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Welcome to this week's issue of the Life Gym. In this newsletter I aim to give you tips and valuable information to give you More Time and More Life with Less Stress. We grow through your recommendation. Please forward this newsletter to a few friends and colleagues. Do also get in touch if you have feedback or comments to make, which we can include in future newsletters. Please click here to subscribe to future newsletters. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yes, the Life Gym is back and it seems only a short while ago since I signed off for the summer break, but I hope you are all relaxed and refreshed from your summer holidays. 1. Still a slave to technology? The last newsletter certainly struck a chord in terms of the disadvantages of technology. Things that really seem to annoy people were: Keeping a mobile 'phone on the table during lunch and answering it when in the middle of a conversation. Shop assistants who ignore you in favour of answering a 'phone call. Call Waiting - someone described this as being equivalent to holding a conversation with someone when you are interrupted by a third person and then your conversation partner speaks to them, before deciding which of the two of you is the more interesting to carry on speaking with. On the whole 'phones got a bad press, but that is mainly because people seem to be unable to resist answering them. Perhaps it is a cultural habit developed during the 1960's when more people began to be able to afford to have a 'phone and it was a novelty when it rang. The biggest criticism for emails was that people often hide behind an email rather than talk face to face to a person or 'phone them to discuss the issue. Food for thought there. How did you get on over the summer with technology? Did you go on holiday and turn off your mobile or did the mere thought of being out of contact send feelings of panic surging through you? 2. The wrong kind of stress! Over the summer I watched the mini series on BBC1 called "Your Life in their Hands" where the cameras followed the work of three surgeons: John Hutchinson - a back specialist All of them were incredibly driven to do the best they could for their patients. They worked hard, doing long hours at the expense of their family life, but also played hard and "switched off" once they were outside the hospital. John and Chris knew that the slightest millimetre in the wrong direction could have the most devastating effects on their patients and yet they performed long complex operations several times a week and sometimes over the weekend. What they had in common was that the most stress was caused not by the responsibility of operating on their patients, but what was happening outside the theatre. For John, the targets for his team meant having to sometimes work a seven-day week to ensure they were hit. This was made worse by the fact that patients would arrive for their operations but then be told there wasn't a bed available and he would have to get involved in sorting out the administration side. He had such a full list that, when he had to do a further operation on one of his patients, he had to personally call other surgeons and anaesthetists to persuade them to give up their Sunday, as that was the only time he could operate. All three said that while they were operating, they felt under less pressure as they felt they were able to deal with the situation. Outside the theatre they were at the mercy of budgets and targets. I think this goes to show that there is constructive stress and destructive stress.
THE POWER QUESTION When are you putting your work life in someone else's hands and creating stress for yourself? Are you able to identify the constructive stress in work/home life and differentiate it from the destructive type of stress? Write a list and see what comes under the two headings. Take a look at what is destructive and decide how you are going to deal with this to get rid of it completely or reduce it. 3. Successfully Single Are you newly single or do you know someone who is and who is feeling stuck and not sure where to go from here? Well, fellow coach Ann Harrison has a new teleclass that is designed to address a number of issues. Here is how she describes it: Single Again is an 8 week group coaching course that takes place over the telephone every Tuesday evening from 7 pm to 8pm (UK time). The programme will run from 1 November 2005 to 20 December 2005 inclusive. Who is the programme for? Single Again is for newly-single women who have been in a long-term relationship and who are returning to 'single hood' either through choice or because their partner has ended the relationship. The programme has been designed to help newly-single women like you to:
How much does it cost? Since this is the first time this programme has been available as a teleclass, I am offering Single Again at the introductory price of just £79.00 for the 8 week programme. This includes:
If you, or anyone you know is interested, please take a look at the website: www.successfullysingle.co.uk and click on the Single Again page. 4. Up Close and Personal I have had a relaxing summer, partly due to taking action and not being a slave to technology. Only twice did people call my home 'phone followed by my mobile number to track me down. This meant that people did acknowledge that their call to me wasn't super urgent. Paddy has been in holiday mood too - which means he just refuses to come in and spends all day and night in the field. I have amazingly been able to persuade him to take a rest in his stable on the hottest days, usually by bribing him with food. However he does make it perfectly clear that the decision to be caught is entirely his! Until next time have a great couple of weeks! Ann
ann@dreamcatcher-lifecoaching.co.uk http://www.dreamcatcher-lifecoaching.co.uk/ The Life Gym is written by Ann Brosnan. Ann is a coach who specialises in working with busy people to create More Time and More Life with Less Stress. We will never pass your name on to any other organisation. If you wish to Unsubscribe from this newsletter please click here. | ||||||||||||
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