Sunday, 22 January 2023

Choices

"Choices - of how to spend time, energy, resources and attention (ideally) reflect a(n) (deep) understanding of values (what one values, what is important). Insight into this is developed iteratively through experience, reflection and feedback (instruction, training, working together with others, and coaching).

A journey (of a thousand mile)s is composed of many steps, and is taken one step at a time. Each step cumulatively adding to previous ones. Choose a (your) destination (well, with awareness and insight). Take the first step. And keep adding to this. Regularly and periodically pause, self-check (to confirm values and motivation underpinning (your) destination choice remain the same, and that the external situational and environmental factors remain supportive and aligned), then continue your journey. Course correcting as and when required." - Poh-Sun Goh, 23 January 2023, 0533am, Monday


“Choose (wisely, with insight and awareness - from iterative self-reflection arising from active living and life choices, feedback - from community - and coaching) where you allocate and spend your time, energy and resources, on what-with whom-and in what geographic and social/institutional environments. Your choices become and ’are’ your life.” Poh-Sun Goh, 0945am, Singapore time, Tuesday, 24 January 2023


“You’re the sum of your choices. You’re exactly who, what and where you choose to be in life.”

above quoted from article below

https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/hippo-attack-avoid-survive-paul-templer/index.html


Telic and Atelic activities - https://philnel.com/2014/11/19/midlifecrisis/


https://pohsungoh.blogspot.com/2022/12/life-spaces-where-do-you-spend-your.html


https://pohsungoh.blogspot.com/2022/10/coaching-process-and-value-add-for.html


https://pohsungoh.blogspot.com/2021/06/coachingconversationno7-exploring.html








Telic and Atelic activities - https://philnel.com/2014/11/19/midlifecrisis/


7 types of rest (because you need more rest in your life)
By Allaya Cooks-Campbell
[Creative Rest, Mental Rest, Physical Rest, Social Rest, Emotional Rest, Sensory Rest, Spiritual Rest]






"Less is More"
Politis M, Hodkinson J. Everything, every day, all at once—why we need to ask less of medical students BMJ 2022; 379 :o2900 doi:10.1136/bmj.o2900 https://www.bmj.com/content/379/bmj.o2900

"The final shortcut to lasting happiness is to evolve the lifestyle you and your partner want. This requires a harmonious balance between your work life, your home life, and social life. It means you live where you want to work, have the quality of life that you want, have time to attend to family and social affairs, and are equally happy at work and outside it." - Richard Koch, Chapter 15, The Seven Habits of Happiness, from "The 80/20 Principle: The Secret of Achieving More with Less", 1st edition, 1998, Doubleday, New York

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Insights from Coaching, Being Coached and From Personal Experience and Reflection
Poh-Sun Goh, Sunday, 16 April 2023, 0756am, Singapore Time

Life is lived in your body, relationships, environment and tasks. Nature and Nurture. Genetics and Environment. Attention, Awareness and Choices.

Shaped by Intention, and demands of your body (e.g. in health and illness), and your environment (e.g. roles, relationships, climate and weather, challenges and tasks; what you work on - as an occupation, vocation and passion). Integrated and constantly Evolving over time, through Growth, and Maturation (Aging well or not).

Choices made, international and unconscious habits, and demands of your body (e.g. hunger and thirst, what you are ‘hungry for’) and environment shape the quality of your life. In the moment, and cumulatively adding up over time. What you put into your body, what you do ‘with’ your body, and mind; in your roles, responsibilities and relationships; fundamentally shape your life. Both personal and professional.

Exercise. Work. Rest. Recharge. Renew. Read. Reflect. Keep learning. Keep challenging yourself. Stay curious. Take intentional and strategic pauses. Keep growing. Embrace stillness and activity. Silence and speech. Listen and observe. Explore. Repeat. Find your rhythm and rhyme. Live within, and without. Embrace and do the Inner and External Work. Then Rest, Renew, Reflect, Reflect, and Re-engage.



