The Body and Mind Archives – Contented Life Coaching

High Achiever – Your Identity got You Here. It’s Also How to Get to Where You Want to Be.

3 minutes of reading / Alcohol and Life, Constructing Your New Life, The Body and Mind, Your New Identity

𝐈𝐟 𝐘𝐨𝐮’𝐫𝐞 𝐚 𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡 𝐀𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐖𝐡𝐨’𝐬 𝐈𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐁𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐒𝐮𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬. 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐖𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐅𝐞𝐞𝐥 𝐄𝐦𝐩𝐭𝐲, 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐖𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞. You’re Stressed Out, Anxious, Frustrated, Comparing Yourself to Others, Can’t Switch Off or Sleep. This is me sitting in my office in my early thirties, burning out, my life collapsing. With a business, career, […]

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As a High Achiever – What is Your Why?

3 minutes of reading / Constructing Your New Life, Leadership, The Body and Mind, Your New Identity

That’s a question we don’t ask ourselves. It’s a question I asked myself 12 years ago, my why didn’t change; my perspective did. Adaptation and Conditioning throughout our lives lead us to believe we must be a certain person to be accepted and survive. Competition is good; you must move forward every day, be better

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Your Ability to Flow with Life as a High Achiever is Dependent on Your System State.

2 minutes of reading / Constructing Your New Life, Leadership, The Body and Mind

Something important I realised when I decided to create a new identity, and life, in 2014. Previously, the environment I was in, or walked into, changed the way my body felt, and my thinking. In our business, office environment, I contracted, and became even more strategic. At a customer site, it could go either way,

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High Achiever Leadership Identity.

3 minutes of reading / Leadership, Nutrition, The Body and Mind, Your New Identity

Leader vs Winner – What’s the Difference? Recently, in St. Tropez, while my friend and I were eating breakfast. Mame Cafe and Restaurant – St Tropez – for Breakfast. I couldn’t help overhearing an American gentleman discussing traits, vibes, and life with his children. This guy was clearly a high achiever who had done well

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What’s the Purpose of Your High Carbohydrate and Alcohol Intake? Have You Thought About it?

2 minutes of reading / Alcohol and Life, The Body and Mind, Your New Identity

Being a High Achiever often originates in High Pressure Environments – Pre and Post Birth. Mainstream approaches suggest this is all conditioning by parents, siblings, teachers, peers, and society. That’s surface level; epigenetics confirms this. I’ve discussed prenatal and preverbal trauma, adverse childhood experiences, near-death experiences, and trauma, many times. How in an instant at

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The High Achiever Paradox – Why Pushing Through is Costing You The Ride.

2 minutes of reading / The Body and Mind, Your New Identity

The world is an ecosystem of choices. Safety, Health, and Success are found in being open to new information, internal regulation, heart-centered intent, and the ability to adapt. Not – PUSH THROUGH in a BY ME STATE IGNORING THE SIGNALS FROM YOUR BODY. Those signals aren’t noise – They’re data. The body’s continuous communication about

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A System Accelerating and Braking.

3 minutes of reading / The Body and Mind, Your New Identity

As a High Achiever, a System that is Accelerating and Braking at the same time – is Common. This is the autonomic conflict most high achievers never identify. The sympathetic nervous system – the accelerator – drives performance, vigilance, and output.The parasympathetic – the brake – attempts to regulate, to bring the system back to

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The Pressure You Feel Didn’t Start in Your Business, Career, or Relationship.

5 minutes of reading / Constructing Your New Life, Leadership, The Body and Mind

When my Medical Team Told Me in 2014 that I’d Not Regain My Muscle Mass, Health and Wellbeing – I said Watch Me – Because I Love Being Fit and Healthy. High Achievers – The Pressure You Feel Didn’t Start in Your Business, Career, or Relationship. What did you love doing earlier in your life?

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The Symptom is Not The “Problem”

4 minutes of reading / Leadership, The Body and Mind, Your New Identity

Sitting in My Seat in My Local Bar/Pub, Smiling Externally, Collapsing Internally. Many years ago, I was talking business with a friend I’ve known for decades. He’s a partner in his own successful business. I was discussing my vision, what I wanted to do with the business, in business because my business was pretty much

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Upgrading to Version 2

3 minutes of reading / Coaching, Moving on, The Body and Mind

𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑶𝒍𝒅 𝑰𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝑺𝒆𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒅 𝑳𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒂 𝑮𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝑺𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒕 – 𝑯𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝑼𝒏𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒕𝒉𝒚 & 𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒆𝒕𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒊𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒔 🎭😉 Drinking 🍺🥃 again, became immediately irrelevant, the moment I’d decided to change my life Moving forward – can be the only intention Finally, being capable of thinking straight, with no alcohol, or chemicals of stress, flowing through

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