Spring Clean Your Life

Spring cleaning has its origins in ancient history. Back then with no labour saving devices and no electricity, spring marked the start of the season when the weather allowed a complete cleaning of the cave or house. Since then, the tradition has been maintained but now there is a new angle. It is called coaching and it is, in effect, spring cleaning for your life.

According to Nicola Forshaw, NJ Coaching, Wirral, coaching is one of the most effective ways of staying green and growing instead of becoming ripe and rotten. It is simply a way of looking at where you are now, where you want to be in the future and how you are going to get there.

Nicola is a trained, professional coach who helps her clients to do just that in a series of one hour telephone conversations, or face to face meetings at weekly intervals. “A few people are able to do this for themselves but the vast majority find that having an outsider like me to keep them on course is a vital ingredient in their life spring cleaning.”

Nicola again. “Frankly, I am not interested in how they got to where they are now. The only place that they can start to change their life is here and now. So we focus totally on the future and the actions that will lead to the positive results that they desire”.

She continues: “In the same way that our homes can become musty during the winter months and often look in need of a new lick of paint, so our lives can become a bit tattered and full of mental junk that no longer serves us well.”

Nicola states that we all, without exception, carry a load of excess baggage in the form of worry, guilt, fears and false beliefs or expectations. She is a great believer in the power of a positive mental attitude and claims that very few of us ever achieve anything approaching our full potential.

In coaching, clients are shown how they can easily let go of all this baggage to create room in their lives for new and exciting challenges. She says: “Many clients are amazed at the positive impact that even a small change or shift in attitude can produce.” This really is spring cleaning for the mind.

SPRING CLEAN YOUR LIFE

In the same way that the onset of spring is often the catalyst that triggers a burst of domestic action, so a coach can be the catalyst that allows amazing and positive changes to happen.

Nicola Forshaw is always happy to discuss this or other aspects of her approach to coaching, absolutely free of any cost or obligation. She can be contacted during usual office hours on:  Tel 0151 678 9000 or success@njcoaching.co.uk

She says, “I am still surprised at how often my clients tell me that their emotional and mental spring cleaning is like a weight being lifted from their shoulders. The joy is that they do it all themselves, I am just there to show them how.”

RETREAT FOR SUMMER MIRACLES

Indians, we are told, do it more than any other nation. People with religious beliefs do it once a year. Captains of industry do it less often. You can do it whenever you like.

For centuries, the practise of taking time out to do something different has been recognised as a sure-fire way of recharging your batteries, igniting your enthusiasm and solving problems. In commerce it is sometimes called a sabbatical, others may call it going on retreat.

According to Nicola Forshaw, NJ Coaching, Wirral, we could all benefit from this simple procedure. She even goes a step further. “You don’t have to spend a week as a hermit on a mountain top. Just one day will release amazing benefits and the best part is that it doesn’t cost anything.”

Nicola is a coach and tells us that many of her clients benefit from this simple change to their routine. When you put a little distance between yourself and your routine challenges or issues, you see them in a different light and from a different perspective. You may even create a few miracles for yourself as a result. These will come as flashes of intuition that can lead you to take the action needed to resolve a problem.

Nicola Forshaw again. “If you look at something, say an apple, and hold it close to your face so that it is touching your nose, you will see a very small part of it. Hold it at arms length and you will see the whole apple and its texture and colours. Look at it from the other end of the room and you won’t see the detail but you will see it in the perspective of its surroundings and in true proportion.”  She continues: “It is the same with issues or problems. You add distance and see them from a new angle.”

According to Nicola, the summer is a great time to do this. Simply set a weekday date in your diary right now, when you will take off to the countryside, the hills or the beach. Go by car, bike, train or on foot but go to somewhere that you have never been before and where you can be sure of some space alone. Set off early and plan to be out all day. Leave your mobile phone at home and travel light. Then just wander around for the day, thinking of nothing, focusing on the ‘now’ experience.

Many coaching clients are amazed how easy this is. They are ‘off the leash’ and just by being in a different place they find that their thoughts turn to solutions and answers rather than problems and challenges. “You create in life what you think about”, says Nicola.

RETREAT FOR SUMMER MIRACLES

Tel 0151 678 9000 or mail@njcoaching.co.uk.

We give her the last word. “If you do the same thing, in the same way, you will get the same results. Your one day summer retreat may be the one enjoyable change that you need to create those spectacular ‘miracle’ results that you know you deserve”.

 Now is the time for change

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