Posts Tagged focus
Episode #66 Want More Success? Start Doing Less.
Posted by Christine Pechstein in blog, learning, LIFE COACHING, Radio Show, Self Improvement on January 5, 2015
More. More. MORE!
So often, we believe success is off in the future where our goals and aspirations wait for us to catch up to them. But, that’s not true. We can experience contentment, peace, and joy now instead of always chasing something newer, greater, or better that takes our attention off the present and suspends it indefinitely into something we must chase and somehow capture.
Happiness is learning to love the life you have while living fully with what you’ve already got. But, sometimes we’re so busy chasing stuff, that we forget to realize the blessings we already have. Have you ever looked at your children and wondered where the time went? Time and energy are limited in supply and some things are far too precious to get lost in the chase after more.
The truth is, your goals won’t matter until your priorities do. So, this year is your chance to learn a few life management skills that will teach you to prioritize, focus, and enjoy what you’ve got right here and now while building a life you desire for yourself.
Our successes can enjoyed here and now if we learn to prioritize our lives in ways that allow us to focus on less while accomplishing more of the things that matter most. Stop missing out on those precious priorities and start living them today. Go ahead! Tune in now. Give yourself 15 minutes to learn a little about priority management.
Episode #49 Great Leaders Delegate And This Is Why
Posted by Christine Pechstein in blog, learning, LIFE COACHING, Loving, MIA, Radio Show, Self Improvement, stress management, this community, this life on July 28, 2014
If you want to be a great leader, you’ll just learn to do it all yourself.
FALSE!
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No, no, no! This is false thinking and a mindset that will burn people out.
As part of your life and stress management, you need to understand why delegation is imperative to successful leaders. One person doing it all is a sure recipe for burnout and fatigue of you and your team. Knowing how to delegate will help individuals focus, do more, last longer, and play harder regardless of what it is you’re working on.
As a leader in a company, community, or home, delegation is a necessary part of life and stress management. The secret is to find individuals that leaders don’t have to micro-manage, babysit, or clean up after. Adults who function this way may not be people that will be helpful to your project or organization. Teaching your children how to work independently and responsibly is a skill that will get them far as they grow up to work in team environments, where work is assigned, and they have the ability to work unsupervised in a trustworthy manner.
Listen in now and learn why delegation is a necessary for leaders.
Don’t burn out. Delegate and work in a smart manner. Many times, it is the line between success and failure.
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Finding Peace, Hope, & Sanity (faith-based Life Management Video)
Posted by Christine Pechstein in blog, Faith and Spirituality, Leaning on July 17, 2014
Here’s an oldie, but OH, so good throw-back Thursday.
Styles change. Production skills improve. And thank goodness!
I always seem to forget how much I’ve learned since first getting started, and how many hairstyles I’ve had (and the bad hair days that came with them) until I step back in time and look at all the life management training videos and segments I’ve recorded and packaged over the years.
I wanted to share this faith-based video with you to give you an idea of the impact life management training that leads you to cling to the cross as your rescue (instead of the world) can and will have in your life.
Feel free to share this. Pass it on.
And if you think Life Management is something that will help you organize your time, energy, resources, and life, then and only then consider taking the rest of the courses I offer in my Life Management Trainings. But, don’t let them be a replacement for your relationship with Christ and your desire to live out God’s word. The rest of the series is full of non-faith based (safe for work coaching and training materials) for any and all organizations. The full training series materials can be used by anyone and any organization. The faith-based video is an optional video and may be skipped by those who do not wish to view it.
I hope you’ll watch and be encouraged. And remember: It’s about building our lives on a solid foundation and renewing our minds in Christ to have a solid physical, mental, and emotional life, too. Don’t allow this world to get the best of you. Armor up and live it out! 🙂
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You can get them all right here!
The Gift of Gab: Focus On More Than Just Doing
Posted by Christine Pechstein in Radio Show on October 28, 2013
When we think of focus, most times we think of being focusing on what we are doing. And while it is necessary on focusing on what we’re doing in order to be successful, there is much more to how we use our focus in our lives.
We also need to focus on being: Mind and Body.
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When we are in with others and building relationships we need to be intentional about focus as it will either make or break them. So many times in our relationships today we are only present in a physical sense, and we’re divided mind from body. Our bodies are present. But our minds are off somewhere else.
We must realize it is imperative that our relationships must be deeper than a superficial depth of focus if we are to grow and flourish them.
Listen to the show to learn more about the importance of our focus in more than just the things we are doing. It’s relevant also to the state of being. It matters greatly to the depth of our relationships and our ability to trust in them.
How Stress Multiplies, full post
Posted by Christine Pechstein in blog, stress management, this life, Uncategorized on March 8, 2013
I want you to become AWARE of something.
I want you to become aware of how stress multiplies in your life. It can grow like yeast and overtake your good days if you let it.
