Straight Talk with Life Coach Joseph F Price

Passion Purpose and doing what you Love Part 1

Joseph F Price — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 09:32:23 GMT

Passion Purpose and doing what you Love Part 1

Please first of all forgive me for not sending you many blogs lately, my excuse is the same, “that I’ve been busy”!

Now let’s “go there”, to the place where real life fulfillment is, in your passion purpose and loving everything you do in life.

It all starts with passion; passion is the one of fuels behind that transfer of energy to what ever you are doing that’s makes the difference between good and great.

I always like to tell people if your parents had no passion you would not be here. So even you started with passion, as we grow older and more challenged by life, if we are not careful we can loose our passion we can lose our flame, get to busy and forget what matters most. So for the next couple of entries I want to talk about keeping your inner fire burning bright.

We are born to be passionate we all have something or things we are very passionate about. We need to transfer and or allow our passion to flow into every part of our being and learn to eliminate people places and things that disrupt our passion. Passion is the fuel that takes dreams and turns them into realities; it is the fuel that takes you from mediocrity to excellence.

So you might ask, where do I get passion from? How do I you teach me to get more passion? Well, passion is something that can’t be taught it must be caught. You catch passion by doing what you love and loving what you do. You catch passion by thinking more about others than yourself and becoming committed to something and things that are bigger than you are.

You become passionate when you realize that everyday is a gift and that you are thankful for all the beauties that each unique day brings. Passion comes from taking the time to try to figure out what you life’s purpose is, and working toward pursuing it. Passion comes from just simply “don’t worry be happy”. Happiness is a choice and being happy is just taking the actions consistent with that choice for you. You can be happy and passionate right now, you just need to decide, commit and take action.

Passion comes from asking yourself what do I like or love to do and doing it. Sometimes we say I don’t know what I’d like to do, well if you don’t know what you like, and then think about what you don’t like or write it down and then think of the opposite, that’s probably what you’d like to do.

Have you asked yourself lately what am I called to do? What am I here to do? The answers to those questions are where your passion lies and each and every one of us are here to do, something to contribute to our world in a magnificent way.

I always ask people what are you going to do with the time you have left on this planet, you have all those resources of you, now what are you going to do with it?

Step up your level of passion for life by doing more of the things you love, loving the things you do, and by finding your purpose and pursuing it. That’s life in a nutshell. Learn, grow, think, do, become better, make a difference, find you purpose pursue it, and give it all a way because you can’t take it any of it with you!

So let’s all bring back some more passion in our life’s by getting more in touch with our life’s purpose, loving the things we do, the people we touch. Let’s all get real excited and passionate about life again like a child. Let’s begin today knowing that we are more than enough. My final words are, just know that we are designed to win and to make a difference in the world, even if only in a small way, find things you love be more passionate and make today and the rest of your life your passionate “Masterpiece”.

Coach J

I am Responsible for everything!

Joseph F Price — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 09:33:55 GMT

I am responsible for everything!

I was recently struck in the head with a renewed sense of awareness and focus, of the fact that I am responsible for everything. I had a reoccurring situation with somebody that always ended up with me cursing them out. That is basically out of character for me for a litany of reasons, the list is pretty long.

But this last time I decided I needed to be who I am which is a bigger person then I had been actively demonstrating in this situation. I decided to take responsibility for why I was cussing them out, and not what they where doing to “make me cuss” them out.

As soon as I stopped blaming them and acknowledging them for being stupid, I began to understand, who was really stupid. I was for walking into a wall that had a sign on it that said wall, expecting there was not a wall and getting mad when I found a wall.

When it comes to being responsible for everything, this is a concept I think sometimes totally gets lost in the society of lawsuits blame shame and who gets the credit that we live in today.

We have been trained unless, we have deliberately been trained otherwise to figure out ways that when something goes wrong it’s somebody else’s or something’s fault.

We see their or its fault, blame them or it, don’t change a thing, recreate the same situation, see the same faults, blame and don’t change a thing. The bad news with this thinking strategy is nothing changes. In a matter of time, because we learned zilch we will also get to repeat the situation and process. That’s just life you either learn from mistakes and adversities or you get to re-experience them.

