Tips for Growth - Richard Silk Coaching Services

Tips for Growth

Everyone deals with the same core issues of human interaction

Richard Silk Coaching Services offers a comprehensive model for human development. Understanding this process allows you to relate more effectively, under all circumstances. Bring feeling and informed insight to your relationships and practical life situations.

There are real benefits to knowing your own strengths and weaknesses

We are all a mix of emotional, physical and mental patterns. Know your dominant areas and those you need to develop further. This tool for understanding allows you to realize what to expect from yourself and others. Learn how to lead with strengths and build up areas of weakness.

Knowing the right questions—and how to ask them-is a crucial relational skill

Building trust and intimacy is the first step toward open communications. Learn to ask questions that reveal the real situation you have in front of you, without putting the other person on the defensive. The most basic tool to learn to use in any situation of stress or need, is to first - simply ask!

Self responsibility is the key to greater freedom and effectiveness

Struggle to undertake an exercise program? Trying gyms and giving up? Discover the keys to self-responsibility and self-discipline. Enjoy better health and success in life and work in the bargain. Self-managed health care requires a true inventory of where and why you are not making the grade. If you find yourself blaming others a lot, is that a warning bell?

It takes guts to feel unwanted without striking back

We are always on the lookout for signs that we're not appreciated, liked and loved. So much so, we misinterpret signals. Feeling unappreciated, we want to get even or strike back-and we usually do. First you need to see you are always "lying in wait" in all kinds of ways – little and not so little – to have your assumption be confirmed so you can be right. Getting past this self-defeating ritual is huge!

Being right is not as important as having good, loving relationships

Relationship is not about being right, which really is about having things your way. Two "my ways" need to become one agreement. Listen and find creative alternatives.

There's a balance between wanting to do things yourself and wanting help

Rooted in childhood and teenage years, all of us must learn to ask for and accept help when we really need it. Make your feelings and needs known and reach out in effective ways.

Recognizing your hidden agendas is a boon to effectiveness

We all have just a few, readily identifiable core emotional patterns that drive us – all the time. What are they? Do you often find yourself regretting having done something or asking yourself, "Why did I do that?" See that we do things and make reasons up afterwards for why we did what we did.

Everyone looks at life through their own colored glasses

Relating to and working with others successfully often requires the need to be aware that our perception of and feeling about things is different from everyone else's. You can't change things about other people – what they like, what they don't like, how they respond emotionally to anything. You can't turn a Ford into a Chevy as the saying used to go, so don't even try. Learn how to work creatively with human factors you can't change.

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