How happy are you with your life?
Think about it for a moment...100%? If not why not? Despite your circumstances , you can be 100% happy. It's achievable , because happiness comes from within. It's about inner transformation, which has to happen before it can be externally manifested.-Gustav Gous
Relationship|Career|Family|Money|Balance|Health & Body|Communication
May I ask you – What would you do if you had 10 million rand in the bank? NOT your business account, your personal account.
While you think about that for a moment, let me begin by thanking my “groupies” if it were not for your support I wouldn’t be here. Thanks a million!
When I prepared for this talk I was thinking of how we all juggle different things at different times just to get through the day. All these ‘things’ I call Apples. I see our lives as Apple trees, bringing us sometimes more Apples than we can handle, sometimes rotten Apples and other times no Apples and we have to juggle those we have until new ones arrive.
So what does the question and Apples have to do with Life Coaching?
Picture in your mind’s eye the tree of your life: Can you see it clearly? Now look carefully, there’s eight different branches, the Apples produced by each branch differs, some are green others red, some others blue and still others yellow and orange.
Apples are actually daily, weekly or monthly goals that needs to be achieved, they’re mixed with all those others that we would like to do but never get around to doing. To eat an Apple simply means Extra Attention Time, so for a short while you focus intently on getting that Apple completely sorted.
The branches represent your Life Areas:
Area 1: Health and Physical
Area 2: Family & Home
Area 3: Social & Recreational
Area 4: Spiritual & Emotional
Area 5: Intellectual & Educational
Area 6: Professional & Career
Area 7: Financial & Wealth
Area 8: Community & Cultural
Area 1: Health and Physical
You only have the one body, cherish it! Make sure you know the vital numbers for your age and gender. Exercise and maintain good healthy eating habits.
Apples: Gym, Time for exercise, Diabetes, Illness or disability.
Tip: Get enough sleep!
How does a Life Coach fit here? A good Life Coach will determine your unique needs and refer you to the relevant practitioner such as Personal trainer, Dietician or other sports coaches.
Area 2: Family & Home
Your home support system only accounts for 15% of your environmental stability, however if this support structure should fail your entire world will come crashing down! Look at your 15%, are you working as a team? Are you spending quality time together? Are you providing a safe and secure harbour to return to?
Apples: Homework, School work, Overtime, Projects, Birthdays, Death, Friends, Finances
Tip: Have a “What can I give” instead of a “What can I get” attitude!
How does a Life Coach fit here? A good Life Coach will determine your unique needs and either give you and your family exercises (Homework) to do or council, mediate or facilitate conflict resolution in the family. Services that may (or may not, coach specific) fall under a life coach are:
Marriage counselling
Family Counselling
Divorce / Relationship Remediation
Divorce Counselling
Pre-marital Counselling
Relationship guidance for Teens
Family Trauma Counselling
Life Coaching
Relationship Coaching
Area 3: Social & Recreational
How good a friend are you? What do you do to deepen your friendships? We all need “Me-time” and time with friends.
How does a Life Coach fit here? A good Life Coach will determine your unique needs and come up with some ideas of how to connect with the community around you.
Apples: Relationships, Parties, Social gatherings, Friends and their issues, Time management
Tip: Focus on doing good to others and the environment and expect nothing in return!
In life you cannot help someone else and not benefit yourself in one way or another!
Area 4: Spiritual & Emotional
Even Atheists believe in something: themselves. As human beings we have an inborn need to believe in something higher than ourselves, this belief is what helps us get through the tough traumatic times. It gives us hope for the future, it develops our determination and will to live. Someone who loses all hope ultimately commits suicide. Therefore if you do not practice a religion or do but not actively, consider reading the Bible (Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth). You’ll discover some good life tools and that there’s a God who cherish relationship above religious doctrine.
Apples: What do I believe? Heaven or Hell or Who cares? Beliefs, doctrine, religion
How does a Life Coach fit here? A good Life Coach will determine your unique needs and put you in contact with the relevant spiritual advisers. I do have an excellent Spiritual growth plan for Christians that seek a deeper relationship with God.
Tip: Heal your past, forgive yourself first and then the rest, restore your honour and become whole again.
Area 5: Intellectual & Educational
You don’t know what you don’t know! Therefore continual education is an investment in yourself, what you love, you’ll continually want to do, and when you do what you love you’ll never work a day – Einstein (Paraphrased) Knowledge has absolutely no power until it’s applied.
How does a Life Coach fit here? A good Life Coach will determine your unique needs and will help you in finding out who you really are and what skills or abilities you have to offer the world around you. Knowing yourself intimately enable you to love unconditionally and to grow where you need to, it also assist in handling calamity when it arises.
Apples: Where do I need more information? How & where do I get it? Time, Study, growth
Tip: Go to www.16personalities.com and get to know who you are as personality (this account for 15-25% of who you are! Go to www.Shadowmatch.com (Short report, for full payable report please contact myself) to learn what your habits are and how you handle conflict. (This accounts for 55% of who you are!) So what about the rest? The environment where you find yourself will be mirrored by you, that’s why we behave differently at church than at a party or at work.
Area 6: Professional & Career
Are you doing what you really love to do? Do you like what you’re doing as career? Do you want more? If so, what are your future prospects? Do you need to educate yourself further? What will it take to get where you want to be, is it worth it?
