{"id":3298,"date":"2010-05-03T16:15:58","date_gmt":"2010-05-03T16:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/?p=3298"},"modified":"2016-08-11T03:19:21","modified_gmt":"2016-08-11T11:19:21","slug":"life-coaching-concepts-life-balance-coaching-parkinsons-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/life-coaching-concepts-life-balance-coaching-parkinsons-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Life Coaching Concepts: Life Balance Coaching Tools to Avoid Parkinson\u2019s Law"},"content":{"rendered":"

Parkinson\u2019s Law was named after Cyril Northcote Parkinson, who was not involved in life coaching<\/a><\/strong> at all.\u00a0 He was worked in the British Civil Service and in 1955 published an essay which began by stating, \u201cWork expands so as to fill the time available for its completion\u201d (according to Wikipedia).\u00a0 Just goes to show you that there are some people who work for the government who may actually be interested in life coaching<\/strong> to get themselves out of the \u2018rat race\u2019 we hear so much about.\u00a0 While the current form of this law is now about the mathematical rate at which bureaucracies expand over time, it\u2019s still a great life balance coaching<\/a><\/strong> concept.\u00a0 Especially since it means that as the years go by, we become even more ineffective if we don\u2019t do something to change.\u00a0 This seems like a powerful reason to look at life balance coaching<\/strong> now.<\/p>\n

Using Parkinson\u2019s Law Can Help You Find Balance in Your Life Coaching Business<\/h3>\n

How can we apply Parkinson\u2019s Law in our own life and our life coaching<\/strong> businesses?\u00a0 Many times we use the life coaching<\/span> time management tool of creating blocks of time to get certain things done.\u00a0 How often do you find yourself with extra time after that block?\u00a0 More commonly we find we didn\u2019t have quite enough time to complete a project in that block and have to find more time by stealing it from somewhere else.\u00a0 Usually it cuts into our \u201cfree\u201d time, which is why life balance coaching<\/strong> has become popular.\u00a0 In fact, one of the greatest frustrations people express when enrolling in life balance coaching<\/span> is not having enough time for it all.<\/p>\n

For Life Balance Coaching You Must Refine Your Tools to be More Effective<\/h3>\n

While I\u2019m not suggesting that we throw the baby out with the bath and eliminate creating blocks of time in life balance coaching<\/span>, this tool needs some refinement.\u00a0 Perhaps we could be more productive by creating sub-blocks of time.\u00a0 One block might be to create an outline of the task; giving it an appropriate length of time with a five minute buffer to have a cup of tea or other life coaching<\/span> celebratory reward such a giving yourself 10 pats on the back.<\/p>\n

Another way to chunk time is to re-think the concept of the block of time.\u00a0 One of my life balance coaching<\/a> colleagues suggests committing to completion of certain tasks within a block, instead of committing to work for a certain amount of time.\u00a0 This creates focus, intensity and power instead a plow horse mentality of just getting through it.\u00a0 Remember that these blocks of time are not like sitting in detention after school, they are designed to get you closer to your life coaching goals.<\/p>\n

Colette Seymann<\/p>\n

JTS Advisors Bi-Designated Strategy and Accoutntability Coach<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Parkinson\u2019s Law was named after Cyril Northcote Parkinson, who was not involved in life coaching at all.\u00a0 He was worked in the British Civil Service and in 1955 published an essay which began by stating, \u201cWork expands so as to fill the time available for its completion\u201d (according to Wikipedia).\u00a0 Just goes to show you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[215,194],"tags":[999,983],"class_list":["post-3298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-life-balance-coaching","category-life-coaching","tag-life-balance-coaching","tag-life-coaching","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18180,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3298\/revisions\/18180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}