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Hi there, this is Andrew Smith International Life Coach with a question for you: The question today is “How determined are you when it comes to getting your goals?”
“The starting point of all achievement is desire!” so says Napoleon Hill, author of the book “Think and Grow Rich.” With desire comes the excitement and the energy to bring about the successes that we seek. If we will become single minded, persistent and take on a positive mental attitude, our plans will NEVER be thwarted!
Desire itself helps us to form a clear picture in our minds eye of the outcome we want to have. We won’t become discouraged if we keep our focus on the wonderful feelings we expect to have when we get where we want to go.
If you can imagine yourself experiencing life at a particular level even if you haven’t lived life like that before, then I promise you that such a life is possible for you. The mere existence of desire in your heart and mind is the proof that you can be and do whatever your desire dictates!
So what is your deepest desire, what is it that you really want to do? What do you sometime get a healthy obsession about? I can tell you from my own experience that whilst desiring for over a decade to become a Life Coach, without taking any action to make it happen, I was frustrated and unhappy. But as soon as I took the decision to make the effort and to begin to move in the direction of my desire, excitement and joy took hold of me.
The road hasn’t always been easy, there are always going to be the bumps in the road along the way, but by following my desires I am becoming the person that I was always intended to be, and that can be your experience too. The best equipped person to help you to turn your desires into your reality is a Life Coach, and I am here and now offering you a free Life Coaching session.
I hope that I’ve given you food for thought and if you’d like to speak to me all you have to do is either email me at info@andrewsmithlifecoach.com or call me now on 0800 085 8056 that’s if you’re in the UK or Internationally on +44 114 251 4951 and we can arrange the best time and date for you to experience your own free Life Coaching session.
You’ll be interested to know that the Free Stuff page of my website www.andrewsmithlifecoach.com has this and other inspiring blogs available for you to download and don’t forget to claim the free report “The Four Keys to Your Personal Success.” It’s been great talking to you today. This is Andrew Smith signing off; I hope to be speaking to you again soon, bye for now!
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Hi there, this is Andrew Smith International Life Coach with a question for you: The question today is “Have you clearly defined you goals?”
Within the work I do, making sure that people have specific, measurable goals that they have committed to paper is in my opinion the starting point for my client’s journey. It is so commonplace in my thinking, that I believe everyone must know the importance of writing down their goals and dreams. Why? Because the very act of writing them down, makes them tangible and real!
This morning I received an email from a prospective client in reply to a challenge I made to them to “define your goals!” This person’s response was: “The biggest change I have made is to actually write down my goals in minute detail, even doing that is so focusing and empowering!”
I know from my own experience and from the experiences that my clients have shared with me; that speaking out what we would like to happen, is the beginning of the change that brings about our goals and desires! According to the bible that is exactly how God made everything, by simply speaking it into being: “And God said let there be light and there was light!”
If you write down your goal and then carry it with you and read it often; you will start to imagine your life as it will be when the goal is completed. When your intended outcome is constantly in your mind, it will keep you focussed and help you to believe that your dream will become your reality.
If you don’t know where you’re going, how will you know even if you get there that you’ve arrived?
Albert Einstein said: “Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand; whilst imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.” So we can see that imagination is the preview of life’s coming attractions. It therefore makes good sense to use our imaginations today to create the life we’ve always intended to have.
I hope that I’ve given you food for thought and if you’d like to speak to me all you have to do is either email me at info@andrewsmithlifecoach.com or call me now on 0800 085 8056 that’s if you’re in the UK or Internationally on +44 114 251 4951 and we can arrange the best time and date for you to experience your own free Life Coaching session.
You’ll be interested to know that the Free Stuff page of my website www.andrewsmithlifecoach.com has this and other inspiring blogs available for you to download and don’t forget to claim the free report “The Four Keys to Your Personal Success.” It’s been great talking to you today. This is Andrew Smith signing off; I hope to be speaking to you again soon, bye for now!
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Hi there, this is Andrew Smith International Life Coach with a question for you: The question today is “How important is it for you to have goals?”
I’ve heard people dismiss Self Development and Life Coaching with one statement, they say “I’m not goal orientated!” I always leave this kind of conversation with respect for the individual’s right to chose how to live their lives, but also sad.
