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

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Published on April 13, 2017 00:10

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.

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Brian.

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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.

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Published on April 09, 2017 01:52

Why start today instead of tomorrow: three reasons

The question “Why start today instead of tomorrow?” cropped up recently in a discussion with a group of participants in a workshop focused on, yes, time management.

The three reasons which resonated with the people in the room with regard to ‘why start today instead of tomorrow?‘, were as follows:

Reason 1.

Enthusiasm, energy and time available today may not be there for us tomorrow. They are items which cannot be ‘stored up’ for another moment. We either make use of them now or lose them forever relative to their coming together in the exact same combination linked to circumstances, events, and the like.

Reason 2.

Most projects, interactions, or even single actions, benefit from getting started as soon as possible. Once the initial input is undertaken, we give ourselves the chance to amend our efforts in light of how the task develops. If necessary, we are able to use our first effort as a base for subsequent endeavours.

Reason 3.

The impact we create by ‘getting going today’ could be crucial to our success tomorrow. In many instances, momentum will be the deciding factor between ‘reaching the finishing line successfully’ and ‘getting lost along the wayside’. This alone is perhaps enough to spur us into action immediately.

So, three reasons in answer to the “Why start today instead of tomorrow?” question. Naturally, there are probably many more reasons.

To share your thoughts on this ‘Why start today instead of tomorrow?‘ issue, please leave a comment below.

Brian.

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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.

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Published on April 06, 2017 05:23

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.

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Brian.

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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.

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Published on April 02, 2017 01:56

STANDING ON THE EDGE from Heart Poems Captured From Dreams

STANDING ON THE EDGE

from Heart Poems Captured From Dreams

We don’t know tomorrow.

They say they do, but is that so?

Standing on the edge hope drops away.

Are we bold? Are we reckless?

Clouds block the future, fears crowd the present.

Standing on the edge yesterday is gone for good.

First foot forward, second foot to follow.

Are we flying? Are we falling?

No, we are still standing on the edge.

Brian.

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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.

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Published on April 01, 2017 07:51

What would you really like to be asked?

One of the most powerful coaching questions I have used over the years is “What would you really like to be asked?”

Clients know what is at the core of their thinking at any moment and this question goes directly to this. In many areas of our existence, we manage closely how we appear to those around us and what we want to be made known to them.

This ‘putting up a facade’ expedites many interactions and keeps the days flowing without too much upset for all concerned. However, at least within the setting of the coaching conversation, the pretence has no value to the client. Being truly heard, also in the pauses, on the contrary, can add to the client’s reflection.

Getting to the heart of an issue by asking “What would you really like to be asked?” – especially if the client is denying to himself or herself the existence of doubts or shying away from confronting them if appropriate to the session – opens up the conversation to ideally produce learning for the client.

Of course, it is not necessary to have the coach in the same room to experience the benefit of this enquiry. Right now, “What would you really like to be asked?” Your answer could, however, be the starting point of a complimentary coaching session, via either Skype or Google+ hangout, if you’d like to get in contact.

Kindest regards and thanks for reading this What would you really like to be asked? post today.

Brian.

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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.

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Published on March 30, 2017 00:54

Why hope seems to reside in tomorrow

As we go about dealing with our scheduled – and unscheduled – tasks making up this moment in time, we might wish to briefly spare a thought as to why hope seems to reside in tomorrow rather than in today.

Possibly a general lack of satisfaction many people derive from their occupation or lifestyle leads to such thinking about what they would like to find around the corner.

On a more positive note, it may refer to a form of delayed gratification, an appreciation we can say of the value to be found in waiting for tomorrow today.

Why hope seems to reside in tomorrow could also be related to the general development of life. Experience suggests we evolve, crops grow and investments may provide a good return over time.

Without wishing to bring a negative tone to this post, it would be remiss of me to not state the usual disclaimer: “Past performance does not guarantee future results.”

Maximizing efforts today likewise does not ensure a better tomorrow. Even so, operating fully without worrying excessively about the rewards our efforts will, or will not, bring is a way of living in the present, whilst not distracting ourselves too much as to why hope seems to reside in tomorrow.

Regardless of the perspective we give to the issue, let me just thank you for connecting here today and reading this Why hope seems to reside in tomorrow post.

Brian.

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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.

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Published on March 26, 2017 02:41

Benefits of being our best

Though there are surely many benefits of being our best, having an iconic building built in our honour is not perhaps going to happen for all of us.

Putting that aside, we can look at some of the more immediate benefits of being our best.

1) Our impact represents our true abilities. Doubts about whether we could have given or done more following our interaction are kept away from our mind.

2) Our potential is displayed on the stage of life or work. We create a clear interpretation of our abilities from which we are able to either consolidate success or work on any weaknesses in our performance.

3) Provided we are constant in our efforts, one of the benefits of being our best is that stakeholders are able to rely on us to embrace fully any undertaking we are involved in.

More benefits of being our best may be connected with specific fields of activities and the like.

To share your input on the issues raised here regarding the benefits of being our best, please feel free to leave a comment below.

Brian.

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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.

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Published on March 22, 2017 22:36

Which three objects or ideas define you?

In all probability we have many influences and points of reference adding something to our life, yet which three objects or ideas define you?

To answer this question a lifetime of reflection might not be enough. However, taking stock of where we are, what we are wearing, hoping to accomplish and so forth, all provide input for the eventual response we could offer to the question ‘Which three objects or ideas define you?‘

Whether done in a systematic manner or undertaken on a basis beyond conscious thought, bringing to light which three objects or ideas define you is a way of evaluating one’s current position along the path of life.

Of course, from where we are now we get to choose the direction we wish to move in. And intentions related to personal values and associated efforts will propel us towards the desired destination.

So, to close, let me repeat: “Which three objects or ideas define you?”

Kindest regards.

Brian.

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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.

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Published on March 18, 2017 23:40

More Heart Poems Captured From Dreams

Following the publication of Heart Dreams Captured From Dreams, it felt right to continue along the poetry path. As an expression of ideas, reflections and general musings, More Heart Poems Captured From Dreams indeed brings more ‘heart poems captured from dreams’ into being.

Captured by a dream we might find sleep difficult. Captured by a dream the day could offer us too few hours to achieve all we want for the sake of reaching our objective.

To borrow some lines from Heart Dreams Captured From Dreams: “The words set out here were captured from dreams. In certain instances, the lines arrived complete. On other occasions, nagging fragments forced me to sit and finish the thought.”

Rather than producing a traditional self-help book along the lines of How to deliver your potential successfully on the stage of work, the format used in More Heart Poems Captured From Dreams, as in Heart Poems Captured From Dreams, lends itself to a more open and abstract creation. Nevertheless, as a support throughout the challenges and opportunities life presents, poems are valid.

Whether read from start to finish or dipped into every now and then, it is hoped More Heart Poems Captured From Dreams provides some nourishment for the mind and food for the heart. With this book, you will get the opportunity to:

a) Explore a random set of words and ideas;

b) Ponder your reaction to the poems;

c) Apply any new thinking in your life.

I hope More Heart Poems Captured From Dreams becomes a catalyst for further reflection and renewed enthusiasm. Though I am experienced in the field of professional and personal development, you are the expert on your life. Implementation of any new thinking will, of course, need to be undertaken by you, I cannot do it for you.

With the compendium of ideas arranged, the themes of development, potential and joy become clear. As you are here, let me thank you for your presence and wish you Happy Reading!

Brian.

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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.

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