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Life Coaching Tips and Techniques No. 107

What is an epiphany? It is simply an earthly way of saying goodbye to a god inspired unnatural fear

In life you must work to these great moments it will tax your patience it will take all your skills in planning. It will require you to be persuasive, to convince others of your worth in short whatever it takes for you to engineer the triumphant moment and when you triumph, it is not a triumph over others but yourself over a self imposed adversity.

What is an epiphany? In life coaching it is when you have a delicious moment (whether manufactured or not) that comes about out of pure co-incidence, where you come face to face with an enemy and you seemingly have one up over them. These moments are to live and die for.

These are very special moments and must be treasured, remembered and celebrated because even though you have perhaps maneouvered your way into a situation where you can wreak your revenge you can never be certain it will go off with a bang exactly as you planned it. It will take something else to go off the alignment of the planets or call it the very worse of human nature to bring if off.

The very moment you show at a particular place (with your enemy's manager or your enemy's boyfriend or girlfriend or your enemy's best friend) may not be the very moment when your enemy is visible and more importantly able and actually seeing you stepping out. You can't plan for that all you can do is place yourself in a situation where it is highly likely they will show and going to their workplace works a treat. But finding yourself there with a legitimate reason takes genius to organise.

For example this is a true story. I had worked with a very dear friend for 3 years and it was time for her to look for another job. So we prepared her extremely well and provided brilliant coaching to help her overcome the interview nerves. She went to the interview and was interviewed by a lady in a power suit full of her own ego and tripping my friend at every opportunity during the interview. Needlessly to say she didn't get the job. There it rested.

Now my dear friend lives in a very posh part of town and just so happens to know via various connections an extremely high manager in that very organisation she was rejected by. So once again she pops off for an interview. Now this time she is interviewed by the manager of the person who rejected her (and their manager) and it just so happens that the person she knows is the manager of that second manager.

Delicious irony and the most warming piece of the story is she ran into her nemesis at the interview and the look on the face of the lady who rejected her as she was being interviewed by her manager and her manager's manager was a moment of pure theatre and probably farce I would say. A fantastic febrile moment. You couldn't create this moment if you tried. It just happened in a moment in time.

Another true story. I have been plagued by a mistake of mine made many years ago and the person who was part of that mistake never let me forget it and continually would bother and interrupt me. You know the type always SMSing you with the most puerile comments and messages. Now this went on and on and on. Recently I had the opportunity to take up a position which just happens to be one serving her organisation. This wasn't by design by me. How could it, I was only looking for another job that's all but it presented with an opportunity to get my own back.

Now out of absolute pure luck or call it whatever you like I was assigned to work on her building. Now I then needed a reason to find myself in that building which I did find. It didn't take much. The only thing that was left was for god to engineer a chance encounter with this nemesis of mine (when I was in the building). This took a number of goes and as luck would have it, it did occur at the last try. She entered a lift I was in, as the lift and myself were going to her floor. Her extreme shock (when I got off on her floor and was going into her office!) elicited the following words "What are you doing here?" my response was "If you don't know I'm sure I don't ". Have I heard from this person since? Not a beep just a delicious silence and an awesome peace of mind and repose.

You can make miracles like that happen in your life. The only thing is you need to help it a little. Go 99% of the way and do it yourself and if the gods are with you they'll take care of the other 1%. The feeling after one of these epiphany moments? It must be felt to be appreciated and understood. It is heaven on earth, not so much a payback but a final payment a closure of the accounts a closing of the books and final reconciliation. Sometimes the accountants are good for something (just these words out of context I suspect).

About Gilbert Labour

Mr Labour is a writer, deep thinker, consultant, adviser, speaker and presenter on the following topics: sociopathy & psychopathy in the workplace, life coaching, executive coaching and all executive health issues, project and program management, IT infra-structure management, Six Sigma, Lean techniques, process improvement and people management. He combines all these skills in a brilliant combination, for example Six Sigma and project management, to provide modern enlightened companies with truly world class advice that will set them apart from the rest and create for them a sustainable competitive advantage.

He specialises in the following industries: legal and accountancy, telecommunications, transportation and aviation, banking and finance, insurance, government, IT and outsourcing but believes that his experience in these verticals is applicable across industries, countries, languages, cultures and businesses generally.

Mr Labour is an expert in the aviation industry in the process improvement area. He confidently predicts that aviation will be revolutionised when the airfare to the UK return is A$1000. At that time (May 2007) if aviation companies have not spent the previous two years (now to May 2007) leaning their processes, they will be in a perilous situation especially if the price of oil is also at US $150 a barrel or more, given unforseen circumstances.

Every single industry he specialises in (telcos, retail banking, insurance) faces similar challenges and Mr Labour is well placed to provide similar insights for competitive advantage.

He has been extensively involved in process improvement initiatives within project organisations and in production and maintenance environments within a number of industries. He has delivered process improvement programs that provide bottom line improvement.

He owns and runs one of the world's most comprehensive web resources on the topic of life and executive coaching containing approximately 140 articles on life and executive coaching. He has been quoted in learned papers, newspaper and magazine articles. He has written a book on life coaching, Life Coaching for DODOs, which provides an introduction to life coaching for the general public.

He is an IBM accredited Independent Software Vendor (ISV) and provides software and support for coaches and coaching applications.

He is also a pioneer in the field of coaching and project management having presented a world's first on this topic in South Africa in May, 04. His paper entitled Sane Project Management, a Life and Executive Coaching Approach has created both a new field in project management and a new area of interest for coaching and coaches and one they may benefit from in the future.

