Thursday, March 15, 2012

Learning or Procrastinating?

When do you step over the line from a level of continuous learning and personal development to becoming a 'seminar' junkie and end up using learning as a way to procrastinate and not actually take action on the things you have already learnt?

I developed a love for all things personal development a few years ago now when I joined a property investor mentorship program. Althoughthe information provided on property investing was outstanding it was the personal development side of the program on mindset, goal setting etc that really resonated with me. In addition of course to the many wonderful friendships developed throughout the program despite the initial feelings of terror I felt walking into a roomful of 400 or so strangers at my first meeting.

From here I moved onto doing various other personal development seminars, often being multi-speaker events where each presenter offered there own program. So many choices, and with a thirst to take on all this wonderful new information a challenge to decide what programs would best suit me. I've purchased a number of programs which after giving some of them a go, realized they were not the ones for me and I moved on to the next one.

When I came upon life coaching I knew straight away it was something I wanted to do. Through coaching I not only am able to change how I think about me and take action to achieve what I want form life, I am able to assist others in doing the same in their lives.

Since qualifying as a life coach I have continued to educate myself and it would appear that with my previous held qualifications as a Registered Nurse/Midwife and my most recent additions in the form of ACT therapy and HypnoBirth Practitioner that it might be time to hold off on any additional qualifications for a while otherwise I'll have to many to fit on the one business card.

In addition to not fitting on the business card it would seem that I probably have sufficient knowledge and skills to assist those who need my assistance in achieving what they want in life however it won't do much good to them or me if I'm not available to meet their needs because I am too busy off learning the next skill or technique that appears before me.

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