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Setting Goals that will Change Your Life (Part 4)

Post author By mgauthier
Post date November 27, 2014

A Snappy Goal Statement

Stay motivated and excited about your goal and write a goal statement that is short, snappy, positive and memorable using around seven words. Think of it as your personal bumper sticker or the slogan on a t-shirt.

Use a visual and / or emotional element in the goal statement. For example

My line of credit at zero
Hosting a mortgage burning party
To break ground
As much energy as I did in my ‘20’s
Fit into my favourite black dress.

Needs a Measure

Your goal needs a measure so you know when you have achieved it. The measure can be linked to dollars, time, a person or an object:

Generate $5,000 profit a month
Increase sales by 10% in the second quarter
Increase the number of clients by 5% in 2014
to fit in my ‘benchmark’ jeans
to be as fit as I was in ‘20’s

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Setting the right goal for you will change your life because it will change how you feel, think and act on a daily basis. Dream big and stretch yourself into a new life!

This article focused on setting the right goal statement for success. However every goal needs a strategy and a plan of action including regular check-ins, mid-course corrections, rewards and celebrations along the way. Without a plan a goal is just a wish.

Go back to part 3!

Marielle Gauthier, owner and principal of Redworks Communications, is a certified Results coach and is accredited as an Associate Certified Coach (ACC) by the International Coaching Federation.

Using brain based models, she holds coaching conversations with clients to help them gain clarity, generate insights, overcome self-limiting beliefs, and develop new habits to improve individual performance and become more effective leaders. She also coaches teams to improve their group performance and achieve corporate goals with measurable results.

For more information on coaching services contact Marielle at (306) 955-3205, marielle@redworkscoaching.com or visit www.redworkscoaching. She is based in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

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Setting Goals that will Change Your Life (Part 3)

Post author By mgauthier
Post date November 27, 2014

Challenging and Achievable

The goal you set however must be achievable within a 90-day period and you need to truly believe that you can achieve the goal within this time period. Ninety days is a long enough time frame to create new habits but short enough to continue to be motivated and excited about the goal and committed to doing the work to get there.

If you think the goal is too big then break it down into smaller goals that can be realistically achieved in 90 days. Once you have achieved the first goal, then you start working towards another, and then another ultimately working towards achieving the over-arching goal.

For example, Patti owes $25,000 on her line of credit and $175,000 on a business loan and she would like to be debt-free in six months. It took her longer than six months to get to this point so it may not be a realistic goal to be debt-free in six months. However, if Patti sets a smaller, more achievable goal such as reduced her line of credit balance by 25%, this goal may be more achievable within a 90 day period.

Once she achieves this goal she develops other goals to chip away at the debt level to eventually reach her ultimate goal of being debt free. It might take her a little longer but by setting and achieving smaller goals she is making progress towards achieving the big goal. Also, by seeing the progress she is making she will remain motivated and energized to continue working towards the goal. What smaller goals can you set?

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Marielle Gauthier, owner and principal of Redworks Communications, is a certified Results coach and is accredited as an Associate Certified Coach (ACC) by the International Coaching Federation.

For more information on coaching services contact Marielle at (306) 955-3205, marielle@redworkscoaching.com or visit www.redworkscoaching. She is based in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

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Setting Goals that will Change Your Life (Part 2)

Post author By mgauthier
Post date November 27, 2014

Visionary and Inspiring

David Rock, author of Quiet Leadership and founder of the Results Coaching System, says “you want to develop a goal that is visionary and inspiring to pull you forward and draw the best out of you.” To have a real change in your life you need to define a goal that would make the most difference for you.

images For example, Sandra, a solo entrepreneur, has been in business five years and she is very happy with her success so far. However in pursuit of her business goals she was neglecting her health – she rarely exercised, she made poor food choices, she was not sleeping well, she gained weight and her blood pressure was on the rise.

Rather than focus on a weight loss goal she needs to focus on her vision and what she wants in her life. Her vision then is to become healthy by leading a healthier lifestyle which includes regular exercise, eating a nutritious diet, and getting better sleep so she has more energy for herself and her family. The goal which will have the biggest impact for Sandra is ‘to have as much energy as I did when I was in my ‘20s” rather than ‘lose 30 pounds’ or to ‘exercise five times a week.”

