I want you to think of 10, yes, 10 things that you could do, starting from right now, that would move your health and fitness (or whatever you chose) score, closer to 10 than it currently stands.

To make things easy for you, here are some things I might do.

• Find a personal trainer
• Buy a health and fitness magazine
• Go for a short jog
• Go for a strenuous walk
• Cut down my alcohol consumption
• Smoke 2 less cigarettes today
• Go for a swim
• Instead of driving my car, I will ride my bike to work at least twice this week
• Switch from butter to a low fat spread
• Swap one of my daily muffins for an apple or a banana
  
  

If finances was the aspect you chose to work on, then here are some things you could put in place to move your score up:

• Check that I have the best mortgage deal I can get
• Move my bank accounts to the one that gives me the best interest rates on my savings.
• Stop my magazine subscriptions – I never read the things anyway
• Trade in my 4x4 for a vehicle that guzzles less gas
• Take a packed lunch to work, instead of paying through the nose for pre-packed rubbish.
• Plan to put at least 10% of your income into a high interest account every month
  
  

Ok, got the picture? Right, here’s the important thing. Before you leave the room or switch of the computer, DO SOMETHING!! Take one little step, however small, just to get the ball rolling - that will move you closer to… success:

Phone the bank, throw out the cigarettes, book a dance class, phone that friend you’ve been meaning to call, tell your partner you love them…. Anything, but just do something.

Promise me you will do something. Good, now do it, and I will speak to you soon.

Yours, successfully,
Allan D

The Promise of a New You

Around about this time of year, people often take a closer look at themselves than they would normally. The world has spun round one more time, your waistline’s a few plum-puddings bigger than the norm; the bank balance is a bit slimmer after the Christmas madness…

This is the time that people start to make resolutions: “I’m going to get fit”, “I’m finding a better job this year”, “This is the year I buy a flat/car/plasma TV…” et cetera.

But New-Year resolutions invariably grind to a halt before January is even through; the waistline just gets bigger, the overdraft does likewise, the expensive membership to the gym club never gets used, and self-esteem starts to droop sadly towards the floor.

The problem is – and I want you to lean closer so that you won’t miss this – the problem is, people don’t have a proper plan.
You see you couldn’t even make your way to the local shop if you just walked out the house and ambled indiscriminately wherever the angles of the pathway and the pull of gravity moved you.

You have to know exactly where you want to go!

This is the secret: You got to have a plan.
Forgive the grammar there - that was just for dramatic effect.

I’m going to cut to the quick now, coz we have short attention spans these days, and there’s a pack of really interesting blogs out there just waiting to be glanced at meaninglessly.

I want to give you some free coaching.

Why would I want to give you something for free? It’s because most life-coaches (at least the ones I know) are genuinely interested in people and want folks to be the best they can be.

I know a heap of stuff, and if you come on the journey with me, I’ll pass on to you as much as I can.

Imagine this:

It’s five years from now and the start of the day. You are looking at yourself in the mirror, and enjoying seeing your body - which is at your ideal weight and level of fitness.
You’ve already been awake for a while (you get up an hour earlier now than you did five years ago), done a short work-out and eaten a healthy breakfast. You’ve planned your day, and given yourself some positive affirmations.
Work is a joy these days – you are more productive than you have ever been, get along better with the team, and the results speak for themselves: your pay increase has bought you the car you always wanted, and the mortgage repayments don’t cripple you the way they used to.
After work you go for dinner with your partner to your favourite restaurant, where the manager sends you a complimentary bottle of wine just for being a regular (and fun) customer, then you take in a show before heading home.
It’s been a great day, and before bed, you check how your secondary business online is doing. The good news is that it’s been the best week business wise for you in the last three months. This week alone will pay for your diving holiday in the Bahamas.
Before turning in for the night you phone an old friend you’ve been meaning to catch up with. You shoot the breeze for a while, enjoy a laugh about old times, and agree to meet up for lunch next week. Your friend has a business idea you might want to get involved with - you phoned at a lucky time. Actually all your luck seems to be good these days.
As you drift off to sleep now, you can’t believe the changes that have taken place in the last five years… and what plans you have for the next five!

If you want more, much more out of life, then come on a journey with me.
I’ll show you how to set powerful goals that will take you where you want to go career-wise. I’ll help you foster stronger and more loving relationships. We’ll learn how to make more money and how to make that money work for you.
You’ll develop unshakeable confidence, towering self-esteem and be fitter, healthier and smarter than you have ever been before.
I’ll teach you techniques to get what you want from other people – and how to learn new skills quicker and better.
I’ll help you develop those new skills, find a life-purpose, and show you how you can get more out of life by giving more in life.

I’ll help you every step of the way. I’m a good teacher, but you have got to be a good student.
Sure you might have off days - times when you slip back into old habits – you’re human after all. But if you dream big, plan well and take the right actions, I promise you, you are going to see tremendous results right from the start.

Come and visit me tomorrow and we’ll make that start.

Allan Dunn

Taking you beyond your best!