WCC Theme for January ‘O8: Try! (just a little bit harder)

Coaching Theme of the Month:

Happy New Year and Welcome 2008!

Now is the time to TRY (just a little bit harder)!

Generally speaking I am not a big fan of the word TRY. It falls in line with passive words like should, might, can’t, and it’s hard. Try is one of those words that sounds to a life coach the way that a cry of “shark!” must sound to a lifeguard. People don’t try. They either do or they don’t. Simply put, there’s no trying when you’re looking to effect positive change in your life, but when you tack the word harder on the end it seems to take on a different meaning. Perhaps it’s ok to try harder. In fact, it’s probably a really good idea. I would like to challenge my readers and clients to put their feet on the accelerators and TRY HARDER!

This month’s theme is inspired by the fierce passion of Janis Joplin. I was poking around on Youtube recently and I saw Janis giving this intro to her song Try ( just a little bit harder). Watch the video on http://www.westcoastcoaching.com to check it out. Although I don’t agree with depending on some guy/girl to make you happy, I do agree that if you aren’t achieving what you want in this life at this time that you need to upgrade your hustle and try even if it’s just a little bit harder. Sometimes the smallest tweak can make the big difference. Other times, it’s time to try a whole lot harder. Take action! If you are in it to win it you’ve got to begin it!!!

I’m including a list of the ways that I am going to Try (just a little bit harder) this month and this year. Let me know how YOU intend to Try (just a little bit harder)! Leave a comment here on my blog, send me an e-mail at tc@westcoastcoaching.com, or if you want some professional support while you are trying harder, book a coaching session and we can rock it together.

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This month and throughout the year, I am Trying HARDER to:

– remember people’s names (when I meet them at parties)
– call my grandmother more
– let go of judgment and criticism
– push my comfort zone
– not make excuses, be lazy, or isolate myself
– perform at higher level
– play BIG!

Reframe your New Year’s Resolution!

Reframe Resolution

The old paradigm of setting a resolution at the beginning of each year feels dated and rarely leads to success. Come June, a New Years resolution usually makes us feel like we have failed ourselves in some way.Here are my T-5 tips to reframing your concept of resolution. Applied with consistency and commitment you will learn the permanent skill set of setting yourself up to succeed.

1. Clarify your intention. Why do you want it? What are the benefits of achieving this goal? What are the consequences of not achieving it? Write this out on paper.

2. Raise your standards around personal responsibility and commitment to self. Many of us find it easy to keep commitments to others but difficult to keep a commitment to self. Your word to yourself is no less important than the promises you make to others. Shift your thinking around this; take seriously the promises you make to yourself.

3. Create visual supports. From project boards to post it notes we need daily reminders that support us in strengthening our commitment. Get creative in creating visual reminders.

4. Revisit your original intention at regular intervals. Schedule this. Whether it’s daily, weekly or monthly, create a routine around reconnecting and refreshing your original intention.

5. Build a support team. Work with a coach, a sponsor, group or a healer. Build a team of like-minded people who will formally and regularly support you in your goals and intentions.

Happy New Year!

Who is T.C. Conroy?

T.C. Conroy is a Life Coach for the creative professional community. With an extensive background in the music industry and working with some of the most well-known recording artists of our time; she is the coach that will help you tune up your life and reach your goals. Whether you are a musician in your 20s, a stylist in your 30s or a talent executive in your 40s; she can speak your language and help you find your path. She is as much the key to your universal truth as she is to your new record deal or landing that next big job you are searching for.

• A Life Coach will help you create a perspective on your life that you may not be able to see for yourself.

• A Life Coach utilizes tools that will tap into your creative inspiration while removing the obstacles that stand in yourway.

• A Life Coach will help you in a dynamic,here-and-now way with issues as lofty as writing down your greatest dreams and as specific as helping you develop a to-do list and working through each point.

• Life Coaching is different from therapy and psychoanalysis in that it doesn’t focus on the past and the roots of your emotions; you instead look toward the future and crafting the person you want to be. It is important to note that Life Coaching is not a replacement for therapy or your 12 step program, but can work in tandem or compliment it.