All winning and self-healing project organisations have a coaching staff, with some of the characteristics of above.

My Thought For Today - 2 November, 2003

A few thoughts for the day

Thought No. 1

If after gaining an insight into where they are or where they stand and even though they are being advised that standing still or not putting in place plans means in effect you're dead, why do some probably most people decide where they are is just fine and they see no need no necessity to move on. They are happy where they are, no matter how bleak and lonely to an observer that the where may be, and they do not want to move on.

Is there any hope for these people? Can they be helped? Do they want to be helped? This is a very difficult question, a very complex, a very perplexing situation. In business, this manifests itself in the mantra if it ain't broke, don't try to fix it.

I think people are wasting their talents, the endless possibilities of anything and perhaps something great and wonderful happening if they refuse to give it a go and take a chance with trying something different. It is the fear of failure that is a huge demotivator for people to try and leave their current situation. I do not use the words comfort zone because where there are right now is probably not very comfortable and may be quite arid, bleak, they may be alone there, very lonely and debilitating.

The challenge of life coaching is not to turn these people around once they come into the orbit of a life coach but how to early intervene to get them to come on board in the first place and take the first step of the life coaching journey. In a way, when I say life coaching the journey begins I really mean that the journey cannot begin until the person is on board and ready to commence the journey. We, as life coaches, need to go out there and advise and sell our services.

We obviously work with people once they become our clients but we can also work with people in the pre-coaching stage where they may be deciding whether a life coach may help them. It is less about how to dynamite people from their current comfort zone, build new structures uncontaminated with their past failures (and all that goes with that) so they can begin to believe in themselves once again to try something new perhaps radical. It is more about educating people about the benefits of life coaching and maybe our fee structure should reflect that as it is more for us seen as business development.

My Thought For Today - 1 November, 2003

A few thoughts for the day

Thought No. 1

I have been busy with a updating this web site with a number of ideas and also with working on my personal goals. How many goals should you set yourself? Don't forget a new goal is something over and above what you already normally do in terms of going to work, working back or working late or working overtime, in terms of giving your time and attention to your family and partner and participating in all the family's activities, in keeping your friends happy by paying them some attention too and by working on your extra-curricular activities and hobbies. Your new goal comes on top of that. Based on my experience on trying to lose close to 30 kilos as my new and added goal, I think the answer to the first question is not too many. You cannot and do not have the time to service too many goals at once. Maybe you can get around that by scheduling them to complete at future intervals but the point is that at some stage you will be working on a number of goals in parallel simultaneously. This is difficult because to do them all well requires a lot of effort and focus which is probably already spent on any one of your goals.

Thought No. 2

Further developing my theme of trying to understand and harness the creative process. This is currently not in one place on my web site but in a number of locations sometimes addressed directly and in others addressed indirectly. This is the location I will be using to consolidate all the ideas regarding creativity.

Thought No. 3

Addressing internal family conflicts.

There is nothing as lacerating as heart wrenching or as disturbing of the family peace as unresolved conflict between family members.

Unresolved conflict or rather situations or issues that remain unresolved develop, fester into low level conflict, if it is still unresolved then it can develop further into behaviour and relationship problems and if still unresolved can develop into all out war. It is at this point that most families think about taking some positive action. When they should have been involved pro actively right before the very first troubles occurred and even before the genesis of the current troubles.

The causes of underlying, unresolved, unmitigated family disasters is ignorance, fear of the truth, no early warning systems, too busy to care, not acting early enough to nip trouble in the bud, over reacting, reacting with wounding words or sudden actions without adequate reflection, regret for hasty actions, fear and guilt, paralysis analysis and finally a lack of openness between family members.

In effect, good relationships within families should be regularly tested, exercised if you will, and the boundaries defined clearer and clearer in line with the maturity of the family members. This takes courage, time and effort to make it work. In a way this blooding of the mechanisms for resolving at this stage minor conflict is a precursor and set the stages and tempers the relationships with the strength required to withstand more demanding future conflicts. Build the conflict resolution mechanisms within the family as early as possible so to be able to withstand the most cataclysmic events.

