How to Improve Self-Discipline

It takes a great deal of self-discipline to succeed. What does it take to maintain the self-discipline? For one, it takes focus. By focus I mean it requires that we set out tasks each day that are necessary to complete and then we pursue them one at a time. Secondly by focus, I mean we have to filter out activities in our thought life and in what we say and do that are not pertinent to the projects we are completing.

With each goal we pursue, we also need to be clear on our reason for pursuing it. What it all comes down to is that we are always going to achieve more with a big reason for why. When people are definite in their purpose they are more motivated to follow through on what they perceive as necessary.

Each moment of our lives is thought to be captured by the thoughts and actions that make a difference for us. Whenever there is a seemingly different avenue to pursue that is irrelevant to our motive and goal, we are truly going to become distracted and unable to generate the focus necessary to achieve all we can.

Our lives are never really going to progress to the place of complete opportunity until we come to terms with having to generate all that we can. Every day we are going to become stronger in our convictions simply by creating what is possible with hard work, passion and perseverance. I might add fairness to others, honesty and a regard for the poor as other means by which success transpires itself.

If today, you simply ask the question what can I do to make a difference for the lives of others and you take the steps to make that difference, you will find yourself moving onward at a speed you did not think possible.

Jeffrey Baldock, Careersport Coach
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Who Knows What Will Spring Into Our Lives

Who Knows

What will Spring in our Lives?

By Jeffrey Baldock, M.A. Careersport Coach and President

If we could possibly know everything that was about to happen to us, we would be in for a dull life. Life is a daring adventure or nothing at said Helen Keller. Everyone has memories of times in their lives where they took a chance and discovered how fascinating life could be. As a child, the mere adventure of learning how to ride a bike your own was a great thrill. When we get older, we take on more challenges. As we do, our blood pressure elevates, adrenalin flows and we begin to sense victory in our veins.

I remember the first time I jumped out of a plane. The jumpmaster opened the door. I had committed to jumping out of plane a year prior. The notion of throwing myself to thin and I do mean thin air, seemed exciting, absurd and inevitable. There was nothing as compelling as considering the fresh experience of a free fall over Southern Ontario’s countryside near Exeter.

Each step toward the door was incredibly long for what was typically a normal size for a small Cessna plane. As I jumped out in tow with the professional jumper, I realized one thing. The fear I was feeling was no stronger than I had experienced in life whether it be in school for an exam or delivering a speech in front of other students.

The exit was more than thrilling, the fall outrageous and the landing a pleasant comfort.

Finding Your Purpose by Jeff Baldock of Careersport Inc.

FINDING YOUR PURPOSE

By Jeff Baldock

Hi, I am Jeff Baldock and welcome to Careersport’s Soaring to Success Program.

Today, I am going to be looking at an issue that is a concern for a lot of people. This issue is about helping people to understand their purpose and to help them get clear on where they are going in terms of their direction. Purpose may be one of those words that is often thrown around loosely by many people.

I want you to understand that without purpose, without really knowing what your key objective is and without an inspiring need for which you will apply your gifts and talents, there is really very little use in setting goals. Without purpose based goals, we are essentially taking shots at uninspiring targets. However, to get those goals, we should have a purpose and that is where everything starts.

Purpose really is about understanding a need, a need that exists out in the world, a need that exists out in business, or a need that exists in the community that you attracts you. It is one that will help you to get in touch with what really you are inspired to do to make a difference for others, and by having to look at yourself and by acknowledging where you have a particular passion to contribute to the needs of others, you will find that very purpose.

Every one of us has been designed or has been built in such a way that we have particular talents. There are areas where you will find that you are naturally motivated to contribute those talents or apply those talents to make a difference for others and help them to solve their problem. This really is the essence of purpose.

It is the need that exists that is compelling for you that you find yourself motivated to apply your talents, to give up your time, to give up your abilities, and to apply efforts to set plans and to take action to solve that problem. And that can sometimes take place at work or in school.

