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Life Coaching Tips and Techniques No. 10

Thoughts on parting and other things

The only way to become a good writer is to start off being a poor one

How do you know when someone has lost the plot? They're disengaged. Emotionally disengaged that is. But what does that mean? They're disinterested in anything but their own measly survival, their own selfish ends, their own ego driven plans and projects. But what is really missing is genuine giving generous emotional involvement with you with other people with themselves.

When you're about to leave people disengage probably to save their hurt feelings. That is understandable and expected.

Sometimes you have to get down on your hands and knees and thank the people who in life did you the most harm did the most damage exercised the most rotten influence over your destiny. Why? They are the ones that spur new to new effort to new glory without them you'd be stuck in a rut in your comfort zone. You have a lot to thank your enemies for. Shout their names loudly from the highest mountain and thank God you were interesting enough threatening enough to be entitled to be called one of their enemies. If you were a mediocrity they would not bother with your sorry ass.

When you do something bad (being a normally sane and good person) it is because you are livid, irate, incensed about something, some injustice some unfairness some discrimination. If you could control doing that something 'bad' and channel it into something that has the same effect of pushing it back, then you become more than just a sane and good person, you become a great person.

The best people are those who see an injustice or feel an injustice and keep quiet about it whilst preparing the planning required to do something about it. Most people are so enraged there is no planning possible. They only want to act in the present, that is impossible.

Is there anything worse than being overworked? Yes being underworked? Both are unhealthy for you.

Being on fire at work doesn't not mean holding grudges against people either in your current position or in a former one. When you leave a disappointing employment, leave the bad behind if you can and take the good with you, if there has been some good. There is no point in being angry with people in your previous employment. They can't help themselves if they have hurt or disappointed you, for them it was just a business decision, cut and dry, your tears notwithstanding.

There is no way you can deal with a sociopath at work so don't even try.

Any place you're at where you're learning important lessons every day is a good thing up to a point. The point is when you have learned enough to enable you to move on to the next phase of your life. Don't miss that opportunity when it presents itself or better still create it then grab it with both hands and don't let go.

The only way to become a good writer is to start off being a poor one. Similarly a good instrument maker or wood worker starts off by being a poor one. That is the life coaching journey

If you have an office job, as much as possible when you develop your side business or whatever it is you need to do, try and do something manual with your hands it is very complete and vice versa, if possible.

A life coach can probably do more good (if he is good enough) writing and publishing on the subject than seeing people on a day to day basis. But having said that, that 'clinical' experience so to speak is invaluable in any form of writing on life coaching. It is the experiences of his clients that enrich his writing, counsel and advice. One improves the other.

Some people can only be helped in life coaching situations up to a certain point. As a life coach you should know that point and not venture beyond it.

About Gilbert Labour

Mr Labour is a writer, consultant, advisor, speaker and presenter on the following topics: life coaching, executive coaching, project management, IT infra-structure management, Six Sigma, Lean techniques and people management.

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

He owns and runs one of the world's most comprehensive web resources on the topic of life and executive coaching containing approximately 120 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.

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 is an executive coach with 30 years corporate experience and is still a relatively young 47 having commenced his first junior role in government at age 17 but it is only in the last three to five years that he has begun to make large strides in the executive coaching field.

He has a refreshing 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.

On a more reactive basis, he can come in to manage any number of previously identified issues and problems that are now running hot within the company.

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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555 Program

The 555 Program is complementary to the 333 Program and is part of a family of programs called The Numbered Series, a simplification of a plethora of products, services and programs into a number of specifically targeted set of programs that target a very specific audience with a limited amount of time and resources to devote to a life and executive coaching program. The programs covers a set of goals over a set period for a specific (one time only) fee.

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.

Life Coaching Portal Programs

Beyond the existing Diamond program being run on the portal, a series of additional programs are being developed to be run for specific audiences and which have very clear targets and goals. These include the following.

The 555 Program

Gilbert Labour, will personally run this program. It will probably take in the region of 10 suitable people and run for 5 months. The program is multi-faceted and covers three main streams a fitness stream, a life coaching stream dealing with personal issues and an executive stream to supercharge your work, business and corporate environment.

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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