My Thought For Today - 25 October, 2003

A few thoughts for the day

Thought No. 1

Saturday night and All Quiet on The Western Front

The title is utterly ironic and and there is precious little quiet in war. The description of the artillery shelling and its effect on the morale and sanity of the infantrymen is horrendous.

What happens and what do you do if your life is a maelstrom, a chaotic mess, when your sleep time is disturbed by your mind running at 100 miles per hour thinking about nothing and everything in particular. When you fall asleep at 5 in the morning and wake up at 7am only for it to restart again where you left off. Your anxiety and worry systems are out of control. This is commonly associated with stress and stress related conditions.

My Thought For Today - 24 October, 2003

A few thoughts for the day

Thought No. 1

Putting your demons at rest.

There are many ways of confronting your demons safely but honestly. I will talk about one today that is very practical to do. It is quite easy to implement and relatively pain free. Now during a period of contemplation, select a period in your life which is easily delineated and which is reasonably clearly sign posted. Within those two sign posts, hone in on a specific occurrence, happening, incident, accident, situation, relationship, friendship, a behavior or reaction of yours or a position that still has a sting in its tail. That is, there is something about that situation that is still unresolved and that you're still not at peace with or within yourself about it. There will be something about this that either still causes pain when you think about it or causes you to think of it regretfully or sadly. It may not currently cause you pain but wistful regret but note reopening it will probably cause a residual pain to open up from that wound. It is the only way to lay it to rest and that is to go back to that situation and time. Once you have placed yourself in that position, surround yourself with some indicia of that occurrence such as a momento or a photo (if you haven't already destroyed it in a fit of pique). Once you are now in possession, talk to the momento or photo and if it contains a person, talk directly to that person in the following vein.

Kay - I recently came across a photo of you and me (the photo will be at this link) taken in 1981 during the cruise on the SS Oriana (the first Oriana) when we first met. I don't remember exactly when I first saw you on the cruise but I think it was on the first night in the bar? Which bar and where I don't recall. I was surprised the same night or the next when I realised you were seated at the table next to mine at dinner. There was a period of time between when we realised we liked each other or I should say you made it clear to me that you liked me and when the photo was taken. I think by the time the photo was taken we had had a falling out. I don't remember too much of that in between period or the joy of it. But I do remember that I bought a photo of you taken at the Captain's Cocktail Party where you met the Captain and shook hands with him. I gave you that photo with an inscription but I don't remember the exact words but I do know that the intent was to tell you that I thought that you were very very nice. I also remember one evening where you and I and a group of friends stayed up for most of the night having lots of fun of course and I guess I stayed up in the belief that whoever was left standing at the end of the night got the girl. I don't think, in hindsight, that you actually connected with me because I was still standing at the end of the night because my rival for your affections was also left standing but you chose me. I remember I was standing elsewhere at the bar and you pointed at me (I looked around to see who I thought you were pointing to and it was me oh joy of joys) at that moment, I was yours. I remember walking you to your cabin but don't know if I kissed you but anyway I meant to. What happened between then and when the photo was taken I do not know. I think obviously it had to do with another girl. If that girl meant as much to me as you did, I probably think not because I cannot even picture who they were. Anyway you will probably never read these words or see the photo but rest assured that I thought of you very kindly over the years and to this day I still harbour very nice thoughts of you. My ship has come in.

Thought No. 2

Identifying sinking but not "out of control" projects.

Thought No. 2

Tonight is Friday night and a great start to the week-end but alas why does it have to go so fast and then back into it? Which goes to show that if you don't enjoy what you are doing Monday to Friday then don't do it. Stop. Reflect. Change. Adapt. Try something new. Learn from your mistakes. Make the same mistakes again. This time learn from the same mistake made twice and never ever do it again.

My Thought For Today - 23 October, 2003

A few thoughts for the day

Thought No. 1

Eh Maintenant - Gilbert Becaud

Treasure people not for what they have done in the past or what they may be presently doing no matter how good, no treasure them for the greatness to come. Learn how to recognise hidden talent and capacity, learn how to nurture that talent and how to best to bring out and blossom this talent. Not everybody has talent so it is a rare commodity, it is even rarer the ability to spot talent when someone is not doing anything to display that talent. In other words it is hidden, in some cases very well hidden. It takes talent to spot hidden talent and even greater courage to nurture a talent bigger than yours. Build the platform for their biggest performance, applaud greatness and enjoy the fruits of your own talent and courage in picking another talent, maybe even more prodigious than yours. Your own greatness lies not in your own talent but your ability to sublimate your talent to the service and development of others. There is much greater satisfaction in coaching and nurturing talent that there is ever in pursuing your own talent for its own ends.

