How to Create your Life List and Get Moving
by Mark Joyella
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Published: September 23, 2009 under Archived Coach Reporter, Archived Featured Articles
Tags: bucket list, Caroline Adams Miller, creating your best life, dreams, goals, life list, positive psychology, the secret, vision board
Do you have a life list? Do your clients?
Coach Caroline Adams Miller believes the happiest, most successful people have life lists, and her new book, “Creating Your Best Life,” is all about creating life lists, and then setting about taking the actions to reach each goal on the list.
Combining the latest scientific research and interviews with noted coaches, business leaders and athletes, Miller believes her book can bring positive change to coaches’ practices–and clients’ lives.
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Mark Joyella is an Emmy-winning television news reporter and anchor who has worked at television stations in Colorado, Georgia, Florida and New York. A firm believer in the power of coaching, Mark has been on both sides of the coaching equation, as a client, and as a coach, helping aspiring journalists excel in writing, reporting and storytelling. Mark lives in Connecticut with his wife and daughter. Follow Mark on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/coachreporter.
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Mark,
Your interview with Caroline Adams Miller was fascinating, I’m sure to get the book. Funnily enough it was one of Caroline’s last points that really brought it home to me (personally and for coaching clients too) when she said “Don’t let other people’s goals run your life”. We’ve all suffered from that at times when we get stuck into the same old routine.
Paul
I just love this concept! I started my Wish List in 2005 and now it is 650+ items and still going strong. I review it each month to see what I’ve accomplished and add in new dreams as they pop into my head.
I use a small notebook (about 4 x 6 inches) so that it’s easy to take with me. I always note the date completed too, which makes it more fun when reviewing later.
For those that find it overwhelming to start this list, begin by purchasing Barbara Kipfer’s book titled “The Wish List”. It is full of hundreds of suggestions of things you may want to put on your own wish list. The book is less than $7, so it’s a tiny investment for the momentum it will give you.
Here are a couple of fun ones that I’ve checked off my list recently that I never thought would happen:
1. Live in a Foreign Country
2. Take an entire summer off from work
3. Ride on a private jet
4. Buy an expensive piece of art that I love
5. Fall in love with the right person at the right time for both of us
Happy List Creating! It would delight me if you’d please share a few that are on your list (either accomplished or still pending)…
Warmly,
Sarah Novak, CPCC
http://www.envisionlifecoaching.net
http://www.facebook.com/envisionlifecoaching
http://www.twitter.com/coachsarahnovak
http://www.inspiredoverseasliving.com
Great coaching tool and an interesting twist & profound take from an existing idea. The beautiful thing about coaching tools is that they can supplement each other.
Intriguing though is that, the field of coaching is priviledged to borrow, learn, build-on, re-invent, and conceptualize ideas & concepts from many distinguished fields. I am wondering how we could ‘marry’ & take to the next level, Caroline’s work and the domains/work in positive psychology with that of domains/work in self-actualization psychology (Dr. Micheal Hall work) and other psychological domains/work – cognitive, behavioral, educational, coaching psychology, etc., so as to enhance coaching practice?
Billy C H Teoh
Malaysia.