You see, if you are someone without a goal, then in my book, you’re someone without a pre-determined destination! If you’re someone without direction for your life, my expectation is that you’re floating around and you’re going nowhere! It seems so apparent to me that the reason why so many people are depressed is because they lack both focus and direction.
I also meet people who initially seem to be on my wavelength, they talk about things that they want to accomplish in their lives and they seem to have so many goals. On the face of it, they appear to have direction, but I leave those conversations feeling sad as well.
You see, it’s impossible to go in lots of different directions at the same time, so these people end up going nowhere too! What I’m saying is that yes, we need direction for our lives, but maybe like an airplane we need to pick one airport at a time to fly to, or we’ll just be “up in the air” till we run out of fuel.
Personal Development and Life Coaching can offer people the tools that will aid them on their journey to become the people they want to be, living the lives they truly desire, once they have established where their destination should be.
As you must know by now, if you have been reading or listening to my blog. I am offering you the opportunity to have a without cost, coaching session of your own. I can’t type the email or pick up the phone and dial the number for you; these actions can only take place as a result of your decision and desire. When someone offers you a gift, it isn’t yours until you accept it. So now it’s up to you, I wonder what you will do with my offer?
I hope that I’ve given you food for thought and if you’d like to speak to me all you have to do is either email me at info@andrewsmithlifecoach.com or call me now on 0800 085 8056 that’s if you’re in the UK or Internationally on +44 114 251 4951 and we can arrange the best time and date for you to experience your own free Life Coaching session.
You’ll be interested to know that the Free Stuff page of my website www.andrewsmithlifecoach.com has this and other inspiring blogs available for you to download and don’t forget to claim the free report “The Four Keys to Your Personal Success.” It’s been great talking to you today. This is Andrew Smith signing off; I hope to be speaking to you again soon, bye for now!
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Hi there, this is Andrew Smith The Musicians Life Coach with a question for you: The question today is “Do you want to earn a living from your music?”
Following on from yesterday, I would like to speak again today especially to musicians and singer songwriters. However, I must tell you that some of the principles I am going to speak about can be applied to any one, who has a particular lifetime or career goal in mind. So if you can read between the lines, you may gain some new wisdom that will help you too.
So, following on from my initial question, “Do you want to earn a living from your music?” Have you taken your music to an audience or even on the road and done a tour? Are you looking for the breakthrough to the big time and yet it never comes? I believe that I can help you to get nearer to the place where you will realize your dreams!
For the past three years or so, I have been helping musicians, mainly singer/songwriters, to develop the kind of thinking, tenacity and determination, to never give up on achieving their goals and dreams. It is my experience and the experience of my clients, that by taking control of our thoughts, we become the masters of our own destiny.
I ask you to please take some time and read the testimonials of the artists I’ve been working with and go and listen to their music.
It is in my opinion, those who have found the keys to their own self-actualization, who have gained certainty and confidence within themselves, who are the ones who have made the grade and are the ones whose talents become known by the world!
I believe that anyone with the ability to sing and engage an audience can make a living, if not a fortune within the world of music, by doing something that brings them personal joy. If you can write songs, it is possible for you to become extremely wealthy, as well as being someone whose life is also personally fulfilled.
For me, life is about doing what each one of us feels passionate about. Without passion in our lives, we don’t live, we just exist. So, if you have a musical talent and want to develop the personal skills and mind set to take your talent and make your income from it please contact me, The Musicians Life Coach. 
I hope that I’ve given you food for thought and if you’d like to speak to me all you have to do is either email me at info@andrewsmithlifecoach.com or call me now on 0800 085 8056 that’s if you’re in the UK or Internationally on +44 114 251 4951 and we can arrange the best time and date for you to experience your own free Life Coaching session.
You’ll be interested to know that the Free Stuff page of my website www.themusicianslifecoach.com has this and other inspiring blogs available for you to download and don’t forget to claim the free report “The Four Keys to Your Personal Success.” It’s been great talking to you today. This is Andrew Smith signing off; I hope to be speaking to you again soon, bye for now!
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Hi there, this is Andrew Smith The Musicians Life Coach with a question for you: The question today is “Do you aid or hinder your own success?”
