Knowing Your Purpose Has Its Advantages

2023-04-28 ~ adminlife

Is it getting to be more of a struggle to get on with your day? Do you hit the snooze alarm a lot more while lying in bed in the morning? Are you less eager to start your day? You could be doing this and feeling this way because you lack purpose in your day. You won’t feel any enthusiasm if every day feels like it is just a series of things that you have to get through.

I have put together some books that talk about many areas of making your life more successful.

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Check them out, you may find the key to improving your life.

It isn’t complicated to find a solution to the daily blues. Start by finding your purpose.

If you not sure that small changes can have a big impact on your day, consider some of the advantages that having a purpose can have on your life.

Your passions are linked to your purpose. The things that really matter to you are linked with your purpose. Just think about what you love doing more than anything else and making that activity a part of your daily life. A big part of having a purpose is exploring what excites you.

Goals are created through having a purpose. Many people live an aimless life, just focusing on getting through the day. If you want to go after a worthwhile goal and have direction in your life, having a purpose will give you a place to start and sharpen your focus.

You live your truth when you have passion. You have values that you believe in. You take daily steps that are in alignment with your values when you live your life with purpose. You do this because it is unhealthy when you compromise your values by living according to someone else’s purpose.

Your passion gives your life impact. When you work according to your purpose, what you do daily matters. When you have a purpose, you are more thoughtful in the choices you make on how you will spend your time and use your resources. When you consider your actions, you will know that what you are accomplishing is worthwhile.

Productivity increases with purpose. You lose a lot of time when you don’t know what needs to be done or even where to begin. When you are overwhelmed and lack direction, procrastination enters your life. You have a clear idea of where you are going and what you need to do next when you have a purpose. When you start to work, you are more productive.

Your day is more interesting when you have purpose. You will find yourself smiling and feeling more relaxed when you have and act according to your purpose. Working towards what matters to you gives you great satisfaction. When you know how everything contributes to the whole plan, even small, simple tasks can seem to be more fun.

When you find your purpose and include it in your planning, life can be a lot smoother, productive and rewarding.

To work together to help you get moving in the right direction in your life, click on the blue button below to book a 45-minute, no obligation “Get to know you” call.

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To your success

Michael

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Mistakes That Limit Your Success

2023-04-28 ~ adminlife

Is success really worth the stress, struggle and disappointment you need to go through? While it isn’t necessarily easy, success can be simple. The first step toward being successful is to recognize and avoid the mistakes that can limit success

Take control of your success

There are many things in your life that can hold you back from being successful.

Some are external and there isn’t much you can do about those. But the ones that do the most damage are the internal ones.

Your self-talk and limiting beliefs are the two main things that can hold you back.

You can try to fix these by yourself or you can work with a Life Coach.

This short video talks to these points and offers you a solution.

https://vimeo.com/800646997

You can contact me to book the call mentioned in the video at

https://calendly.com/michael-coach/strategy-session

If you want to find out more about the Self-talk Program, and register before talking to me, you can do so at the website Self-talk Program

Having non-effective habits. There are habits that can help you to achieve success no matter what your definition of success is. Other habits can create barriers to success. What are you doing every day that brings you closer to success? What are the habits that you need to do each day to guarantee success?

Little things that are done over a long period of time make a difference. Success takes time to be achieved.

Goals that are not clear and concise. How will you know if you are successful if you don’t have a goal to aim for? Successful people have and review their goals regularly. You will be unsuccessful if you don’t know what you want.

Not having a plan. You will struggle if you live by default and have no plan or direction. You live a reactive life. You are either very passive or you are firefighting. You need to have a plan that moves your life in a positive direction.

Being busy is not the same as being productive. Your thinking is flawed if you mistake 8 hours of activity as being 8 hours of productivity. The Pareto Principle says that you will get 80% of your success from only 20% of your possible options. Many people will move toward the easier and more comfortable activities that are only going to provide a limited return on the time invested.

Choose those activities that will provide the greatest return. Busyness is not productivity.

Not being consistent. Being extremely consistent is the mark of a champion. You may not want to make a minute-by-minute plan for your day and live the same day over and over again, but you do need to be a lot more consistent than the average person if you want to be successful. Work on reaching your goals each day.

Dealing with discomfort ineffectively. To make progress you need to have new behaviors. At some level, new behaviors are uncomfortable. You find comfort in repetition, but repeating past behaviors keeps your life at a standstill. If you want to be successful, you deal with the discomfort and move forward.

A few tools that you can use to help move you past discomfort are breathing exercises, prayer or meditation and yoga. Just because you are uncomfortable doesn’t mean that you can’t do something.

Mistakes and failures are not used as learning tools. People that fail the most are usually the most successful. It is a mistake to avoid failure. Failure isn’t the objective but it is part of achieving success. Your starting point is only your first attempt at something. Making improvements uses failure as a tool.

Failure, while an undesired result, allows you to make a much better attempt the next time. Success comes from constant improvement.

Worrying about things that cannot be changed. Many things in life cannot be changed. This is true of the past. You need to be able to let go and focus on those things that you can change.