Take for example in the business world, their might be a compelling business problem, specifically, an information system problem that you want to take the time to uncover what it is that your gifts and talents can be applied for to help resolve the problem. At that point, you will then look up what that vision is, or in other words, with that solution in mind, it is to meet that need or that purpose and set goals and plans that will actually work on the execution and deliver on something that will ultimately solve the need, and hence, fulfill the purpose.

In school, on the other hand, we find that students typically have an area of study for which they are naturally drawn and motivated to study. This area causes them to focus on a topic rather than the generalities. There will academic subjects require of a students that can be motivating only because the student connects the need for this information to their purpose. Hence topics or courses that might otherwise be considered dull will be held as interesting because they can see how learning that information will help them to fulfill their purpose and dream. There will be project topics or thesis topics that will naturally draw these students to them because they are captivating. There is something about these topics that compels them. A topic such as “Save the Dolphins,” for example, for some and for somebody who has got some biology projects, they will prove that because that is what they really are motivated to do, to study and research.

I am going to encourage you now to take the time to really think about what it is that is challenging for you. These might be things in life that just bug you or you are concerned about. These might be areas for which you want to make a difference or that you want an impact on. When you have the time to consider and reflect what it is, then, you will consider that as your purpose. In other words, think about a key objective, something that you want to do to apply your talents for to make a difference for the lives and the needs of others. Again, I am encouraging you to take the time to do that. Consider some of the needs that are compelling to you, like needs of the world, needs in the business world, things that concern you, things that bug you or things that bother you that you feel somebody ought to do something about. And for some reason, it seems to be you that is motivated to do something about that.

So I will leave you with that for now.

Thank you for joining us today and I am looking forward to talking to you again soon.

All best as you soar to success!

Jeffrey Baldock, M.A.

Careersport Coach

Careersport Inc.

t: 416 966 2001

toll free: 1.866 227.1358

Honouring Your Word Moves You Forward

Honouring Your Word Moves You Forward

By Jeffrey Baldock, Careersport Coach

In today’s fast-paced world, it is easy to see how we can say one thing and do something else. Simply, being so busy it is easy to forget something we said. As a result, we can wound others and in so doing, hurt our own reputations. The challenge today is to track our promises so that we honour our word. This gives not only others confidence in us, but it also builds confidence in ourselves.

We make commitments to ourselves and to others. If we say, we are going to do something, it is important that we follow through. This builds our reputation for integrity. Integrity is doing what we say we are going to do.

Honouring the words we say means that we set out to do something for someone we carry ourselves into action. It is difficult sometimes to advance in our lives without taking action based on what we promise to others. We all know that life has many distractions. These distractions can easily become excuses for not honouring our word with action.

People will grow to like, appreciate and respect you more as you do what you say you are going to do. Similarly, you will like, appreciate and respect yourself more as you do what you say you are going to do. As others have more confidence in you and as your own confidence grows, you will find new doors available to you. People will invite you to share in their opportunities. You will feel more and more capable of taking on new challenges. You will move forward.

Enjoy your day. Honour your word and move forward in success!

Jeffrey Baldock
Careersport Coach
www.careersport.com
1.866.227 1358
416 966 2001

Leaving it all on the field by Jeffrey Baldock

Leaving it All On the Field
“Dare Yourself and Go to the Next Level”

By Jeffrey Baldock of Careersport Inc.

Work is a part of our lives for which we have a limited number of years to participate. Often people wander through their careers without sitting down to really examine what they are passionate about in terms of giving to others. They forget that results for a customer make differences that enable others to achieve their goals. If one chooses to operate without clear objectives, they reduce their focus and their ability to have impact on those they serve.

Mediocrity is simply not fun and aimless. It brings us to a place of really questioning our lives. There is no dress rehearsal. This is it. Our time to accomplish and contribute is now, It is day to day. The satisfaction and payoff of tackling the issues with a plan is great.