How does a Life Coach fit here? A good Life Coach will determine your unique needs and will guide you towards a suitable career counsellor or recruitment agency. There’s a very specific path to follow here. Life Coaches can also assist businesses with:
Conflict Resolution
Restructuring Management
Personnel Placement
Promotion and Growth Management
Leadership Growth and development
Executive Coaching
Key Note Speaking
Motivational Speeches
Team Building
Apples: Time, Boss demands, Client requirements, Issues, colleagues, Pressure, growth, promotion, quality, quantity, records, Admin, Finances, travelling
Tip: Find your God-given destiny and purpose and pursue it with a passion!
Area 7: Financial & Wealth
Most people work for their money and never have enough. Learn how to get your money to work for you and be debt free. Would a second income help you?
How does a Life Coach fit here? A good Life Coach will determine your unique needs and guide you towards the right answers for your specific needs. (This is a highly specialised field so a good LC will connect you with the relevant people should you not have your own.
Apples: Budget, Money, Emergencies, School fees, Fines, Loans, Accounts, Investments, Groceries, Car Service, Utilities
Tip: Have a budget, stick with it, live within your means.
Area 8: Community & Cultural
What difference do you make in your community? How and where do you donate your money / time, effort and skill?
How does a Life Coach fit here? A good Life Coach will determine your unique needs and make suggestions based on your skills and abilities as well as time frames in mind.
Apples: Time, Who to help, How can I help, So much needed, but I can only give a little, Who to work with, how to fit in. What can I help with? Finances, Skills, Opportunities
Tip: Find somewhere that you can really have an impact, maybe help a single Mom service her car, bake a cake for a family who lost a loved one. Have a party to raise money for a need in your community… Go to www.lovingthyneighbour.org to register a NGO or to find organisations that needs your help. (Or contact me for assistance)
You’ll realise from the above that a Life Coach doesn’t always have the answers, we assist you in asking the right questions and then plan for the future.
Coming back to that first question: if you had it now would you have the time to enjoy it?
Do your budget and cherish your work place and salary, earning R52 000 pm is like having a R1 000 000-00 in the bank!
There’s no greater joy for a Life Coach to see their client succeed in life!
So let’s look at how I can assist you and your team:
“The Get a Life in 40 days through 7 strategic questions” course.
- This course help you to define what’s really important in life to you.
- You deal with issues that hampers you from getting ahead.
- It’ll define who you are and what you have to offer.
- You’ll learn how to manage the clock and calendar better.
- You’ll identify strengths and weaknesses that you never knew you had.
- You’ll get a structure for daily, weekly and monthly “must do’s”
- You’ll get to spend better quality time where it really matters.
- Your new habits will help you focus on what’s at hand & not worry at what’s happening elsewhere.
The above course will also solve the biggest issue in business today: Presenteeism. Yes you read right, not absenteeism but presenteeism. The employees are so worried about life outside the workplace that they don’t focus on their work, therefore jeopardising the one avenue that will ultimately enable them to get ahead in life.
Normal Price per delegate: R3450-00 excl VAT.
Special offer just for you R2995-00 excl VAT.
(Speak to me if you have budget issues, there’s always a plan to be made)
You heard me speak of Shadowmatch, this is the most phenomenal business tool you could ever have! Over 200 businesses worldwide are using Shadowmatch with huge success.
So how does Shadowmatch really help?
- Because Shadowmatch measures habits it’s the ideal tool to determine if a person is the right fit for your company or department. (We are what we repeatedly do.)
- Shadowmatch works exceptionally well with psychometric tests that are already been used.
- Shadowmatch works well for first time employment or promotion of employees.
- Shadowmatch can assist in placing the right employee in the right position by matching them to the benchmark/shadow of different departments.
- Shadowmatch can also match departments to a person!
- Ever wondered if an employee will resign after 6 months? Shadowmatch can also benchmark an employee against the resignation file.
- Personal Development Profiles will assist employers in grooming employees to become a better fit to their departments.
is affordable but only effective in companies with more than 50 employees. Companies with less employees can also use it but it will then only be used to gather a bit more insight into employees, I also use it for Team building and conflict resolution.
Normal Pricing R400-00 excl VAT
Your price R 380-00 excl VAT
Shadowmatch Implementation and guidance R495 excl. VAT per hour.
Another vital business tool is Skillsgrid. Ever employed someone and wondered if they really have the skill you need? Skillsgrid allows you to see the candidates’ skills on one page, this makes it easier to compare true skills to the CV and to the position applied for.
Picture courtesy Dr. Pieter De Villiers.
Can be used as a stand-alone option at R200 excl. VAT per person, or as an add-on to an existing Shadowmatch platform in which the subscription fee or PAYG (Pay As You Go) fee rises by 50% to R600 excl. VAT.
Shadowmatch & Skillsgrid is particularly useful for jobseekers as there are over 150 companies and corporations using Shadowmatch in South Africa alone, including some of the larger banks.
I also have other products that may be of interest:
Conflict Resolution
Marriage / Pre Marital Counselling
Relationship Counselling
One on One Coaching (Usually implemented after “Get a Life”)
Team Building
Shadowmatch PDP Mentorship
SPECIAL OFFER! ALL OF THE ABOVE (worth R4179-00) plus 6 months individual coaching (worth R1495-00pm) for only R 8995-00 VAT included!
TOTAL VALUE R13 149-00! That’s a 31% discount!
Thank you for taking the time to read this!
Please contact me on 0835709102 or at coach@jacquesbooysen.co.za.