Frank Mason - Personal Coach

Success is determined by taking the hand you were dealt and utilizing it to the very best of your ability.

Know how your business is performing. In a business, you have to make a profit to survive.
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Masons, Douglas’s and Jay eating out at Nando’s Stratford.

Good advice on online networking. Start local, … and ask to meet for a coffee!

To some extent, networking of any kind has a numbers component—you meet and talk to many more people than actually become valuable contacts or clients. However, by applying a targeted, thoughtful and authentic approach, you can make your online networking much more successful.

Here are five tips to help you make the most of online networking: https://bit.ly/3PuohvS

Review of Positive Intelligence, by Shirzad Chamine

This is more than just a book review but a review of a powerful process and training program. A book it is, a New York Times bestseller by Shirzad Chamine, who for years was the Chairman and CEO of CTI, the Coaches Training Institute and who is currently CEO of Positive Intelligence Inc and a lecturer at Stanford University.

I have not only read the book, but recently participated in a seven-week training program for coaches in which Chamine took us through the process, learning how to use it to effectively engage with sub-conscious self-limiting beliefs that cause enormous damage in the lives of those affected by them. He begins with the story of growing up in an abusive, dysfunctional family, and how this affected his development. After school he gained a summa cm laude BA in psychology and spent a year working towards a PhD in neurobiology before changing direction, doing an MS in electrical engineering followed by an MBA. It was during his business school studies, when several classmates told him how judgmental they found him, that he realized that he had developed a powerfully judgmental character-trait. This began a self-study that led to the development of Positive Intelligence.

It is a well-researched program that posits that we all have a number of what he calls saboteurs; parts of our subconscious minds, developed in childhood as coping mechanisms, that result in limiting self-beliefs that in adult life can lead to a variety of dysfunctional behaviors and responses. We all have a master saboteur he calls the Judge, and one or more accomplice saboteurs, who are named hyper-rational, pleaser, avoider etc. Against these are arrayed the sage powers, capabilities that we also all have that allow us to deal with challenges in more positive ways than the saboteurs do, but for most of us the saboteurs tend to shout down the sage and rule the day.

I have learned a lot about self-limiting beliefs in organizational behavior and industrial psychology courses, but rarely anything substantial about how to overcome them. In this program one learns a number of techniques that are aimed at weakening the saboteurs, strengthening the sage, and building up the ‘PQ brain muscles’, the parts of the brain responsible for the sage powers. Some of these techniques like rubbing the fingertips against one another or concentrating on the sounds one can hear appeared to me, at face-value, bizarre and although the course contained audio recordings of the first eight chapters of the book, the hyper-rational part of me had me buy the whole book and turn to the end-notes where copious research is quoted. The research shows for example, that functional MRI scans of the brain have shown that exercises that engage the senses develop alternative neural pathways to those used by the ‘survival brain’, those parts responsible for the saboteurs. Based on the research, I accepted that the techniques would work, and followed the program, learning over the course of several weeks to overcome irrational self-beliefs that had caused me much pain during my career. These, I had spent years attempting to eliminate using various self-help techniques that had proved ultimately unsuccessful.

It was quite a revelation to discover techniques that worked at overcoming behaviors that years of study into psychology and personal development had failed to dislodge. At the end of the program, coaches were invited to join a six month certification process, a definite addition to my to-do list for future personal development!

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Who would like to lose 4kg (8.8lbs) by Christmas?

Happy birthday to me! Sixty four feels like a good age at which to reinvent oneself!

Ann and I are speaking on leadership to Future Females Gqberha (Port Elizabeth) tomorrow evening 6 - 8 pm SA time (5 - 7 pm U.K. time). Sign up on Quicket (link below) to get the Zoom link.

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Tomorrow, I'm presenting a webinar that explains and demonstrates my approach to Transformational coaching. It deals with those pesky self limiting beliefs, that say things like "you can't sell"😡, "you don't know enough"👩‍🎓, or even "they don't trust you"👮. Do join us; your support will be much appreciated!
Join here at 7pm BST: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88011742563?pwd=TVh2N1YxVVBWTVR3S1hlTkhVSk9Pdz09

“If we can heal the family, we can heal the world.”