One of the lessons I learnt in corporate life is that no matter how hard you worked for your previous extremely demanding boss and no matter how high the praise you received this counts not for one fig with your new boss as they will be looking for new runs on the board not past glories. A tough lesson to learn but an invaluable one. The key lessons here is that you must get out of your current position and situation all that you want because when you move on you may have to start from scratch with your new boss to impress them no matter what new exalted position you may have secured. Which brings me to the position of a new starter in a large organisation. A very difficult situation to be in. Settling down and contributing excellently takes the patience and wisdom of the ages. Should parent organisations and project organisations do something to ease that transition and pain. I think they sort of do with induction courses and other training, introductory courses. But if the organisation wants to nurture talent, each promising new starter is to have an executive coach.

Thought No. 2

What is a project schedule?

Thought No. 3

All this talk of scheduling is making me boring. Finally the last thought of the night as time is moving on. I was telling my son a small story this evening to help him sleep. I basically related a story of when I was 10 years old and due to strenuous exercise and the heat I sustained a nose bleed. For some reason I did not have a tissue (did they make them in 1968) or a handkerchief and a very kind person by the name of Gerard (I will not embarrass him by revealing his last name but he is still alive and well I hope) offered me his very white super clean handkerchief to wipe my nose and hold against my nose until the bleeding stopped. It is something that I have never forgotten. An act of pure kindness that I find myself repeating day after day as I try to help others. Gerard I think not even in your wildest dreams did you think that giving me your handkerchief would resonate 35 years later in my attitude and kindness and assistance and support to people, some of whom started off being perfect strangers, just like you and me.

My Thought For Today - 22 October, 2003

A few thoughts for the day

People have expressed a keen interest in these daily thoughts and I will endeavour to keep them interesting and germane to the topic of life and executive coaching and anything else that takes my fancy. I usually prepare my thoughts as the day wears on and get a lot of my input and ideas from people's behaviours, reactions and emotions as you will see.

Thought No. 1

I think I have worked out the approach to completing my book. I have a portion on soft copy and a portion on hard copy. I think I will render the hard copy into soft copy. Then I will print everything out and bring it together. I will then write additional parts as required. Very much like Tchaikovsky did when he wrote Swan Lake. He added parts to it as it was being rehearsed and certain parts of the choreography needed additional music. I like that genius for hire at a very reasonable hourly rate.

Thought No. 2

What is the difference between Life Coaching and Executive Coaching?

I think in different areas of my web site I have discussed this or alluded to it and in other areas I have tried to avoid it. But no more. Both styles of coaching I think rely heavily on the principles I have previously outlined in my Tips and Techniques. I use the terms interchangeably and when I refer to one I also refer inclusively to the other. Is there any difference then? I think in terms of what a coach does deep down there is not one iota of difference. This is because as long as the coach understands and appreciates the client's primary setting, then they are actually doing life coaching whether the person is in an organisational or personal context. There may be a perceived difference in the sense that executive coaching is about coaching people to high achievement in organisations whilst life coaching is about coaching people to high achievement (and fulfillment) in their personal lives, there is no great dichotomy between the two I find.

But I do appreciate that to be a good or great executive coach one should have occupied senior management or executive positions in major corporates. This is getting back to the idea that one should walk the talk. It is better if you are coaching a CIO or IT executive if one (the Executive Coach) has experience of the position or ones that are similar to that. Why? As an Executive Coach, that brings you some credibility. But it is only a start, a very tentative beginning. Being a former executive or senior manager does not qualify one for becoming a great executive coach.

By the way, in major corporates I have occupied both senior management and executive IT positions. Does that make me a better Executive Coach? Perhaps, it depends on whether I also get the basics right. Knowledge in itself is not a determinant of whether one will be a good coach or not. It is the applied knowledge what has been left behind once the nitty gritty information and data has disappeared and whether I am able to bring that to bear in coaching situations to bring insight to my clients but in such a way (see below) that does not cross the boundary between coach and client.

