How rounded is our approach to life?

Appreciating there are occasions in which issues need to be faced in a direct fashion, without even pondering opposing strategies, how rounded is our approach to life?

We might wish to think about our ‘usual reaction’ to challenges forming our everyday routine. Letting some things go whilst concentrating on others, more significant items we can say, is part of what it may mean to have a rounded approach to life.

On the other hand, taking a stand on every issue, confronting people before us as if each of their words and actions were declarations of hostilities, suggests we are anything but rounded.

There are times this confrontational attitude could be viewed as appropriate. All the same, knowing when to hold our ground and when to, figuratively or literally, walk away, is a skill worth developing. So, how rounded is our approach to life?

When considering the question ‘How rounded is our approach to life?’, the words of Don Miguel Ruiz are worth recalling: “Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream.”

Thanks for reading this ‘How rounded is our approach to life?’ post today.

Kindest regards.

Brian.

About Brian

Brian Groves DipM MCIM Chartered Marketer, Coach, Trainer and Author, supplies professional and personal development to a portfolio of corporate and individual clients.

As an Adjunct Professor at the Catholic University of Milan, Italy, Brian has taught a postgraduate course, using four characters taken from dramatic texts as coaching clients, to examine various work-related performance matters.

Brian’s goal is to support through coaching, training and writing all who wish to live their potential, in education, work or life in general.

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Moving forward the best way possible

 

Whilst our destination plays a significant part in determining our direction, moving forward the best way possible is an activity we can undertake at all times.

Letting go of any assumptions regarding what we should be doing or the manner in which we reach objectives, moving forward the best way possible showcases our intention to put our all into the endeavour and live our potential to the full.

We might need to adopt differing strategies over the course of a journey to best handle various situations as they arise. In many cases, by keeping the goal in mind and focusing on moving forward the best way possible at all times we are surely able to overcome any eventual obstacles.

Asking much of ourselves may appear as a tiring exercise to those used to drifting along at the pace the world decides to impose. Nevertheless, that we are even contemplating moving forward the best way possible indicates we are not ones to merely ‘follow the masses’ unless we decide it is indeed opportune for us.

If you feel exploration of the theme of moving forward the best way possible as part of a complimentary coaching session, via Skype or Google+ hangout, would be beneficial to you, please get in touch.

In the meantime, thanks for reading this ‘Moving forward the best way possible’ post today.

Brian.

About Brian

Brian Groves DipM MCIM Chartered Marketer, Coach, Trainer, Adjunct Professor and Author, supplies professional and personal development to a portfolio of corporate and individual clients.

As an Adjunct Professor at the Catholic University of Milan, Italy, Brian teaches a postgraduate course based on dramatic texts and elements of coaching to examine various work-related performance matters.

Brian’s goal is to support through coaching, training and writing all who wish to reach their full potential, in education, work or life in general.

You can contact Brian via e-mail (brian@bgdtcoaching.com), by clicking on the icons or leaving a comment below.

 

From what perspective are you seeing today?

 

The answer you offer to the question ‘From what perspective are you seeing today?’ speaks volumes about how the day is going and indeed from where you are reading this.

When we are able to push past the immediate clouds of the day, the panorama before us could represent the opportunities we have, even if they were originally invisible to us. That they exist can help us in our efforts to actually see them and eventually embrace them.

Naturally, there will be times we need to give our full attention to a vision of today not fully to our liking. Whether related to work or any other obligation we have towards life, the outlook whilst not necessarily desired deserves our consideration.

So, from what perspective are you seeing today? How do you feel about whatever is before you? To what extent are you living the moment as opposed to merely passing through it? Your responses will possibly provide insight to help you manage not only today but also tomorrow.

In this instance, nevertheless, it is time to end this ‘From what perspective are you seeing today?’ post.

Kindest regards.

Brian.

About Brian

Brian Groves DipM MCIM Chartered Marketer, Coach, Trainer, Adjunct Professor and Author, supplies professional and personal development to a portfolio of corporate and individual clients.

As an Adjunct Professor at the Catholic University of Milan, Italy, Brian teaches a postgraduate course based on dramatic texts and elements of coaching to examine various work-related performance matters.

Brian’s goal is to support through coaching, training and writing all who wish to reach their full potential, in education, work or life in general.

You can contact Brian via e-mail (brian@bgdtcoaching.com), by clicking on the icons or leaving a comment below.

 

To what extent are we living our vision of a great life?

