Gear up for Success!
Issue #73 - March 19, 2001 <<Top Ten Strategies forDeveloping Your Risk Muscle!>>
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brought to you by Laurie Riddell Geary, M.Ed., PCC.
Coaching you to get your life IN GEAR by making shifts, getting
unstuck, finding balance, accelerating your growth, and mapping
the best route to your chosen destination: a life filled with
passion and purpose.
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In this issue:
1. Welcome!
2. Weekly Article:
<<Top Ten Strategies for Developing Your Risk Muscle>>
3. Recommended Tasks
4. Recommended Books
5. March 21st Teleclass:
<Taking Risks to Grow!>
6. Upcoming local Workshops
7. Subscription information
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2. WEEKLY ARTICLE: <<Top Ten Strategies for Developing Your Risk Muscle>>
Do you consider yourself a risk-taker? Do you want to take more risks? Do you believe that taking risks (Smart risks!) leads to personal growth? if so, follow the ten strategies below...
TOP TEN STRATEGIES for DEVELOPING your RISK MUSCLE
1. Take your Risk History identify your learnings, strengths,
characteristics.
Continue to keep a Risk Journal - identify
risks you continue to take
2. Take a personal risking assessment identify what type of risk-taker you are.
3. Establish a strong support network.
4. Identify Role Models/Mentors to inspire and support you to risk.
5. Develop your Reserves…of time, money, people, energy, skills…
6. Reduce your Blocks to Risking.
(see newsletter issues #16
& 39 @ www.ingearcoaching.com/newsletter.html)
7. Identify…and establish… your Motivators to Risk
(see newsletter issues #1,
15, 66 @ www.ingearcoaching.com/newsletter.html)
8. Develop the Skills and Characteristics needed to Risk.
(see newsletter issue #
18 @ www.ingearcoaching.com/newsletter.html)
9. Identify and Use Resources to support your Risking: books,
workbooks, articles, tapes,
videos, workshops/trainings/teleclasses.
10. Use the 8 R’s of Risking:
Readiness,Rehearsal,Relaxation, Reserves,Resources,Role Models,Reduce
Blocks,Risk & Re-evaluate!
1) Readiness: Prepare for the risk you are going to take by using the
3-Step Risk-taking Model
(see my workbook on RISK
TO GROW!)
Ask yourself these key questions:
*What information/skills/materials/money
do you need?
*What characteristics do
I need to develop?
*Who are your support systems?
Who will encourage/inspire you?
*Is this the right time
to take this risk? How will I feel if I don't risk now?
*What are the pros/cons?
expected outcome? worst possible consequence?
*What is my plan for risking?
are my action steps?
*How can I motivate myself
to risk? reward myself for risking?
*How can I create an environment
that will support me in risking?
*What does my intuition
tell me? What is my "gut feeling?"
*Can I create a "safety
net?" or a backup plan, in case the risk "fails"
2) Rehearsal: Is there any way I can practice this risk ahead of time?
(eg. if I am going
to give a speech I can practice
giving it...taping it...writing it...videotaping it)
I can visualize myself succeeded
at risking.
I can write out...describe...journal..about
my risk.
I can verbalize...talk about..my
risk.
3) Relaxation: Learn and practice relaxation techniques,such as
deep breathing (before and
during the risking!)....mediation,
progressive relaxation, deep muscle relaxation, visualization.,
anxiety reduction methods..
4) Reserves: What reserves do I need to prepare and support me in risking? Can I build reserves of Time....Money...Supports...Information....Energy (Fitness/Health)....Skills?
5) Resources: What resources do I need to prepare me to risk - Information? Materials? People?
6) Role Models: Are there people I can look to who have risked
successfully? What can I learn
from them? Can I ask
them for their support? encouragement? helpful hints? key information?
lessons learned?
7) Reduce Blocks: What blocks will get in my way of risking?
eg. Fears, negative self
talk, low self esteem, scripting/habit,
tolerations (see newsletter
issue #39 @ www.ingearcoaching.com/newsletters.html), etc.
