*this a guest post by Erich Jordan on integrating focus and balance. Focus means to deliberately concentrate on something that you want to achieve. Successful people have a strong ability to dedicate to something they are passionate about. But as we grow older, it’s a balanced life that we are looking for, being able to juggle with career, family and health, more than getting caught up in that one thing we want to do. But how?
10 years ago, Erich went from being a Christian minister to becoming a life coach. He’s now a happy successful man, doing what he loves most, owning his own business and attracting clients. He’s passionate about helping people to reach an abundant, meaningful and productive life.
Erich is also a faraway friend living on the eastern coast of South Africa and an ex-student of mine at International Coach Academy (ICA) in 2012, writing with a strong voice on TheCoachman.co.za.
On a number of occasions over the course of our lives together my wife has very kindly created opportunities for me to spend time alone with my kids. She recently felt the need once again to do so and booked a ticket together with her mother to Abu Dhabi in the UAE. Thrilled as I was at the prospect of having my daughter to myself for two weeks, I was also concerned that with my busy coaching schedule I may not be able to give her the attention she required. The thing is, my little girl has recently grown up and decided she is no longer satisfied with being average. She wants to excel as an athlete and has begun to seriously eat, dream, and live for swimming. I’ve been quite amazed, to say the least at the focus she’s brought to her chosen discipline, how diligently she follows her scientifically formulated eating plan, personally preparing each day’s shakes and recovery drinks the night before. She orders her social and academic life to allow her to train for two and half hours, seven times a week. Such is the dedication, focus and attention of champions in all arenas of life.
My son is equally focused, not as an athlete, but as a scholar and we’ve often spoken of the importance of keeping his purpose for being at university in mind. It’s so easy to become distracted, to pay attention to seemingly valid yet unrelated topics and so to lose sight of his purpose of earning an engineering degree. Mastering a range of drinking games, pursuing a romantic partner or forming lifelong friendships, may well be part of the process, but don’t in any way form part of the purpose. To secure success, not only does he, like my daughter need to give himself completely to his chosen discipline, but more importantly he cannot allow himself to become distracted by, committed to or engaged in anything that shifts his focus from the task at hand. Such focus required of successful people, the world over is that they concentrate the floodlight of their energy into a single, powerful beam of light and attend only to what it illuminates. » Read more..
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During the late nineties and the early years of the new millennium, my family and I spend many winter holidays in the land of my ancestors. I was fascinated by the connection I felt with my European family and was enjoying discovering more about where I’d come from. With the political and economic winds of change blowing through South Africa at the time, on more than one occasion my wife and I had spoken of possibly relocating to Austria. Given the age of our children they would quite easily have learnt German and been assimilated into the culture. We quickly discovered however that visiting a foreign country is quite different to making it your home.
Those things that make us DIFFERENT also help us to become SUCCESSFUL. In a team, the more different the people are the better. There is yet one condition for turning these differences into pure success – a manager who knows how to leverage them.
From time to time, journalists turn their heads towards coaching and decide to write about what’s going in with this market. It’s just that most of the time, they miss the point. And I get annoyed.
What do you do when nobody seems to be LISTENING to you? And what if YOUR WAY doesn’t match mine?
This is a great guest post by Erich Jordan, about how to embrace change in your life when you’re hit by the urging need to shift your career.
După ani de zile în care am lucrat în vânzari și ulterior în consultanță și training eram obișnuit cu acțiunea și convins că prin forță și convingere lucrurile pot fi schimbate.