Monday, 5 December 2022

Life Spaces - Where do you spend your Time? In time and over time?






"Our life is lived in moments ... in the moment ... These moments add up, and are the sum total of our life." - Poh-Sun Goh, Sunday, 11 December 2022, 1045am, Singapore Time

“Forever is composed of nows.” ― Emily Dickinson

“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.” ― Henry David Thoreau

“Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour.”  ― Walt Whitman

“Be present in all things and thankful for all things.” ― Maya Angelou

“If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.”  ― Amit Ray, Om Chanting and Meditation


"Our life, is not only what we make it, but how we 'see' it. Our choices are ideally made from a strong foundation of self-awareness and deep insight. This is a continuous journey. Luckily and happily, there is a science to this process, training, mentors and coaches available to assist in this process. And journey. Simply take the first step. And keep walking. One step at a time. With self-awareness. Making choices of what matters 'to you', and is meaningful 'for you'." - Poh-Sun Goh, Sunday, 11 December 2022, 0646am, Singapore Time


Telic and Atelic activities - https://philnel.com/2014/11/19/midlifecrisis/

Friday, 2 December 2022

#Leadership #Management #Followership #IndividualCoaching #TeamCoaching

Google search "leadership vs management"

https://www.simplilearn.com/leadership-vs-management-difference-article

https://hbr.org/2013/08/tests-of-a-leadership-transiti 

Nizarudin Wajdi, Muh. (2017). The Differences Between Management And Leadership. Sinergi : Jurnal Ilmiah Ilmu Manajemen. 7. 10.25139/sng.v7i1.31. 

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/318597967_The_Differences_Between_Management_And_Leadership 

https://www.govtech.com/em/emergency-blogs/disaster-zone/followership-versus-leadership-032412.html

Google search "followership vs leadership

https://online.hbs.edu/courses/leadership-principles/

https://www.roffeypark.ac.uk/open-programmes/leadership-development-programmes/leadership-development-programme/

https://newfieldnetwork.com/coaching-for-personal-professional-mastery/

https://newfieldnetwork.com/leadership-development

https://www.thecoachpartnership.com/team-coaching-training-certification-program/

https://newfieldnetwork.com/foundations-of-life-coaching/




"Both leaders and followers are part of the same team.  It takes two hands to clap. Two hands are better than one!" - Poh-Sun Goh, 3 December 2022, shared on Chat-box during IAMSE 2022 pre-conference workshop interactive discussions - PCWS: "Building Leaders and Followers Together to Create Change: Understanding Leadership and Followership" - https://julnet.swoogo.com/iamsevirtualforum22/2421279

Thursday, 1 December 2022

Heart drives Head drives Hands - and - Action shapes Thinking and Mood

Value and impact of Self-Reflection and Coaching on Choices made, Habits, Routines and Environments - on how to feel about things, moods, thinking and actions


"Your actions can control your thoughts ... and your mood" - William James
i.e. "if you act happy your will feel happy ... if you act enthusiastic, you will feel enthusiastic ... if you act healthy, you will feel healthy" - Og Mandino, in "The Greatest Secret in The World", 1978, Bantam edition, Bantam Books

#Personal (#Professional) #Value and #Impact #OntologicalCoaching - #BeingCoached and #Coaching

What is the Personal (and Professional) Value and Impact of Ontological Coaching, Being Coached and Coaching others for me? A reflection.

Poh-Sun Goh, Friday, 0425am, December 2, 2022, Singapore Time


Simply put, engaging fully in Ontological Coaching practice(s) has profoundly deepened my self and situational awareness, including how I feel, think (about), and act. Understanding why and how. Becoming a (much) better observer, and listener; of myself and others. And because of this, changing (for the better) and continuing to improve, how I am present personally, my social / professional presence and impact.


Examples of this are felt (and observable) in moments of (self-) reflection, in family and social interactions, and professional activities - including patient care; in meetings and conferences; and as educator, teaching, training, faculty development and support, supervising, facilitating, mentoring and coaching.