 

You might be forgiven for thinking this ‘To what extent are we living our vision of a great life?’ post is merely an extension of the recent ‘How trust in our dreams can repay us handsomely’ post (click here to read).

The focus of this ‘To what extent are we living our vision of a great life?’ piece is not on whether or why we are living our dreams or vision, but as the title states: to what extent are we doing so.

Irrespective of individual issues and global questions, our vision of a great life will undoubtedly consist of various elements, each being crucial to complete our vision. However, just as everything seems to be perfect on all fronts, life throws a proverbial spanner in the works. And dealing with this is also part of life.

Allowing ourselves to be halted in our efforts to live our vision of a great life in many respects comes down to our attitude towards challenges. Embracing whatever life offers us as opportunities to learn and grow is one approach. Moaning, groaning and choosing to use difficulties as excuses to play small is another one.

“To what extent are we living our vision of a great life?” is a tough question to respond to. Each day or even each hour would possibly warrant a different answer.

That said, the intentions we set out and our plans and goals give our efforts direction. Ideally, the steps taken will themselves explain to what extent are we living our vision of a great life.

Brian.

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Brian Groves DipM MCIM Chartered Marketer, Coach, Trainer, Adjunct Professor and Author, supplies professional and personal development to a portfolio of corporate and individual clients.

As an Adjunct Professor at the Catholic University of Milan, Italy, Brian teaches a postgraduate course based on dramatic texts and elements of coaching to examine various work-related performance matters.

Brian’s goal is to support through coaching, training and writing all who wish to reach their full potential, in education, work or life in general.

Publications

Heart Poems On Waves (2017)

More Heart Poems Captured From Dreams (2017)

Heart Poems Captured From Dreams (2017)

How to deliver your potential successfully on the stage of work (2016)

The stage of work (2016)

Performance skills at work (2015)

Personal performance potential at work (2014)

Coaching, performing and thinking at work (2013)

Reflections on performance at work (2012)

Elements of theatre at work (2010)

Training through drama for work (2009)

Are you giving in or giving to the moment?

 

It could be we are sailing along without thought to how we approach each day. If this is the case then the inquiry ‘Are you giving in or giving to the moment?’ would be a ‘bolt out of the blue’. Then again, you may be the type of person who is sensitive to the impact your presence has on those around you.

Taking the first section of the question ‘Are you giving in or giving to the moment?’, the aspect of ‘giving in’ or surrendering to the moment, our action is linked to our way of being as well as the situation we are facing.

As the saying goes: “We don’t need to fight every battle”. This is true especially at a challenging time when resources such as energy, patience and resolve are being tested to the limit.

Giving to the moment, the second section of the question ‘Are you giving in or giving to the moment?’, might suggest we are embracing whatever is before us. Ideally, we are offering our potential to ensure we are living the experience of the moment, whilst being an integral part of it.

Giving in or giving to, two positions seemly opposite in nature. Even so, ‘Are you giving in or giving to the moment?’ remains a question for us to answer, according to our own criteria and in the moment itself.

Brian.

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About Brian

Brian Groves DipM MCIM Chartered Marketer, CTI-trained Co-Active Coach, and Freelance Trainer, supplies professional and personal development through coaching, coaching workshops, marketing development training and English language training.

As an Adjunct Professor at the Catholic University of Milan, Italy, Brian teaches a postgraduate course based on dramatic texts and elements of coaching to examine various work-related performance matters.

Brian’s goal is to support through coaching, training and writing all who wish to reach their full potential, in education, work or life in general.

Publications

Heart Poems On Waves (2017)

More Heart Poems Captured From Dreams (2017)

Heart Poems Captured From Dreams (2017)

How to deliver your potential successfully on the stage of work (2016)

The stage of work (2016)

Performance skills at work (2015)

Personal performance potential at work (2014)

Coaching, performing and thinking at work (2013)

Reflections on performance at work (2012)

Elements of theatre at work (2010)

Training through drama for work (2009)

Turning from the ugliness of the moment

No matter where we are, and I hope you are in a beautiful place right now, turning from the ugliness of the moment is something we can all do. This is especially so when we widen the scope of what we mean as ugliness to include negative world events, collective concerns and personal fears.

Rather than suggesting we should bury our heads in the sand, nor even ignore whatever we dislike, we can choice to manage our attitude towards the ugliness of the moment.

