A Time In Life Of A Life Coach

Friday, July 10, 2009

Inner Strength The Source of Self-Esteem

Here I am! I disappeared for a few days because I am working on a number of different projects, which are consuming my time. But don’t worry, it’s time well spent on two books I’m authoring. The first book is “A To Z of How To Build Confidence and Self Esteem” and the second book I’ve been working on for almost 3 years, titled “A Time In Life”.

A to Z of How To Build Confidence and Self-Esteem is about the power to judge oneself and to think positively about one’s abilities and strengths.

Self-confidence is the ability to accept reality and face it with courage, being fully aware of one’s own inner strengths and weaknesses.

Success is a process of progressive realization of worthy goals. Self-confidence and self-esteem are two most important ingredients for success.

To build self-confidence and self-esteem first you must know yourself. Self-confidence or self-esteem is the only path that can lead to your desired success, and beyond.

A To Z of How To Build Confidence And Self Esteem will be available at my website www.brunologreco.com Friday July 17th. Visit www.brunologreco.com and enter your name and email into the e-newsletter form. Next week, when I release my book I will notify you by email.

And I’m not telling you about “A Time In Life” yet. What I will tell you is that I am almost finished with writing the book. I'm very excited!

So that’s what I’ve been working on this past week. And even though I am busy, I am taking time for me during the week and weekend, and I hope you are too.

Have a great weekend!

Bruno LoGreco Life Coach & Mentor

Sunday, July 5, 2009

Bruno LoGreco, Master Life Coach (se7ep148)

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Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Change The Rhythm Of Your Life

Can you remember the last time you did something spontaneous and had fun doing it? Something without a plan - it just happened. You had no time to think and to strategize an outcome, the only time you did have was used to dive into the experience. And because you did not have a strategy the only thing you could do was enjoy the experience as it unfolded. The memory is so vivid in your mind that it puts a smile on your face. What does that memory feel like? Close your eyes and experience the feeling as if it were happening all over again.

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Open your eyes. Welcome back!

Take some time and reflect on your memory. Write in a journal what you felt during that experience. Try to articulate the emotions and feelings more than the experience itself. Use descriptive adjectives to capture the essence of your emotions.

Have fun today. Change the rhythm of your life. Step away from your thoughts and allow your joyful, happy attitude to dominate your day.

Bruno LoGreco Life Coach & Mentor

Monday, June 29, 2009

A Fairy Tale Fantasy Life

Imagine for a moment living a fantasy life. Everything in your life is looked after for you. The roof over your head, the food you eat and your day-to-day expenses are all looked after. Life is nothing more than fantasy – a fairy tale.

What’s a fantasy without a dream, nothing right? So your dream is to become a rap singer. You write your own songs, you even go as far as recording an album. You meet music executives and exchange business cards only to never hear from them again. You even meet with a celebrity music executive who said, “The chances of you becoming a professional singer are slim to none.”

The pursuit of your fantasy has come at a cost. You’re divorced and have no relationship with your grown children. You’re sad and lonely and realize that you are not getting any younger. But, because you never took responsibility for your life, you simply don’t know how to and you can’t accept that it is challenging. You believe anything but a fantasy life is too difficult to achieve. So you continue to live your fantasy life, believing there is nothing to worry about - you still have a roof over your head, food to nourish you, and a singing career ahead of you.

You must be clueless or completely oblivious. To never stop to think about what will happen if whoever is supporting you decides to all of a sudden cut you off. What if he or she finds another person to support, someone that is half your age and that is more attractive, and doesn’t have the baggage that you do? What if your singing career never takes off? What if you don’t have what it takes to be a professional singer?

What will you do, what is your plan B? And don't forget that you are 45?

Bruno LoGreco Life Coach & Mentor

Saturday, June 27, 2009

Loved, Safe and Secure -A Place of Belonging

Love is a strong affection towards a person, place or thing. It generates a variety of different feelings. Love is a euphoric state of being. It is a simple pleasure such as a meal or something decadent. It is also an intense attraction to a person. Love is an extremely powerful emotion with diverse meaning that makes it difficult to define. When combined with the variety of complex feelings involved, everyone will have a different definition and expectation of love.

At the core of every human being is love. Everyone has love in them, but not everyone knows how to receive or express love. Everyone seeks and needs love from the moment their born up until their final moment, and yet it is the one emotion people will also run from.

