Sonia Gallagher
JD, Certified Life Coach
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Sonia Gallagher Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Executive Life Coaching
- Career Focus
- Executive Life Coach, Author, Business owner, Atto ey
- Affiliation
- Time for Life, LLC
Sonia Gallagher is a Certified Life Coach, atto
ey, and business owner.
Having worked in both the judicial and private arenas of the law and having established and run her own Law Firm, Sonia understands the challenges facing lawyers and business leaders.
As an Executive Life Coach, Sonia combines her intuitive nature, psychology background, and her marketing and entrepreneurship experience with her passion for inspiring, empowering, and motivating professionals to live a balanced life filled with personal and professional success.
Sonia enjoys working with professionals who want to get more out of life while being successful professionals. She works with them to: create effective time management structures, set goals in alignment with their values, and to overcome obstacles keeping them from their full potential.
Before becoming a coach, Sonia honed her psychology and communications background working for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), increased her understanding of people and cultural sensibilities working at The International Court of The Hague, and developed successful methods of networking, marketing, business development, and organizational systems owning her law firm.
Sonia graduated Suma Cum Laude from the University of Miami with a BA Degree in Psychology and received a Juris Doctorate Degree from the University of Florida.
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The Symptoms and Impact of Lack of Work Life Balance
Do you get up from bed each morning with dread and anxiety about what faces you at work? • Do you feel like you have to make “through” each day? • Are you completely exhausted by the time you get home each night? • Do you see life as a merry go round over which you have no control? • Do you find yourself wishing you had a clone or more time to get everything you need done? If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, its very likely you have a work life in-balance.
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Staying Motivated through Journey of Achieving Goals
What motivates you? What gets you fired up and your juices flowing? What vision of the future excites you? Being inspired temporarily is easy for many people. However, it is keeping that motivation level up and making changes in life that is more difficult. What is it that changes between getting up in the morning excited to face the day to becoming so tired you can’t wait to go to bed? Somewhere in between the point you started off with your goals and the quitting point, you lost the very thing that was driving your energy level and motivation.
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How is Your Work Life Balance?
Do you have real work life balance in your life? Do you wake up each day filled with energy and excited to face a new day? Do you feel you have enough time and physical energy to give to your career, your spouse, your children, your friends, and yourself?
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Do You Have a Vision of What you Want Out of Life?
Do you have a vision reflecting what you want your life to look like this year? Do you have a vision for your life in general? Have you ever stopped to consider what you want to experience in your life? Are you clear on what your life mission is?
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12 Easy Steps to Create Positive Self-Talk Leading to Your Success
Have you ever noticed a trend in the thinking patterns of successful people? Have you ever wondered why it seems like success comes so easily to some people and so difficult for others? It all has to do with your beliefs and self-talk. People that achieve success in a consistent basis have one thing in common. Whether they are successful athletes, executives, business owners, or artists, they all know that they will succeed. They know this before they even attempt to achieve the goal they set out for themselves.
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Reaching Your Goals and the Excuses People Make
What Exactly are Goals? Setting goals is the most essential element of getting to where you want to be in life. Goals have been described as a route, system, recipe, or prescription for reaching your ultimate vision. They are the stepping stones which take you closer and closer to where you want to be in life. People who get ahead, accomplish more things, and create more experiences in their life are people who set out goals for themselves.
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The Effects of Procrastination and Action Steps to Make the Most out of Your Time
Procrastination is a very common habit among professionals and business owners. It affects them on a daily basis and can create a huge amount of unnecessary stress. 3 Most Common Effects of Procrastination: 1. Lowered morale. Knowing that a job is still incomplete or is unfinished can really lower your morale and self-esteem. 2. Inefficiency at work. Unfinished business tends to clutter up your day and thoughts. Even if you’ve moved on to other tasks, you will tend to remember the one that is undone. 3.
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Recovering from Burnout and Finding Fulfillment at Work
If you find that you are on your way to burnout or already suffering from burnout symptoms, there are things you can do to work against it. One of the most effective things you can do to fight burnout is to create fulfillment at work. This has a very large effect on you because we spend many hours of our day at our jobs or business. The following list includes suggestions you can implement to find more fulfillment at work.
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Your Mind and Its Power over Your Success
Have you ever noticed a trend in the thinking patterns of successful people? Have you ever wondered why it seems like success comes so easily to some people and so difficult for others? It all has to do with your beliefs. People that achieve success in a consistent basis have one thing in common. Whether they are successful athletes, executives, business owners, or artists, they all know that they will succeed. They know this before they even attempt to achieve the goal they set out for themselves.
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Most Common Self- Inflicted Obstacles to Your Personal and Professional Success
When you experience life through the tainted glass of negative self beliefs, you create obstacles for yourself on a regular basis. In general, you don’t even realize that you are doing it. Instead, you focus on the difficult time that you are having in reaching your goal or creating the change you want in your life. You tend to see exte al factors as the cause for things being so difficult for you. Yet, not once do you stop to wonder if the difficulty in reaching your goal is self-inflicted.
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Self- Talk and Its Impact Over Your Success
What is Self-talk? Self-talk is the inner dialogue you have in your mind when you think of doing something, making a decision, or creating change. It is your thoughts making themselves known to you. It is the small voice in the back of your mind that tells you to go for it, to stop thinking about it, or to give up. For a lot of people, self-talk is a strict and punishing inner judge. That judge is unforgiving and relentless. Self-talk can be a repetition of what your parents have said to you in the past, what you’ve have heard others repeat.
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Benefits of Work Life Balance
You gain many benefits from having a healthy work life balance. It enables you to experience personal satisfaction and professional fulfillment. It also makes you more confident and effective at work. Let’s explore all the benefits you can gain from having a healthy work life balance. Benefits of Work Life Balance in your Personal Life
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"You can't continue doing the same things and expect different results." -Albert Einstein
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