Personal fears deserve focused attention to investigate their validity plus the element of learning they might contain for us. Turning from the ugliness of the moment, in this case, would be a case of looking below the surface to comprehend what we need to take on board before dismissing the rest.

Collective concerns, such as unusual climatic occurrences for example, likewise require a clear-headed effort to understand what each of us is able to do to at least not perpetuate the situation. Turning from the ugliness of the moment here would be more a question of turning the matter around to gain insight and find a way through the mess.

Negative world events have the power to overwhelm us only of we give away our ability to face them with intelligence and objectivity. Turning from the ugliness of the moment in this instance would mean trusting ourselves and the world at large to overcome ugliness with goodness, compassion and beauty.

Ramblings no doubt, but thanks nonetheless for connecting and reading this post today. If you’d like to share your input on the issue of Turning from the ugliness of the moment, please feel free to leave a comment below.

Brian.

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About Brian

Brian Groves DipM MCIM Chartered Marketer, CTI-trained Co-Active Coach, and Freelance Trainer, supplies professional and personal development through coaching, coaching workshops, marketing development training and English language training.

As an Adjunct Professor at the Catholic University of Milan, Italy, Brian teaches a postgraduate course based on dramatic texts and elements of coaching to examine various work-related performance matters.

Brian’s goal is to support through coaching, training and writing all who wish to reach their full potential, in education, work or life in general.

Publications

More Heart Poems Captured From Dreams (2017)

Heart Poems Captured From Dreams (2017)

How to deliver your potential successfully on the stage of work (2016)

The stage of work (2016)

Performance skills at work (2015)

Personal performance potential at work (2014)

Coaching, performing and thinking at work (2013)

Reflections on performance at work (2012)

Elements of theatre at work (2010)

Training through drama for work (2009)

What is stopping you right now? Really?

 

So, what is stopping you right now from doing whatever it is in your heart you know you want to do?

Listening to your response – spoken in your mind or indeed aloud – might be enough to encourage you to drill down into the core of the matter by asking “Really?”

To what extent does the reason you give to explain what is stopping you right now seem valid? Looking at the issue from a different direction, what would you gain from overcoming the immediate hold-up or what is stopping you right now and completing the undertaking successfully?

What else would its achievement mean to you? Seeing things from beyond what is stopping you right now may help to keep current challenges, setbacks or obstacles in perspective.

Events do not always go as we would wish them to. However, provided our intention, motivation, and preparation match our willingness to strive forward, there is little that can impede us back from putting our potential into play in the proverbial game of life.

And if the response to the enquiry “What is stopping you right now?” is connected to doubts and fears then these too might benefit from a similar exploration, possibly starting with a simple “Really?” before moving onto an investigation into the actual validity, likely occurrence or true significance of these negative points.

Thanks for reading this ‘What is stopping you right now? Really?‘ post.

Kindest regards.

Brian.

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About Brian

Brian Groves DipM MCIM Chartered Marketer, CTI-trained Co-Active Coach and Freelance Trainer, supplies professional and personal development through coaching, coaching workshops, marketing development training and English language training.

As an Adjunct Professor at the Catholic University of Milan, Italy, Brian teaches a postgraduate course based on dramatic texts and elements of coaching to examine various work-related performance matters.

Publications

More Heart Poems Captured From Dreams (2017)

Heart Poems Captured From Dreams (2017)

How to deliver your potential successfully on the stage of work (2016)

The stage of work (2016)

Performance skills at work (2015)

Personal performance potential at work (2014)

Coaching, performing and thinking at work (2013)

Reflections on performance at work (2012)

Elements of theatre at work (2010)

Training through drama for work (2009)

Is no way absolutely better than any way?

 

Looking at things from the perspective of ‘All or Nothing’, ‘This or That’, can be just as limiting as grasping onto a knee-jerk answer regarding the question “Is no way absolutely better than any way?”

Whether it is advisable to place trust in such a restrictive mode of thinking will perhaps become clear over the course of time.

Yet is no way absolutely better than any way? In the first instance, however, exploring options around ‘No way’ being ‘Absolutely better’ than ‘Any way’ might provide new lines of enquiry.

Expanding our vision of the issue before us – in an ideal world – requires we make our eventual decisions concerning which way to move with clear intentions after carefully investigating our options.

So, all things considered, is no way absolutely better than any way?

If you’d like to share your input or even your response to the question “Is no way absolutely better than any way?“, please don’t hesitate to leave a comment below.

Kindest regards.

Brian.

