0003 - Achievement and Self Image

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Hi there, this is Andrew Smith International Life Coach with a question for you: The question today is “Why is it that we haven’t achieved all we intended to achieve in our lives?”

Well, this is a good question isn’t it? Psychologists tell us that our self image has completely developed by the age of six!

So I ask you, “Would you let a six year old go and do your job each day?” What I mean is as far as confidence in yourself is concerned, unless you’ve worked on it since; your self confidence was installed according to the psychologists, by the age of six.

So, if you’ve had some unpleasant experiences as a small child; for example if your Dad told you not to play near the electricity supply, and said “Keep away! It’s very dangerous!” Then it’s possible that your lack of self-confidence, in your ability to recognize danger, could be traced back to then.

One of the things that Life Coaches do is to work with people on their lives and show them how to build up their confidence. One of the ways that we can help to build your self confidence is by helping you to face your fears and then little by little bit by bit proving to you that yes, you are as capable as everyone else!

By having a Life Coach along with you for the ride, someone who can discuss what has happened when things haven’t gone exactly to plan and at that time to be supportive; and then when things do go exactly to plan, to be there to celebrate with you, but either way a Life Coach can keep you on track by helping you to be neither over confidant or despairing.

When you feel like giving up, the Life Coach is there saying, “No, it’s not time to give up, it’s time to press on! It’s time to be challenged and to be inspired, and to feel yes, that’s really where I want to go!”

For almost four years now, I have coached people from all over the world, from many different walks of life and with well over a thousand hours of coaching completed, I am certain that I can be a catalyst for change in your life too! Having spent more than a thousand hours coaching people, I’d have to be a fool to be unable to understand the human condition by now. What’s more as you must realize, I am a human being myself!

You can actually become all that you want to be and Life Coaches are the people who are well equipped to help you to achieve your desires and there is no reason at all other than the reasons that you give yourself, why you unable to progress further in your life. When I say that, I mean further in the direction that you intend to go.

So, the first Life Coaching session that I would like to take you through, without any financial cost to you, is a goal setting session and in that session we discover together what it is that you really want to do and then we start working on getting you from where you are to where you want to be.

Don’t let the lack of self-confidence of the six year old inside you, rule your life anymore. Let the six year old grow up and let the six year old become a seven and an eight and a nine and a ten and an adult person that realises day by day that you are capable of all that you dream of doing in your life.

You don’t have to cow tow to everyone around you and fit in. You can do what you want to do as long as you don’t hurt anyone in the process. Some people don’t mind hurting others, but that isn’t something I would coach you to do. But yes, you can grow in wisdom, you can grow in tenacity and determination, you can achieve and you can be inspired.

I’ve been described by some of my clients as an inspirational coach and I know I can inspire you to move on in your life to be all that you want 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.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!