When I say I am responsible for everything, I mean that in everything that I had a role in it. That I create my life, my reality, the quality of my life, and the quality of everything in it and everything that happens to me. Do you?

Now this is a very hard place to go to, this is a place only for the truly mature, this is a place that can hurt. But if you go to being totally responsible for everything in your life you are going to the place where you can create the life of your dreams and get rid of your current nightmares.

You see if you’re willing to own that in every mess that is around you, that you somehow created it, or allowed it, you are also realizing that if you have the power to mess it up, you also have the power to fix it up.

So many times in life especially when working with people when something goes wrong we want to blame, make somebody wrong, see their role that we totally miss the boat on the role we played, totally, blind as blind to what we did or didn't’t do in the situations that are adverse to us.

It’s easy to see what somebody else did but it’s hard to see what we did and even harder to see what we didn't do. I am responsible for everything means again, that somehow no matter what happens to me I am responsible, by something I did or did not do today or something I did or did not do yesterday. If not by my actions, then by the way I commutate with myself and the universe or by my dominant thoughts.

Somewhere I had something to do with it period! I know it’s hard at first to see it, but after a while it becomes easy and you can see the way to change a lot of things that you “knew” (thought) were hopeless.

So the simple bottom line with rare exception is; where we are, how our life is, and what’s happening to us, at some level is usually our own doing.

Now that said there is a difference between being responsible for everything and blaming yourself for everything. Being responsible for everything is just seeing your role in things, then committing to correcting your role and then correcting your role.

We must remember that blaming people and things makes us victims. You can only become a victim by choice, the mature choice is to choose to be responsible, become a survivor and take action.

So many times we set our own traps and then miss them because we focus on what something or someone had to do with it, rather than what we had to do with it.

Remember that old saying “if it’s to be it’s up to me”!
That speaks to the power that lies in you that becomes hidden as long as you blame, find fault and make people wrong. You will never see your power to change something as long as you keep looking at somebody else to change.

Stop looking for it to change, and remember in order for it to change you must change it. It’s not it or them it’s you! If you don’t like something stop all that yakking and change it!

If you don’t like where you live do something about it! If you don’t like where you work do something about it. If you don’t like the number in your savings account do something about that, don’t just blame high gas prices. Anything that you don’t like you have the power to take responsibility for changing it or at least changing how you deal, cope or respond to it.

Remember this, it’s not it, it’s you! Stop dealing in it and start dealing in you!
You are responsible for everything!

Now with that, as a responsible for everything kind of person remember this, life it only happens once, so make today and the rest of your life a masterpiece.
JFP

Never Ever Quit! Never Ever!

Joseph F Price — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 09:34:51 GMT

Staying in the Game! Never, Never, ever Quit!

I’ve been told way too many times that way too many people give up on their goal, dream or objective inches or seconds away from success.

You may have heard or read the story of the “acres of diamonds”. The “acres of diamonds” is a story of an African gold miner that bought a farm and “tried” to mine for gold.

After a while like many of us instead of persisting and stepping up our game, we quit. He quit, after putting his life savings into the farm looking for diamonds.

He sold the farm for pennies on the dollar that he paid for it. Well the person he sold it to was much more committed and aware. You see a diamond in the rough doesn’t look like the diamonds that make women’s hands and necks look so beautiful. It looks like a dirty piece of charcoal.

The farmer saw the rocks that looked like charcoal and cursed at the dirty rocks he was finding. He got frustrated and sold out and became a malcontented drunk and was never heard of again.

Meanwhile back at the ranch the new owner had awareness of what diamonds look like in their rough form begin full scale mining and the story ends with that mine that one miner thought was worthless, turning out to be one of the richest diamond mines ever discovered.

Stop for a second and think about it how many times you have had a rich diamond mine that you walked away from or threw in the towel on.

How many opportunities have you quit on when victory was just around the corner? My answer for me is way too many! How about yours? I’ve learned from my own life and reflecting on the above story and others that many times victory is right around the corner whenever I feel like quitting.

I’m not talking about the lazy sensations that come when I don’t want to do something. I’m talking about the compelling sensations that I get, to throw in the towel after I’ve been committed and working on something for a while.

I’ve learned to read this as it’s time to persist and go though and I can’t tell you how many times success revealed itself right around the corner.

