BALANCE - A Practical Handbook for Life's Difficult Moments by Suzie Doscher

Based on my professional and personal experiences relating to Personal Growth and Development I found that there are a number of issues everybody faces at one point or another. Becoming aware of and acquiring the life skill to handle the difficult moments makes a huge difference to the quality of your day-to-day life. 

Having certain life skills and knowing when to reach for one can be compared to knowing that the toothbrush is used to clean your teeth. If you want to be more selective what you say ‘yes’ to, means learning how to say ‘no’.  By choosing to behave differently, together with practice and repetition, the brain will rewire itself – neuroscience has proven this. For a more balanced and consequently better quality of life it is worth looking into which life skills your ‘tool kit’ needs acquiring or upgrading. Also, know that maintenance is of the utmost importance - just because you took one bath does not mean you never have to take another one!

In my coaching practice I like to take care of the ‘housekeeping’ before my client and I focus on achieving the goal they came to coaching for. By ‘housekeeping’ I mean finding out if certain skills are already in place, need exploring, upgrading or acquiring. To name a few:

•  Saying ‘No’
  
• Allowing yourself to take some ‘me time’
• Or knowing how to schedule time to think away from technology
• Having a grip on time management
• Understanding what to do in a stressful moment
• Being comfortable with asking for help
• Comfortable to communicate
• Knowing your Core Values
• Knowing that change involves practice and repetition! In time the brain rewires itself (you get rid of the ‘virus in the software’)
• Upgrading your social / interpersonal skills
• Enhancing your Self-Esteem / Self-Confidence
• Etc.
  

In coaching once the basic life skills are in place and being maintained we move on to focus on the goal and forward.

BALANCE – A Practical Handbook for Life’s Difficult Moments is the result of wanting everybody to have access to learn these skills without necessarily having to work with a coach, or as my clients tell me ‘they refer to the book when they need a ‘top up’.

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Suzie Doscher, July 2015
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