It's half time in 2022, so I wanted to ask you, how is your 2022 to going?

Is it going according to plan?

Did you even set a plan in the first place?

If you keep doing what you're currently doing, where is your 2022 likely to finish?

Imagine that you're playing a sports game, you're running a race and it's now half time.

You can't change the first half, but you can influence and make difference to the 2nd half.

What has gone on in the last six months, you can't do an awful lot about it now. However you can learn from it, you can take any lessons from it, but now you need to apply it to the next six months that you do have remaining, to make this year the best you possibly can, maybe even your best year yet.

I encourage you to have a little review of the last six months.

How's it gone?

What have you enjoyed?

What are you grateful for in your life?

Is there, has there been any lessons, any life lessons, any lessons that are going to help you moving forward?

What significant changes, or subtle shifts can you make that will help you to achieve your desired outcomes this year?

Or has the year flew by so fast, it almost feels like you haven't even got started yet, in which case, this is a fantastic time to start!

Decide what do you want to accomplish in the next six months, then have a look at what you can do towards making it happen and then get started!

So, first of all have that review, where are you currently? What's going on?

What direction are you heading, if you keep doing what you're currently doing now, where are you likely to keep moving towards?

Because remember, everything we do is either moving you closer to what we want, or further away from it.

Review where you're currently heading, review where you've come from and then refocus on what you can do, focus on what your actions you are going to take.

Ask yourself, is there anything that you need to stop doing, is there anything that you need to keep doing and is there anything that you need to start doing, that’s giong to help you?

Have that review and debrief with yourself, then shift your focus, realign your mindset, your habits, your behaviours, the actions you take consistently on a daily basis towards the things you want achieve.

Then imagine that we're having a conversation in six month’s time, and you're looking back, what is it that you would like to have accomplished, to have achieved, to have enjoyed?

And remember the time is going to pass anyway, we can't control that, but we can choose how we are going to utilize enjoy the time we have available.

So, I encourage you to take a couple of moments to review how the last six months have gone, and then choose and decide what your intentions are for the six months ahead.

Feel free to leave me a comment, drop me a message, get in touch and let me know what your biggest lesson has been from 2022 so far.

And also, what is the number one thing you're looking forward to enjoying and achieving during the rest of 2022.

Whatever you choose, whatever you decide, I hope in the next six months are productive and massively enjoyable.

So, choose, decide, and make it happen.

Remember what your mind believes you will achieve, so allow yourself to think differently, to believe yourself, to take action, so that you can achieve and enjoy the life and the goals that you want.

Go on...You can do it!

Wishing you all the best

Christian Baker

“Your Mindset Coach”

What are you thinking about?

In this episode, I want to encourage you to do one thing, every single day, to help you to move forward in the direction that you want.

This one thing that can help to improve and change your life.

And that is to simply to take time every single day, to focus your full attention awareness and your thoughts on what you actually want.

It's said that we have over 6,000 thoughts every single day, but when was the last time you stopped to think about, to choose, to decide what you want your thoughts to actually be.

Most of the time we leave our thoughts to chance and just hope for the best, but unfortunately the way the mind works, and human nature is, we tend to think about and dwell too much on what it is that we don't want.

And if we're repeat that every single day, there's no surprise that we often find ourselves struggling to achieve the outcomes we want.

If we get more for what we think about, more of what we focus on, it makes perfect sense that if we just helped ourselves to stop, to take a few moments every single day, to focus on what we want, then this can have a positive impact on our life and the results we get.

Whether you choose to do it first thing in the morning, during the day, last thing at night, just before you go to sleep, start taking time to reflect, to focus, to think about, to wish, to dream about what it is that we actually want and to help your mind focus more on that.

Remember the sequence, our thoughts lead to our feelings and our feelings lead to our actions, or often our inactions.

So, if we're not happy with the results that we get and the actions that we're taking in the life, if we're not happy with the way we're currently feeling, then we need to change our thoughts.

By taking the time to deliberately, with intention, with purpose, to focus every day on what it is that we actually want, then we're helping ourselves to change the way we're feeling and also to help ourselves to enhance our chances of achieving the goals, the results and the outcomes throughout our lives.

I fully encourage you today, to take on board a new daily habit, to simply take a few moments, to think about, to reflect upon what it is that you want in your life, from your life, what it is that you want to achieve and accomplish.

You don't have to have all the answers, but just start to think about it, by starting to think differently every day, you're helping yourself move closer.

Then the compounding effects of doing that consistently, is going to help make a difference for you. So, I encourage you to start think differently.

Remember what your mind Believes you will achieve. So, allow yourself to think differently, to Believe in yourself so you can achieve the life and the goals that you want.

Please get in touch, leave a comment and let me know what it is that you're going to choose to think about every single day from now on!

Go on, start today and see what a positive difference it makes for you.

Wishing you all the best

Christian Baker

“Your Mindset Coach”

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I was making some content just the other day and I kept making mistakes. I kept tripping up. I kept losing my place. I kept forgetting what I was going to say, just not being in the flow. And it, made me think of a conversation I was having a client recently and something I’ve heard people say many times over the years.

I was having a conversation with a business owner, who was talking about wanting to make some videos for their business, to share content about what they can do and how they can help people in their business sector.

And he said to me, “oh, I just can't, can't do it, it’s easy for you”, he went on to say it’s easy for me because I’ve been on TV and how it just comes natural to me .  But the reality is, like everybody, I'm only human. I haven't and I don't always find being on camera that comfortable and it’s definitely not natural and easy!

But after years of doing it, after years of practice, after years of putting these videos out there, it does and has got easier, It doesn't mean it's easy, it's just easier.

This is so true for anything, if there's something you truly want to do to master, to learn, to achieve, you've just got to get started, take consistent action towards making it happen and get more comfortable as you go and as you grow.

The more we do something the more comfortable we will be and the better we will become!

Think back over anything you've learned to do in your life. You, you weren't born competent, or an expert in much, but through practice, through perseverance, through tenacity, you just kept going and you got better at it.

Some things we don't want to master, we just need to do, other things we want to become more proficient and effective in doing it.

So, my question for you is, “Is there anything that you would like to achieve and accomplish in your life?”

Imagine if you could just get out of your own way, what is it you would really like to achieve?

As adults we often get in our own way, that internal voice, that inner critic, gives you a hard time and beats you up and gives you all the reasons why you can't do something.  

We can also get caught in the trap of the curse of comparison, we see other people's highlights, we see how easy other people appear to be doing things, and we think, “oh, that's easy for them”, often followed with all the reasons why we can’t do it ourselves!

But, what you don't always see is how many outtakes, how many mistakes, how many setbacks, how many bloopers happened in order to get to the point where they're happy to put themselves out there.

And after working with many professionals in different walks of life, I think that's true for everybody.  More often than not, there is so much hard work and effort that goes in behind the scenes that we don’t see

We simply have to have to practice and persevere and look forward to it getting easier as we go.

So, if you could turn that inner critic off, if you could get out of your own way, what is it you would like to achieve and accomplish?

Please leave a comment, get in touch and let me know what one thing that you would really, really like to achieve.

If you could fast forward to a point in time and you could now be really comfortable doing it, what is it you would really like to do?

Now it’s over to you to just get started and be consist with your efforts, if you want it enough, you just have to keep going, keep learning from your mistakes and setbacks, and get better as you go!  

I really look forward to hearing from you and I look forward to hearing about your progress, as you start to work towards it now, just take the next step, and the next step and just keep going towards...