For PMISA 2006 he is preparing a paper entitled Project Management and Executive Coaching - A Synergy? which will be continuing an exploration of the connection between coaching and project management that he first developed and presented in PMISA 2004. The purpose of the paper will be to take from project management principles that are applicable in coaching situations and to take from executive coaching, principles that are equally applicable in project management situations especially those that deal with project manager performance.

Mr Labour acknowledges that in today's highly competitive and rapidly changing business environment, a busy consultant, life coach or executive coach must evince a compelling value proposition, as much for himself as for his product and/or service.

He is able to bring a brilliant mix of both quantitative and qualitative approaches, embracing Six Sigma, Lean, project management, executive coaching, operational and line management, to bear on difficult even intractable business problems in any areas where they may exist.

He has a refreshing engaging vibrant perspective on life and business in the corporate world. He is able to engage with any company in the world, within his industry expertise and beyond, and provide an assessment of the issues and problems that management suspects exists. He can do this on a pro-active basis and confidentially.

In either case, he is able to conduct an absolutely confidential review and make recommendations based only on selected documentation and telephone interviews with key people, if the highest degree of confidentiality and secrecy is required.

He is also able to execute or be involved in the execution of these recommendations should that be required. He has previously managed large programs of work involving major restructuring, outsourcing and retrenchments.

He forecasts a greater demand for people with his combined skills in the future especially where established, staid inefficient industries and companies face head-on competition from the full blown tiger economies of China and India with their vast unlimited supply of cheap, educated and trained manpower.

Mr Labour will be holding a world's first life coaching retreat in Mauritius in November, 06. This will be a gathering of coaches and their clients from around the world in the first gathering of its type. Its purpose will be for coaches to network with other coaches and for clients to share their general coaching experience with other clients and coaches. All in the world's most beautiful holiday destination. Further details will be made available as they are finalised. This conference as yet untitled will be hosted by the Life Coaching Association of Australia (LCAA).

Life Coaching Tips and Techniques No. 10

Obesity and the roller coaster ride from nadir to zenith and back

There are five journeys in obesity, which one are you on now?

Why are there obese people when there are people starving in the world? Is obesity a medical problem rather than one of lack of self-control or perhaps even one using food for sexual/sensual gratification for masking (?) the real problems? How successful is someone who is 250 kilos at 'masking' or hiding the problem?

The five journeys is obesity are -

Getting there becoming obese, this is the easiest journey of all and happens almost without you knowing. This journey is on the road to death.

Staying there at a steady weight, this is a hard journey because the tendency is to put on more weight not less. This journey is a slow death.

The next journey is one into hell and that is on the road to putting on more and more weight. This is the last journey these people even embark on. This journey ends in death.

The penultimate journey and the one with the most difficulty starting is the road back away from obesity. The enormous journey back is not the problem but the first step back, the first gram lost. This journey is not a journey of weight loss but a journey to lose the fears and problems that the weight gain had temporarily put on the back burner. This second last journey is the life coaching journey and has much less to do with weight loss, exercise and fitness and more to do with facing problems in their real intensity and fury perhaps for the first time since the decision taken to embark on the first journey.

The last journey and that is to keep the weight at the target weight after the massive task of weight loss because again the tendency is to put the weight back on even faster than before and much much faster than it was lost. For every gram lost a kilo is put on.

Work with a life coach who understands your weight problem is not a weight problem but a personal problem posing, impersonating a weight problem. Someone who knows which journey you are on and can make sure you either move to the next healthy journey or stay at the healthy journey you're on.

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The key goals of the 555 Program is to be able to run 5k in 5 months, to solve 5 life coaching issues or problems in 5 months and to investigate and resolve 5 executive coaching problems in 5 months.

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The 555 Program

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The first stream is a fitness element. The goal is to be able to run 5k (non stop) in five months and be able to lose 5 kilos in the process. This is a modest achievement and is considered a healthy approach to fitness generally. I am a former fitness instructor and dance teacher and can provide guidance in this area. You will need a clearance from your doctor if you're over 45.

The second stream is a life coaching element. The goal of the life coaching is to investigate a number of current personal issues and focus on 5 for resolution in 5 months. One to be resolved or at least worked on each month.

The third stream is an executive coaching element. The goal of this element is to come up with five goals or issues to be dealt with in the 5 months of the program. These could involve working towards a promotion, changing jobs, changing careers, leaving the corporate environment and developing a small business. For the hard core executives and other corporate thrivers and survivors there will be a number of areas that include executive interview training and executive decision making that can be covered. There are many others and these can be chosen based on your current goals. The aim of this stream is canvass all the possibilities and focus on only 5 and work through each one.

The cost of the program varies. To take part on a one-on-one basis with Gilbert Labour will cost $5000. To take part in a group setting will cost $2000. Individual programs can start at anytime considered suitable.

To provide this program on a company wide basis (more than 10 people), please call Gilbert Labour for a quote.

Please call Gilbert Labour on 0409 223 436 if you would like to take part. Further information on the 555 Program is available from the portal.

General Information

I also do a small amount of pro-bono work in the area of life coaching. I belong to the Life Coaching Pro Bono Group (LCPBG), a group of life coaches I am putting together to do this type of work for people in need but who may not be able to afford the services of a full fee life coach. We make allowances for your circumstances and also on the understanding that once you're back on your feet, your capacity to contribute to your life coaching will also improve.

Generally speaking, we will set clear goals, we will put in place plans to attain those goals, we will execute the plan effectively. We will monitor and survey the results and ensure our goals are met. In most cases, we will envelope what we are trying to achieve into a coaching programme.

I operate flexibly taking into account the needs of the client as we progress with the programme.

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