Inspiration

The sea has made me a better coach

Coaching, Happiness, Inspiration
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The sea has made me a better coach.

The sea is another coach of mine!

The sea is my muse!

Seeing this beauty every single day… inspires me to do good, to serve my people, to do work that matters, to live every day intensely.

I transact with the sea every single day in my life now.

And you know what?

All transactions with this beauty are credit ones!

The sea credits me with inspiration.

I take this inspiration and I give it to my clients.

I am only … the middle man! 🙂

Think about it…

If something as beautiful as this exists, my clients’ life can get as beautiful as this!

Everything is possible for them to create … just like … this beautiful creation itself!

To be precise, this is how it works…

When I see this beauty, I’m confident enough to convince my clients that their life is as beautiful!

NOW! Today! Right now! Without them changing anything!

And when they realise that…

When they see that beauty themselves…

The beauty that they couldn’t see before…

They are ready to make their lives even more beautiful, ie. achieve whatever change they want in their lives…

Sometimes (even better) they realise they don’t’ have to change anything…

They just couldn’t see that beauty…

They couldn’t see the sea inside them…

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11K Subscribers and 1 Million Views

Inspiration, Relationships, Self-Development, Social Media

11k subscribers-1million views

I realised I’ve reached 𝟏𝟏𝐊 subscribers and more than 𝟏 𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧 views on YouTube.

But is the end goal really subscribers and views?

I started my journey on YouTube 4 years ago.

Back then I was hungry for followers, likes and views.

Today all I want is to form deep relationships with people.

The point of sharing your message online is to connect with like-minded people, to interact with them, get on the same boat with them because you want to enjoy the journey together.

You don’t need thousands on your boat!

A few is enough! One is enough!

If you manage to attract ONLY ONE person to your life through your creative work, whatever that work is, videos, articles, paintings, photography, singing, etc. that’s enough!

If you manage to inspire ONLY ONE person with your work and that person takes some action that makes his life better, then your work has completed its mission!

Has it occurred to you when someone comes across your article, video, or any creation and reaches out to you, to just say “Thank you, that helped me so much, it was what I needed!”

And then you come closer to that person, you build a relationship, you probably become friends… Isn’t that fascinating?

Isn’t that rewarding enough to keep you creating without expecting anything else in return?

Someone once told me that YouTube was not working for him. He had only 150 subscribers.

I told him… imagine you’re on the stage of a room with all your 150 subscribers. They’re looking at you in your eyes, waiting for you to share your message, your creative art, they’re looking forward to getting inspired by you and you say…

“Sorry, YouTube is not working for me. You’re not enough. I have to stop” and you walk out of that room.

I’ll not say anything else. I’ll leave you to think about all this.

I just want to dedicate these words to my two clients Tom Pandolfino and Luke Tamminga who both quit their high paying corporate jobs in order to follow their true purpose in life and become language teachers. Both are only 25. Tom is in London, Luke is in California.

Because one day I decided to quit my high paying corporate job.

Because one day I decided to make a video.

Because one day Luke and Tom happened to watch that video.

Because one day Luke and Tom will be inspiring others to follow their true purpose.

All this makes me think that it was worth making that video…

With all my love,

Angelos

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How do you achieve Focus or Flow?

Effective Learning, Inspiration, Mindset, Self-Development

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Everybody says “you need to be focused, the secret of success is FOCUS!”

Some others call it FLOW. “Peak performance is a result of being in a state of flow!”

OK, understood … but how do you achieve that bloody focus??? Is it always easy for you? It’s not for me!

I decided to do some research and I found a lot of interesting stuff but here I’m just going to share an insightful talk by Friederike Fabritius – a neuroscientist – that provides the most satisfactory answer in my opinion. The talk is called Fun, Fear and Focus. I’d recommend that you watch the whole thing! I watched it and I was totally focused! 🙂

To give you the golden nugget:

If you want to achieve focus, forget focus and do this:

1) Add FUN to your activity, make it more playful, use different methods of working towards a goal, try different strategies, see it as a game!

2) Add FEAR to what you do, make it challenging, make the outcome feel a little uncertain, it needs to feel like it’s taking you slightly out of your comfort zone (not completely out of your comfort zone though!).

If you do (1) and (2), all of a sudden, scientists found that FOCUS comes effortlessly! It’s a byproduct of FUN and FEAR. Because think about it, you can’t be focused on something that’s boring, repetitive, extremely easy for you no matter how focused you’re trying to stay!

PS: In my opinion, the idea of FOCUS goes further than all the above and touches deeper things like mindfulness, meditation and living in the present. Here, I just “focused” on how we can achieve focus at work or some activity that’s important for our success.

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Achieving a goal should be like a bubble rising up to the surface

Coaching, Entrepreneurship, Inspiration, Mindset

GOALS – Working towards a goal should feel like a bubble coming up to the surface.

Slowly. Steadily. Effortlessly. Gracefully.

You can’t achieve a goal if your whole identity is invested in a future expectation of yourself. Forcing the bubble to go up faster will only break the bubble and sabotage your entire mission.

When you are unattached, you know in the core of your being that you are sufficient without any changes, additions, or deletions. You allow the object of your desire to come to you without any force, pressure, or control. Unattachment means that it is acceptable for the goal to manifest, and it is equally okay for the bubble to split into hundreds of little bubbles before reaching the surface. Unattachment means that you’re living in the present while working towards your goal.

You can be free, sufficient and fulfilled without the manifestation of the goal. And it’s then when the goal manifests. It’s a paradox, isn’t it? The paradox of wanting something too much and not wanting it simultaneously. And it’s the role of a coach to make sure you’re always at the right spot of wanting it and not wanting it enough.

Do you have a big goal you want to achieve?

Let’s work together and see the bubble reach the surface.

Angelos

water bubbles rising up

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I’m learning from this man!

Business, Coaching, Entrepreneurship, Inspiration

I’m learning from this man so much every single day working next to him.

He is the one who taught me what relationship means, not just in business, but in life.

The word relationship doesn’t need any adjectives next to it such as deep, strong, meaningful, etc. The word relationship is what it is.

I will not try to give any definition of the word relationship because any definition wouldn’t be enough to explain the word.

Let me give you a few examples instead.

A father or mother has a relationship with their son.

A business owner has a relationship with his client.

A coach has a relationship with the coachee.

It’s the same relationship.

What’s relationship for you?

Love, Angelos

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Who gave you that dream job?

Business, Inspiration, Investing, Relationships, Street videos

I got into investment banking when Sean N. MacGloin gave me that job right there at that square near Bank Station in the City of London.

During my last trip to London, I was passing nearby that place and thought to film a short video to express that gratitude.

When somebody gives you a job, they allow you to enter their world, to live life together! Yes, to live life together! This is how I see it.

I can’t describe how I felt by spending some time there at that square after 8 years.

Blessed and grateful for the past. Hopeful, optimistic, strong, excited about the future.

Because that’s the effect of gratitude. It bridges the past with the future! It fills your soul with serenity, optimism, motivation, strength and all the other good things that are necessary for moving forward.

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Meeeting an amazing guy on Lefkada

Inspiration, Mindset, Self-Development

There are amazing people around you who are doing extraordinary things and are there ready to become friends with you, share their story and inspire you!

I met a wonderful couple from South Africa in Lefkada! These two literally blew my mind while I was chilling by the sea with Katya. They appeared out of the blue (literally and metaphorically!!!) and shared with me so many beautiful things!

I got two new friends. I’m looking forward to doing stuff with these two stars.

Inspire me guys!

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