It’s amazing how much I can learn from my clients and people I meet with. The strangely familiar struggle with work is an ongoing theme in many of their lives, and the whole idea of ‘work-life balance’ is nothing but a myth. I think I know the reason why. Work-life balance is about our ability to switch from one mode to another. It’s about balancing almost anything. For instance, when I run personality profiles for people, they realize that they really need personal development because their profile report reveals more about where their blind spots are.
Coaching For Balancing Life… And Even Personality
Principles Of Personal Transformation: Honest And Responsible Acceptance
You probably know a fair bit of my background by now, especially my successes. What you might not really know about me is the stuff I’ve failed in… and what I had to do to get out of my failures.
Personal Development: The meaning of life and a question of identity
For a long time, I’ve been teaching stuff to people regarding NLP. So, I might be teaching an application or the core modeling subjects of NLP, but one thing seems elusive to many people, which is related to their identity. We strive to achieve success which is defined by the world. However, success is elusive to those who do not know the reason why they are doing what they are doing. So, it appears that to succeed, you need to know who you are and recognize that what you do must align with who you are.
Who Am I
Personal Development: Types of Visualization
Everyone is raving about the power of visualization, but perhaps have not really studied how visualization works. There are three main types of visualization, namely, free association, virtual reality and reconstructed reality. Visualization itself does not work miracles. In reality, visualization creates an impact on the body. Just as you imagine yourself feeling like you are going to eat your favorite food, visualization kicks in to create the sensation of hunger or craving for that food by modifying your physiological state.
In order for visualization to have a sustained impact on you, you should know what you are visualizing for, and what type of visualization suits you best for that outcome.
Personal Development: High Expectations vs Perfectionism
I was recently texting a friend and she told me that she wanted lots of things, and wanted them all to be perfect. I guess that’s the first thing I want to talk about today, followed by the idea regarding our expectations.
In many instances, it is a little difficult to put a finger on perfectionism. Not everyone can say it’s a good thing, but we all know for sure that it can’t be a bad thing in most cases. When it comes to making things happen, though perfectionism has a few drawbacks.
Personal Development: Can you really achieve your goals?
I had a conversation with my sister-in-law about the question of ‘overachievement’. To a great extent, there are people who view the successes we have at AKLTG as a major success. For the owners, we see it as work in progress.
So, I was posed the question: are over achievers dissatisfied with life, put themselves through misery and “trying” to prove themselves even more? My answer was pretty straightforward.
Myers Briggs Personality test: Personality Types
Personality is one of the invisible factors in human relationships I always talk about. In most cases, we’re not aware of this and understand personality merely as traits.
photo credit: Malin Helene
However, traits can always be present when the need calls for it. For instance, you might be at the workplace that needs you to be serious and logical even though by nature you are a fun loving person. Traits are often stronger and more dominant as a result of habituation and skill training.
Self-Help: Building The Leader In You
“The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.”
~Colin Powell
Problems, problems, problems. It seems that people are obsessed with problems and don’t know how to solve them. They complain about the problem. In reality, as Colin Powell says, it is a way to build a positive relationship with those around you, in spite of the problems.
Self-Help: Is Your Life Difficult?
“Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.”
~Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Has it ever occurred to you that people seldom tell you how good their life is? the only people I know who are truly satisfied with their life are those who have gone through lots of personal trials that have affected them, and they learn to be grateful for what they have.