In actual fact I am also coming around to the belief that though most life coaching web sites are obsessive about goals (mine is also somewhat like that), I think life coaching (and from now on I also mean executive coaching not that there is any difference) is more about the journey, the means, goals are only secondary if any importance. It's about setting out for the journey, how prepared are you, how you travel it is not about when or how you arrive. The essence of coaching then is creating the journey, creating the environment when going on journeys is applauded, where enjoying the journey is 99.9999% of what it is about and the end of the road itself, the journey completed in the final equation only has an infinitesimal part. A good life coach will ensure you're continually on a journey or setting out for one. You as a client should never be in arrival or completion mode. I speak of this when I say you should live your life as if you're continually challenging Everest and you should be perpetually at Base Camp. It is one and the same idea.

Bad or what I call Insane Project Management or brutally effective project organisations are also fixated and obsessive about the goal. Not the journey. Obviously in a business context one must have product or service (both goals) to sell in order to survive but I argue getting there, the journey, should also be extremely important and determinant of the organisation's continued healthy survival.

Thought No. 3

Life has these great rites of passage. Birth, babe in arms, early years, adolescence, teen years, early adulthood, early married life, children, later married life, middle age, grand children, retirement, years of decline, death. I accept that these exist but my central argument is that I think one should live one's life by partaking of a little bit of each of those each day. There is no need to wait for the years to make the transition from one to another. In actual fact, I think there is no clear cut dichotomy between any one of those. They all meld one into the other. They don't or should not follow in a sequential fashion. One should jump around in any order in any sequence joyously raptuously and have fun. Rather than a dichotomy then one should take a more holistic view of these rites.

I am writing in response to a reception I went to on Saturday when someone mentioned when talking about a guy of 43 that he had a six year old boy inside him. I thought that was great. He is obviously not living his life as if he is in one of those boxes and that is all there is to it until he migrated to the next and the next and the next until destruction. No live your life by partaking of little bits of each of those passages and do it all the time. Be an early adult but look back and look forward and try to be and exist in all these ages of man. If you do you will find you are much more in touch with your feelings and emotions and well being that if you were to live in these separate quadrants. Easy to say and very difficult to do and act on. How does one do that? If you think you are stuck in one of those ages and would like to float and have fun being in everything, then call me and let's explore this together. I think this is one topic where one can get very practical based on your personal circumstances.

Thought No. 4

Finally, I had a great friend of mine review my web site. He made some suggestions, principally that I should identify myself more closely with this web site and put myself more over it. I will be working on that over the next few days.

My new logo is a work in progress. I will also be putting my photo on my who am I? page shortly. I am also contemplating putting some treasured photographs of people that have mattered to me in the past and add a little caption like story for each one. As long as you're in touch with your memories and the past and that is ok then I think you're in reasonable shape for the future. I had the thought that that are lots of photos of me in other people's albums that I'll never ever see if only I could tap into that resource that would be fantastic. So I am doing my bit by starting to put on my web site people who appear in my photo albums. Probably photos they have never ever seen before. They probably also never realised how much they mattered to me and that that bore no relation to the length of the acquaintance or friendship.

Thought No. 5

In order to begin selecting the photos I will be putting on my web site, I came across a before and after photo of my mum before and after she got sick. A very difficult thing for me to understand. What sticks in my mind is that once she had the intracranial aneurysm and was in a coma, the family got together with the doctors to decide basically to terminate her life as she was probably brain dead. Once this was decided I went and saw her for the last time. As I was saying goodbye, the very efficient means of dispatching her were brought out make no bones about this, this was and is terrifying. This only goes to reinforce that if you are not living currently to your full capacity and enjoying what you're doing. Stop, take stock and make changes. We will all have my mum's fate waiting for us. But let's not get obsessive about that goal, enjoy the in between and make the time between each and every second count.

My Thought For Today - 21 October, 2003

A few thoughts for the day

Thought No. 1

A punishing super ego or how can I get this monkey off my back?

