It
is very hard to bring about significant change
without changes in behavior.
Ready
to reduce your worries, restore balance to your
life and work on producing the results that are
most important to
you?
Every year, we
gain a clearer understanding that without positive
change, decline is inevitable. Still it's easy to
lose hope: barriers to change seem to be
everywhere. We work in organizations that aren't
much fun. We fail to gain
work/life
balance
that is so important to us but so difficult to
sustain. Looking ahead, the challenge is to
recognize that what we are now tolerating can be
reinvented. We can take revolutionary steps to
achieve the evolutionary goals that are important
to us.
The
5-Day New Habit
Week
helps you replace unproductive work habits and old
ineffective approaches with new work habits that
leave you more productive, satisfied and fulfilled.
During five consecutive days of 1/2 hour telephone
coaching conversations, we work together to create
the foundation for a self-directed
learning
experience---to move you to a new specific habit of
the way you want to be from where you are today.
The 5-day program
is the launch pad where you select one new habit
you would like to create within a strong image of
your ideal self, as well as take an accurate
picture of your real self--who you are now. During
our 5-day conversations, we help you reach a better
understanding of how change happens--including
paying closer attention to our own powerful pull
not to change. By being more aware of the
underlying resistance to change, we can become more
effective in generating positive change and
meaningful growth.
It is very hard
to bring about significant change without changes
in behavior. It is very hard to sustain significant
change without significant change in the underlying
meanings that give rise to our behaviors. By
recognizing and paying attention to the powerful
countervailing motion that maintains a remarkable
balance, we begin to understand the power of this
equilibrating process that continuously
manufactures immunity to change. We become less
embedded in our immune system (that protects us
from change) when we can see and deeply appreciate
the power of entropy (which is what happens when we
stop using something--'what you don't use, you
lose' ) and dynamic equilibrium (which is the
tendency in nature for things to stay the same or
to balance out).
To
order the 5-Day New Habit Week
Program
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How
the Brain Works to Power Lifelong
Learning
Learning new
habits involves circuitry that runs between the
brain's executive centers in the prefrontal lobes
and the brain's limbic system, which governs
feelings, impulses and drives. Skills based in the
limbic areas, research shows, are best learned
through motivation, extended practice and feedback.
Compare that kind
of learning with what goes on in the neocortex
which governs analytical and technical ability. The
neocortex grasps concepts quickly, placing them
within an expanding network of associations and
comprehension. The thinking brain can comprehend
something after a single hearing or
reading.
The limbic or
emotional brain, on the other hand, is a much
slower learner--particularly when the challenge is
to relearn deeply ingrained habits. This difference
matters immensely when trying to replace old habits
with new habits. Reeducating the limbic brain for
new learning, therefore, requires a different model
from what works for the thinking brain: It needs
lots of practice and repetition. That is why new
habit "rituals" must be self-directed and practiced
every day to allow the limbic brain to make the new
habit part of the 'new you' over time.
The good news is
that the brain's ability to sprout fresh
connections continues throughout life. It just
takes more effort and energy to learn in adulthood
lessons that would have come more readily in our
early years---because these new lessons fight an
uphill battle against the ingrained patterns the
brain already has in place. We have to undo habits
that do not work for us and replace them with new
ones that do.
The person being
coached will have to work harder and longer to
change a habit than when s/he learned it in the
first place. The sincere desire and concerted
effort expended after the 5-day program will be
important to make the new habit happen. The 5-day
program will only set the foundation for change
because new habits can not be learned through a
brief seminar or coaching program. Because the
limbic brain learns more slowly---and requires more
practice---than the neocortex, it takes effort
beyond the 5-day program to create and practice the
rituals necessary to make the new habit stick. And
because the kind of limbic-brain learning just
described takes more time and practice, it's also
much more likely to be retained.
Once the person
being coached has become aware of how to improve
during the 5-Day New Habit Week Program, s/he
continues to develop new strengths on his or her
own.
Guided
Self-Directed Learning
The results of
practicing the new habit over time are that they
become part of your new real self. Often, with
changes in your habits, come changes in your
aspirations and dreams, your ideal self.