As you go through even your best days, there are things that will occur that can get you off track.
It can get you to focus on the negative. It puts your mindfulness on what is going wrong or not as you’d planned and takes it off of what is going right. And to combat those negative patterns, your life management skill and techniques are necessary to remind yourself of your plan of action.
And that plan of action is how YOU will choose to place your focus to RENEW your mind.
Once you are consciously aware of how negativity and little frustrations that seem so small and innocent can sneak in and sabotage your time, energy, focus, and drain your stamina, you’ll have a fighting chance to renew your mind, regain your focus, and carry on toward the GOOD, right, joyful, and hopeful things in your life.
Misery loves company. And so does negativity. If we can become aware of how our frustrations affect us, we can stand against it, fight, and win.
How Stress Multiplies In Your Life from Christine Pechstein on Vimeo.
Asking Your Coach: Overcoming Obstacles
Posted by Christine Pechstein in Radio Show on January 7, 2013
Asking Your Coach:
I get asked questions quite often about how I got to where I am from where I was, and how I’ve overcome so many obstacles in my own life…so once in awhile, I’ll share an answer to the questions I receive to hopefully inspire someone else.
Here’s one question I received from a reader:
How do you stare at your obstacles and not let them scare the daylights out of you?
And here’s my honest response. I say honest, because it’s not just what I’d tell someone. It’s what I have personally lived.
Obstacles come in all shapes and sizes. Some of the simple and smallest obstacles can be some of the greatest. So, don’t let size fool you. Being a single mother and having no one to rely upon forced me to face every challenge. And it also taught me a lot. Obstacles are the very things we can learn from if we take advantage of them. If we go away scared and never confront them, we don’t learn anything! We miss an opportunity! So, yes, I am saying that obstacles are sometimes opportunities!
How did I face them? Why did I decide to stare right at them and not run away from them?
I didn’t want the obstacle to become the end of me, the end of my story. I had much more to look forward to than that. All I had to do was look beyond the obstacle at what I felt was possible if I defeated it, took it head on, blasted through it without looking back, and moved beyond it.
One thing I learned though: When you get through one obstacle, you’ll have another. And another. Life is full of them. But as we defeat EACH ONE, we learn that we can get through the next, and the next, and the next if we just keep our focus on what lies in the victory and not the obstacle itself.
NEVER let your obstacle become the end of your story!
Use it as the beginning of your next testimony!
Seek God, pray, and move forward! Don’t let the enemy scare you into thinking our story has to end in defeat. Keep your eyes on Christ-and you’ll know victory is beyond the lie the enemy tries to make you focus on. Our focus is in Hope and hope is victoriously beyond our obstacles. Our strength comes from Christ, and we can persevere! We can defeat our obstacles. Every single one of them!
Press on, live as an over-comer, and make the victorious life your mindset!
Church Simply Focus
Posted by Christine Pechstein in blog, Faith and Spirituality, Radio Show on June 23, 2012
This is a Faith-based post.
Since I reach churches and businesses: My business clients who do not wish to read faith-based materials will want to skip this post.
It’s no secret that I think. A lot. 🙂
I saw this picture in my Facebook feed this morning. And it’s made my day. I started my day out in my own community early on a Saturday morning.
I had a ladies Bible study which has me now preparing for a major shift in my life. (I fastened my seat belt Lord—Proverbs 16:9–You lead me, I will follow, and I’m ready with my shoes laced up!). After Bible study, our downtown Kiwanis group had a community project going on, so I headed over to help. We painted a map of the United States on the campus of Holy Cross Catholic School. And after all that was done, I returned home for a bit.
I was going through my Facebook feed and came across an image from a Pastor friend of mine in a country in Asia. And as you can see from the image, it is the simpleness of church.
This is church.
The focus is very much the presence of God, the Word of God, and the people. It is church in community. It’s community in church. And it’s simple. Such a powerful reminder. Such a beautiful image. God is just amazing. His love is so simply precious. Simple focus.
It was just such a reminder to me that we have to be very careful not to get caught up in doing church that we forget to BE the church. We need to manage both sides well.
So now the pondering begins…Do we have that? What if we could no longer do church the way we’ve always done it?
Just a question to challenge me to think.
I thought about my family for a moment: My kids and I. If we lost our house and ended up with only a tent and few belongings or things to entertain us, would we cease to be a family? The answer is obviously no. We’d still very much be a family. So even if our churches were to be simple or become simpler to maintain our focus. would we cease to be a church? Not at all. Why? Because the focus on the church is not on what it has, but rather the relationships it is building. Just like my family, if we lost everything physical, we’d still be a family, because we are in relationship-covenant with each other. The relationships are our focus. Those relationships are the bricks and mortar that build up the church and glorify God. They don’t disappear when everything else does.