If a punishing super ego (PSE) is making your life miserable, then you would know about it. A PSE is a deliciously efficient regret engine that gives you no peace and is always at you for doing it this way or not doing it that way. Nothing is ever good enough for the PSE. The most herculean efforts pale into insignificance when under the gaze of the PSE. It works by idealising the past and blaming you for not achieving the idealised past. It works a treat by contrasting that rosy coloured (probably unachievable) past with the reality of the past. When these two get out of sync then you begin a slow process that will ultimately grind and pulverise your self esteem into dust and destroy every single vestige of self confidence.

It is like a conscience but one which is completely out of control. It's main purpose is to destroy you by grinding you from the inside out. Why does this cause anguish, regret and pain is probably easier to answer than answering the question what are the roots of a PSE? Probably an answer to the latter question lies in what your parents expectations of you were.

Something happens to these expectations that they turn rather than into something that spurs ambition and healthy effort, they turn into something that stifles healthy effort and spurs unhealthy competition, mostly with yourself to achieve more and more. The point then here is that no matter the level and scope of achievement they will never be sufficient to satisfy the expectation. The expectation always stays just ahead of the real life achievement. Only in the idealised past, does the idealised achievement keep pace with and equal the expectation.But you cannot live in that idealised dream world because this is the killing ground for the PSE. It loves to get you into that killing zone so that it can unleash its full force against you.

A punishing super ego thrives in an environment where expectation is very very high and achievement no matter how high is always just a tiny amount away from the expectation. These expectations then begin to verge on the unhealthy becoming an obsessive, never achievable goal. The impossible goal is 1/10th of the problem the other 9/10ths of the problem is the futile work, effort, thoughts and caring that goes into pushing the huge rock uphill and failing at the last inch and seeing it roll all the way before getting behind it again and pushing it uphill only for it to also fall at the last hurdle and so on. This idea comes from Albert Camus and his book the Myth of Sisyphus. It is one of my father's favourite things to think about, to talk about and to use as a life's lessons.

The PSE probably comes in here where repeated failures begin to damage the psyche rendering the ideal playground for a grinding PSE to begin to take hold. Its beginning is quite gentle and slow and builds up and builds up until it destroys every vestige of self-confidence, of self-worth, of self-belief and begins to riddle your homeostasis with the holes of self-doubt. When every day begins with a struggle between you and your punishing super ego, you are at a point where you are truly stuck at a point that is certainly not Base Camp at Everest and is probably 10,000 kms away in the middle of the Indian Ocean. You are at the mercy of the PSE and cannot function to find your way out of this morass.

Thought No. 2

Thought No. 3

One of my clients mentioned to me the other day, what it must take or rather what does it take to be a coach and be able to draw on insights from one's life from one's pain from one's failures from one successes. The short answer to this is yes in a coaching context there is sometimes, most of the times a need to really reach deep inside oneself and bring depths of feeling and emotion to bear with the client. They of course do not or should not see this process, they just benefit from insights gained from the journey into the depths of the soul. Can one be a good coach and not do this? No, at least not an insightful, incisive, sharp and focused one. A coach must give of himself to enable the client to benefit from his experience, his understanding, his love for humanity and his deep instinct in working with people and getting the best out of them. This may at times cross a barrier between coach and client. The bulwark against this breach is ensuring at all times that you are coaching from the head not the heart. Learn from the heart but teach with the head.

Thought No. 4

You may ask what gives any person or life coach the right to begin to try and coach, teach, mentor, assist other people in finding their way in life and helping them resolve problems that they perceive along the way. Knowing that the coach themselves also have their own problems, challenges and issues in dealing with every day life. How can they sufficiently divorce themselves from the everyday problems bugging them and help another? I think obviously as coaching is really a caring nurturing type of profession, there is immediately a layer between the client and coach that tries to create space and a distance between what ever may be going on in a coach's life and what they need to bring to bear in a coaching situation in dealing with their client. They need to do this to retain their so called objectivity. I think Life Coachign is not about reatining a layer of objectivity and distance between client and coach. Nothing will be achieved if that is there. It is in the way really.

