Plan Your Perfect Christmas

As the shops begin to display their full ranges of seasonal gift ideas, they are putting plans into action that were formulated almost a year ago. For many of us, Christmas is a last minute rush and an expensive time of rampant consumerism and materialism.

Nicola Forshaw is a professional coach with a practice in Wirral. She says: "This is a good time to start planning your own perfect Christmas. Not in a materialistic sense, but in a sense that is measured by contentment and satisfaction."

In a few one-hour telephone or face to face conversations, at weekly intervals, Nicola invites her clients to review where they are now and where they want to be in the future. Together they create a strategy for getting to where they want to be and define the actions that will produce the desired results.

She is quick to point out that the coach is simply the catalyst. It is the client who makes the decisions and the commitment. For a great many, the weekly reporting back of progress is the spur that keeps them on target.

Nicola suggests that a lot of Christmas stress results from people trusting to luck that 'everything will be alright' rather than taking control and ensuring that they actually make everything as they want it to be. She begins by asking a client, ?What would you choose to do in your life if you could do absolutely anything with no limitations, no prospect of failure and no accountability to anyone?? She is no longer surprised when clients answer this innocent question with a long list of what they don't want to do.

"It seems to be a natural reaction", she says. "I don't let them off the hook that easily. I listen and keep returning to the positive side of the question. Eventually I will get them to admit to themselves, and often this is for the first time, what it is that they really want to do. This awareness can be the best Christmas present that you can give to yourself."

It is nowhere near as selfish as it sounds either. According to Nicola, all her clients discover that once they have a plan for their life and achievements and are working towards its fulfilment; all the other areas of their lives improve as well. Partners, relatives and colleagues alike notice a new sense of purpose, a new enthusiasm and a contagious happiness.

She says: "You may not be able to wrap all this up in pretty paper but even so, its value is beyond measure."

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Notes for editors: Nicola Forshaw is available for interview and photographs. She can be contacted on Tel 0151 678 9000 or mail@njcoaching.co.uk
 

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