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Turn Up The Heat

Guest post by: Peter Pamela Rose

Article Overview: Living through the heat wave that swept most of the country made my temperature-addled mind wander to other times when the heat was pressing down on me. Most of those times had nothing to do with air temperature. Of course, any conversation about heat with Peter Pamela Rose, most esteemed Executive and Life Coach, will eventually turn to discipline as it would with any dedicated coach.

Turn Up The Heat

Living through the heat wave that swept most of the country made my temperature-addled mind wander to other times when the heat was pressing down on me. Most of those times had nothing to do with air temperature. Of course, any conversation about heat with Peter Pamela Rose, most esteemed Executive and Life Coach, will eventually turn to discipline as it would with any dedicated coach. Peter has encountered as many dreams as she has clients, for each person's dream is as unique as they are. What so many of these dreamers lack is discipline, says Peter. But without it, they will remain dreamers and not pursuers of a dream. "Consistence and persistence" is a phrase you'll hear Peter say time and again. She teaches it, and she lives it. Her philosophy is that these two actions, together, create the environment for success. "They are the most valuable combination of tools a person can acquire."

A colleague of Peter's husband told her at a party once, "Maturity is the difference between going after what you want and going after what you think you want." We all have a million ideas about what we think we want. We say we want money, but what we really want is an abundant life. We say we want to change the world, but what we really want is to have a life filled with purpose. Abundance means fullness to overflowing. If all areas of our life are full to overflowing, our purses will be, too. By finding a purpose in life - our passion - and offering that passion in service to others, we will change the world.

As you continue to work with Peter, her coaching sessions become a training ground for building discipline. She is your accountability. You communicate to her the goals you want to achieve. She helps you unveil the steps that will bring you closer and closer to achieving your goals. Between coaching sessions you have assignments to complete, and if the assignments aren't completed, Peter will help you discover why. Perhaps it was something beyond your control. Perhaps it was a lack of discipline. Keeping our word to others is so much easier than keeping our word to ourselves. But what we communicate to ourselves when we do that is, "I'm not worth the effort."

Discipline is effort. And so, Peter Pamela Rose, being the dedicated coach that she is, turns up the heat. She'll ask you to think about the world-class athlete that trains in extreme conditions, like 123 degree weather. She'll ask you if you think he hasn't thought about skipping a workout that day. Then she'll ask you what you think his final decision was. And finally, she'll ask you if what you want is, perhaps, only what you think you want. Because if you really want it, you have to be willing to do whatever it takes no matter the "heat" that's pressing down on you. Your discipline muscles begin to build. You become worth the effort. Your dreams become reality.

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