I am really critical if this layer is akin to the social worker type of mentality where they themselves cannot help but they then direct the person requiring assistance to all and sundry. This is pitiful. A Life Coach does not just talk the talk he must walk the talk. If he recommends a solution, a course of action, a way forward he must be there to see that it is carried out successfully. This is not a profession which is about no cash no care, this is not a profession where you recommend and then tune off. No this is about being, existing and helping the client on a day to day basis and being involved in resolving their problems and issues on an as required basis.

If you want to refer people to others, then become a social worker not a coach. Being a coach means being involved in many levels. Of course safeguards have to be in place to enable a proper professional perspective but nowhere near the abdication of the social worker in any useful part to play in anything really to do with looking after people. I found when my parents were dying in hospital and my son had his car accident (he was a pedestrian) the social workers and hospital parsons and preachers and so on next to absolutely useless. Why? Because they had no emotional involvement. Anyway this is not a diatribe about the futility of social workers in the face of death but rather what coaches can and should do. In short, become involved, begin to care, begin to identify with the client, share the grief, share the failures, celebrate the successes of the client but above all be involved and practice safe coaching at all times.

Thought No. 5

There is probably no other Life and Executive Coaching website on the net that goes into the detail and depth that I have into describing the setting for coaching, the type of coaching and many many life examples that people can read and learn lessons from. But if there is another site on the internet that does what I do then I would love to hear about it. Most of the sites I have visited mouth some platitudes and motherhood statements about being the best you can, setting goals, achievement and what it takes to achieve and they are more or less brochures for their services. These are the people who will not talk to you unless you pay them. This is the majority of life and executive coaches engagement philosophy. Understandable as they are running small businesses that put food on the table. This web site is more much more than that. I have tried to go in depth into all facets of coaching both from the perspective of the client and also the coach.

It is really a stand-alone recipe for life coaching and can be used in a self help context with appropriate guidance by both life coaches and prospective clients. I do not expect everybody to be able to afford to pay me to listen to their problems and help them. For those people who cannot afford to, the next best thing is to read what I have to say. It is of course perhaps 1% of everything that I have thought about and have to say about this subject and of course life and executive coaching to be useful has to be tailored to the client's requirements. But nonetheless, reading these pages will begin to provide some insight into how life coaching works. When I write about what you should expect from your life coach, I mean of course this is the minimum you should seek, expect and engage them for.

Those coaches that are above and sometimes way above the minimum line and go the extra yards for the client are one in a million. Just like in real life you would expect the people who stick by you through thick and thin and support you no matter what are very very rare indeed, if you do have one of these at all in your life. I have yet to come across a person who takes the view I have of the world and working with people (save for my father of course). I mean by my generosity of spirit, my sensitivity, my willingness to work with people at all levels and contribute of myself, a highly developed intellect in the area of people relations, feelings and emotions. Just like those special chess computers have special microchips designed just to play chess, I have been programmed by my father specifically to listen to people's problems and resolve them. In a way if you think about it, he designed and created me to help him with his problems which were difficult and complex enough, imagine what I can do for you. You may without help of course come around one day to resolve your problems (it might take you six months or six years) but working with me will take a lot shorter and you will be able to resume your journey that much sooner. Life is passing you by the longer you don't or refuse to or are too afraid to act, don't wait till its nearly over before deciding to do something about it. By then, it's way too late.

My Thought For Today - 16 October, 2003

A few thoughts for the day

Thought No. 1

When I speak of people living their lives as if they are at base camp ready to climb Everest at any time and contrasting those with people who are so cowed and bowed by life that they live it as if they were 250 metres in the outback of Australia down a deep dark old abandoned mine shaft. I obviously do not mean these two polarities as anything but symbolic of the current phase in their life. It is neither to be taken literally nor is it to be understood that that is all there is to it. People being very multi-dimensional can and do live portions of their lives in one symbolic location and in other portions live in the other symbolic location. They can simultaneously be living as if they are at base camp but other parts of their being is madly trying to run away from something. A Life Coach must understand the multiplicity of postions, emotions and behaviours when trying to work with a client. These symbols are tools only and must be used sparingly in order not to engender a false sense of "I have made it" when the client thinks they have reached the idealised base camp. Good coaching is an incremental process and requires dedication and hard work on the part of the client to succeed. But then has it ever not been so?

My Thought For Today - 15 October, 2003

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Thought No. 1

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