Are You Climbing Up the Wrong Personal Growth Ladder?
I was working through Chapter 7 of the book Getting Started in Personal and Executive Coaching by Stephen G. Fairley and Chris E. Stout, hoping to gain some clarity on restarting a blog.
Doing the exercises in chapter 7; ’7 Tools for Making a Great First Impression’ on creating a powerful company name and dynamic tag lines; I thought it was interesting how the following words kept popping up: ‘focus’ & ‘important’.
After writing them down a few times, I found myself writing this down:
All personal development tools should center around your mission, what’s important to you and helping you optimize your life around that.
Even though I hadn’t intended to go deep into my beliefs, this exercise brought out the central idea I have about what’s really important in personal development.
So much of personal development helps you get things done faster and makes you feel better about it. But if you don’t know what your mission is in life, your purpose and your destination, what’s really important to you…then it’s like fine-tuning a Ferrari and pointing it in the wrong direction.
It’s the folly of placing the urgent before the important and like Tony Robbins says in this must-listen audio, the mistake of placing achievement before fulfillment.
What’s really important to you?
Is it love? Achievement? Time with family? Money – or the feelings that money give you?
Doing this exercise has given me some clarity and some exciting new ideas about Life Coaches Blog and personal development. Stay tuned.
I really enjoyed this post. It’s easy to forget how powerful our physical reactions are! I like your approach here. Especially reminding the reader that we are not always ready for change — though we think we are! I agree that the real failure is letting fear stop us. Thanks for posting this!
Hi Julie,
Thank you for your kind words. I am glad it was helpful! “Coping with Stress” is a part of a series of articles on Stress that I have written, hopefully Life Coaches Blog will be posting the rest. So keep in touch!
Kindest regards,
Karen
This is a great article. I especially like the list of symptoms… some of which a lot of people may not recognize as a sign of stress.
It’s also important to continue with your stress managment activities even when there are no signs or symptoms of stress. Doing this will help you become stressed less often and ward off stress before it even begins.
Hi Jill,
Absolutely, it should be a way of life! Thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts.
Kindest regards,
Karen
Hi,
Great site!!!!! Good health is very important with the high cost of medical coverage. We need to have a healther lifestyle by taking care of our health eating and exercising. I am a cancer survivor and I know. Our health is our greatest asset. Keep up the Good Work!!!!!
The physical body does not differentiate between happy stress and overwhelm. Stress is stress. We need to develop coping mechanisms in our daily life to avoid the harmful, physiological effects of stress.