By focusing on a goal that is visionary and inspiring Sandra is more passionate and determined to achieve it because there is so much more at stake – her health and overall sense of wellbeing. Also, by focusing on what she does want her brain will start creating new neural pathways and start to create a new habit. It will be easier for Sandra to create a new habit rather than change an old habit because by focusing on changing the old habit the neural pathways of the old habit become further entrenched making it more difficult to change the behaviour.

Questions to help you develop an inspiring goal are: What is your vision in this area of your life? What would you like to be different in this area? If you could have could have anything in this area what would it be?

See part 3 by clicking here!

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Marielle Gauthier, owner and principal of Redworks Communications, is a certified Results coach and is accredited as an Associate Certified Coach (ACC) by the International Coaching Federation.

For more information on coaching services contact Marielle at (306) 955-3205, marielle@redworkscoaching.com or visit www.redworkscoaching. She is based in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

Tags Change Your Life, David Rock, New Year's Resolution, Quiet Leadership, Resolutions, Setting Goals

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Setting Goals that will Change Your Life (Part 1)

Post author By mgauthier
Post date November 27, 2014

New Year’s Resolutions – Will you achieve yours?

The holidays are fast approaching, and many of us are going to be thinking about New Year’s Resolutions. More than 40 % of Americans make New Year’s resolutions. Despite our best intentions, however, only a small fraction of us keep our resolutions. According to the University of Scranton, their research suggests that just eight per cent of people achieve their New Year’s goals.

I have written a four-part blog series on setting goals that will change your life and some tips on how to achieve your goals. Keep an eye out for more information about goal setting!

Setting Goals That Will Change your Life

Do you set New Year’s resolutions? Are they the same as last year? If so, are you frustrated that you can’t achieve them?

Let me ask you a few questions: How do you really feel about the resolution you’ve made? Are you excited and passionate about it? Are you inspired and motivated to action? Is it achievable in the timeframe you have set? Have you made too many resolutions?

Goal setting is a very powerful way to achieve your vision for the future. Goals help to focus your attention and energy on what is important to you. You want to set a goal that you really value and will make the most difference for you because it will change how you feel, think and act on a daily basis.

So to achieve your New Year’s resolutions or personal and professional goals you need to think differently about the actual goal.

Click here to read my next article about Goal Setting.

Marielle Gauthier, owner and principal of Redworks Communications, is a certified Results coach and is accredited as an Associate Certified Coach (ACC) by the International Coaching Federation.

For more information on coaching services contact Marielle at (306) 955-3205, marielle@redworkscoaching.com or visit www.redworkscoaching. She is based in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

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Don’t You Wish the World was Really Like This?

Post author By mgauthier
Post date November 10, 2014

Another feel good video. If we all practiced these little acts of kindness, the world we be a lot friendlier place.

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Your Brain on Change

Post author By mgauthier
Post date November 6, 2014

Your Brain on Change Seminar

Download a digital copy of this invitation here.

Marielle Gauthier, ABC, Results Certified Coach, ACC and CEO of Redworks Communications will be hosting a complementary seminar titled “Your Brain on Change!” If you’re interested in attending, please keep reading!

Your Brain on Change

In this interactive seminar, professional corporate and life coach, Marielle Gauthier, will speak about:

What is change and transition?
What is going on in the brain when faced with change and transition
Tips to help your brain make the transition a little easier

About the Speaker

Marielle Gauthier, owner and principal of Redworks Communications, is a Results Certified Coach and an Associate Certified Coach (ACC) with ICF. She works to help clients improve their thinking to facilitate positive change in order to achieve personal and professional goals. She works primarily with leaders, executives, teams and individuals to lead their extraordinary life.

‘Your Brain on Change’ is part of Marielle’s ‘Self Mastery Coaching’ Series.

To Register, Click here

Location

Le Rendez-vous Francophone Centre, 308 – 4^th avenue North, Saskatoon

Date: November 27^th, 2014

11:45am – 1pm or 4:45 – 6 pm

Speaker at 12:15 Speaker at 5:15

Light lunch light snack

Register at Picatic by November 24

Contact

For more information please call Marielle Gauthier at

306 955-3205 or marielle@redworkscoaching.com

To buy tickets please click here.