So what’s the point "Coach Joe"?

The point is the only way out is through. It is always darkest before the light. Next time you feel in body that you want to quit something that you have been working on and it is not working, don’t quit, stay in the game and press harder.
Work on getting better gain leverage by using your tools better. Enlist the help of others. And most importantly stay in the game because you are almost there. Try it the next time you feel like quitting something. You only need to see this dynamic once to know it and own it. You’ve more than likely already seen it; you just may have forgotten it.

I bet you could right now list ten things that you just felt were hopeless but you hanged in there and then all of a sudden, wham, either you learned something, the market changed a helping hand showed up or you just began to see more than just dirty charcoal looking rocks you saw the diamonds among your acres.

So my final answer is don’t ever Quit, stop if you have to take a breath, regroup get help, pray, or whatever you do to recharge.

But stay in the game because whenever you feel like quitting that is a sign from the universe that you are almost there.

Life it only happens once just like today, so make today and the rest of you life a Masterpiece!
JFP

Life Mastery Part 6

Joseph F Price — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:15:05 GMT

Life Mastery Part 6 Emotional Mastery 1

Today I want to just get to the point, today is about passion. Passion (PASS-I-ON),

Passion is what ignites the fire, it’s what gets you going it’s what keeps you moving and what gets you restarted when you fall or feel overwhelmed.

Passion is the reason we all are here today, somebody got passionate hopefully two people or there would be no you today.

Starting to get the point, without passion nothing happens. Many of us need to get back in touch with the things that cause us to be passionate, the good things of course.

Remember the passion you had when you first learned to ride a bike, you never cared about how many times you fell down or how bruised your legs got. You just wanted to be able to ride like the other kids in the neighborhood. And when you finally could ride you thought you were the …

That’s the kind of passion I’m talking about and bringing that to every area of your life.

I’m not talking about being some kind of crazy lunatic; I’m talking about wherever you are, stepping up your level of passion your excitement about your life and everything you do.

When you step up the passion excitement and enthusiasm, watch your power, belief, confidence and desire to take new actions grow, stick around and watch your bottom line outcome grow as well.

There’s one thing for sure that all people that are successful and fulfilled share. They are all passionate about what they do and everything they do. With passion comes excellence with excellence comes more than average rewards and recognition. Speaking of average, average really just boils down to the worst of the best and the best of the worst and I know you are much bigger than that.

So let’s go get passionate get excited! You can make all your dreams come true once you define them and strategically plan them out.

Smile laugh jump dance sing shout clap say “yes I can” a couple of times and live passionately today and everyday.

Life it only happens once just like today so make today and the rest of your life a masterpiece.
JFP

Life Mastery Part 5

Joseph F Price — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:02:23 GMT

Life Mastery Part 5

Moving right along, I know the other day I promised to discuss the topic of mental clutter. Now in a way if I were you I would say “what is that, mental clutter”? But not really, because you are reading this Blog, I you understand know how a clogged mind works. I know you can understand the comparison using a human body. Think about it how well would your body work if it never cleaned itself out, and got all “clogged up”. How would you feel being all backed up, would you feel a little tight?

The same thing happens when we don’t have clear minds, except fortunately it doesn’t feel as bad. So since we don’t have all day and I can’t give you all the secrets in the short about of time here, let me list some ways in no particular order without my commentary, on how to remove your mental clutter, also known as “stuff” among other names.

Stop thinking negative!

Stop taking to your self in any negative way, also stop taking to others negatively.

Sort you thoughts out on paper; use a journal, a planner, or just a legal pad.
Pray!
Think.
Meditate.
Exercise.
Take responsibility and control.
Use common sense.
Become a better Life Manager, you are the CEO of your life!
Develop greater self awareness and become proactive.
Don’t watch as much TV.
Reduce exposure to negative people.
Plan you activities well
Get yourself organized.
Get rid of the stuff you don’t need anywhere and everywhere.
Make out a budget.
Stop arguing with people.
“Don’t worry be happy”!
Forgive everybody!
Apologize!
Care!
Take an effective action!
Believe in yourself.
Learn something advance your knowing and understanding.
Communicate with someone who speaks to your best.