Children require unconditional love. They must always feel that they are loved and safe no matter what. They need to feel confident with their looks and secure with their feelings. They need to receive encouragement and praise for their accomplishments. They need to know everything will be okay even when they make a mistake. But most of all, children need to feel like they belong even if how they appear form the outside is not how they feel from the inside.

Children know deep within their soul when something doesn’t feel right. When everything is obscure and confusing - when nothing fits the feelings. They question their feelings with confusion and will feel like they don’t belong if they do not feel loved, safe and secure. And those that don’t feel like they belong will seek someone that does fit the feelings in hopes of receiving the love they long for.

Children who develop into adults that never accept how they feel from the inside and never learned what love, safe and secure means will continue to seek love until they find it. In the name of love converting into someone they’re not is effortless, but living it day and night is. So it is just a matter of time before the feelings don’t fit anymore and the search for love continues.

Bruno LoGreco Life Coach & Mentor

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Ten Powerful Self-Coaching Tips

By Bruno LoGreco

Are you living the life of creativity and happiness that you've always dreamed of, or are you allowing your fears or other outside factors to influence you?

Following the path that your heart's desires requires courage and might require a shift in attitude. There are several methods you can use to act as your own life coach and start working toward the life you dream of.

Ideas for self-improvement

You don't need to change every aspect of your life at once in order to improve your attitude and outlook on life. Self-improvement can feel daunting if you try to change everything at once.

A good way to embark on your journey of self-coaching is to make one change and see what kind of impact it has upon your life. The following tips are designed to help you improve your life and become your own life coach. Try out one of the following tips at a time to positively impact your attitude and daily life.

1. Find some ‘you' time. Everyone needs time alone to meditate and recharge. You may think you don't have extra time in your day. Start with 10-20 minutes to use for meditation or silent reflection.

2. Ask yourself what you truly want in life. Are you living your life according to your true dreams and desires? You may be unaware of your desires that lie hidden beneath your surface needs and wants, so take the time to find out.

3. Write everything down. Even if your thought seems silly, write it down! You may be surprised by the inspiration and ideas you can come up with.

4. Journal daily, but with a twist. Instead of just writing about today, try writing about yesterday.

5. Keep track of the "happy moments." Each day has potential for many small moments that bring joy and happiness. If you don't make a special note of them, you may not even recognize the small joys in your day.

6. Choose one task each night to complete the next day. This way, you have focus, and you accomplish at least one task. Tasking and taxing yourself with effort is important in reaching goals.

7. Smile when you wake up. Smiling is contagious. By smiling you improve your mood and can potentially improve someone else's day as well.

8. Give thanks each night. Gratitude will improve your outlook on life and help you see all the good and wonderful moments of your day.

9. Try something new. A new experience fuels creativity and your enjoyment of the day.

10. Create at least one memorable moment each day. Make each day unforgettable, even if in a small way!

Taking the next step with a life coach

Self-coaching tips are great ideas for helping you improve your life. However, you can take your life to the next level with a life coach and mentor. A professional life coach can help you set goals and help you move forward with your dreams. If you're looking for the right path toward happiness, a life coach can help you discover the path your heart truly desires.

Want to learn more about self-improvement? Bruno LoGreco is a Life Coach Toronto and mentor. Visit BrunoLoGreco.com and find out how to unleash your potential for success and happiness.

The Success Indicators on Your Life Path

Many people seek out a particular goal in their life path and are content when they achieve it. The chance to broaden their horizons or learn new things within an existent structure is not as appealing to them as it is to some others. This is an issue that arises in many individuals because they mistakenly think they have achieved what they wanted to in their lives. The plethora of environmental noise around them begins to infringe upon their goals and forces them to lose sight of what they truly wanted.

A good way to think of this problem is to envision a large square box. This is not just any box though. Rather, in this case, your box has been divided into three separate, but equally shaped rectangular boxes, all stacked on top of one another. Each of these rectangular boxes is a highly important expression of your life goals -- individual levels of success. Within each of these levels of success is an indicator that tells you how close you are to becoming successful in this area of your life.

