Words are powerful so choose yours wisely. This applies equally to the ones you sing. For instance, the hit song mentioned in this video is a favourite among many football supporters yet it embraces cheerful fatalism. That's unlikely to get anyone motivated. To succeed, we need to be proactive and we need to strive. Striving towards our goals is necessary for our personal growth as life coach Mervin Straughan explains. Mervin is the creator of the Three Journeys Life Coaching System and the author of the pocket self-help guide 'Imagine Life As Three Bus Journeys.'
Imposter Syndrome is reported to affect up to 70 per cent of people at some time in their lives. It can be unnerving and damaging to our self esteem. Life coach Mervin Straughan explores what it is and makes seven recommendations for how to overcome it.
Mervin is the creator of the Three Journeys Life Coaching System and author of the pocket self-help guide 'Imagine Life As Three Bus Journeys.'
We often get better solutions when we see a challenge from more than one perspective. This applies whether we're tackling a problem individually or as part of a team. De Bono's Six Thinking Hats technique has been used by smart thinkers and many leading businesses for years. It encourages us to adopt several thinking styles which combine to give us a much richer insight into how to approach the challenge.
Happiness isn't a destination, as life coach Mervin Straughan explains. Happiness is a by-product; it's what happens when we achieve balance across aspects of our lives. Mervin draws on US psychologist Martin Seligman's PERMA model to support this view.
In this video, Mervin Straughan looks at whether it's good enough to keep our goals inside our head or do we we need to write them down? He also looks at how we prioritise when we have many goals we want to achieve in a short period and also looks at the link between the Pareto principle and goal setting.
Did you know that the five stages of grief usually associated with imminent death or bereavement have been applied as a model to manage change in the workplace?
It was the Swiss-American psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross who identified the five stages and published them in her book 'On Death and Dying' in 1969.
Life coach Mervin Straughan looks at how organisations have applied the model to change management, exploring the types of emotions that employees might experience. He also puts forward tips on how employees can deal with major changes and explains the rollercoaster ride of emotions that can be part of the process.
What is motivation? What is resilience? How do we beat procrastination when it rears its ugly head?
And why was Steven Gerrard's half-time team talk a pivotal moment in an astonishing European Cup final win for Liverpool Football Club against AC Milan that became known as the Miracle of Istanbul?
Mervin Straughan explores what's needed to create a success mindset. He covers motivation and how it might be influenced and why resilience is crucial for achieving goals. And he puts forward his P-I-P-P strategy for tackling procrastination.
Want to know how to make your New Year goals and resolutions stick? Knowing how to set the right goals and resolutions and how to remain focused and motivated will be a good start.
Life coach Mervin Straughan puts forward tips for three aspects of the process for setting goals and resolutions.
The best goals are designed to bring about meaningful change in our lives. They demand focus and effort. Best to be honest with yourself about the commitment you're prepared to show.
In this youtube video, Mervin looks at how to approach the resolutions-setting process; knowing how to organise your goals so that you can cover all aspects of life in a systematic manner. This includes taking the life aspects of Paul J Meyer's popular diagnostic tool, the Wheel of Life, and using them to compartmentalise our goal setting and monitoring.
Life coach Mervin Straughan suggests seven steps for setting goals and boosting the likelihood of success for achieving what you want in life.
The goal-setting plan is systematic and includes SMART thinking and ways to gauge our levels of commitment and motivation.
And while achieving goals is a great confidence boost, it's important that goal setters enjoy the journey. We grow as a result of the process. The goal-setting journey stretches us by encouraging us to anticipate and respond to challenges.
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