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Hi there, this is Andrew Smith International Life Coach with a question for you: The question today is “Do you know what you want out of your life?”
If you know what you want, then a Life Coach can help you to get it! If you’re not sure what it is that you want; then a Life Coach can help you discover what it is that will make you feel fulfilled!
We all have desires; but how can we stop procrastinating and get the determination, confidence and tenacity to achieve all our desires? The process is made so much easier when you have someone alongside you to confidentially and without the fear of being ridiculed, to bounce your ideas off and for them to sometimes suggest new ideas into the mix, because it might give you the clarity that you need to have on the way to getting your goals. That’s what a Life Coach does!
Of course a Life Coach has many tools that they can use to help you to discover how to live the life of your dreams; but it is really in the ongoing interaction and rapport of your conversations with the coach, where I believe the coach can prove their lasting benefit to your life.
I initially coached people with many different goals in mind and then I worked as a Master Coach alongside New Insights as a mentor of trainee Life Coaches. I have, more recently switched the focus of my work to be with musicians, especially singer songwriters which is now my main niche market alongside working with members of the general public.
Now it’s your turn to decide whether Life Coaching is for you, why not contact me today? You’ve got nothing to lose and clarity, direction and purpose for your life to gain!
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 got off the mark yet, on the way to your goals?”
To get where you want to go in your life you must take action! As we’ve heard many times before “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step!” Maybe today is the day for you to take that very first step in moving towards your long held ambition and goal?
That single step it’s all you need! It’s what’s known as “inertia,” now you are moving and if you take a second step, even if it’s only a small one you will have something more than inertia, you’ll have momentum! All that’s necessary then is to keep the momentum going by committing yourself to moving towards your desired destination every day, until you arrive!
The steps we take sometimes have the opposite effect of that which we intended them to have, but that isn’t a time to be discouraged. Why do I say that? Well, when a plane takes off its crew and passengers have a certain destination in mind. Yet any pilot will tell you, there are many course corrections to be made along the way; because of the other flights in the air at the same time, the direction of the wind and the present weather conditions.
It’s the same with our lives and our goals; we know where we want to go, but if something we do has had a negative result, all we need to do is make a course correction and we will be back on tract to our goals, to our destination.
I challenge you to take a single step in the direction of your dreams today and remember that the help of a coach is only a phone call or an e-mail away. 
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 “Is your sense of reality, both accurate and intelligent?” Most people who say “Be realistic!” maybe don’t realize it or wouldn’t admit it, but nevertheless they are living in fear.
Often because of past disappointments and their own perceived failures these people have become afraid of letting themselves down again. They have developed their limiting beliefs to protect themselves, but it is these same beliefs that cause them to hesitate and shy away from the risks they think exist and as a result prevent them from giving their all; consequently they get limiting and limited results. Their limiting beliefs become part of a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Great leaders are rarely “realistic” by other people’s standards. They are, however, accurate and intelligent. Mahatma Gandhi believed he could gain autonomy for India by peacefully and non-violently opposing Great Britain, something that had never been done before. He wasn’t being realistic, but he has certainly been proved to be accurate.
Everyone told Roger Bannister to be realistic, that no-one had ever run a mile in under four minutes and that no-one ever would! Yet they were proved by Roger to be unrealistic themselves on 6 May 1954 at Oxford when he completed the first sub four-minute mile, in three minutes fifty nine point four seconds on the University’s Iffley Road Track.
It’s interesting to note that within three months of Bannister proving that a man could run a mile in less than four minutes; almost 20 other athletes had literally followed in his foot steps. Since that time many others have not only completed the mile in less than four minutes, but the record is now held by the Moroccan, Hitcham Guerrouj who ran the mile in 3 minutes 43.13 seconds in Rome in 1999.
Which of your so-called realistic beliefs should you shun? What exciting, new, unrealistic but entirely possible expectations are there, that you should embrace? Please let me know if you’d like to explore the possibilities that your life has yet to embrace!
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 “When are you too old to succeed in your dream career?
How old is too old, to become successful within the career path of your choice? I personally don’t believe there are any age limits, to most careers that people consider themselves “too old” for.
I have a slight suspicion that these same people used to think of themselves in terms of being “too young,” to do other things at an earlier point in their lives. I think the reason why so few older people “make the grade” is because they’ve given up on the idea of being able to make a living in the way that they’ve always wanted to!
In every biography or auto-biography I’ve read over the years and they are a particular passion of mine. The people whose stories I’ve read, have one thing in common - they never, ever, EVER give up on their dreams, until their dreams become their reality!
I think of Colonel Sanders, whose KFC business was started by him after he retired. I think of Abraham Lincoln who had tried many times over thirty years and failed to be elected to public office, before finally being elected President of the United States at the age of 60! I think of Winston Churchill who had many failures in his army and political life, before he had his “finest hour” in his 70’s!