Avoiding the most common mistakes makes finding success much easier. A pivotal part of being successful is avoiding mistakes. Create the goals you want then create the habits that will support those goals. Success can be simple when you can deal with discomfort and learn from your mistakes.

To work together to help you get moving in the right direction in your life, click on the blue button below to book a 45-minute, no obligation “Get to know you” call.

Going alone on creating a better life is difficult. Find out how working with a Life Coach can make the journey to success and a better life easier.

Book the call now.

To your success

Michael

P.S You can subscribe to my new biweekly newsletter: “Helping You to Live a Better Life” by visiting and registering at Newsletter.

P.P.S To enable me to provide the level of guidance that will ensure that you are reaching the desired level of success in the Self-talk Program. I am limiting the number of people who can register to 8 per month. The information and registration page is at Self-talk Program

P.P.P.S. you know that living a life that is in balance is important. When you can balance your work, family, health, relationships, fitness and money, you feel better and can achieve your goals. You have the support of your family and friends which makes life worth living.

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Self-discipline mastery

2023-04-21 ~ adminlife

A powerful, but challenging to obtain attribute is self-discipline.

What is self-discipline? This is the ability to do what it takes to overcome any obstacles to reach your goals. You need to do this even when it is inconvenient or uncomfortable. You may have to say “no” to doing things you like, and saying “yes” to doing things that you hate. It becomes easier to stand up for yourself when you have self-discipline.

Many people want to be more self-disciplined but they won’t take the action needed to acquire it.

Take control of your success

There are many things in your life that can hold you back from being successful.

Some are external and there isn’t much you can do about those. But the ones that do the most damage are the internal ones.

Your self-talk and limiting beliefs are the two main things that can hold you back.

You can try to fix these by yourself or you can work with a Life Coach.

This short video talks to these points and offers you a solution.

https://vimeo.com/800646997

You can contact me to book the call mentioned in the video at

https://calendly.com/michael-coach/strategy-session

If you want to find out more about the Self-talk Program, and register before talking to me, you can do so at the website Self-talk Program

You start your day having good intentions but as challenges, stress and distractions arise you veer off course. You can put some strategies in-place that can help you to become a master of self-discipline to keep you on task.

Commit to the cause. You may be undisciplined but are you truly unhappy? Do you really want to improve this situation? People claim that they want to be more self-disciplined but truthfully, they really don’t mind being the way they are now.

You have to be honest with yourself. This may take a bit of time and effort to improve but it can be done if you definitely want it.
You succeed by staying committed to the cause

Write it all down. You clarify your thoughts when you write down your ideas and goals. Your mind can now come up with an action plan that you can stay with.

Look at all areas that you want to improve. This can be your finances, relationships, your carer or anything else in your life. Include the changes you want to make and what you believe is the best method to make those changes happen.

Get help from others. You have committed to make a change in your life, which is great, but don’t keep it a secret. Boost your self-discipline by telling other people about it.

In the beginning if you weren’t more self-disciplined, don’t be ashamed about it. You are taking positive action now, which is important. You will be supported and those you love will be there to celebrate your successes.
Getting back on track when you have a bad day will also be easier with your support group.

You have to believe in yourself. When you have faith in your ability to master self-discipline, you can do anything. You will have good and bad days, but you will be successful if you remain focused and committed to strengthening your own self-discipline.

Focus on the big picture and concentrate on, how when you stay committed, your body, mind and your energy will change for the better.

People who are self-disciplined are admired by many people. People that are self-disciplined can stay on schedule and never seem to lose their focus on the things that they want to accomplish. They make good, wise decisions and take the needed action to achieve their goals with ease.

When you do these actions daily, they become habits. If you want it, self-discipline can become your new way of life.

To work together to help you get moving in the right direction in your life, click on the blue button below to book a 45-minute, no obligation “Get to know you” call.

Going alone on creating a better life is difficult. Find out how working with a Life Coach can make the journey to success and a better life easier.

Book the call now.

To your success

Michael

P.S You can subscribe to my new biweekly newsletter: “Helping You to Live a Better Life” by visiting and registering at Newsletter.

Check out my programs at Confidence and Life Coaching by clicking on the logo below:

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Can You be Too Positive?

2023-04-07 ~ adminlife

One piece of advice that is given about the power of positive thinking is “Look on the bright side.” There is no denying that bad things will happen to you. Your life experiences are not always in your control.

What is under your control is your reaction to the situation or event. The simple five word saying above is telling you to choose positive thinking over becoming swamped in negative emotions when life doesn’t go your way.

That can be good advice but taken to an extreme, it can also be dangerous.

Your self-talk and limiting beliefs are the two main things that can hold you back.

You can try to fix these by yourself or you can work with a Life Coach.

This short video talks to these points and offers you a solution.

https://vimeo.com/800646997

You can contact me to book the call mentioned in the video at

https://calendly.com/michael-coach/strategy-session

If you want to find out more about the Self-talk Program, and register before talking to me, you can do so at the website Self-talk Program

Usually, positive thinking is a good thing. Successful people became successful and didn’t get to where they are now by thinking negative thoughts consistently. The danger from positive thinking comes when it becomes a zero-sum game.

