Be Inspired and Change Something

Be Inspired & Change Something

Have you ever thought about using a coach? Have you ever used one in the past?

Those who have, have found it to be an immensely motivating and validating experience. For 30-90 minutes you are gifted with the focused attention on YOU and on what you want and need! You create the agenda and a coach will help you set the tone.

A coach authentically, and attentively nudges you and helps you shift towards greater congruence between you and your dreams.

• A coach can help you connect to your mission and vision – showing you that you are never starting from scratch.
• A coach helps you cultivate your great ideas, which may be hidden in distraction, just a seed waiting for loving attention to flourish! 
• A coach is a supportive set of "believing" eyes – you know you have a good idea, a coach is a perfect person to bounce things off. Expect genuine feedback and even additional tools to stimilate even more creative ideas and connections.
• A coach can help you process change and challenges in your life – whether you are facing specific challenges or you are ready to find clarity around things in general.
• A coach can help you set goals, carry them to completion and embrace greater freedom.

Resources

1. Change is a Miracle, read more...

2. There are many ways to change a habit. This is an excerpt from a blog I wrote 2 months ago on the many ways of changing something...

Excerpt:

"The Power of Habit

I have promoted the power of practice. While I use the terms habit and practice interchangeably, there are slight differences in nuances, which is simply a matter of personal connection/preference.

What do the words habit and practice mean to you?

What is the strange looking puzzle on this page doing there? I enjoy playing with my ideas, playfulness is an attitude that I find powerful and empowering to bring into my practices, no matter what they are.

When you have an idea, you make it happen by turning it into a practice. What does play have to do with it? Practice is a serious business, yet practice to be sustainable, needs to embody "play". I have taken the 7 pivotal points of the Hero's Journey and represented them here as a puzzle.

Imagine playing with this puzzle. When something works for you, my philosophy is "play it forward"... this is the sustainability and appreciation I love to emphasize."

Excerpted from my blog, to read more and experiment with "new" practices and for more links and resources, click here...

It's Not too Late to Make 2011, Your Best Year Yet!

It's not too late to make 2011 your Best Year Yet. 

It's possible because perception is the key to transformation. Good, better, best... it's all a matter of perception. Change the way you see something, and you change everything.

So how do you change the way you see 2011? Ask this simple question, it is called Appreciative Inquiry.

If 2011 was my BEST YEAR because it was here to teach me everything I needed to know to make 2012 even better, what did I learn?

Now, put pen to paper and write down all that was great about 2011, all that you have learned from 2011 to make it even better (because you learned and grew from it, duh) and your plan to take all this that is good and make it even better for 2012.

Read more...

Hero's Journey & TAO of Experience

Updating my other blogs, the Hero's Journey and TAO of Experience.

Interesting read on how to use creative perspective, strategies and practices to create your experiences. Isn't this why we are all here, in a search for meaning and the eternal validation of our "creative essence".

Do not assume that all you have experienced is all there is to experience. We usually remember this therefore we have the courage to continue on our journeys. There are times we need to remind ourselves though.

Life goes on... more creatively

The only constant in life is change. We have the choice and the creative potential to consciously embrace these changes creating successful and life-enriching experiences.

We all want to feel success and mastery in our lives and we all have the potential to achieve this.

Creativity workshops and coaching enables my clients to keep their focus on the things they want and off the things they do not want. I encourage a creative life-enhancing approach to the challenges my clients meet in the face of change.

Creative Connections is based on the assumption that focus is everything. Focus refers to the focusing of one's attention. Another popular term for this is consciousness or conscious attention. This concept can be taken from the one end of the spectrum where we speak of a simple thinking process to the other end of the spectrum where the more esoteric concept of creative consciousness is used.

Creative Change Coaching

My name is Aneesah Bakker and I am a Creativity and Transition Coach.

I coach individuals and groups on sourcing and using their creative potential for

• personal and professional writing - books, presentations, journalling...
• painting, drawing, doodling
• creative visualisation - using the imagination to visualise outcomes
• discovering their passions, strengths, talents...
• goal management
• creating change in their personal and professional life
• mastering change (loss, bereavement, expatriation, etc.) so it becomes a life-enriching transformation

As a professionally qualified Life Coach, Trainer and Consultant, my clients include artists, CEOs, company directors, medical specialists and other coaches.

In a nutshell, my collaboration is as a positive and tranformational coach.