Virginia Satir

Tomorrow evening - Free webinar on Transformational Coaching this Thursday 18:30 UK time. For anyone at a crossroads, or stuck and in need of a boost!
https://mailchi.mp/175e05328150/transformational-coaching-webinar-090921

Coming up this Thursday … New Improved Transformational Coaching! Free Webinar for small business founders and anyone who is at a crossroads on their path.
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I'm hosting Transformational Coaching - facilitating change that lasts on Wednesday 18 August at 1930 UK time. This will be of value to entrepreneurs and business owners who are challenged by limiting self-beliefs.

Transformational Coaching - facilitating change that lasts | LinkedIn Coaching the subconscious mind to overcome saboteurs like limiting self-beliefs, and achieve wellbeing and wholeness. Of great value to entrepreneurs and business founders whose greatest challenges are their own thought processes.

I'm hosting Transformational Coaching - facilitating change that lasts on Wednesday 18 August at 1930 UK time. This will be of value to entrepreneurs and business owners who are challenged by limiting self-beliefs.

https://www.linkedin.com/events/transformationalcoaching-facili6831299585097433088/

Transformational Coaching - facilitating change that lasts | LinkedIn Coaching the subconscious mind to overcome saboteurs like limiting self-beliefs, and achieve wellbeing and wholeness. Of great value to entrepreneurs and business founders whose greatest challenges are their own thought processes.

Frank's review of Positive Intelligence 4/5: This is more than just a book review but a review of a powerful process and training program. A book it is, a New York Times bestseller by Shirzad Chamine, who for years was the Chairman and CEO of CTI, the Coaches Training Institute and who is currently CEO of Positive Intelligence Inc and a l...

I am presenting a Free Webinar on Tuesday 10 Aug at 1700 UK time on Transformational Coaching - Facilitating Change that Lasts. It is aimed at solopreneurs who are troubled by negative self-talk and those who would help them heal and grow.
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Transformational Coaching - facilitating change that lasts | LinkedIn Transformational Coaching - achieving lasting change in subconscious behaviours, responses and patterns of thought

My approach to Coaching draws on the themes of Core Transformation and Positive Intelligence.

These were developed to overcome the problem of short-term gains, experienced with many coaching tools, which fizzle out and disappear within weeks. You have most likely experienced the buzz and positive feelings generated by a coach or motivational speaker. And you may have wondered where they went to a week later?

You have no doubt heard that negative beliefs are a Bad Thing. But have you ever learned a way to reverse them? Permanently?

The reason you have not is that most negative beliefs developed in your unconscious mind as means of ensuring the physical and emotional survival of the child you once were.

Most techniques used to overcome them are addressed to the conscious mind. The most effective of these, aim to reach the unconscious by repetition: mantras, affirmations, and the like. Hard work and perseverance required! And they do not address the root of the problem, so the ANTS (automatic negative thoughts) are still there, hiding, waiting to strike again.

But what if we could find and transform the root causes? Core Transformation deals with the parts of our unconscious minds that want to take us in a different direction to the one our conscious minds plan on going. Techniques address how we can identify these parts of our unconscious mind, discover their intended objectives and ultimately the positive state which they aim to achieve for us. From there we can work our way back, using the power of the unconscious mind to transform these patterns of thought. The results are surprisingly positive, going well beyond the presenting negative belief.

Positive Intelligence identifies the underlying thought patterns to all our negative beliefs and weighs them up against the inner wisdom that we all have. By learning to recognize and weaken these little devils and strengthen the wisdom, we can affect long term change to all our habitual patterns of thought.

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What is Transformational Coaching? My approach to Coaching draws on the themes of Core Transformation and Positive Intelligence. These were developed to overcome the problem of short-term gains, experienced with many coaching tools, which fizzle out and disappear within weeks.