Student life coaching offers students a supportive and motivating environment to explore how they might achieve their aspirations and fulfil their needs whilst in school, college, university and in life. Coaching will help the student to evolve throughout their learning experience, by supporting them to commit to positive action and by being a sounding-board to their experiences, thus allowing individuals the personal space and support they need to grow and develop in both their education and personality. The Coach's key role is to assist the student to maintain the motivation and commitment needed to achieve their goals.So the journey begins towards fulfilling your needs and deciding what it is that you want from life. How often does a desire become a need and then you get frustrated because you cannot fulfil that particular need? However, our ultimate goal in life must be that we try to fulfil those needs, which ultimately fulfils our personal existence.Attitude iseverything! Your attitude can undoubtedly change your life. Our success or failure in life can hang in the balance by the attitude you may have. If we think big we will get big, if we don’t we won’t, it’s as simple as that. Our attitude shows up everything that we are thinking; attitude can be seen as a visual display of our emotions and feelings. Attitude is everything!We all lack focus at times, maybe when we were meant to be listening to that lecture or piece of information given out by your tutor in morning registration, or when you have lost your focus on what you were meant to be reading during a revision session. We can all lose focus on our aims here in college and in our personal lives. Any loss of focus both in and outside of school, college or university can bounce off each other; before we know it our focus can then be seen to be spiralling of control.........that is, until someone steps in and adjusts our focus for us!How often do we shy away from setting and achieving any goals and why is this? Maybe it is because we are afraid of setting targets or standards that we may not actually achieve. This is such a fantastic topic, that we should approach far more often than we actually do. However, we very rarely set realistic goals for ourselves, whether it is to try and get higher grades, or take more responsibility for our lives.Is this simply because we just can’t be bothered to sit down and work it out with any kind of formality, because it just takes too long.Failure is an emotional response to not achieving what we would like to in life. It is a strong descriptive word that describes our doom, gloom and shame. We all miss a deadline, fail that driving test or are late for college at onetime or another. In another sense, we may not actually miss anything or be late at all; we may meet that deadline on time but not to the standard we accept, thus causing us to fail. The only reason you fail is you, unless there are extenuating circumstances that are sometime to the exception. It’s not good enough to accept the term failure in our lives, A FRESH NEW CHALLENGE, yes, but failure NO.As quoted by a current student in college, we can all fail IN life but that doesn’t make us failures AT life.Why is it that some people get stuck in the mud whilst others seem to just sail through the storm to glorious sunshine? Is there something special about those who always come up smelling of roses? The reality is no there is not. These are the kind of people who are born to be lucky.It’s an absolute fact of life that we all at some stage in our lives, get involved in conflict, whether in college, at home or in work. All people have two sides to them and we never know what they are really thinking, so we only act how we think we should for our own reasons. Some of us are very brave and have no fear of conflict and some of us just run for the hills at the first sign of any disagreement.There are three kinds of people in this world; there are those who just watch things happen around them, those who don’t have a clue as to what is happening and those of you who make things happen. Who are you? And does it really matter who you are? Your successful education depends upon which one of these three you are; it is the primary foundation for your motivation for success.To procrastinate is to ‘put off until later’ or to just ‘cast aside until another day’. This is the easiest form of making an excuse for not doing something now and to just say “I will do that later”. We all do it, and we all make our excuses for doing it, but in reality, there really is no excuse.Our success can always be sabotaged, by those around you, by circumstances and even by ourselves. We can do these in many ways without even knowing, but once you realise how this occurs you will be able to keep the saboteurs at bay and remain motivated for success.Change is all around us and change can play a big part in affecting our motivation in both positive and negative ways. We should embrace changing circumstances as fresh new challenges, another chance to show our excellence, another way for us to succeed. The weather changes in the winter and we put on extra clothing to keep warm, so let’s look at this concept and see what extra clothing we can put on in our lives to help embrace change and keep warm.To improve yourself in your entirety is to move your life forward in a positive direction by making major changes and acting in a different way to which you are used to. By being positive you will not only affect your own quality of life but it will also rub off on people around you.Now we have looked at how to be positive, let’s look at ways of getting rid of all that negativity. Let’s take the negativity out of our lives and leave space for all the positive stuff that is within us.How many people in this world really do understand emotional intelligence? Do we as humans allow any flexibility to occur in our behaviour according to our own emotions and the emotions of others. Are you good at managing your own emotions or even understanding what is wrong with others when their emotions fly all over the place? In a nutshell do you have enough understanding of emotional intelligence to be intelligently motivated for success?I am always bewildered when I hear people chatting about what they intend to do and how they are going to make their life great. As inspiring as it is to hear about someone else’s dreams, life can wash those dreams and intentions away with one foul swoop and suddenly that conversation they had is washed away with the tide. There is an underlying limiting belief in us all, that for a short time, plays a part in confusing our focus or future intentions, but why should that be?Something always gets in the way of our ultimate goal of always being happy. We don’t always have all the money we would like or there never is enough time in the day to do all the things that we wanted to do. People contribute to our unhappy thought process by letting us down or even directly causing us pain in our lives. Parents have their expectations of us that are often too high and demanding, even though their intentions may be right. The government may be affecting our lives through political actions that do not sit right with how we feel (now that is looking at our unhappy side to extremes!).The storm is brewing and the lid is about to blow, a path of stress and anxiety is looming upon the horizon. We all get to the point where it seems all too much and that things are just getting totally on top of us. We are at a point of information overload and emotional meltdown, but there are many hints and tips that you can use to help avert this kind of situation.Things in life can become too personal. We can often take criticism to heart and feel that emotion flowing because we take things personally. But hey, we are here toboth educate you and be educated ourselves, we have to criticise all that we do, and yes at times it will feel very personal indeed, but isn’t that how we excel?Let us take stock of our progress for one moment. If we were to stop for long enough and take the time to imagine where we want to be in five years time, we will most probably establish that we are caught up in a web of resistance and habitual doubt. Your life in college can be filled with reasons and so many excuses for things being the way they are, hence we stagnate in our existence and are happy with the headway we are currently making. Is it true that you are lacking in the commitment to break free from this trap, thus stopping you from excelling past the point of your imagination?There are times in our life when that same old question keeps popping up “why does this keep happening to me?” Believe you and me, I have had my fair share of such a question, and it’s through the hard times that our personal motivation can just ebb away to nothing, but not anymore and not for a long time. So what is the secret you may ask? Well it’s that final balance and life long lessons. So how can you relate your short time on this earth to such lessons and make heads or tails of it all? Well let me try to help here in your quest to find motivation for success.Here and now, take action IMMEDIATELY. You know what your goals and intentions are, you have clear vision and imagination about what it is that you want and how you are going to get it. Let’s start to get results, let’s start to reap the benefits of your planning and preparation. You have a picture of the future and now it’s time to start drawing using your motivational flare.
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