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Hi, I’m Darryl
Cross and I'm an executive and personal coach. One of the tools in my job,
that I really do like is something called the bike of life. That’s because I
would get a lot of requests from people who require (1)____ simply because their life is out of whack. It is
out of balance and work has probably taken over to the exclusion of family
and/or friends and people find
themselves working long hours, perhaps into the evening. The father is not
getting home to see the children, not to tuck them in
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bed at night or is going to
leave early in the morning without seeing his
(2)____. The wife may be working too and finding that the kids aren’t
getting enough time. And it might be just a couple in this (3)____ and they
are not seeing each other appropriately, they’re liked ships passing in the
night, as people would often say to me. It might be just a solitary person,
single, who feels that all they’re doing is work, work, work, there is no fun
and no recreation.
This is a fairly common scenario, particularly in this day and (4)____
where we have technology that’s pushing us and pushing us fast and there is a
greater (5)_____ to do more things in less time. And so people in this sense
tend to be time poor, but often they get life (6)____: we talk about life
balance and we talk about work/ life balance.
The bike of life
which is one of my job tools, I think is a really interesting tool to closely examine because it’s says that
the (7)____ of the bike and I have not represented this is a wheel so much as
I just a diagram. But the front wheel
of the bicycle is about work and the rear wheel of the bicycle is about
(8)___ life and they could be swapped, this could be front and this could be
back there is no particular order in that. But what is important is to look
at the spokes of the wheel they go to make up the work (9)_____.
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allocator
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expectation
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And typically that might involve marketing, it might involve strategy,
finance, human (10)_____, operations and you may be out to add more spokes
into the wheel depending on your job (11)_____ or job function, but it is
important to get those perspectives in a clear perspective. And what
typically happens is we allocate a certain amount of time to particular a spoke and we might find that various
spokes take different amount of time
depending on what we doing and we need to actually sit down and look at the
spokes on a work wheel and then (12)____ what we are actually doing, what
(13)____ we are doing so what is the now and how we would really like it to
be in the future. So what is the now or in terms of spokes of the wheel and how would we like
it to be as we go down the track. That requires some sitting down and some
thinking and some planning. But it’s important to do because people, who
complain that they have a work-life balance really out of (14)____, they are
not driving the bus. And this is really a nice tool that allows you take more
control and allows you to drive your own bus.
Likewise when we’re talking about the whole of the bike here, not only
the work saying but personally as well, we need to understand the various
facets of a life that make up who we are in the (15)____ of
a living. So there is family, there’d be health/(16)_____, there is dollars
and budgeting, and (17)____, there is the recreation/social, there is the
growth/learning and courses that we might undertake, and there is the
spiritual. These all go to make up
anyone you might want to add up yourself as like become important to you
through particular aspects that are not covered here, you might want to
(18)_____ them. And again we work out how much time we are spending on some
of these areas whatever they might be, then basically we work (19)_____ where
we are now and where we want to be in the future. And so give each of these
perhaps a writing if you wanted to write them on one to ten: where one is
‘not doing that much at all’ and 10 is
where ‘we’d really like to be doing them or doing them fairly effectively and
they can save me a good (20)_____ of time.
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determine
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So writing scale of one to ten, you could write each of these. Health, well, where am I now? I’m at about
one (21)_____ terms of the time I get to it. Where would I like to be? I’d
like to be at about 8. Visiting family, well, I’m not a bad: a 9 or a 10.
Where I’d like to be? Well, I’d like to at about 5. So it allows you to get a
sense of how your life is both in terms of work and in terms of where you are
(22)_____ and to have more control over that.
And when you sit down and work out the aspects of life in one of the
spokes on the wheel here and one of the spokes on the (23)____ here, you work
where you are now and where you’d like to be you then have a sense of being
more in control. Then once you have worked out what you want to do more of and want you
want to do less of the next trick is go to work out an action plan. And that
probably looks like a one page plan today in action lies this particular
(24)____.
If you want to do more of something or less of something else then put
it down into one page plan, so that you do then have sense of control of your
life. Life is not out of balance or out of (25)_____, because if it is out of
whack and out of balance then we are
not happy people, we are anxious, and
we’re depressed, and were (26)______, and basically life ought not to be that
way. So get back in control of your bus, get back in control of all the way
you’re driving and where you want to go. And have a look at this time bike of
life, because basically life is about getting it in perspective because
that’s where we really (27)_____ to be.
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2. Translate words and word
combinations from English into Ukrainian and use them in your own sentences.
Executive, to require, exclusion, to tuck in, appropriately, solitary,
scenario, wheel, to swap, spoke, to allocate, various, to determine, facet, to
undertake, scale, out of whack, anxious.
3. Complete the sentences.
1. It is out of balance and work ...
2. The bike of life …
3. Then once you have worked out
what …
4. This is a fairly common scenario …
5. But what is important is …
6. And what typically happens …
7. That requires some sitting down …
8. Likewise when we’re talking about …
4. Say if the
following statements are true according to the text.
1.
People who require
coaching from Darryl cross feel that all they’re doing is work, work, and work.
2.
The problems described
in the video concern only couples.
3.
The motorbike of life is
one of Darryl’s job tools.
4.
The rear wheel of the
bicycle is always about work and the front wheel is about personal life.
5.
The front and the rear
wheels of the bicycle cannot be swapped, that is the front wheel cannot become
rear.
6.
The wheels make up the
work scenario.
7.
The spokes of the wheel
correspond to the time people spend on different activities.
8.
The work scenario
includes marketing, strategy, and human resources.
9.
We allocate a certain
amount of time to a particular spoke and we might find that various spokes take
different amount of time, depending on what we are doing.
10.
Work with the bike of life takes a lot of
thinking and time.
11.
People who complain that
they have a work-life balance really out of control are in fact ‘driving their
own bus’.
12.
In the scale of one to
ten, where we work out how much time we are spending on some of the facets, the
one means ‘we’d really like to be doing them’ or ‘we are doing them fairly
effectively, and they can save us a great deal of time’.
13.
When we are talking
about the whole bike, we need to understand the various facets of life that
make up the work scenario.
14.
All spokes on the wheel
are equally important in person’s life.
15.
Scales allow people to see the areas of life
they pay too much or too little attention to.
5. Comprehension questions.
2.
Why do people require
help from Darryl Cross?
3.
What kind of problems
and pressure do Darryl Cross’s clients experience?
4.
What do the front and
the rear wheels of the bicycle represent?
5.
What might the work
scenario involve?
6.
What are the facets of
life that make up who we are in the scenario of a living?
7.
Is the set of facets
limited and rigid?
8.
What does a scale of one
to ten allow us to do?
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