WTF

UK is angry and is leaving the EU

America is angry and has an

angry President as a result

Australia is angry because it's Government lacks a clear message and plan to deal with issues at home and abroad.

WTF!

By David Clark

LIFE IS NOT ALWAYS WHAT IT SEEMS

It's time for coaches globally to step up and perform.

So why is everyone angry?

Anger is an emotion which is could be argued emerges from violation of values within the gut brain. We have three brains – one in our heard, one in our heart and one in our gut, more later in this article.

Ultimately, everyone is designed to live calm, happy lives. That's how we are designed and that's how we need and want to live our lives.

We are all the same and we are all different. We all have a purpose, a vision of our world, a mission to deliver and values to differentiate right from wrong.

We are angry because our values are being violated, we sense politicians are neither listening to us nor acting on our behalf.So what?

Education is key right now. Education across all generations, all nationalities, all sectors of the globe.The world is changing faster due to the advancements in science and the increasing prevalent of artificial intelligence or AI which could potentially see many jobs changed in nature or ultimately automated.Social media has changed the way younger generations think, feel and behave. They are way more intuitive and their gut instinct is stronger than older generations; those who have experienced the buffets of war.

This leads to a degree of procrastination and uncertainty.

The gut brain or gut instinct focuses on survival rather than on delivering a legacy worthwhile.

So, what's this got to do with coaching and life coaching?If you are across the latest in neuroscience, you'll be familiar with mBIT (multiple brain integration techniques).

After a career working at an audit office for two decades, I decided to embark on a calmer, happier life here in Melbourne, Australia only to be diagnosed less than five years later with bipolar disorder.

Through education, I have concluded that the global mental health system is dysfunctional.

Education and coaching of self and others offers the greatest potential to get the globe back on track to where it needs to be – in calm, happy flow.

When people are in calm, happy flow, then levels of stress, anxiety, disease, mental illness and suicide will drop and levels of productivity, peace and progress in dealing with global issues – whatever they may be – will improve through the emergence of a more resonant approach to calm, happy flow whereby a more balanced approach to living through head (creativity), heart (compassion), gut (courage) will emerge naturally.Spiral dynamics summarises the historical path of the world through time. As we move upwards, we become happier. As we move downwards, we become depressed.

Such states could be compared to levels of economic growth and prosperity. As spiral dynamics explains, we are either focusing on the immediate, legacy or somewhere in between.

In neuro-linguistic programming (NLP), the terms are, in time (immediate) and through time (legacy). Those of us who are focused on our legacy are through time, and are planners and organised.

Those of us who are focus on immediate issues are in time, and are reactors; constantly stressed.

Stress in mild doses is helpful and results from our internal nervous system doing what it is designed to do.

High doses of stress result in disease and illness, with the body signally something needs our attention.

In mBIT, high levels of stress and misalignment can be detected almost instantaneously by observing an individual's physiology, body language, eye movement, skin colour, speech patterns and content.

Over-emphasis on head-brain language such as ‘think’, whilst very rarely using terms such as ‘feel’, indicates someone who is deeply misaligned and stressed. Throw in the occasional reference of gutful or gut instinct and they could be heading towards some form of nervous breakdown if action is not taken.

I was a very head-brained individual. I enjoyed a career, working in the UK National Audit Office, travelling across the world to places including Denmark, Estonia, Bulgaria, Romania, Turkey, Hungary, Russia and finally Australia.

In some ways, I have my brain to thank for an amazing career and subsequent lifestyle. However, I also found, in 2011, that I have a complex brain that needs some attention. I began what I thought was my dream role, working as a program manager.

Several months later, at the age of 44, I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder.

I entered the field of life coaching by accident though this accident has saved my life. I have tenaciously explored this world to the point of engaging, enlightening and empowering myself to a calm, happy flow in my daily life. It has taken me six years of tenacious resilience to achieve balance.

During this time, I wrote my memoir, “WTF! Life is not always what it seems”, in which I share my experiences growing up through to my diagnosis and beyond. I write about the brain, how it works and how this understanding helped me understand myself and calm my brain, allowing it time to heal.

I also found in writing this book, that we can rewire our DNA.

Coaching can empower clients to become ever more resilient when faced with somewhat overwhelming circumstances.

In his book THE GENIUS IN ALL OF US, David Shenk concludes by saying…

“No one is born with a predetermined amount of intelligence. Intelligence can be improved; few adults come close to their true intellectual potential.

Like intelligence, talents are not innate gifts, but the result of a slow, invisible accretion of skills developed from the moment of conception. Everyone is born with differences, and some with unique advantages for certain tasks. But no one is genetically designed for greatness and few are biologically restricted from attaining it.

The old nature/ nurture paradigm suggests that control over our lives is divided between genes (nature) and our own decision (nurture). In fact, we have more control over our genes and far less control over our environment than we think.

It must not be left to our genes and parents to foster greatness, spurring individual achievement is also the duty of society.

Genes do not dictate what we are to become, but instead are actors in a dynamic process.

Genetic expression is modulated by outside forces. “Inheritance” comes in many forms: we inherit stable genes, but also alterable epigenetics; we inherit languages, ideas, attitudes, but can also change them. We inherit ecosystem, but can also change it.

Everything shapes us and everything can be shaped by us. The genius in all of us is our built-in ability to improve ourselves and our world.”

So, what's your vision for the world in 2017 and beyond?

What values will guide you forward as you continue upwards through your own personal spiral?

What mission are you on to transform the lives of those you meet, those you connect with and those you serve through your coaching business?

David Clark has gone from the heights of success to the depths of depression, insanity and back into depression.

During his career, he has worked in social research, evaluation, training, project management, change management and capability development.

More recently, he has embarked on a personal voyage of discovery and is now coaching others, drawing on the skills, knowledge and experience he has gathered over the past 25 years.

www.calmercoaching.com