Coaching Session 1

A friend of mine is attending a course on "coaching" as she intends to set up her own personal coaching program as a business. So she asked to 'coach' me for her course assignment. I met up with her today for my first 'coaching session'.

Wow! We spent 3 hours freezing ourselves at KFC because she had many incoming and outgoing calls during our session. *sigh* All my fingers and toes were numbed at the end of it.

Well, that aside, I did gain something from her 'half-past-six' session. Thanks to her! Let me recap what we did...

1. Rate my Current State from scale of 1 to 10 for the following. Why I rate them that way?
a. career/business -- 2, just starting my 'business partnership program, uncertain of outcome
b. finance -- 5, can survive but can't splurge like when I was working full-time
c. relationship -- 8, generally happy and contented
d. health -- 6, feel ok and hardly fall sick, though my antioxidant level is poor for now

2. Which of the 4 is the most important to me and why?
d. health, w/o it I can't enjoy the rest

3. What is my Ideal State or goals in 5 years time?
a. career/business -- have my own education business
b. finance -- I will be contented with $120k annual net income :P
c. relationship -- be in 'honeymoon' stage (asking too much?)
d. health -- strong enough to help others and enjoy life

4. What am I going to do to make it to my Ideal State or goal?
d. health -- since my health is the most important, I got to build my health; I just started the Phamanex LifePad which is a moneyback guarantee for health.
a. career/business -- my business partnership program is also based on health and beauty products, so it fits in well with my objective to strengthen my health and to do my business
c. relationship -- go for weekly exercises with people close to me to keep fit and establish bond
b. finance -- by doing my 'business' well I can gradually build up my finance

5. What are the challenges to my goals?
a. career/business -- lack of funding and suitable partners
c. relationship -- understanding hidden messages
d. health -- sleeping late and too much internet, eyesights deteriorating with eyebags showing

6. What are the skills I need to acquire to ensure I achieve my goals?
a. career/business -- fund raising skills to get investors
c. relationship -- learning the art of reading between-the-lines, I am a direct person
d. health -- time management skills, discipline

7. What am I going to do to acquire these skills?
read books and surf internet on such topics for the next 2 weeks; sleep early by 1 a.m.; for every hour I am online I should be offline for the next hour (wow.. tall order)