Hi everyone, just had my first accelerator day, very full on and interesting.  Seems we all have stuff going on in our heads that we don't know about and once we do and change the beliefs that are holding us back - we can do anything! (almost) I find all this fascinating and look forward to changing the world!  I must admit it is very interesting and hopefully if I can be a good coach and help people change their life I would be very happy.  Wish I had found this earlier!

Georgia

One thing is missing from this horrible, mindless, muckraking about the PI.E. in the 1970s and that is that it was a time of massive social change with gay rights, employment rights, women's rights, abortion, race relations all being overhauled and changed. The idea that the generation that fought for all these changes is now happy to sit at home and eat tinned rice pudding and watch judge Judy on the TV is nonsense. We need to apply the same energy that changed the perceptions of gays for example to perceptions about so-called senior citizens because they are just as outdated and stereotyped now as were the stereotypes then. Governments try to buy us off with promises of good pensions and free bus passes but I don't want to have more privileges now at the expense of the people that really need them particularly the young.                                                                                                                                          (Paul)

Another advert. This time Michael Parkinson trying to sell us insurance and reassuring us that we don't need to have a health check.  Who would want to join an insurance scheme that doesn't have any checks on who can join?  Would you take out car insurance with a company that says "we take anybody doesn't matter how many accidents you had and how bad a driver you are."  I don't want to join the scheme that allows people that have smoked all their lives and drunk heavily or are ill to also be part of the scheme.  Sorry I've tried to take care of myself, watch my weight, exercise regularly.  I don't smoke or drink excessively and am apparently in good health.  I will only join a scheme that insists on having a health check – my premiums must be lower if the risks are lower – isn't that what insurance is about?  Again there seems to be an idea that if you reach a particular age all normal forms of thought go out of the window and we lose sight of what applies in any other phase of our lives. Come on insurance companies set up a scheme for healthy energetic older people who just like good drivers should be rewarded for looking after themselves.

Have just done my first two coaching sessions.  The went very well and both ladies were happy and we have made appointments for next week.  Really exhilarating and feel that I have achieved something.

"So boots have a 25% discount for the over 60's. I hate every company that does that.  Its not now that we need to have 25% off - its when we were 25 or 35 when we were struggling and broke and bringing up a family and establishing a home.  Now we have either made the money we need or not and the children are sorted or not. And as for the advert - it features a boring looking man that puts on a boring set of glasses and seems to get deluded that he becomes a sex God because of them - haha he's old he has lost the capacity to be self critical  or self aware? . Obviously Boots you are using some hip advertising agency that seems to think its good to perpetuate a stereotype that older men are deluded nitwits - we are not and glasses Boots or otherwise will make not makes us sexy. Guess what -  just like any other age we are sexy or not or boring or not no matter what age.  (author: Paul)

Have now 3 clients to coach and maybe a 4th.  these are from my flyers. It is really exciting when something works. will keep you posted on my journey.

Well said, I was getting a bit depressed and feeling past it and unwanted so I decided to do something about it!  I learnt to drive when I was sixty and I have now started training for a new career, Life Coaching. 

I felt that life changes are a good idea as you get older and makes you feel younger!  I decided that Life is for living and I am going to enjoy it.