What do you get if you don't watch telly for months and then you make it an imperative that you don't watch telly for a week? A woman who decides the only thing she wants to do with her Monday night is watch telly, that's what. So, disregarding the fact that we are supposedly on our eighth 'Do Something Different' challenge (no TV for a week) I watched University Challenge. Rebel or what? I think what I've proved here is something I often talk with clients about: the importance of framing goals positively (moving towards something rather than away from something) and choosing carefully what you focus on. If I ask you not to think about pink elephants what are you thinking about now? Our brains are clever beasties and there's a particularly clever clump of cells called the Reticular Activation System that's responsible for us attending to and noticing things in the outside world that are on our minds (a bit like noticing pregnant women everywhere once you've decide you want a baby). And along with the TV came cake and chocolate biscuits, again falling in line with research that's shown overweight people tend to watch more TV than slimmies. Is there no end to me as a lab rat?
I'm conducting some research into what's on other women's minds at the moment and their views on coaching. If you would like to be involved (just 7 minutes to comeplete a survey) that would be great.
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