These are just a few things that you can start with to remove mental clutter from your life, I challenge you to add to that list and pursue removing any and all things that are contributing to your mental clutter. So until next time do something great today. Life it only happens once, make today and the rest of your life a masterpiece!
JFP

Life Mastery Part 4

Joseph F Price — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 07:35:02 GMT

Life Mastery Part 4 - De-clutter/Get organized

One of the most important first steps I like to help people take in my coaching practice is to develop some type of organization in their life.

The reason is very simple your life is a multi faceted continuous endeavor, that without planning and organization it can become a nightmare.

As we discussed before Life Mastery is about running your life like a well run business, and that you are the CEO of this well run business called your life. So having disorganization and clutter around your business is not the way you are going to soar to your highest levels of achievement.

The main reason I am encouraging you to de-clutter is that clutter is a waste of your valuable time and more importantly your valuable energy which are the core sources of any achievement. When you can’t find something you want when you don't know where something is when you don't know what to do next. It's clutter. Clutter causes frustration and undue stress.

Don’t you find sifting thurough stuff over and over again, just a little frustrating and sometimes a lot stressing? You may be able to eliminate 25% or more of the stresses in your life by just getting organized.

Some people have lived full of clutter for years and just don’t know where to start. I say to them just start somewhere, start with one closet by putting one thing on a hanger. Then draw out mentally or better yet on paper a system to clean the closet break it down to simple steps you can do one step at a time.

Next, move on to the rest of the room using the same piece by piece step by step process. Then just repeat the process in the rest of the rooms. Give yourself some type of reward for your accomplishments allong the way, usually the reward is built in.

Being able to “see and smell again” in your own house or office is usally enough of a reward for me thats a "living reward" It is very important that you live and work in an organized clutter-free zone. We live in a world that is full of distractions there is absolutely no need for you to be a source of additional distractions.

You just can’t be sloppy at anything anymore; you can’t live sloppy, look sloppy, or be sloppy period. Sloppy is a lifestyle if you have any of it get rid of it today. Do what you have to, stay up late to get rid of it, get up early hire somebody, if your money challenged trade with somebody.

Just do it! Live in peace, in a clutter free zone. Next time we meet we’ll talk about mental-clutter. Remember it is your life and it only happens once, so make it great starting by de-cluttering and making today a masterpiece!

JFP

Life Mastery Part 3

Joseph F Price — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:08:39 GMT

Life mastery part 3

As I stated last time we met Life Mastery is a continuous never ending process. It never stops; success is a never ending journey through a set of pre-determined goals.

Fulfillment is the same, it never ends. Living a life of happiness balance and prosperity, as you define it is a never ending process.

That’s why at Reaching Peak we have a motto “Always Learning Always growing”. That’s the reality of the life process. The sooner we get that in our minds, bodies, and souls the sooner we will experience the benefits of living “Life Mastery”.

So today as we learn and grow I want to talk one of the most important components of Life Mastery. It’s called language. What you say to yourself and others has a tremendous affect on what your life is like and where you end up. Let’s me show you how it works, this is the flow of outcomes.

A thought becomes what you say to yourself, what you say to yourself then becomes a enhanced thought, that thought becomes an action, that action becomes what you do repetitively, better know as a habit, that habit develops your character and you character shapes your destiny.

So it starts with how you talk to yourself your inner dialog as I like to call it. Words have the power to lift us up or to pull us down and crush us. We must develop a power vocabulary that we never turn off. We must remove all disempowering language of any kind from our vocabulary, now!

It would be too easy for you if I listed every kind of empowering word and every kind of disempowering word. But I’ll list a few to get you started.

Words to get rid of today
I’ll try before you even started you’ve given yourself an excuse “I tried” what you want a medal? Life don’t give a half of a hoot about you trying it cares about you doing

Maybe
Where’s the certainty?

Can’t
You will never know what you can and cannot do unless you give it your all 100 times seek help from others and learn from each attempt.

Failure there is no such thing as failure; you succeed in everything you do. You just may have not gotten the result you wanted. If you succeed in messing something up, you have enough power to mess it up, that same power can be used if directed properly fix it and make it better.