In music, Tina Turner was 45 before she became a massive star, although she did have a couple of earlier hits “River Deep Mountain High” in the 60’s and “Nutbush City Limits” in the 70’s; it wasn’t until she believed in herself, as being a great entertainer that she became the one who “strutted her stuff” to world acclaim. Gordon Haskell had always been involved in music but it wasn’t until at age 55 that he had a massive hit with “How Wonderful You Are” at Christmas 2001 in the UK selling 400,000 copies and becoming the most requested song on UK radio ever! His album “Harry’s Bar” also sold in large quantities too here in the UK, in early 2002.
Are you still unconvinced that it is worthwhile to take the plunge and make your passion your income? All I’d say to you is that’s exactly what I did at the beginning of 2006 and I must say I often wonder what it could have been like had I made that decision much earlier. I’m living my dream and I can thoroughly recommend doing that to anyone!
The course I went through myself with my life coach Sharon, at the beginning of my Life Coach training is the one I now present to others, mainly by telephone or on Skype over the internet, which gives my clients the tools to help them to achieve their dreams.
Too old? Only if you think you are!
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 “How do you see the world?”
Maybe you wonder what I listen to and read to keep me in a world view that can help people all the time? Well recently I was listening to Tony Robbins interviewing Deepak Chopra on one of Tony’s “Power Talk” CD’s.
I’ll warn you this is a bit deep; but Deepak made this statement which I was so amazed by, I just had to write it down. It’s an answer he gave to one of Tony’s questions; it’s not part of a speech, so see what you make of it:
“We are thoughts that have learned to create the physical machine. We are impulses of intelligence in a larger void of intelligence. We have learned how to create physical matter, by that I mean our minds and our bodies.
The world is a quantum soup, radically ambiguous, a ceaselessly flowing field of all possibilities of infinite choice. We are like King Midas - but where as he could only turn things to gold, we can turn things into anything we like.” Have I got you thinking?
The way I understand what Deepak Chopra is saying is as follows:
That the essence of our existence is not one of the physical form or something that can be measured in terms of three dimensions; but instead that our life is constituted with our thoughts, our intelligence, our spirit and our personality.
And that the real you and the real me can like King Midas of old, change things that are, into the things that we want them to become.
We can manipulate not only our own physical form by our thoughts, but also the way our world looks. This is the kind of work I help my clients with each day.
If that appeals to you, to know how to use your thought power, which maybe is lying dormant right now, to enable you to change things around you in your life? Why not accept the offer of a complimentary life coaching session? Do it now! Take action, those who do, are those who control their own lives!
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 “Have you decided what the agenda for your life is?”
Maybe I’m going to sound a bit sure of myself here, but I know you need a Life Coach! How am I so sure? Well, that’s because I believe that everyone including me needs a Life Coach! Every one of us needs someone to be on our side, totally supportive and desirous for us to get what we want out of our lives.
Best friends can fulfill such a role, but often they often don’t have the knowledge of how to help and they’re too bothered with getting their own stuff sorted out, to be of any real help.
Those old chestnut questions of who’s right, who’s wrong, the gray areas are all conjecture and irrelevant! By focusing your attention on you, what it is that you want out of your life; what you want to achieve, and what you want to be remembered for and your purpose in being here. You can then start to take control and work towards your own goals instead of working for someone else’s; which you most surely are doing, if you don’t have your own agenda for your life!
Like everybody else I get paid for the work that I do and although we all like to think we make some kind of a contribution to society; by helping people to self actualize and to bring out their talents, I believe that the Life Coach earns every penny he or she gets!
For example did you know that Adolf Hitler wanted to be an artist? If only his tutor had encouraged him to paint, told him he was good at it instead of telling him he was hopeless at portraits or landscapes; we may be admiring today the great contribution Hitler made to the world of art, rather than having to remember the tragedy that was the Third Reich?
You might say that you’re beyond help; some people tell me that they are! I don’t believe them, but if you believe you are beyond help, then I realize that for you it’s true! I also went through a very negative phase in my life. when I look back it I see it was because I lacked both variety and certainty in my life, didn’t feel significant or loved, and I felt that I wasn’t growing or making a contribution.
When you know what the agenda for your life is you can start taking steps, however small to getting your needs fulfilled and leaving the sadness behind.
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 “Is your life the way you’d like it to be?”
Are you living every moment of every day with passion, determination and drive? Are you sure that you’re on the right track to become the person you’ve always wanted to be?
My guess is that even if we feel that way most of the time, or even some of the time, we don’t stay focused enough to remain “in the moment” with those thoughts. So here are a few suggestions that might help you to stay on course.
Most of our problem in not being on top of things each day is down to us having unconscious negative beliefs about our capability of living life to the maximum. So how do we change this? We do it by managing our state of mind! We can manage our state of mind by three easy to remember ways. By controlling our physiology, our language and our focus, let me explain:
1). Firstly, we can achieve this state of mind by changing our physiology! After all, part of being human is to have fears and by changing the posture of our bodies we can change the way we feel. Stand the way you would stand if you were totally certain of your outcome. The way that you would stand if you were going to get all the things you want or would like. First I guess you’d be smiling, chin up, straight back and a twinkle in your eye. Am I right?