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About Brian

Brian Groves DipM MCIM Chartered Marketer, CTI-trained Co-Active Coach and Freelance Trainer, supplies professional and personal development through coaching, coaching workshops, marketing development training and English language training.

As an Adjunct Professor at the Catholic University of Milan, Italy, Brian teaches a postgraduate course based on dramatic texts and elements of coaching to examine various work-related performance matters.

Publications

More Heart Poems Captured From Dreams (2017)

Heart Poems Captured From Dreams (2017)

How to deliver your potential successfully on the stage of work (2016)

The stage of work (2016)

Performance skills at work (2015)

Personal performance potential at work (2014)

Coaching, performing and thinking at work (2013)

Reflections on performance at work (2012)

Elements of theatre at work (2010)

Training through drama for work (2009)

Being positive as we deal with the negative

 

Being positive as we deal with the negative issue or situation capturing our attention right now, though perhaps not actually being a happy bunny, is an option worth considering. After all, being negative would only at best suggest the difficulty has control over our outlook. And this is surely not so.

Being positive as we deal with the negative is possibly as much a habit or a way of being as a strategy. In a sense, it is not something to turn on and off at a whim. Being constant in our approach towards life makes it easier for those around us to well, basically, be around us.

Being positive as we deal with the negative also has the potential to open up opportunities previously hidden behind the dark clouds of the moment. Believing each challenge has a solution bolsters our enthusiasm for life, even whilst we grapple with this or that setback.

Being positive as we deal with the negative, in conclusion then, can act as a catalyst for all we do regardless of the eventual results obtained. As a component of our best self, it is we might say, a reflection of who we are.

To share your thoughts on the ideas put forward here, please leave a comment below. In any case, thanks for reading this Being positive as we deal with the negative post.

Kindest regards.

Brian.

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About Brian

Brian Groves DipM MCIM Chartered Marketer, CTI-trained Co-Active Coach and Freelance Trainer, supplies professional and personal development through coaching, coaching workshops, marketing development training and English language training.

As an Adjunct Professor at the Catholic University of Milan, Italy, Brian teaches a postgraduate course based on dramatic texts and elements of coaching to examine various work-related performance matters.

Publications

Heart Poems Captured From Dreams (2017)

How to deliver your potential successfully on the stage of work (2016)

The stage of work (2016)

Performance skills at work (2015)

Personal performance potential at work (2014)

Coaching, performing and thinking at work (2013)

Reflections on performance at work (2012)

Elements of theatre at work (2010)

Training through drama for work (2009)

Clouding the moment

 

It is perhaps not difficult to imagine a scenario in which we are operating to our potential, being our best, despite this or that clouding the moment.

External matters beyond our control will always be present in one form or another. However, our ability to embrace fully the opportunities before us is, fortunately, not connected to situations clouding the moment.

Our positive approach, regardless of these things clouding the moment, stems from our inner strength and commitment towards our heartfelt goals. Being disinterested is, of course, an option, yet one likely holding little value to us.

Things are more complicated when the items clouding the moment derive from our confusion and lack of confidence in our objective. Giving ourselves a ‘good talking to’ may help. Alternatively, we have the possibility of exploring the underlying source of these sensations clouding the moment.

Reflection offers us the opportunity to embrace, as opposed to push away, an issue causing the dark clouds. We might discover a previously overlooked point requiring our input before whatever is clouding the moment moves away.

Considering this exercise of clarification as a strategic phase of our development gives us the chance to appreciate, as it were, whatever is indeed clouding the moment.

Kindest regards.

Brian.

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Twitter: @bgdtcoaching
E-mail: brian@bgdtcoaching.com
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About Brian

Brian Groves DipM MCIM Chartered Marketer, CTI-trained co-active coach and freelance trainer, supplies professional and personal development through coaching, coaching workshops, marketing development training and English language training.

As an adjunct professor at the Catholic University of Milan, Italy, Brian teaches a postgraduate course based on dramatic texts and elements of coaching to examine various work-related performance matters.

Publications

The stage of work (Milan: EDUCatt, 2016)

Performance skills at work (Milan: EDUCatt, 2015)

Personal performance potential at work (Milan: EDUCatt, 2014)

Coaching, performing and thinking at work (Milan: EDUCatt, 2013)

Reflections on performance at work (Milan: EDUCatt, 2012)

Elements of theatre at work (Milan: EDUCatt, 2010)

Training through drama for work (Milan: EDUCatt, 2009)