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I love Christmas, it is one of my favourite times of year. It gives a real chance to relax and unwind, spend some quality time with the family, and to indulge in some delicious food and drink. It also provides a chance to reflect on the year that has just past, and of course look forward to the coming year. Consider what worked and what didn’t work in 2012, and then concentrate next year on more of the successful strategies, and avoid the areas where we made mistakes.

Certainly 2012 has been the toughest year I can remember, and most of my clients have found it so. However, they have all managed to work their way through it, and if anything are going forward far more positively now.

The coaching I have been doing has therefore not only been covering the practical and technical aspects, but a fair bit has been concentrating on keeping my clients positive, and looking at a certain amount of self development.

As we all should know, self belief, or lack of it, is hugely limiting, and in tough times, it is easy to find yourself wallowing in self-pity, wondering what went wrong, and why it has happened to you. So having someone to talk to, ask advice of, but, most importantly, not let you dwell on the negatives, is every bit as valuable as some of the tools in business, which are the obvious things which people should know about, understand and use.

So if you have found yourself feeling lonely and on your own, unsure of what to do next, and how on earth you will survive another year of turmoil, get yourself a coach. Someone to give you some tough love, someone who you can rely on and turn to, and someone to be a friendly ear when all around seems lost. Perhaps a coach with a big smile, someone like me! Happy Christmas

I can’t let this week go by without referring to the fantastic achievement of the England Rugby Team. What an unbelievable result, not only to beat the All Blacks, but to beat them with such conviction. So how did they do this, when for the past couple of performances they looked anything but world-beaters?

The answer as always, was that they won it before the game even started in their own minds. Everyone had written them off, so the pressure was no longer on them. The more they were ridiculed, the more they believed, and the more determined they were to show that they could do it. So by the time they reached Twickenham they were no longer thinking how impossible it is to beat this phenomenal side from New Zealand, but they were visualising very clearly how great it would be to win.

Very interestingly listening to one of the analysts afterwards, (Will Greenwood) he was saying that now they had done it once, they have broken the “spell”, and they know they can do it again. Like many things, until it has been done it seems impossible, the 4 minute mile being a great example, but you only need to prove to yourself once that you can do it, and it is then always possible. The trick is now to bring this level of intensity to every game, especially when they are seen as favourites, and once again this will be achieved or not in their own minds.

What you believe and visualise can be incredibly powerful in every aspect of life. Our limitations are invariably caused by what we think we can and cannot do in life. So if we believe we can grow our businesses, and that we will reach the targets we set for ourselves, we have every chance of doing so. When our backs are up against the wall we can choose if we sink or swim. Do we just give up and say “it’s impossible” or do we fight back and make things happen?

The English are renowned for achieving miracles from seemingly hopeless positions. The economy has done its best to knock us down, but now is the time to fight back and win.

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