Tom Rohrer - Success Works Coaching

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

December 2010

In This Issue

The approach of a new year is a good time to reflect upon what we learned this year. Before saying good-bye to 2010, take the quiz to see how well you coped with change. As you read through the ezine, please don't hesitate to call if I can help.

How Well Did You Cope with Change in 2010?
Beyond the Box
Relevant Reading
Today's Quote

How Well Did You Cope with Change in 2010?

Cope with Change Whether you find change exciting or frightening, awareness of your response to change can help you develop better strategies for working with it. Answer "true" or "false" to the following questions to find out how well you coped with change in 2010.

1. Generally, I looked forward to change as exciting and challenging.

2. I didn't wait until I was totally fed up before making any changes.

3. I also didn't wait until a new situation was perfect before making a change.

4. If I was confronted with an unfavorable change, I reviewed the events and my behavior to determine if I could have done anything differently.

5. Rather than feeling responsible for negative changes that came out of nowhere, I took responsibility for my reaction to them.

6. During a time of change, I asked for help from reliable friends, family and professionals, who could help me develop productive strategies.

7. When something positive happened for someone that might change our relationship, I didn't let my fears get in the way of being supportive of that person.

8. If I experienced a major change in my life, while coming to terms with it, I attempted to keep other changes to a minimum.

9. When a change or transition occurred, I reviewed how I had handled other such events in the past for lessons on how to handle that event.

10. I looked to others who had undergone similar changes as models for how I might better address the change in my life.

11. If I experienced a major life change, while still in the middle of it, I stepped back from the situation to get perspective and to rest in order to regain a sense of balance.

12. If I was caught in a change over which I had no control, rather than blaming or feeling victimized, I "picked myself up, dusted myself off" and continued to move forward.

13. I tried to look at the "big picture" of the change, and acknowledged any mixed feelings I might have had.

14. I didn't hold onto the "way things used to be," but instead moved into "the way things are."

15. I was willing to risk disapproval and lack of support from others in order to make a necessary change.

If you answered "true" to fewer than eight items, you may want to explore different and more positive ways to approach change. Please don't hesitate to call.

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."

What would it take for you to have a happier relationship with change?
What change(s) did you resist this year?
If you could change anything in your work or life, right now, what would it be? What's stopping you from implementing that change?

Relevant Reading

The Ripple Effect: Maximizing the Power of Relationships for Your Life and Business, by Steve Harper

The Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be, by Jack Canfield

Strengths Finder 2.0, by Tom Rath

Today's Quote

"Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world."
~Joel A. Barker