Hi Everyone
just thought I would share this with you, hope you find it interesting and useful. Feel free to print it off and hang a copy on your wall
Gerard
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Ten Traits To A More Resilient You
Why are some people just more resilient than others?
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In this short article we outline 10 traits of resilient individuals that you can learn to adopt.

1. Self Aware
Being resilient requires an ability to look inside and know your feelings and thoughts. It also involves a capacity to distance ourselves from these emotions and respond to the situation and not the emotion.

2. Balanced
As the resilient individual becomes more self-aware they also become more balanced. They choose when to get involved and when not to. This ability to control how you engage with situations will help you to cope with change.

3. Sense Of Humor
Humor is a very important aspect of coping with change. Enjoy and practice it everyday and you will be amazed with the change you will see in yourself.

4. Creative
The resilient individual is very creative and tries new things.

5. Autonomous
The resilient individual develops safe boundaries between themselves and others. This will allows you to operate independently and take decisive action where necessary.

6. Content
The resilient individual lives in the moment. Quite simply the past is gone and the future hasn’t happened yet so the present is where we need to be. We need to be also content in this place – take time to find your balance.

7. Humility
Humility is an essential characteristic of a resilient individual. Know both your own and others strengths and weaknesses.

8. Understands Relationships
The resilient individual values and understands the people dimension. They are empathic and seeks to know and understand others. This emotional stability is especially important during times of difficult change.

9. Self-Motivated
The resilient individual is self-motivated. This motivation is their fuel for action. They take the initiative and responsibility for actions and it is their persistence that allow them to deliver results.

10. Moral
The resilient individual has strong personal values that particularly focus on the concept of mutual respect.

this was originally written by Des Fitzgerald
Managing Director
www.oaktraining.com

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Gerard

Well, what an interesting and fascinating week it has been so far. I am writing this from my hotel bedroom in Bucharest in Romania. Packing right now and getting ready to go to Warsaw in Poland.

 The last week has been just so jampacked !! From the moment the plane landed on Monday afternoon it has been meeting after meeting briefing after briefing. We did a very large introduction to coaching event here in Bucharest and had some amazing people.

Then we flew to the northern city of Iasi in Moldova. This was a first for me and I had been looking forward to it quite a lot. I was not disappointed, the city is so incredibly beautiful with dozens of magnificent churches , Museum’s, palaces etc

We stayed at the Ramada hotel and did another ” Introduction to Coaching” event.

What an eye-opener !!! We had so many people arrive we didn’t have enough chairs or space and had to do some rearranging ( very quickly) the response to what we are offering is just magnificent.

So it looks as if I shall have to go back to Iasi on a regular basis.

 Then we flew straight back to Bucharest just as a large three-day Mind Body and Spirit exhibition started. We had a large exhibition stand there and have about 12 of our team helping.

I ran a workshop on Friday afternoon on ” Spiritual Coaching” the room was full.

This week we also had our first coaching support group meeting in the city of Timisioara (29 people came to that first meeting) this is run by our new coaching support leader Vali, what a great job he has done.

 I have to say huge thanks to our country head here in Romania, Valerica Cojucaru , she is doing a magnificent job.

Where do we find these incredible people ???

 Well, I have to go now to catch my plane to Warsaw.

Lots of love

Gerard

Well actually my wife had breakfast in bed and I managed to get mine purely by default.

My three boys made my wife a beautiful full cooked English breakfast and brought it to her in bed early this morning accompanied by lots of presents ( lots of chocolate actually) .

 Then, we got up and my wife and my young son Michael and I went for a long walk through the fields, and the forest nearby, beautiful weather, bright sunshine, could see the sea in the distance, very picturesque.

 I’m taking everyone out for lunch later this afternoon to place called the ” Springhead” in the beautiful village of Sutton Poyntz http://www.sutton-poyntz.co.uk/

The pub restaurant itself is very beautiful, in fact I used to live about 200 metres from it.

Later today I have to put together a workshop on spirituality.

I have been asked to deliver this next week in Romania. The problem is I have so much material and so much I want to tell people and help them experience that deciding what to leave out is the huge issue  !!!!

I guess I will just allow myself to be guided by my intuition. And it’s never let me down so far.

I hope you are all having a wonderful day.

Love

Gerard

Writing this from my hotel in Warsaw in Poland.. Had a good meeting today with Lukasz our general manager in Poland.

 It was cold when I arrived at the airport this morning, -6° and has continually got colder throughout the day

.So I did what any good self-respecting life coach would do, I took myself off to my favourite café in Warsaw,

The Karma café just off Konstitution Square and had a couple of hot mulled wines while I read my latest book.

 Come to think of it my meeting today was spent in a nearby Thai restaurant. Does that mean that most of my business life revolves around restaurants and coffee ?? And if it does is that a bad thing ?

It’s snowing outside now, my first snow of the year, in fact it makes it feel just like Christmas. I’m looking out of my hotel room window down the length of Konstitution Square and it looks really lovely and festive with all the Christmas lights.

Tomorrow I’m doing a large introduction to coaching event here in Warsaw, looking forward to it very much.

We all arrived in the office this morning to find that we have no telephone service at all.

There was a large storm over the weekend and it appears that some of our telephone wires attached to some sort of telephone pole near our office has come down.

So, it looks as if we will be without telephone connections for the next 24 hours.(according to the experts at British Telecom, who are about to leap into action, and come to our aid :-)  )

When it first happened, it was very interesting, I had this mild sense of rising panic, how will I possibly get by without the telephone?? And yet as today has worn on, it has actually turned out to be really nice.

I have managed to get on with my e-mails, some of my writing work and actually founded time during the day to do some proper studying.

The rest of the team have also managed to have quite a productive day. Strangely enough we still have all of our Internet connection, so everyone has been on Skype talking to people that way.

Actually it’s worked out really efficiently. Perhaps I ought to make it a regular thing – No telephone Monday’s ?

A bit like Naked Friday’s but not as much fun !

Gerard

I haven’t stopped working and yet I can’t seem to put my finger on exactly what I have done !!

The e-mails have been coming thick and fast today as soon as I deal with a bunch of 20 or so, another bunch comes in.

 Spoke to Gordon Piggott today, general manager of Westminster Indemnity Insurance, ( http://www.westminster-indemnity.co.uk/ )I’m flying over to Orlando with him at the end of this month.

They provide a specialist indemnity and liability insurance to the whole of the coaching world.

 We are both going to the ICF ( International Coaching Federation) annual convention in Florida. We go together every year.

This time I’m taking my wife and children with me so that they can have a good time in Disney World etc while I’m working and at least I get to spend some time with them in the evenings.

The plan is that we will then have the second week together as a family in Florida, although to be honest we haven’t planned anything yet other than booking our return flights and hiring a large seven seater car for the whole two weeks.

So I guess I need some ideas about where to spend week two ??

Anyone got any suggestions – ?

 Looks like I’m going to Cardiff next week to do a special ” Introduction to Coaching” seminar on Tuesday evening. That should be good, haven’t been to Cardiff for quite a while.

 Then I have got the residential at Eynsham Hall near Oxford a couple of days later ( http://www.eynshamhall.com/ )

It looks like we have people coming from many different countries to do their coach training programme.

The only problem is I am also booked to give a talk on both Thur and Friday at the “Business Start Up” at the Olympia in London.

Looks like I will have to split myself in two !!!!!

Not really, thanks goodness I have a really efficient team to do all of the training and administration