Tom Rohrer
PhD, MFT
Mailing Address
1250-I Newell Ave., No. 225
Walnut Creek, CA 94596
925-595-6433
Email:drtom@success
workscoaching.com
Web:www.successworks
coaching.com and
www.tomrohrer.com
As a performance coach and the owner of Success Works Coaching, Tom works with individuals, groups and businesses on a range of human performance issues.
Tom will help you get clarity on your goals and provide strategies to achieve them, while keeping a balanced and healthy lifestyle. Coaching will help you increase your happiness, health and success.
Through coaching, Tom will help you uncover your cognitive, emotional and psychological obstacles, develop your best personal structure and the strategies and tools for developing your optimum performance.
Focuses:
* Building Resilience
* Authentic Happiness
* Conflict Resolution
* Public Speaking
* Sports Performance
* Test/Evaluation Anxiety
For more information about Success Works Coaching visit www.success
workscoaching.com
and
www.tomrohrer.com
925-595-6433
Email:drtom@success
workscoaching.com
In This Issue
Some people are eager to leave 2009 behind, but, before you do, take some time to reflect upon and acknowledge your challenges and achievements. As you read through the articles, please don't hesitate to call if I can help.
Quiz: How Did You Cope with Change in 2009?
Taking Feedback to Heart
How to Succeed with Failure When All Else Fails
Beyond the Box
Relevant Reading
Today's Quote
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How Did You Cope with Change in 2009?
Whether you find change exciting or frightening, awareness of your response to change can help you develop better strategies for working with it in the future. Answer the following questions to find out how you coped with change over the past year.
Taking Feedback to Heart
A colleague who just heard your presentation at work is giving you some feedback that you were too quiet, you didn't get to the point quickly enough and you lacked a compelling example.
Your breathing goes shallow and your body stiffens, your heart speeds up and you look around to see if anyone is in earshot of this conversation. You worked for days perfecting this presentation--days!
Faced with the often-difficult experience of feedback, many of us respond in unproductive ways. But taking in feedback from others, both positive and negative, is imperative if we are to experience the satisfaction that comes with enhanced competence and improved relations.
How to Succeed with Failure When All Else Fails
Had it not been for failure, humankind may never have known the magnificent Audubon bird paintings that gave rise to the Audubon Society or the inspiring music of Handel's Messiah.
It was only after John James Audubon's business failed in 1819 that he began traveling and painting birds. George Frederick Handel unleashed his creative genius after a night of deep despair over his failure as a musician (he lived in poverty and had suffered a stroke).
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The following questions are designed to broaden perspectives, to open vistas, to widen the lens. There is no one right way to approach them. You can journal about them, talk to friends, create art, ponder them while driving, work out to them--whatever helps you explore "outside the box."
- List five words that describe the word "change" as you experience it? Are they mostly positive or negative?
- Are you able to see the big picture in any changes you're currently experiencing?
- What event did you see as a failure in your life that turned out for the best?
- Is there a failure in your past for which you need to forgive yourself?
- What did you learn from your most disastrous "failure?"
- Do you automatically hear feedback as criticism?
- Might there be a gift for you in the feedback?
Relevant Reading
Reinvention: How to Make the Rest of Your Life the Best of Your Life, by Brian Tracy
Where Have All the Leaders Gone?, by Lee Iacocca
Training Camp: What the Best Do Better Than Everyone Else, by John Gordon
Today's Quote
"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."
~Henry Ford
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