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High Ideals Video

I am very proud to be a part of a very unique new project called High Ideals.

Watch the video here.





And if you want to know more about High Ideals, visit our website.



Coaching Exercises

1.  How important is it to you to work with, purchase from, or in any way do business with people who are recognised for having High Ideals?

2.  How do you let them know you appreciate them and how they demonstrate their High Ideals?

3.  If you don't let them know now, how could you today and in the future?

4.  As a result of these questions and your personal exploration and answers, what are you committing to?

As always, if you need any further personal support in response to any of these coaching exercises, please consider using the askacoach.com service.

All the best,
Noel

Noel Posus - Master Coach

2008 Coach of the Year - Australian New Zealand Institute of Coaching
www.askacoach.com
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Noel Posus (MECI) is a former member of the Board of Directors and former Head of Marketing - Asia Pacific for The-ECI - www.europeancoachinginstitute.org  http://www.internationalcoachinginstitute.org

The Wheels of Life

I'm very happy to report that you can now sign up as an Affiliate Partner for The Wheels of Life and earn 10% commission off the sale of any product on that site.

To sign up, click here.


Coaching Exercises

1.  Very seldom do you find a single affiliate programme that earns you lots of money, but a number of them working at the same time might.  What are your thoughts and/or experiences about affiliate programmes?  If you don't know what one is, you may want to Google it to find out more.

2.  How could you integrate promoting The Wheels of Life to your clients, group, colleagues, etc?  Consider how it might be a complement to what you and they do.

3.  What other affiliate relationships could you also set up that might further complement what you do for your clients, group, colleagues, etc?

4.  As a result of these questions and your personal exploration and answers, what are you committing to?

As always, if you need any further personal support in response to any of these coaching exercises, please consider using the askacoach.com service.

All the best,
Noel

Noel Posus - Master Coach
www.askacoach.com
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You can now get 100 days worth of The Best Little Life Coaching Blog in the World in e-book form. We call it BRIGHT IDEAS and it is our fundraising project to support The Oasis which helps out homeless youth in Sydney. We publish a new BRIGHT IDEAS volume every 100 days, so you can also order previous volumes to complete your collection. Click here to purchase your copy today and help our young people make a new start in life.

Noel Posus (MECI) is a former member of the Board of Directors and former Head of Marketing - Asia Pacific for The-ECI - www.europeancoachinginstitute.org  http://www.internationalcoachinginstitute.org

These Disclaimers May Make You Laugh AND Think

I stumbled upon this site which contains a list of disclaimer stickers placed into text books.

Here's the site.

I understand that the original purpose of the site is to highlight some of the strategies used by Creationists on various school boards.  I make no comment about the debate between Creationists and Evolutionists.  I am sharing this with you however because I do think these disclaimer stickers found in textbooks are interesting enough and may promote some thinking and conversation with the readers of this blog.  I also know that some of you may find some of these stickers funny for your own reasons.

Here's one example:  "This textbook contains material on evolution. Evolution is a theory, not a fact, regarding the origin of living things. This material should be approached with an open mind, studied carefully, and critically considered."  (This one isn't necessarily one of the funny ones, but trust me, some you're likely to find hilarious as the writer of the disclaimer had that intention in mind.)

So, have a look and explore what happens in your own thinking as you read these.

Coaching Exercises

1.  What are your initial thoughts as you read these disclaimer statements?

2.  As you think more critically about the reasons these disclaimer statements were used in the first place, what additional thoughts do you have about this?

3.  What are your beliefs and/or values about the relationships between religion, science and education? 

4.  As a result of these questions and your personal exploration and answers, what are you committing to?

As always, if you need any further personal support in response to any of these coaching exercises, please consider using the askacoach.com service.

All the best,
Noel

Noel Posus - Master Coach
www.askacoach.com
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You can now get 100 days worth of The Best Little Life Coaching Blog in the World in e-book form. We call it BRIGHT IDEAS and it is our fundraising project to support The Oasis which helps out homeless youth in Sydney. We publish a new BRIGHT IDEAS volume every 100 days, so you can also order previous volumes to complete your collection. Click here to purchase your copy today and help our young people make a new start in life.

Noel Posus (MECI) is a former member of the Board of Directors and former Head of Marketing - Asia Pacific for The-ECI - www.europeancoachinginstitute.org  http://www.internationalcoachinginstitute.org

World AIDS Day - Red

Today is World AIDS Day (1st December 2008) and there are many ways in which people are doing "good work" to raise awareness and combat this killer that affects people all over the globe.

This year I am highlighting the good works of a group called Red, named after the colour of the awareness ribbon worn for AIDS and HIV awareness.

Check out their website here.

There are hundreds of partners who have offered products and services rebranded with the colour red and where proceeds from those sales goes to further raising awareness of AIDS.

It's wonderful that this website and organisation is around and that part of their good work is to get other organisations involved in ways that help consumers and every day people want to get more involved.

Working collaboratively in this fashion, it increases the contribution we're making.

Excellent stuff.


Coaching Exercises

1.  How aware would you say you are today about HIV and AIDS?  It's been around for decades now, but that doesn't mean everyone understands what's currently happening around the world.

2.  How important do you feel it is to be aware of such things?  What benefits would there be to you, and to others, if you were to increase your awareness?

3.  What could YOU do to help further raise awareness about this cause?  Or if there's another cause that you're more connected to, what could YOU do to further raise awareness about it?

4.  As a result of these questions and your personal exploration and answers, what are you committing to?

As always, if you need any further personal support in response to any of these coaching exercises, please consider using the askacoach.com service.