When this happens, it is called toxic positivity. You don’t accept any painful or difficult experiences; you just think positive and keep going. You are told to keep a positive mindset no matter how tough the situation is that you are in. Following are some reasons why this toxic positivity, as opposed to empowering, rational, positive thinking can cause you to experience serious problems in your life.

You ignore reality when you have toxic positivity.

Imagine, somehow, you have fallen into a deep hole. It doesn’t matter how this happened, just that you are now in the bottom of a really deep hole.

You are in the middle of nowhere and your plan of experiencing Mother Nature has turned bad. No matter how hard and loud you scream, no one can hear you.

You sit and console yourself that you were on a nature trail when the ground gave out. Because of your toxic positivity, you believe that someone will be along soon to rescue you.

You know that there are wild animals in the area and that this is not a well-travelled trail. You chose it because of that fact. You wanted to spend some alone time in the wild. You also, unfortunately, didn’t bring any food, water or other equipment.

Despite all of this, you settle down comfortably and wait patiently for the rescue that will inevitably come for you.

In this situation, your ignorance of the dire circumstance you are in could lead to your demise. With toxic positivity, you will probably have a smile on your face as well.

Instead of toxic positivity, choose positive and realistic thinking.

If you are a positive thinker, you say that you can get out of the situation. You tell yourself that it may look difficult right now, but by using your head and keeping your wits about you, you will figure a way out.

The person with this way of thinking begins to dig, climb and do whatever he can to make the situation better. He thinks positively and realistically. He knows that he can’t just sit back and hope for the best but he has to attack the situation aggressively right away.

Embracing negative thinking is not what is being advocated. Negative thinking is a very quick path to living a life full of self-doubt, failure and resentment. This is just an alert to point out to you the dangers of toxic positivity. When negative events and emotions occur, you must embrace them, deal with them and then move on. You will not have the best outcome when you ignore reality or negative situations.

To work together to help you get moving in the right direction in your life, click on the blue button below to book a 45-minute, no obligation “Get to know you” call.Going alone on creating a better life is difficult. Find out how working with a Life Coach can make the journey to success and a better life easier.

Book the call now.

To your success

Michael

P.S You can subscribe to my new biweekly newsletter: “Helping You to Live a Better Life” by visiting and registering at Newsletter.

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The Reason Why You Fail

2023-03-31 ~ adminlife

You may shake your head and disagree but the reason is: you don’t want to succeed.

You are saying of course you want to succeed and I have lost my mind. It seems to be crazy to say that you fail to achieve something because you don’t want to succeed.

Your self-talk and limiting beliefs are the two main things that can hold you back.

You can try to fix these by yourself or you can work with a Life Coach.

This short video talks to these points and offers you a solution.

https://vimeo.com/800646997

You can contact me to book the call mentioned in the video at

https://calendly.com/michael-coach/strategy-session

If you want to find out more about the Self-talk Program, and register before talking tome, you can do so at the website Self-talk Program

It actually isn’t that crazy.

You are in the present moment, the here and now. When looked at objectively, your life is nothing more than a continuous series of present moments. You can’t change your past and you are preparing for the eventual reality you will create.

Right now, you are not concerned about what you want to achieve in the future. Your psyche understands that it can only impact the here and now.

Your psyche looks at what is going on now around you. It sees that you are breathing and existing so it is happy. Do you know what makes your psyche unhappy?

Trying to change what is happening now.

It knows that you are alive and well so why bother changing anything? This could make things bad for you. When you try to take actions that you are not used to doing, such as doing something to achieve a big goal, you get push-back from your subconscious.

Your survival instinct is stopping you from succeeding.

You can defeat this natural resistance to change.

You should be applauding yourself. Most people are happy to live their current lives. For them good enough is good enough, and they don’t want to even try to make their lives better.

You aren’t one of them. You want to kick failure out to the curb and achieve success.

You can do this because you can change your mindset through conscious self-talk.

Talk to your subconscious and tell yourself that the change you want to make is good. This trains your subconscious to lead itself to conscious actions for success.

In front of a mirror, tell yourself out loud what your big goal is. Talk about the new amazing reality. Tell it why you want to make this change. What will this positive result replace in your life?

Tell yourself all of these things in the morning and before you go to bed. Write them all down and read them over to yourself several times each day.

To beat your natural resistance to change, you need to give a detailed image to your subconscious on how these changes will improve your life.

Several times every day engage in this self-talk. You have to continuously convince your subconscious that you are making changes to create a new better life.

To work together to help you get moving in the right direction in your life, click on the blue button below to book a 45-minute, no obligation “Get to know you” call.

Going alone on creating a better life is difficult. Find out how working with a Life Coach can make the journey to success and a better life easier.

Book the call now.

To your success

Michael

P.S You can subscribe to my new biweekly newsletter: “Helping You to Live a Better Life” by visiting and registering at Newsletter.

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