Monday, March 26, 2012

Your Vision & Your Motivation

In business it's easy to identify how your vision for the business impacts the motivation of your employees but relating this to your personal life may not be an easy leap. How often to do you hear a concise response from those who choose to stay at home when they are asked "So what's your vision?" and more truthfully how often do they get asked?

We know that your vision statement describes goals for the business which then drives each department to determine what actions do they need to be conducting to reach and live the business's vision and mission. As an individual, outlining what your vision is or mission might be is more aligned with focusing on and identifying what your life goals might be and how your goals impact what your life looks like once you have achieved these goals.

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Life Coach and Business Coach Karen Kleinwort is the founder Therapy in Transition and is a Certified Professional Coach specializing in the integration of her clients' mind, body and spirit into her Personal Empowerment Coaching practice. For more information, visit www.coachkarenk.com. www.therapyintransition.org, www.empowermentforme.com or contact her at success@coachkarenk.com.

Monday, March 19, 2012

Your Needs Are Motivation

We all have needs and those needs, well need to be met. How we go about meeting our needs is what will either motivate us to continue to move forward in life or enable us to become paralyzed and feeling stuck. In the introductory video I ask our visitors to think about what has them "kicking off the sheets" morning and excited about getting their day started. Getting up and at 'em is already challenging when you are comfy, cozy snuggled in your warm bed; now add into that if life is throwing some serious challenges. What are telling yourself to get you moving and jumping up?

This self talk is the largest piece of getting ourselves motivated to move and jump into action each morning. It is through your self talk that you can begin to identify which of your needs is not being met and which needs are.

So what are your needs? We know on a large part to Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs that there are five basic needs we have.

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Life Coach and Business Coach Karen Kleinwort is the founder Therapy in Transition and is a Certified Professional Coach specializing in the integration of her clients' mind, body and spirit into her Personal Empowerment Coaching practice. For more information, visit www.coachkarenk.com. www.therapyintransition.org, www.empowermentforme.com or contact her at success@coachkarenk.com.

Monday, March 12, 2012

Motivation at Work

Whether your life is that you are in business for yourself, you work for someone else or you are a Domestic Engineer (a title often associated with those individuals who choose to stay at home with or without children) staying motivated can be difficult if not outright challenging. There are two aspects to motivation and your workplace scenario – one is from the perspective of management and the other is from the viewpoint of the employee. As part of the ongoing series focusing on Motivation, today we are concentrating on motivation on the job.

Have you identified your specific scenario yet? Most of what we will be sharing in this article you will be able to apply to your specific situation.

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Life Coach and Business Coach Karen Kleinwort is the founder Therapy in Transition and is a Certified Professional Coach specializing in the integration of her clients' mind, body and spirit into her Personal Empowerment Coaching practice. For more information, visit www.coachkarenk.com. www.therapyintransition.org, www.empowermentforme.com or contact her at success@coachkarenk.com.