May 15th, 2009 by Writer-Ros
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Do you feel stuck in a rut? Does each day seem uninspired and the same as every other day? Are you in a job you are bored with, or in difficult circumstances that don’t seem to change? If you can acknowledge that this is your life right now, then that’s good news! Why? Because the realization that your life needs to change is the first step in making that change happen. The next step is in taking action to find opportunities to help you get out of that rut.
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Ros Bott
Coaching and Mentoring for Your Career or Business
May 6th, 2009 by Writer-Ros
Abundance
I have been thinking a lot lately about the idea of abundance. It’s a lovely word. It conjurs up, not just wealth, but an abundance of everything: happiness, health, love, food, spirit - whatever you need. But why do we have such difficulty attracting abundance into our lives? After all, we live on an abundant planet, full of life and fruitfulness. Why is it that so many people are looking for a way of manifesting abundance when there seems to be so much around us?
The trouble is, although most of us have enough to live on and far more than we need (despite the current financial crisis), we live in a poverty consciousness where we believe we do not have enough.
It seems to me that those of us lucky enough to live in rich countries (particularly the UK, the USA and elsewhere) have learned to take luxury for granted. We believe that owning a flash car or a Rolex watch is some kind of right, and when these things are taken away from us we think we are badly off.
In many ways the current recession is a positive thing - a wake-up call to those of us who take luxury for granted.
The reason so many of us are looking for ways of manifesting abundance, is because we believe we are not already living in it.
I looked around me this morning and realised that I was already living in abundance. I have a full refridgerator, cupboards full of posessions, a change of clothes every day, a roof over my head, a dog, friends and family who love me, music, countryside, sunny days and moonlit nights.
Once we realise that we already are living in abundance, we will start to attract more of it. If we start to be grateful for what we already have, instead of bemoaning what we lack, we will be happier and more fulfilled.
That includes being grateful even for when things go wrong, for this is when we learn and grow. The current financial climate is a lesson for the whole world.
Here’s a great quote from Anne Bradstreet:
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
So, let’s be grateful for everything. Start attracting abundance by recognising that you already have it.
Ros Bott
Coaching and Mentoring for Your Career or Business
Achieve Financial Freedom Online
April 22nd, 2009 by Writer-Ros
There are many reasons why some people consider going it alone and setting up in business for themselves. In the current financial climate it certainly can seem like a good idea when jobs are no longer secure. However, it is not an easy decision to make, so here are some advantages and disadvantages of starting up a business to help you make the decision.
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Ros Bott
Coaching and Mentoring for Your Career or Business
List of Home Based Businesses
April 21st, 2009 by Writer-Ros
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Let me attempt to paint this magnificent picture a little clearer.
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Here’s the link for you to go directly to his offer:
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Ros Bott
Coaching and Mentoring for Your Career or Business
April 14th, 2009 by Writer-Ros
Like any other life coach, I am always encouraging my clients and readers to set goals, and to write them down. Setting goals is particularly important for anything you want to achieve in life, whether it’s being successful in business, finding a dream career or losing weight. However, writing goals and objectives is not always the best format. Pieces of paper get lost, and even if you pin them up on your wall, after a while you stop seeing them. The answer is to invest in some goal setting software, and I believe that Goalpro is probably the best.
The best part about having goal setting software, is that you automatically get reminded of what you need to do each day without the need for notebooks, diaries or bits of paper that many of us just forget to look at!
What I also like about Goalpro are the motivational messages and quotes you get, along with reports on how you are doing with your goals, so you can see at a glance where you are on the road to achieving them.
Here are some of the features of Goalpro:
- Scheduling tool. You can quickly and easily add tasks and appointments into your daily calendar.
- Reports and graphs. These show you where you are on your path to success.
- Success Tree. This shows you an overview of your goals and routines, set in hierarchical order.
- Daily Journal. You can make notes on what you have done or achieved each day.
- Personal Success Coach. A built-in coach that helps you understand how to use Goalpro, AND encourages specific actions daily.
- Scratchpad. Useful for brainstorming goals and actions, and then converting them into actual goals.
You can also set up daily reminders for appointments and actions that will come up on your computer screen - and also enable performance tracking, which is very useful for monitoring things like weight loss.
There is a free trial, if you want to try it before buying.