So called failure is just feedback to tell you the way you are doing something isn’t working, the simple math here is do something different and get a different result and keep attempting until you get the result you want. Why do most people walk? Because they didn’t let falling down stop them from persisting.

Words as phrases to add
I will, I can, I’m great, I’ll find a way, I’m certain, I’m committed.

Examples of small but positive and empowering word shifts.

Problem to challenge
Stressed to busy
Nervous to energized
Rejected to misunderstood
I hate to I prefer.

And the list goes on and on we can do an all day seminar for two weeks and just barely scratch the surface on the power of words.

I challenge you to simply do the hard work easy work and watch your language. I mean how hard is it to pay attention to what you say and make sure it is consistent with what you want for your life?

Watch what you say to yourself and what you say to others. Do this, notice the language difference from the most successful and happy person you know. Compare that to the most unsuccessful person you know. There is a big difference and that should give you all the clues you need if you don’t think language is important. It’s everything and ever word matters.

Why do you think the President has people that write his speeches for him, because every single word matters? There are words that could cause a lot of trouble and they want to avoid that.

So starting today, and for the rest of your life I challenge you to watch your language.

And watch your passion, empowerment, commitment, and successes grow. Until next time, do something great today do something that matters. Make today your masterpiece.
JFP

Life Mastery Part 2

Joseph F Price — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 09:35:18 GMT

Life Mastery Part Two

When I thought about what I wrote in the article Life Mastery part one I must say I left a lot of knowledge on the table, and as I thought about it more.

I was struck with the thought I could write parts to infinity, because life Mastery is an on going continuous process. The main item that I felt I left on the table is the power and role that action plays into Life Mastery.

Action the big “A” word is the fuel that makes Life Mastery a reality. We can talk the talk and learn of the strategies and techniques of Life Mastery, but until we make a move nothing happens.

Mastery is about taking the correct actions, doing the right things, controlling your thoughts and conversations. It’s not enough to just be motivated and take actions but you must discover what is the right actions, what are the actions that have a payoff a benefit?

We need to learn how to prevent ourselves from taking the actions that have a cost or price attached to them. The next time you have a problem or difficulty, ask yourself what is the correct action to take to solve this? And then just do it.

Then sooner you take the first step which is the starting gate the sooner you will reach the finish line.

Now that we’ve talked about action lets take it a little higher, to “massive action” I think the word explains itself. Massive action is the all cure all to achieving anything.

But the confusion happens when people just take massive action just for actions sake. Strategically driven thoughtful correct massive action is where the magic happens. Add to that the help and assistance that comes from having other people on your team is where Life Mastery happens.

Let me just break down the choices for you. You can be a master of you life or you can be the opposite. I think you know what the opposite is. I have so much disdain for the word I won’t even use it. Life Mastery is not an accident it is by design.

So I encourage you to begin the process of designing the life you dream of and desire. And begin the process of talking massive action daily to reach your goals and objectives, you truly deserve it.

Life it’s yours and it only happening once. Make it a masterpiece; begin by talking massive action today!

Until next time just “do it” be a walker and not just a thinker and talker.

JFP

Life Mastery Part 1

Joseph F Price — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 07:29:56 GMT

Life Mastery

Life Mastery is one of life many mysteries. Life Mastery is about taking the hand that life deals us and making the best of it. It’s about taking the job’s we are given and making them work.

It’s about taking the money we are bestowed with and making that work. It’s about taking the relationships we are entrusted with and making them great.

It is being the best parent we can be regardless of the challenges.

It’s about being successful and more than that being fulfilled. It is being the captain of your ship and the master of your soul. It is taking ownership of every situation and making the best of it. Life Mastery summed up is living, and living fulfilled, happy and balanced. We all must start being the CEO of our own lives and the director of our own script. It is our movie, our lives and our journey.

And life Mastery is the continuous process of being the chief manager of your life. Each and everyone of us is given through our inherent infinite wisdom and faculties all we need to solve all of our problems and we have the power to manifest all of our dreams into reality.

The key to harnessing that power is by believing in yourself, by thinking positive and engaging only in positive talk, positive self talk and positive talk to others.
Just like Mom told us we are to watch our mouths, if it’s not nice don’t say it. I say “don’t even think about it”.