2). Secondly, we can also achieve that great state of mind by the language we use when we are talking to ourselves, or when we are thinking. What kind of words do you say to yourself? Do you turn yourself from a metaphoric prince into a frog? We should use incantations to change our state, not only saying the stuff we want to happen in our lives, that will change things for the better, but also to speak to ourselves in the certainty of knowing and feeling that this frog is turning into a prince!
3). Thirdly and finally, you can achieve the state of mind that will take you where you want to go by keeping track of your focus and your beliefs about yourself. “Think highly of yourself because the world takes you at your own estimate!” So by using your physiology, your language or self talk and by choosing to focus on what’s good in your life and having positive personal beliefs then you can become the passionate, determined and personally driven individual that you know you should be.
A Life Coach can help you achieve this kind of personality shift, and to possess that life that you’ve always wanted to have. Some say “A person is judged by the company they keep.” Maybe with all the good will in the world and all the kind thoughts that are focussed on you, some of your friends could be dragging you down? It’s time to raise your standards, but don’t forget to continue to love your friends and your family, wherever they may be within their own life’s path.
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 “Who is in awe of you?”
In conversation with one of my clients, I was told about one of his business acquaintances that he said he was “in awe of,” someone who my client had a very high opinion of; so I asked the client “Who is in awe of you?”
Often we see others as somehow further down the path than we are ourselves, they’ve got better knowledge, better connections, better abilities and they appear in comparison to us as super-human. We aspire to be like them.
The reason for this conclusion is because of our own perception not only of the world, but also of our own place within it. We think we know all there is to know about ourselves and we’re just ordinary, the skills we have are common place.
My client is a very successful small business owner, who built up his business from scratch, having to learn the tools of his trade as his business developed over the years. I’m sure that many of his clients see him as an expert in his area. There is another question that I asked my client the next time I spoke to him; it’s a question I’d like to ask to you too, “Are you in awe of yourself?”
It’s time to realize that you aren’t insignificant; that you too have knowledge, connections, talents and abilities! It’s my belief we have all been sent into this life with a grand purpose, but sadly many people die with this potential unfulfilled. If you’re not sure, I’d love to help you to discover what your purpose is; or maybe just how to get back on track, to the place where you know deep down inside you’re supposed to be 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.
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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 one thing that will make sure you’ll stay the course and get to your goal, whatever your goal might be?”
I wonder if you ever think to yourself that the big goals that you have, even though you are taking small steps to get to them each day, seem to be too far away. Although you are enjoying the journey, there are times when you lose the excitement that you first felt when you committed yourself to having that big goal.
You’ll be glad to hear, I’ve got a solution for you! I think you need to adopt some short-term fun goals as well as the big goal! Then on the days that the road to your big goal has frustrated you, you can switch gear, get some excitement into your life and go after your short term goal.
In effect what I am suggesting is that you have two lists of goals. On the first list you would put career goals, family goals, money goals and the like and then on the second list, write down lots of fun things that with your commitment to them would be relatively easy to have or to experience, in next to no time at all.
Whenever we are decisive and determined enough, we can achieve and be whatever we want to be. So keep going for your big goals, take actions everyday that will get you closer to them; but don’t forget to also have shorter term, fun goals which will add excitement to your life, when the journey to the big goals appears to be taking too long!
I sincerely believe that when we experience daily excitement on the way to our longer term goals, we will find the passion that we need to take us all the way and keep us on track to our life time goals and purpose.
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 “Do you believe your dreams are achievable?”
I recently came across a quotation from the film maker Steven Spielberg and I immediately identified with it. He said “I don’t dream at night, I dream all day. I dream for a living!” As a Life Coach (not a movie maker) my business is to take my clients dreams and help them to believe that they can; not only have those dreams but that they can also have them within a reasonable amount of time.
I often need to become the one with the certainty my clients lack, that what they are aiming for is neither silly nor selfish, but both realistic and achievable! When they display a lack of determination or tenacity to follow through; my work with them must include a passionate reminder to them of their dreams and all the reasons that I can muster, to convince them again that their dream worth eagerly pursuing and if needs be, fighting for.
I know people can achieve their goals, not only because I’ve personally achieved goals myself, but also because I have a growing number of past clients who have as a result of a period of Life Coaching also achieved the goals that they set for themselves.
I often quote the line from “Fawlty Towers” the comedy programme, if I digress from my initial subject matter within my coaching sessions. It’s the line where Basil says in the “Communication Problems” episode: “Back to the world of dreams!” I then go on to remind my clients that Life Coaching is indeed “the world of dreams!” Do you want to be a dreamer, whose dreams come true? I believe you can 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!