What I have to say today is particularly intended for musicians, especially singer songwriters; which is the niche market I have been working with, alongside coaching members of the general public, since late 2006. However, the principles can be applied to any one who has a particular lifetime or career goal in mind.
Sometimes all we need to do, to make our dreams come true, is to nail our colours to the mast! To take action born of a definite purpose and belief, that our dreams can become our reality! That’s why almost four years ago; after much thought, I finally took the decision to become a Life Coach and why I tell people today I’m “living the dream!”
Sadly, it’s easy to give up; but one observation I’ve made from reading many biographies of musicians and others, a particular passion of mine, is that those who have succeeded in life are those who have NEVER given up, even AFTER their dreams became their reality!
Whilst attending many music gigs over the years, I have seen the known, the yet to be known and the unknown entertain appreciative crowds of music lovers. I believe I have something to offer to the “yet to be known” musician if that’s you; maybe it’s the missing ingredient that will take you from where you are to where you want to be with your life and your music? That “something” is called Life Coaching!
The tools of Life Coaching will help you to understand how your mind works and how so much of the way you think and what you believe, has been absorbed by you subconsciously - that is, without your express permission! It’s a tragedy that we are sometimes our own worst enemies; in fact in the end analysis we are the only ones who can prevent our own life’s successes!
Our beliefs about the world around us, our value system and the rules we impose upon ourselves can have a positive or a negative effect on our intended life purpose without us even realising it! Many of these beliefs, values and rules, we have assented to in a passive way. Our passion, our certainty and especially our outcome are all defined within our own thinking. As your Life Coach, I can help you to understand what is holding you back from becoming the success that you have always intended to be.
I hope that I’ve given you food for thought and if you’d like to speak to me all you have to do is either email me at info@andrewsmithlifecoach.com or call me now on 0800 085 8056 that’s if you’re in the UK or Internationally on +44 114 251 4951 and we can arrange the best time and date for you to experience your own free Life Coaching session.
You’ll be interested to know that the Free Stuff page of my website www.themusicianslifecoach.com has this and other inspiring blogs available for you to download and don’t forget to claim the free report “The Four Keys to Your Personal Success.” It’s been great talking to you today. This is Andrew Smith signing off; I hope to be speaking to you again soon, bye for now!
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Hi there, this is Andrew Smith International Life Coach with a question for you: The question today is “What are the thoughts and concepts that you grow in your mind?”
Every thought we have is like a seed! It will if it’s nurtured grow into something very real! Half of the problems we have as human beings are down to the fact that we focus on the negative; and the other half is that we don’t follow through and take the actions that we know we should. But like day and night, up and down, inside and outside, summer and winter, in a dualistic universe there are two sides to everything!
If you are having a negative thought, it automatically follows that there must be a positive side to the way in which you are thinking. I’m not arguing that we should ignore the negatives that are around us. Sometimes our survival through to another day may well depend on our awareness of the negatives and our need to take immediate action, to avoid calamity. However, I would suggest that when we find ourselves struggling with negative thinking, we need to consider the other side of the coin and in doing so avoid fear based, long term negativity.
If we chose to focus on the positive and on improvement, and moving forward in our lives, always seeing where we are, right now, as the springboard to the next great triumph in our lives; then we will never be far off the right track! We need to be always focusing on the next step along the way. What is the next action we should take to make sure our dreams come true? How can we improve the outcome this time? What new inspiration have we found that we can make use of, since the last time we found ourselves in the situation that we now face? How can we make sure we stand out from the crowd, and achieve the things that others will look up to?
I know that Life Coaches have tools and strategies to share with you that can keep your life on the fast track to your ultimate success! The first life coaching session I share with people is offered on a complimentary basis, to allow prospective clients to decide if coaching is for them and to see if I am the right coach! I usually work over the telephone or Skype with my clients. So you have nothing to lose by taking me up on my offer of a free life coaching session. Having a Coach in my experience is life changing!
I hope that I’ve given you food for thought and if you’d like to speak to me all you have to do is either email me at info@andrewsmithlifecoach.com or call me now on 0800 085 8056 that’s if you’re in the UK or Internationally on +44 114 251 4951 and we can arrange the best time and date for you to experience your own free Life Coaching session.