How can I reduce these blocks?
(see newsletter issue #16
@ www.ingearcoaching.com/newsletters.html)
8) Risk & Re-evaluate: Take that risk! Commit! Go for it!....and
then re-evaluate what you
gained/learned....and identify
next steps.
**copyright: all rights reserved: Laurie R. Geary, March, 2001
3. RECOMMENDED TASKS:
1. Start building your Risk Muscle by following any or all of the Top Ten Strategies!
2. Register for next week's teleclass on Risk-Taking: <<Get Unstuck...Make
Breakthroughs...Learn the 3-Step Model for Taking
Responsible Risks>>...Wednesday, March 21st @ 9pm EST.
To register, email me..or go to www.teleclass.com or www.womensu.com
3. Order my new workbook on risking:<<RISK TO GROW: Create the Life You Want through Responsible Risk- Taking>>
4. Read one of the books mentioned above..
5. Call or email me for a complimentary half-hour COACHING session to help you start taking more risks for personal growth! Voice:617-494-1422; email: laurie@ingearcoaching.com
6. Go to my Website www.ingearcoaching.com for back issues of my newsletter
to read
more articles on taking risks, building self esteem, finding
your passion...and much more
4. RECOMMENDED BOOKS:
*RISKING, by David Viscott
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0671664093/gearupforsuccela
*FEEL the FEAR and DO IT ANYWAY, by Susan Jeffers,
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0449902027/gearupforsuccela
*WOMEN & RISK, by Nicky Marone
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0312071159/gearupforsuccela
*WHO MOVED MY CHEESE?, by Spencer Johnson
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0399144463/gearupforsuccela
*ADVERSITY QUOTIENT: TURNING OBSTACLES INTO OPPORTUNITIES,
by Paul Stoltz
http://amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN/047178926/gearupforsuccela
*CHANGING for GOOD - A REVOLUTIONARY SIX-STAGE PROGRAM FOR OVERCOMING
BAD HABITS AND MOVING YOUR LIFE POSITIVELY FORWARD, by Prochaska,Norcross,
DiClemente
http://amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN/038072572x/gearupforsuccela
5. UPCOMING FREE TELECLASS
<RISK TO GROW> Wednesday, March 21 @ 9pmEST
Register @ www.teleclass.com or www.womensu.com or email me: laurie@ingearcoaching.com
6. UPCOMING LOCAL WORKSHOPS:
RISK-TAKING: THE PATH to PERSONAL GROWTH
*Boston Center for Adult Education - 6:30-9:30 pm.
Tuesday, April 10, 2001 and Thursday, June 7th,2001
BUILD YOUR SELF ESTEEM WITH THE 8-A SYSTEM
*North Shore Community College (NSCC)
Wednesday, April 4, 2001, 9-3pm
ASSERTIVENESS TRAINING: Get Your Needs Met!
Homebased BusinessWomen's Network
Thursday, April 12 @ 7:30 pm
Village Green, Danvers, MA
BE A PERSONAL & PROFESSIONAL COACH
*Boston Center for Adult Education
Tuesday, April 3, 2001, 6:30-9:30 pm
and Tuesday, June 5, 2001
MBTI (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator) Staff Training
Beverly Hospital: Thursday, March 22, 2001
**Check out my new booklet on experiential activities for trainers:
75 of my favorite activities
learned from years of working as an instructor for Outward Bound Professional
Development Programs.
GAMES & INITIATIVES for NETWORKING, ENERGIZING, & TEAM-BUILDING...
*And, finally! Hot off the Press! My new workbook:
RISK TO GROW! CREATE the LIFE YOU WANT through RESPONSIBLE RISK-TAKING...
a collection of articles, top tens, models, poems & quotes, and
exercises on Risk-Taking....
Both now available...hard copy ($20) or pdf. file ($15)
Send check to Laurie Geary, 4 Canal Park, PH9, Cambridge, MA 02141;
email request to: laurie@ingearcoaching.com or order at my website: www.ingearcoaching.com
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