Are you pleased with the way you are achieving your recreational goals? If not why is this? Do you know why you aren’t achieving your goals?
The most common reason people don’t achieve their goals is, they don’t have any goals. Life coaching enables people to set achievable goals.
Perhaps you do have sound goals but you aren’t achieving them. What’s preventing you? What are those blockages? Lifecoaching is designed to identify and overcome barriers to development.
For example, lots of folk join a gym but then don’t go or don’t go often enough to achieve what they joined for. Often, the reason for this has more to do with other aspects of their life such as sleep patterns, vision, relationships, work boundaries, lack of confidence, undeveloped routine, locusts…
We all face different challenges (hence the value of a personal life coach) but some saboteurs seem to be almost universal. The below questions are designed to highlight some common blocks to our recreational development.
1. When was the last time you invested a whole day in your recreation?
a) Last week
b) Last month
c) 1994
2. What is the difference between rest and recreation?
a) Rest is a part of my recreation, as is adventure and physical challenge
b) Rest is something I do on a Sunday, recreation is for hedonists
c) Rest is something I get in my car to and from work, recreation is something I did before I got married
3. How often do you sit with your diary and plan your forthcoming recreation?
a) Every week
b) When I get round to it
c) Eh?
4. How do you approach scheduled physical exertion?
a) With the determination of a man whose sees the bigger picture
b) Distracted by other, more urgent commitments
c) Scheduled?
5. Work and play – what sort of relationship do they have in your life?
a) Romeo & Juliet
b) Tom & Jerry
c) Hungry sailor & dodo
6. How do you respond to an invitation to take part in an activity you used to enjoy but haven’t done for
years?
a) The Rocky theme tune rises from somewhere within you
b) You begin an honest and courageous appraisal of the reasons you haven’t taken part in this activity
for so long
c) You laugh at the foolishness of the idea
7. How does your brilliance at work benefit from your recreational activity?
a) Like an Olympic buttock benefits from a good massage
b) As a rusty hinge enjoys a squirt of oil
c) Sorry, got me there
8. How do you feel at the end of an average weekend?
a) Revitalised
b) In need of a couple of days off
c) Feel?
9. How much fun do you have these days?
a) I rarely stop smiling
b) Not much at the moment but I’ll get round to it soon
c) My doctor has advised caution in this area
10. With whom do you spend your r & r evenings?
a) A bunch of like-minded fellows who are good at thinking up (almost entirely
legal) recreational wheezes
b) The local bagpipes club
c) Stop being so sanctimonious
11. How’s your physical fitness?
a) I can still fit into my wife’s graduation dress
b) Fitter than most blokes my age
c) I can still lift a six pack with one hand
12. When was the last time you learned a new physical skill?
a) I began a course of urban kite skiing lessons only last week
b) I rode a camel last summer
c) Driving lessons when I was 17
See below for analysis of answers
How did you answer?
Mostly a Your recreational life would definitely benefit from the services of a life coach
Mostly b Your recreational life would definitely benefit from the services of a life coach
Mostly c Your recreational life would definitely benefit from the services of a life coach
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