You’ll be interested to know that the Free Stuff page of my website www.andrewsmithlifecoach.com has this and other inspiring blogs available for you to download and don’t forget to claim the free report “The Four Keys to Your Personal Success.” It’s been great talking to you today. This is Andrew Smith signing off; I hope to be speaking to you again soon, bye for now!
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Hi there, this is Andrew Smith International Life Coach with a question for you: The question today is “Do you want to stop procrastinating?”
I thought it would be a good thing to call time on mundanity, excuses, blaming others, justifying our actions or lack of them and finally to commit ourselves to achieving our dreams. So, I wrote an inspirational poem, called “Time,” I’d love to know what you think of it? (My contact details are at the foot of this blog.)
“Time” by Andrew Smith Life Coach
time to reach much deeper
than you’ve ever reached before
time to make the breakthrough
the wall is just a door
don’t think too much about them
the things that hold you back
overcome your fears, face the future
rejection’s a pat on the back
it’s only when our self belief
grows stronger by the day
that we no longer care for
the things that people say
you know it all makes sense
to give your all, your best
so why do you keep refusing
to face the final test
time to be willing and hopeful
for all you dream could be yours
the only way is upward
you are your worthy cause
Many of our problems lie in being unable or unwilling to see that we are doing some of the negative and dis-empowering things I spoke of, before I read my poem. We all create our own reality, so if you don’t like your world as it is, I know from personal experience, that having a life coach will help you to be able to “see the wood for the trees.” I believe that if I was your life coach that together we could create the reality that you have desired for so long!
Jesus said “All things are possible, for those who believe!”
I’m a believer! A believer that you can have just what you want in your life; so would you like to work with me? The first session is offered on a purely complimentary basis, so if you’re interested please contact me and we will talk about the possibilities that life coaching can open up for you.
I hope that I’ve given you food for thought and if you’d like to speak to me all you have to do is either email me at info@andrewsmithlifecoach.com or call me now on 0800 085 8056 that’s if you’re in the UK or Internationally on +44 114 251 4951 and we can arrange the best time and date for you to experience your own free Life Coaching session.
You’ll be interested to know that the Free Stuff page of my website www.andrewsmithlifecoach.com has this and other inspiring blogs available for you to download and don’t forget to claim the free report “The Four Keys To Your Personal Success.” It’s been great talking to you today. This is Andrew Smith signing off; I hope to be speaking to you again soon, bye for now!
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Hi there, this is Andrew Smith International Life Coach with a question for you: The question today is: “Do you keep doing the same things over and over again, and then expect different results?”
It took me less than two weeks to very enjoyably plough my way through the last of the seven Harry Potter books. Everyone kept asking me if I wanted to know what happened, or asked me if I thought Harry would die at the end?
JK Rowling is not only a wonderful story writer, but her life is also a wonderful story too! JK was a single Mum in Scotland when she began writing her Wizarding Tales. She originally used to sit in a local coffee bar, to write her Harry Potter stories, because she couldn’t afford the heating bill at home in the winter months!
There are many people who started with very little in life and have become wealthy like JK Rowling. I’m not just referring to wealth in monetary terms. I ask you to consider people who were born orphans, who grew up to have a great family life with their own partner and children; and people born slaves who became freemen.
Whatever you want in your life is worth working for and when things don’t go the way you want them to, you need to change your approach, till you get the outcome that you’re looking for. Doing the same things over and over and expecting different results is in my opinion a form of insanity. So mix it up, make your life interesting, but never take your eyes off your goals and they won’t escape you!
Einstein said, “Imagination is more important than knowledge, it’s the preview of life’s coming attractions!” In some ways that may seem to tell us the end of the story too soon, but the truth of the matter is, it’s the road and not the inn! The journey and not the arrival, which is what this life is all about! So decide where you want to go and have a ball, on the way to your goals.
Dr Richard Bandler who is the founder of the NLP movement says: “Failure isn’t possible unless you’re willing to put a date on it!”
I hope that I’ve given you food for thought and if you’d like to speak to me all you have to do is either email me at info@andrewsmithlifecoach.com or call me now on 0800 085 8056 that’s if you’re in the UK or Internationally on +44 114 251 4951 and we can arrange the best time and date for you to experience your own free Life Coaching session.