I am NOT knocking our churches or families, nor am I creating a lodge your every complaint about the church post. 🙂 I don’t want to debate it, but rather learn from it in my walk and in my calling. I just want to reflect upon it. Pray over it. But not tear the differences apart or make anyone feel bad. We should be grateful for our blessings! I am however, asking myself some reflective questions, because this moved me in a way of thinking about focusing on prioritizing God first in life and our leadership. So I wonder……..
If there were no chairs or pews, would we show up to sit on the ground? (I’d LOVE to see a BYOC (Bring Your Own CHAIR) to a community church tent some day. I see a community outreach with this idea!)
If there was no a/c or heat, (in this photo it is 46 degrees), would we still go or focus on the excuse not to?
If there was no building or a change in church or location, would the relationships still stand?
If there was no coffee would we be fully awake and ready to joyfully worship?
If there was no worship band and merely the heart as the true instrument of Joy? Would we sing? Clap? Praise?
How hungry are we for God?
Do we seek Covenant and His fellowship or comfort?
That’s some reflection right there….contemplation.
If you’re looking for my previous four years of faith-based posts…remember, my old blog is at Take This Life and Chunk It. This is my new site which is combining it all into one convenient location from here on out. Happy Saturday!
Why We Can’t Wait For The Perfect Opportunity!
Posted by Christine Pechstein in Radio Show on March 31, 2012
I’m sitting in Starbucks having my weekly “Think Drink”. And there is something I want to share about opportunity. Many times we think we should wait for the perfect opportunity to come our way. And then things will be just perfect. But that’s just not so.
Opportunities don’t always come to us. Most opportunities are created.
How?
By overcoming the adversity and challenges we face in life.
So you want an easy life? One in which every opportunity just appears even if it takes our whole lives waiting for the perfect one?
Odds are…it will not happen. But if we look at where we are right now, and work with what we have, we’ll find that we can overcome the challenges and fears we face and create the perfect opportunity that we’d likely never find without the experience and determination we have because of it.
Once in a great while the perfect opportunity will come along. But if we really look back at what it took for us to get to it, it wasn’t a result of waiting. It was the result of working diligently, persevering, pushing through, never giving up, and using what we had no matter how little.
While waiting for opportunity, you may miss the opportunity to create your opportunity and never see it. It’s not exactly how you planned on spending your life, is it?
I’d guess not!
Don’t spend your life waiting for the perfect opportunity and get busy creating it. After all, life is a sequence of events. And opportunity is found as those events unfold. Look for it. Embrace it. Overcome it. Challenge it. Master it. Learn from it. And always create your life with what you have. In the process you’ll find your best opportunities.
Your life is waiting for you. Don’t miss the greatest opportunity to live it.
Results or Time Driven: Defining Success
Posted by Christine Pechstein in learning, LIFE COACHING, Radio Show, Self Improvement on November 1, 2011
I was working quietly when I decided to check my Facebook page. I caught a glimpse of the photo of mail my daughter
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received from the Admissions Office at Princeton University. I was so excited for her. The simple fact she’s receiving information from an Ivy League school was a proud moment. Her GPA and grades in school, plus her ACT scores just blow me away. I’d like to take credit for it, but it’s got to be some Ancient Ancestors that it belongs to. The girl is not just smart. She’s also deep, mature, and a very talented writer-she’s just a remarkable young woman.
As I glanced at the picture I took of the envelope from Princeton, I thought about how the seeds I’ve planted in her life are finally starting to produce fruit. And it hit me. Was I really expecting in her childhood to poke a seed of encouragement in her and have it produce a piece of fruit right away? Okay, then. A few days later? Huh? Huh? Huh?
It became the sudden realization that I did do a great job of parenting. Only, like trees, it takes TIME before the tree produces it’s first fruits. It has to grow. It needs time to get strong. It needs to develop itself in order to hold the weight of the fruit it will produce.
And I thought of my daughter. And my son. And my youngest daughter.
Don’t get discouraged mama! Those seeds you have planted ARE there. And they WILL produce fruit in their due time. I was once again reminded that if we hammer at seeds we try to plant, we can likely destroy the very seed we are sowing. Don’t hammer for results. Just continue to plant the seeds through encouragement, support, and love, and give them time to grow. We live in such a results driven society and that many times is how we define success.
I think we need to define success by results measured over time, but all too often we treat them as if we’re merely growing Chia Pets. In the right time, the seeds will grow, the fruit will be produced.
Princeton? The University of Kansas? Kansas State University? University of Missouri Colombia? University of Chicago? University of London? Only the seed knows. And time will tell, regardless of where my girl decides to define her future. That’s now defining success.
Christine Pechstein
I'm a preacher, teacher, author, life management coach, and child of God. My passion is preaching and encouraging others through coaching to GO, DO, and BE for the Kingdom of God. Prioritize your life and live like you're on a mission. Because you ARE! www.moveintoaction.com
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