Every area of your life that you identify as a potential path for success can be further divided, containing the many different events and obstacles you will encounter as you strive to reach your goals. Think of each sector of your life as being divided even further, with three new sections within one of the three stacked boxes (sectors). Within each stacked box are three separate sections, divided by dotted lines that make up the life path you will follow. These dotted lines are not the same as the solid lines dividing the sectors -- they are a path that you have envisioned since childhood -- a series of goals and pathways to success that you want to follow.

As young people, these life paths may not be fully formed. Or they might be crystal clear in our minds--long, straight life paths from the early days of college and adult living to the ultimate goal of success that you have always strived for. You can see exactly what you need to do to reach each success indicator and achieve what you have set out to accomplish. And you probably did just this. After all, your goals as a youth were to be successful in the same way that you saw thousands of others live their lives. You wanted to reach your success indicators and experience the measure of success by which you would measure you life for decades to come.

However, nothing is ever as simple as we envision it during youth. There are countless factors that interfere with your ability to clearly see those success indicators and life paths to success. These factors, or "Environmental Noise," can be detrimental to even the most focused of individuals. Think of what would happen if you dumped the contents of downtown New York into your box and tried to maintain your focus on those goals. Would you even be able to see your life path anymore?

Everyone must travel their life path with environmental noise inundating them from all sides. It begins to become cloudy. The dotted lines, our life paths, begin to look like the straight lines and the success indicators start to be confused with any number of different distractions.

And then something will happen and you will realize that you are in fact nowhere near the original success indicators you set for yourself. Everything has changed and yet you are stuck in a way. You are deep within the center of the middle rectangular box and you have no idea which way to go or how to get back on track. The noise only grows louder and you grow dizzy trying to regain your focus.

It is in this instant that you must clear the noise and return to the basic, almost instinctive mode of thought you experienced as a child. What did you want from life? Where did you want to go? What do you need to get to that point? What was my life path? All of these questions must be asked without the distractions of the world around you muddying up your thought process. When you can revert to a very simple perspective of the world and only spend time thinking of what you want from life, you can be that much more successful.

You can succeed in life despite the environmental noise, cruising down your life paths and moving through your rectangles with ease, but oftentimes you need a helping hand to clear away the noise and look at life with fresh eyes. There is nothing wrong with asking for help to weed out these distractions and remove the clutter from your life sectors with a professional life coach.

Is your life path inundated with environmental noise? Learn how you can lift the noise and begin reestablishing your success indicators today. Visit www.brunologreco.com a Life Coach Toronto today.

Mastering Self-Awareness

Imagine a world colored in just black and white, with shades of gray. The sky would be a dull slate and the tree stark black. It would be dismal, wouldn't it? But now imagine a Technicolor world full of rich, vibrant colors. Blue skies, emerald green grass and bright, vivid flowers! It would be quite a dramatic difference.

This is the dramatic shift you would experience, just by learning to heighten your self-awareness and awaken to your life's true purpose. Self-awareness--or the lack of it--colors how we see and experience the world. Mastering self-awareness opens up a whole new world of opportunity, advantages and experiences.

What is Self-Awareness?

True self-awareness is having an unvarnished and clear perception of your personality, thoughts and feelings. It is an unbiased view of your individual strengths and weaknesses, as well as an unfiltered inventory of your internal thoughts, beliefs, motivations and corresponding emotions.

When you are in touch with your true feelings and self-aware of your own thoughts and emotions, you are able to fully understand others without judgment and react accordingly. But heightening awareness can be difficult to achieve due to beliefs and mistruths we have adopted, unwillingly and unknowingly over the years. I call these misperceptions "environmental noise." They cloud the way you perceive others and, more importantly, how you perceive yourself.

Clearing away these false beliefs and learning to master self-awareness takes time and dedication. It can also be taught by a life coach. The first step on the journey of life coaching and awakening to your life's purpose is mastering self-awareness.

How to Achieve Self-Awareness
Now that we have discussed the importance of heightening your self-awareness, let's look at a few exercises that help to focus and guide your self-awareness.<

Meditation
If you wanted to get to know someone, you would plan to spend time together--perhaps talking over dinner or a drink. You would write the date on the calendar and eliminate any external distractions. And then, having made this person a priority, you would take the time to talk, converse and, most importantly, LISTEN to your new friend. Meditation requires the same effort and practices in order to get to know YOU. First, schedule time for yourself. Then remove any distractions so you can concentrate on the dialogue and conversation you will have with yourself. Then LISTEN. Ask yourself questions. Note your emotions when you hear yourself answer. Meditation is a dialogue, a dance, and a daily practice.

