Women are grappling with ever more pressure to succeed in all areas of their lives: from earning a promotion at work, to keeping the relationships with family and friends alive and vital, to looking and feeling great.

However Aspire Coaching and Training founder, Samantha Collins, proposes that women themselves are often the culprits of all this extra pressure, we want it all and why not!

" Juggling is for clowns, managing and taking control of their lives is for women, " she said. " I created the Self and the City workshops to give professional women who were dissatisfied with their lives the knowledge and skills to handle all the stressing issues in their lives for themselves."

The problem arises when women feel they lack the power to change aspects of their lives: from gaining recognition and reward at work, to enjoying a more affectionate and considerate relationship with their partner or indeed not having a partner, to becoming fit and healthy.

" Women who give the appearance of being successful and in control often struggle with the age old competing priorities of work and home. We are always making money but falling into debt, losing and gaining weight, being driven crazy by demanding partners and families, with very little ‘me time'. This is where Self & The City workshops give women a knowledge of their personal values, what it is that drives every decision they make and will make in their life, a personal vision for life and work and a set of goals and actions that are right for them" Collins said.

She predicts that four out of five women do not really know where they want to be in five years time.

"And often if they do, they don't make the time to prioritise how to get there. If you don't know where you are going or which route you want to take, chances are you will end up in the wrong destination," Collins added.

Her Self and the City workshops help participants knuckle down and sort out what their priorities are, whether they are making their goals too easy or too hard and what they need to do in order to feel fulfilled.

" Often we have ‘gremlins' stopping us from getting where we want to go. In the workshop, we identify those obstacles and how to eradicate them."

The workshop moves beyond the usual ‘goal setting' seminars that companies tend to send employees on – and helps discover, as Collins put its, ‘what caffeine free stimulus makes you leap out of bed in the morning'.

After having a ‘dream job' travelling Canada, USA and The Caribbean conducting training and coaching, Collins has discovered her ‘kick' for emerging from the duvet at a decent hour: she runs most of aspects of her business from home.

Self & The City is a distillation of the very latest thinking in values clarification, visioning and highly effective time and results management for women combining her global training and coaching experience with years of involvement in personal development.

"When you attend the Self in the City workshop the skills and resources you gain will be followed up with one month's coaching. This ensures the strategy you will develop is put into action. You will be headed where you want to go in your life, with the support you need to get there".

No excuses then! The next Aspire Self and the City workshop is on Saturday, September 7, at the design led, modern 5 star, Great Eastern Hotel, Liverpool Street from 9.00am-5.30pm.
Places are very limited to ensure participants receive the optimal individual attention. The cost is only £175 and includes the one month's coaching.
For more information phone 0208 374 3858 or visit

http://www.aspirecompanies.com/workshops.asp



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