During the 5-day
coaching program, the person being coached goes
through the discovery of uncovering an ideal vision
of him or her self to feel motivated to develop the
abilities to create and sustain the new habit. That
is, you see the person you want to be---living with
the new habit. This becomes the source of the
energy required to work at the difficult and often
frustrating process of change.
Now that you know
where you want to be, the next step is to look in
the mirror to discover who you actually are
now--how the current habit is making you act, how
others view you and what your deep beliefs
comprise. Some of this reflection will represent
gaps between who you are and who you want to be.
The realization
of the gap(s) prepares you for developing an agenda
or plan of action needed for the detailed guidance
on what new rituals to try each day to make the new
habit sticky--building on your strengths and moving
you closer to your ideal.
Others help us
see things we are missing, affirm whatever progress
we have made, test our perceptions and let us know
how we are doing. They provide the context for our
practice of the new rituals. Although the model is
called self-directed learning, without others'
involvement, lasting change can't occur.
The 5-day New
Habits Week program, helps the person being coached
to visualize the new habit, reflect on where s/he
is today, develop an action plan to move from here
to there and to determine who can be of help to
allow the lasting change to occur. The person being
coached has complete responsibility to lead and
manage the self-directed learning process. The
5-Day New Habit Week only provides the form in
which to pour the foundation for change.
Purchase the
5-Day coaching package for yourself or someone you
care about to participate in this intensive
New
Habit Week
Program
telephone coaching experience for only $495:
Online payment by
credit card preferred. We accept VISA, MasterCard,
Discover and American Express credit
cards.
Questions?
Contact
us by email
with your questions or to schedule a coaching
conversation.
"Have you
ever watched, listened, and felt someone tuning a
guitar or other string instrument? That is what it
is like to have the good fortune of connecting with
John
Agno.
He is a living tuning fork and you're that string
instrument. Today, I have greater self awareness,
am more in step with my calling, and better able to
appreciate the journey, including the valleys, than
ever before. Thanks, John for helping me get
attuned with my life
signature."
Coaching
Relationship: In the 5-Day coaching
relationship, the Client sets the new habit goal
and the Coach helps to clarify the vision,
functioning more as a partner than as an expert.
The Client has been made aware that the coaching
relationship is in no way to be construed as
psychotherapy, psychological counseling, or any
type of therapy. In the event the Client feels the
need for professional counseling or therapy, it is
the responsibility of the Client to seek a licensed
professional.
Call
Procedure: The Client will call the Coach at
the prearranged time and telephone number as
scheduled. Please remember that rescheduling or
cancellations of calls must be made 24 hours in
advance. There will be no refund or credit for
cancellations made less than 24 hours prior to a
scheduled session.
Payment
Schedule: The Coach is paid at the beginning of
the agreed to 5-day period of coaching services to
be provided on behalf of the Client. The first
coaching session will begin once the 5-day schedule
has been agreed to by the Client and Coach.
The
client may pay for 5-day program online with a
VISA, MasterCard or American Express credit
card.
Termination:
The Client may cancel at anytime. Cancellation must
be in writing by email message. Client is
responsible for any unpaid outstanding coaching
services performed up to the date of the
cancellation notice.
Confidentiality:
The Coach recognizes that the Client may share
future plans, business affairs, customer lists,
financial information, job information, goals,
personal information, and other private
information. The Coach will not at any time, either
directly or indirectly, voluntarily use any
information for the Coach's own benefit, or
disclose, or communicate this information to a
third party. While the Coach will do everything in
his power to keep communication confidential, the
Client is aware that there are certain exceptions.
For example, communication by email can potentially
be intercepted or email archives can be subpoenaed
from Internet Service Providers or other parties in
the event of a lawsuit.
Where
do you want to be? What's the biggest challenge you
have? Are you doing today what you do
best?
If you are really
committed to what you want to do, let's have a
conversation about getting there from here. We
would be pleased to provide you a quotation based
upon an understanding of what you seek in a
coaching relationship.
Call now
734.426.2000 (US Eastern Time Zone) or email
johnagno@signatureseries.com
to arrange for a consultation to discuss where you
are heading. To learn more about John G. Agno,
certified executive and business coach,
click
here.
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