People obtain fulfillment and increased confidence through much of what they accomplish at work.

When they apply their talents to a clear set of goals and plans and exert all they have within a limited number of hours, they achieve more and experience greater satisfaction.

Plan of Action: Work with a boss or coach to establish clear outcomes to achieve that line up with the organization vision, values and goals

1. Be committed to approaching each day with a set plan.

2. Share your plan with your supervisor so they are clear and buy into your obectives

3. Tackle the plan

4. Take time to rest

5. Celebrate the victories

6. Update your resume with your new success

This new approach and determination to go the next level where you leave it all on the field brings greater reward for you, your team and the customers.

To Risk

To Risk

By Jeffrey Baldock

Career Coach for Careersport Inc.

To many people believe that to make it to a goal requires such great risk of losing something powerful. It too often is the case that in moving forward toward a dream, we begin to feel something in us wants to steal those dreams. Fear and doubt are insidious. They are slippery but intended steal your dreams. For example, you have decided to embark on finding a new job, one that requires more responsibility, the only real way to get them in is through action plans and action.

The choice is hard enough to make. Weighing out the pros and cons is a challenge. The reality is that people who are turning their lives around face fear. They face struggle and face having to risk losing all they have gained. “Say what”. What is the worse can happen? Bringing all fear into e light is the way to get beyond the idea and notion that we cannot fulfill our dreams. The truth is that getting to a place of truth is totally . I completely feel helpless when fear attacks me. I guess I feel completely like turning to some kind of self destructive behaviour. The fear causes us to look or to seek comfort. Where we look for this comfort is very often in uncomfortable places such as sex, alcohol or drugs.

Remember, you are deserving and worthy of great success no matter what somebody else tells you. The way to get beyond to restrictions imposed on you through fear

Three Steps to Effective Goal Setting

Three Steps to Effective Goal Setting

As a Careersport Coach, I am excited to see you achieve your goals. Goals keep you on track because they give you feedback. This is something I learned from a former CFL professional football star, friend and great motivation speaker Bruce Smith. Goals help stear us down the right path toward an outcome. Goals keep us on track. We can easilly do all kinds of activities that waste time. This article will help you achieve your goals.

Here are some steps to take for your goals.

1. Define your goals clearly

2. State how your goals will benefit others and yourself.

3. Picture your goals being achieved and write a plan for achieving them.

Here is a very simple method to use this strategy.

1. Determining your goals: Take a few days to decide what you want to do in your life to make a difference for others.

Write your goals (two or three major goals only. If you can focus on one goal at a time it is better) on a paper and read this paper often. As soon as you write your goals you enter the top 5% section of the people. 95% people don’t know what their aims are so your success chances for a better life immediately increase.

2. Purpose: Determine how your goals will benefit others.

The more your goals are about benefiting others, the more motivated you will be to achieve them. Also, daily affirmations help keep keeps your mind positive and hopeful. You become focused and attract the same in your life. To become successful in life repeat this affirmation ten times in the morning and ten times before going to bed: ‘God has sent me in this world to become successful. I am achieving my goal’.

It is important that your goals are designed around you helping others as we are here to serve others. We are far more motivated when our goals lead to helping others.

3. Picture your goals being achieved:

Set your goals and write them out with a plan to achieve them by a certain date. If you are willing to set your life toward achieving goals that benefit others and yourself, you deserve to achieve them. Put a plan on paper. Consider drawing or cutting out pictures of yourself having achieved the goals. We tend to think in images.

Careersport Career Enrichment Coaching

This is the first entry to the Careersport blog. It is exciting to help others make a difference.

If you think that this is the place to learn some ways to become more proficient at identifying and optimizing your talents for greater outcomes, you are right. The Careersport blog is designed to motivate, encourage and support you in setting goals, and achieving your plans. Through your purpose, vision and strength in combination, you can truly overcome obstacles and achieve new contributions for others.

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