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Phil Evans is a guy who has gained a Degree from the University of Hard Knocks. These days I thrive on helping others to expose their thieves of success! My Coaching and Mentoring methods are about creating positive change in people's lives, together with balanced wellbeing and feelings of general empowerment!
Personal Development
My major focus for personal development is this ....
"Live in your own power; learn the Art of Being You; and make every day count."
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A Brief Overview of Phil Evans the Person
I have come to believe that we are all on our own personal journey, and we are totally responsible for our successes and failures during this journey. Despite any misfortune that we may experience along the way! It wasn't until I learned that I had to 'own my own stuff', and stop blaming anyone or anything else for where I was at in life, that I became capable of taking responsibility for who I was, and where I was!
If we can own it - we can change it!
(regardless of what 'it' actually is).
I had some radical new things to think about as I began having these realisations: Did I have the stuff that true leaders are made of? Could all of this self-realisation, and my simple desire to teach by example, help me to become an even more effective leader?
All the bumps and pitfalls had taught me something or other as I was experiencing them. All valuable lessons about life! At the age of 45 I started to find my true passion .... I was meant to be a teacher; a mentor; a leader.
Hmmmm, what do I do with all of these challenging aha-moments?
One of the first things I realised was that I had NEVER been myself! No, I had never just been me! I was living some kind of fantasy life that was empty and shallow, because I was doing everything for everybody else. My own realisations have led me to being capable of playing a positive influencial role in the lives of many people since around 1995. I had still never been me! Still no idea why.
Yes, because I had walked the path of confusion and anger for many years, I could now take my experiences with Alcoholism, Long-term Depression, and living on the edge of emotional suicide every day, and do something positive with them!
Sure, business and career successes had been there throughout this life of confusion, but the inner personal feelings of being of absolutely no value at all, were overwhelming!
I started studying and working with sub-conscious belief systems and their patterns, and the 'gift' of understanding them is now the core of what Phil Evans and my business, People Stuff, is all about.
In business and in personal affairs, we are so capable of sabotaging our own success, if we have any of these negative 'thieves of success' running rampant in our lives! They are our greatest enemies, and all too often we don't even know they're there, let alone have the ability to identify them. Identifying them is the key to unlocking the door to consistent (and sustainable) success!
I have learned to drive my own bus, and to stop sitting in the back seat of someone else's bus that was so out of control. It took time and courage to move from the back seat of someone else's bus and to gradually have my focus on being in the driver's seat myself. Eventually, we all have the ability to claim the driver's seat as our own! And we also have the ability to choose who rides on our bus with us. Who joins us on our journey now becomes a choice, and not an obligation dependent on someone else's beliefs any more. Who gets to stay on our bus is also now a choice.
This is self empowerment! It is part of The Art of Being YOU!
Whether in business, or in our personal journeys, if we are not being true to ourselves, then we are totally lost!
People Stuff helps people to learn to drive their own bus; to then find a road map that suits their passion; and to follow it. It's about picking a destination and heading in that direction without being focused on the destination only, but on the journey that takes us there! Whether we get there or not, is almost irrelevant, because we have now learned to enjoy each day as we put our passion and daily purpose into action.
I believe that the success of all of my recent personal and business activities in working with people who ached for the feeling of 'being in their own power', has been due to embracing this concept, and sharing it with as many people as possible. No, it's not about being arrogant, it's about being confident at being yourself! This is one critical aspect of this principle, and can be best desribed by this quote of mine ....
"Being in your own power is the ability to just be yourself, without fear of criticism, with confidence rather than arrogance."
Now we're getting closer to being the leader capable of great things, and capable of empowering and mentoring others by being a great example to those who are watching and waiting, keen to learn more from this strong light that shines in their lives. True leadership is leading by virtue of 'who we are' rather than by demanding that people simply follow our directions.
On the 13th of Janurary 2008, at the age of 57, I then discovered that I had been adopted at birth! I have confronted some pretty big things in life so far, but this was huge!
On that morning of the 13th, I followed an overwhelming intuitive feeling, and phoned my now 89 year old Mother with the big question, "Was I adopted Mum"? "I have no anger or ill feelings attached to the answer Mum, I just need to know!" I'll never forget her answer as long as I live; "Darling, if I were there looking you in the eye, I would have to say yes!"
In that moment, that single moment, every crazy, insane, irrational, fearful, angry, and self-sabotaging experience in my entire life flashed past; in the blink of an eye it all made some sort of sense! For the first time in my life, I felt as if there was actually an almost logical reason for the way I had felt every day of my life.