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A Great Way to Keep Busy People Safe!

Post author By mgauthier
Post date October 23, 2014

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SB_0vRnkeOk#t=20

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Who Can Benefit from Coaching?

Post author By mgauthier
Post date October 20, 2014

Who can benefit from coaching? The short answer is anyone. Anyone who wants to make positive changes in their life can benefit from coaching.

My clients are very educated, articulate, bright, energetic, and self-motivated individuals. They are also very successful professional men and women.

They wanted to make certain positive changes in their personal and professional lives but we’re stuck, lacked clarity, or just not sure how to make the changes that we’re necessary. They had all tried many different ways to bring about those changes but had not achieved the results they were looking for.

So with an open mind they looked for fresh ideas and new approaches to help them achieve their personal and professional goals. They hired a professional coach.

Working through the coaching process, they we’re able to identify the life they wanted such as better relationships, more balance, less stress, weight loss, better health and fitness, more time for hobbies and interests, more fun, better job, more fulfilling career and even getting ready for retirement.

With solutions-focused coaching conversations and a co-created action plan, they developed new thinking and created new habits which lead to big results and transformational changes in their lives. They achieved all of this in a very short timeframe. For these people, coaching changed their lives for the better.

Marielle Gauthier supports individuals to live their extraordinary lives by facilitating positive change.

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The Swimming Lesson

Post author By mgauthier
Post date October 16, 2014

Are you aware of any thoughts that may be getting in your way of living the life you want to live?

Are self-limiting beliefs stopping you from doing the things you want to do?

Sometimes we’re very aware of the beliefs and thoughts we allow to get in our way. Sometimes they are hidden in our subconscious and we have to do some deep thinking and introspective work to bring them to the surface. I found this out first hand in an interesting experience I had in the pool.

A few years ago, I learned how to swim.

I diligently went to the pool every week to practice both the back stroke and the front crawl. I found the back stroke very easy. Getting comfortable with the front crawl however was another story!

I was struggling with completing one length of the pool using only the front crawl. I would get about half-way and almost automatically turn over onto my back and finish the length with the back stroke. I did eventually succeed in swimming one entire length using only the front crawl but I couldn’t do it in any consistent manner. I thought,

“I will just keep working at it and sooner or later it will happen.”

Well, here is the interesting part. A number of months ago, I noticed that a very large water slide that had been located mid-way off the side of the pool had been removed. I didn’t really think much of it at the time other than I noticed how much it opened up the space with it gone.

I started my workout with my mind focused on the front crawl. To my utter surprise and amazement something spectacular happened.

I swam a first length easily getting to the other side without turning over half way.

I felt so completely different about it, I thought, ‘Wow that was amazing.” I felt ecstatic as it was absolutely effortless. In fact, I was able to swim back using the front crawl with no issues and ended up completing a total of six lengths!

That was the most lengths I had ever swam using the front crawl. I thought, “My gosh what has happened, why is it so different today?”

Contemplating this in the shallow end of the pool, I looked over at the water slide laying on its side in pieces. I realized that subconsciously the slide had represented a ‘real’ threat to me: past this point is deep water = danger.

This perception of danger caused my brain’s limbic system (my fight or flight response) to get aroused causing me to ‘flee’ and stop doing this (front crawl) and do something else (back stroke.)

Was the potential for danger real? No, but the reaction my brain was having was real.

The realization set in that in my desire to learn a new habit (the front crawl), the learning was interrupted by a threat response in my brain’s limbic system, “I can’t go passed the slide because of the danger,” and I went back to my old neural wiring or mental map to stop the uncomfortable feeling of fear and anxiety.

With the removal of the threat (the water slide) my brain’s threat response did not kick in, causing a lot of tangible energy to be released (feeling ecstatic) and I was able to attain my goal (front crawl.)

What thoughts or beliefs do you have that may be causing a threat response in your brain impacting you to stop learning a new habit?

I would love to hear from you if you have a similar story to share!

Marielle Gauthier supports individuals to live their extraordinary lives by facilitating positive change.