Congruent Connections through Turnarounds

Yin and yang is a fantastic idea. We use it everywhere. What if it means and can mean more than we think it means?

Creating congruent connections means creating new and increasingly better connections to your authentic self. 

What if asking a difference question is the one thing you can change and it will change everything?

What are the questions you are asking yourself? Why me? Why not me? Where can you ask the opposite, turned around question to reclaim your connection, so reconnect to reclaim your power?

Start asking powerful and empowering questions to receive powerful and empowering answers!

It's a popular strategy in coaching, and it works. Nietzsche said "Even a thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform you". So write down 10 questions you ask yourself daily and turn these around.

A Powerful Now

Sometimes when you experience a Powerful Now, time seems to stand still. We feel to be out of time and space. This is the moment of awakening, insight, Eureka, innovation.

Creative Change happens one thought at a time. It's the same as saying transformation happens one thought at a time.

I love the idea in the Abraham-Hicks books that with every thought reach for a better feeling thought. We have an internal guidance system in our emotions which feeds back to us through feelings of ease or dis-ease whether we are reaching for a better-feeling thought or not.

Frequently, we choose to be in our comfort zones in our thinking. We choose habitual thoughts and of course this is okay. Some of us habitually choose more powerful thoughts than others, and practice this until it becomes a flowful habit, flowing harmonious thoughts from one moment to the next.

We can also decide to play a game, a transformational game by ourselves, as we nudge a thought into an even more powerful direction. We choose to embrace expansion of our awareness and increased feelings of harmony and confidence.

Thus we embrace our resourceful states and stretch it to an even greater appreciation of this resourceful state. Embrace your strengths. Appreciation makes the difference. Of course NLP has some superb methodology that will help you achieve this in just a few minutes.

I was able to powerfully increase a participant's confidence in 2 minutes and 1 (to appreciate the transformation). This was all done in a room of 100 people, in groups of three, making a lot of noise.

"Every time you wink the stars move" Emerson

One-Minute Coach

While I was at a 2 day coaching seminar, I discussed my strategy for giving my book Passion to Performance more body. My initial thoughts in writing my book was to provide a training manual/ workbook for running workshops, one on one coaching and even self-coaching.

My thought was to provide good research and background info and keep it primarily experiential.

At the end of the seminar, 2 people won coaching manuals. I started thinking - that was the idea of my book, I should have put the word manual or workbook on the cover so I don't have to explain this.

One thought led to another, like it usually does, and I thought, well I could repackage it even as a blog and call it "one minute coach". After all, transformation happens one thought at a time, for practical purposes say one minute at a time. Then it occurred to me that I like the sound of "10-minute coach" even more. I could coach somebody anywhere, even on the run or in a coffee shop or park while walking. Two times five minutes is also a powerful number. Of course clients can self-coach or use my book and even weblogs to the same effect.

Just imagine if you opened an inspiring book in a bookshop, picked up an idea (whether a quotation, a story, five lines, a page, whatever). You then spent 5 to 10 minutes thinking only on this (in an experiential way). Even this thought can transform the way you perceive time and energy investment.

To make a long story short, I won't be calling myself a one minute coach. I also won't be calling myself a ten minute coach. Why not? A simple search with google , will answer this.

You can still experience transformation in 1 minute or 5 or 10, by simply checking out coaching websites and weblogs.

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.