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Gaining Focus

Life Coaching

Gaining focus course: Summary

This course made me much more self-critical about the way I use my time and plan my life. Making a career transition mid-life can be very intimidating. This course affirmed that by having a plan and a sense of focus I can accomplish my goals. Like most adults, I have a certain routine in my life to which I am accustomed. This course showed me how to build new routines in a positive ways, so I can incorporate them into my tasks as a financial planner. I also found that helping someone while learning time management techniques to benefit myself to be very inspiring. Even though she was very young, my mentee Tamara was able to learn the same skills to focus her goals and objectives and translate them into achieving her own goals at school and work. We were both able to benefit from the time management and multitasking skills conveyed to us by participating in the class. Everyone in modern society has so many competing needs and objectives -- to be a good student, parent, and worker -- careful planning is required to simply to get through the day, and even more so to make changes and engage in formal education.

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Using the Leonard (1992) text was very helpful, given Leonard's experience in martial arts. I liked his analogies about establishing a sense of 'flow' in which everything seems very fluid and easy, even though it is the result of a great deal of practice. The person practices and practices (regardless of whatever the task is he or she wishes to master) until all of the small actions that make up the task seem unconscious and fluid. This was useful to me because at times, when faced with the challenge of learning something as an adult I have been tempted to throw up my hands and give up -- old habits can be hard to break. Reading Leonard gave me confidence that learning is possible for all students, regardless of their chronological age.

Comparing my progress and Tamara's was also useful because it enabled me to see how different people have different learning styles, based upon their temperament and ages. I could see how the same techniques worked for both of us, even though we translated these ideas into our lives in different ways.

I also found this course very….....

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