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11-03-2012 10:43 http://www.dieterpauwels.com Personal life coach discusses key principles from the bestselling book The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle. "Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences. No excuses. No negativity. No psychic pollution. Keep your inner space clear." - Eckhart Tolle Dieter Pauwels is a life strategy coach. You can find more information at http://www.dieterpauwels.com

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Thanks to technology, we have access to informationand our jobs24 hours a day, seven days a week. However, this can lead to information overload, where we have multiple things to do, and not enough focus on any one task to get it done well. Margaret Moore, Founder and CEO of Wellcoaches and co-founder and co-director of the Institute of Coaching at McLean Hospital, teamed up with Dr. Paul Hammerness to share tips on how to clear your mind and be at the top of your game in their book Organize Your Mind, Organize Your Life: Train Your Brain to Get More Done in Less Time.

Q: What inspired you to write this book? A: Theres a lot interest in neuroscience and how we can apply it to our daily lives. This book came out of the idea of translating the science that weve learned from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) studies into helping everyone organize their minds. It was a partnership between psychiatrists at Harvard and wellness coaches. My job was to translate the science into self-coaching solutions. One of my visions is to bring forward the partnership of physicians and wellness coaches to help people make lasting changes, so it was a natural for me to work with a doctor. A doctor gives you your diagnosis, and thats all very nice, but now what do you do? How do you actually implement this? So, its a team effort.

Q: How does disorganization affect peoples lives? A: When your brain is full of negative emotions, frenzy, distraction and just overwhelmedyoure multitasking, and youre running aroundwhat happens is that you get very distended. Your brain gets worn down because its not designed to do all of these tasks. In todays world, weve got more distractions that take over our brain than ever before. You end up in this state of chaos and frenzy, and that makes it hard to get things done. Also, youre really tiredyoure too tired to even take care of yourself. So were kind of wearing out our brains, and that creates the disorganization. So, if you can have an energetic and organized mind, then everything goes better.

Q: What are some of the biggest distractions we face today? A: Well, I think the first would be that we have to-do lists that are too long. We think about the 32 things were not doing when were doing the one thing we need to focus on. The second thing is with all of these new technologies, you dont leave (the distractions) ever. Even when we go for social dinners, we cant leave our cell phones behind. So you think about the amount of distractions we have, its never been greater. Were all kind of hyper-distracted. The back of the brain was built to be looking for distractions all the time, so when you have too many, you overwhelm the front part of your brain. (The front part of the brain) is the thinking part which mitigates brains ability to cope and set distractions aside to get calm and focused and creative. The third factor is that all of these factors cause a downward spiral, which leads us to not have the energy to exercise and eat well and make good choices, and then our brain works even less well because our brain needs good fuel, rest and exercise. The brain works far better when we exercise regularly. When we dont do all those things, then we make it even worse. So I would say those are the three big things: getting overwhelmed, the amount of distraction we face, and the fact were not taking care of ourselves.

Q: So, if youre a naturally disorganized person, how do you start getting organized? A: Well, first, I would build on what you already know works. Think about the combinations of things that put you in a calm statesay first thing in the morning. And rather than try to have really good focus for eight hours a day, set a goal for 30 minutes. Put yourself in the right frame of mindwhether you work out or do deep breathing or look at a picture that makes you feel good. Whatever you can do to get yourself into a good place. Set small goals. So, if you have a day now where every five minutes you change your focus to a different thing, give yourself a half-hour of complete focus. Turn your phone off, turn your wireless off, close your door and just enjoy getting into one thing. When you do that, youre creative, and you get the big picture. Q: How does getting organized improve your life? A: When you scatter your focus across a lot of things, nothing gets done well. You dont connect the dots and see patterns, and get to this strategysort of above the tree. And when youre sitting in the trees all the time, with all the distractions, youre not feeling great about how youre doing on a project or how youre relating to your spouse or your child. Everything feels not quite right, and that leads you to be more down at the end of the day. The advantage to having these high-quality focus times, even though you still have the 32 things to do, is that every day you get a few things done really beautifully. You feel like youre at your own level of brilliance. Also, you can let go of all the other things (on your to-do list) when you know youve done a great job with a few things. That puts you into a whole different frame of mind, and you then begin to steadily knock things off the list, do a great job, and everything gets done. It gets you into the calm, thoughtful, strategic, energetic place. You have a lot more energy, and you feel a lot better about your life. Youre more alive. Your energy is more alive because youre using it well.