You’ll be interested to know that the Free Stuff page of my website www.andrewsmithlifecoach.com has this and other inspiring blogs available for you to download and don’t forget to claim the free report “The Four Keys To Your Personal Success.” It’s been great talking to you today. This is Andrew Smith signing off; I hope to be speaking to you again soon, bye for now!
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Hi there, this is Andrew Smith International Life Coach with a question for you: The question today is “When does life begin, for the sentient adult?”
In recent months I have been in conversation with people who have reached or are about to reach the ages of 40 or 50, here’s what I’ve been telling them of my own experience.
People used to say that “Life begins at 40!”, but due to how much longer people are living, I suggest that the saying should be “Life begins at 50!” From my own personal experience, I am able to wholeheartedly endorse this statement.
You see, although I really enjoyed my 40th birthday party, with my family and so many good friends who were there, technically I was only 39 on that Friday night.
It was on the Sunday of my birthday, after my parents had returned home on a bleak and foggy November day, I felt like my life was over; that I was only here to aid my children as they grew up. However when I got to 50, I felt more alive than I had ever felt before! Don’t despair, life is sweet at age 50 and beyond, I promise you!
What ever your age is today, you can decide to have a wonderful life from right now, this minute! You are the one that runs the thoughts in your head; you choose whether to feel happy or sad. You get to decide moment by moment just how to feel. Maybe we should change the statement from “Life begins at forty!” not to “Life begins at 50!” but to “Life on your terms begins, whenever you decide to focus on living it your way!”
So when does life begin for the sentient adult? I suggest it’s the day you decide to focus on living your life, your way. In conclusion Ralph Waldo Emerson said:” Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you, that you’re wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.”
I hope that I’ve given you food for thought and if you’d like to speak to me all you have to do is either email me at info@andrewsmithlifecoach.com or call me now on 0800 085 8056 that’s if you’re in the UK or Internationally on +44 114 251 4951 and we can arrange the best time and date for you to experience your own free Life Coaching session.
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Hi there, this is Andrew Smith International Life Coach with a question for you: The question today is “What is the meaning of your life?”
Many years ago when I first started my own study into Personal Development something I heard Tony Robbins say really challenged my preconceived ideas. He said “Life has no meaning, except for the meaning you give it!”
At first I thought that this statement was a very negative one. Of course life has a meaning I said, even though I knew not everyone knew what it was. I had been taught many Christian beliefs from an early age and these beliefs were the ones I thought everyone should adopt to give meaning and purpose to their lives.
But then I thought about the statement for a long time afterwards, it really troubled me; maybe Tony was right and my preconceived ideas were wrong? The more I puzzled the statement through, the more I realized that the belief system I had been taught was the meaning I had given to my life, which proved to me that both my own set of beliefs and what Tony said were correct at the same time.
As a Life Coach, I am aware that each person has their own unique belief system and it is not my intention to have them adopt mine. However, part of the journey of discovery that I engage in with my clients, is to find out if their belief system is helping them or hindering them from getting to where they want to be in their lives.
I really didn’t like the idea of having different beliefs to the ones I’d been taught and brought up with, beliefs that had worked for millions of others down the centuries. I didn’t want to give up the security and the continuity I felt with my parents and grandparents and yet I understood the principle that if these beliefs were holding me back in my life I needed to synthesize my old beliefs with some new ones that would help to propel me further than I’d been able to get before in my life.
Einstein said “We can’t solve our problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” Maybe a Life Coach is just what you need to help you find a new perspective in your thinking to help you to move on in your life?
I hope that I’ve given you food for thought and if you’d like to speak to me all you have to do is either email me at info@andrewsmithlifecoach.com or call me now on 0800 085 8056 that’s if you’re in the UK or Internationally on +44 114 251 4951 and we can arrange the best time and date for you to experience your own free Life Coaching session.
You’ll be interested to know that the Free Stuff page of my website www.andrewsmithlifecoach.com has this and other inspiring blogs available for you to download and don’t forget to claim the free report “The Four Keys To Your Personal Success.” It’s been great talking to you today. This is Andrew Smith signing off; I hope to be speaking to you again soon, bye for now!