In order to become a good manager you must know what’s going on you must develop higher levels of awareness and you must never turn that awareness off.

Life Mastery is about living your own life and not allow others to live it for you, or live by others expectations.

Life Mastery is having mastery of the important areas of your life like, your spiritual life, your relationships, your emotions, your inner dialog, your career, your finances, your body, your desires, and the other parts that I have discussed earlier when I talk about the twelve cylinders of life.

Let me be real like always it’s not easy. Nothing that is really worth a lot is easy. You are worth it! Let’s face it you’re going to be on this earth about 4200 weeks, why not live each week from here out with passion purpose and power and excellence?

You only have one life to live why not make it a masterpiece, and why not begin now. You know what you need to do, let’s get to it today.
Talk to you soon!
JFP

Are you Coachable?

Joseph F Price — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 09:35:53 GMT

Are you coachable?

I have found that there is usually a direct correlation between how coachable you are and how teachable you are.

I 've found that those with whom are unteachable, they are also uncoachable and those that are teachable are also coachable.

So let's talk about what will move you up on the coachablity index and just know that the opposite is what will give you a low coachability index.

Better listening,
You really don't know what the person is going to say or has said without truly listening to what
is being said. If you cut people off when they are talking it might be a clue that you are not good at listening.

Reality check,
Are you ok with looking out and looking in and giving an honest report of what you see.
how can somebody help you if you are not willing to see what's there.

Commitment to authenticity and truth. Again, honesty, you must be willing to listen, see, and feel the
truth always you must be honest with yourself your teachers and your coaches.

Commitment to life long learning.
You must realize that life's greatest lessons don't happen in a classroom you must be responsible for you own continuous learning curve.

Trust.
You have to trust, your leaders and teachers are usually informing you for your best benefit (unless otherwise determined) most people want to help thats why they share information, give them a chance evaluate with an open mind.

You don't know it all!
You have to be able to let go for a minute in order to have someone teach you anything. The way you've always done something is always going to be challenged you have to trust that there might be a better way if you find it you'll take it if you don't you won't.

Commitment to being effective versus commitment to being right.
You must dispense with the ideal that you know everything about anything in order to see what others have to offer.

Desire to work smarter. People that want to work smarter will always look for ways to improve they are open
and listen for new and improved ways of accomplishing goals.

Vision to unlimited potentials.
If you don't realize how much you don't know you will never see how much the knowledge of others can benefit you.

Some of us are unteachable because we don't want anybody telling us what to do. Some because we think we know it all which I find hard to believe, but even if you did once know it all the world is changing so fast you won't be able to keep up.

If there is any skill you need if in the st century the ability to learn quickly and ability to adept quickly. So just keep
those simple thoughts in mind today and experience the benefits of becoming more coachable.

Why Coaching?

Joseph F Price — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:34:17 GMT

Why get a life coach "I have a great life thats for people struggling isn't it"?

Often I’m asked the question who needs a coach? My answer is always the same. Everyone!

Everyone who wants to make the best of this journey called life, everyone who knows that there is more and that there isn’t that much difference between good and great and they want the help that a coach can provide.

We all have something that we need to improve on if not a few things. A coach can help you see where you might need some improvements. A coach can help point out to you the little things you can change that make all the difference. Every great football player had a coach, every great basketball player I’d ever heard of always raves about the coach they had in high school or college.

The soon to be greatest golfer of all times Tiger Woods even has a coach. So once again I say everybody needs a coach including you. There are just some fundamental dynamics that happen when you have the coaching influence of a person that is totally committed to your greatness, there is special empowerment that comes with the environment for excellence that happens in a coaching program.

While coaches can’t and don’t give you all the answers they can lead challenge and help you find the answers within yourself. You already have everything you need to become successful happy and balanced. Coaches just help you design the life of your dreams create a workable strategy to reach those goals and create a personalized support system to help you find and use your faculties and talents more effectively. A coach can assist you in reaching your goals quicker with a shorter learning curve and with a lot less pain.

Let’s face it life is a multi faceted journey that none of us were given an owners manual, coaches understand how to teach you to create your own owners manual to become more effective and to live more passionately with clarity and balance. So give your self the gift of allowing yourself to be coached and I guarantee you will see a big difference!