Q: What tips can you offer to people who already feel like theyre organized? A: Even the super organizedbecause Im one of those people toowere still overloading with too much to do. One thing that happens to people like us is that were able to focus, but we have trouble stopping our focus and take a rest because we can sit for hours. So what happens is we get ourselves depleted without realizing it. We actually have to make ourselves get up and take a break and change focuswhereas other people are always taking a break. So focused people dont have that, but then we dont stop, and we burn ourselves out. And focused people still get distracted: I was recently doing a workshop on a Saturday morning, and I got up at 5 am. I decided I was going to take 15 minutes for coffee, looking out at the ocean. Im sitting there, and next thing you know, Im sitting at my laptop, writing an e-mail to my client at 5:30 in the morning on a Saturday. I looked at myself and thought, what am I doing here? My brain was hi-jacked. It takes nothing. We all are subject to distraction. All of us, organized or not, have negative frenzy, and so we all have to look at managing the frenzy, so that it doesnt impair or ability to do things or to be creative.

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Sometimes you just have to laugh at life and all its strange turns.

Roger Crebs has spent the last 19 years of his life coaching wrestlers through Lycoming's program.

And he's done so with plenty of success. Enough, in fact, to merit an induction into the National Wrestling Coaches Association Division III Hall of Fame. But therein lies the strange turn taken by life on what appeared to be a straight road with no turn-offs.

Lycoming, with a 7-8 dual meet record, finished with a losing mark for the first time in 25 years. And with that mark came Crebs' predicament until Warrior wrestler Stephen Hinton qualified for the NCAA?Division III?tournament this weekend in La Crosse, Wis., site of this weekend's NWCA coaches' social and induction ceremony.

"I wasn't planning on making the trip. This is a time to recruit and my personnal endeavors don't come ahead of the team," Crebs said. "Stephen was great at the ECWC Championships. It was a huge tournament for him and it paid our way to come here."

The tournament might have paid for the trip, but it was Crebs and Hinton's long hours of work that ultimately punched the pair's tickets.

Hinton entered the ECWC tournament as the fourth seed and trampled the competition to secure the eighth seed at NCAA Division III Championships. He finished the tournament 1-2 on Friday, falling in the consolation second round.

"His career has been full of ups and downs," Crebs said. "He came into the school as a 103-pounder and overtime he's grown into the 125 weight class."

Hinton, from Montclair, Va., has shown steady improvement each season with the team.

In his first season, one of major adjustment, Hinton, stumbled to a 5-11 mark while trying to fit into his new weight class.

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ROB VARELA/THE STAR Marty Lythgoe is one of five newest members of the county sports hall of fame. 3/8/12 VENTURA, CA

Ironic, isn't it?

If Marty Lythgoe thrived as the ultimate team player and consistent performer on the basketball court, in life he became as unreliable as a weather report.

If the former Ventura High standout whose mentors included the legendary Bob Tuttle ruined his own goal of becoming a basketball coach, today he shines as a "coach" with a higher calling.

"I think about that all the time," said Lythgoe, who also played three seasons at Brigham Young University. "I really feel like a greater plan is at work here.

"I always thought the best coaches were those who had a gift for communicating and getting their points across. They seem to have the 'it' factor. I like to think that I did become a coach after all these years, and that I can help the people I work with because I've been exactly where they are now."

From 1963 to 1965, the 6-foot-5 Lythgoe was a standout forward for the Ventura High boys basketball team who averaged 21 points per game and earned Channel League Player of the Year and all-CIF-Southern Section honors. In his junior season, the Cougars finished 24-5, won the Channel League championship and advanced to the quarterfinals of the Southern Section playoffs.

He subsequently accepted a scholarship to BYU and become a key member of the basketball team.

