Think about the best teachers in your life. Who were they? Your list may include traditional school teachers, but it may also include family, friends, atheletics, supervisors, world leaders, clergy or children.
There was something in each of your examples that connected with your needs and interests. And chances are those teachers had reached you and made connects in different ways. But what they had in common was the ability to reach YOU.
What is the secret of good teaching? Discovery and the celebration of your discovery. That process takes longer than listening, taking notes, memorizing and then parroting back the words.
The Secret is COACHING
By its very nature, coaching is personal and very powerful. It is teaching customized to the uniqueness of each learner; a “prescription” for being the best you can be.
Coaches are teachers who know theil material well and know their “students (clients)” equally well. A coach uses several tools but the most powerfu are the questions and the ability to hear what isn’t being said.
I am not a therapist nor a adrenaline recovery coach, however I think that this is one of the most important things that you can do for yourself and your business.
The recovery of adrenaline addiction can be very simple IF you are willing to change your behaviors.
First identify 20 Adrenaline Triggers (look at the list below)Then get a support team-family friends, therapist, adrenaline recovery coach-anyone who is willing to support your journey.
This is an addiction and there will be withdrawl and recovery. It will take 6-12months of committment on your part
TRIGGERS
- Over promiseing, under delivering
- Arriving exactly on time or late
- Involved in non-essential projects or activities
- Should or have to’s; someone else’s agenda
- Being optomistic during a rough time
- Doing one thing inorder to get another thing
- Having current unresolved matters in your life
- Holding back from others; being nice or mad
- Not asking for what you need
- Tolerations; things that you are putting up wiht
- being a door mat
- Trying to prove something by your results
- Driving faster than the speed limit
And then start the recovery process
- Stop the triggering behaviors
- Get bored until you develope a new energy source ( it takes 3-6 months)
- Be truthful to yourself and every one else. It is the one thing that can heal.
- Hire an experience therapist or coach.
- Develope your strongest Personal Foundation. *
* This program can be found at www.coachville.com/passiverevenue/pr30licensing.html – 16k
Today, you say I am ready to be my best, to reach my highest potential and achieve SUCCESS. You have the best of intentions to get clear and spring into action. Then the phone rings, one of the kids is sick at school and you have to pick him/her up. You run to the school, calling the doctor on the cell phone, praying that you remembered to turn off the stove, was the dog in or out, Oh God you have the book club meeting at your house tonight and it looks like a tornado hit it…
The adrenaline has kicked in and your chance for recovery today is slim. Adrenaline is the most addictive “drug” in the world today. You know, when your heart races, you check for messages ten times just dreading that there might be one or many messages waiting for you. Your thoughts are miles and hours in front of what you are doing at the moment. You drive all over town and can barely remember how you got from place to place. When you finally able to end the day, you just want to zone out, crash, shut out the world so you pick something easy, like watching TV. Finally bed, but you can’t sleep because your mind is racing to the day ahead.
Ah success, maybe tomorrow. Success like everything else in life requires a plan and the first part of any plan is building a foundation that will support the structure. We will talk about how to build your foundation in the next chapter. But first I want to challenge you to get rid of adrenaline driven behavior. It is like trying to cure any addiction, it is hard work, but the rewards are incredible.
This is the one thing in your life that keeps you stuck and in the same ruts that you are traveling in now. Committing to get adrenaline free will is one most difficult change you will make in your quest for Success. It takes 3 to 6 minutes to get to the peak of your adrenaline and 6 to 8 HOURS to “come down” from an adrenaline high. When you do come down you will crash and feel the need to numb yourself, zone out or just go to sleep only to get up and do it again tomorrow.
First identify if you are running on adrenaline:
Y N
___ ___ I start the day with coffee or soda and then drinking more throughout the day
___ ___ I eat sugar or chocolate to give me a boost.
___ ___ I tend to take on too much and then rush to get things done
at the last minute.
___ ___ I tell myself that you work well under pressure, you like
deadlines.
___ ___ I can “handle” many things at once.
___ ___ I feel irritated or disappointed when other people don’t
work as hard or as quickly as I do. I may not always let know but
their behavior effects me personally.
___ ___ I hit the road running and keep going all day.
___ ___ I tend to arrive late but unexpected things just happen
___ ___ Driving makes me crazy, I can’t believe how many slow and
crazy driver there are on the road.
___ ___ I seem to have more problems and challenges than my
friends.
___ ___ Money is always a little tight but it won’t last forever.
___ ___ I tend to jump from one thing to another.
___ ___ I talk and talk and talk and find it hard to listen.
___ ___ I am a “people pleaser” no matter what the cost, money,
time, or energy, I want to make people happy.
___ ___ I wish I had more time for myself.
Be brutally honest with yourself when answering these questions. If you answered yes to 5 or more questions you are running on adrenaline and a part of the majority.
This is a blog site developed by Becca Robinson, Master Certified Business Coach and Cherry Creek North resident for the stakeholders of Cherry Creek North. The goal for this blog is to create an on-line source of information and knowledge about our neighborhood businesses. Together we can educate others as to who we are, what we do, what we like and what needs to be better. We can praise, laugh and sometimes complain about our business experience. At the same time, we will always be striving to make our neighborhood the best that it can be …Welcome to CCNB and CCC.
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