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Creating a “No Excuse Zone” around your Home, Office and in your Thoughts

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Below is Part 1 of a 3-Part article designed to help IT and database professionals stay on top of their game in an ever-changing  trade.  Part 1 and 2 describe examples of how we inadvertently make excuses for our lack of progress in certain areas of our careers.

Part 3 offers several steps toward creating “No Excuse Zones” in our home, office and thinking. For more examples that fit your specific work environment, please feel free to contact LauraRose@RoseCoaching.info.

Hello, this is Laura Lee Rose – Corporate Exit Strategist for the blooming entrepreneur – and I am a business and life coach that specializes in Time Management, Project management training and work-life balance strategies.  Over the recent weeks, I have met with several clients who got trapped in the ‘blame game’.  Oh, I’m not saying they were intentionally blaming other people or external circumstances for their current situation.  But they were relinquishing responsibility and ownership to feel better about their current lack of progress.  Therefore, today I am introducing the idea of creating “No Excuse Zones” in your home, work and life.

We all have ‘excuses’ as part of our normal, default speaking and thinking patterns.  It’s normal.  It’s human.  We often entertain ourselves with stories of how we got to where we ‘don’t want to be’.  We do not readily acknowledge these stories as ‘excuses’ or blaming something or someone external to ourselves for our predicament; we’re simply ‘explaining’ ourselves.  But the longer we stay in the ‘explaining’ stage of the current situation; the longer we are stalled and not making forward progress.

 

Assuring you a prosperous 2012

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Many people will be wishing you a “Happy New Year”. You deserve more that just a wish. I want to assure you a happy new year. Take the following 4 steps to assure yourself an exciting and prosperous 2012.

The 11 Most Influentials in 2011
designed to assure a prosperous 2012

As the year comes to a close, please take time to reflect on the people, places, and events that have made you who you are today. This would include both affirmative and challenging entities; for those items that most frustrated us in 2011 helped us clarify what we actually prefer. Use those most trying people or periods to create your 2012 goals.

4 Steps to a prosperous 2012:

  1. Create a list of the top 11 most influential people, places or things in your 2011 (TO YOU).
  2. Consider people, books, movies, event, and anything that made you think or expand.
  3. Write them (even if it’s an inanimate object) a thank you note describing how you changed because of your interaction with them.
  4. For those letters you will be sending out, include
    a. your 2012 plans and goals (This allows them to keep their eyes out for those opportunities.)
    b. a request or plan to ‘kick’ your interaction with them to the next level.

Let me know how you feel when you have completed this assignment.

If you would like see some letter templates, please let me know.

Surrounding yourself with success

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Professional development series

This is Laura Lee Rose, Corporate Exit Strategist for the blooming entrepreneur, and I am a business and life coach that specializes in professional development, time management, project management and work-life balance strategies. This is a segment from my Corporate Exit Strategy Leadership series

I’m driving back from a lovely weekend with a close friend. My friend’s son is twenty-one and living in her home rent-free. While I was there, my friend’s son had a series of good friends drop in throughout the weekend. Some spent the night and others had full access to the refrigerator, video games, etc. While my friend was happy that her son was safe, happy and had good friends, she was disappointed that he had quit his fast-food job. And he didn’t seem to be seriously looking for another position. He was taking some college classes but was currently taking a break. When his mom nags, he makes minimum motion toward filling out a job application at game/video retail shops. But it doesn’t seem to be self-initiated.

I certainly understood her frustration, so I asked, “He seems very popular. His friends seem very much at home here. Tell me more about them. Where do they live? What are they studying? Are they students in college? Do they have jobs? What are they passionate about?”

She shook her head and said, “Oh, they are very nice. They have known each other from high school. Matt shares an apartment with his brother. He doesn’t have a job. Joe lives with his grandmother. I don’t think he works. And Chris lives with his parents; he doesn’t go to school or work either…. “ Continue reading →