Then came the dark years. From 1970 through 1984, the self-described "partier" drank too much, ingested too many drugs and spent too many hazy days pursuing substance-induced binges.

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Gluttons for punishment Michael Hagan and Brad Fittler have enjoyed their time in coaching.

Coaching offers high rewards, high pressure and can be highly addictive, writes Adrian Proszenko.

f you go into coaching for job security,'' says Tim Sheens, the man who has coached more NRL games than anybody else, ''you're probably going to go out very quickly.''

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Which is why, when Michael Hagan took over the reins from Warren Ryan at Newcastle in 2001, he asked the great clipboard holder for a tip. Wok responded with just one word: ''Rent.''

So, we are led to believe that, if you're looking for stable employment, you don't want to be an NRL coach. That the space between being hired and fired could be just a handful of losses. Right? Wrong.

Here's a statistic that busts the myth - the average lifespan of an NRL coach is 93 games. That's almost four seasons in the big time to prove you're up to it. The surprising statistic will come as welcome news to Steve Price, Michael Maguire, Geoff Toovey and Brian McClennan, the men taking up the NRL clipboard for the first time this year.

The figure, which is calculated from the beginning of the NRL era in 1998, is slightly bloated by the contribution of veteran coaches Sheens, Wayne Bennett and Brian Smith. If you take out the contributions of the ''Three Kings'' during that period, the number drops to 80 games. Surprisingly, of all the coaches during that time, only one - South Sydney's Steve Martin in 1998 - was punted before seeing out his first season.

While it may still be prudent to rent rather than buy, the numbers suggest most coaches will get a fair crack despite the pressure for immediate results. To put that into perspective, most coaches are likely to enjoy a shelf life almost 18 months longer than the players they are mentoring.

''I understand the difference between why some go and why some don't,'' said Sheens, who has four premierships to go with his record 646 appearances in the coach's box and on the sidelines.

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by Adam Carrington acarrington@mdjonline.com The Marietta Daily Journal

Hillgrove coach Sheryl Fowler looks at the scoreboard as she inserts her final substitutions in Fridays game. Staff photo by Jon-Michael Sullivan

After leading Hillgrove to a 26-5 record and an appearance in the Class AAAAA state championship game, Fowler is calling it a career after 30 seasons on the bench.

The Cobb County native spent her first seven years at the original Campbell High School, then 16 years at McEachern before wrapping up the final six years of her career with the Lady Hawks.

Fowler never won a state championship, but after two appearances in the state finals, four trips to the semifinals and racking up 568 victories, theres nothing for her to be ashamed of.

The veteran mentor coached her final game Friday against her former McEachern team in the Class AAAAA state championship. After making a third-quarter surge to get within striking range, the Lady Hawks fell 69-36 to the undefeated Lady Indians (33-0), a team that may have made a strong case at finishing as the nations top-ranked team.

She has always distinguished herself as a great coach, and we hated to see her go, McEachern athletic director Jimmy Dorsey said. What she and (current McEachern coach) Phyllis (Arthur) have been able to do with girls basketball (at McEachern) is a testament to both of them. Since shes retiring, Im happy she got a chance to end her career in a state championship game.

Fowler is known for building teams and dedicates many hours working with varsity players and youngsters. Shes a fundamental coach who emphasizes the basics of dribbling, shooting, rebounding and passing.

Fowler applied the simple basics when she was hired to rebuild the McEachern program in 1990. She turned the Lady Indians into a regular 20-win team and ended her stay at McEachern with nine straight postseason appearances.

When I first took the McEachern job (in 2006), I heard they had gone to state nine years in a row. That made me nervous and wanted to go to state, Arthur said. I remember telling the girls that were not going to be the ones that mess it up.

