Career Coach News- Change Your Beliefs To Change Your Life

Career Coach News- Change Your Beliefs To Change Your Life

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I typically share with my career coaching clients that everything we do is based on agreements we make with ourselves, so when you desire to make changes, you need to make new agreements. But that can be difficult. When we try to plan a career or fashion a new path in life, many of us are not comfortable stepping out of our traditional boundaries. Our minds and hearts are often set to comfort. We want to circumvent risks or think that that new dream is a bit too much or too hard for us. Changing your attitude and committing to a new way of thinking can help you achieve the results you want. This is what I work with my career coaching clients to do.

In his book, The Four Agreements, Don Miguel Ruiz suggests four ways to liberate us from the fear and the illusions that create a belief system that can hold us back from going after what we truly want.

The Four Agreements are:
1. Be Impeccable with your Word: Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using your Word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.
2. Dont Take Anything Personally: Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you wont be the victim of needless suffering.
3. Dont Make Assumptions: Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.
4. Always Do Your Best: Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.

After reading Don Miguels wisdom, I was reminded that I am the only one in control of my thought patterns. It reaffirmed that I have the ability to shift my mindset from the notions that have produced self-doubt to notions that support trying something new. With this, I am able to shift my paradigm from a fear-based what if situation to knowing that the agreements I create with myself will influence my present and future. I work with my career coaching clients on this all the time.

For the majority of us, we have had routines set for a very long time. We have learned behaviors that have been with us since we were small children. Our parents rewarded us when we obeyed their rules/wishes and they reprimanded us when we didnt. How others think of us, and their reactions to us, became a very strong force in the patterns we formed. Through this process, we made agreements in our minds of who we should be or who we shouldnt be. Over time we learned to live according to the agreements of others.

If you choose to make changes in your life, you will be testing the beliefs and habits that youve carried with you since childhood. It may appear to be overwhelming!! But you can choose different patterns.

When you have the objective to attempt to make agreements with yourself, you can quickly shift your life by experiencing the freedom to make choices that honor your values.

By nature, I am a realist and I am aware that challenging the old fear-based beliefs is not always easy. It takes time and commitment to break free of the fear, inner judgment, and old emotional thought patterns, but this is a small distress when you understand the long- term strategy of creating fulfillment and satisfaction for your life. Life is short. Why not make it the best you can??

There is practically no limit to what you can achieve when you are agreeable to making a commitment to yourself to step outside of your box. Get clear as to what you want. Make a pledge to honor your commitment and go for it.

The Best Way to predict the future is to invent it. Alan Kay

About the Author:
Christine is a Career Coach with Career Coaching clients all around the world.
http://www.instituteforcoaching.com
http://www.meredithhaberfeld.com



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