Overcoming Procrastination

Why is so difficult to switch off the television even when we suppose to be doing something else that would led us to achieve our dreams? For sure is more comfortable to keep doing our familiar habits than facing challenges that will bring us to an unknown place. But, what that means to you to postpone your goals just because it seems easier to play safe?

If you fear to be defeated means that may be you’ll never know what is to be victorious. Here, the biggest step is indeed to overcome our procrastination. How? Asking yourself what really depends on you to make the changes happen. However, it is important to consider and accept that what you have done so far was essential to prepare you to the next step.

Raquel’s history is great example of changes can happen when we recognize our courage and acknowledge our self-limited beliefs as opportunities to grow. She came to London two and half years ago without speak a word in English. Her real dream was attend a pos-graduate programme in Cultural Production to explore her passion when she returned to Brazil, which was to spread her local art throughout the whole country.

After more than two years of hard work and focus to learn a foreign language she was still resisting to apply for her place in the pos-graduate programme because she couldn’t see herself good enough to succeed the admission interview in an academic environment. Her thought was “If I make any mistake the tutor will disapprove me immediately and even if they accept me I’m not ready to face an academic level”. With this negative ‘self-talk’ she wasted two opportunities of being accepted and start the course in the following month.

When she came to coaching Raquel was still denying all her achievements, such as of being a foreigner that left all of her relatives to fight for he dreams, where she needed to learn another language and have worked so hard to save the money to pay her long-waited course. She was use to blame herself because she couldn’t get rid of her accent, even if her domain with the language was excellent.

After a short coaching programme Rachel became more self-confident and optimist, reconsidering all of her resources that helped her to overcome her negative ‘self-talk’ and her projection for perfection. She accepted her limited self-beliefs and arranged her first interview as an opportunity to measure her English level. She accept that if she wasn’t approved she would at least identify what she would need to improve. Besides, she would never be able to overcome her procrastination if she hasn’t tried.

Raquel was accepted at her first interview and next February she starts her Pos-graduate programme followed of a Master degree.

Overcoming Anxiety

Have you found yourself thinking and projecting something that is just about to happen but doesn’t depend on you to change the course of its direction? And what about the feelings that this state suggest on you? Have you realized that you can loose the focus on the present because your mind is projecting a future that does not happen yet?

Quite often being anxious is an unconscious state, but if we become aware of how much energy we spend on this state of being we can re-directed our attention for what really matters: the present. And aware of this present, where everything happens, we can take control of our attention to perform what really depend on us to do to achieve a desired goal.

The process isn’t simple but it is possible, and this is the challenge that Coaching intends to support you to overcome. If we do not have control about our thoughts, our mind can bring us to a state of restlessness where we don’t explore the most of our potentialities.

To address your attention for what is really important to you is one of the benefits that a coaching relationship can offer to you. Furthermore, Coaching offers you a space to grow and to reflect about your priorities. By ourselves is quite hard to separate enough time to translate all of our dreams and aspirations into practical action, even because while we don’t express those thoughts they are just ideas in our minds.

To understand more about this phenomenon of self-realization we need to talk, verbalize and share those ideas to allow them to become real possibilities. Therefore, it is this professional interaction that will help you to organize your ideas, considering your reality and available resources to create an action plan that will inspire you to create a positive attitude towards your goals.

Finally you will realise that the same energy that you were spending being anxious you can now spend being productive.

Overcoming Resistance

Have you found yourself resisting anything in your life? And after you have experienced this state of resistance which were the decisions that you have taken - if you have taken any? Have you realized that you could be resisting something that you really desire to achieve? Most of the time resistance can reflect our inner desires.

To resist something is to avoid accepting that what we really desire requires changes and therefore challenges that we may be not ready to face them. However, if we pay attention in what we are resisting we may understand what depend on us to take small daily actions that can bring us to a desired state.

To help you to overcome this state of resistance Coaching can support you to understand what are those obstacles that your mind created to sabotage you to go beyond your limited beliefs, and through a process of self-awareness you can overcome the fear of fail and even the thought patterns that are not justified neither allows you to go further.

As any space to grow Coaching requires from you willing to be challenged and commitment to achieve a desired state or goal. If you are looking forwards to spend your energy attracting desired outcomes to your life do not hesitate to give the first step.

There is always a Coaching programme that suits you and your singularities. After all, it is up to you to give you a chance to try a positive attitude or stay resisting to find your own solutions.