All the best,
Noel

Noel Posus - Master Coach
www.askacoach.com
Join our newsletter by clicking here.
You can now get 100 days worth of The Best Little Life Coaching Blog in the World in e-book form. We call it BRIGHT IDEAS and it is our fundraising project to support The Oasis which helps out homeless youth in Sydney. We publish a new BRIGHT IDEAS volume every 100 days, so you can also order previous volumes to complete your collection. Click here to purchase your copy today and help our young people make a new start in life.

Noel Posus (MECI) is a former member of the Board of Directors and former Head of Marketing - Asia Pacific for The-ECI - www.europeancoachinginstitute.org  http://www.internationalcoachinginstitute.org

What would you do if you lost everything?

Here's a link to another video on TED which really speaks (quite literally) to a coaching exercise I've occasionally used.

Watch the video here.

In this video, filmmaker David Hoffman speaks for just four minutes on the fire that destroyed everything he owned; the house, his film archives, photos, projects, important papers, the records of his significant career.

And yet, while standing over the ashes he remembered his father saying to him, "Turn a negative into a positive." David kept replaying that line again and again in his mind as he viewed the ruins.

Although he doesn't fully elaborate on what is next for him, you do see the beginnings of future creative work inspired by burned remains of pictures. Interesting.

Even more interesting is the coaching exercise I've used with client's from time to time, in slightly different formats based on the situation, and of course for some different reasons based on the client's objectives.

Here are some of those questions for you (and I've generalised them somewhat).

Coaching Exercises

1. If suddenly everything you owned; home, car, clothes, photographs, papers and so on; was destroyed by a fire or some other disaster, how would you move forward? Think specifically of some of the things you'd do in chronological order, such as secure temporary shelter for you and your family, contact insurance company, contact employer, etc. But then move on past the initial basics. What would you then do to build your life from there?

2. Please note in the above question that I'm not using terms like "rebuild". This is significant for this question here. Your physical reminders of your memories (photos, etc) are gone. Sometimes we are very connected with these reminders and find it difficult to live without them. However, if they're gone, how will you remember your past? What are your options? What's something completely new you could do?

3. Sometimes we may feel tied down to our physical possessions and therefore not necessarily explore certain options. So for this hypothetical situation where you have lost all physical possessions, what sense of freedom does that give you? Where could you go? What could you do? What new adventure could you accept that you had previously rejected?

4. If the above questions were difficult for you to answer; possibly just being too close to home; then think about what other people who have gone through similar disasters do. How do they get through it? What strengths and resources do they have? How do they connect with other people in different ways to achieve common goals and support? What can you learn from them?

5. As a result of these questions, is there anything you are committing to?

As always, if you need any further personal support in response to any of these coaching exercises, please consider using the askacoach.com service.

All the best,
Noel

Noel Posus - Master Coach
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Noel Posus is on the Board of Directors and is the Head of Marketing - Asia Pacific for The-ECI - www.europeancoachinginstitute.org

One of the best articles I've found on life coaching...

A friend sent me a link to an article by Steve Pavlina on Life Coaching , which I think is just brilliant and I wanted to be sure to share it with you. (Just click on "Life Coaching" in the previous sentence.)

You'll see from the article that Steve is being very honest about his own experiences working with a coach and identifies some things that worked and some things that didn't. He also acknowledges that some of those things that didn't work aren't really found in the modern coaching industry.

He gives some great tips on helping to identify when working with a coach may be helpful, how to find one, and some other ideas. In addition to the links he's provided, if you're looking for a coach, of course we're hoping you'll check out askacoach.com or you may want to check out Incredible Awareness .

Coaching Exercises

1. After reading Steve's article, consider jotting down three things you would like to achieve that you think a coach of one sort or another may be helpful to you.

2. Consider what type of coach is most likely going to help you achieve what you want. That could be a coach who specialises in life, business, creativity, parenting, relationships, and so on. There are lots of different types of coaches out there.

3. Make a commitment to yourself to ask around for recommendations for life coaches and see if you can get a list of three options to explore, and then make plans to interview those coaches.

4. If you are finding it difficult to locate a coach for you, consider writing to me personally through the feedback page at askacoach.com and I will see if I can make any introductions for you and/or point you toward various coach directory services.

All the best,
Noel

Noel Posus - Master Coach
www.askacoach.com

Elysian Holidays - Coaching Case Study

Elysian Holidays is a world-wide villa accommodation specialist holiday company, renting villas on the Greek Islands, in Spain, Mallorca, Menorca, Portugal, Italy, Cyprus, France, Morocco, Cost Rica, Tobago, Caribbean, Mexico, Cuba and Thailand; where all the properties are hand picked and most are visited by either Maxine Harrison (owner of Elysian Holidays) or another member of staff.

When Barbara Dalpra, qualified Master Coach with The Nyasa Partnership Limited and Accredited Fellow Coach (ECI), accredited through the European Coaching Institute started working with Maxine as her coach, the business was facing a number of challenges.

These challenges were triggered by a number of events, for example the impact of 9/11 where people didn't travel as frequently or as far in the months immediately afterwards; and the exchange rate fluctuations of both the €uro and the US$.

To achieve this each goal was broken down into manageable chunks and as such into smaller goals.  During the coaching sessions, each smaller goal was addressed and a number of steps discussed and actions agreed.  As each small goal is achieved the longer-term goals defined initially, start coming closer.

Maxine defined the benefits of coaching as the support that assists in providing clarity, boosts her confidence, and enhances her ability to priortise.  She says that as coaching gives her the opportunity to discuss all areas of her business and personal life with someone who is non-judgemental, the role of business no manager no longer leaves her feeling alone, especially when it comes to making decisions.  She added that one loses any fear of the future.