Take Back Control: Coach Yourself to a Stress-Less Life!
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Are you victimised and pushed around in work or relationships?
In other words are you stressed?
Take Back Control: coach yourself to a stress-less life uses the
principles of coaching to tackle the stress in your life.
You will be encouraged to take charge of your life, put yourself back
into the driving seat, and take control using the power of coaching
and NLP. Self-coaching is a powerful technique for creating the life
you always wanted but never thought you could have, and today it
could begin for youif you want it..
Jeff Hutchens
Jeff is a graduate of The Coaching Academy, with over three years experience in coaching. He is currently Head of Performing Arts in a North Somerset school. Jeff began coaching teachers in his school back in 2008, to improve personal performance for teachers and students. Over the last few years he has seen all of his clients unlock their strengths, overcome obstacles, take control of their agenda to relieve stress, and grow in confi dence for their work and personal lives. In 2011 Jeff set up Catharsis Life Coaching, Bristol to reach clients facing stress and confi dence issues through personal coaching.
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Take Back Control - Jeff Hutchens
Copyright © 2011 by Jeff Hutchens.
Library of Congress Control Number: 2011917353
ISBN: Hardcover 978-1-4653-5190-6
Softcover 978-1-4653-5189-0
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CONTENTS
Introduction
PART ONE Your Life Purpose
Find Your Life Purpose
Values And Beliefs
PART TWO How Do I Take Control?
Taking Control Through Goal-Setting
Goals And Stress
PART THREE Breaking Out
Break Out
PART FOUR NLP Strategies For The ‘Stress-Less’ Life
1) Anchoring
2) Association And Dissociation
3) Behavioural Flexibility
4) The Compelling Future—The ‘Future-Now’ Strategy
5) Changing Your State
6) Contrastive Analysis
7) Using Equivalent Language And Criteria
8) The Meta Model
9) Modelling
10) Reframing
11) Control Your Own Self-Talk
12) Perceptual Positions
13) The ‘Swish’ Technique
PART FIVE Daily Rituals
Take Time For Yourself
PART SIX Glossary Of Terms
PART SEVEN Biblography And Recommended Reading
INTRODUCTION
‘If what you are doing is not working, try something different’
NLP Presupposition
It is time for a change, isn’t it? Enough is definitely enough?!! You want more for yourself, and those closest to you certainly wouldn’t mind if YOU WERE LESS STRESSED?!! You want to change all that, you want to live a ‘stress-less’ life, right? You have definitely picked up the right book for you! In fact this is potentially the first step to finally get you on the right track towards the successful life that you always wanted, but never thought possible.
Coaching and NLP are all about change, choice and releasing your inner resources to create a more successful life for yourself, and they are the basis for the thinking behind this book. It is for this reason that you have chosen to pick up this book, no doubt. If you are willing to experiment to find what works for you then you will genuinely ‘take back control’ and find that your life becomes ‘stress-less’.
Coaching is a collaborative process, and so you will be required to take part, try out new things and take responsibility for your life in a way that you have never done before. This book contains exercises and ideas that you must ‘try on for size’; some will really connect with you and literally change your life—permanently! How do I know? I have found these ideas to work for myself personally, and for others that I have worked with as a coach. You must make a decision that change is important to you and begin your journey to a ‘new you’ today. NLP says that ‘choice is better than no choice’ and so this book is all about giving you the choices so that you can ‘take back control’ of your life, and so lead you to a ‘stress-less’ lifestyle.
The book is based on a number of coaching and NLP principles and ideas which you will meet as you journey through the pages. Presuppositions such as ‘there is no failure, only feedback’ and ‘you have the resources within you’ to create your best life, will help you shape your journey and develop the new beliefs that can support you through the process. Coaching is always non-judgmental and allows each person to become their best in their own way—there is no set path. If you are to gain the most from this book it is important that you treat yourself in this way; too often we are quick to judge ourselves and presume that we don’t have what it takes to live our best lives. You must be gentle on yourself in one sense, whilst realizing that you will need to challenge yourself as you change.
It is essential in self-coaching that you hold yourself to account. You won’t change unless you change!! You must be your own mirror to check yourself out and ensure that you are following through on your new decisions. But within this process there is ‘no failure, only feedback’ and as the captain of an airplane is constantly making adjustments throughout the flight to ensure they land on target and on time, so you must respond according to the feedback that you get from your ‘experiments’ on your journey to the ‘stress-less’ life.
‘NLP shows you how to become curious about your failures, and identify the patterns in them. This helps you gain not only understanding but a new control over your life’ McDermott and Jago
Above all be curious, be experimental, and be willing to change as you become more self-aware, confident and shed the victim mentality that leads to stress. Who knows what you will become? Who knows where your journey will end? What you do know is your starting point—that you