Goalpro may not suit everyone, but if you are someone who finds setting goals on paper or keeping to a daily action plan difficult, I would recommend that you give it a go.
To buy the Goalpro goal setting software, or to start the free trial, click HERE.
Ros Bott
Achieve Financial Freedom Online
Coaching and Mentoring for Your Career or Business
April 10th, 2009 by Writer-Ros
For the first time in nearly two decades, the unemployment figures in the UK reached two million recently, which means that there is a huge number of people out there who are having the gut-wrenching experience of losing their job. In these circumstances, the first thing to do for many people is to seek redundancy advice to find out how to manage in a practical way; for example, they may seek legal help or find out what benefits they may be entitled to. But what about your feelings of confidence and self esteem that are often the first things to be lost in a redundancy situation?
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Ros Bott
Coaching and Mentoring for Your Career or Business
March 26th, 2009 by Writer-Ros
When you look at all the things that you have ever tried to achieve, the main reason behind it all for most people is in order to achieve happiness. If I make a lot of money, that will make me happy. If I find the right partner, then I’ll be happy. If I publish a novel, I’ll be really happy!
The thing is, all of these things are to do with the future; with tomorrow. And haven’t we always been told that tomorrow never comes?
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March 18th, 2009 by Writer-Ros
It can be extremely frustrating and depressing for someone who cannot decide what career to follow. The world seems full of people with purpose, who seem to know the path they are on and where they are going. If you are undecided, you can end up feeling left out, or as if there is something wrong with you. The truth is, you are not alone. There are many people who take years to find out what they really want to do, but sometimes you could do with some help choosing a career.
So where do you start? If you are in your 30s, 40s or 50s, you can begin to feel panicky and that you have tried everything! First of all, start thinking of all the experience you have ever had - all the jobs, careers you have done, even if you have hated them, as valuable experience. All of this is useful information. You know what you DON’T want to do! You have already narrowed down the field. Also, everything you have done is experience that can contribute to a new career.
Have a look at those jobs you hated. What, exactly, was it about them that you disliked so much? For example, if I look back on some of the jobs I have disliked, I can generalise the problem. There are jobs where I have been bored - which means that the job was not stimulating enough for me. There are jobs where I’ve been stressed out because I didn’t like dealing with conflict in classrooms.
You can then start looking at the opposite of these dislikes. For example, I obviously need to do work where I feel mentally stimulated and challenged. The fact I didn’t like classroom teaching, didn’t rule out teaching completely - I actually enjoy teaching adults (because they tend not to answer back most of the time!).
Next start looking at aspects of jobs that you have enjoyed. What was it about the job you enjoyed? With teaching, I enjoyed communicating information and making a contribution to others.
That is just one example - but if we take that one thing, and look at other careers associated with it, you can see how it could also point to life coaching. If you make a list of all the things you have enjoyed in jobs, you can then start to get an idea of some careers that would suit you.
It doesn’t have to be jobs you’ve done either. You can list all the things you love doing in your life, and think about what it is about that thing that you enjoy doing. Ever since I was a child I loved reading - but what is it about reading that I like? When I was a child I wanted to actually be in the book, to be one of the characters and live in the worlds the writers had created. The best way of manifesting that was to be a writer myself!
That may be quite simplistic, but it’s to give you an idea of what I mean. Make a long list of all the things you love, and why you love them. You then need to get hold of a list of different careers (do a search on the internet) and find out about the careers that appeal to you.
This will give you the best start. If you need any more help choosing a career, you can visit my career coaching website.
Good luck
Ros Bott
Coaching and Mentoring For Your Career or Business
Build Your Own Rainbow: a Workbook for Career and Life Management
March 11th, 2009 by Writer-Ros
Do you feel ready to take action? Are you and your colleagues motivated do carry out your daily tasks? Workplace motivation is essential for business success because it triggers your desire to take action. Without it, you will have, at best, a sluggish business, at worst, no business at all. Here are some motivation tips that are used in business coaching and mentoring.
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Ros Bott
March 3rd, 2009 by Writer-Ros
There are all kinds of books on success, self-help, personal growth etc. There are hundreds of authors and many different success systems for different kinds of challenges. However, one author that stands out above all the rest is Tony Robbins. His success formulas can be applied to every situation, including career development, and can be used very successfully in career transition coaching.
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Ros Bott
Professional Coaching for Your Change of Career
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