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03-10-2011 19:52 http://www.startlifecoaching.com.au Having an understanding of history of NLP can be an important factor for anyone looking to become a Life Coach or is an existing Life Coach .The Life Coaching course with the Australian Institute of Life Coaches explains this to students who want to become Life Coaches. In the early 1970's a 20 year old psychology student at the University of California, Santa Cruz (Richard Bandler) met and befriended an associate professor of linguistics there (John Grinder). Bandler had originally majored in mathematics and computer science but had switched when the field of behavioural sciences piqued his interest. Hence why NLP is usually said to have been created by a linguist and a computer programmer. Bandler had become particularly interested in the work of therapists Virgina Satir and Fritz Perls and began to run various workshops and study groups around the subject of gestalt therapy. Soon Bandler and Grinder began to work together to develop a behavioural syntax for gestalt therapy ie what skills and techniques would help a person overcome a problem. Adopting an approach of "if it works, use it - if it doesn't work, try something else" they analysed writings and tape recordings to discover the roots of what allowed Satir and Perls to produce such remarkable results. Ideas, insights, and techniques were tried out on friends (including Sleight of Mouth author Robert Dilts, Judith DeLozier, Leslie Cameron Bandler, and David Gordon) who soon joined them ...

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14-11-2011 12:09 Dr. Henry Cloud talks about the Life Coaching 12-month program as the structured path you need to achieve your goals! For more information visit http://www.cloudtownsend.com

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Jim Femia, a certified college planning specialist with the National Institute of Certified College Planners, will be conducting a series of free educational workshops to parents of local area high school students interested in learning more about the college admissions process and how to access financial aid. The sessions will be held at the Swampscott Public Library on Monday evening, March 12; at the Abbot Public Library on Tuesday evening, March 13; and at the Salem Police Department on Thursday, March 15. All of these workshops are scheduled to begin at 7 p.m., and reservations are required.

Femia has recently joined CollegeBound Coaching as a principal and as a financial-aid consultant. CollegeBound Coaching is a North Shore consulting firm, which provides college preparation and admissions services based upon a new and innovative student life coaching methodology.

CollegeBound Coaching has also recently launched a new and innovative, personalized college-visit service called Campus Connections. CollegeBound Coaching and Campus Connections are currently hiring and training college students on campuses across the country to assist its professional staff in working with high school students and their families.

I am excited to be working with CollegeBound Coaching so as to be able to deliver the highest level of college preparation and admissions services, said Femia. Having a daughter in college myself and a son who will soon be engaging in the college admissions process, I am keenly aware of the many challenges and stresses that other parents are facing. Through our network of qualified, professional partners and carefully selected, well-trained college students, we are able to provide real solutions to meet the specific needs of these families.

Femia will address a number of compelling areas, which are likely to be of significant interest to parents with children in high school who are going to be applying to college.

Many families inaccurately believe that they are ineligible for financial aid, Femia explained, whereas others, many of them middle class and upper middle-class, pay close to nothing for their childrens college educations. I am going to explain how to position your eligibility status, and how best to position your children so as to take advantage of the many opportunities for financial aid which exist at colleges and universities across the country.

In order to reserve your seat at one of these upcoming financial aid workshops, you can either call 800-689-5195 or send e-mail to register@collegeboundcoaching.com.

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Jose Mourinho has stated his belief that coaching Real Madrid was a necessary experience in order to see himself as one of the greatest trainers in the world.

The Portuguese boss left Inter for Real Madrid in the summer of 2010, and is thoroughly enjoying his time in charge of the Primera Division leaders.

"I felt fine at Inter, but I thought I had to coach Real Madrid at some point in my career in order to feel I was at one of the greats," Mourinho said on a press conference.

"There are many positive aspects to the experience so far and some negative, like in everything else in life, but the experience has been unforgettable and fantastic, and it is allowing me to be better at what I do."

The former Chelsea manager then went on to discuss the highs and lows of his spell in charge of Madrid.

"It's hard to say which have been the best and worst moments for me so far. Pragmatically speaking, the best time is when you win a title and the worst when you lose, such as leaving the Champions League.

"Every victory is a good moment for me and every defeat is a sour point. I'd rather make general assessments and our numbers are currently good; they point towards us winning a title. We will try to keep up the good work to try to win the league for Real Madrid."

Real Madrid currently hold a 10-point lead over Barcelona in the Liga table and face Betis in the league on Saturday evening.

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