The fears; the anxiety; the loneliness; and the seemingly endless patterns of self doubt, would perhaps slowly go away now and allow me to feel some inner peace and feelings of wellbeing and sustainable confidence .... hopefully. If courage, determination, patience and persistence have anything to do with it, then I've got a chance to achieve some emotional freedom now: for the first time in my life!
I do believe that I have earned my degree from the University of Hard Knocks for a very good reason, even though it was hard to understand that process while it was happening. Yes, it's not always easy to be peaceful and understanding when we're learning through adversity, but hindsight is a wonderful thing and the ability to look back and acknowledge the lessons that were being delivered at the time, is indeed a gift!
Street-Smart people certainly have a position in our leadership parade; without them we cannot learn the reality of life that just can't be found in books; it has to be lived!
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My Role as a Personal Development Coach and Business Mentor
I have identified that one of the most critical issues within all Personal and Business Development processes is the ability of the people involved to overcome their own limiting beliefs or fears.
Through the process of learning to deal with my own life's experiences, I have been fortunate enough to develop quite a unique method of helping people discover what fears or beliefs are holding them back from achieving their true potential in life. This method applies to both personal and business aspects of our lives, and is an extremely powerful way of challenging these 'thieves of success'. People regain control of their lives, and in particular their ability to achieve their goals; without hindrance or limitations. Exposing the thieves of success is a critically important phase in this life-changing process, because once exposed they lose their power over us.
Defining goals with absolute clarity is another critical phase of this process. It is through the unique method of work-shopping specific questions around this clarity, that I have become capable of achieving so much success with my clients and course participants.
Key-Note addresses, and methodology in delivering Workshops, or 'Learn The Art of Being You' Programs, are meant to be both inspirational and motivational. I have developed the ability to get to the core of people’s fears and belief systems, and this certainly helps me to teach people how to create major 'shifts' in their lives, and in their businesses.
Over the last 12 years I have also worked extensively on developing and delivering specific programs for the long-term unemployed people in and around Newcastle, Australia. These not-so-fortunate people within our communities have usually suffered from the effects of low self esteem over long periods. In most cases, they have developed fears and belief systems from childhood that restrict their ability to be achievers, no matter how hard they try.
With non-judgemental treatment of these potential stars; the promoting of respect and trust within the groups; and my own ability to really identify and connect with these people, major break-throughs are common.
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Other Interests:
Founder and President - Minerva Technology Group
www.minervatechgroup.com
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Recent Personal Achievments:
Nominated for Australian of the Year Award 2006;
Launched into a new Acting and Modelling career at the age of 55;
Toured Australia as Motivational speaker with Justin Herald, Paul Dunn, and Wayne Berry;
Co-wrote Creating Abundance 1.01 (launched on Australia Day 2007);
Life-Coached an Australian of the Year nominee 2007; and
Have created incredible abundance, peace and success for myself - and choose to share that experience with as many others who wish to learn to do the same!
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Business Development
Some Phil Evans principles for building and maintaining a good business (regardless of the size) ....
Treat your staff like gold;
Your staff will then treat your clients like gold;
Your clients will then bring you gold !!!
And always remember these tips when selecting staff ....
"Street-Smart beats Book-Smart every day" !
"Grab those with good attitudes and good natures - every time" !
Good Business Development is also very focused on relationship-building and the promoting of business ventures based on high trust levels amongst groups of like-minded businesses.
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Personal Development 4 main categories:
1. Team-building and Staff Development Workshops for Organisations (who usually provide between 6 and 20 people) centred around improving group relationships through individual personal development, usually running for between 2-4 hours;
2. 12-week Courses based on Personal Development and Empowerment of individuals; See Courses section.
3. Half-day, 1-day, and 2-day Advanced Workshops, where he harnesses the power of other very well known guest presenters who are all specialists in their own fields of expertise; and
4. Motivational and Inspirational key-note addresses are also high on his list of personal preferences, when it comes to spending his time empowering people.
All courses and workshops are based on Phil's vast diversity of life experiences - and his passion to see people take charge of their lives.
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A variety of Testimonials from Corporate clients and individuals can be seen via the Testimonials button in the Main Menu to the left.
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Phil Evans
55 Fairfax Road, Warners Bay, NSW, Australia, 2282
Mob: +61 414 280 080
Email: Go to 'Contact' button in Main Menu.
Phil Evans - People Stuff™ - 2008
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