Life Coaching
There is no quicker path to awakening your life's purpose than consulting with a qualified life coach. By participating in life coaching, you can immediately begin to wipe away the years of misperceptions and mistruths and begin to see clearly. Life coaches are trained to direct our attention toward areas of need. They don't just ask questions but instead ask the RIGHT questions in order to get to the root of the matter.

By becoming more conscious of your underlying habits and your life's purpose, you are able to live more fully, increase your emotional intelligence and achieve more success.

Take your first steps towards a fully realized self awareness by visiting my life coach Toronto website at www.brunologreco.com. You will discover a world of color, vibrancy and full of opportunity!

Top 10 Benefits to Journaling

By Bruno Logreco

There are countless reasons to maintaining a journal. The top ten benefits of journaling may differ from person to person. However, there seems to be general themes that are attractive in the collective unconscious. Many people are looking to daily entries of their personal experiences to reap some of the following rewards.

Maintaining a journal is a natural way to exercise the brain. People who make regular entries are taking time to develop writing and communication skills that are very valuable in everyday interactions. This mental exercise also helps to allow your thoughts to flow freely.

Creativity is a second benefit to consider. This is an important aspect of journaling. The right hemisphere of the brain is associated with visual, imaginative and intuitive facets of thought. When you take time to write, you free the right hemisphere. The ideal entry will be one that puts the inner editor on hold. Thoughts and ideas should flow freely and naturally.

The uninhibited nature of this form of writing serves a third benefit of developing self awareness. People often create different faces to meet various circumstances. We tend to recreate in distinct situations including the work environment, the community and even when at home.

The process of keeping a journal helps you recognize the various aspects of your unique personality. The growing self awareness is a powerful force that can lead to even greater benefits in the future. Gaining insight into the self is among the most important aspects to maintaining a journal.

The fourth benefit is the ability to set priorities. Once you get a grasp on the thoughts and emotions that are filtered through your personal experience, you begin to gain control of them. The process eventually leads to a greater understanding of what is and what is not important.

The ability to re-see the past is another great benefit of keeping a journal. The pages can be revisited with a fresh perspective. It can be very surprising how much your understanding of an event changes over a relatively short period of time. Some writers find great moments of epiphany when rethinking and rereading entries.

Journaling is a fantastic problem-solving resource. The approach of using entries to come up with various solutions to troubles is a little different than approaches for self awareness and growth. Many people choose temporary brainstorming techniques that serve to give viable solutions to problems.

The seventh benefit of journaling is variety. You can choose what kind of entries you want to make. Common choices include brainstorming sessions, automatic writing and reflective notes. Personal journal entries can be made upon inspiration, when you first wake or right before you fall asleep. Some choose to do a combination of these.

Purging is the eighth benefit to this practice. Many people find it helpful to place negative thoughts and feelings down on paper. Once the negative energy is placed on the page, they are free to let it go. This practice also works well when dealing with anger towards another individual. Purge the negativity and work towards a constructive approach.

The ability to communicate with others is another benefit of keeping a journal. Those who work with life coaches can find a wealth of resources for sessions. Journaling can help you tap into your fears and dreams, helping your coach gain insight through entries that you choose to share.

The tenth benefit is improvement in your overall health. Journaling reduces stress. It provides time for you to meditate. The process helps to make the positive forces in your life surface and it helps to bring the harmful elements into light. The result of personal journaling is a new perspective on how you can take control of many aspects of your life.

Want to learn how online journaling can help you reach goals and problem solve? Learn more about life coach Toronto at brunologreco.com and journaling at iijournal.

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Friday, July 10, 2009

Inner Strength The Source of Self-Esteem

Sunday, July 5, 2009

Bruno LoGreco, Master Life Coach (se7ep148)

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Change The Rhythm Of Your Life

Monday, June 29, 2009

A Fairy Tale Fantasy Life

Saturday, June 27, 2009

Loved, Safe and Secure -A Place of Belonging

Ten Powerful Self-Coaching Tips

The Success Indicators on Your Life Path

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