MILLENNIALS A Portrait of Generation Next

This report represents the Pew Research Center’s most ambitious examination to date of America’s newest generation, the Millennials, many of whom have now crossed into adulthood.

The report sets out to compare the values, attitudes and behaviors of Millennials with those of today’s older adults. And to an extent older adults back when they were the age that Millennials are now.

MILLENIALS: A Portrait of Generation Next

Why Change Is So Hard: Self-Control Is Exhaustible

You hear something a lot about change: People won’t change because they’re too lazy. Well, I’m here to stick up for the lazy people. In fact, I want to argue that what looks like laziness is actually exhaustion. The proof comes from a psychology study that is absolutely fascinating.

http://www.fastcompany.com/video/why-change-is-so-hard-self-control-is-exhaustible

Discover What Life Coaching Is All About!!!

A Life Coach determines and assists you in attaining your goals in life, on a corporate level and on a personal development level.A life coach will help focus your vision for you and help tackle any obstacles in the way, overcome challenges and reach success.Through working with a Life Coach, clients can achieve results more easily and quickly, with a more focused approach to their life, greater levels of confidence and higher self esteem.

 

In addition, coaching is now used for numerous reasons and objectives. It is a powerful tool in creating positive results in the context of the following:
  

• Business / organizational change (merger, right-sizing,  de-layering, etc.)
• Talent Management (i.e. succession planning)
• Organizational development
• Culture building and shaping
• Sustaining and achieving more success
• Sustaining great performance at work and raising the bar
• Life issues, in general
• Personal development
• Personal life transitions
• Communication and relationships
• And many others

 

With proven results and many success stories, The International Coach Federation (ICF) released in July 2008 the results of its first ever Global Coaching Client Study conducted in 2008. The study reveals that coaching generates a solid return of investments for clients, besides positively impacting individual and business goals. The coaching client survey was fully participated by individuals from different continents namely, North America, Latin America, Asia Pacific, Europe, Middle East and Africa.

The results proves the true power of coaching. The astounding survey shows:

 

1. Eighty-six percent (86%) of companies that have used coaching shows a jaw-dropping 100 percent (100%) return on investment.

2. Eighty percent (80%) of coaching clients said they have experienced a positive change in self-esteem as a result of partnering with a professional coach.

3. A staggering 82.7% of individuals who have experienced professional coaching report being satisfied with their coaching experience.

4. A whopping 96.2% of individuals said they would want to repeat the coaching experience.

 

Therefore, it is clearly shows that working one-on-one with a coach can speed up the results you want. It provides a sense of synergy and accountability in the tough times and creates a support net. A few coaching sessions(with us:-)) can be enough to give you the boost you need!!!!!.

Think outside the Box

I have been asked why I decided to become a Personal Coach.  Having been in Information Technology for over 24 years as a Systems Engineer, Operations Manager, Technical Manager and as the main GO-TO guy when things hit the fan. And seeing all the technological changes that have occurred, such as the developement of the Personal Computer and the Internet. Change has always been a difficult concept to understand, either you accept it with open arms or deny it kicking and screaming.

Technology has always been a double-edged sword, bringing us longer and healthier life spans, freedom from physical and mental drudgery, and many new creative possibilities, while introducing new and salient dangers on the other. Such as creating a throw away society, fractured personal relationships, declining education standards, elective surgery, cloning, an aging populace, negative birth rates, peak oil, and asymmetrical warfare.

Where advances in technology used to occur over generations, it now occurs within a generation. There is a theory called technological singularity, where technology is advancing so quickly and in great strides, that there will come a time when man will lose control and technology takes over.

I personally do not think this will happen. Advances in technology is usually expensive and takes time to disseminate. Those who can afford it gives them an advantage to those who can not. But there does come a point where technology becomes available to all and not to just a few, and that advantage is lost. The time gap between creation and commonplace is getting shorter and shorter. I do think that technology is like the mythical Ouroboros,

simbolo alquímico (Ouroboros serpent in old Greek alchemical manuscript)

an ancient symbol depicting a serpent or dragon swallowing its own tail and forming a circle. Sooner or later, what is new becomes obsolete, to be replaced by something more advanced.

We have as a society become more dependent on technology. And as such, our basic skills of survival, communication, reading and writing, problem solving, mathematics, and ethics has declined. A good friend of mine put it best when after interviewing a prospective hire observed “Why is common sense so uncommon today??”

We tend to be creatures of habit, doing the same thing over and over. Our decision making, how we act, how we observe things, these are guided by our cultural traditions, genetic heritage, how we think (our ability to analyze /synthesize), and our previous experiences. We can adapt to change, no matter what the circumstance, given that we have time. Shorten the time or add change upon change, then it becomes more and more difficult to adapt quickly enough. And if you constantly fail to adapt, frustration occurs.

Frustration arises when a person is continually thwarted in his attempts to reach a goal. One outgrowth of this frustration is anger. Frustration and anger encourages impulsive reactions, irrational behavior, poorly thought-out decisions, and, in some instances, an “I quit” attitude. People tend to avoid doing something they can’t handle and fall back to the things they are familiar with, regardless if it is the wrong thing to do.

Future shock is a term for a certain psychological state of individuals and entire societies, first introduced in 1970 by Alvin Toffler in his book of the same name. Toffler’s shortest definition of future shock is a personal perception of “too much change in too short a period of time“. And one way for us to combat this perception is that we must constantly learn, unlearn, and relearn. Change is more commonplace now and what was valid yesterday, may not be valid today, and that which may be valid today, may be invalid tomorrow. As they say “The only thing constant in life, is change”.

As a Personal Coach in thinking outside the box, I can empower my clients to embrace change not as something they have no control over but a challenge to be overcome.