Andrew Halliday Coach

Why can’t you change in some parts of your life? The secret to creating long lasting change. Episode 15.

Imagine some aspect of your life that you don’t like. Now imagine that part of your life the way you would like it to be. Click your fingers and the change occurs in an instant. Wouldn’t that be nice.

Why do some changes occur instantly and other changes never happen?

In this episode we explore the mechanics of change and how you can make a change happen in an instant despite the countless times you’ve unsuccessfully tried to change. And what are some of the immediate strategies you can implement to make that change and keep it going.

Everyone wants to change.

Change is in our DNA. We actually all have reward circuitry in the brain that lights up when we are presented with something new or different.

Get clear on what you want to change.

Sometime you think you want to change because you want to achieve one aim but you really are seeking a completely different outcome.

Feel pleasure and pain on the journey of gain.

Learn to enjoy the journey in a way you never thought was important to change.

Use your failures as clues.

Each time you fail you are getting closer to long term change. Use failures as the path of bread crumbs to your permanent chnage.

Your alignment is off.

Are your goals, values and fears misaligned? Without proper alignment you can be thrown right off.

Focus - Your energy flows where your attention goes.

Laser focus is what you remember to repeat over and over again.

Change happens anytime. Don’t wait for the perfect moment.

Every second you wait for the right moment is wasted.

Fear is stopping you from changing.

Don't let it.

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Why do we procrastinate and what to do about it. Episode 14.

Procrastination. Almost everyone procrastinates. You may think you don't but procrastination comes disguised in many forms.

Procrastination could look like lacking motivation or could be scheduling less important tasks ahead of important long term goals.

No matter how you chop up your description of procrastination one thing is certain. If you are not achieving your goals you are procrastinating.

In this podcast we’ll explore why we procrastinate, what advantages procrastination brings, how to utilise procrastination to your advantage and finally how to overcome procrastination if you find it’s stopping you from achieving your goals.

What is procrastination?

Why do we procrastinate?

Procrastination has a purpose.

Stop you from making another mistake, prevent you from some pain. That you associate more pain with achieving your goal or more pain with starting your goal.

Your procrastination activities give you comfort. You actually receive pleasure from your procrastination activities you

Why do we achieve goals and What do we get when we achieve our goals?

Avoid pain, attain pleasure. Mostly avoid pain. Dopamine release.

Setting up your goal to avoid procrastination:

1. Desirable goal and small next step

2. Create negative feeling to comport from procrastination

Investigate what is stopping you?

Starting exercise, speaking to a relative, facing a difficult issue… pleasure and pain.

Set up for success: Other areas to optimise goal achievement and reducing procrastination.

Time of day - Cortisol, domaine, adrenaline. Cycles of focus. Fatigue, sleep wake, overall health. Breathing.

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How to have a positive mindset when you're constantly restricted.

1. Let it out what you're pissed off about.

Make a detailed list about how the restrictions are affecting you. Make sure you don't leave anything out.

2. Workout what you can control and what you can't control.

Your list of all the things you're pissed off about include items that you can control and items you can't control. If you focus on the things you can't control you'll end up feeling shackled, flat, depressed or upset. It's important to only focus on the items you can control.

 3. Action the issues you can control

Feeling restricted will create felling of pain, anger and frustration. Taking action on the items you can control will use up the stress related hormones and energy you have produced to break out of your restricted feeling. Achieving goals that are set around things you can control help you feel resourceful and release neurotransmitters that make you feel good. In turn you this will improve your mindset.

4. Practice being ok with not being ok

This suggestion is given with the upmost respect to those who are truly suffering. However there is more pain inflected on ourselves when we struggle with not being ok with the things we can't control. Focusing on the environment or situation we can't control creates additional stress response. If you want to reduce the stress response then learn to be ok when you're not ok. This can be achieved with modification of self talk, mindfulness, breathing, exercise or a multitude of other methods.

Are you feeling restricted?

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Are you extremely good at a variety of different hobbies, talents and skills but fail to master one of your main goals?

Do you find yourself getting distracted by variety for the sake of variety AND in doing so you feel happy but miss out on feeling happy in your core?

Is all this variety in your life actually stopping you from achieving the life goals that are would make you ultimately fulfilled? If you changed your focus and achieved your life's purpose you would significantly alter the fulfilment in your life and overcome the need for having too much variety.

This podcast shows how variety of activities is preventing you from achieving your true purposeful goals and what you can do about it.